[A] dark, elliptical tone poem....What remains most interesting about this modest, imperfect novel is its fascination with the emotional life of its heroine--a focus on the personal that extends the sympathetic attention to character ...
Blood's A Rover (American Underworld ...
James EllroySummer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring i...
After twenty years, Elizabeth 'Betts' McGee has finally managed to put her past behind her. She hasn't been home to beautiful South Carolina and untouched Bulls Island since the tragic night that ended her engagement to Charleston's ...
"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road."Hullo," ...
Eons ago, vampires tried to turn the dark Fae to harness their magic, only to create a demonic enemy more powerful than they could have imagined. Now, the Vampiric Fae are on the move, hunting anyone in their path. As the war with the...
The First Human: The Race to Discover...
Ann GibbonsThis dynamic chronicle of the race to find the 'missing links' between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the daw...
Who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be saved? t is 1943—the height of the Second World War—and Berlin has essentially become a city of women.br Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model German sold...
Bestselling author Eileen Goudge turns up the heat in a passionate drama of secrets and deadly betrayal.On the eve of their fortieth wedding anniversary, the Seagraves are among the most envied couples in their community, and still de...
When Darkness Falls (The Alliance Vam...
Heather GrahamWHAT YOU SEE In an ancient cemetery, travel writer Jade MacGregor's tour of a Scottish tomb is marred by a terrifying attack that leaves her surrounded by corpses drained of blood. A year later, back home on a shadowy French Quarter s...
Dispatched by the President to report on the state of troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just i...
American Sketches: Great Leaders, Cre...
Walter IsaacsonBy bestselling biographer and journalist, a selective collection that illustrates his passage from school to journalist to illustrious biographer.
Catherine Ling was abandoned on the streets of Hong Kong at age four. Schooled in the art of survival, she traded in the only commodity she had: information. As a teenager, she came under the tutelage of a mysterious man known only as...
Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel
Jonathan KellermanOnce again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s brilliant storytelling. And no one conducts a more harrowing and suspenseful ma...
Dream Manager: Archive Results Beyond...
Matthew KellyA business parable about how companies can achieve remarkable results by helping their employees fulfill their dreamsManaging people is difficult. With disengagement and turnover on the rise, many managers are scratching their heads w...
Carrie (Movie Tie-in Edition): Now a ...
Stephen KingNEWLY ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN, COMING TO MOVIE THEATERS EVERYWHERE MARCH 2013Stephen King's legendary debut novel about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may have been unfashionable and u...
Shopaholic to the Stars: A Novel
Sophie Kinsella#1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella returns to her beloved Shopaholic series with Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) newly arrived in Hollywood and starry-eyed. She and her two-year-old daughter, Minnie, have relocated to ...
Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse: A Rober...
Robert KnottFor years, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-rousers and gun hands in troubled towns like Appaloosa, Resolution, and Brimstone. Now, newly appointed as Territorial Marshalls, they find themselves travel...
The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane...
An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn - author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books - Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the pal...
Lawrence Sanders Mcnallys Folly: An A...
Vincent LardoSouth Florida's premiere sleuth-about-town strikes again -- in a deliciously daffy caper that takes a decidedly deadly turn. When the Palm Beach Community Theater needs a director for its production of 'Arsenic and Old Lace,' Archy t...
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the E...
Jane LeavyAs she did in her acclaimed biography of Sandy Koufax, Leavy goes beyond the myth and the hyperbole to reveal the man behind The Mick, Mickey Mantle, and his hold on a generation of adoring fans
Elizabeth Wainwright, an East Coast heiress in disguise, takes a job waitressing at a Fisherman's Wharf cafe, eager to live a simpler life. One day Andrew Breed—handsome, mysterious and charismatic—walks in. He says he's a longsho...
The U.S. government has sanctioned two top-secret scientific experiments, both morally questionable and potentially devastating. The brainchild of a noted pop-psychologist - overseen by a shadowy figure known for his brutal efficiency...
Chasing Goldman Sachs: How the Master...
Suzanne McGeeVeteran Wall Street journalist Suzanne McGee explores why the Wall Street implosion happened and finds that the driving force was the belief among individual investors that they could make the kind of money taken in by the investment ...
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a D...
Candice MillardFrom New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill...
Imprisoned for a robbery he did not actually commit, talented career thief Brandon Vale is broken out of prison against his will by Richard Scanlon, the former FBI agent who framed Vale and wants his help in preventing a Ukranian crim...
Snow Spider (Nimmo, Jenny. Magician T...
Jenny NimmoOn Gwyn's 9th birthday, his grandmother tells him he may be a magician, like his Welsh ancestors. She gives him five gifts to help him-a brooch, a piece of dried seaweed, a tin whistle, a scarf, and a broken toy horse. One blustery da...
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"—as far from the Captain's Table as can be—with a ragtag group of "insignificant&q...
Captain Underhill Uncoils the Mystery...
Steven Thomas OneyHyannisport's cantankerous Holmes and Watson, retired police captain Waverly Underhill and his sidekick, almost-retired general practitioner Dr. Alexander Scofield, are pulled into one crime after another, and listeners are treated to...