David Wolfe's life is approaching an exhilarating peak: he's a successful San Francisco lawyer, he's about to get married, and he's being primed for a run for Congress. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif the Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair in law school he begins a completely unexpected journey.
A second original story based on the popular ABC television series places Lois Lane and Clark Kent, aka Superman, at odds with one another as they attempt to out-scoop rival newspapers while keeping their relationship intact. TV tie-in.
Under the ceaseless blaze of two suns, the people of Ranadon endure scorching heat, volcanoes, and earthquakes. People believe nature's volatility is the divine will of the Goddess, whose one emissary, the High Priestess Belagren, is in league with the most powerful ruler on Ranadon: the Lion of Senet. But not all truly believe in her power.... When an exile returns to the tiny dukedom of Elcast, his arrival rekindles old hatreds and secrets.
From out of the East they came riding like a merciless plague—destroying kingdom after kingdom and the sovereigns who had previously mocked the warlord Loethar and his barbarian horde. Now only one land remains unconquered—the largest, richest, and most powerful realm of the Denova Set . . .
In a brilliant illumination of the Renaissance mind, the acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville re-creates the life of Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Wars, witchcraft, and disease rage throughout Europe. And for this court mathematician, vexed by domestic strife, appalled by the religious upheavals that have driven him from exile to exile, and vulnerable to the whims of his eccentric patrons, astronomy is a quest for some form of divine order. For all of the mathematical precision of his exploration, though, it is a seemingly elusive quest until he makes one glorious and profoundly human discovery.
