This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty.

An anthology of short stories in defence of reading by some of the greatest practitioners of the genre, including Isaac Babel, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro, Lori Moore and H.H. Munro (Saki). IN THE STACKS, edited by America's leading librarian, is a volume of most unusual stories about that most evocative place: the library. For many writers and bookworms the local public library

Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed Ring Road.

Alexander Short, a stylish young reference librarian, is hired by Henry James Jesson III for some after-hours research on a mysterious 18th-century inventor. As his investigation heats up, Alexander realizes there are many more secrets lurking in Jesson's cloistered world than were first apparent.

Set in a small town on Cape Cod in 1950, this tells of the relationship between Peggy Cort, a 28-year-old librarian, and James Carlson Sweatt, an over-tall 11-year-old. They are odd candidates for friendship, but they still find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted.

An unexpectedly raucous and illuminating memoir set in a Southern California public library

A small nomadic settlement is thrown into turmoil by the theft of a book...

* The International Sensation * In the tradition of THE SECRET HISTORY and THE ALIENIST - a captivating and suspenseful novel that delves into the true history of Count Dracula ...

A little girl makes a wish one night and ruins her life. She grows up with a splinter of ice in her heart until one day, she is struck by lightning. Instead of killing her, this event sparks off a new beginning. She seeks out Lazarus Jones, a fellow lightning survivor. He is her opposite, a man whose breath can boil water and whose touch scorches.

The new novel from the author of 'March' and 'Year of Wonders' takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.

Wearing his super thick bottle glasses, and armed with high technology weapons, Rex Libris strikes fear into recalcitrant borrowers. In this first collection, Rex must confront the Space Warlord Vaglox and retrieve the overdue Principia Mathematica while an energy manifestation of Vandals attempt to burn down Middleton Library to the ground.

When a lion visits the library, no one knows what to do: there are no rules about lions in the library. But soon he's indispensable - What a helpful lion, people say. How did we ever get along without him? But one day the head librarian falls and breaks her arm, and the only way the lion can get help is to roar. And that is breaking the rules.

When the future is unclear, who holds the key to destiny? Sequel to the spellbinding, award-winning fantasy adventure, SABRIEL.

The story of how one adorable and lovably roguish library cat touched the lives of everyone he came into contact with. Dewey will do for cats what MARLEY AND ME did for dogs.

All the animals are very curious when a mobile library arrives and soon they can't wait to learn about this new something called reading.

Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved, but shaped, inspired and obliterated knowledge. This title takes us on a journey from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library.

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the US. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power.

Small-town librarian Daisy Minor is tired of not having a life and sets out to transform herself, but her plans go awry when she witnesses a deadly crime and becomes the target of a killer who will do anything to keep her quiet.

During the holidays, Will and his big brother Marty are packed off to the library, the home of the dreaded librarian Spud Murphy, who uses a spud gun on kids who put a foot wrong. Eventually, Will and Marty discover a love of books and that Mrs Murphy isn't so bad after all. Ages 8+.

Carlo, the young giraffe, goes with his dad and his cat, Crackers, to the new library. Carlo loves the library with its books and posters and chairs with wheels. But he's a bit scared of the sharp-toothed crocodile librarian Mrs Chinca - until he finds out just how much she really loves books.