A USA TODAY BESTSELLER The JACK REACHER Cases: Book Four. A man, barely alive and beaten within an inch of his life, collapses at Michael Tallon's door. He dies before Tallon has a chance to learn anything from him. The only clue? A crumpled piece of paper, covered in the dead man's blood, with two words: Operation Reacher. Intrigued, Tallon searches his memory and soon realizes he knew the man. A former soldier. His investigation leads him to the Outer Banks of North Carolina where it's clear the people responsible for his friend's death want the case to go away, and Tallon with it. Forever. "Ames is a sensation among readers who love fast-paced thrillers." -MysteryTribune Views: 70
Against The Tide Of Years continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has strived to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire for himself based on conquest by modern technology. The Republic has no alternative but to face the inevitable war brought on by one of their own…. Views: 70
Zachary Alexander was accustomed to beautiful women at his luxury winter resort, but the stunning Claire Durocher took his breath away! Was she looking for a temporary lover? Zach was tempted to oblige her...In fact, Claire had sworn she'd always wait for the right man, but Zach seemed to think she was a gold digger! How could she prove before Christmas was over that, far from just a brief fling, what she wanted was to be his wife? Views: 70
Clay Beauchamp would have to learn—Natalia was not for sale! He was handsome, protective, even generous, but nothing would lure Natalia into his bed...until the night her livelihood was destroyed, and Clay came to her rescue....When Clay offered Natalia a home and freedom from her debts, she accepted. But how long could she remain as his mistress, when she wanted to be his wife? Views: 70
For fans of Rainbow Magic Fairies and Disney Fairies comes the third book in the Fairy Bell Sisters, a magical and utterly charming chapter-book series about Tinker Bell's little sisters, by Margaret McNamara.In Golden at the Fancy-Dress Party, Goldie travels to the mainland for Queen Titania's annual fancy-dress competition. But the mainland is so different from Sheepskerry Island--her host fairies are rather unfriendly and even play a mean trick on Goldie when they realize she has trouble reading. And Goldie feels out of place without her sisters by her side. She will have to use her creativity and quick thinking to turn the party from disaster to success.Julia Denos once again graces this delightful text with her girly and energetic illustrations. Views: 70
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USAFrom Publishers Weekly"When I was twenty-eight I decided to kill my mother." This sixth book from Rogers (Promised Lands; Mr. Wroe's Virgins) is a caustically memorable literary shocker, built tightly around its antiheroic narrator. Abandoned at birth and shuttled among foster homes around Birmingham, Nikki Black (a name she chose for herself because it had "teeth") decided in her teens to remain at a children's home rather than suffer the ministrations of hypocritical caregivers. To call her unsympathetic is putting it mildly: the grown-up Nikki hates everyone, using whomever she needs for sex, sleeping space or money, and connecting emotionally with no one. She has one purpose in life: to find her real mother (listed on her birth certificate as Phyllis Lovage), ask her why she abandoned her, and then kill her. A financial windfall lets Nikki track Phyllis down to the small, remote Scottish island of Ayssar, where she rents her spare room out to boarders. Herself dying from cancer, Phyllis makes money by selling herbal remedies; she uses the funds to care for her slightly retarded son, Calum. Nikki rents the room and conceals her identity, the better to spy on, and then slay, her motherAand to win the affections of Calum. This novel's macabre plot is compelling enough, but Rogers's real talent lies in tone and psychologyAin Nikki's sometimes horrifying, sometimes nearly reasonable flights of fancy, and in the asides, details, folktales and anecdotes that percolate through the main narrative. Fans of Ian McEwan should relish this stylish, charismatic addition to Britain's gallery of antiheroes. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. From BooklistThree archetypes collide in this darkly redemptive fairy tale by Rogers, author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins (1999) and Promised Lands (1997). Rogers weaves a spell with fractured myths through the angry narrative of Nikki Black. As a baby abandoned at a post office in the early hours of a cold morning, Nikki now seeks vengeance on the woman who left her. Searching for her mother and plotting her murder, she explains her life thus far in an extraordinary immediacy of voice. Nikki makes her way to an island off of Scotland. It is here, on a sea-tossed, mist-enshrouded rocky crag, that the fairy tale begins. But this is not children's hour--in these tales babies die and the witch is not so much wicked as enmeshed in her own unhappy epic. Nikki finds, with the aid of her newly found brother, the threads of her lost family. In doing so, she finds more than she is capable of understanding. Forced to take a stand, she turns once again to the powerful nature of myth to create her own, if not happy, than at least very satisfying end. It is left to the reader to decipher the meaning of the epiphany that unravels long after this deftly constructed tale is concluded. Neal WyattCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Views: 69
Amazon.com Review
The best thing about Grif Stockley's mysteries featuring Gideon Page,
an Arkansas social worker turned lawyer, is their no-nonsense attitude
toward the business of being a lawyer. There are few big deals, no car
chases, and a minimum of courtroom theatrics--just ordinary people
trying to survive life's nasty menu. Blind Judgement has Page
commuting from Little Rock to his hometown of Bear Creek in the
Arkansas Delta to defend an African American accused of killing his
Chinese American employer, presumably on the orders of a wealthy white
man named Paul Taylor. Page has reason to hope the worst for Taylor:
they had been boyhood friends until the Taylor family cheated Page's
mother out of her property. But nothing turns out as expected, which
adds to the pleasure and believability. Other Page-turners available in
paperback: Expert Testimony, Illegal Motion, Probable Cause, and Religous Conviction.
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From Kirkus Reviews
It's old-home week for Gideon Page when Latrice Bledsoe asks him to
come back to Bear Creek, Arkansas, to defend her meatpacker husband
Doss on a charge of taking money from Paul Taylor to kill Willie Ting,
the boss at Southern Pride Meats. Page is happy to take the case
because if he can get Doss to testify against Paul Taylor, he'll be
nailing the man who cheated his mother after his father killed himself.
Apart from a couple of ambiguous conversations, though, there's no
evidence against Taylor, and plenty (bloody knife, heavily alibi-ed
coworkers) against Doss. Anybody but Page (Illegal Motion, 1995, etc.)
would see other trouble signs, too: Doss refuses to take a lie-detector
test; the supposedly despised Taylor has a surprising amount of
popular support in Bear Creek; and Taylor's lawyer seems utterly
unconcerned about the trial. (He probably knows the novel will have run
most of its course by the time he'll need to show up in court.) But
Page, awash in youthful memories and content to neglect his
long-suffering girlfriend Amy Gilchrist for the dubious embraces of
high-school sweetheart Angela Marr--the man seems to take up with each
woman only to abandon her for the next--just can't keep his eye on the
ball; it'll be a miracle, and no thanks to his dazzled lawyer, if Doss
walks. A thimble-sized mystery interleaved with so many reminiscences
of the hero's adolescence you'll feel as if you're paging through
somebody else's high-school yearbook. Despite some incisive asides on
racism, sensitive Page's fifth case is his weakest Views: 69
Twenty-six years old Samantha Peters has been a good girl, never broke the rules, never did anything crazy, and never stood out in any way. Her best friend conviences her to go to New York for the weekend, where she has her first one night stand. No big deal, right? No one back home would ever know and she'd never see him again...right? Views: 69
