Three Brothers : a Novel
"With overtones of Greek tragedy and Charles Dickens, this is a literary and engrossing parable and a loving tribute to London in all its depravity." —Library Journal, starred review
Black Horizon
Publishers Weekly ★ 01/13/2014 Bestseller Grippando draws inspiration from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill for his fantastic 11th Jack Swyteck novel (after 2013’s Blood Money). Criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck and his new wife, FBI agent Andie Henning, cut short their honeymoon in the Florida Keys after an explosion on Scarborough 8, an oil […]
Secret of the White Rose
Publishers Weekly Edgar-winner Pintoff proves with her third historical (after 2010's A Curtain Falls) that she's the equal of Caleb Carr. In the fall of 1906, New York City is fixated by the murder trial of anarchist Al Drayson, who planted a dynamite bomb meant for Andrew Carnegie in a horse-drawn cab that exploded and […]
Love In the Time of Global Warming
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Little City Thrift.
Fortunately, the Milk
Kirkus Reviews Publishers used to say, "If you read only one book this year, make it this one." Gaiman has tried to write the only book anyone will need, ever, packing into it every adventure story written in the past 300 years. The book seems to include every plot on TVTropes.org. There's a time machine. […]
Be Careful What You Wish For
Kirkus Reviews 2014-02-16 The fourth volume of Archer's (Best Kept Secret, 2013, etc.) Clifton Chronicles finds the Barrington-Clifton family ensnared in financial conspiracies over a make-or-break Barrington Shipping project. As Archer covers the family drama from 1957 to '64, Harry Clifton—a married-into-money war hero and best-selling crime writer—is relegated to supporting player while his wife, […]
Big Nate : In the Zone
Big Nate always feels jinxed, but in his sixth adventure, things seem especially bad. Just as he is about give up, his luck changes, thanks to Chad's magic token. But how long can his lucky streak last?
Stone Giant : Michelangelo's David and How He Came to Be
Kirkus Reviews 2014-01-29 Sutcliffe make a big impression with this eye-catching introduction to one of Western civilization's most iconic sculptures. When the young artist was summoned from Rome back to his native Florence, he was commissioned to take on a work of heroic proportions. This sculpture of the Old Testament hero David was to symbolize […]
How to Make a Planet
Publishers Weekly 02/03/2014 Forbes offers a faux guide to creating a planet, with the second-person narration letting readers know exactly what they’ll need, starting with “a really, really Big Bang†(“it has to be so strong that it will go on for billions of billions of years,†he adds helpfully). Through this frame, Forbes enthusiastically […]
Tempting Fate
Publishers Weekly 12/09/2013 New York Times bestselling author Green (Family Pictures) returns with the story of Gabby, a 43-year-old Englishwoman living in Connecticut with her husband, Elliott, and their two teenage daughters, Alana and Olivia. Ever since she left England and her unpredictable mother, Gabby has prided herself on being surrounded with tranquility, one of […]