Some people have make-believe adventures; but for one boy the adventures- and the dangers-are real

To escape the beatings of his brutal, drunken father, Huck Finn fakes his own murder, fleeing to the sanctuary of the Mississippi. But his journey becomes a dark odyssey when Huck joins forces with Jim, a very different runaway-Jim is a fugitive slave; helping him seek freedom is a hanging crime. Refugees in their own land, their tiny storm-tossed raft takes Huck and Jim into a hidden America of good and evil, kindness and blood feuds, fools, thieves and murderers, con men and kings. And in a world of lies and perils, a rogue might save Jim and Huck's lives-but a best friend might, unknowingly, seal their death warrants.

1875-Phileas Fogg challengers 19th century Earth, wagering his entire fortune that he can cross Europe, Arabia, India, China, Japan, and the untamed vastness of America-with no plans, no arrangements, and no air travel-in exactly eighty days.

Fogg must cross jungles, deserts, mountains, oceans; he must save a princess; fight dueals; battle hurricanes, blizzards, savages, and fanatics. But if Fogg suffers even one breakdown, delay, or missed connection, he will lose everything he owns...

And he's being chased around the world by a bounty hunter who is determined to stop Fogg.

At any cost...

The son of champions, Beauty was a magnificent, gentle giant raised to serve the needs of nobility. Which he did with courage and grace, even saving the lives of the masters he loved...

Until the night a drunken tragedy marred Black Beauty's perfect looks. Suddenly the strong, intelligent beast was no longer good enough for the fine and mighty.

And Beauty was sold, beginning a dark odyssey of animal abuse and exploitation in a world of stupid, ignorant, cruel men; a world of overwork, starvation, misuse...

But can even the worst of human nature break Black Beauty's great spirit, or vanquish his proud heart?

He is running for his life. A man with an unknown past and an uncertain future. A man dragged from the sea-and loved by the woman he had used as a shield, a woman who refuses to believe he is a killer. Until words from his past spill out. One of the words is Carlos, world's most dangerous assassin.

Half St. Bernard, half Shepherd, Buck is a beloved pet-until the horrible night thieves club him bloody and ship Buck, in chains, to slave in the Arctic wastes. Gold fever rules, and prospectors want sled dogs-no questions asked, no mercy given, in a harsh world of brute strength and starvation, lethal cold and sudden death. Here dogs live by fighting and lead by killing.

To survive, Buck must forget the civilized rules of loyality and love, and unlock the deadly inner rage of the beast, a blood luch ancient before the first man walked upright. For somewhere in Buck's soul lurks the terrifying howl of the killer, the song of the wolf-The Call of the Wild.

A punch in the head sends me spinning-through space and time! Straight from New England to Olde England; from "Yankee Doodle" to "Yoicks, Ye Varlets!"; from Connecticut to Camelot.

Well, here I am! Surrounded by quests and chivalry and idiots in armor bashing other idiots in armor. Trapped in the 6th Century with Lancelot, Morgan le Fay, Merlin, and the Round Table gang, Maybe it's a dream come true; but in fact, the land of Arthur could use some improvements...

Like soap, Baseball, Telephones, toothpaste, trains, bikes, electricity, newspapers...free elections. In short, these folks need a bass. They need me. So you wizards and dragons better pack and get out! 'Cause there's a Connecticuit Yankee in King Authur's Court.

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing.

Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his prefession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Arkady is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything...

Rich in insight, powerfully written, unrelentingly suspenseful, and impeccable in its portrayal of Moscow life, here is Gorky Park.

Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a beetle-eyed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The Reason: HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD!

HARRY POTTER has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his room is a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in eleven years.

But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to a wonderful place he never dreamed existed. There he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him...if Harry can survive the encounter.

Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receivers a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does,. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls' bathroom. But then the real trouble begins - someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself!

For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.

Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts...he's at Hogwarts."

Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.

Harry Potter is midway through both his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more then dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for hundreds of years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. But unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizard standards.

And in his case different can be deadly.

THERE IS A DOOR at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?

• A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey
• A venomous, disgruntled house-elf
• Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team
• The looming terror of the end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams

...and of course, the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. In the richest installment of J.K. Rowling's seven-part story, Harry Potter is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the importance of the authorities at Hogwarts.

Despite this (or perhaps because of it). he finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyality; and unbearable sacrifice.

Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will race through these pages and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back.

Over three thousand years ago, Methos helped the Egyptian pharaohs in their battle against sadistic Hyksos overlords. The he fought Khyan, an Immortal Hyksos prince, but failed to take his head. Now a deadly madman stalks modern New York City, hunting an ancient sword, killing all who stand in his way. It can only ge Khyan, seeking revenge. If Methos does not destroy this darkness from his past, he, Duncan MacLeod, and indeed all Immortals will be doomed...

For centuries the legendary sword has brought death and the Quickening. A blade forged to steal the blood of princes and Immortals, the scimitar has haunted Duncan MacLeod as it has haunted history, from the slave markets of the Barbary pirates to Lawrence of Arabia's war against the Turks...

Now the sword has mysteriously been delivered into Joe Dawson's hands. With it come instructions that tell Dawson-a member of the Watchers, the secret society of mortals who have observed Immortals through history-to give the scimitr to Duncan MacLeod. Is the scimitar meant as a challenge, a warning, or a salute across the centuries from one Immortal to another?

Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves/ Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders, and worse, unknown dangers. Finally, it was Bilbo-alone and unaided-who had to confront the great dragon Smaug, the terror of an entire countryside...

But Hugh Glass does not die. He recovers. And when he does, he crawls two hundred miles to the nearest fort to seek revenge.

All scientists know Earth is a thin crust of land and ocean surrounding a cast globe of molten lava, poison gas, hellish heast and ungodly pressure. But professor Von Hardwigg doesn't believe it.

Into the abyss, Armed only with ancient directions from a medieval alchemist, Hardwigg, his nephew Harry and the Icelandic hunter, Hans, scale down an arctic volcano into a vast realm of mystery, beauty and peril. Any step can lead to endless mazes of eternal darkness-or o lost worlds of living fire, boiling rivers, underground oceans, weird forests, prehistoric monsters...even giants...

But every deadly discoverym every single turn in teh caverns can leave the explorers trapped and buried in a planet-sized tomb at the heart of the world...

In one cataclysmic moment, millions around the globe disapper.

Vehicles, suddenly unmanned, careen out of control. People are terror stricken as loved ones vanish before their eyes.

In the midst of global chaos, airline captain Rayford Steele must search for his family, for answers, for truth. As devastating as the disappearances have been, the darkest days may lie ahead.

The dark Ringwraiths were searching for a hobbit. Frodo Baggins knew why they were seeking him and the Ring he bore-the Ring of Power that would enable evil Sauron to destroy all that was good in Middle-earth. Now it is up to Frodo and his faithful servant, Sam, with a small band of companions, to carry the Ring to the one place it could be destroyed-Mount Doom, in the very center of Sauron's dark kingdom.

The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some were contending with the treachery of the wizard Sarumon. Only Frodo and Sam were left to take the accursed Ring of Power to be destroyed in Mordor-the dark Kingdom where Sauron was supreme. Their guide was Gollum, deceitful and lustfilled, slave to the corruption of the Ring.

While the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarmed out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggled deep into Mordor, seat of Sauron's power. To defeat the Dark Lord, the accursed Ring of Power had to be destroyed in teh fires of Mount Doom. But the way was impossibly hard, and Frodo was weakening. Weighed down by the compulsion of the Ring, he began finally to despair.

In Nicolae, the most explosive of the three books thus far, the seven-year tribulation is nearing the end of its first quarter, when prophecy says that "the wrath of the Lamb" will be poured out upon the earth. Rayford Steele becomes the ears of the tribulation saints at the higest levels of the Carpathia regime. Meanwhile, Buck Williams attempts a dramatic a;;-night rescue run from Isreal through the Sinai that will hold you breathless to the end.

From England to Ireland to America, an explosive wave of violence sweeps CIA analyst Jack Ryan and his family into the deadliest game of our time: international terrorism. An ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA has targeted Ryan for his act of salvation in an assassination attempt. And now Ryan must pay...with his life.

Before the first battle, it's easy: all macho bragging, how many men you'll kill and how you'l win the war singlehanded. Easy...

Until the bullets fly, the blood flows and the screaming starts; until you're swallowed by the madness, the terror, the roaring dragon of death...

That's when you'll learn the truth...about war, and about yourself. Will you fight? Freeze? Turn and run? Charge the enemy in a mindless rage? Will bravery be rewarded, or cowardice praised? Will you survive, or will a bullet teach you the secret behind the blood-stained glory that is: The Red Badge of Courage

A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's superpowers battle on land, sea and air for ultimate global control. It is a story you will never forget. Hard-hitting. Sispenseful. And frighteningly read.

Like The Hobbit, this is first and foremost a good tale-dense and engrossing, full of unexpected turns...It is both homely and haunting, and in its way, almost literally bewitching.

A short prose meditation on the gift of fantasy, what it is, whence it comes, and what it means to the life and character of the man who receives it.

This short story is a delightfully ribald mock-heroic tale. When a "cunning, inquisitive, greedy, well-armored but not overly bold" dragon invades a kingdom, a most unwilling Farmer Giles is chose to slay the dragon...a dragon who refuses to fight...

"SAREK?" AMANDA CALLED OUT SOFTLY.

Spock sat by his mother's bedside, holding her small, cold, wasted hand in both his own, as though he could somehow transfer some of his strength to her by doing.

The room was bathed in sunlight, and the monitoring devices were subdued, non-intrusive. As Spock watched his mother, her lips parted, and she spoke. Barely more than a breath escaped. A breath that was a name. "Sarek...?"

She had been calling his father's name for hours, and the sound of it wrenched Spock's heart as nothing in his life ever had. "I am here, Mother, I am here. Spock...I'm here with you, Mother." She opened her eyes again, stared vacantly at him. Fretfully, she tugged her hand away from his.

"Sarek?" she murmured, turning her head on the pillow, seeking someone who wasn't there...

Centuries ago, followers of the tyrant Khan Noonien Singh left Earth for the planet Hera to continue his experiment in selective breeding. Now, they are finally ready to launch their plan of universal domination-with the U.S.S. Enterprise as thier weapon. Captain Picard must enlist the help of Heran expatriate Astrid Kemal to defeat her fellow superbeings. Unless the captain and crew of the Enterprise can stop them, the Heran infiltrators could alter the genetic landscape of the galaxy for generations to come.

"PLEASE, Miss, could I have something to read?"

The time was 1886. The speaker was ten-year-old Jack London, shabbily clothed, carrying a bundle of old newspapers under his arm. The place was the Oakland Library and the occasion was Jack London's introduction to the world of literature. Here, too, began one of the world's great literary careers. Reading Jack London is to be a sailor on dogsled on Klondike gold fields or a sailor on a schooner hunting for seals in the Bering Sea. Here is a book that belongs on the shelf of every armchair adventurer.

If you haven't read Jack London before, you won't want to stop. If you're already a Jack London fan, you know his stories and novels are even more exciting the second and third time around.

Here are 46 of his finest stories and his novel of the boxing world, The Game. Here is an American original. During his time he was the best paid and most popular author in the world. Read Jack London and join the world!

The mere sight of Edward Hyde fills others with violent revulsion, even before Hyde is wanted for brutal cold-blooded murder. The most hated, hunted criminal in London. Hyde has nowhere to trun to, nowhere to run, no safe haven-

except in the home of eminent, respected Dr. Henry Jekyll.

Ashton is just a typical small town. But when reporter Marshall Hogan and pastor Hank Busche begin to comapre notes, they suddenly find themselves fighting a hideous plot to subjugate the townspeople-and eventually the entire human race.

In one cataclysmic moment, millions around the globe disappear.

Those left behind face war, famine, plagues, and natural disasters so devastating that only one in four people will survive. Odds are even worse for enemies of the Antichrist and his new world order.

Rayford Steele, Buck Williams, Bruce Barnes, and Chloe Steele band together to form the Tribulation Force. Their task is clear, and their goal is nothing less than to stand and fight the enemies of God during the seven most chaotic years the planet with ever see.

"Across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts, untellects vast and unsympathetic regard Earth with envious eyes, and draw their plans against us..."

We speak of grace often. But do we understand it? More important, do we truly in it...and do our lives proclaim it as powerfully as out words?

In this Gold Medallion Book of the Year, best-selling author Philip Yancey gives us a probing look at grace: what it looks like...what it doesn't look like...and why only Christians can and must reveal the grace the world searches for.

Born in the howling storm, in the arctic famine, his brothers and sisters starve to death-but White Fang survives to join the world of the wide wolf, where cold and hunger favor the strong, and spare no pity for the weak. Deadly, harsh, but innocent, this is White Fang's universe...

Until he is captured by the gods. Two-legged gods who rule fire, nature, weapons, and impose their cruel will on all. Men. Men beat and enslave the wolf. Men teach him abuse, hatred, evil. Men buy, sell, torture him, then force White Fang to kill-for the pleasure of blood-sport gamblers. Goaded by men, White Fang becomes a raging monster of snarling fury.

Yet one man, Weedon Scott, wants to break the chains of abuse, offering White Fang a new life...But can a wild thing learn the meaning of loyalty?

Can a mad wolf learn how to love?