![]() ![]() Even as the truth behind the façade of this wealthy Boston family’s life is revealed, the body count rises. Warren’s investigation into the shooting leads her to the impossibly beautiful young widow, Catherine Rose Gagnon, and the darkness in her past. But from the moment Bobby pulls the trigger, killing an armed man holding his own wife and child hostage, it may be Bobby’s own life that is lost.ĭetective D. Warren.Īs he watches a potentially fatal hostage situation unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle, Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge knows that he may be all that stands between life and death. ‘A terrific psychological thriller’ OBSERVERįROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR of Before She Disappeared comes Alone – a gripping thriller introducing Lisa Gardner’s series character Detective D. ‘ The absolute master of the psychological suspense novel’ SHARON BOLTON ‘Stories that grip from the first page‘ KARIN SLAUGHTER ‘Lisa Gardner always delivers heart-stopping suspense‘ HARLAN COBEN You have a split second to make your decision. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is a complex drama of lawyerly intrigues and backroom political dealings, with a dash of evil multinational corporate plotting and a handful of roguish law enforcement officers of varying ranks. ![]() ![]() It’s also a revealing window into its author’s political imagination-what she wants, what she believes, what she’d do in a position of power. Politicians writing fiction may be familiar at this point, but Abrams’s novel merits deeper reading … a thriller, an ‘airport novel’ in the very best sense of the term-it’s fun, fast-paced, absurd, designed to be inhaled in the space of a single flight. When clerk Avery Keene finds herself unexpectedly in the role of Power of Attorney for an incapacitated judge, she discovers a string of clues that lead to dangerous information about a controversial case. Our October selection is While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams, a riveting legal thriller about a law clerk who becomes embroiled in a mystery unfolding in the halls of the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() I ultimately ended up appreciating it though. I had a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that all of these characters had aged ten years in what was only a day for me. I repeat… TEN YEARS!! My baby Janie was turning sixteen and Garrett who had just been born was already ten! I felt so old and it took some getting used to. This book takes place ten years after the third installment. I was laughing hysterically, balling my eyes out, and was frustrated out of my mind all in this one book! Needless to say, I went on a roller coaster of emotions and I really liked this book. “Fate smashes hope and belief into splinters of nothingness.” Unless the woman he loves surrenders everything to him, again and again, under a full moon rising. ![]() But in a rare moment of distraction, Jordan’s guard drops just long enough for his fate to take an irreversible twist. Whatever it is, there’s no denying her willingness to risk everything for the only man she’s ever cared about-a man on the verge of losing his very humanity.įor the past ten years Jordan Pride has dedicated his life to protecting his people from a deadly shifter virus. She’s good at it because she has the kind of focus and drive that won’t back down no matter how steep the odds. ![]() Katie Smith is the best of her class, part of an elite hunting force trained to eliminate werewolves from the hills of Western Virginia. ∴ Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble ∴ ![]() ![]() ![]() Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as Players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible Similar to the DAISY option above however, this option uses MP3įiles created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas With a text-to-speech engine and spoken by Kendra, a high quality Layer 3) - Provides audio only with no text. Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Books thatĬontain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with Just about every type of access technology that reads text. 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Select your format based upon: 1) how you want to read your book, andĢ) compatibility with your reading tool. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Master storyteller Ruta Sepetys once again shines light into one of history’s darkest corners in this epic, heart-wrenching novel about identity, unforgettable love, repercussions of war, and the hidden violence of silence – inspired by the true postwar struggles of Spain. ![]() Lives and hearts collide, revealing an incredibly dark side to the sunny Spanish city. ![]() He is backed into a corner of difficult decisions to protect those he loves. Daniel’s photographs leave him with uncomfortable questions amidst shadows of danger. Photography – and fate – introduce him to Ana, whose family’s interweaving obstacles reveal the lingering grasp of the Spanish Civil War – as well as chilling definitions of fortune and fear. Among them is 18-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother’s birth through the lens of his camera. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming promise of sunshine and wine. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship. ![]() ![]() ![]() But that’s not the worst of it, because Charlie sees, in his room, a tall dark figure who insists that Charlie shouldn’t be able to see him. ![]() He’s right to worry, in a sense, because his wife dies immediately after childbirth. A constant worrier, he’s convinced that his wife, about to give birth to their first child, is too good for him. Only this isn’t the Discworld, this is modern-day San Francisco.Ĭharlie Asher is a beta male. Christopher Moore is, like Pratchett, a comic writer, and here he’s on territory that would have some familiarity to Pratchett readers: the personification of Death. The Pratchett comparison is not coincidental. A Dirty Job was released here in August, and he has other books being released in November and in December. Christopher Moore, it turns out, is a writer, and while he doesn’t have nearly as many volumes to his credit as does Terry Pratchett, I’d say it’s only a matter of time. (Review first published on the Antipodean Specfic in Focus website, January 2008)Ī month ago, I wasn’t even aware I shared the planet with anyone named Christopher Moore (although I suppose that, if pressed, I would have regarded it as a strong statistical likelihood that an entity of that name existed). ![]() ![]() ![]() The synopsis describes this book as “laugh out loud funny”, recommended for fans of Where’d You Go Bernadette and The Marvelous Mrs. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. She’s daring them to change the status quo. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. ![]() ![]() Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. True chemistry results.īut like science, life is unpredictable. Except for one: Calvin Evans the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with-of all things-her mind. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385547345.Ĭhemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These exciting publications will be followed by Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2. L'Amour's never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. In Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volumes 1, Beau L'Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author's more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. Crossing a border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn of the astonishing world of the Anasazi and discover the most extraordinary frontier ever encountered. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter from an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. For centuries the sudden disappearance of these people baffled historians. As part of the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the "ancient enemy," and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is also the psychological violence of not being heard. Dear Senthuran becomes Emezi's story of transcendence over the violence that has marked their lived experience, beginning with the physical and sexual violence they experienced growing up in near poverty in Aba, Nigeria, where "cockroach eggs gelled into the egg grooves of the fridge door." Childhood was the "house where bad things first happened, the house our mother left us in, the house of our father's temper and our brother's cruelty" and where an "old neighbor had groped me when I was twelve." What is revealed in these letters is both the immense strength Emezi has nurtured in order to sustain a belief in who they are despite the destructive noise of the world, as well as Emezi's own brave and poignant vulnerability in charting this journey. Structured as letters to various people - some friends, some lovers, some public figures like Toni Morrison whom Emezi has never met in person - each letter reveals an aspect of Emezi's life that has shaped them into the being they have become. "People can do spectacular things if you forget to tell them it's impossible," Akwaeke Emezi writes several chapters into their new book Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir. ![]() ![]() ![]() Such a system would effectively be a new kind of life, and Bostrom’s fears, in their simplest form, are evolutionary: that humanity will unexpectedly become outmatched by a smarter competitor. ![]() gains the ability to improve itself, and in short order exceeds the intellectual potential of the human brain by many orders of magnitude. Central to this concern is the prospect of an “intelligence explosion,” a speculative event in which an A.I. Titled “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies,” it argues that true artificial intelligence, if it is realized, might pose a danger that exceeds every previous threat from technology-even nuclear weapons-and that if its development is not managed carefully humanity risks engineering its own extinction. ![]() Last year, a curious nonfiction book became a Times best-seller: a dense meditation on artificial intelligence by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who holds an appointment at Oxford. ![]() |