When seventeen-year-old Emma's antique-collector parents vanish and her brother's college roommate shows up to become her guardian, he takes her from San Francisco to Boston, where she discovers that she is a powerful "ghostkeeper," which both explains troubling incidents from her past and presents difficult new dilemmas.
When a university professor is found murdered, a brilliant and quick-witted homicide detective, Ollie Chandler, suspects the murderer could be a fellow homicide detective, but as Ollie probes deeper, another detective is murdered. Reprint.
Presents a look at some of the greatest deceptions in history, from the forged document that the Vatican used to lay claim to much of Europe, to the authorship of Hitler's diaries, to other great con artists, imposters, and scientific ...
Wolff recalls the years spent, mostly on the run, with his irresponsible father--a self-taught engineer, con man, forger, and gyp artist--and his later coming to terms with his father's character and life
A debut entry in a new trilogy by the author of the Jenna Fox Chronicles introduces Princess Lia, who flees an unwanted marriage and expectations about her supernatural legacy only to be pursued by her jilted fiancé and a ruthless assassin ...
A former CIA operative sheds new light on intelligence failures in the runup to 9/11, offering a detailed personal narrative of the spy agency from the Reagan presidency through the year 2002, often criticizing big mistakes made along the ...
A rich postapocalyptic YA fantasy perfect for fans of Graceling and Tamora Pierce, this sequel to C. J. Redwine's Defiance continues the story of warrior Rachel Adams and her love, Logan McEntire.
And he's running out of places to run. From the author of the international sensation Slated comes the second book in a powerful new story of survival and transformation; love and power.
This rip-roaring tale of greed, financial corruption, dirty politics, over-the-top and under-the-radar deceit, illicit sex, and a brilliant and wildly charming con man on the town, then on the lam, is not only a rich and detailed account of ...
Morgan: It's obviously, as you know, because of Mi- chele Bachmann's views and others', it's obviously a highly contentious political issue. I'm just curious what your view is. You keep saying, “It's in the book.
Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China Ralph D. Sawyer. Jones, A. H. M.Sparta. ... Kagan, Donald.On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace. New York: Doubleday,1995. Kagan, Donald and Frederick W. Kagan.