Mysterious mage-storms are wreaking havoc on Valdemar, Karse, and all the kingdoms of the West, plaguing these lands not only with disastrous earthquakes, monsoons, and ice storms, but also with venomous magical constructs and terrifying creatures out of nightmare. And unless Valdemar and Karse can locate and destroy the creator of the storms, they may see their entire world demolished in a final magical holocaust.

Set in our nation's capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warming--which could trigger another phenomenon: abrupt climate change.

Presents an adventure that takes listeners from Mexico to Marseille to Prague as a war crimes investigator Harold Middleton and his team of Volunteers pursues a mysterious mastermind known only as The Starling. An aborted raid targeting a major arms dealer. A hostage standoff at a bank that may not be what it seems. A plot to spring a former African dictator from prison. What is the threat that connects them all? And just who is the mysterious mastermind,...

Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...

"Brian Wilson, a co-founding member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, weighs in on the sources of his creative inspiration and on his struggles, the exhilarating highs and the debilitating lows"-- Provided by publisher.

When her very first kiss turns the recipient violent, seventeen-year-old Snow escapes the Whittaker Psychiatric hospital that houses them and races into the woods. There she finds herself in icy Algid-- with witches, thieves, an alluring boy named Kai. Is this her true home, does she really have a royal lineage-- or is the Whittaker where she truly belongs?

Noted "Lady Astronaut" Elma York joins the first exploratory mission to Mars, leaving behind her husband and delaying her chance to start a family, to embark on a historic, but potentially very dangerous three-year trip.

Publisher Annotation: Once upon a time there was a tiny kingdom called Cornucopia, as rich in happiness as it was in gold, and famous for its food. From the delicate cream cheeses of Kurdsburg to the Hopes-of-Heaven pastries of Chouxville, each was so delicious that people wept with joy as they ate them. But even in this happy kingdom, a monster lurks. Legend tells of a fearsome creature living far to the north in the Marshlands... the Ickabog. Some...