Dead In the Family
Publishers Weekly Still reeling from the deaths of her fairy cousin, Claudine, and many others in 2009's Dead and Gone, Sookie Stackhouse struggles with paranormal politics in her entertaining if slow-moving 10th outing. When Claudine's triplet, Claude, appears at her doorstep, Sookie reluctantly allows him to move in. The government threatens two-natures with mandatory registration, […]
Innocent
The Washington Post – Jonathan Yardley: There are enough surprises?to keep the reader's attention fixed?Turow has always been very good at that?but as usual in his fiction there's more than skillful legal drama. Turow is a serious man who has thought long and carefully about the law. He understands that in the end it is […]
Blue-eyed Devil
Publishers Weekly This excellent posthumous western from bestseller Parker (1932?2010) continues the saga of gun-slinging saddle pals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch (after Brimstone) as they trade wisecracks and hot lead with back-shooting owlhoots and murderous Apaches in the town of Appaloosa. Cole and Hitch used to be the law in town, but now Appaloosa […]
The Map of True Places
Library Journal Barry's follow-up to her wildly popular debut, The Lace Reader, offers readers a healthy sampling of celestial navigation, fairy tales, half-truths, witchcraft, and intrigue. Psychotherapist but troubled young woman Zee Finch strikes out on an emotional journey to acquire knowledge and insight about her family's past. On the threshold of marriage, she finds […]
The Red Pyramid
Publishers Weekly This fun, if formulaic, start to the Kane Chronicles series opens with a signature Riordan move: an explosion. Siblings Carter and Sadie have been living apart since their mother?s mysterious death. On Christmas Eve, archeologist Julius Kane and son Carter, 14, show up in England for one of their two days a year […]
The Scent of Rain and Lightning : a Novel
Publishers Weekly With exquisite sensitivity, Edgar-finalist Pickard (The Virgin of Small Plains) probes a smoldering cold case involving the Linders, a cattle ranching family that's ruled the small, tight-knit community of Rose, Kans., for generations. One stormy night in 1986, someone shoots Hugh-Jay Linder dead, and Laurie, his discontented young wife, disappears. The authorities arrest […]
Fever Dream
Library Journal Special Agent Pendergast returns in a new thriller with personal ramifications. Twelve years earlier, he watched in horror as his wife was mauled and killed by a lion in the African veldt. Now, while digging through stuff in his Louisiana home, he stumbles on the rifle that she had with her that fateful […]
Dragon Haven
Library Journal A new generation of dragons promises new life and prosperity to the people who live along the Rain Wild River, but they emerge from their cocoons deformed and sickly. Driven away from human settlements and assigned a group of young misfits as their keepers, the dragons make their dangerous way upriver toward a […]
How to Say It On Your Resume : a Top Recruiting Director's Guide to Writing the Perfect Resume For Every Job
Synopsis An insider shows how to tailor a r?sum? that sets applicants apart from a sea of candidates. Recruiting director Brad Karsh has worked with thousands of misguided job seekers. Now he's putting his experience into print, with step-by-step guidelines to improve the wording, content, and format of any r?sum?. Knowing how employers choose candidates, […]
Beekeeping
From the Publisher: Whether it?s moving to the country and starting over on a whim or just making city- living a little simpler and easier, the ?Green? movement is changing the way we live our day- to-day lives. Skyhorse's Self-Sufficiency handbooks are meant to help?offering advice on what to do, how to do it better, […]