11th Hour
Overview Your best friend Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. […]
Blood In the Water
Publishers Weekly: Edgar-finalist Haddam shows no sign of creative fatigue in her baffling 27th whodunit featuring ex-FBI agent turned police consultant Gregor Demarkian (after 2011’s Flowering Judas). One night at Waldorf Pines, a gated Philadelphia suburb, Arthur Heydreich, whose unfaithful wife, Martha, has disappeared, stumbles on a corpse in the community swimming pool, just when […]
The Road to Grace : the Third Journal of the Walk Series
Overview Join one of America’s beloved storytellers on a walk like no other: one man’s unrelenting search for hope. Reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, has left everything he knew behind and set off on an extraordinary cross-country journey. Carrying only a […]
The President's Stuck In the Bathtub : Poems About the Presidents
Children's Literature Susan Katz has turned amusing facts about American Presidents into rhyme. She begins with the fact that George Washington never slept in the White House—although he designed it, the building wasn't finished until John Adam's term. As for John Adams, we learn he was called "His Rotundity" instead of the title of His […]
The Next Always
Overview "America's favorite writer" (The New Yorker) begins an all-new trilogy-inspired by the inn she owns and the town she loves. The historic hotel in BoonsBoro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of […]
Capitol Murder : a Novel of Suspense
Publishers Weekly PI Dana Cutler and attorney Brad Miller, now working as a congressional legal aide, contend with sex scandals, an escaped murderer, and a looming major terrorist attack on U.S. soil in bestseller Margolin’s busy third Washington, D.C., thriller (after 2010’s Supreme Justice). Cutler is dispatched to Portland, Ore., where Miller’s boss, Sen. Jack […]
In One Person
Jeanette Winterson In its fierceness and its joyfulness, In One Person has the feeling of The World According to Garp…In One Person gives a lot. It's funny, as you would expect. It's risky in what it exposes. —The New York Times Book Review
The Wind Through the Keyhole : a Dark Tower Novel
Kirkus Reviews: The bestselling novelist scales down his literary ambition with a return to the Dark Tower series. Though King has expanded his thematic terrain and elevated his critical reputation in recent years (11/22/63, 2011 etc.), he remains a master of fantastic stories spun from a very fertile imagination that seek to do nothing more […]
Popular Clone
Children's Literature Twelve-year-old Fisher Bas may seem to be like many unpopular, geeky sixth-graders, both fictional and real. With Nobel-Prize-winning parents who created the Bas-Hermaphrodite-Sea-Slug Hypothesis (the name alone is mortifying), he probably cannot help being victimized by the three bullies, whom he calls The Vikings, at Wampalog Middle School. But Fisher has a secret […]
The Sins of the Father
Library Journal In the second installment (after Only Time Will Tell) of Archer's five-volume saga, Harry Clifton, a Bristol dockworker's son, and Giles Barrington, the assumed heir to the Barrington estate, seek to enlist in World War II despite various obstacles. Harry joins the Merchant Navy and, after a German U-boat sinks his ship, is […]