Monthly Archives: April 2017

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back – Elisabeth Rosenthal

April 30, 2017
Society
“The definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, a shocking investigation into the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, as well as solutions to its myriad of problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit ...

The Clements Kettle – Erik Carter

April 30, 2017
Mystery
A mysterious artifact. A kidnapping. And a cowboy detective. Barnaby Wilcox is one low-down, rotten scoundrel — the perfect credentials for the Wild West’s only private eye. His current case: tracking down a kettle. That’s right, a kettle. Times are tough. He’ll take what he can get. Besides, the kettle in question is a ransom item. Kidnapping cases are always fun. Rumor has it the kettle is cursed. Everyone who touches it ends up in a pine box. But the kettle puts a different kind ...

Penniless Hearts – Eve Gaal

April 30, 2017
Romance
It’s almost Christmas, and Penny is not at her desk. Feeling as if she’s taken for granted by everyone in her life, Penny itches for adventure and the unknown. Enter Captain Dan Losegg. On a whim, Penny abandons all responsibilities and dashes off to Hawaii with the charming pilot. But before she can say Aloha, trouble is brewing faster than Kona coffee, and Penny finds herself caught up in misadventures and misunderstandings. Full of surprises and unexpected twists, Penniless Hearts is a delightful and romantic ...

The Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris

April 29, 2017
Thriller
A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname–Buffalo Bill–is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Bureau’s Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter–Hannibal the Cannibal–who is kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Dr. Lecter is a former psychiatrist with ...

Siren’s Wave – J.A. Hazel

April 29, 2017
Romance
A Rock and Roll Love Story. Dark forests, rogue waves, and pinned, brittle dragonflies. Someone’s having nightmares. But who? Sizzling-hot New York rocker, Bran, is sure of just two things in life. You can’t rely on anyone. And love isn’t real. With music and a wild surf to subdue his demons, he can cope with anything. Except maybe Ava. The feisty girl, who works for his Australian record company, is a total pain in the butt. There’s no way she could be the key to ...

Blackgang: The Trickerjack Trail – Chris Tetreault-Blay

April 29, 2017
Horror
Follow the trail. Play the game. Save your soul. Betrayed by those he holds dear, Taylor Pike is in need of a change. A chance meeting with a psychic sends him on a mysterious trip across the water to the Isle of Wight. His only clue is a simple playing card; the Jack of Spades. A cryptic trail of similar cards leads him to the village of Blackgang, where he soon meets Papa Loco, a man shunned by the villagers due to his crazy stories ...

All By Myself, Alone – Mary Higgins Clark

April 28, 2017
Mystery
A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from “Queen of Suspense” and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark. Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship—the Queen Charlotte. On board she meets eighty-six-year-old Lady Emily Haywood, “Lady Em,” as she is known throughout the world. Immensely wealthy, Lady ...

Moral Misconduct – David DeLee

April 28, 2017
Thriller
Three Thrilling Novellas for One Low Price! This collection includes the first three Flynn & Levy novellas from award winning author David DeLee. COP SHOT On a cold, rainy, March night, NYPD homicide detective Frank Flynn catches the worst case there is: A cop shot under the Brooklyn Bridge. Forced to team-up with an Internal Affairs investigator, the two detectives must work together to sort through a plethora of suspects, all of whom have reasons for wanting the dirty cop dead, to determine who shot ...

The Cardboard Spaceship – Matt Snee

April 28, 2017
Science Fiction
Lewis “Captain” Darby lives with his mother in modern day Indiana. What nobody knows is that sometimes, Captain crawls beneath an old refrigerator box in the basement and pretends it’s a spaceship. And what Captain doesn’t realize is that he has a date with destiny. One peculiar April morning, Captain crosses paths with Jennifer Pichon, the child of legendary space explorer Marty Pichon and Kitty Malhotra, the Princess of Saturn. They join forces just in time as the terrifying astronomical event called “No-Shape” is poised ...

Beartown – Fredrik Backman

April 27, 2017
Comedy
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true. People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the ...

Army of the Goddess – Elizabeth N. Love

April 27, 2017
Romance
While recovering from the near mortal wounds inflicted by the Goddess and her Stormfly species, Axandra Saugray must prepare her people for war, something not experienced by the human race in over three hundred years. Abductions make the roads unsafe and violence strikes without warning among peaceful villagers. The environment escalates toward battle as the Goddess builds an army of human captives, each host to a powerful parasite known as the Stormfly. Continuing the story of the planet Bona Dea, Army of the Goddess is ...

The Sandman Cometh – Stuart G. Yates

April 27, 2017
Thriller
In a cold, insensitive future, Simeon Allis struggles to come to terms with an existence he doesn’t understand. Every decision is made for him, and his family and loved ones no longer have a place in the world. The State provides everything, and the Sandmen ensure conformity. Hideous inventions, the Sandmen ensure obedience of the citizens of the clinical world in which Simeon lives out his controlled life, alone. But he is different than the others… for he has memories. One terrible night, lost in ...

Dangerous Games – Danielle Steel

April 26, 2017
Drama
Television correspondent Alix Phillips dodges bullets and breaks rules to bring the most important news to the world—from riots in America to protests on the streets of Tehran. With her daughter in college, and working alongside cameraman Ben Chapman, a deeply private ex–Navy SEAL, Alix revels in the risks and whirlwind pace of her work. But her latest assignment puts her at the center of an explosive story that will reshape many lives, including her own: investigating damning allegations involving the Vice President of the ...

Fragile Brilliance – Eliot Parker

April 26, 2017
Thriller
When off-duty Charleston police sergeant Ronan McCullough responds to the assault of a college student outside a downtown sports bar, he is brutally attacked and nearly killed by the assailants. As he struggles with the physical and emotional damage and doggedly pursues the perpetrators, his personal and professional relationships are strained to the limit; and what he uncovers in his investigation takes him to heart of a deadly drug ring threatening the very core of the city.