Legacy : a novel
Publishers Weekly Steel (Big Girl) rebounds from a string of less than stellar books with this inspiring story about a frustrated woman who rediscovers her passion for life during a genealogical quest. After Brigitte Nicholson loses her archeologist boyfriend and her university admissions office job in the span of two days, she agrees to help […]
Room
The New York Times – Janet Maslin: Here come the debating points that are embedded in Ms. Donoghue’s story. Was the world inside Room somehow safer than the world outside? Will it be damaging for Jack to have to share his mother with new people in her life—or with the people she left behind? Will […]
The Valcourt Heiress
Synopsis Set in medieval England, this lively historical romance delivers the trademark wit that fans have come to know and love from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Garron of Kersey returned home triumphant, expecting to receive a barony for his royal service. Instead, he stands stricken at the sight of his castle in ruins. […]
The Prostitutes’ Ball
Publishers Weekly Cannell injects new life into his bestselling Shane Scully series by giving the LAPD homicide detective a new partner in his 10th outing (after The Pallbearers). Since Shane’s regular partner is on leave, Shane teams with Sumner Hitchens, a handsome African-American detective widely disliked throughout the department. Hitch, who dresses like a menswear […]
Rose in a Storm
Library Journal In his first novel in ten years, noted dog authority Katz (A Dog Year; The Dogs of Bedlam Farm) gives us a tale about a sheep dog named Rose on a farm during a severe winter storm. A working dog with no desire to be a mere pet, Rose is at her happiest […]
American Assassin
Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorist’s worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world . . . and then tragedy struck. Two decades of cutthroat, […]