Archives for “Novel”
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, Book 1) . Magic is dangerous–but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London’s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural [...]
Pope Joan : A Novel . One of the most controversial women of history is brought to brilliant life in Donn Woolfolk Cross’s tale of Pope Joan, a girl whose origins should have kept her in squalid domesticity. Instead, through her intelligence, indomitability and courage, she ascended to the throne of Rome as Pope John [...]
Mourn The Living . Wherever You Live- From city to city, one man walks the streets, carefully choosing his victims. Mercilessly, he cuts their throats. And with each kill, he leaves his chilling trademark, honed to razor-sharp perfection over decades of practice-
Never Love a Stranger . Harold Robbins’ very first novel is also one of his most powerful. Never Love a Stranger tells the gritty and passionate tale of Francis “Frankie” Kane, from his meager beginnings as an orphan in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. From that confused and belittling start, Frank works his way up, choosing [...]
White Teeth Zadie Smith : A Novel . Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has [...]
The Ocean Inside . Life changes in an instant. One day, Emmett and Lauren Sullivan’s biggest worries revolve around the escalating taxes on their gorgeous Victorian beach house on Pawley’s Island, South Carolina. The next, they’re facing a devastating crisis. Emmett and Lauren have always been a team, working together to raise their two daughters. [...]
The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon) . Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as “the gold standard” of thriller writers (Dallas Morning News) who “has hit upon the perfect formula to keep espionage-friendly fans’ fingers glued to his books, turning pages in nearly breathless anticipation” (BookPage). [...]
Fly Away Home: A Novel . Sometimes all you can do is fly away home . . . When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s wife—her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe [...]
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet . In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian’s claim that [...]
Rage of Angels . A worldwide bestseller first published in 1980, this novel tells the story of Jennifer Parker, a successful lawyer who is loved by two men, one a politician, the other, a mafia don. Other work by the author includes “The Other Side of Midnight” and “If Tomorrow Comes”. [...]
31 Hours . Jonas is in a safe-house beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. There, in the belief that he can change the world, he ponders his newfound faith and his specialized training. Over the next 31 hours, he will cleanse himself, mind and body, in preparation for the violent action he means to take when [...]
A Vote of Confidence . In A Vote of Confidence, the stage is set for some intriguing insight into what it was like during 1915 to be a woman in a ‘man’s world.’ Guinevere Arlington is a beautiful young woman determined to remain in charge of her own life.
Breach of Trust (Call of Duty Series, Book 1) . Paige Rogers is a former CIA agent who lost all she treasured seven years ago when her entire team was killed in a covert mission. She blames their leader—Daniel Keary—whom Paige believes betrayed them. Disillusioned and afraid for her life, she disappeared and started a [...]
The Da Vinci Code . With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.
Angels and Demons . It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a [...]
Pride and Prejudice book. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, “Call me Ishmael,” the first sentence of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in [...]
The Road . McCarthy’s latest novel, a frightening apocalyptic vision, is narrated by a nameless man, one of the few survivors of an unspecified civilization-ending catastrophe. He and his young son are trekking along a treacherous highway, starving and freezing, trying to avoid roving cannibal armies. The tale, and their lives, are saved from teetering [...]
Changes (Dresden Files, Book 12) . Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden’s lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with [...]
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, Book 11) . The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council—and there’s only one, final punishment for that crime. He’s on the run, wants his name cleared, and needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog.
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, Book 10) . The new novel in the New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series. No one’s tried to kill Harry Dresden for almost an entire year, and his life finally seems to be calming down. For once, the future looks fairly bright.
White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9). The inspiration for the Sci Fi channel television series. In Chicago, someone has been killing practitioners of magic, those incapable of becoming full-fledged wizards. Shockingly, all the evidence points to Harry Dresden’s half-brother, Thomas, as the murderer.
Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, Book 8 ) . The White Council of Wizards has drafted Harry Dresden as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in Chicago. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in the Windy City, but it’s all in a day’s work for a wizard, [...]
Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, Book 7) . The USA Today Bestselling Author’s new Dresden Files novel…finally in paperback-and soon to be a Sci Fi Channel movie! Filled with kickass adventure and supernatural fireworks, Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novels have been compared to Harry Potter. Now, Harry Dresden must save Chicago from black magic and necromancy-all [...]
Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, Book 6) . Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas-a vampire of dubious integrity-only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders. It seems someone doesn’t want dirty film director Arturo Genosa’s latest effort to get off [...]
Death Masks (The Dresden Files, Book 5) . Now in hardcover for the first time- book five in the New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series! Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But he also knows that whenever things are going good, the [...]
