Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre retold against the backdrop of San Francisco's most fabulous—and dangerous—elites.
The Twelfth Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation When an elderly woman drops by the Florentine carabinieri to complain that someone broke in to her apartment while she was out, Marshal Guarnaccia listens patiently, offers advice, and vows to ...
We have an armed terrorist on the streets, accompanied by a rogue agent. They present a clear and present danger to the populace.” “You want me to issue a shoot-to-kill order.” “Well there's no point shooting to wound.
A day near Christmas, and my small hometown looked nice with all the shop windows dressed up and the homes of friends done out with Christmas ... The town where my home is lies on the banks of a wide river. ... The way of life is easy.
We found both within the shadow of the church spire . The hotel faced a small plaza , and as I parked the jeep , I eyed ... The one which Octave frequents . " CHAPTER TWENTY - FIVE " OCTAVE COULDN'T KNOW about Diana FROM THE SHADOWS 143.
-Bruce DeSilva , Edgar Award - winning author of Rogue Island OF ROCK AGES A JUNIOR BENDER MYSTERY TIMOTHY HALLINAN ROCK OF AGES Also by Timothy Hallinan The Poke Rafferty. Front Cover.
P'' All the outcast girls are staring at me now. I'm obviously supposed to know this. Everyone else at the party knows this. “You know.” Helena continues in the buzzy silence. “It's, like, a place for girls. Like, girls who are going ...
I may not make sense , it may not fit your definitions or your diagnoses , but that's what it is . I'm still a child talking to her imaginary friend , okay ? ” " I was starting to sweat , breathing rapidly . BETWEEN THE BLISS AND ME 295.
Six corpses have appeared in the cobbled back streets of St. Andrews in recent times, all known spousal abusers who suffered the same gruesome fate: stabbed to death in the left eye. But with no new leads left to explore, Det.
Over the next decade, as the story of his family unravels, his relationship to everyone--his dominating father, his beloved cousin, his cancer-stricken aunt, and the young woman he imagines he will marry--threatens to fall apart.
Emma takes An-ling, a young Chinese artist, under her wing, but finds herself on trial for the girl's murder, and as her trial progresses she finds things were not what they seemed and that even her husband and son have dark secrets.
For Asa, the summer of 1876 was a time of fear and uncertainty, when his mysterious aunt, Hazel, arrives and turns his entire life upside-down with her tales and secrets from the past.
Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist: This novel of psychological suspense is “full of seductive prose [and] sharply focused characters” (Library Journal).
Described by Darin Strauss as “Nick Flynn meets Karl Ove Knausgard” and “a book of relentless compassion,” Songs Only You Know is an intense, sprawling memoir, equal parts family tragedy and punk rock road trip.
This acclaimed book on the Wright Brothers takes the reader straight to the heart of their remarkable achievement, focusing on the technology and offering a clear, concise chronicle of precisely what they accomplished and how they did it.
17-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds.
When Arkle released the bolt it whipped past Whitby's headwith inchesto spare, andburied itself in thewooden upright of the ... “I've already told you—” “Because I'm having trouble believing you came all this way just to see how she is.
In this poetic and vividly imagined debut, Katharine Beutner gives voice to the woman behind the ideal, bringing to life the world of Mycenaean Greece and the part of the story that has never been told: how Alcestis falls in love with the ...
Mom put her arms around Owl , cuddling him up close and patting his hair down , whispering to him . That little gesture reminded me of a story Owl had told me once , one of those stories he'd got from God knows where .
Set between Cubas twenty years apart, Havana native Teresa Dovalpage’s new murder mystery explores lingering grudges between old friends and lovers separated by Castro's final sanctioned raft exodus.