After his wife Alison, First Assistant United States Attorney, unwittingly recruits an ex-CIA operative and former international arms dealer to help in an undercover operation, Brock Andrews learns that the man has a dangerous agenda of his own.
Brave, bold, and brilliant, this ground-breaking first novel is the work of one of the Harlem Renaissance's most influential and enduring writers.
A young, well-born Osaka widow, Sonoko Kakiuchi, describes her husband's humiliation and the influence of a beautiful and totally corrupt art student on their lives, in a novel set in the 1920s From one of the greatest writers of twentieth ...
Quicksand untangles these strands as no history has done before by showing how our strategies unfolded over the entire century and across the entire region.
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga...
What did Maja do? Or is it what she failed to do that brought her here? Malin Persson Giolito has written a perceptive portrayal of a teenage girl and a blistering indictment of a society that is coming apart.
Obsessed with finding her daughter, Bonnie, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan enlists the aid of Dr. Megan Blair to help bring Bonnie's killer to justice, embarking on a quest that will either bring her closure and revenge or destroy everything ...
"Originally published in Sweden as Kvicksand by Leopard feorlag, Stockholm, in 2014"--Title page verso.
When someone steals the money the town has been collecting to help the ducks, Josh and his friends try to find the thief.
With its careful scholarly scaffolding, this superbly useful edition will benefit teacher and student alike." --RAFIA ZAFAR, Washington University in Saint Louis
"Tick and Polly have never met their parents before.