Posts Tagged ‘fiction’

Virgil Flowers faces double trouble, in an exceptional thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers’ case, make that two. The first comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large Siberian tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities…

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of North America’s most admired and beloved storytellers in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. As we grow older–most of all, in what we remember and what we dream–we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in…

When his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, assistant district attorney Andy Barber is torn between loyalty and justice as facts come to light that lead him to question how well he knows his own son.

The disappearance of basketball player Greg Downing, his onetime athletic rival both on and off the court, from his upscale suburban New Jersey home throws sports agent Myron Bolitar back into his own past as he tries to unravel the strange, violent rise and fall of a sports hero. Reissue.

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slave ship “The Ibis.” Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its crew a motley array of sailors, stowaways, and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, the ship boasts a diverse cast of Indians, coolies,…

Kovac and Liska take on multiple twisted cases as #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag explores a murder from the past, a murder from the present, and a life that was never meant to be. As the bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki Liska is restless, already bored with…

Profiles Aboriginal Canadians telling their own stories about their own people in their own voice from their own perspective.