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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.&”
The Land Grabbers
by Paul LedererFramed for murder, an honest man rides over the desert to clear his nameJake Shockley has his feet up in the tavern when his twin comes through the door. The stranger isn&’t his brother, but may as well be, and Jake sees opportunity there—a chance to erase years of warrants and wanted posters with a single quick kill. He lures his lookalike into the alley, knocks him out, and waits until a rider comes along. Jake shoots his twin through the heart and skips town, leaving Giles Clanahan to take the blame.At first, Clanahan is praised for killing the notorious bandit, but when the townspeople realize the dead man isn&’t Shockley, they sentence Giles to hang. He escapes, and sets out across the desert, planning to bring justice to the man who framed him—even if it means dying in the sand.
The Cana Diversion: A Brock Callahan Mystery (The Brock Callahan Mysteries #9)
by William Campbell GaultWhile tangling with radicals, Brock stumbles on a colleague&’s corpse Brock Callahan, ex-private investigator, is still not used to wealth and retirement. In fact he is struggling through a game of golf when the clubhouse calls with the curious news that his wife is in jail, pulled in at an anti-nuclear protest. Callahan hires Joe Puma, private detective and onetime peer, to post bail for the budding radical. A few days later, Puma is dead, and Brock begins to wonder where the student movement&’s shadowy roots lie. The agitators want to stop the proposed Mirage Point reactor, which sits at the intersection of mob money, corrupt utilities, and the violent rage of the radical fringe. And as Callahan knows all too well, California doesn&’t run on nuclear energy; the state is powered by the dirtiest fuel there is—old-fashioned, murderous greed. The Cana Diversion is the 9th book in the Brock Callahan Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Canal House Cooking Volume N° 8: Pronto! (Canal House Cooking #8)
by Christopher Hirsheimer Melissa HamiltonPour some prosecco and cook up some delicious antipasti, pizzas, pastas, Italian sweets, and more—with simple recipes from two James Beard Award–winning authors.Canal House Cooking Volume No. 8:Pronto!, the newest addition to the Canal House Cooking series, is a delightful cookbook devoted to Italian home cooking. It&’s filled with seventy-seven delicious, fast, easy, fresh Italian recipes, including ones for antipasti, pizzas, pastas, grilled meats and fish, and simple Italian sweets. It&’s a collection of some of our favorite recipes, the ones we cook for ourselves, our friends, and our families all year long, Pronto! will make you want to roll up your sleeves, pour yourself a glass of prosecco or Sangiovese, and start cooking. Renowned home cooks Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton, 2013 James Beard Foundation Award winners, have been inspiring cooks of all kinds—from the novice and passionate alike, to even the restaurant chef—since the debut of their award-winning cookbook series began with their simple but elegant and delicious recipes for cooking at home.Canal House Cooking Volume No. 8: Pronto!, is the eighth book of our award-winning series of seasonal recipes. We publish three volumes a year: Summer, Fall & Holiday, and Winter & Spring, each filled with delicious recipes for you from us. Cook your way through the fall and holidays with Pronto!, and all year long with Canal House Cooking!Buon Appetito!
One Grave Too Many (The John Easy Mysteries #3)
by Ron GoulartAs earthquakes shake Los Angeles, John Easy looks for a missing admanJohn Easy never likes to get out of bed, especially when the woman beside him is as beautiful as Jill Jeffers, but no man can argue with an earthquake. The quake subsides after a few moments, but another one is coming. Something fierce is about to rock Los Angeles, and California&’s hippest private detective is going to be right in the middle of it. Gay Holland, Easy&’s newest client, is rich, lonely, and missing her brother Gary. The owner of a boutique radio advertising firm, Gary is recently divorced and has a married girlfriend. His apartment has been trashed, and whoever did it was violent, professional, and in search of something to do with Gary&’s collection of archaeology texts. Finding Gary will mean digging deep under Los Angeles—assuming the next quake doesn&’t shake the city apart first.
Save Me, Joe Louis (Contemporay American Fiction Ser.)
by Madison Smartt BellTwo small-time thieves get in over their heads in this literary thriller from the &“virtuoso novelist&” and author of Soldier&’s Joy (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Not quite at home in the backwoods of Tennessee, and even less suited for the service, drifter Macrae lands on his feet in New York City in the 1980s. There, he teams up with a petty thief named Charlie, and the two hit on a scheme to rob people withdrawing money at ATMs. Caught up by their surprising success, they move on to bigger crimes. But as Macrae feels a growing discomfort with the increasing violence and danger of their hardscrabble existence, he wonders if he&’s in too deep to make a clean break. With a tightly orchestrated and harrowing conclusion from &“one of our most talented novelists . . . This meticulously observed story nevertheless grips us with its lucid prose, its keen psychological insights and the author&’s respect for his troubled characters&” (Publishers Weekly). &“A remarkable read.&” —The New York Times Book Review &“Bell seems to know intimately the seedy sides of New York, Baltimore and the ex-urban south of housing developments and shopping centers abutting old, dying farms. He renders each locale exquisitely and seems as familiar with street jive as redneck vernacular.&” —Los Angeles Times &“Ripe for translation to the silver screen.&” —Library Journal
A Menagerie (Conjunctions #61)
by James Morrow Joyce Carol Oates Russell Banks Temple Grandin Rick MoodyRussell Banks, Temple Grandin, and other renowned writers contemplate animals—and the way our own species interacts with them. Conjunctions: 61, A Menagerie gathers essays, fiction, and poetry that imagine the world of our fellow beings, animals. Cultural mythologies and pantheons are populated with snakes, monkeys, cats, jackals, whales: a cast of characters whose stories reveal how complex and wildly contradictory our species&’ relationship with other animals is. They&’re friends, enemies, tools, food. Descartes deliberated about whether animals have souls, deciding they didn&’t. Linnaeus cataloged them. Darwin connected us to them. Wild or tame, sinless or soulless, the animal is a chimera of shifting identities, both mundane and mysterious. Featuring interviews with William S. Burroughs and Temple Grandin, essays by animal experimenters Vint Virga and Dale Peterson, fiction by Russell Banks and Joyce Carol Oates, and work by many others, this collection of imaginative new writing offers uncaged access to the lives of the nonhuman creatures that surround us.
This Given Sky
by James GradyA haunting short story about friendship and loss in small-town MontanaJake, Steve, and Thel are inseparable. The trio scampers through the narrow streets of Shelby without giving thought to the rest of the world. Then Jake&’s life changes the first time he goes up in a plane: That ride in a battered old Mustang P-51 teaches him that no one but pilots can know true freedom. He joins the Air Force and comes back to Shelby when he&’s on leave. Steve and Thel stay behind, making lives in the tough heartland town in Montana. Though farther apart, they remain a group—and will stay that way, whether they live or die.
Box Nine (Quinsigamond #1)
by Jack O'ConnellA narcotics detective wages war against a deadly new stimulant The drug is called Lingo, and it&’s the most powerful narcotic Lenore has ever seen. This cheaply manufactured pill races straight for the brain&’s language center, supercharging it so that even a dimwitted person can speak and read at 1,500 words per minute. It induces giddiness, confidence, and sexual euphoria—with a side effect of murderous rage. The drug has come to Quinsigamond, a fading industrial center in the heart of Massachusetts, and it&’s going to tear this town apart. Lenore believes she can stop that from happening. A narcotics detective with a few addictions of her own—amphetamines and heavy metal, to name a couple—she loves nothing more than her gun, until she meets Dr. Frederick Woo, the linguist assisting her on the case. Together they can stop the drug—if it doesn&’t take hold of them first.
The Big Silence (The Abe Lieberman Mysteries #6)
by Stuart M. KaminskyThis Chicago cop drama is &“jam-packed with the stuff of good crime fiction—character, style, place, recognizable human conflict&” (The Washington Post). When the wife of a mob witness is killed and his teenage son is kidnapped, the ransom isn&’t cash—it&’s his life. The dead can&’t testify. If the witness kills himself, the mob will let his son live. Now veteran cops Abe Lieberman and Bill Hanrahan need to protect their witness from himself while they turn Chicago&’s gangland upside down to save the kid. It doesn&’t help that Hanrahan is newly sober in AA, battling drink urges and the guilt of recently losing another informant. Lieberman has seen his partner at his worst with the booze and always had his back. But now both their backs are against the wall, and they&’ll need to rely on each other and make some hard choices to set this one right. Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and Edgar Award Winner Stuart M. Kaminsky &“has the pro&’s knack of combining quirky people, succinct descriptions, an eye for detail, and dark humor to produce entertainment at its best&” (Chicago Sun-Times).
The Condor Passes: A Novel (Transaction Large Print Ser.)
by Shirley Ann GrauFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist: A family saga of a wealthy man&’s rise and his children&’s fight for his fortune in 1920s New Orleans. Like many people in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Thomas Henry Oliver came to the city to escape a dull life—in his case, a childhood in the backwoods of the Midwest. But few New Orleans immigrants find as much prosperity as Oliver does amongst the city&’s lively streets, amassing an enormous fortune built from brothels and speakeasies. By the time he&’s ninety-five, Oliver has created a dynasty in Storyville, the city&’s notorious red-light district, but as his wealth grows, so does his family&’s desire to control it. After a series of strokes, Oliver must choose an inheritor, even though his two entitled daughters and ambitious adopted son don&’t always seem worthy of his legacy. His first daughter, an introverted perfectionist, marries a greedy, alcoholic, and adulterous Cajun, and his second daughter fosters a secret desire for her brother-in-law. On his deathbed, Thomas learns that the gold that built the Oliver name now corrupts his legacy and threatens to tear his family apart. In this simmering dynastic saga by the author of Keepers of the House, three generations collide in their battle to control an empire. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
Starlight: A Novel
by Scott ElyIn the depths of Vietnam&’s jungles, a radioman and a haunted sniper try to surviveJackson has three hundred days left in Vietnam, and he plans to spend them behind a desk, working the radio for a major in a godforsaken firebase not far from the Laos border. But one day, the reality of war visits Jackson in the form of Tom Light, a sniper whose scope is said to have the power to raise the dead. Where Light goes, ambushes follow, and so he has been cursed to wander the jungle alone, his skin growing pale, his boots replaced with sandals.Tom Light is a dangerous man to know, a spooky lost soldier who survives in spite of himself. Jackson wants to learn his secret. Hoping the master sniper can keep him safe, Jackson ventures out with Light. In the jungle they will encounter perils—some real and some hallucinatory. Can the strange sniper&’s all-powerful starlight scope will them to stay alive?