Books from Putnam Adult

  • Three Complete Novels
    By John Sandford

    Sloan was whispering , though Dunn was a long way away . A concrete loading dock ran along the front of the cowboy building , and Dunn was climbing heavily up the steps at one end . The building was dark , with no sign of movement .

  • At Risk
    By Alice Hoffman

    A poignant tale of a loving, resilient New England family fighting to keep their eleven-year-old gifted daughter stricken with AIDS--in school and to preserve their family bonds in the face of tragedy

  • The King's Gold
    By Arturo Pérez-Reverte

    Seville, 1626.

  • Contagion
    By Robin Cook

    In a story of the dangers of managed health care, ophthalmologist-turned-foresic pathologist John Stapleton investigates a series of virulent and lethal illnesses targeting more costly patients of a giant for-profit medical conglomerate. ...

  • The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War, and Peace, 1989-1992
    By Thomas M. DeFrank, James Addison Baker

    Roland Dumas , the French Foreign Minister , had arrived late , left early , and ordered his ambassador not to agree to anything . As a result , a series of decisions not related to the Gulf War were passed by votes of 15-1 .

  • The People's Choice
    By Jeff Greenfield

    Sharon Kramer had never seen Doyle as the kind of man she could have a real conversation with , but she was impressed by Doyle's preternatural political instinct for the right gesture at any moment — even this one .

  • A Cruising Guide to the New England Coast: Including the Hudson River, Long Island Sound, and the Coast of New...
    By Roger F. Duncan, John P. Ware, J. C. Ware

    A Cruising Guide to the New England Coast: Including the Hudson River, Long Island Sound, and the Coast of New...

  • American Women in Jazz: 1900 to the Present : Their Words, Lives, and Music
    By Sally Placksin

    Index Morgan , Richard , 19 , 20 Polcer , Ed. Adams , Billy , 35 Adams , Dolly , 43 Adams , Pepper , 240 Adler , Henry , 171 Aikin , Jim , 273 Akiyoshi , Toshiko , 222-223 , 250-251 , 266-267 Albertson , Chris , 30-31 , 38 Albright ...

  • Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein
    By Brenda Wineapple

    Recollects the lives of Gertrude and Leo Stein, including their travels to Paris where they played pivotal roles in the birth of the modern art movement

  • L.A. Dead
    By Stuart Woods

    Stone Barrington, an ex-cop-turned-lawyer, becomes caught between a woman abandoned on the altar and another suspected of murder.

  • The Book of Light
    By Michelle Blake

    I'm not that smart , you know ? Sort of average . And there's this thing that all the Asian students are really smart and work all the time . But I'm not like that , and there's no place for me to be . ” “ I don't think Professor ...

  • Earth Has No Sorrow
    By Michelle Blake

    Nancy Pickard “ The hardest thing about creating religious character [ s ] isn't convincing us that they are ] smart enough to do the detective work : we all know how good they are at rooting out our hidden sins .

  • Robin Cook: Three Complete Novels : Terminal, Fatal Cure, Acceptable Risk
    By Robin Cook

    Try half a million dollars , " Sean said . “ And if they have that , it means they have an X - ray defractor as well . ” Walking on , Sean came to a glass - enclosed area . Inside he could see a Type III maximum containment hood as well ...

  • Flint's Law
    By Paul Eddy

    He dresses in front of a full - length mirror and recalls that glorious day , and Flint's radiant face , as they had waited with Dominique and the children in the ground floor vestibule ; waiting for Gilles to emerge from the elevator ...

  • Star Wars: Soldier for the Empire. Dark forces
    By William C. Dietz

    Kyle Katarn is a decorated graduate from the Imperial Military Academy who would forfeit his very life for the Empire.

  • The Incredible Hulk: What savage beast
    By Peter Allen David

    The superhero undergoes an experiment to transform himself permanently back into his human alter-ego, Dr. Robert Banner, in a new full-length, hardcover adventure novel by the author of the monthly Incredible Hulk comic book.

  • Come to Grief
    By Dick Francis

    After a tragic suicide disrupts the trial of a much-loved racing figure accused of corruption--a case in which he was to testify--conscience-stricken jockey-turned-sleuth Sid Halley returns to investigate this much too convenient death

  • Seizure
    By Robin Cook

    Chairing a subcommittee aimed at banning new cloning technology, Senator Ashley Butler clashes with scientist Daniel Lowell, until Butler develops Parkinson's disease and joins with Lowell to prematurely harness the new technology.

  • Cooking Healthy with a Man in Mind
    By Barbara Alpert, JoAnna M. Lund

    Presents an assortment of more than two hundred low-fat, low-calorie, and low-cholesterol recipes

  • Running Blind
    By Lee Child

    Jack Reacher searches for an elusive killer responsible for the deaths of a number of women, who have nothing in common but the fact that they once worked for the military and had known Jack, and races against time to find a murderer who ...