Dark Day In the Deep Sea
From the Publisher: Jack and Annie continue their quest for the secrets of happiness?secrets they need if they?re going to save Merlin. But when the magic tree house leads them to a tiny deserted island in the middle of the ocean, they?re not sure who needs help more?Merlin or themselves! The brother and sister team […]
Home : a Memoir of My Early Years
The New York Times – Emma Brockes Julie Andrews's memoir?opens with a soppy poem she wrote about England, but what follows is a decisively unsoppy account of a typically dismal English childhood, complete with cramped lodgings and brutish relatives, which Andrews tells briskly and without self-pity?Many celebrity memoirs overegg the rotten aspects of a childhood […]
The Quest Begins
Publishers Weekly: Hunter (the Warriors series) kicks off a new series as three young bears, unknown to one another, each embark on a perilous journey. Two of the characters, Kallik, a polar bear, and Toklo, a grizzly, were born in the wild and lose their mothers to tragic events. To survive, they must draw on […]
Bound
Eleanor Bader – Library Journal: Gunning reprises many of the characters from her 2006 novel, The Widow's War, in this suspenseful and engaging look at the New England colonies in the decades immediately preceding the American Revolution. Richly detailed and impeccably researched, the novel focuses on the life of Alice Cole, beginning with her arrival […]
Delusion
Nicole A. Cooke – Library Journal: While a young, pregnant graduate student, Nell Jarreau witnessed her boyfriend's murder, helping convict and send the accused, Alvin Dupree, to prison for life. Nell then had her baby, married the lead detective on her case, and built an idyllic life. Fast-forward 20 years, and the incarcerated Dupree has […]
Frames : a Valentino Mystery
Susan Clifford Braun – Library Journal: Valentino is a UCLA film archivist with a passion for the silent screen. When he buys a decrepit movie theater in West Hollywood, he gets much more than he expects-a skeleton in a hidden Prohibition-vintage basement and a stack of priceless film reels of Erich von Stroheim's legendary Greed. […]
The Dirty Secrets Club
Stephen King: "If you read Sue Grafton, Lee Child, Janet Evanovich, Michael Connelly, or Nelson DeMille, you're going to think Meg Gardiner is a gift from heaven….the next suspense superstar."
Sail : a Novel
From the Publisher: Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong. The teenage daughter, […]
Shadow of Power : a Paul Madriani Novel
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Martini's entertaining ninth Paul Madriani legal thriller (after 2005's Double Tap) offers an improbable if intriguing premise. San Diego, Calif., attorney Madriani and Harry Hinds, his longtime partner, agree to represent Carl Arnsberg, a racist facing execution for the bludgeoning-by-hammer murder of author Terry Scarborough, whose nonfiction bestseller, Perpetual Slaves, has actually […]
The Other
Kirkus Reviews: In this philosophically provocative and psychologically astute novel, two boyhood friends take very different paths: The richer one renounces all earthly entanglements, while the poorer one becomes unexpectedly wealthy beyond imagination. Once again, Guterson (Our Lady of the Forest, 2003, etc.) writes of the natural splendor of his native Pacific Northwest, though the […]