Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
War Cry
The Wicked City
New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams recreates the New York City of A Certain Age in this deliciously spicy adventure that mixes past and present and centers on a Jazz Age love triangle involving a rugged Prohibition agent, a saucy redheaded flapper, and a debonair Princetonian from a wealthy family. When she discovers her…
Read MoreGone Girl
When a woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage, while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.
Read MoreThe Woman in Cabin 10
From New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery” (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware—this time, set at sea. In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel…
Read MoreBrave New World
Huxley’s story shows a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to the world’s population, this literary classic is a must-read.
Read MoreCalifornia Wife
Kristen Harnisch s debut historical fiction novel, “The California Wife,” is the second in a series about the changing world of vineyard life at the turn of the twentieth century and a spirited heroine s fight to determine her destiny.”
Read MoreMississippi Blood
The #1 New York Times Bestseller The final installment in the epic Natchez Burning trilogy by Greg Iles “Natchez Burning is extraordinarily entertaining and fiendishly suspenseful. I defy you to start it and find a way to put it down; as long as it is, I wished it were longer. . . . This is…
Read MoreDarkly Dreaming Dexter
Hiding a secret life as an assassin while working as a murder analyst for the Miami police, Dexter Morgan is intrigued by the work of a new serial killer whose style mimics his own and who Morgan realizes is inviting him into a deadly competition. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (A Showtime series, premiering Fall 2006,…
Read MoreDexter in the Dark
Miami crime scene investigator–and a serial killer dedicated to eliminating evil people–Dexter Morgan confronts his ultimate adversary, a sinister enemy that even terrifies Dexter’s inner monster, and must use his sharpest investigative talents to find and destroy his enemy, as well as to understand his own dark soul. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
Read MoreThe Water of Life
Uisge beatha, Scottish Gaelic for ‘whisky’, is literally ‘the water of life’. However, it also frequently proves lethal. Driven by a mysterious voice, Elizabeth Legrand plunges headlong into an insane project: opening a distillery in her small, isolated Canadian community in Georgian Bay. Using ancient reserves of Glen Dubh, a mythical Scotch thought lost to…
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