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Sleeping Policemen: A Novel
by Dale Bailey Jack Slay Jr.A late-night joyride takes a sharp turn into nightmare territory when a group of college students tries to cover up a crime of carelessnessA moment of inattention on a winding roadway in the Smoky Mountains leaves a stranger dead and his accidental killers at the mercy of a possible witness. Finney Durant, Nick Laymon, and Reed Tucker are desperate not to be linked to the crime. Finney and Tucker insist on hiding the corpse, and Nick, hard up for money, takes the man&’s cash. But the hit-and-run is just the beginning of their problems once they use a key found in the victim&’s pocket to open a bus locker—and find a videotape that opens an ever-widening doorway into horror.
The Bobby-Soxer: A Novel
by Hortense CalisherHortense Calisher&’s revelatory novel of celebrity, small-town values, and a young woman&’s coming of ageFamous playwright Craig Towle has decided to return to his New Jersey hometown, a suburb of New York City. He arrives with his world-renowned reputation and a new wife who is half his age. It is the 1950s, and the new couple raises plenty of eyebrows—in particular, those of the narrator, an adolescent girl who is full of observations, but not judgments. At the center of this layered novel is the narrator&’s unconventional family and their odd fixation on Towle, which goes beyond his mere celebrity. The secrets of their past and the potential involvement of Towle in the family&’s lineage intertwine in a potentially devastating turn.
The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance: A Toby Peters Mystery (The Toby Peters Mysteries #11)
by Stuart M. KaminskySomeone&’s gunning for John Wayne in this &“well-plotted&” mystery set in 1940s Hollywood featuring a wisecracking private eye (Publishers Weekly). Something about Lewis Vance&’s story doesn&’t add up. The guy claims to be John Wayne&’s stand-in, and he&’s called Det. Toby Peters about a possible job involving the star. But when Peters meets him in a seedy hotel room, Vance slips him a mickey. After Peters comes to, his head pounding, he sees the real John Wayne pointing a .38 at him. Vance was not exactly a dead ringer for the Duke—but he is dead, lying on the hotel bed with a bullet hole drilled in his forehead. And it&’s a dead heat as to who&’s more confused—the gumshoe or the movie star. On screen no one gets the drop on the Duke, but in real life someone&’s trying to kill him. Wayne hires Peters to get to the bottom of things, and soon he&’s tangled up in a twisted conspiracy that also involves a dubious desk clerk named Teddy Spaghetti, the Russians, and none other than the Little Tramp himself, Charlie Chaplin. &“As in the other entries in this series, Kaminsky&’s use of period detail and his appealing renderings of real-life celebrities provide the strongest recommendations for this well-plotted mystery.&” —Publishers Weekly
The Howard Hughes Affair: A Toby Peters Mystery (The Toby Peters Mysteries #4)
by Stuart M. KaminskyOn the eve of Pearl Harbor, Howard Hughes hires Hollywood gumshoe Toby Peters to find stolen blueprints in the &“marvelously entertaining&” series (Newsday). Millionaire Howard Hughes likes his secrets. He likes to keep them—and he definitely doesn&’t like having them stolen. Hollywood PI Toby Peters has a rep for being discreet. So when the film tycoon and aviation magnate needs a detective to very privately investigate the theft of top-secret blueprints taken from his home during one of his fabulous parties, he summons Peters. But what starts as counter-espionage intrigue turns into a triple murder, and Peters soon finds himself bait for a killer. As America is pulled into World War II, Peters is just trying to stay alive as a gunman chases him through a deserted television soundstage. With help from some unlikely allies—including Basil Rathbone, the silver screen&’s Sherlock Holmes, and gangster/patriot Bugsy Siegel—Peters is determined to dodge the bullets long enough to recover the blueprints before they fall into the wrong hands. The Chicago Sun-Times calls the Toby Peters mysteries &“entertainment at its best&” as Edgar Award–winning author Stuart Kaminsky takes readers on a rollicking tour of Hollywood in the forties.
The Silver Canyon (Spectros #5)
by Paul LedererThe stirring final installment in a series that combines the thrills of the Old West with supernatural chills In the cold desert night, gunslinger Ray Featherskill rides alone. On the horizon, he sees two men sitting at a roaring campfire. He approaches carefully, but his caution is unnecessary. The men are dead, their throats cut from ear to ear. It is the work of Blackschuster, the sinister magician who kidnapped Dr. Spectros&’s beloved bride and imprisoned her in a glass coffin. Ray rides not just for Spectros, but to avenge every innocent person Blackschuster has killed. On the shadowy edge of the dead men&’s camp, Ray finds a survivor—a spirited young woman who is happy to join the chase for the magician who murdered her father. Soon they are joined by Spectros, and an epic blood feud approaches its electrifying conclusion.
Textures of Life: A Novel
by Hortense CalisherA study in motives, conflicts, ambitions, and fears as idealistic young newlyweds face unanticipated realitiesHortense Calisher&’s second novel is a multigenerational story of art, family, and marriage. Opening with Liz and David&’s wedding and chronicling the first four years of their life together, Calisher follows the couple through their evolution into erudite, antimaterialist artists. They move into a sparse downtown Manhattan loft, prideful of their rebellious choice to lead lives unfettered by possessions. As time passes, they realize that their unbridled optimism is slowly being abraded by the disappointments of reality. With the ambiguously pleasant news that Elizabeth&’s mother and David&’s father, both widowed, are finding new love together, Calisher further explores the couple&’s interplay and draws piercing parallels between the idealism of youth and the sagacity of old age.Textures of Life explores the nature of relationships and the shifts—both minute and seismic—that affect the power dynamics as Liz and David constantly redefine their roles and opinions in order to sustain their relationship.
The Scroll (Bibliomysteries #2)
by Anne PerryAn ancient scroll draws a bookseller into a chilling mystery. Monty Danforth finds the tin buried beneath a shipment of leather-bound classics. Inside is a millennia-old vellum manuscript written in an unfamiliar but unmistakably ancient language. Danforth tries to photocopy and photograph it, but he ends up with blank images, as though the ink were made of something impervious to modern technology. As the scroll&’s mystery enchants him, this hapless bookseller falls into a cutthroat conspiracy that he may never escape. Soon a dead-eyed old man and his granddaughter come calling for the scroll. Danforth refuses to sell them the manuscript, but they will not be the last to demand it. Powerful forces crave the secrets locked within this ancient document, and Danforth will survive only if he can master its power.The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.
Comfort Station
by Donald E. WestlakeIn the comfort station at Bryant Park, worlds collide and lives are changed foreverLook past the grandeur of the famous New York Public Library and you will see the true architectural marvel of Forty-Second Street: the comfort station. A small building, modest in its proportions but undeniable in its importance, its handful of stalls and urinals provide a haven for rich and poor alike. The restroom&’s keeper is Mo Mowgli, a meek man whose only trouble is chronic tardiness, and who is about to have the encounter of a lifetime.Today, a strange cast of characters descends on the comfort station: a mobster and a cop, a countess and a dictator, colliding with a force that will upend Mo Mowgli&’s world. When this globetrotting group gets together, no stall is too small for adventure.Written in the style of Hotel, Airport, and—perhaps more accurately—Airplane!, Comfort Station shows the genius of Donald E. Westlake at his comic best.
Bullet for a Star (The Toby Peters Mysteries #1)
by Stuart M. KaminskyThe first in a mystery series set in 1940s Hollywood, where a hard-boiled private eye helps a cast of real-life stars: &“Nostalgic fun&” (Publishers Weekly). Hollywood, 1940: It&’s been four years since security guard Toby Peters got fired from the Warner Brothers lot for breaking a screen cowboy&’s arm. Since then he&’s scratched out a living as a private detective—missing persons and bodyguard work mostly—but now his old friends, the Warners, have a job for him. Someone has mailed the studio a picture of Errol Flynn caught in a compromising position with an underage woman. Although Flynn insists it&’s a fake, the studio is taking no chances. Peters is to deliver the blackmailer five thousand dollars and return with the photo negative. It should be simple, but Flynn, a swashbuckler on and off the screen, has a way of making things complicated. Soon it&’s up to Peters to clear Flynn&’s name, following a twisted trail that surprisingly leads to the set of The Maltese Falcon, involving Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet. As real-life PI Toby Peters meets Bogie&’s Sam Spade, he doesn&’t fall prey to being star-struck. But he may still fall prey to a killer. &“If you like your mysteries Sam Spade tough, with tongue in cheek and a touch of the theatrical, then the Toby Peters series is just your ticket.&” —Houston Chronicle
Eve's Rib: The Groundbreaking Guide to Women's Health
by Marianne J. LegatoFor decades, medicine saw men and women as essentially the same physically except in the area of reproduction. However, a new and groundbreaking science of gender-specific medicine has discovered astonishing distinctions between male and female bodies. From the thickness of our skin to the signs of a heart attack to ways we metabolize drugs, the sexes have significant physiological differences. But, what do these differences mean to you and your doctor?In this groundbreaking book, internationally respected academic physician and lecturer, Dr. Marianne Legato pulls together more than a decade of research into sex-specific health. The result is a powerful tool for anyone interested in the critical nuances in the ways men and women might present symptoms or be treated for disease. It&’s a book that will not only change the way you think about women&’s health, it just might save your life.
The Tanglewood Desperadoes
by Paul LedererDriven off their land, a gang of settlers turns to a life of crimeA few miles outside of town lies the Tanglewood, a savage maze choked with inedible plants and overrun with deadly animals. The sharpest trackers in the West would lose themselves in the Tanglewood, but for those who know its secrets, it is an invaluable refuge.Dan Sumner and his friends are honorable men, and in this part of the prairie, that means they are a dying breed. Forced from their homesteads by a gang of corrupt Eastern businessmen, the guys turn desperado. To drive their tormentors out, they rob the town bank by moonlight. But when the sheriff and his deputies are waiting for them, a vicious gunfight leads them to take refuge in the Tanglewood—where good men go to die.
The Hollow Needle (The Kent Murdock Mysteries #10)
by George Harmon CoxeOne of Kent&’s pictures holds the secret to a wealthy man&’s deathNo one has seen titan of industry John Caldwell for nine years when he hires Kent Murdock to take his picture. Caldwell is preparing a landmark announcement, and wants Boston&’s finest newspaper photographer there to document it. Murdock chafes at the stuffy environment of the Caldwell home—particularly when Caldwell&’s heir instructs him to take only one picture. Using an infrared flash, Murdock sneaks a second shot. Less than an hour later, John Caldwell is dead. Murdock makes a print of his second photo, hoping to find something that explains the strange ways of the Caldwell clan. Before he can examine it, the family&’s thugs assault him in the dark room, destroying the picture. The photo is gone, but there&’s no stopping Kent Murdock from learning what&’s rotten in the Caldwell estate.
What's Wrong with Being Single?
by Maryam JorjaniAbsolutely nothing. Being single or facing divorce, separation, or widowhood doen&’t mean unhappiness. Singles—the latest, largest, and least understood minority in America—are mad as hell, and they&’re not going to take it anymore. Drawing on many statistics and richly detailed case studies, Maryam Jorjani proves that society&’s pressures and misconceptions of togetherness drive many of us to get married. The result is often depression, divorce, addiction, violence—even suicide. Her conclusion: Living the single lifestyle, free and independent, may just be the best prescription for what ails America.
Naked Justice (The Ben Kincaid Novels #6)
by William BernhardtA lawyer must defend a mayor accused of murdering his family: &“Bernhardt again proves himself master of the courtroom drama&” (Library Journal). With his winning smile, acting experience, and history as one of the best quarterbacks Oklahoma University has ever seen, Wally Barrett had no trouble becoming Tulsa&’s first black mayor. But this perfect politician has a dark side, too. One afternoon at an ice cream parlor, a dozen people watch as he nearly hits his wife during an argument about their children. That same night, a neighbor calls the police after hearing screams from inside the mayor&’s house. The patrolman discovers the first lady and her children murdered, and the mayor nowhere to be found. Barrett is captured after a high-speed chase, insensible and covered in blood. The only person willing to defend him is Ben Kincaid, a struggling defense lawyer with a history of winning impossible cases. But when the national media descends on Tulsa, Kincaid will have to do something he&’s never done before, and oversee an increasingly wild three-ring circus.
Cannibals and Missionaries: A Novel (Library Of America Ser. #291)
by Mary McCarthyA riveting and unconventional thriller about a motley group of airplane passengers taken hostage by militant hijackersEn route to Iran, a plane is captured by Middle Eastern terrorists intent on holding hostage the committee of politicians, religious leaders, and activists on a mission to investigate alleged human rights violations by the shah. But the kidnappers soon discover that there is a greater treasure onboard. Among the passengers are prominent art collectors with access to some of the world&’s most valuable paintings—priceless works that could fund global terrorist activities for decades.After the captured plane sets down in a remote Dutch farming collective by the sea, events go rapidly and frighteningly awry. As negotiations with government agencies stall, concerns over rare artwork threaten to trump the regard for human life, and both captors and captives will face bitter truths about their conflicting values, manners, and ideologies as the ticking clock races inexorably toward an explosive endgame.Mary McCarthy&’s masterful Cannibals and Missionaries is a remarkable novel of events and ideas that sheds light on the tragic foibles of human nature while exploring the terrorist psychology with supreme intelligence and insight.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author&’s estate.
Sunday in Hell: Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute
by Bill McWilliamsThe author of A Return to Glory constructs a compellingly detailed and panoramic history of the fateful day that ushered the United States into WWII. Using long-established historical records and contemporary journals, as well as recently released wartime documents, Bill McWilliams has created a brand-new minute-by-minute narrative of the Day That Will Live in Infamy. Told from the points of view of dozens of characters, from generals and admirals and politicians and diplomats down to deckhands and private soldiers and innocent civilians at all levels, this panoramic overview of one of the most traumatizing and shocking events in American history puts the reader in a position to understand the big picture of strategy and tactics, as well as the intimate details of what the chaos, violence, and presence of death felt like to people immersed in the surprise of an armed attack on American soil. December 7, 1941, was a turning point in the history of the United States, which had been teetering on a decision between isolationism and intervention. One might argue that every US military engagement since then has been affected by what happened when America learned that it could not stand by and watch war among strangers without potentially becoming involved—whether we wished to or not.
Balancing Acts: A Novel
by Lynne Sharon SchwartzRetirement doesn&’t spell the end after all, in this rousing journey through loss and rebirthMax has lived a long and fulfilling life. He and his wife were star trapeze artists and acrobats in the Brandon Brothers circus. But with her passing, he&’s left alone in New York, and suffers a heart attack after a terrifying mugging. Without family to fall back on, Max is forced to leave his beloved Manhattan for a rest home in Westchester. He fears it will be the end of him—but in this stirring novel, retirement means a new beginning. In Westchester, Max meets Lettie, a kind widow, and the rambunctious and intelligent Alison, her daughter. And through a new gig teaching juggling and stunts at a local middle school, and new relationships with unexpected allies in the boring suburbs, Max discovers that it&’s never too late to have a fresh start.
Bullets for Macbeth (The Hilary Quayle Mysteries #3)
by Marvin KayeHilary takes on a pair of mysteries—one fictional, and one all too realIn college, Hilary Quayle dreamed of the stage, and playing all the great leading ladies that Shakespeare had to offer. But her interest was due less to the Bard than to another man: director, actor, and theatrical personality Michael Godwin. And though she got her wish, she found that acting onstage and romancing backstage did not add up to happiness. A decade past college, she&’s now a publicity wizard and occasional sleuth, but still nursing enough of a schoolgirl crush to help Michael Godwin when he calls. The director is in New York to stage a spectacular, arena-sized Macbeth, one that will answer the centuries-old question: Who is the mysterious third murderer who appears in Act III? When accidents begin to plague the production, Godwin and his company chalk it up to the play&’s curse. But when a real murderer enters the scene, only Hilary Quayle can guarantee a happy ending.
Stronghold: A Novel
by Stanley EllinFour desperate ex-cons attempt an audacious kidnappingJames Flood and his three partners get out of jail with a single number on their minds: $1 million, in cash, for each of them. To get it, they have a simple plan, a mixture of home invasion and kidnapping, with a brilliant twist: Their target is a wealthy family whose religion means they can&’t possibly fight back. Armed with enough guns and ammunition to take on an army, Flood and his men storm the house of Marcus Hayworth, the leader of a small Quaker community in upstate New York. Though the police advise Hayworth to pay whatever it takes to set his family free, he plans to retaliate using nonviolent methods. But his commitment to pacifism slips just a bit with every minute that his family remains in the sights of James Flood&’s gun.
Sister Wolf: A Novel
by Ann ArensbergWinner of the National Book Award for Best First Novel: Ann Arensberg&’s celebrated work tells a hallucinatory tale of sexual desire, jealousy, and savage loveOn a June night in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, Marit Deym prowls her land, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the van from the Dangerfield Zoo. When it finally comes—hours late—five wolves leap out onto the sprawling wildlife refuge Marit has created. And then one night, the wolves bring a stranger to her door.A poetry instructor at a school for the blind, Gabriel Frankman lives in self-imposed exile after the death of the girl he loved. He visits her grave every weekend. He carries sunflower seeds in his backpack and his friends are the birds. Meeting the girl who keeps wolves will transform Gabriel&’s life in ways he could never imagine.Haunting and lyrical, shot through with grace notes of passion and sorrow, Sister Wolf is about the power of human beings—like that of their animal brethren—to survive and endure.
Radical Shadows: Previously Untranslated and Unpublished Works by Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Masters (Conjunctions #31)
by Anton Chekhov Truman Capote Djuna Barnes Elizabeth Bishop Vladimir Nabokov Anna AkhmatovaLittle-known literary works by Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and more: &“[An] extraordinary collection of inexplicably forgotten treasures.&” —New York magazine Radical Shadows collects lost, forgotten, suppressed, rare, or unknown works by major literary writers from the late nineteenth century forward. From previously unpublished work by Djuna Barnes and Truman Capote (his earliest known story), to writing by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Kawabata, Musil, and other world-class authors, the issue is a celebration both of the art of translation and of the breadth and depth of the many revelatory discoveries that can still be found in the historical literary archive.
Lady Killer (The Kent Murdock Mysteries #11)
by George Harmon CoxeSmuggling leads to murder, with Kent Murdock caught in the middleWhen the Kemnora, a stately liner on her maiden voyage, docks in Boston, Kent Murdock is there to cover the story. He&’s joined by Harry Felton, a reporter and one-time foreign correspondent in France. As they leave the port, Murdock notices customs officials working over some passengers, but leaves without a second thought. After all, reporters are never bothered at customs. Only later does Murdock learn that he left with a small package in his camera bag, hidden there by someone on the ship—and retrieved later by Felton. He goes to ask Felton why he was used as an unwitting smuggler, but finds the reporter dead on the floor of his apartment. Whatever was in that package was worth killing for, and Murdock will find it, even if it means becoming a target himself.
Silverado (Spectros #2)
by Paul LedererThe origins of a timeless blood feud are revealed in the second installment of the uncanny and enthralling Spectros series When a ship sinks off the coast of India, a lone survivor washes ashore—a mysterious young man from the American West. Taking refuge among the local nobility, the man falls in love with the daughter of the Yahif. But on the eve of her wedding, Kirstina is kidnapped by the sinister and supernatural Blackschuster. To save his beloved, the American immerses himself in the dark arts and is reborn as a mighty wizard: Dr. Spectros. In the last car of a train bound for the Old West, two railroad employees discover Kirstina inside a glass coffin, alive but trapped in eternal sleep. Blackschuster kills the porters and escapes with his prisoner as Spectros follows in close pursuit. With the help of a handsome gunslinger, a mute giant, and a knife expert, the doctor will rescue his bride from the clutches of evil or die trying. Luckily, he has a powerful weapon on his side: the ability to transform himself into Kid Soledad, master gunfighter.
Full of Beauty
by MarishuFull of Beauty is an enchanting story that teaches young children where true beauty comes from and where it can be found. It follows a baby girl all the way until her wedding day and chronicles her journey to understanding what true beauty is, and where it comes from. Full of Beauty gently and delightfully explains to young children how inner beauty is not decided upon by others, but by themselves. The glorious illustration and touching story will make this a lifetime favorite for both children and adults.
Gossip: A Novel
by Christopher BramA gripping thriller about contemporary gay politicsRalph Eckhart, an unassuming bookstore manager in the East Village, meets Bill O&’Connor online and they agree to get together during Ralph&’s weekend visit to Washington, DC. The two start a heated, long-distance sexual relationship. But Ralph discovers that Bill is a closeted Republican journalist, whose new book trashes liberal women in Washington—including Ralph&’s speechwriter friend, Nancy—and angrily breaks off the affair. When Bill is found murdered, Ralph becomes the prime suspect. This is a complex psychological and political thriller full of the sexy excitement of &“sleeping with the enemy.&”