"A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from Russia's most celebrated-and most controversial-novelist. Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's most popular and provocative novelists. In his scabrous dystopian satire Day of the Oprichnik, American readers were introduced to his distinctive style, which combines an edgy avant-garde sensibility with a fondness for the absurd and even the grotesque-all in service of bringing out stinging truths about life in...

The inhabitants of a picturesque, sleepy little town on a small island off the coast of Maine find themselves completely cut off from the rest of the world when they are hit by the worst storm of the century. As snow steadily buries everything familiar and an eerie darkness envelops the town, terror arrives in the form of an enigmatic stranger who somehow knows the innermost secrets of the residents. After a succession of bizarre murders, and with...

"This is a classic action-packed country house mystery, which sees Posie accompany the maverick Scotland Yard Detective, Inspector Richard Lovelace, to a glittering New Year Eve party at an English stately home, packed full of glamorous guests. Posie and the Inspector are working deep undercover on a dangerous mission ... but trouble is brewing from many quarters. Oh, and to make matters even simpler, there a murderer on the loose ... With a blizzard...

Miss Frizzle's class travel to the Rocky Mountains to learn about blizzards and avalanches and how the ski patrol works to help people who are stranded.

Sylvester and the magic pebble: His family is beside itself when Sylvester turns himself into a rock to escape the jaws of a hungry lion. The amazing bone: A lonely pig dawdles long enough in a field of dandelions to meet a bone who speaks to her. Brave Irene: When her mother falls ill, Irene battles a snowstorm to deliver a ball gown to the duchess. Doctor DeSoto: A hungry fox with a toothache begs a mouse dentist to relieve his pain. Pete's...

Matt Hanlon, has one responsibility: Get his kids to Aunt Tess's house by Christmas Day or his wife will be more than crazy mad at him. No big deal because he has three days to get there and it's only an 800 mile drive. What he didn't count on was getting lost during a freak mountain storm and ending up having to rely on the kindness of Bonnie Kate, a 70-something cowgirl protector of a hidden herd of wild horses.

On March 13, 1993, a catastrophic storm pounds a 1,200-mile swath from Florida to Canada, killing about 270 people.

When a mysterious man visits a small island off the coast of Maine during a devastating snow storm, its inhabitants are met with an evil unlike any they've ever encountered.