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Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2020
Description
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
Wingate Literary Prize Shortlist
Named a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today
From the internationally best-selling author of Three Floors Up, a literary page-turner that delves into the deepening cracks in a carefully constructed public persona.
A writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website...
Wingate Literary Prize Shortlist
Named a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today
From the internationally best-selling author of Three Floors Up, a literary page-turner that delves into the deepening cracks in a carefully constructed public persona.
A writer tries to answer a set of interview questions sent to him by a website...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Description
The arctic night is endless. The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white. And cold-blooded murder seems right at home.
Conducting a strange and urgent experiment on the Arctic icefield, a team of scientists has planted sixty powerful explosive charges that will detonate at midnight. Before they can withdraw to the safety of their base camp, a shattering tidal wave breaks loose the ice on which...
Conducting a strange and urgent experiment on the Arctic icefield, a team of scientists has planted sixty powerful explosive charges that will detonate at midnight. Before they can withdraw to the safety of their base camp, a shattering tidal wave breaks loose the ice on which...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Description
With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy—a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between.
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Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure–a year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices equatorial medicine, Margaret works as a photojournalist. Shuttling between tony expatriate suburbs and squalid shantytowns, Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn’t know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband. A British couple invites...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A literary spellbinder about one man’s desperate attempt to deal with grief by unmasking the terrorists responsible for the act that killed his wife and daughter
Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were killed in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, English lecturer Alan Tealing persists in trying to discover what really happened on that terrible night. Over the years, he obsessively amasses documents,...
Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were killed in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, English lecturer Alan Tealing persists in trying to discover what really happened on that terrible night. Over the years, he obsessively amasses documents,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Description
THE BIGGEST HEIST.
THE MOST DANGEROUS ADVERSARY.
FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENRE.
OH, AND EXPLOSIONS.
Impossible doesn’t belong in Riley Wolfe’s vocabulary. He’s a master of heists and disguises, whose life's work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures.
Now rumors surrounding a dangerous new figure of international crime are spreading through the underworld. And this ruthless...
THE MOST DANGEROUS ADVERSARY.
FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENRE.
OH, AND EXPLOSIONS.
Impossible doesn’t belong in Riley Wolfe’s vocabulary. He’s a master of heists and disguises, whose life's work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures.
Now rumors surrounding a dangerous new figure of international crime are spreading through the underworld. And this ruthless...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2013
Description
From the acclaimed Nordic Council Literature Prize winner, a story that reveals the devastating effects of mistaking silence for peace and feeling shame for inevitable circumstances
Eva and Simon have spent most of their adult lives together. He is a physician and she is a teacher, and they have three grown daughters and a comfortable home. Yet what binds them together isn’t only affection and solidarity but also...
Eva and Simon have spent most of their adult lives together. He is a physician and she is a teacher, and they have three grown daughters and a comfortable home. Yet what binds them together isn’t only affection and solidarity but also...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Nabokov's wise, ironic, and elegant masterpiece. • A controversial love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. • This annotated edition assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. • Edited with a preface, introduction, and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr.
"Fascinatingly detailed." -Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
When...
"Fascinatingly detailed." -Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review
When...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2013
Description
From the acclaimed author of Prayers and Lies and The Sometimes Daughter comes an emotional, compelling, and ultimately uplifting novel that explores the fragility and resilience of love—and the decisions, large and small, that determine not just who we are, but who we want to be.
Corrie Phillips has an enviable life—even if it's not quite the one she wanted. She enjoys working at her university alumni magazine, her house...
Corrie Phillips has an enviable life—even if it's not quite the one she wanted. She enjoys working at her university alumni magazine, her house...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Rich, colorful and bursting with excitement, this remarkable story turns James Alexander Thom's power and passion for American history to the epic story of Tecumseh's life and give us a heart-thumping novel of one man's magnificent destiny—to unite his people in the struggle to save their land and their way of life from the relentless press of the white settlers.
“Oh, what a man this will be, with such a sign as that!”
In...
“Oh, what a man this will be, with such a sign as that!”
In...
12) Taste of Life
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A classic short story of love, revenge, and appetite from New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky.
Daphne Raydor has an insatiable appetite. Overweight as she is, she always assumed she would never know love. But meeting Jerry changes everything. Her appetite decreases. Her self-worth skyrockets. Then her mother comes to visit. And everything changes again. But Daphne refuses to go back to her old life, and now her appetite...
Daphne Raydor has an insatiable appetite. Overweight as she is, she always assumed she would never know love. But meeting Jerry changes everything. Her appetite decreases. Her self-worth skyrockets. Then her mother comes to visit. And everything changes again. But Daphne refuses to go back to her old life, and now her appetite...
14) Cradle
Author
Publisher
Tom Hampson
Pub. Date
2020
Description
When Amy Eisner gets fired after one alcohol-fuelled mistake too many, she agrees to seek help. She goes to an island retreat run by the charismatic James Lochlin. But when she gets home, her daughter starts acting strangely.Has something happened to her?Or is something wrong with Amy?
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche—and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all…
At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until...
At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until...
17) Marlene: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2020
Description
In this electrifying psychological drama, two veterans readjusting to civilian life find their friendship tested when ugly truths come to light. Yemen. Iraq. Afghanistan. After returning from combat to a quiet garrison town, Dan and Richard struggle in their different ways to regain a sense of normality. Dan, desperate to prove to his bourgeois neighbors that he isn’t the violent, unstable veteran they’d expect, sticks to a rigorous routine...
18) Eloise
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Description
-- Compulsively-readable and incredibly haunting, this is the debut novel from broadcaster, journalist and Book Club champion, Judy Finnigan--Britain's Oprah.
20) The Lingering
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2018
Description
-- LONGLISTED for the -- Steve Cavanagh 'Saunters from creepy to genuinely terrifying ... I was completely unable to put it down' -- The Lingering 'An atmospheric chiller of a book ... reminiscent of early James Herbert' -- At once an unnerving mystery, a chilling thriller and a dark and superbly wrought ghost story, -- Lisa Howells, -- LoveReading 'Brilliantly chilling and perfectly paced' -- Derek Farrell 'A serious spine-chiller from...