Monthly Archives: November 2016

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning—except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center’s director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental ...

Morning Snow – Ronald Paul Speakes

November 30, 2016

Historical

An eccentric young man comes of age in Michigan during the time of the Vietnam War. Thomas Tarakhanov Teniers, known as Tati, the grandson of a Russian immigrant and an American Episcopal minister, faces a war fought in a distant land. It was a time for Tati to try to be rebelliously different in a time of rebellion, to change in his own way in a time of change, to find a way to fight for human rights in a time of civil rights protests, ...

The Ritual of the Four – Carla Trueheart

November 30, 2016

Young Adult

2016 International Book Awards Finalist Silver Seal Winner For sixteen-year-old Shaw Huntley, a normal day includes running from two men who want to kill him. Shaw has a dark ability: using only the power of his mind, and visualizing a specific gold and jeweled dagger, he can telekinetically cut or slice objects. If he gets angry enough, he can even cut people. Unfortunately, the two men chasing him murdered his father in search of the physical gold dagger currently in Shaw’s possession—and they will stop ...

Born a Crime – Trevor Noah

November 29, 2016

Biography

The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors ...

Trajectory Book 1 – Robert M. Campbell

November 29, 2016

Science Fiction

Four mining ships are making the slow return to Mars from operations in the asteroid belt. Back on the planet, a group of students discover a mysterious object in space in an impossible orbit. The crew of the Lighthouse space station are shocked by a devastating accident that throws their routine into chaos as they strive to get their ships safely home. Cut off from Earth, the sub-surface Martian Colony of New Providence suddenly finds itself in peril from something hostile and unknown. Is it ...

Moonglow – Michael Chabon

November 28, 2016

Drama

“This book is beautiful.” — A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover review “An exuberant meld of fiction and family history.” — Hamilton Cain, O Magazine Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home ...

Something Is Rotten In Fettig – Jere Krakoff

November 28, 2016

Comedy

In this satirical novel, a kosher butcher with a pathological aversion to conflict does something that unwittingly propels him into a conflict with every branch of government. When he fails to undo what he has done, he is indicted by a Secret Blind Jury for crimes against the Republic, arrested by the National Constabulary, and consigned to the notorious Purgatory House of Detention to await trial. Later, the angst-ridden butcher is prosecuted by an ethically-challenged Prosecutor General, tried before a habitually pro-prosecution Judge, and defended ...

The Case Of The Disappearing Corpses – Alan Hardy

November 28, 2016

Mystery

Another puzzling, fiendishly complicated mystery for Inspector Cullot and his world-famous Team to solve… Can the Inspector, together with Sergeant Watkins and Cullot’s gorgeous daughter Stephanie, solve the mystery of the corpse that disappeared? Such a mind-boggling mystery is soon followed by a whole series of disappearing corpses being reported all over London… And, worst of all, is the fourth member of Scotland Yard’s top-notch Team, namely the bumbling, bemused PC Blunt, the actual murderer? Is the love of Cullot’s life, the still stunningly attractive ...

Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In – Bernie Sanders

November 27, 2016

Society

When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a “fringe” campaign, something not to be taken seriously. After all, he was just an independent senator from a small state with little name recognition. His campaign had no money, no political organization, and it was taking on the entire Democratic Party establishment. By the time Sanders’s campaign came to a close, however, it was clear that the pundits had gotten it wrong. Bernie ...

His Christmas Cowgirl – Alissa Callen

November 27, 2016

Romance

Headstrong cowgirl Peta Dixon has put her life on hold this Christmas to prove she can run her ranch as well as any man. There isn’t anything she can’t ride, fix, or stare down, and the only things to scare her are long hemlines and sky-high heels. Self-made rancher Garrett Ross normally doesn’t take orders – he gives them. But when the man who is like a father to him asks him to act as a temporary foreman on a Montana ranch, he can’t refuse. ...

Into the Lion’s Den – Linda Fairstein

November 26, 2016

Young Adult

Watch out, Nancy Drew—Devlin Quick is smart, strong, and she will DEFINITELY close the case in this thrilling new mystery series New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein. Someone has stolen a page from a rare book in the New York Public Library. At least, that’s what Devlin’s friend Liza thinks she’s seen, but she can’t be sure. Any other kid might not see a crime here, but Devlin Quick is courageous and confident, and she knows she has to bring this man to justice—even if it means breathlessly ...

The Crew – Dougie Brimson

November 26, 2016

Thriller

Over 4 years as the #1 sports thriller on Amazon UK. Appearances can be deceptive. as Paul Jarvis of the National Football Intelligence Unit is only too well aware. He knows that Billy Evans is no ordinary East End lad made good. He’s also a thug, a villain and a cop killer. Jarvis just hasn’t been able to prove it… Yet. So when Jarvis discovers that Evans is putting together a hooligan ‘Super Crew’ to follow England to Italy, he feels sure he can finally put ...

This Was a Man – Jeffrey Archer

November 25, 2016

Mystery

This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job. Sebastian Clifton ...

Second Thoughts – Nicole R. Locker

November 25, 2016

Romance

There are two sides to every story. When Dylan first meets Zia, she’s standoffish and indifferent, something he isn’t used to when it comes to the opposite sex. When Zia offers to help him get out of his own way to meet girls with more than just a pretty face, he accepts, but his motives are not what Zia suspects.