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 […]
Dorchester Terrace
Library Journal: Best-selling author Perry brings back longtime Victorian-era favorites the Pitts (Treason at Lisson Grove). A traitor is hidden in the very ranks of the Special Branch, and when a retired spy is murdered, the couple know time is running out for his unit's mission
Blue Magic
Kirkus Reviews Sequel to Indigo Springs (2009), where magic, driven into the "unreal" in the 17th century by witch-burning Fyremen, is returning, setting off power struggles and war. In the unreal, magic (a blue substance called vitagua) is frozen into glaciers and as it melts it trickles back into our world. The process can be […]
Chomp
School Library Journal Gr 6–9—Things are looking bleak for Wahoo and his animal wrangler father; the mortgage is months overdue, and Wahoo's mother has left for the summer to work in China. They think it is the answer to their financial frustrations when the hit reality TV show Expedition Survival! wants to hire Mickey and […]
The Book of Madness and Cures : a Novel
Library Journal This debut novel from a prize-winning poet is an elegant portrait of a resolute woman who practices medicine in 16th-century Venice. After the disappearance of her physician father, who had trained her, Gabriella Mondini is no longer able to work openly in her beloved profession. So she sets out with two servants to […]
Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth
Kirkus Reviews Fancy Nancy is back, this time in a chapter book. Nancy Clancy loves fancy words here as much as she does in her popular picture-book series. Her interests are changing, though, as she grows up. An avid Nancy Drew fan, she and best friend Bree have a new Sleuth Headquarters and are excited […]