DescriptionSteve Decker abandons his dark life as an American intelligence operative to find peace of mind - and even love - in Santa Fe. When his home suddenly becomes the target of violence, Steve assumes that his treacherous past has returned to haunt him. But when his love, Beth Dwyer, disappears after a bomb destroys her house, Steve realizes that Beth was the real target. Fearing for her life, Decker sets out to find Beth and comes face to face with her dark past. He is forced to admit that Beth is not the woman he thought she was and faces the harrowing consequences of extreme denial.
DescriptionAn excerpt from the book: "In the dimness of the early morning I could see field after neighborhood field as I let my gaze wander around me. First there was ours, I supposed I would always think of the farm as ours, Grandpa's, Uncle Charlie's, and mine, t…
DescriptionJohn Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The 78-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn, and recapitulates, throughout the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art. In the evolving relation between the two women, the interviewer and interviewee move in and out of the roles of daughter and mother, therapist and patient, predator and prey, supplicant and idol. The scene is central Vermont; the time is the early spring of 2001.
DescriptionMary Roberts Rinehart's name is synonomous with well-crafted mystery, and this novel, which combines both mystery and adventure, shows Rinehart's tremendously vivid powers as a storyteller. In this book, Mrs. Pittman, a boardinghouse keeper, is convinced that a murder has been committed in her house after discovering a series of suspicious clues. Mrs. Pittman, unsupported by the police, begins an informal investigation. Grisly discoveries and strange happenings soon follow.
DescriptionHumanity is in hiding. Invention, progress, change...all are forbidden. Now it's time to change all that. The science-fiction epic of the decade begins here. When Earth herself lay under siege by an enemy humankind could not defeat, mankind undertook on…
