On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them apart--or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes...

Baudolino is adopted by an influential man who sends him to university in Paris. He forms a group with other students who go in search of a phantasmagorical land of strange creatures and lovely maidens.

A slice of life in Elmwood Springs, Missouri from 1946 until the present.

It began in the Time of the Tyrants, when ambitious men and women used computers to seize control of the heart of the Old Empire including Earth itself. Then the cymeks' planetary computers - known as Omnius - seized control. Now Omnius has decided it no longer needs human beings or cymeks.

After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems. To become queen, she must bear a child before Cel can father one of his own. But havoc lies on the horizon: people are dying in mysterious, frightening ways, and suddenly the very existence of the place known as Faerie is at grave risk. So now, while she enjoys the greatest...