Renaissance Literary Talent: 60 books

Five alluring actresses all covet the leading role of the scheming enchantress Miranda on television's hottest new nighttime soap, "Saga." All five are driven, powerful and ambitious enough to make certain they win by any means. But the choice has already been made by a man also driven by desperate motives.

THE UNDERSTUDY takes readers from the Broadway stage to a mind-blown safari in east Africa to a Hollywood film studio to a closing-night cast party in Boston with stops in New York's underworld and the television industry. Drawing on his experience as a director, Elia Kazan enhances the meaning...

Ann Rule brings her mastery of true crime to the forefront of her only published fiction novel, POSSESSION, a #1 New York Times Best Seller. This powerful drama follows married couple Danny and Joanne Lindstrom as they camp within the Cascade Mountains. After an incident leaves Joanne stranded...

A beautiful and strongly sexual young woman seeks security and certainty within her husband's Greek-American family but is soon on the move again, toward an inevitable final reckoning. Disturbing, controversial and shocking, this novel, set in the turbulent 1980's, tells the story of two people...