Carly Mallory is driving; she?s tired and just a little distracted.

She doesn?t see the boy on a bike until it?s too late. She swerves and misses, but this isn?t a one-car-accident.

Police discover she had one-too-many the night before, and a truck driver involved is over the limit on his legal working hours, another doesn?t even bother to hang around.

The Lowland is an engrossing family saga steeped in history: the story of two very different brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn apart by revolution, and a love that endures long past death. Moving from the 1960s to the present, and from India to America and across generations, this dazzling novel is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers.

in a plush virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. with his death just hours away, troy phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions?a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives.

By the end of 1943, all evidence of the abortive German attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill has been carefully buried in an unmarked grave in the Norfolk village of Studley Constable.

Scotland Yard Inspector Adam Dalgliesh races to solve a twisted murder in bestselling author P.D. James? classic mystery The Black Tower, hailed as ?splendid, macabre? by the London Sunday Telegraph and ?a masterpiece,? by the London Sunday Times.

In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. .

tribute to a lifelong obsession. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, Hornby?s award-winning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom?its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young men?s coming-of-age stories. Fever Pitch is one for the home team.

Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films; top five Elvis Costello songs; top five episodes of Cheers.

For 16-year-old Sam, life is about to get extremely complicated. He and his girlfriend?make that ex-girlfriend? Alicia have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble. Sam is suddenly forced to grow up and struggle with the familiar fears and inclinations that haunt us all.

In Chicago?s top law firm, a young lawyer stands on the brink of a brilliant career. Now twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. Cayhall has run out of chances?except for one: a determined lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.

The novel is about an itinerant American football player who can no longer get work in the National Football League and whose agent, as a last resort, signs a deal for him to play for the Parma Panthers, in Parma, Italy.

a crowded courtroom in mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town?s water supply, causing the worst ?cancer cluster? in history. the company appeals to the mississippi supreme court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict?or reverse it.

? High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.

When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought that he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired the McDeeres a decorator. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray?doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail?already knew: You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch?s firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice?if he wants to live

In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the owner of Ford County?s only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America is in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lives on the edge of another age?until the brutal murder of a young mother rocks the town and thrusts Willie into the center of a storm.