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Second Time Around by Mary Higgins Clark
In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of
Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception
and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of
the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development
of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane
crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early
results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding
with Nicholas Spencer's disappearance comes news that the FDA is
denying approval. Then follows the shocking revelation that Spencer
had looted Gen-stone of huge sums of money -- including the lifetime
savings of people who had risked every penny they had. Marcia "Carley"
DeCarlo, the thirty-two-year-old columnist for the Wall Street Weekly,
is assigned to cover the story. Carley is the stepsister of Spencer's
wife, Lynn, an aggressive PR woman and socialite, whom she dislikes
and distrusts. The day after news of her husband's disappearance
rocks the financial and medical world, Lynn attends a meeting of
the stockholders of Gen-stone, flaunting expensive clothing and
jewelry. Accused of having participated in the scam, she appears
indifferent to the anger and despair of the people attending, among
them a man whose child has cancer and who is now about to lose his
home. That night, she narrowly escapes death when her mansion in
Bedford, New York, is set on fire. She turns to Carley, begging
her to use her investigative skills to prove that she was not her
husband's accomplice.
Daddy's
Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark
Clark's new heroine is Atlanta investigative journalist Ellie Cavanaugh,
who was seven when her sister, Andrea, 15, was beaten to death by
20-year-old Rob Westerfield, scion of the wealthiest family in a
small Westchester town. Now Westerfield is up for parole, so Ellie,
now 30, returns home to speak out against him. When Westerfield
is released, Ellie begins to write a book aimed at re-proving his
guilt. Digging for evidence, she uncovers clues that Westerfield
may have committed another murder as a youth, but that digging also
enrages the Westerfields and other town members who think the man
was railroaded. Before long, Ellie's life is in danger, as someone
breaks into the house she's staying in, then later sets fire to
it, nearly killing her, and as Westerfield himself begins to shadow
her moves.
He
Sees You When You're Sleeping by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins
Clark
Meet Sterling Brooks. His was not an exemplary life -- he was too
self-absorbed to ever really think about anyone else or make a commitment
to the woman he loved. On the other hand, he had endearing qualities.
His actual misdeeds were few -- his were sins of omission, not commission.
It is a few days before Christmas. For forty-six years Sterling
has lingered in the celestial waiting room outside the heavenly
gates, awaiting summons by the Heavenly Council. Will he be deemed
fit for entrance into heaven? At last the day comes and the council
settles on a test for Sterling -- he will be sent back to earth
and given an opportunity to prove his worthiness by helping someone
else.
On
the Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark
Emily Graham knows what it's like to have enemies. The pretty New
York attorney--a millionaire due to a lucky stock market break--has
been sued by her greedy ex-husband and stalked by a man who thinks
she helped his mother's murderer escape punishment. But when she
buys her great-great-grandmother's childhood home in the sleepy
resort town of Spring Lake, Emily thinks her new life will be saner,
even though five other young women, including Emily's ancestor Madeline
Shapley, have disappeared from Spring Lake under creepy circumstances
over the past century.
Deck
the Halls by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark
Three days before Christmas, Regan Reilly, the dynamic young sleuth
featured in the novels of Carol Higgins Clark, meets Alvirah Meehan,
the famous lottery winner and amateur detective who has appeared
in several previous books by Mary Higgins Clark, when they both
arrive at a New Jersey dentist's office. Alvirah is to accompany
her husband home after a particularly grueling session, while Regan
is there in hopes of connecting with her busy father, who is scheduled
for a routine visit. Once it becomes apparent that Luke Reilly is
not going to keep his appointment, Alvirah offers the deeply troubled
Regan a lift home. When a call comes through on Regan's cell phone,
telling her that her father and his driver, Rosita Gonzalez, are
being held for $1,000,000 ransom, Alvirah insists that Regan allow
her to lend a hand in trying to gain their release, for while Regan
may be a licensed private detective, based in Los Angeles, Alvirah
has many valuable contacts among the ranks of New York's law enforcement
community.
We'll
Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark
We'll Meet Again is filled with the ingredients that Mary Higgins
Clark devotees will devour: fast-paced suspense, double-crossing
villains, romantic intrigue, and a resounding showdown at the end.
Harder to swallow is the excessive use of theatricals whenever the
author describes a satanic like HMO, and its legion of evil doctors.
The darkest knight of all is Peter Black, whose eyes "were cold,
angry, menacing--certainly not the eyes of a healer." Still, melodrama
aside, Higgins Clark still knows how to spin a good yarn. Her heroine
in We'll Meet Again is an investigative reporter named Fran Simmons,
who is not unlike the bright, resourceful Dr. Susan Chandler in
You Belong to Me. Fran has just been hired to work on a popular
new TV show called True Crime. Coincidentally, her very first assignment
involves an ex-pupil from her old high school, the posh Cranden
Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut. Molly Lasch had been incarcerated
in her mid-20s, accused of pulverizing her husband's head with a
Remington bronze sculpture. The murder of this community doctor,
and chief executive officer of a local HMO, stunned Greenwich.
All
Through the Night : A Suspense Story by Mary Higgins Clark -
Fans of Mary Higgins Clark and cozy mysteries will relish this Christmas
confection. Unlike her previous holiday novel, Silent Night, All
Through the Night is virtually free of life-and-death crime. Rather,
it is a Dickensian tale of good deeds rewarded and crimes punished.
The wintry story begins on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with
18-year-old Sondra Lewis, an aspiring violinist, tearfully leaving
her baby on the steps of St. Clement's Church. Unbeknownst to her,
Lenny Centino is robbing that same church on the same night, with
his attention particularly on the Church's diamond inlaid chalice.
He finds a buggy outside the church and uses it for cover as he
flees. Only later does he realize that his take for the night includes
the infant Stellina (Italian for star).
The King of Torts by John Grisham
The office of the public defender is not
known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter
has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams
of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case
of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes
it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every
week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles
on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself
in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical
companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement
that would totally change his life—that would make him, almost overnight,
the legal profession’s newest king of torts...
The
Summons by John Grisham
Law professor Ray Atlee and his prodigal brother, Forrest, are summoned
home to Clanton, Mississippi, by their ailing father to discuss
his will. But when Ray arrives the judge is already dead, and the
one-page document dividing his meager estate between the two sons
seems crystal clear. What it doesn't mention, however, is the small
fortune in cash Ray discovers hidden in the old man's house--$3
million he can't account for and doesn't mention to brother Forrest,
either. Ray's efforts to keep his find a secret, figure out where
it came from, and hide it from a nameless extortioner, who seems
to know more about it than he does, culminate in a denouement with
an almost biblical twist
A Painted House by John Grisham
It's harvest time on the Chandler farm, and the family has hired
a crew of migrant Mexicans and "hill people" to pick 80 acres of
cotton. A certain camaraderie pervades this bucolic dream team.
But it's backbreaking work, particularly for the 7-year-old narrator,
Luke: "I would pick cotton, tearing the fluffy bolls from the stalks
at a steady pace, stuffing them into the heavy sack, afraid to look
down the row and be reminded of how endless it was, afraid to slow
down because someone would notice."
The
Brethren
by John Grisham
Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a "camp," home to
the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals--drug dealers,
bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street
crooks, one doctor, at least five lawyers. And three former judges
who call themselves the Brethren: one from Texas, one from California,
and one from Mississippi. They meet each day in the law library,
their turf at Trumble, where they write briefs, handle cases for
other inmates, practice law without a license, and sometimes dispense
jailhouse justice. And they spend hours writing letters. They are
fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to really work. The money
is pouring in. Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the
wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous
friends, and the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.
The
Street Lawyer by John Grisham
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- John Grisham is back with his latest courtroom conundrum, The
Street Lawyer. This time the lord of legal thrillers dives deep
into the world of the homeless, particularly their barely audible
legal voice in a world dominated by large, all-powerful law firms.
Sunset in St. Tropez by Danielle Steel
In her 55th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores
the seasons of an extraordinary friendship, weaving the story of
three couples, lifelong friends, for whom a month’s holiday in St.
Tropez becomes a summer of change, revelation, secrets, surprises,
and new beginnings . . . As Diana Morrison laid the table for six
at her elegant Central Park apartment, there was no warning of what
was to come. Spending New Year’s Eve together was a sacred tradition
for Diana, her husband of thirty-two years, Eric, and their best
friends, Pascale and John Donnally and Anne and Robert Smith. The
future looked rosy as the long-time friends sipped champagne and
talked of renting a villa together in the South of France the following
summer. But life had other plans . . .
The
Cottage by Danielle Steel
On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce
convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known
as The Cottage. Modeled after the “cottages” of Newport, Rhode Island,
the spacious, elegant property, sitting on fourteen acres of lush
Bel Air, fits its owner to a T. For the man behind the wheel of
the Rolls is Hollywood’s ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star
of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is
the stuff of legend, Coop exudes grace, charm, and old-fashioned
style. But today Coop Winslow is in for a major surprise. He’s broke.
And with no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking
prospect of selling his beloved home of forty years, or at least
renting out the gatehouse and part of the main house. A huge blow
to Coop, whose debonair attitude allows him to escape reality much
of the time.
The
Kiss by Danielle Steel
First kisses are often explosive, but not all are quite as disaster-ridden
as the one that propels Steel's latest romance. Isabelle Forrester,
elegant and refined wife of cold and indifferent Paris-based banker
Gordon Forrester, has spent most of her marriage caring for her
desperately ill teenage son, Teddy. Isolated in her Paris home,
Isabelle's only comfort is her long-distance friendship with millionaire
Washington power broker Bill Robinson, also stuck in an empty marriage.
Isabelle and Bill, kindred spirits satisfied with their chaste relationship,
agree to meet for a few platonic days in London. Following an enchanting
evening on the town, they head back to their hotel in Bill's limousine.
As the couple share their first, probing kiss, their car is struck
by a speeding, double-decker bus. The horrendous crash kills many
and leaves both Isabelle and Bill in critical condition. The long
and arduous road to recovery is filled with both physical and emotional
pain as Bill must make decisions about his crumbling marriage and
the future of his career, and Isabelle must confront bitter truths
about her husband.
Leap of Faith by Danielle Steel
a hasty Cinderella story that begins when heroine Marie-Ange Hawkins
goes from an idyllic French childhood to a loveless upbringing in
Iowa after her parents and brother are killed in a terrible accident.
Only 11, she's sent off to be raised by her sole relative, cold
and callous great-aunt Carole. The only bright spot in her life
is her intimate friendship with Billy Parker, a solid American farmboy
who loves and respects her from the time they are children; she
loves him, too, but thinks of him as a brother. When Marie-Ange
turns 18 and wins a scholarship to go to college, her aunt does
not help, but Billy buys her a car and she is able to attend. Then
a stranger turns up and informs her that she is in fact a very rich
woman; her aunt sells the farm, and Marie-Ange decides to return
to France. There she meets the current owner of her old home, 40-year-old
widower Comte de Beauchamp charming, handsome and so very polite.
Lone Eagle by Danielle Steel
Nobody ever said love was easy, but in Steel's latest
romance, it's a perpetual uphill battle. From the moment beautiful,
enormously poised 17-year-old Bostonian Kate Jamison meets handsome,
much older Joe Allbright just before Pearl Harbor at a debutante
party, she's desperately in love. Joe is smitten, too, but he is
deeply committed to his career as a pilot he's already an ace, associated
with Lindbergh. The two try to pretend they can just be friends,
but passion flares between them on the eve of war. When Joe returns
from Europe, after years in a German prison camp, everyone expects
they will marry, but Joe cannot commit and Kate moves on.
Journey
by Danielle Steel
Steel's fans will no doubt welcome her fiftieth novel and take her
newest heroine, award-winning TV anchorwoman Maddy Hunter, to heart
as she slowly comes to recognize her husband, Jack, for what he
is--a mean-spirited, sadistic master of emotional and verbal and,
occasionally, physical and sexual abuse as well as her employer,
enslaving lover, and savior from her previous life of southern poverty.
Maddy slowly realizes that what lies behind the glamorous facade
of her fame
The
House on Hope Street by Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel's 49th bestselling novel is a story of courage and
loss, of the power of family and the strength of the human soul.
Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of
marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice, and
a warm, happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street.
Then, in an instant, it all fell apart. It began like any other
Christmas morning, with joy and children's laughter. But for Jack
Sutherland, a five-minute errand ends in tragedy. And suddenly,
Liz is alone, facing painful questions in the wake of an unbearable
loss.
Granny
Dan by Danielle Steel
- Maestro Steel knows where the heartstrings are,
and she plays them with her reliable talents. While students of
history may cringe at the simplified approach to the historical
period, readers just looking for a good time have found it. With
the tough-but-loving mother figure, the ill-but-lovable Prince Alexander,
the borrowed ball gowns, and the emotional grand jeté, this book
has everything a TV movie needs except a small, cuddly pet. Put
your feet up, set aside your spoilsport logic, and enjoy this novel
for what it is: a classic romance. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien
Irresistible
Forces by Danielle Steel -
For fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a
marriage of passion and friendship-despite the demands of two all-consuming
careers. Meredith, an investment banker, has achieved partnership
in one of Wall Street's top firms. Steve, a gifted physician, chose
an urban trauma ward over the big money he could have earned elsewhere.
The only thing missing in their lives is children. Steve longs for
them. But Meredith keeps putting off motherhood, saying she isn't
ready and doesn't have time. Not yet. Especially now that she has
been offered an extraordinary opportunity, a chance to reach for
the brass ring--in San Francisco, three thousand miles away. Meredith
is thrilled and surprised when Steve urges her to accept a top position
at an exciting young high-tech company. Traditionally men's careers
force families to move to new cities, compelling their wives to
abandon friends, homes, and lives to follow. But Steve is more than
willing to uproot himself, saying he'll join her as soon as he can
find a new job himself. Perhaps in California, he hopes, they can
begin their family at last.
The
Long Road Home by Danielle Steel
- At age 6, our heroine, lovely Gabriella Harrison,
a rich kid on Manhattan's Upper East Side, "looked startled much
of the time, like an angel who had fallen to earth, and had not
known what to expect here." What Gabriella gets is a mother like
Lucifer and a father who slips out to sleep with Italian prostitutes
while Mrs. Harrison is busy breaking Gabriella's spirit--and sometimes
her bones. Gabby's tormentor makes the real-life moms in "Mommie
Dearest" and "Mommy Dressing" look sweet.
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The
Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
The #1 New York Times bestselling author
of Nights in Rodanthe explores a darker realm of the heart in an
explosive and emotional tale of love and obsession. At 29, Julie
Barenson is too young to give up on love. Four years after her husband's
tragic death, she is finally ready to risk giving her heart to someone
again. But to whom? Should it be Richard Franklin, who is handsome
and sophisticated and treats her like a queen, or Mike Harris, who
is Julie's best friend in the world, though not as debonair? Now,
with a decision that should bring her more happiness than she's
had in years, Julie's life is about to become a living nightmare,
as one man's jealousy spins into a deadly obsession.
Nights
in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
At 45, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband
abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in
search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe,
North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. But when
a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne's perfect
getaway will be ruined-until a guest naed Paul Flanner arrives.
At 54, Paul has just sold his medical practice and come to Rodanthe
to escape his own shattered past. Now, with the storm closing in,
two wounded people will turn to each other for comfort-and in one
weekend, set in motion feelings that will resonate throughout the
rest of their lives.
A
Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks
Sweet, accessible, uplifting and predictable, the latest love story
from Sparks (The Notebook) leaves the reader with just one burning
question: Why is this consummate beach book being published in the
fall? The nearly thwarted but eventually triumphant romance of deputy
sheriff Miles Ryan and second-grade teacher Sarah Andrews goes down
as easily as marshmallow fluff and offers about as much real nourishment.
Miles's high school sweetheart, Missy, was killed in an unsolved
hit and run accident, leaving him to raise their son, Jonah, in
New Bern, N.C. Sarah's politically ambitious husband, Michael, dumped
her when her ovaries proved inactive, and she fled to New Bern to
teach, and love, other people's kids. Miles and Sarah meet at a
parent-teacher conference, and the sparks fly.
The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
Denise Holden's life is a fragile mix of luck and hard work. A single
mom of a speech-delayed son, Denise makes ends meet by moving to
the small town of Edenton, North Carolina, and working the late
shift as a waitress. When Denise crashes her car and her son Kyle
flees the accident and disappears into the storm, her only stroke
of luck is the quick arrival of Taylor McAden, a volunteer fireman.
Taylor's got a knack for fixing people, and he can't help wanting
to be involved with Denise beyond the initial rescue of Kyle.
A
Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
In the prologue to his latest novel, Nicholas Sparks makes the rather
presumptuous pledge "first you will smile, and then you will cry,"
but sure enough, he delivers the goods. With his calculated ability
to throw your heart around like a yo-yo (try out his earlier Message
in the Bottle or The Notebook if you really want to stick it to
yourself), Sparks pulls us back to the perfect innocence of a first
love.
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Exuberant, lush, riotous--the summer of the novel
is "the season of extravagant procreation" in which bullfrogs carelessly
lay their jellied masses of eggs in the grass, "apparently confident
that their tadpoles would be able to swim through the lawn like
little sperms," and in which a woman may learn to "tell time with
her skin." It is also the summer in which a family of coyotes moves
into the mountains above Zebulon Valley: "The ghost of a creature
long extinct was coming in on silent footprints, returning to the
place it had once held in the complex anatomy of this forest like
a beating heart returned to its body. This is what she believed
she would see, if she watched, at this magical juncture: a restoration."
The
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver -
The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist
preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable
only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared
would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing
Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's
four daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover
that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their
clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political
upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium.
In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility
of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity,
there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the
air. Could things get any worse?
From
a Buick 8: A Novel by Stephen King
The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret
in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers
Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station
just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster.
Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one
was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished,
Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous
-- and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out
about it. Curt's avid curiosity taking the lead, they investigated
as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years the troop
absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the
Buick 8 sitting out there like a still life painting that breathes
-- inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of
whatever world it came from.
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
In his introduction to Everything's Eventual, horror author extraordinaire
Stephen King describes how he used a deck of playing cards to select
the order in which these 14 tales of the macabre would appear. Judging
by the impact of these stories, from the first words of the darkly
fascinating "Autopsy Room Four" to the haunting final pages of "Luckey
Quarter," one can almost believe King truly is guided by forces
from beyond.
The
Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red by Joyce Reardon (Editor)
A mysterious and haunting spirit lurks within the walls of Rose
Red, the setting for Stephen King's upcoming ABC miniseries tie-in
by the same name. Built on a Native American burial ground in early
20th-century Seattle, the mansion which is constantly under construction
sets the scene for a multitude of inexplicable disappearances and
ghastly deaths. While moody oil tycoon John Rimbauer refuses to
acknowledge that the house has a mind of its own, his young wife,
Ellen, dramatizes these eerie events with great detail in her diary,
often personifying the house as if it were a living being.
Black
House by Stephen King, Peter Straub
In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small
distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying
strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and
not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed
the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small children and
eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the help of a
retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial killer
in a neighboring town. Of course, this is no ordinary policeman,
but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub's 1984 fantasy
The Talisman.
Dreamcatcher:
A Novel by Stephen King
Four boyhood pals in Derry, Maine, get together for a pilgrimage
to their favorite deep-woods cabin, Hole in the Wall. The four have
been telepathically linked since childhood, thanks to a searing
experience involving a Down syndrome neighbor--a human dreamcatcher.
They've all got midlife crises: clownish Beav has love problems;
the intellectual shrink, Henry, is slowly succumbing to the siren
song of suicide; Pete is losing a war with beer; Jonesy has had
weird premonitions ever since he got hit by a car. Then comes worse
trouble: an old man named McCarthy (a nod to the star of the 1956
film Invasion of the Body Snatchers) turns up at Hole in the Wall.
His body is erupting with space aliens resembling furry moray eels:
their mouths open to reveal nests of hatpin-like teeth.
Hearts
in Atlantis by Stephen King -
Stephen King's collection of five stories about '60s kids reads
like a novel. The best is "Low Men in Yellow Coats," about Bobby
Garfield of Harwich, Connecticut, who craves a Schwinn for his 11th
birthday. But his widowed mom is impoverished, and so bitter that
she barely loves him. King is as good as Spielberg or Steven Millhauser
at depicting an enchanted kid's-eye view of the world, and his Harwich
is realistically luminous to the tiniest detail.
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The
Face by Dean R. Koontz
Acknowledged as “America’s most popular suspense novelist”(Rolling
Stone ) and as one of today’s most celebrated and successful writers,
Dean Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around
the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character,
mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means
to be human. Now he delivers the page-turner of the season, an unforgettable
journey to the heart of darkness and to the pinnacle of grace, at
once chilling and wickedly funny, a brilliantly observed chronicle
of good and evil in our time, of illusion and everlasting truth.
He’s Hollywood’s most dazzling star, whose flawless countenance
inspires the worship of millions and fires the hatred of one twisted
soul. His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series
of terrifying, enigmatic “messages” breaches the exquisitely calibrated
security systems of his legendary Bel Air estate. The boxes arrive
mysteriously, one by one, at Channing Manheim’s fortified compound.
The threat implicit in their bizarre, disturbing contents seems
to escalate with each new delivery. Manheim’s security chief, ex-cop
Ethan Truman, is used to looking beneath the surface of things.
But until he entered the orbit of a Hollywood icon, he had no idea
just how slippery reality could be. Now this good man is all that
stands in the way of an insidious killer—and forces that eclipse
the most fevered fantasies of a city where dreams and nightmares
are the stuff of daily life. As a seemingly endless and ominous
rain falls over southern California, Ethan will test the limits
of perception and endurance in a world where the truth is as thin
as celluloid and answers can be found only in the illusory intersection
of shadow and light. Enter a world of marvelous invention, enchantment,
and implacable intent, populated by murderous actors and the walking
dead, hit men and heroes, long-buried dreams and never-dying hope.
By
the Light of the Moon by Dean R. Koontz
Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation
as “America’s most popular suspense novelist”(Rolling Stone) to
become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our
time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled
ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally
familiar and utterly unique. Author of one #1 New York Times bestseller
after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning
mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to
today’s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this
stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense
and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure,
chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters,
and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more. Dylan O’Connor
is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life.
He’s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to
get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother,
Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious
“doctor,” injected with a strange substance, and told that he is
now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform
his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must
flee--before the doctor’s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating
through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even
the police. Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run
for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the
next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous
discovery.
Red
Rabbit by Tom Clancy
Long before he was President or head of the CIA, before he fought
terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before
a submarine named Red October made its perilous way across the Atlantic,
Jack Ryan was a historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily
living in England while researching a book. A series of deadly encounters
with an IRA splinter group had brought him to the attention of the
CIA's Deputy Director, Vice Admiral James Greer-as well as his counterpart
with the British SIS, Sir Basil Charleston-and when Greer asked
him if he wanted to come aboard as a freelance analyst, Jack was
quick to accept. The opportunity was irresistible, and he was sure
he could fit it in with the rest of his work. And then Jack forgot
all about the rest of his work, because one of his first assignments
was to help debrief a high-level Soviet defector, and the defector
told an amazing tale: Top Soviet officials, including Yuri Andropov,
were planning to assassinate the Pope, John Paul II.
The
Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy
Power is delightful, and absolute power should be absolutely delightful--but
not when you're the most powerful man on earth and the place is
ticking like a time bomb. Jack Ryan, CIA warrior turned U.S. president,
is the man in the hot seat, and in this vast thriller he's up to
his nostrils in crazed Asian warlords, Russian thugs, nukes that
won't stay put, and authentic, up-to-the-nanosecond technology as
complex as the characters' motives are simple. Quick, do you know
how to reprogram the software in an Aegis missile seekerhead? Well,
if you're Jack Ryan, you'd better find someone who does, or an incoming
ballistic may rain fallout on your parade. Bad for reelection prospects.
"You know, I don't really like this job very much," Ryan complains
to his aide Arnie van Damm, who replies, "Ain't supposed to be fun,
Jack."
Hidden
Agendas by Tom Clancy -
Another novel in Tom Clancy's Net Force series. This book continues
the saga fo computer terrorism in the year 2010. An espionage thriller
that moves from the halls of power in Washington to the computer
hackers' fantastic virtual reality lanscape.
Irish
Rebel (Special Edition, 1328)
by Nora Roberts
Reviewer: puremajik
In "Irish Rebel" you are reintroduced to an old familar family:The
Grants and as with everything things get better with age. We see
the five Grant children all grown up and a very prosperous Royal
meadows horse farm. This story is about the eldest daughter Keeley
Grant, a fiery, headstrong and, independent red head who heads her
very own horse riding class for children of various class.Her cool
facade is thrown for a loop when Brian Donnelly, an Irish Drifter,
and gifted when it comes to horse senses, is hired as a horse trainer.
There is instant attraction but with Keeley's prestigous title as
daughter of wealth He knows she is way out of his league. Things
are even more thrown for a loop when Keeley Seduces Brian making
him her lover. Keeley is a fun read because not many romances have
a strong female lead as the seducer.still has the same formula as
other romances,but with the grants you feel like they are old friends
who you like to visit and catch up on ever now and then.a recommended
read for sure.
Irish Hearts by Nora Roberts
Reviewer: puremajik from nashville tn
The book "irish hearts" is a two in one compliation of nora roberts
first book "irish thoroughbred" and its predecessor " irish rose".
if you like formula romance then you will basically enloy this book.
in "irish thoroughbred you are introduce to lonely orphaned adelia
"dee" cunnane who after selling her farm in ireland takes up an
offer to live with her uncle in america. There she is eager to earn
her way and work among the horses as a groom at travis grants royal
meadows horse farm. They meet and clash against an array of training
horses and horse races they fall in love...un beknowst to the both
of them...it is an easy and nice read interesting even if you do
not happen to be a fan of horses...strong female character willing
to work...not some pampered princess you find in other romances...worth
a look...
River's End by Nora Roberts
Olivia MacBride and her parents, a fairy-tale Hollywood
family, had everything--fame, fortune, and love. But when 4-year-old
Olivia awakens one night to find her mother brutally murdered and
her father, Sam, standing over her corpse, the little girl's dreamland
dissolves before her very eyes. Whisked away to the sanctuary of
the Olympic Peninsula by her grandparents, Olivia learns to bury
the past deep within her. Determined to protect herself from painful
memories, Olivia limits her life to the emerald rain forests and
the River's End resort. Years later, when Noah Brady arrives on
her doorstop, Olivia allows her defenses to slip and opens herself
to the passion that sparks between them.
Carolina Moon by Nora Roberts
With its blend of evil killers, handsome heroes,
and feisty, sensitive heroines, Nora Roberts's latest thriller meets
the same standards of terror and romance that made last year's River's
End a bestseller. This time, our heroine Tory Bodeen has returned
to her hometown of Progress, South Carolina, to face the fearsome
memories of her childhood friend Hope's death and rebuild her life
in a town that once betrayed her.
The
Donovan Legacy by Nora Roberts -
This is a book of three romance stories about a Celtic family. Nora
Roberts brews a tale of well researched wicca witchcraft convenants
and fantasy producing a strong potion of great reading for you!
Last Man Standing by David Baldacci
Last Man Standing has the essential elements of
a terrific David Baldacci novel: a tough but tender-hearted hero,
dirty dealings in the nation's bureaucracy, and a roller-coaster
plot. Web London, a member of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, froze
up on a drug raid and thus became the sole survivor of a remote-controlled
ambush that killed six of his compatriots. Now the only witness
has disappeared and the inside man on the botched raid has gone
underground.
Wish You Well by David Baldacci
The year is 1940. After a car accident kills
12-year-old Lou's and 7-year-old Oz's father and leaves their mother
Amanda in a catatonic trance, the children find themselves sent
from New York City to their great-grandmother Louisa's farm in Virginia.
Louisa's hardscrabble existence comes as a profound shock to precocious
Lou and her shy brother. Still struggling to absorb their abandonment,
they enter gamely into a life that tests them at every turn--and
offers unimaginable rewards. For Lou, who dreams of following in
her father's literary footsteps, the misty, craggy Appalachians
and the equally rugged individuals who make the mountains their
home quickly become invested with an almost mythic significance.
Saving
Faith by David Baldacci
In the field of popular fiction David Baldacci
is far ahead of the competition. Continuing his string of New York
Times bestsellers, Baldacci presents his most electrifying story
to date-a novel of nonstop action, vividly etched characters, and
an astounding vision of the inner sanctums of our government. Not
far from Washington, D.C., in a wooded area of Northern Virginia,
a small house at the end of a gravel road serves a secret purpose.
With its sophisticated security apparatus and hidden miniaturized
cameras, it is being used by the FBI to interview one of the most
important witnesses the agency ...
The
Simple Truth by David Baldacci
Rufus Harms is rotting in a Virginia military prison. As readers
learn in the terse opening of The Simple Truth, he was convicted
25 years ago of the brutal killing of a young girl. Readers also
learn that Rufus did not commit the crime; out of a haze of memories
and with fragments of evidence, he has reconstructed the truth about
the horrid event that ruined his life. He knows his discovery could
cost him his life, so he breaks from prison after sending an appeal
to the Supreme Court that details a massive conspiracy tied into
the foundations of Washington.
The
Lake House by James Patterson
The six children have escaped horrifying government experiments,
a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living
out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with
Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the
leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering fear that the
kids are about to face a danger greater than any they've ever known.
All that the children want is to return to the one place they have
ever felt truly protected--the waterfront cabin known as the Lake
House. But in order to get there, they must thwart the sinister
plans of a survivor from their worst nightmare--plans that not only
keep Kit, Frannie, and the children in constant peril, but threaten
the future of human existence. And it's a battle they must be willing
to pay any price to win. ï THE LAKE HOUSE is the completion of James
Patterson's most original and compelling story ever, When the Wind
Blows--a conclusion that millions of readers have awaited for years.
Four
Blind Mice by James Patterson
Alex Cross is on his way to resign from the Washington Police when
his partner John Sampson shows up at his door. One of Sampson's
oldest friends has been framed for murder and, worse yet, is subject
to the insular laws of the U.S. Army. The evidence is strong enough
to send him to the gas chamber. Cross and Sampson plunge into a
case where military codes of honor conceal dark currents of revenge
and ambition, and the men controlling the moves have the best weapons
and training the world can offer. Drawing on their years of street
training and an almost telepathic mutual trust, Cross and Sampson
go deep into military lines to confront the most terrifying-and
lethal-killer they have ever encountered.
The
Beach House by James Patterson, Peter De Jonge
James Patterson and Peter de Jonge's The
Beach House opens with the death of a handsome townie on Memorial
Day weekend in the Hamptons, where being a single-digit millionaire
is laughable and being poor is unthinkable. Peter Mullen is a high
school dropout who parks cars at the private bashes of the superwealthy
Barry and Campion Neubauer. When Peter is found dead on the beach,
the Neubauers and their friends insist that he drowned, but his
brother Jack, a law student who saw Peter's body, knows he was beaten
to death. As Jack uncovers evidence of his brother's secret life,
he begins to realize that the very rich are indeed different from
the rest of us. Revenge is a dish best served cold, and Jack's patiently
plotted payback for Peter's death is one that the Hamptons will
not soon forget.
2nd
Chance by James Patterson, Andrew Gross
2nd Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club, four friends (a detective,
a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner)
who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional
wiles to solve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This
time, the murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an
old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer,
newly promoted to lieutenant of San Francisco's homicide squad.
But there's an odd detail she finds even more disturbing: both victims
were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at both murder scenes
leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikes again
and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever
more cleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal
stake at risk--and the killer knows who they are.
Violets
Are Blue by James Patterson
Fans of James Patterson's resourceful cop Alex Cross will be relieved
to find that he's back on familiar territory with Violets Are Blue--and,
more importantly, that this is one of the best Alex Cross thrillers
yet. The malign criminal genius of Roses Are Red is fixing to give
Alex a hard time once again. The FBI joins Patterson's dogged cop
in a particularly unsettling investigation: two San Francisco joggers
have been viciously murdered and are found suspended by their feet,
with all the blood drained from their corpses. And when further
brutal deaths follow in California and on the East Coast, Alex is
forced to contemplate the bizarre possibility of modern-day vampires,
although his instincts point him to one of the many sinister religious
cults that flourish on the West Coast. Aided by Jamilla Hughes,
a streetwise young woman detective from San Francisco, Alex finds
that he has to crack not one but two impenetrable mysteries to stop
further bloodletting.
Suzanne's
Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
Katie Wilkinson's boyfriend Matt dumps her; not a total cad, he
leaves her a gift, a diary kept by Suzanne, his first wife, for
their son Nicholas. Though it's not exactly the diamond ring Katie
was hoping for, she's unable to make herself destroy the diary--against
her better judgment, Katie begins to read. Drawn against her will
into the other woman's world, Katie learns of physician Suzanne's
heart attack at age 35 and her decision to slow down, accomplished
by a move to Martha's Vineyard and a new job as a simple country
doctor. When love comes knocking, in the form of housepainter-cum-poet
Matt Harrison, Suzanne is ready to listen to her newly repaired
heart.
Roses
Are Red by James Patterson
Roses Are Red, James Patterson's sixth Alex Cross thriller, opens
with the District of Columbia detective attempting to mend his nearly
unraveled family. The year-long kidnapping of one's intended (1999's
Pop Goes the Weasel) will do that to a relationship. Christine,
the kidnappee, is amenable with one reasonable condition: that her
family's horizon remain uncluttered by homicidal maniacs. How unfortunate,
then, that the joyous christening of their newborn son is rudely
interrupted by the FBI bearing news of several heinous murders requiring
the attention of detective (and doctor of psychology) Cross.
Cradle
and All by James Patterson
James Patterson's Cradle and All pits the intensity of faith against
the certainties of science within an arena of Millennial tensions.
A reworking of his 1980 apocalyptic thriller Virgin, this remodeled
version boasts a genuinely unnerving premise, amplified with Patterson's
fast-paced, uncluttered prose. In the midst of a series of unexplained
plagues and famines, two teenage girls are heavily pregnant, despite
being virgins. According to the sacred prophecies of Fatima, one
will bear the child of Christ and the other, the spawn of Satan.
Both Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private detective, and
the Vatican's Father Rosetti are sent to investigate. But which
girl carries which child?
When
the Wind Blows by James Patterson -
After the mysterious death of her husband several years before,
Frannie retreated to an isolated life in her Colorado practice.
But a series of bizarre events suddenly disrupts her lonely routine.
On a personal level, she is shaken by her new tenant--Kit Harrison.
Kit's too handsome and too friendly and he's a hunter (or so Frannie
thinks). He's also recovering from a devastating personal tragedy,
and, as Frannie eventually learns, he's really an FBI agent using
his vacation to follow a crucial lead. But Kit isn't the one that's
got Frannie concerned. As she says after stopping her Suburban one
night to check out something on the side of the road: "What I saw
was way beyond my abilities to imagine, beyond my comprehension,
my system of belief, and maybe beyond my ability to communicate
right now. The little girl's arms were folded back in a peculiar
way, but when she lifted them--feathers fanned out." The girl is
Max, and the mystery of her wings leads Frannie and Kit into a massive
conspiracy involving secret genetic research and the scientific
manipulation of the human species.
Pop
Goes the Weasel by James Patterson -
A series of killings in the forgotten, crime-infested ghettos of
southeast D.C. has sent Cross and his 6'9" 250-pound partner, John
Sampson, in search of the "Jane Doe" killer. However, their racist,
tyrannical boss George Pitman orders them to stay out of the southeast
and investigate the high-profile murder of a wealthy white man.
Cross already has suspicions that the murders are linked, but when
Sampson's ex turns up in an abandoned southeast warehouse kicked
to death, the two detectives carry on with their original investigation.
Meanwhile, Cross's longtime love, Christine (Cat and Mouse), has
taken prominence in his life, and it looks as if the two will finally
get hitched--with one glitch: Cross puts everything he loves in
jeopardy as he obsessively goes after the Weasel.
Under
Fire by W. E. B. Griffin
Back are familiar characters from Griffin's previous Corps books--daredevil
pilot Pick Pickering, his Scotch-sipping father, Brigadier General
Fleming Pickering, Capt. Ken "Killer" McCoy, and Master Gunner Ernie
Zimmerman--with historical figures including President Harry Truman
and General Douglas MacArthur making appearances as well. It's now
1950, and with Communist forces making their presence felt below
the 38th Parallel, Griffin's plot centers on Gen. Pickering, now
high up in the newly created CIA, and Ken McCoy as they work behind
MacArthur's back to covertly pave the way for an invasion of North
Korea.
Secret
Honor by W. E. B. Griffin -
Don't be deceived by the blockbuster size of W.E.B. Griffin's third
installment in the Honor Bound series. Secret Honor is an intricate
book that reveals a remarkable attentiveness to historical detail
and characterization. It is also a top-notch thriller set in Griffin's
quasi-fictional version of WWII. The plot is woven with so many
threads, all of them worthwhile, that it actually feels more like
a chronicle than a novel, but the central story takes up the continuing
adventures of OSS agent Cletus Frade. Frade, a U.S. Marine whose
father was almost the president of Argentina, was raised in Texas
and now uses his father's special status in Argentine society to
penetrate Nazi plans for South America.
The Fighting Agents by W. E. B. Griffin
In The Fighting Agents, W.E.B. Griffin retells
the story (previously told in Behind the Lines) of Wendell Fertig,
a U.S. Army officer who promoted himself to general and led a ragtag
guerrilla force against the Japanese after the fall of the Philippines
in 1943. This time, however, Griffin focuses his attention on the
OSS, which, among other things, was tasked with resupplying Fertig
and reinforcing his efforts to undermine the Japanese war machine.
In this fourth volume of a bestselling series featuring the American
intelligence service during World War II, James Whittaker, a rakish,
romantic army air corps captain who happens to be a close family
friend of OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan, is assigned to sneak into
the Philippines by submarine and bring gold, arms, and war materiel
to the renegade general.
Special
Ops by W. E. B. Griffin
Bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin, whose novels about various branches
of the military have won him battalions of fans, returns to the
Brotherhood of War series with this crackling yarn. A detachment
of Special Forces hotshots teams up with presidential counselor
Sandy Felter to put a stop to Che Guevara's attempts to "liberate"
the Congo from President Joseph Mobutu's anticommunist government.
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Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins |
The
Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon (Left Behind No. 10) by Tim
LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
The Great Tribulation unfolds as the forces of evil and the armies
of God prepare for mankind's ultimate battle. Millions of Christians
are protected by God as the anger of the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia,
burns against them. The biggest novel of 2002 is highly anticipated
by consumers worldwide.
Desecration:
Antichrist Takes the Throne (Left Behind #9) by Tim Lahaye, Jerry
B. Jenkins
Nicolae Carpathia, now the total embodiment of evil, desecrates
the temple in Jerusalem by entering and declaring himself god. The
explosive ninth book in the Left Behind series will carry the world
to the brink of Armageddon. With over 40,000,000 products sold in
the series, Left Behind is an international phenomenon.
The
Indwelling : The Beast Takes Possession (Left Behind, 7) by Tim
F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
The Antichrist is dead... or is he? The
city of Chicago lies in ruins, the safe house is blown, and the
Global Community police are hot on the heels of the Tribulation
Force. And who assassinated Nicolae Carpathia? It's a formidable
challenge to keep the attention of an audience midway through a
projected 12-volume series, but with their trademark blend of humor
and gripping suspense, authors Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye continue
to captivate readers with The Indwelling, the seventh installment
of the Left Behind series.
Assassins
: Assignment--Jerusalem, Target--Antichrist (Left Behind) by Tim
F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins -
Fans of the series won't be disappointed. Jenkins's signature writing
is at full force. Readers can count on a suspenseful plot, imaginative
futuristic thinking, and familiar characters, all of which appear
in the opening pages and are sustained until the last cliffhanger
scene when God unleashes another earth-shattering disaster.
The
Mark : The Beast Rules the World (Left Behind #8) by Tim LaHaye,
Jerry B. Jenkins
It's the dawn of the Great Tribulation, "the bloodiest season in
the history of the world." After lying in state for three days,
Nicolae Carpathia has risen from the dead. As the world responds
in awe, statues of the potentate and "god" are erected in every
major city, and a new religion, "Carpathianism," is in full swing.
Followers of the antichrist are branded with a loyalty mark on their
right hands or their foreheads, and "vaccinated" with a biochip
embedded with personal information. Those who refuse the mark take
a one-way trip to the guillotine. The second coming of Christ is
only three-and-one-half years away. But can the Tribulation Force
hang on?
Armageddon:
The Cosmic Battle of the Ages (Left Behind, 11) by Tim F. LaHaye,
Jerry B. Jenkins
The scattered Tribulation Force is drawn inexorably toward the Middle
East, as are all the armies of the world, when history hones in
on the battle of the ages. During the last year of the Great Tribulation,
safe houses are no longer safe, friends and loved ones must commemorate
two lives in one memorial service, and the cast of characters dramatically
changes. By the time of the war of the great day of God the Almighty,
homes have been uprooted, new alliances forged, and the globe has
become a powder keg of danger. The 11th novel in the "Left
Behind" series.
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2003
Pulitzer Prize Winners
