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Sundays at Tiffany's
James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
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2008; 309 p.; isbn:031601477X More Information |
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On stranger tides
Tim Powers
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1988; 326 p.; isbn:9781596061675 More Information |
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The Third Circle
Amanda Quick
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"Leona Hewitt, disguised in men's formal evening clothes, has secretly made her way into Lord Delbridge's private museum to recover a relic stolen from her family years ago. But someone else is there in the dimly lit gallery, on the same errand: a tall black-cloaked man whose very voice is enough to put her in a trance." "Thaddeus Ware, a mesmerist ...
2008; 342 p.; isbn:0399154841 More Information |
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Three girls and their brother : a novel
Theresa Rebeck
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"They may be the granddaughters of a famous literary critic, but what really starts it all is Daria, Polly, and Amelia Heller's stunning red hair. Out of the blue one day, The New Yorker calls and says that they want to feature the girls in a glamorous spread shot by a world-famous photographer, and before long these three beautiful nobodies from Brooklyn ...
2008; 341 p.; isbn:030739414X More Information |
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The Hollow
Nora Roberts
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As the madness, which happens for seven days every seven years, prepares to descend upon the town of Hawkins Hollow, three men bound by blood and three woman bound by ancestry to a demon join forces to stop the terror from beginning again
2008; 325 p.; isbn:0515144592 More Information |
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Bikini season
Sheila Roberts
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2008; 273 p.; isbn:0312370806 More Information |
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Dead heat
Joel C. Rosenberg
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In the wake of a horrific war in the Middle East, the president's second term is ending and the battle to succeed him is heating up into one of the most fiercely contested presidential elections in American history--and Jon and Erin Bennett realize the stakes could not be higher
2008; 400 p.; isbn:1414311613 More Information |
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Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo ; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ; with a foreword by Susan Sontag
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Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Paramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows - a place seemingly populated only by memory and hallucinations. Built on the tyranny of the Paramo family, its barren and broken-down streets echo the voices of tormented ...
1994; 124 p.; isbn:0802133908 More Information |
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Evening is the whole day
Preeta Samarasan
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"When Chellam, the family's rubber-plantation-bred servant girl, is dismissed for unnamed crimes, her banishment is the latest in a series of recent, precipitous losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha's life. A few short weeks before, Aasha's grandmother Paati passed away under mysterious circumstances and her older sister, Uma, departed for Columbia ...
2008; 340 p.; isbn:061887447X More Information |
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Phantom prey
John Sandford
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Terrified by her goth-associated daughter's disappearance and the signs of a deadly struggle in their home, a widow implores Lucas Davenport to use his connections to local authorities to expedite the investigation, which subsequently reveals the work of a serial killer
2008; 373 p.; isbn:9780399155000 More Information |
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Harry, revised : a novel
Mark Sarvas
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"Meet Harry Rent. Bumbling, lovable, good-hearted, misguided, foolish. Despite his every good intention, Harry usually manages to make a mess of things, mostly because he can't quite get out of his head." "When his wife, Anna, dies unexpectedly, Harry's world is turned upside down. Numb to his own emotions, he sets out on a quest to reinvent himself, ...
2008; 265 p.; isbn:1596914629 More Information |
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The end of baseball : a novel
Peter Schilling, Jr
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"Bill Veeck, the maverick promoter, returned from Guadalcanal with a leg missing and $500 to his name, has hustled his way into buying the Philadelphia Athletics. Hungry for a pennant, young Veeck jettisons the team's white players and secretly recruits the legendary stars of the Negro Leagues, fielding a club that will go down in baseball annals as ...
2008; 340 p.; isbn:9781566637824 More Information |
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