Where Are You Now?
Publishers Weekly: Bestseller Clark (Where Are the Children?) spins yet another imaginative tale of murder and deceit. Every Mother's Day over the 10 years since Charles "Mack" MacKenzie Jr. disappeared from Columbia University just before his graduation, Mack has phoned his mother in Manhattan to let her know he's all right, but otherwise reveals nothing. […]
Smash! Crash!
Added to the Lisbon Public Library collection in celebration of the birth of Michael Robert Defosse. Synopsis: Welcome to Jon Scieszka's Trucktown, a brand-new preschool/kindergarten series that will come in more shapes, sizes, and formats than you can shake a bumper at. It's a world where all the characters are trucks, all the stories are […]
Curse of the Spellmans
Publishers Weekly: In the two years that have passed since the action in Lutz's hit debut, The Spellman Files(2007), zany Isabel Spellman, who works for the family PI firm in San Francisco, has become "a somewhat responsible member of society." Unfortunately, she's also become obsessed with "Subject" (aka John Brown), a next-door neighbor who she's […]
Never Enough
Library Journal Review McGinniss (Fatal Vision) has produced another page-turning true-crime blockbuster. This surreal story of successful investment banker Robert Kissel and his compulsive-shopper wife Nancy living the seemingly perfect "expat" life in Hong Kong with their three children features plenty of money, sex, and greed. In 2003, Nancy and the kids spent time in […]
Extras
The world of uglies, pretties, and specials is over. Now, its all about fame. In the new book in the "New York Times" bestselling "Uglies" series, everyones social status is constantly monitored and rated.
Hand of Evil
Publisher Weekly Review: Jance keeps former L.A. TV news anchor Ali Reynolds in her native Arizona for her third lead appearance (following Web of Evil). Ali, still recovering from the murder of her not-quite-ex-husband, is aided by her parents and her old high school chum, newly divorced detective and marine reservist Dave Holman. Meanwhile, wealthy, […]
The Gift
Publisher Weekly Review: Evans (The Christmas Box) returns with narrator Nathan Hurst, a frequently traveling, Tourette's-suffering security chief for a retail chain. When Nathan gets snowed in at the Denver airport at Thanksgiving, he offers half his hotel suite to a stranded needy family: recently divorced single mom Addison (a massage therapist), and her two […]
The Tenderness of Wolves
Library Journal Review Starred Review. The publisher was excited about this British debut even before it was proclaimed the U.K. Costa Book of the Year (the former Whitbread Book Award), and the excitement was not misplaced. Daringly, the author sets her work in Canada's frigid northern territory in the 19th century. As winter closes in […]
State of Terror
Play Dirty
Publisher Weekly Review: The seven deadly sins help propel this provocative, sex-fueled thriller from bestseller Brown (Ricochet). Foster Speakman, an eccentric Texas paraplegic millionaire, offers $500,000 to Griff Burkett, a disgraced former NFL quarterback fresh out of prison after serving a five-year sentence for racketeering, to impregnate Foster's wife, Laura. Foster insists the child be […]