DescriptionOver the years, W.E.B. Griffin's stories of the military and police, told with crackling realism and rich characters, have won him millions of fans and acclaim as "the dean of the American war adventure" ( Publishers Weekly ). Now he vaults into the…
DescriptionFrancine lives down the street from a Hollywood film studio, adores screen dreamboat Montgomery Clift, and sometimes sees her home life as a scene from a movie: Dinner at the Greens . She wishes she really were a movie star, brave and glamorous and…
DescriptionA huge crowd packed the square of the great Parisian cathedral to witness the execution of Esmeralda, a gypsy dancer denounced as a witch by the hypocritical archdeacon Claude Frollo who possesses an evil passion for her. Suddenly the deformed bellringer Quasimodo, the "Hunchback of Notre Dame, " rushes at the executioners and fells them with his enormous fists. He snatches Esmeralda in one arm and rushes her into the cathedral. A moment later he appears at the top of the bell tower holding her above his head, shouting triumphantly to the mob "Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Sanctuary!" Victor Hugo's masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831 and remains to this day one of the most thrilling romances of all time.
DescriptionElisabeth Grace LeRoy, born at the turn of the century, wants something more. Then one night as a young teen she finds what her heart has been yearning for. The defining moment in her life comes when she stands and promises to deepen her commitment and fo…
DescriptionThe Gingerbreadman, psychopath, sadist, genius, and killer, is on the loose. But it isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary have been demoted to Missing Persons following Jack's poor judgment involving the poisoning of Mr. Bun the baker. Missing Person…
DescriptionTrumble 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, and 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 outside, a man with dangerous friends. The Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.
