Edge of Eternity
“This mesmerizing final installment is an exhaustive but rewarding reading experience dense in thematic heft, yet flowing with spicy, expertly paced melodrama, character-rich exploits, familial histrionics, and international intrigue.†– Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
The New York Times Book Review – Alexander McCall Smith Does Sophie Hannah's Poirot live up to our expectations? Yes, he does, and markedly so…The Monogram Murders is both faithful to the character and an entirely worthy addition to the canon…The plot is as tricky as anything written by Agatha Christie. Nothing is obvious or […]
The Children Act
Publishers Weekly ★ 07/07/2014 The 1989 Children Act made a child’s welfare the top priority of English courts—easier said than done, given the complexities of modern life and the pervasiveness of human weakness, as Family Court Judge Fiona Maye discovers in McEwan’s 13th novel (after Sweet Tooth). Approaching 60, at the peak of her career, […]
Fool's Assassin
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/30/2014 It’s been 10 years since Hobb concluded the Tawny Man series and ostensibly brought to an end the accounts of FitzChivalry Farseer and the Fool in Fool’s Fate—but now Fitz is back to star in a new trilogy, and the adventure and intrigue is as electrifying and mesmerizing as ever. Posing […]
Beautiful Redemption
Entertainment Weekly : "The fourth and final installment picks up after the massive cliff-hanger in Beautiful Chaos and doesn't disappoint."
Oblivion
Anthony Horowitz's spellbinding fantasy series storms to a fitting finale in this fifth installment of The Gatekeepers. A raging storm has unleashed evil powers that the five youthful Gatekeepers will be hard-pressed to neutralize this world-crushing threat. One series closer you won't want to miss.
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Publishers Weekly Librarians and English teachers will happily recommend this adventurous romp from Grabenstein (the Riley Mack books), which pays playful homage to books and libraries while engaging readers in a fast-paced competition involving research and reasoning skills. Twelve seventh-graders win a chance to spend an overnight lock-in previewing their town’s new public library—it’s a […]
The Saturday Boy
School Library Journal Gr 5–8—It's been more than eight months since Derek, 11, has seen his dad, a soldier who flies Apache helicopters and is stationed in Afghanistan for another tour. They keep in touch through letters that Derek keeps in his dad's old school lunch box. He's read them so often he knows exactly […]
Big Little Lies
Kirkus Reviews ★ 2014-06-15 After last year’s best-sellingThe Husband’sSecret, Australian Moriarty brings the edginess of her less-knownThe Hypnotist’s Love Story(2012) to bear in this darkly comic mystery surrounding a disastrous parents' night at an elementary school fundraiser.Thanks to strong cocktails and a lack of appetizers, Pirriwee Public’s Trivia Night turns ugly when sloshed parents in […]
Murder 101
Publishers Weekly 07/14/2014 Art theft provides the theme for bestseller Kellerman’s deftly researched 22nd Peter Dekker/Rina Lazarus novel (after 2013’s The Beast). Dekker, recently retired from the LAPD, has traded palm trees and sunshine for the snowy winters of upstate New York, taking a job in law enforcement in the sleepy college town of Greenbury. […]