Best Staged Plans
Publishers Weekly Midlife craziness careens into a happy ending in this crowd-pleaser for empty nesters. Sandy is a suburban Boston home stager with a to-do list to give you nightmares. She's selling the rambling home where she's raised a family, gently booting her slacker son into real life, saving her best friend from a cad, […]
Darke
Kirkus Reviews The penultimate episode in this well-crafted series pits apprentice wizard Septimus and allies against a relentless tide of Things bent on overwhelming the Magyk that protects the town of Castle and establishing a penumbral Darke Domaine. Their 14th birthdays become more battles for survival than celebrations for Sep and Princess Jenna when she […]
Dork Diaries : Tales From a Not-so-talented Pop Star
Nikki Maxwell has been doing everything she can to keep everyone at school from learning the truth—that she's there on scholarship in exchange for her Dad working as the school's exterminator. The last thing Nikki needs is having her friends and—worst case scenario—her crush, Brandon, associating her with the humongous roach on top of her […]
The Midnight Palace
Publishers Weekly Zafón (The Prince of Mist) delivers an often creepy adventure, first published in Spain in 1994, populated with some wonderful characters. In British-occupied Calcutta in 1916, a soldier saves two babies (at the cost of his own life), and the children's grandmother leaves one at an orphanage to throw off the evil person […]
State of Wonder
The New York Times – Fernanda Eberstadt …an engaging, consummately told tale. Patchett's deadpan narrative style showcases a dry humor that enables her to wed, with fine effect, the world of Avatar or the Odyssey with that of corporate board meetings, R&D reports and peer review. This unlikely marriage of the magical and the prosaic, […]
The Jefferson Key
Publishers Weekly At the start of Berry's ingeniously plotted seventh Cotton Malone novel (after The Emperor's Tomb), former U.S. Justice Department agent Malone, who's been summoned to New York City by his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, manages to thwart an attempt to assassinate the U.S. president outside a midtown Manhattan hotel. Malone soon finds himself […]
Now You See Her
The perfect life: A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York—including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. The […]
One Summer
The Washington Post – Sarah Pekkanen: Although the writing is flat in a few places and one or two plot twists strain credulity…Baldacci more than makes up for these lapses with his sympathetic characterization of Jack…Fans of Nicholas Sparks in search of summer diversion will find in these pages a good message and a big […]
Once Upon a River
Library Journal This second novel by National Book Award finalist Campbell (American Salvage) is set in Murrayville, a rural Michigan town far removed from the modern world. Inhabitants have lived off the Stark River for generations, including 16-year-old Margo Crane's family. She's been taught the best fishing spots and knows the hidden dangers downstream from […]
The Hypnotist
Publishers Weekly The brutal slaying of gambling addict Anders Ek, his wife, and his younger daughter propels this outstanding thriller debut from the pseudonymous Kepler (a Swedish literary couple), introducing Stockholm detective Joona Linna. Only Ek's 15-year-old son, Josef, left for dead at his parents' house, survives. Realizing that the vicious killer is likely to […]