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 […]
Your Next Breath
Publishers Weekly 02/23/2015 In bestseller Johansen’s suspenseful fourth Catherine Ling novel (after 2014’s Live to See Tomorrow), the CIA operative is pleased to be reunited with her 11-year-old son, Luke, after his rescue from a Russian criminal who kidnapped him when the boy was two. Meanwhile, Catherine determines that the man responsible for the brutal […]
The Dream Lover
Publishers Weekly 02/16/2015 Berg’s (Tapestry of Fortunes) latest novel is about the iconoclastic French writer born as Aurore Dupin but better known as George Sand. The story begins in 1831, when Aurore leaves her loveless marriage for a bohemian life in Paris. Born to an aristocratic soldier and a courtesan, Aurore’s upbringing is shaped by […]
Gathering Prey
Publishers Weekly 03/23/2015 At the start of bestseller Sandford’s engrossing 25th thriller featuring Lucas Davenport of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (after 2014’s Field of Prey), Lucas’s daughter, Letty, a Stanford student, offers to buy a meal for young buskers Skye and Henry in San Francisco’s Union Square. Over hamburgers at McDonald’s, Skye tells […]