Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien’s four novellas (Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and Roverandom) and one book of poems (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) are gathered together for the first time, in a fully illustrated volume. This definitive collection of works -- which had appeared separately, in various formats, between 1949 and 1998 -- comes...

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a morality tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, criminality, and secret lives.

Vasilisa and her friends find themselves on Ostala. Once every millennium, the Scarlet Flower—the time-magic heart of our planet—blooms here. To save Eflara from being consumed, the seven Keepers of the Time Keys must make a unanimous wish. But a rift opens up among the Key-holders, escalating into a struggle—a fight to the death. Among Vasilisa’s new friends is Fesh Dragotsiy, the nephew of...

A man waits at a London airport for the love of his life to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired cop waits in a bar in Florida’s Key West for his first date with the lady who is his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they’ve been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world – and that neither women exist.

On a winter night on a deserted road, two unemployed computer programmers strike a man with their car. Beside the body, they discover a bag containing two million euros; without a second thought, they flee the scene—taking the money with them. The very next day, the body of a girl—blind since birth and the daughter of a wealthy couple—is found in an abandoned warehouse. What if the money was a...

Auschwitz, 1943. It’s snowing outside and Block 10 looks even bleaker than usual. Gioele Errera, a young Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp, finds the body of an SS officer. Detective Hugo Fischer is sent to investigate the unexplained death of the renowned Nazi. But Hugo is hiding a secret – he is suffering from a degenerative disease. The only way for him to survive is to give his support to...

It’s been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the town’s Baptist church, the police station, and in the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you. Meanwhile, Tru’s brother, Wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house,...

Nine-year-old Mathias is constantly haunted by dreams of the Silent Lady—she does him no harm, yet she appears every night, watching him with a sorrowful gaze and remaining utterly mute; now, he is terrified to fall asleep. Exhausted and desperate, his parents turn to Pietro Gerber—a Florentine hypnotist specializing in trauma therapy for children. Gerber agrees to help, only to find himself...

David Burroughs was once a devoted father to his three-year-old son Matthew, living a dream life just a short drive away from the working-class suburb where he and his wife, Cheryl, first fell in love—until one fateful night when David woke to discover Matthew had been murdered while David was asleep just down the hall.

She vanished eleven years ago. Every year, on her daughter’s birthday, her mother received a letter: ‘You will never see each other again.’ For eleven years, few people believed she was still alive. And now, she has returned. Maxime Monceau—a gendarme by profession, a synergologist and non-verbal communication specialist by training, and, by birthright, a former member of a sect he loathes...

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must...