The Midnight Palace
Publishers Weekly Zafón (The Prince of Mist) delivers an often creepy adventure, first published in Spain in 1994, populated with some wonderful characters. In British-occupied Calcutta in 1916, a soldier saves two babies (at the cost of his own life), and the children's grandmother leaves one at an orphanage to throw off the evil person […]
Now You See Her
The perfect life: A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York—including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. The […]
10th Anniversary
Library Journal Gone, baby, gone. Patterson's tenth novel in the Women's Murder Club (WMC) series (after The 9th Judgment) opens with a missing baby. Sgt. Lindsay Boxer is assigned a case that leaves her little time to enjoy her new marriage. A nearly naked teenage girl, bleeding and incoherent, is found stumbling out of the […]
Bossypants
The New York Times – Janet Maslin: …[Fey's] dagger-sharp, extremely funny…Bossypants isn't a memoir. It's a spiky blend of humor, introspection, critical thinking and Nora Ephron-isms for a new generation.
The Fifth Witness : a Novel
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio Connelly is…a master manipulator, and there's always something deadly serious behind his entertaining courtroom high jinks. Here he describes the background of the real estate collapse, exposing the venality involved in mortgage foreclosures. And just to keep it light, he throws in a few inside jokes about Hollywood […]
Toys
New York Daily News: "When it comes to constructing a harrowing plot, author James Patterson can turn a screw all right."
Cross Fire
The Today Show – Al Roker: "[Patterson's] books don't pussyfoot around when it comes to the villains. These are bad, bad people… [I, Alex Cross] is political, with a lot of intrigue in high places."
Rescue : a Novel
Library Journal: Webster, a paramedic living with his parents in rural Vermont, meets Sheila Arsenault when he pulls her, bloodied and unconscious, out of a car wreck caused by her driving under the influence of alcohol. Her glossy brown hair draws him compulsively back, and he steadfastly ignores all warning signs as their relationship develops. […]
The Wolves of Andover : a Novel`
Library Journal In coastal Massachusetts in 1673, wolves still lurked in the shadows, and farmers toiled to keep the forest at bay. Martha Allen is sent to such a farm to help her cousin who's in the final months of her pregnancy. Sharp-tongued and independent, Martha finds life difficult no matter where she is and […]
Dave, the Potter
Children’s Literature Hill’s terse but emotionally evocative, poetic text describes the work of an enslaved potter in the 1800s. Known only as Dave, he not only created about forty thousand pots up to forty gallons in size, but also inscribed brief poems on some of them. We can admire them in museums today. Introducing Dave’s […]