DescriptionFor Annie Barnes, going home to Middle River means dealing with truths long hidden. But it is a journey she knows she must take if she is to put to rest, once and for all, her misgivings about her mother's recent death. To an outsider, Middle River is a…
DescriptionIn 1956, when this novel was first published, communities all over New England snapped up copies to see if they were the town portrayed in the book. Peyton Place is the story of a repressive New England town known for its high standards of public morality, and the steamy sexual activities that take place behind its bedroom doors. While the town's rigid mores lead to hypocrisy and repression, the earthy characters have an unbelievably high level of sexual functioning, especially the playboy Rodney Harrington and the profoundly round-heeled Betty Anderson. In this environment, Allison McKenzie, a dreamy girl coming to womanhood, must make her way without a father, living with her frigid mother, Constance McKenzie.
DescriptionToby Peters needs to find an assassination squad of lunatic Nazis, put them out of commission while also figuring out who is trying frame Albert Einstein as a traitor and stop them. All of this without the FBI knowing. The Washington Post writes that Stuart Kaminsky has "the imagination of Scheherazade, and Toby Peters seems to have at least 1001 lives." In Smart Moves, Toby goes through at least a dozen of them, miraculously surviving - and prevailing - in a manner that will lure new Peters fans and thoroughly satisfy the already initiated.
DescriptionThe case and the client are both eccentric. Multimillionaire Cadmus Cole asks the Queen detective agency to accept a large retainer, but he won?t tell them what they are to investigate. Baffled, Ellery Queen and his partner nevertheless agree to take it as their firm?s first case. Next thing they know, Cole has died at sea, the crew has scattered, and the case involves two gorgeous heiresses, deception, murder, and imposter Queen, and a huge legacy. Match detective genius Ellery Queen wit for wit and see if you can solve the crime.
DescriptionFew individuals have the chance to contribute so much of themselves to the American story as General Tommy Franks. In American Soldier, he captures it all. The Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 20…
DescriptionIn American Gospel (literally meaning the "good news about America"), New York Times best-selling author Jon Meacham sets the record straight on the history of religion in American public life. As Meacham shows, faith, meaning a belief in a…
