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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

List Price: $14.95Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name(read more)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

List Price: $27.95Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010 As the finale to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is not content to merely match the adrenaline-charged pace that made international bestsellers out of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire. Instead, it roars with an explosive storyline that blows the doors off the series and announces that the very best has been saved for last. A familiar evil (read more)

The Girl Who Played with Fire

List Price: $15.95Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009: The girl with the dragon tattoo is back. Stieg Larsson's seething heroine, Lisbeth Salander, once again finds herself paired with journalist Mikael Blomkvist on the trail of a sinister criminal enterprise. Only this time, Lisbeth must return to the darkness of her own past (more specifically, an event coldly known as "All the Evil") if she is to stay one step ahead--and alive. The Girl Who Played with Fire is a break-out-in-a-cold-swea(read more)

The Grand Design

List Price: $28.00Price: $15.39You Save: $12.61 (45%)17 used & new from $14.85Stephen Hawking on The Grand Design How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? Over twenty years ago I wrote A Brief History of Time, to try to explain where the universe came from, and where it is going. But that book left some important questions unanswered. Why is there a universe--why is(read more)

Freedom: A Novel

List Price: $27.99Amazon Best of the Month, August 2010: "The awful thing about life is this:" says Octave to the Marquis in Renoir's Rules of the Game. "Everyone has his reasons." That could be a motto for novelists as well, few more so than Jonathan Franzen, who seems less concerned with creating merely likeable characters than ones who are fully alive, in all their self-justifying complexity. Freedom is his fourth novel, and, yes, his first in nine years since The Correct(read more)

Stocks end up as European bank worries ease

Stocks resumed their rally Wednesday after a successful auction of Portuguese government debt eased worries about Europe's financial system.

Life Inc.: What's the best economic stimulus plan?

Starbucks shortens menu by removing 'tall'

Starbucks has decided to shorten its drive-through menus — by getting rid of the 12- ounce "tall" drink size in favor of larger options.

Ad Age's top 10 viral advertisements of all time

What are the most-watched viral ads of all time? The answer might surprise you. The No. 1 viral campaign is a consistent sleeper hit, not connected to a big, well-heeled brand.

More U.S. regions reporting slower growth

More regions of the country reported slower growth as the U.S. economy lost momentum in the late summer, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

Spiral galaxy like our own shines with pink clouds

The wispy arms of a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way can be seen in striking detail in a new image from the European Southern Observatory.

Video: The video games of September

From Spartans to Spiderman this is your month in video games for September. Msnbc.com's Todd Kenreck reports. (MSNBC)

Cosmic Log: See a Martian milestone in 3-D

Science editor Alan Boyle's weblog: NASA's Opportunity rover sends back a 3-D postcard as it passes the halfway point in its 12-mile journey to Endeavour Crater.

Google introduces 'Instant' search

Google introduced "Instant" search Wednesday with results given to users as they type the letters of words — not even the words themselves.

Google calls for pressure on Internet censors

Google's legal chief called for pressure on governments that censor the Internet, such as China and Turkey, arguing that their blocking access to websites not only violates human rights but unfairly restrains U.S. trade.

Tornadoes touch down in Dallas

At least four tornadoes spawned by Tropical Depression Hermine touched down in and around Dallas, Texas, sending up debris and swirling around buildings.

Castro casts doubt on 'Cuban model'

Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that the "Cuban model" no longer works, an apparent admission of failings in the communist economic model.

'Rahmbo' Emanuel: Obama's enforcer

Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff, is known as a force of nature who efficiently navigates the back halls of Congress to get exactly what he wants.

Who might replace Rahm?

The smart money in Washington and Chicago, Illinois, says it's all but a certainty that within weeks Rahm Emanuel will throw his hat into the ring to replace retiring Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. So the parlor game over who will replace Emanuel as White House chief of staff has already kicked into high gear.

Obama slams GOP economic policies

President Obama opened the post-Labor Day stretch of the midterm campaign by blasting the GOP and pushing a new $350 billion plan to lift the sagging economy.

New York Times stock surges on takeover talk

Shares of the New York Times Company jumped Wednesday on rumors that the world's richest man could increase his stake in the newspaper publisher.

Shop online without credit cards

Freeing yourself of plastic is a great way to keep track of your spending and stay on a budget.

Health insurer faces $9.9 billion in fines

California regulators are seeking fines of up to $9.9 billion from Pacificare over allegations the health insurer mismanaged claims from physicians, failed to make payments in a timely manner and other violations.

Help for homeowners who haven't missed a payment

Borrowers who are up-to-date with their payments but have seen their home's value drop way below their loan amount could get help from a new government program.

Fed: 'Widespread signs' economy is slowing

The economy grew at a sluggish pace through the summer months, and there are now "widespread signs" that activity is slowing, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday in its latest snapshot of regional economic conditions.