Queen of Babble In the Big City
Publishers Weekly: Reviewed byMolly Jong-Fast: Midway though Cabot's latest novel, Chaz (the boyfriend of protagonist Lizzie Nichols's best friend) tells Lizzie, "Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there […]
Light of the Moon
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Jackie Taxter. From the Publisher: New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice transports readers across the sea in this moving, magical tale of a lonely woman with a promise to keep. Set in a landscape of stunning natural beauty, Light of the Moon is a chronicle of mothers […]
The Sound of Butterflies
Kirkus Reviews: In this debut novel about love, betrayal and devotion, King offers a vibrant portrayal of a jungle inner-world and the characters who roam within it. It is the beginning of the 20th century and the rubber business is booming in Brazil. Rubber barons feed their horses champagne and send their clothes to Europe […]
The Whole Truth
Publishers Weekly: Usually a sophisticated plotter, bestseller Baldacci (Absolute Power ) offers a story line and villain on a par with an average James Bond film in what's billed as his first "international thriller." Nicholas Creel, the head of the Ares Corporation, a huge defense contractor, hires a "perception management" firm to start a second […]
So Brave, Young, and Handsome
Publishers Weekly: An inviting voice guides readers through this expansive saga of redemption in the early 20th-century West and gives a teeming vitality to a period often represented with stock phrases and stock characters. Novelist Monte Becket isn't a terribly distinguished figure; his first and only published work hit five years before the story's start […]
Santa Fe Dead
Kirkus Reviews (starred review): ?Woods keeps [his characters] moving smartly around the playing board like so many checkers . . . .?
The House At Riverton
Quicksand
Publisher Weekly Review: The action-packed 12th installment in bestseller Johansen's saga featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan (after Stalemate) is also a sequel of sorts to Pandora's Daughter, which chronicled the life of Megan Blair, an Atlanta physician with burgeoning psychic abilities. Intertwining the two disparate story lines intensifies both, as Johansen pits her two courageous […]
Sundays At Tiffany's
From the Publisher: As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother Vivienne Margaux, the powerful head of a major New York theater company has no time for her. But she does have one friend–Michael–and no one can see him but her. But Michael can't stay with Jane forever, and on her eighth birthday, […]
Winter Study
Publisher Weekly Review In bestseller Barr's chilling 14th mystery thriller to feature National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon (after 2005's Hard Truth), Anna joins the team of Winter Study, a research project intended to study the wolves and moose of Michigan's Isle Royale National Park, the setting for 1994's A Superior Death. Complicating the study […]