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Robert B. Parker's Payback
Mike Lupica Format: Hardcover
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PI Sunny Randall has often relied on her best friend, Spike, in times of need. Now their roles are reversed. His 20-year old niece, a junior at Taft University, has committed suicide, and Spike wants to know why. The search will send them digging into the life of a girl embroiled in secrets... |
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And the Dark Sacred Night: A Novel
Julia Glass - Pantheon; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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In this richly detailed novel about the quest for an unknown father, Julia Glass brings new characters together with familiar figures from her first two novels, immersing readers in a panorama that stretches from suburban New Jersey to rural Vermont and ultimately to the tip of Cape Cod.... |
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The Engagements
J. Courtney Sullivan - Knopf; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Commencement and Maine comes a gorgeous, sprawling novel about marriageabout those who marry in a white heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and comfort, and those who live together, love each other, and have absolutely no intention... |
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Cross Her Heart
Melinda Leigh - MONTLAKE ROMANCE Format: Paperback
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For more than twenty-five years, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert has tucked away the nightmarish childhood memories of her parents murder-suicideUntil her younger sister, Erin, is killed in a crime that echoes that tragic night: innocent witnesses and a stormy marriage that... |
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The Gargoyle Hunters: A novel
John Freeman Gill - Alfred A. Knopf Format: Print book
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Hilarious and poignant, The Gargoyle Hunters is a love letter to a vanishing city, and a deeply emotional story of fathers and sons. Intimately portraying New York's elbow-jostling relationship with time, the novel solves the mystery of a brazen and seemingly impossible architectural... |
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Some Say: Poems
MAUREEN N MCLANE - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling collection of poems exploring the mental landscape of our momentMaureen N. McLane's Some Say revolves around a dazzling "old sun." Here are poems on sex and death; here are poems testing the "bankrupt idea / of nature." Some Say offers an erotics of attention;... |
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Stillwater: A Jack McBride Mystery
Melissa Lenhardt - Skyhorse Publishing Format: Print book
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Big secrets run deep.Former FBI agent Jack McBride took the job as Chief of Police for Stillwater, Texas, to start a new life with his teenage son, Ethan, away from the suspicions that surrounded his wife's disappearance a year earlier.With a low crime rate and a five-man police force,... |
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Famous Baby
Karen Rizzo - Prospect Park Books Format: Paperback
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Los Angeles Times Summer Books Preview selectionLos Angeles Magazine Now Read This: The Best of L.A.South Florida Lifestyle Summer ReadZoe Report Best Summer Beach ReadHelloGiggles Summer Guide to Truly Spectacular ReadingFamous Baby is inventive, hysterical, and touching. Karen... |
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Small Blessings: A Novel
Martha Woodroof - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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From debut novelist Martha Woodroof comes an inspiring tale of a small-town college professor, a remarkable new woman at the bookshop, and the ten-year old son he never knew he had. Tom Putnam has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. An English professor in a sleepy college... |
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Season of the Dragonflies: A Novel
Sarah Creech - William Morrow Paperbacks Format: Paperback
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As beguiling as the novels of Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani, Aimee Bender, and Sarah Addison Allen, Season of the Dragonflies is a story of flowers, sisters, practical magic, old secrets, and new love, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains.For generations, the Lenore women have manufactured... |
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