Something More
Publisher Weekly Review Known for her popular Calder saga set in Montana (Calder Storm, etc.), Dailey turns her attention to the Ten Bar Ranch, near Glory, Wyo. (pop. 51), run by a young, laid-back widower, Luke McCallister. Still grieving over losing his family four years earlier, Luke, who swigs whiskey to dull the pain, isn't […]
The Henry Holt Retirement Sourcebook : an Information Guide For Planning and Managing Your Affairs
The Sleeping Doll
Library Journal Review An explosive prison escape in the opening pages sets a dynamic pace in Deaver's newest suspense thriller. Kathryn Dance, the kinesics expert from the California Bureau of Investigation first introduced in last year's The Cold Moon, an entry in the Lincoln Rhyme/Amelia Sachs series, leads the investigation in this psychological exploration of […]
How to Love a Difficult Man
The Titan's Curse
School Library Journal: Gr 6-9 – In this installment, Riordan continues to enliven ancient mythology with wit, contemporary staging, and teenage heroics. Percy Jackson is now 14, a bit older and wiser, yet still entangled with the Fates. Friends, monsters, dysfunctional gods, and the romantic stirrings of all things natural and mythological are encountered. His […]
Great Braids : the New Way to Exciting Hair Styles
The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
Library Journal Review: Leeming (English & comparative literature, emeritus, Univ. of Connecticut; From Olympus to Camelot: The World of European Mythology), who has authored books on various aspects of mythology, many with a specific regional focus, has compiled a resource encompassing the important mythological topics from cultures around the world. This single volume begins with […]
Peony In Love
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. In 17th-century China, pampered daughters of wealthy families emulated the romantic tragedy depicted in the popular opera The Peony Pavilion. These teenagers, known as the lovesick maidens, starved themselves to death, writing of romantic perfection. Such is the basis for See's extraordinary new novel. During a performance of The Peony […]
Fingerprints and Facelifts
Publisher Weekly Review:Starred Review. Full of retro-fab fun, this smokin' first in a new series from Copp (The Actor's Guide to Greed) introduces the L.A. Dolls, three gutsy (and still very hot) retired female PIs. For seven years in the '80s, the Dolls made Charlie's Angels look like mere pussycats. Their lives have taken divergent […]
New England White
Publishers Weekly: Two lesser characters from Yale law professor Carter's bestselling first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park(2002)-husband and wife Lemaster and Julia Carlyle-take center stage in his second, a compelling, literate page-turner that effortlessly blends a gripping whodunit with complex discussions of politics and race in contemporary America. Lemaster, one of the country's most […]