If Miran had princesses, Ellisandra Takumar would be one. Smart, pretty, engaged to a high-profile man, everything a high-class Mirani woman should be. But things are not well in Miran. Many years of boycotts have taken their toll on society, and the regime becomes more desperate to keep its citizens under control. Revolt is brewing. As director of the state theatre, Ellisandra has been asked to stage a violent traditional play that stands stiff with...

Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

A serial killer is stalking the streets of Crystal Falls. Heather Moody has spent seven years on the Crystal Falls Police Department and never expected to be made lead detective, tasked to investigate cold case murders that rocked their small town. Even though she took down the notorious serial killer, Marcus Pew, nothing could ever prepare her for what was about to come. When her team reaches the river where an earlier murder took place, they find...