The Land of Stories : a Grimm Warning
Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him–until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother…but […]
How to Start a Fire
Publishers Weekly ★ 03/23/2015 Bestselling author Lutz (the Spellman Files series) hits a home run in this glorious exploration of friendship, which follows the trajectory of three college friends over 20 years. First there’s Kate Smirnoff (yes, “like the vodka,†she proclaims) raised by her grandfather after her parents’ accidental death when she was eight, […]
The Enemy Inside
Publishers Weekly 03/30/2015 In bestseller Martini’s busy 13th Paul Madriani novel (after 2011’s Trader of Secrets), the California lawyer takes on the seemingly hopeless case of reporter Alex Ives, who’s accused of DUI and causing the car crash that killed high-powered Washington, D.C., attorney Olinda Serna. Madriani and his team—partner Harry Hinds and investigator Herman […]
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Kirkus Reviews ★ 2014-12-21 A brilliant account of six years during which four Founding Fathers, "in disregard of public opinion, carried the American story in a new direction."In a virtuosic introduction, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Ellis (Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence, 2013, etc.) maintains that Abraham Lincoln was wrong. In […]
Solitude Creek
Publishers Weekly ★ 03/23/2015 Numerous surprises are in store for Kathryn Dance (and the reader) in bestseller Deaver’s stellar fourth novel featuring the California Bureau of Investigation kinesics expert (after 2012’s XO). As part of Operation Pipeline, which is aimed at stopping the drug and gun transportation network headed by gangbanger Rodrigo Guzman, Dance lets […]
Chasing Sunsets
Library Journal ★ 04/01/2015 Mary Catherine can't afford to fall in love. Instead, she lives life to the fullest, swimming with dolphins and taking on worthy projects. That's what you do when a devastating diagnosis has numbered your days. Marcus Dillinger doesn't fit into her tidy routine, but the connection between the two is more […]
The Last Bookaneer
Kirkus (starred review): “An entertaining adventure tale steeped in literary history…[Pearl] offers many of the charms and unrushed distractions of a favorite old bookstore.â€
14th Deadly Sin
Library Journal 12/01/2014 After last year's Unlucky 13—and with more than 55 million copies to its name worldwide—the "Women's Murder Club" is back—and in recovery. But there's no rest for the weary with a gang dressed as cops (but are they cops?) wreaking havoc in San Francisco's streets.
The Wright Brothers
Library Journal ★ 04/01/2015 McCullough (John Adams; 1776) effectively blends impeccable writing with historical rigor and strong character definition in his biography of Wright brothers Wilbur, the abstract thinker and introvert; and Orville, the extrovert and hands-on doer. They had limited formal education, with the author instead attributing his subjects' success to industry, imagination, and […]
The Thunder of Giants
Library Journal 04/01/2015 Toronto native Fishbane, an accomplished playwright, short story author, and now novelist, offers a lighthearted, engaging work of historical fiction about Anna Swan, who was born in a log cabin in Canada in 1846 and grew to be 7' 5" tall. Swan became known as "The Giantess of Nova Scotia" and was […]