Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
Ice Hunt
Carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States, Ice Station Grendel has been abandoned for more than seventy years. The twisted brainchild of the finest minds of the former Soviet Union, it was designed to be inaccessible and virtually invisible. But an American undersea research vessel has inadvertently pulled…
Read MoreThe Best Laid Plans
“Here’s the set up: A burnt-out political aide quits just before an election – but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock – an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers – to let…
Read MoreHIGH ROAD, THE
“Honest Angus McLintock is an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth. Political aide Daniel Addison thought he just might escape from his job until “his” candidate brings down the government and decides to run again.” – publisher.
Read MoreNight Road
“A rich, multilayered reading experience, and an easy recommendation for book clubs.” —Library Journal (starred review) Life comes down to a series of choices. To hold on… To let go…to forget…to forgive… Which road will you take? For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children’s needs above her own, and it shows—her twins, Mia…
Read MorePoldark 1 Ross Poldark
A reissue of the first book in the legendary Poldark series, to tie in with the new BBC seriesTired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict and the girl…
Read MoreSword of Attila
“Sword of Attila begins with the fall of Carthage to the Vandals in AD 439. Rome has already been sacked by the Goths, Britain has been abandoned and the empire in the west is feeling the brunt of barbarian invasions laying waste to the provinces and leading to uneasy alliances with Germanic warlords. As the…
Read MoreWinter Garden
Mesmerizing from the first page to the last, Winter Garden is one woman’s sweeping, heartbreaking story of love, loss, and redemption. At once an epic love story set in World War II Russia and an intimate portrait of contemporary mothers and daughters poised at the crossroads of their lives, it explores the heartbreak of war,…
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They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the…
Read MoreIn a Dark Dark Wood
“What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her “nest” of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary.…
Read MoreThe Restorer
Discovering a young woman’s brutalized body in an old Charleston graveyard, Amelia Gray, a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts, places her own life in danger as she tries to help a haunted police detective who draws her to the gossamer veil that separates this world from the next. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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