The Spymistress
Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by Northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When her native state seceded in April 1861, Van Lew’s convictions compelled her to defy the new Confederate regime. Pledging her loyalty to the Lincoln White House, her courage would never waver, even as […]
Doing Hard Time
Publishers Weekly 08/12/2013 Edgar-winner Woods’s smooth 27th Stone Barrington novel (after Unintended Consequences) takes the New York City attorney to Los Angeles, where Stone’s son, Peter; Peter’s girlfriend, Hattie Patrick; and friend Dino Bacchetti’s son, Benito, are headed to begin work on their first film for Centurion Studios after graduating from the Yale School of […]
Winners : a Novel
Publishers Weekly In Steel’s latest (after First Sight), Olympian hopeful Lily Thomas is injured in a freak ski-lift accident while on vacation in Squaw Valley. Her father, business tycoon Bill Thomas, refuses to accept that his talented daughter, on her way to the Ivy League, will never again walk—let alone ski. He blames Lily’s neurosurgeon, […]
Thankless In Death
Kirkus Reviews 2013-09-01 Lt. Eve Dallas goes up against a spoiled kid who's suddenly developed a taste for killing. Lots of families get a little edgy as Thanksgiving approaches. But that's no excuse for Jerald Reinhold to stab his mother 54 times when she nags him once too often, then to lie in wait so […]
The Hired Man
Publishers Weekly 09/02/2013 In this moving novel from Forna (The Memory of Love), the scars left by the Croatian War of Independence underlie a deceptively simple account of a Croat developing a relationship with foreigners moving into his village. Exactly what Duro Kolak experienced in the fighting that enveloped Gost, his small town, is only […]
The Signature of All Things
The New York Times Book Review – Barbara Kingsolver : …the prose is modern and accessible, leaning on plot rather than language to draw readers in. Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. The Signature of All […]
Loss of Innocence
Library Journal : Whitney Dane, an accomplished novelist at the age of 65, recalls her tumultuous summer of 1968. After graduating from a private all-girls college, she becomes happily engaged to the likable and very suitable Peter Brooks and retreats to the Dane family home on Martha's Vineyard to while away the summer with her […]
The Pure Gold Baby
Library Journal ★ 09/01/2013 : Anna is the daughter of anthropologist and writer Jessica Speight and is her "pure gold baby"—a happy and loving child with special needs and capabilities. As a single mother in 1960s London, Jess navigates career, relationships, and the National Health Service with compromise, determination, and the help of a close-knit […]
The Road From Gap Creek
Library Journal 09/15/2013 Following the best-selling Gap Creek, an Oprah Book Club Selection that traces the early marriage of Julie and Hank Richards, Morgan writes a sequel that continues the story of the couple and their four children. Through daughter Annie's narrative, we learn of the effects of war as well as the far-reaching ramifications […]
Silencing Eve
Kirkus Reviews 2013-10-01 After an explosive showdown in Colorado among the CIA, Eve Duncan's loved ones and a furious Jim Doane, Eve is Doane's captive again, but the stakes are higher than anyone imagined, and getting Eve to safety is shadowed by an even deadlier threat. Renowned forensic sculptor Eve is captive again to evil […]