Book five of The Belgariad_

Discovering happiness in reading the work of an extraordinary writer. The protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift playfully dreamed of writing "A Practical Handbook: How to Be Happy." Now, Nabokov's own creative reader Lila Azam Zanganeh lends life to this vision with sly sophistication and ebullient charm, as she shares the delirious joy to be found in reading the masterpieces of "the great writer of happiness." Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak, Memory; Ada, or Ardor; and the infamous Lolita, Azam Zanganeh seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time, memory, sexual passion, nature, loss, love in all its forms, and language in all its allusions. She explores Nabokov's geography-from his Russian childhood to the landscapes of "his" America-suffers encounters with his beloved "nature," hallucinates an interview with the master, and seeks the "crunch of happiness" in his singular vocabulary. This beautifully illuminated book will both reignite the passion of experienced Nabokovians and lure the innocent reader to a well of delights as yet unseen.

Nineteen ninety-nine. The year the world held its breath. America needed a hero. She got three. When one century ends and another begins, questions that are as old as civilization return to send fear, doubt, and uncertainty coursing through the veins of nearly every man, woman, and child on the planet. December 31, 1999, it will be the same: The world ends at midnight. What should we do? What can we do? America fears Y2K will bring the world to an abrupt halt. WE have to prevent world becoming increasingly dependent upon computerization to run all of our systems, from standing still or crashing in total destruction at zero hour 2000. Underneath this outward activity, however, lay the real horror. Will anyone even be here, alive and breathing, at12:01 A.M., January 1, 2000, to care or notice that nothing is moving? Three will be asked to champion our plight, the continuance of our very existence. To do this, they will first be required to seek within themselves, face graces and faults of ancestors past, and find mystical powers they have always possessed though have often tried desperately to deny. These three, barley of legal age to drink or drive, must save mankind and lead it stalwartly into a new century...and beyond.

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.

The Enchanters vs. Sprawlburg Springs is a satirical, riotous story of a band trapped in suburbia and bent on changing the world. A frenzied "scene" whips up around them as they gain popularity, and the band members begin thinking big. It's a hilarious, crazy send-up of self-destructive musicians.

After a prolonged period of peace, the Sacred Fairy Scrolls entrusted to Clonfert House in Ireland are about to come under siege from an evil tribe of spirits from the West. Lacking the right combination of Senior Enchanters to protect the scrolls, the faculty of Clonfert House, the seat of Enchanters’ training and power, pluck four inexperienced, though powerful, teenage Enchanters from the obscurity of their minor academy and bring them to Clonfert House to defeat Adena, Queen of the Western Quarter. Faced with self-doubt and lack of experience, those four teens succeed against all odds. Magical creatures and a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural cast of characters are found within the pages of this story of triumph over evil. The Enchanters is part one of the three-part series, The Clonfert Chronicles.

The long-awaited return to the world of the beloved and New York Times best-selling Heir Chronicles series They called it the Thorn Hill Massacre-the brutal attack on a once-thriving Weir community. Though Jonah Kinlock lived through it, he did not emerge unscathed: like the other survivors Jonah possesses unique magical gifts that set him apart from members of the mainline guilds. At seventeen, Jonah has become the deadliest assassin in Nightshade, a network that hunts the undead. Emma Claire Greenwood grew up worlds away, raised by a grandfather who taught her music rather than magic. An unschooled wild child, she runs the streets until the night she finds her grandfather dying, gripping a note warning Emma that she might be in danger. The clue he leaves behind leads Emma into Jonah's life-and a shared legacy of secrets and lingering questions. Was Thorn Hill really a peaceful commune? Or was it, as the Wizard Guild claims, a hotbed of underguild terrorists? The Wizards' suspicions grow when members of the mainline guilds start turning up dead. They blame Nightshade, bringing tensions between the groups to a head. Racing against time, Jonah and Emma work to uncover the truth about Thorn Hill, amid increasing concern that whoever planned the Thorn Hill Massacre might strike again.