Lowcountry Summer
Publishers Weekly: Here?s one for the Southern gals as well as Yankees who appreciate Frank?s signature mix of sass, sex, and gargantuan personalities. In this long-time-coming sequel to Plantation, opinionated and family-centric Caroline Wimbly Levine has just turned 47, but she?s less concerned with advancing middle age than she is with son Eric shacking up […]
Spies of the Balkans : a Novel
The New York Times – Janet Maslin:In 1939 Greece's prime minister, Gen. Ioannis Metaxas, said that "the old Europe would end when the swastika flew over the Acropolis." The Nazi flag did not rise over the Acropolis until April 1941. Spies of the Balkans is about the time in between, when people like Zannis were […]
Sizzling Sixteen
Publishers Weekly: In this tepid Stephanie Plum adventure from Evanovich (Finger Lickin' Fifteen, etc.), a personal case distracts the Trenton, N.J., bondswoman from tracking the usual group of eccentric skips–the kidnapping of her cousin, Vinnie, who's being held for ransom in the high six figures. As Stephanie, sidekick Lula, and office manager Connie soon realize, […]
The Liar's Lullaby
Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Gardiner has created a tough, intelligent heroine who is as comfortable kicking butt and bad guys in the alleys of San Francisco as she is in a medical lab examining carbon nanotechnology and its effects on the brain.
Family Ties : a Novel
Kirkus Reviews An aunt steps up to mother her orphaned nieces and nephew, in Steel's predictable latest (A Good Woman, 2008, etc.). Annie, 26, is on the verge of embarking on an exciting career, and marrying well, when her sister Jane and her husband are killed in a plane crash. With some trepidation, Annie becomes […]
The Icing On the Cupcake
Library Journal Texas Southern belle Ansley is on the brink of getting engaged when her boyfriend reveals that he just doesn't like her very much. Her general cattiness and downright meanness have gotten the best of her, and she finds herself fianc?-less as well as friendless. When she runs off to New York City to […]
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke
Library Journal As a young woman in Colonial Massachusetts, Jane Clarke rebels against her domineering father; she feels he is pushing her into a marriage she is unsure about. Jane is then sent from her small seaside village on Cape Cod to live in Boston with an elderly aunt. There, in 1769 and 1770, Jane […]
The Great Life Photographers
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Poppy Clark. From the Publisher: This book represents the work of every LIFE magazine staff photographer from the 20th century, as well as a handful of others closely affiliated with the magazine, including Alfred Eisenstadt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, Eugene Smith, and Joe McNally. The Great LIFE Photographers […]
The Passage : a Novel
Library Journal A human-created virus has infected humankind, mutating most into superstrong, near-immortal vampiric creatures. The "virals"?also called "jumpers" and "dracs" (after Dracula, of course)?can leap 20 feet through the air at a bound and split a human (or a horse, or a cow) in half with their bare hands. A small band of men […]