Boone's Lick is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry's triumphant return to the kind of story that made him famous -- an enthralling tale of the nineteenth-century West. It's the story of the Cecil family's arduous journey from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming as Mary Margaret tries to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him.
The family encounters grizzly bears, stormy weather and hostile Indians as they go. During their journey they pick up a bare-footed priest named Father Villy, and a Snake Indian named Charlie Seven Days.
Boone's Lick is high adventure, a perfect Western tale, and a moving love story -- combining brilliant character portraits and an unerring sense of the West.
Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, have again joined forces to create a suspenseful and humorous holiday tale.
Alvirah Meehan, lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery involving a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. The folks who picked the tree don't have a clue that attached to one of its branches is a flask chock-full of priceless diamonds that Packy Noonan, a scam artist just released from prison, had hidden there over twelve years ago.
From two of America's beloved storytellers, The Christmas Thief is filled with suspense, comic characters, and holiday cheer, and is sure to delight its readers.
Bestselling author Alan Furst creates a thrilling saga of everyday people forced by their hearts' passion to fight in the war against tyranny. ~ Paris, a winter night in 1938: a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel. But this is no romantic tragedy -- it's the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police. In the desperate politics of Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is a pawn, worth surveillance, or blackmail, or murder. The story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the back streets of Berlin, The Foreign Correspondent is Alan Furst at his absolute best -- taut and powerful, enigmatic and romantic.
The year is 1763. Gideon Seymour, cutpurse and gentleman, hides in dense underbrush from the villainous Tar Man. Suddenly the sky peels away like fabric and from the gaping hole fall two curious-looking children. Peter Schock and Kate Dyer have fallen straight from the twenty-first century, thanks to an experiment Kate's father was running with an antigravity machine. Soon they are swept into a journey through eighteenth-century London, over the routes of notorious highwaymen, and even into King George's palace and form a bond that, they hope, will stand strong in the face of unfathomable treachery. Historical detail comes alive in this time-travel tale in the tradition of Mark Twain.
In this harrowing political thriller by best-selling author Vince Flynn, it's just seven days before Memorial Day. A spike in CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the US. Now it's up to Rapp to pull out all the stops.
He immediately leaves for Afghanistan, where he leads a special forces unit on a daring commando raid into a remote Pakistani village. Their target: an al-Qaeda stronghold where they discover plans for a catastrophic nuclear attack on Washington, DC. Rapp follows his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth. What he finds is truly terrifying, and with Memorial Day closing fast, Rapp must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions.
Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, has come to Montreal to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial. She should be going over her notes, but instead she's digging in the basement of a pizza parlor. Not fun. Freezing cold. Crawling rats. And now, the skeletonized remains of three young women. How did they get there? When did they die?
In her lab, she establishes their approximate age with Carbon 14. Further study tells her where the women were born. If she's right, Claudel has three recent murders on her hands. As Tempe searches for answers in both her personal and professional lives, she finds herself drawn deep into a web of evil from which there may be no escape. Women have disappeared, never to return...Tempe may be next.
Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on two. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? And, who is the mysterious face in the upper window of the old vacant Anderson house. A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an empty house. At first these facts don't seem to be related. But Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event. And the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another. A fascinating mystery for students ages 8-12.
Mirabelle is the young "shopgirl," beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus "selling things that nobody buys anymore..."
When she captures the attention of Ray Porter, a wealthy businessman almost twice her age, they tentatively embark on a relationship, they struggle to decipher the language of love--with consequences that are both comic and heartbreaking. Filled with the kind of witty, discerning observations that have brought Steve Martin critical success, Shopgirl is a work of disarming tenderness.
Their lives were a tapestry woven together by love and loss, tragedy and hope. On the windswept coast of Nova Scotia, the rugged community of Cape Hawk has been a blessed refuge to two friends and their young daughters. Lily Malone and nine-year-old Rose are making a new home with a man who will do whatever it takes to protect them. Marisa Taylor is struggling to recapture the music that once colored her world with magic and joy as she tries to build a new life for young Jessica.
But now, after years of searching, a man from far away New England has made his way to Cape Hawk -- a man bearing secrets from the past and news of an uncertain future. And in the fullness of summer, each woman will face choices that will irrevocably shape all the seasons to come.
Nobody writes better about the West than Larry McMurtry. In his most ambitious novel since Lonesome Dove, he offers the big novel of Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years he would write. ~When Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca. Jackson becomes a sheriff's deputy, while the ever-resourceful Nellie becomes the town's telegrapher. Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a lucky gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat. An exciting tale of adventure, romance, and survival; you’ll witness the exploits of Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday.
Bestselling master of suspense Jeffrey Deaver is back with a brand-new Lincoln Rhyme thriller. To save the life of a young girl who's being stalked by a ruthless hit man. Lincoln and his protege, Amelia Sachs, are called upon to do the impossible: solve a truly "cold case" -- one that's 140 years old.
The Twelfth Card is a two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan. The killer who is after a high school girl descended from a former slave and civil rights activist. Lincoln and Amelia work frantically to figure out what actually happened and why it could result in murder today.
Deaver's inimitable plotting keeps this story racing at a lightening-fast clip. With breathtaking twists and multiple surprises. Deaver's most compelling novel yet.
