Walking On Water
Deseret Morning News "There are humorous moments, heartwarming moments, moments of self-discovery and moments of profound wisdom."
Field of Prey
Publishers Weekly 03/31/2014 In bestseller Sandford’s suspenseful 24th Lucas Davenport novel (after 2013’s Silken Prey), an amorous couple’s chance discovery of a body in an abandoned cistern near Red Wing, Minn., becomes a major investigation when authorities begin excavating and the body count reaches 17 and threatens to go higher. With Bob Shaffer of the […]
Unlucky 13
"Patterson and Paetro are at their best here, weaving a number of plots together to create a novel that dips and flows across genre lines…. A series that shows no signs of fatigue or flagging."—BookReporter.com
The Snow Queen
The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani Michael Cunningham's resonant new novel…is arguably [his] most original and emotionally piercing book to date. It's a novel that does not rely heavily on literary allusions and echoes for its power—a story that showcases the author's strengths as a writer and few of his liabilities, while creating a […]
The Confabulist
Library Journal 05/01/2014 To confabulate, according to Merriam-Webster, is to fill in the blanks in one's memory by fabricating. If one repeats the lie often enough, does it then become truth? In this engaging novel, based loosely on the life of Harry Houdini, Canadian author Galloway (The Cellist of Sarajevo) challenges readers to distinguish between […]
The Painter
Publishers Weekly ★ 02/24/2014 Jim Stegner, celebrated painter, ardent fisherman and homespun philosopher, narrates this masterful novel, in which love (parental and romantic), artistic vision, guilt, grief, and spine-chilling danger propel a suspenseful plot. In one aspect of his personality, Jim is a gentle, introspective man who reads and quotes poetry, feels at one with […]
Secrets At the Chocolate Mansion : a Maggie Brooklyn Mystery
"Take your cookies elsewhere." That's what the note said in neat, block-like print, attached to a box of Girl Scout Cookies. Someone is out to sabotage the new sweet shop in the neighborhood, and Maggie Brooklyn is on the case. If only she weren't so freaked out herself lately. Maggie's new dogsitting gig has her […]
Live to See Tomorrow
“In a genre laden with macho, action-hero figures, Johansen’s shrewd and steely female operative is as tough as they come.†—Booklist
Scarlet
This book was received as part of a grant from the Children's Literacy Foundation (clif).
Losing It
This book was received as part of a grant from the Children's Literacy Foundation (clif).