Private Berlin
Chris Schneider is a superstar agent at Private Berlin, Germany headquarters for the world's most powerful investigation firm. He keeps his methods secret as he tackles Private's most high-profile cases-and when Chris suddenly disappears, he becomes Private Berlin's most dangerous investigation yet.
Suspect
"Action-packed, deeply touching and sure to be one of the best-written and most original crime novels of the year."—Associated Press
Threat Vector
Publishers Weekly This highly readable if workmanlike techno thriller from bestseller Clancy and Greaney (Locked On) chronicles the epic struggle between the United States and a China bent on economic and geographic expansion. When China's President Wei Zhen Lin faces drastic economic problems, he becomes a pawn of Su Ke Qiang, chairman of the Central […]
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker : a Novel
Library Journal: In Washington, DC, freedwoman Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley becomes the personal modiste (and confidante) of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Chiaverini departs from her popular "Elm Creek Quilt" series to tell the story.
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
Children's Literature – Jean Boreen This is a superlative look at a "humbug" that occurred in New York State in 1869 when a local farmer dug up a ten foot tall man/statue, offered the paying public an opportunity to see it, and then dealt with the backlash of the public realization that the petrified giant […]
Sweet Tooth
The Observer: Sweet Tooth is playful…a great big beautiful Russian doll of a novel, and its construction—deft, tight, exhilaratingly immaculate—is a huge part of its pleasure. There are stories within stories, ideas within ideas, even images within images…Sweet Tooth is a comic novel and a novel of ideas, but, unlike so many of those, it […]
The Yellow Birds : a Novel
The New York Times Book Review: …a first novel as compact and powerful as a footlocker full of ammo…the fractured structure replicates the book's themes. Like a chase scene made up of sentences that run on and on and ultimately leave readers breathless, or like a concert description that stops and starts, that swings and […]
Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
The New York Times: …[a] slyly arch novel about technology and its discontents…The culture clash at work here—Google aces wielding the full, computer-assisted strength of their collective brainpower, one scholar fiddling with a quaint astrolabe—has a topicality that works to this novel's advantage. Mr. Sloan fills his book with wittily-drawn prodigies, then makes them wonder […]
The Intercept
Library Journal Wolf, the master storyteller behind NBC's four Law and Order series, makes a spectacular fiction debut with this gripping thriller. Just three days before the dedication of the new Freedom Tower on July 4, five passengers and a flight attendant on an incoming transatlantic flight prevent Awaan Abdulraheem, a fellow passenger, from hijacking […]
The Lawgiver
The Washington Post …Wouk fulfills the dream of a novel he conceived ages ago, and in doing so reveals himself to be as serious as anyone in his choice of both subject (the Bible) and style (postmodern collage). Fortunately for his readers, he wields a computer with a touch as light as a quill pen…Clearly, […]