A Court of Mist and Fury
From School Library Journal Gr 10 Up—Maas continues to uphold her reputation for building alluring and breathtaking worlds and creating characters who feel so real they could walk off the pages of the book. In this volume, which picks up where A Court of Thorns and Roses left off, Feyre is engaged to Tamlin, the […]
Hag-Seed
Publishers Weekly š 08/22/2016 In The Tempest, Prospero is not just exiled king, magician, and father, hefs an impresario staging multiple shows: the storm that strands his enemies on the island; his pretended disdain for Ferdinand, whom he intends for his daughter, Miranda; the play within the play; and, some critics argue, the play itself. […]
Smoke and Mirrors
Publishers Weekly 05/30/2016 Set in Brighton, England, in 1951, Griffith’s captivating sequel to 2015’s Zig Zag Girl finds Det. Insp. Edgar Stephens embroiled in a grim holiday hunt for the murderer of two children. Like an unnerving scene from a fairy tale, a trail of candy in the snow leads to the bodies of Annie […]
The Whistler
Publishers Weekly 09/12/2016 Lawyer Lacy Stolz, the heroine of this tense legal thriller from bestseller Grisham (Rogue Lawyer), investigates complaints against judges for the Florida Board on Judicial Misconduct. In her nine years on the job, there has never been any danger in her assignments; the justices are often more incompetent than corrupt. Everything changes […]
Small Great Things
The New York Times Book Review – Roxane Gay Small Great Things is, in most ways, a classic Jodi Picoult novel—tackling contemporary social issues, creating interesting, relatable characters and presenting a gripping courtroom drama…Picoult knows how to tell an interesting story, and the novel moves briskly. This is a writer who understands her characters inside […]
Order to Kill
Publishers Weekly š 08/29/2016 The rousing 15th entry in the late Vince Flynnfs bestselling series, the first by Mills (who completed 2015fs The Survivor), pits CIA officer Mitch Rapp against Grisha Azarov, Russian president Maxim Krupinfs personal assassin, and for once Mitch isnft the odds-on favorite. Krupin has an ingenious plan involving the theft of […]
A Gambler's Anatomy
"In his new novel, he seems to be channeling (and, as usual, transforming) both Thomas Pynchon and Ian Fleming…in short, just another day in Lethemland, as strange and wondrous in its way as anyplace imagined by L. Frank Baum." –Chicago Tribune
Pharaoh
Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient city of Luxor is surrounded, All seems lost. Taita, advisor to the Pharaoh, prepares for the enemy’s final, fatal push. The ex-slave, now general of Tamose’s armies, is never more ingenious than when all hope is dashed. And this is Egypt’s most desperate hour. With the timely arrival […]
The Trespasser
“A tour de force…When you read Ms. French—and she has become required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting—make only one assumption: All of your initial assumptions are wrong.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times*
Napoleon's Last Island
“Deft, engaging. . . unfailingly great reading. . . . Keneally is our greatest living practitioner of historical fiction. . . [and he] finds such eager drama and pathos in the least likely of settings. The book is a complex and mesmerizing success.” (Christian Science Monitor)