The quest of a 14th-century alchemist.

A world of demons and warriors.

Where Nate goes, trouble is sure to follow.

This retelling of how Hal Jordan, test pilot, became Green Lantern, space hero, includes an introduction by Ryan Reynolds, who will play the character on the big screen this year.

The Legion of Super-Heroes finds itself lost in deep space, plagued by an alien threat and internal turmoil. Even if they find their way home, what will it mean for the team?

Ms. Gladstone, an NPR personality, and her musings on the media are transformed into a graphic novel by Mr. Neufeld.

This collected edition of the event mini-series features some surprising deaths and even more surprising rebirths. Green Lantern and the recently resurrected Flash are at the forefront.

The mystery of 12 resurrected heroes and villains deepens. Plus: meet the new Aqualand!

The caped crusader, lost in times past, makes his return to Gotham City.

Faced with near-fatal injuries, Roland Deschain finds himself in the hands of the Little Sisters of Eluria, who have only murder on their minds.

The War of Light makes for some strange bedfellows as Green Lanterns gains allies whose battle colors include blue, orange, violet, yellow and indigo.

This series, about a new species of vampire that does not have the traditional weakness, shifts to Las Vegas in the 1930’s and a number of corpses that have turned up drained of blood.

The gripping story of the human survivors in a world overrun by zombies continues. In this volume, a shocking turn of events for one character and a safe haven is compromised.

The author tells the story of his father, a Holocaust survivor, in a critically-acclaimed tale where Jewish people are mice and Germans are cats.

Buffy, Spike and Angel reunite in the season finale of this series. Will an onslaught of demons ruin the occasion? Maybe, but Season 9 will still begin in September.

Will the mutant named Hope be the rescue or damnation of mutant kind? There may not be time to learn the answer as the X-Men try to save her from eradication.

Meet Scott Pilgrim, twentysomething slacker, member of the band Sex Bob-Omb and would-be suitor of Ramona Flowers.

The gripping story of the human survivors in a world overrun by zombies begins.

This retelling of how Hal Jordan, test pilot, became Green Lantern, space hero, includes an introduction by Ryan Reynolds, who will play the character on the big screen this year.

This epic tale from 1986 signaled a new maturity in comic books.

Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy: a world of the not-too-distant future, in which freedom was not lost, but surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime that rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses.

Scott must face not only Ramona’s third evil ex, but also his own! Oh, and the two exes just happen to be dating each other and in a band. Which can mean only one thing: Bass Battle!

Political intrigue abounds! What happened between Danzo, the leader of Konoha, and his brother, Itachi? And where does Naruto fit in?

Cross Academy has day and evening students, but the latter have a secret: they are vampires.

Two brothers harmed in a ritual that was half magic/half science seek the legendary Philosopher’s Stone to make things right.

In this romantic comedy, Haruhi, a poor girl at a rich school, is forced to work — as a boy — for the school’s all-male club.

Rin Okumura joins an exorcist academy in order to control his inner demon. Will his classmates find out about his satanic bloodline?

Ichigo Kurosaki sees dead people and must help usher them safely into the afterlife.

This series is about grade-school boys who want to become professionals in the manga industry. Do they have what it takes?

Isn’t being a kid hard enough? For this group, who are also part bird, nothing comes easy. In this volume: has the temporary safe haven dulled their edge? No worries, there are secrets even here.

Monkey D. Luffy, who has the power to stretch like rubber, searches with a motley crew of would-be pirates for a legendary treasure called "One Piece."

Rin Okumura joins an exorcist academy in order to control his inner demon. Will his classmates find out about his satanic bloodline?

No one is sure why dead bodies are turning up in shallow graves on an empty construction lot, but it soon becomes clear that the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the killer’s list.

Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.

The first volume in Martin's first fantasy saga, A Song of Ice and Fire, combines intrigue, action, romance, and mystery in a family saga.

The Bush administration has squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda....A new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing stronger, in part because of our own actions and inactions. It is in many ways a tougher opponent than the original threat we faced before September 11, and we are not doing what is necessary to make America safe from that threat. No one has more authority to make that claim than Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar for both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The one person who knows more about Usama bin Laden and al Qaeda than anyone else in this country, he has devoted two decades of his professional life to combating terrorism. Richard Clarke served seven presidents and worked inside the White House for George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush until he resigned in March 2003. He knows, better than anyone, the hidden successes and failures of the Clinton years. He knows, better than anyone, why we failed to prevent 9/11.

Commander Gray Pierce investigates the mysterious discovery of mummified remains

Here is the second volume in GEORGE R. R. MARTIN’S magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords . As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer.

An American scientist, sent to the Amazon to investigate the death of a fellow researcher, happens upon a secret search for a miracle fertility drug

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.

Story of a 5-year-old boy held captive with his mother in a single room, the only world he knows

The purpose of this book is to reorient the current agenda in education towards learning. It is an accessible discussion woven with practical examples and strategies and suggests useful follow-up reading.

The private investigator Dodge Hanley heads to Texas to save a daughter he has never met, who has become the object of a stalker’s desire.

Translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland

Past becomes present when two ex-best friends reunite on Nantucket to heal from recent hardships

A young James Bond, on a global mission for a unit of British security, must foil a plot to kill thousands of citizens.

Michael Bennett, a New York detective raising 10 children, investigates a string of kidnappings and killings by a villain with unusual motives.