30 dangerous paths. 30 minutes to escape. YOU choose the path to survive!You are swimming though the ocean when an explosion rips out from the shoreline and a massive wave flings you close to a giant shark. The shark is stunned, but alive. You don't have much time, and you need to get to shore. Do you keep swimming or do you climb onto the shark's back and try to surf to shore?This is an edge-of-your-seat, seat-of-your-pants survival story. Make the wrong choice and risk being: eaten by a crocodile, flattened by a boulder, buried in sand, dragged into treetops while floating in a hot air balloon (made out of tents), crushed by a falling oil platform, swept away by a tsunami, overrun by zombies, flattened by a gum tree or the first to discover the blue wire was not the correct one to cut. Choose cleverly — escape by hovercraft, or by cutting the red wire instead — and live to choose your next awesome adventure. Views: 32
Sheila Harrison Grant is the first African American woman ever nominated to the federal bench in Cleveland. But when her thirteen-year-old daughter Olivia shares a family secret with a well-meaning guidance counselor, she sets the wheels in motion to feed a partisan senate's opposition, threatening her mother's position...and both of their lives.Once an ambitious young law student with promise, Casey Cort made the mistake of crossing a classmate from a prominent and influential family. Now she works as an unfulfilled, faceless cog in a broken legal system. When fate gives Casey a second chance, she has to set aside her lack of faith in justice and find the strength to fight for those with nowhere else to turn. In this first novel of the Casey Cort series, Sylvie Fox—a former trial lawyer in Cleveland—weaves a tale that blends the best of today's top legal thrillers with the heart and soul of women's fiction, in a story ripped from real-world headlines. Views: 32
In bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer George Pelecanos' "taut and suspenseful" new novel, an ex-offender must choose between the man who got him out and the woman who showed him another path (Booklist, Starred Review) Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison's librarian, a young woman named Anna who develops a soft spot for her best student. Anna keeps passing Michael books until one day he disappears, suddenly released after a private detective manipulated a witness in Michael's trial. Outside, Michael encounters a Washington, D.C. that has changed a lot during his time locked up. Once shady storefronts are now trendy beer gardens and flower shops. But what hasn't changed is the hard choice between the temptation of crime and doing what's right. Trying to balance his new job, his love of reading, and the debt he owes to the man who got him released, Michael struggles to figure out his place in this new world before he loses control.Smart and fast-paced, The Man Who Came Uptown brings Washington, D.C. to life in a high-stakes story of tough choices.**Review"The thriller plot is taut and suspenseful, as jolting as it is carefully nuanced, but it is Pelecanos' focus on character, on his ability to show the richness and depth of his people, as well as their often-heartbreaking yearning for something more, that gives this novel-and all his work-its special power."―*Booklist, Starred Review* "Using his customary knowing dialogue and stripped-down, soulful prose, Pelecanos skillfully, sensitively works the urban frontier where the problems and stresses of everyday life cross the line into the sort of criminal behavior that could tempt anyone-anyone at all."―*Kirkus* Praise for THE MARTINI SHOT: "one of [Pelecanos'] freshest and most original recent works."
―Janet Maslin, *New York Times * "Here we see what makes Pelecanos' best writing so resonant: the sense of longing, of miscommunication, the way love does not enlarge us but rather makes us small."―David L. Ulin, *Los Angeles Times * "His writing is properly hard-boiled, his heroes are attractively flawed and his villains leave trails of blood from here to yonder. But even at his most gripping...he sets his aims high, bringing a sociologist's concerns to the street -level dramas that play out in his hometown of Washington, D.C."
―Lloyd Sachs, *Chicago Tribune * "fast, dark, and dangerous...The gritty world [Pelecanos] knows so well provides ample fodder for the vignettes in this book, the characters are strong and the dialogue is sharp. The collection is a solid read for anyone who's a fan of crime writing and especially Pelecanos' work."―Tim Alamenciak, *Toronto Star* "bracing and witty...an inventive study of deception and fakery--one of Pelecanos's best works, at any length."―Mark Athitakis, *The Washington Post* Praise for THE DOUBLE: "It's astonishing all the good stuff Pelecanos can pack into one unpretentious book that make the story so rich."―Marilyn Stasio, *New York Times Book Review* "Pungent, funny dialogue...believable black-and-white friendships...outstanding scene-setting...The Double is fast-paced, its villains feel fresh...Call me a hard-core Pelecanos junkie."―Jocelyn McClurg, *USA TODAY* "Every time I read one of George Pelecanos's novels, I'm left a little awed...The guy's a national treasure."―Dennis LehaneAbout the Author
George Pelecanos is the bestselling author of nineteen novels set in and around Washington, DC. He is also an independent film producer, and a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the HBO series The Wire and Treme. He lives in Maryland. Views: 32
In one of his novels, author Doyle distressed readers by allowing both Sherlock Holmes and his adversary Professor Moriarty to die. Then in 1903, to please readers, he resuscitates the famous sleuth. The stories in this collection tell of his return. Views: 32
