Private Vegas
Overview : Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds—especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and […]
First Frost
Publishers Weekly 11/24/2014 Allen (Lost Lake) takes the reader on a journey to the small town of Bascom, N.C., where the Waverley women are known for their unusual gifts: Claire has recently given up her catering business to market her Waverley candies, a booming business using natural ingredients such as lavender and honey. Sydney is […]
Saint Odd
“Odd’s strange gifts, coupled with his intelligence and self-effacing humor, make him one of the most quietly authoritative characters in recent popular fiction.â€â€”Publishers Weekly
Outline
The New York Times Book Review – Heidi Julavits …lethally intelligent…While the narrator is rarely alone, reading Outline mimics the sensation of being underwater, of being separated from other people by a substance denser than air. But there is nothing blurry or muted about Cusk's literary vision or her prose: Spend much time with this […]
Amnesia
“When you open a new novel by Peter Carey you’re never sure what’s going to leap out at you. . . . [Amnesia] sizzles with indignation . . . Often rumbustiously funny, it has an almost Dickensian zest for colourful characters. . . . The cyber-underworld and its bizarre obsessives buzz with fascination. . . […]
Winter At the Door
Library Journal ★ 12/01/2014 In this series launch featuring Boston homicide detective Lizzie Snow, first introduced in 2014's A Bat in the Belfry, the latest in Graves's long-running "Home Repair Is Homicide" series, Lizzie has accepted a job as a neighborhood liaison officer in the remote Maine town of Bearkill after she receives a tip […]
An Appetite For Violets
From the Publisher “Though the novel seems to have too many ingredients, everything is kneaded together at the end. This is a delectable dish that will appeal to readers with a taste for historical mysteries as well as fiction about food.â€â€”Booklist (starred review)
Strongheart :the World's First Movie Star Dog
School Library Journal Review K-Gr 2-Chances are that some children of today may know who Lassie or Rin Tin Tin were, but it's likely that few, if any, have heard of Strongheart, the first movie star dog of Hollywood films. Born in Germany, Strongheart, originally named Etzel, was sent to the United States to be […]
Cold Cold Heart
Publishers Weekly 11/17/2014 Dana Nolan, the heroine of this chilling psychological thriller from bestseller Hoag (The 9th Girl), used to be a Minneapolis TV reporter, until she was captured by the serial killer known as Doc Holiday, who tortured and raped her. Dana managed to escape her tormentor, but she suffers from PTSD as well […]
The Girl On the Train
The New York Times – Janet Maslin : The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl…Paula Hawkins [is] no slouch when it comes to trickery or malice…Ms. Hawkins scrambles the timing of scenes, with Megan gone in one chapter and then present in the next. She […]