The deepest waters hide the darkest secrets.... When the body ofa murdered man literally falls at Elizabeth Stuart's feet, she'sable to wash away the blood--but not the terror. Unwelcomenewcomers to Still Creek, Minnesota, she and her troubled teenageson are treated with suspicion by the locals, including thesheriff. Yet nothing will stop her from digging beneath the town'splacid surface for the truth--except the killer. Running from amessy divorce, Elizabeth believed buying a small-town newspaperoffered a fresh start for herself and her son. But idyllic StillCreek, nestled in the heart of lush Amish farmlands, hides secretsdangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. Now Elizabethmust risk everything to save herself and her son, and to unmask thekiller...before the current of evil flowing through Still Creekdrags her under. When Elizabeth Stuart searched for a quiet,peaceful home for herself and her son, Still Creek seemed perfect.Nestled in the heart of lush Amish farmlands, this small, idyllicMinnes
Strange things were happening in Drake House: A perfect roseappearing on a pillow...an antique dress materializing out ofnowhere...a mysterious spirit roaming the halls... Five years afterRachel Lindquist had left California to chase her dreams, shereturned home to care for her aging mother, only to find herselfchasing a ghost Addie Lindquist insisted a presence haunted DrakeHouse and had hired noted parapsychologist Bryan Hennessy toinvestigate, but Rachel knew better than to believe in what shecouldn't see-- or to surrender to the strong current of desirepulling her towards Bryan. Bryan had dealt with skeptics before,but convincing Rachel was the biggest challenge of his life. Theenchanting beauty had lost faith in everything that wasn'tpractical, and that included matters of the heart. As Bryan foughther reluctance to succumb to feelings she couldn't control, asecond, more sinister force began to stalk them, threatening todrive them from Drake House and from each other-- a force thatcould be banished only
After the Berlin Wall came down and opened up new changes ineastern Europe, John le Carre's stunning novel, The Secret Pilgrim,takes us behind the scenes into the former Cold War world. Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace.The dark staging grounds of the Cold War, whose shadows barelyobscured the endless games of espionage, are flooded with light;the rules are rewritten, the stakes changed, the futureunfathomable. John le Carre has seized this momentous turning pointin history to give us the most disturbing experience we have yethad of the frail and brutal world of spydom. The man called Ned speaks to us. All hisadult life he has been in British Intelligence--the Circus--aloyal, shrewd, wily officer of the Cold War. Now, approaching theend of his career, he revisits his own past. He invites us on atour of his three decades in the Circus, burrowing deep into thetwilight world where he ran spies--'joes'--from Poland, Estonia,Hungary.
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to takeConstance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure anda sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, wherePendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritualstudies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare anddangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations hasbeen mysteriously stolen. As a favor, Pendergast agrees to trackand recover the relic. A twisting trail of bloodshed leadsPendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia , the world's largest and most luxurious oceanliner---and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.
When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakablycerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who wanttheir awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- andzoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventureand danger, ecstasy and peril.
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual-- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career godown the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the nextthing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he foundhimself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career:impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peacewith the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act couldresult in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line-- for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibilitythat he might be trapped in his new role forever!
PreS-Gr 3-In a mythic long ago when the only season is dark and cold, Tupag is ridiculed for his dream that there would be moonlight "warm as firelight." Labeled as lazy, he is banished from his ocean-side village for his refusal to help look for berries or hunt whale, walrus, or fish. In his exile, he encounters Raven, creator of the world. He agrees that Tupag is lazy, but has appreciated his dreams, so he grants him one wish. According to Brown, "All his years of dreaming had made him a wise thinker, and so he made the wisest choice." Tupag returns home and shows the villagers a brilliant aurora, Raven's sign of a season of light to come. The protagonist is honored as a storyteller, and gradually a new season of light appears. Life becomes easier, but it is acknowledged that winter has its place as well. Luminous pastels picture a darkened igloo-dwelling northern village that awakens to an orange-gold sun. Saport's economy of style contrasts with the somewhat labored text. The story, an imaginative rather
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, abeautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearbyWildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen hisfriendship, but when her reclusive behavior becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether histrust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbertto read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shockingdetails of the disastrous marriage she has left behindemerge...Told with great immediacy, combined with wit and irony,"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is a powerfully involving read.
Deepest night, Montana. An eerie light proclaims the arrival ofa mysterious watcher in the woods. And one solitary man begins adesperate battle against something unknown -- and unknowable. Broad daylight, Los Angeles. An ordinary morningerupts in cataclysmic violence. A young family is shattered in aheartbeat. Fate will lead this family to an isolatedMontana ranch, but their sanctuary will become their worstnightmare. For there they will face a chillingly ruthless enemy,from which no one -- living or dead -- is safe.
" Roberts] is at her best here" ("Publishers Weekly," starredreview) in the first book in her enchanting trilogy set in Ardmore,Ireland.
In this collection of five Christmas-themed stories, belovedauthor Mary Balogh brings together tales of love, marriage,friendship, loneliness, and healing. Includes four Balogh holidayclassics, "The Star of Bethlehem," "The Best Gift," "PlayingHouse," and "No Room At the Inn," as well as "A Family Christmas,"which is only available in this anthology.
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day forthe past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened.The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. Thenight his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the pastonce and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. Amessage has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his deadwife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible–thatsomewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive. Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn’t. Instead,he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong intoa search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperatehope. But already Beck is being hunted down. He’s headed straightinto the heart of a dark and deadly secret–and someone intends tostop him before he gets there.
Hailed as "America's most popular suspense novelist"(RollingStone) Dean Koontz has entered a rich new phase of his writingcareer that is yielding his most imaginative, meaningful, andpopular work yet. At the height of his powers as a literary craftsman, he has won theacclaim of critics as well as the allegiance of millions of fansthe world over, transforming the greatest fears and hopes of ourtime into masterworks of dazzling originality and emotionalresonance. Now, with the stunning depth and virtuosity of his storytelling, hebrings to readers one of his most gripping and richly imaginednovels to date—an intoxicating story of adventure and suspense,mystery and revelation, told with humor, heart, and high art.
A novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts anintentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five Americanexpats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek theirfortune. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts inPrague have it better, but still they hope to find adventure,inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making.
Second in the breathtaking Irish trilogy from the #1 New YorkTimes bestselling author. Nora Roberts returns to Ireland in thistale of a talented musician and the beautiful tomboy who's beensecretly in love with him for years.
In the spring of 1804, Lewis and Clark set outon a voyage launched by Thomas Jefferson, to explore the wildernessbetween the Missouri River and the Pacific coast. This volumecontains the vivid daily record of their epic trek.
His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy. He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams. His story will change the way you see the world. On the heels of his #1 bestseller False Memory, Dean Koontzbrings together his most compelling themes and an unforgettablecast of characters to create what is perhaps the most thrilling andemotionally powerful work of his critically acclaimed career. Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror thatwill mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes arethe most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, athousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortalenemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to findthis enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is bornfrom a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty andthe man who stalks him. At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeonsremove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As
West From Singapore is a second collection of two-fistedadventure stores set in the Pacific at the outbreak of World WarII, by the author of the recent New York Times bestseller NightOver The Solomons and the #1 bestselling Last Of The Breed.
Kate was lissa’s best friend. they’ve shared everything for four years. then one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss lissa, and lissa kissed her back. And now Kate is pretending lissa doesn’t exist. Confused and alone, lissa’s left questioning everything she thought she knew about herself, and about life. but with the help of a free-spirit new friend, lissa’s beginning to find the strength to realize that sometimes falling in love with the wrong person is the only way to find your footing.
Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won't be ...The sparrows are flying again. The idea - unbidden, inexplicable - haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind. Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever. And yet ...the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world.
With one glance, wealthy Crystal Falls, Oregon rancher, RyanKendrick falls hard -- and fast -- for lovely Bethany Coulter. Abeguiling mix of sass and shyness, naivete and maturity, she shareshis passion for horses, has a great sense of humor and can light upa room with her beautiful smile. She is absolutely perfect -- inevery way but one. A long ago barrel-racing accident has leftBethany confined to a wheelchair. In the years since, she has knownboth betrayal and heartbreak -- and vowed never to open her heartto a man again. She has even accepted the possibility that she'llnever be able to enjoy a healthy intimate relationship or havechildren of her own. But there's something about handsome RyanKendrick. Something that makes her believe she can overcome everyobstacle. Something that makes her believe in lifelong, lastinglove . . .
WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless ...King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
