After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. He is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier....

A retelling of the tale in which a kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.

It's a dazzling ascent up the social ladder as vivacious Becky Sharp schemes and seduces her way to the top - until love and romance threaten to get in her way! Join her daring adventures that prove all is fair in love and war.

Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall that claimed the lives of Sherlock Holmes and criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction, must track down a sinister figure who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty's successor.

A happily married and successful actress searches for a solution to boredom and finds it in an American fan.

A teacher in England abandons the traditional curriculum of education in dealing with a class of students rejected by other schools.

Deep in the heart of London a sinister creature terrorizes the late-night streets in a haunting crime spree.

Nazneem is a young Bangladeshi woman who arrives in London during the 1980's. She leaves behind her beloved sister and home for an arranged marriage and a new life. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle and tries to keep her head down in spite of life's blows.

"Owen--known to his family as 'Little Buddy' or 'Little B'--has a rare genetic disorder that leaves him largely confined to a wheelchair. Before being united with Haatchi, Little B was anxious and found it difficult to make friends. Haatchi--an ... Anatolian Shepherd puppy--was abused and left for dead on railroad tracks ... Kind-hearted Will and Colleen Howkins, Little B's father and stepmother, decided to introduce the big dog and the little boy...