http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?fid4ct=25728 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:35:23 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss RapidFeeds v0.1 -- http://www.rapidfeeds.com Playwright Eve Ensler writes fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Moving through a world of topics and emotions, these voices are fierce, alive, tender, complicated, imaginative, and smart. Girls today often find themselves in a struggle between remaining strong and true to themselves and conforming to society's expectations in an attempt to please. They are taught not to be too intense, too passionate, too smart, too caring, too open. They are encouraged to shut down their instincts, their outrage, their desires and their dreams, to be polite, to obey the rules. This book is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4982884 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4982884 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:28:00 EST Nicodemus Weal has trained at the wizardly stronghold of Starhaven since he was a boy. His mentor, the famous wizard Agwu Shannon, taught him how to cast spells made from luminescent magical runes, how to peel written words off a page and make them physically real, how to protect himself with defensive paragraphs, and how to thrust sharply worded sentences at an enemy. Initially, Nicodemus showed great promise. Able to forge magical runes with great speed, he was once thought to be the Halcyon--a powerful spellwright prophesied to prevent the apocalypse known as the Disjunction. There was only one problem: Nicodemus couldn't spell. Every time he touched a magical text, he unintentionally corrupted it, turning a useful spell into a dangerous, potentially deadly misspell. Even now, at twenty-five, Nicodemus's problem remains so bad that he is allowed to use his magic only for janitorial tasks. While his peers advance as wizards, he is still an apprentice, living with other disabled spellwrights and reading knightly romances that fuel his dreams of escape and adventure. When a powerful wizard is murdered with a misspell, Nicodemus and Shannon both are suspected. Worse, Nicodemus dreams of a foreign city under attack from an ancient, godlike spell...and wakes to find Starhaven abuzz with news of that city's actual destruction. A second nightmare makes Nicodemus begin to question his own sanity. When there are more mysterious deaths, the authorities hunt him as a murderer. Tormented and desperate, Nicodemus has no choice but to flee his pursuers so that he can discover the truth about the murders, the nature of magic...and himself. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4982879 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4982879 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:27:00 EST In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives- one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz-that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love. Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mirrors her own and that Zahara-like Shams-has come to set her free. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4982878 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4982878 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:26:00 EST A tale inspired by the early Christian legend of Saint Brendán the Navigator and his quest to find the Isle of the Blessed follows his leadership of a group of monks on a dangerous ocean journey in search of Paradise. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4982868 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4982868 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:25:00 EST “One Good Dog is a wonderful novel: a moving, tender, and brilliantly crafted story about two fighters—one a man, one a dog— hoping to leave the fight behind, who ultimately find their salvation in each other. Susan Wilson’s clear and unflinching style is perfectly suited for her story that strips away the trappings and toys we all hide behind, and exposes our essential need to give and accept love in order to thrive.”—Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain Adam March is a self-made “Master of the Universe.” He has it all: the beautiful wife, the high-powered job, the glittering circle of friends. But there is a price to be paid for all these trappings, and the pressure is mounting—until the day Adam makes a fatal mistake. His assistant leaves him a message with three words: your sister called. What no one knows is that Adam’s sister has been missing for decades. That she represents the excruciatingly painful past he has left behind. And that her absence has secretly tormented him all these years. When his assistant brushes off his request for an explanation in favor of her more pressing personal call, Adam loses it. And all hell breaks loose. Adam is escorted from the building. He loses his job. He loses his wife. He loses the life he’s worked so hard to achieve. He doesn’t believe it is possible to sink any lower when he is assigned to work in a soup kitchen as a form of community service. But unbeknownst to Adam, this is where his life will intersect with Chance. Chance is a mixed breed Pit Bull. He’s been born and raised to fight and seldom leaves the dirty basement where he is kept between fights. But Chance is not a victim or a monster. It is Chance’s unique spirit that helps him escape and puts him in the path of Adam. What transpires is the story of one man, one dog, and how they save each other—in ways they never could have expected. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4982867 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4982867 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:24:00 EST A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes shoe designer and businesswomen Valentine Roncalli from the winding streets of Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. Once unearthed, the truth rocks the Roncallis and Valentine is determined to hold her family together as she longs to create one of her own. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4950877 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4950877 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:52:00 EST Death's not so simple when there's money involved . . . - "When affluent New Yorker Joyce Hauptman dies suddenly, the investigator suspects something other than natural causes. Joyce's husband, Charles, stands to inherit her wealth and is the obvious suspect, but Detective Lenny Shaw quickly discovers that things aren't what they seem. As Charles maintains his innocence, and the influence of his powerful father-in-law intrudes, Lenny is hurled towards a conclusion that is as shocking as it is violent. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4950876 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4950876 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:51:00 EST This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. With her strict African American grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and beauty bring mixed attention her way. Growing up in the 1980s, she learns to swallow her overwhelming grief and confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white. In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, here is a portrait of a young girl--and society's ideas of race, class, and beauty. It is a winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4950875 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4950875 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:50:00 EST After the murder of Alice Hayward and the suicide of her husband, Reverend Stephen Drew flees the pulpit and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about angels. Heather, identifying deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, mentors the young girl but soon suspects that Alice's husband may not have killed himself ... and that Alice had secrets only her minister knew. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4905609 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4905609 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:22:00 EST Three unusual people--"defense intellectual" Richard Elster, who was involved in the management of the country's war machine; young documentary filmmaker Jim Finley, who is intent on documenting Elster's experience; and Elster's daughter Jessica, who behaves like an "otherworldly" woman from New York--train their binoculars on the desert landscape of California and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws everything into question. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4905608 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4905608 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:21:00 EST Requiem in Vienna: A Viennese Mystery http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4905607 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4905607 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:17:00 EST February, 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is a 33-year-old private investigator who stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of Commerce wants it covered up, and the cops acquiesce. All Miranda wants is justice--whatever it costs. From Chinatown tenements, to a tattered tailor's shop in Little Osaka, to a high-class bordello draped in Southern Gothic, she shakes down the city--her city--seeking the truth. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4905602 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4905602 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:16:00 EST In a story based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia tells of her life in the court at Elsinore, her love for Prince Hamlet, and her escape from the violence in Denmark. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901721 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901721 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:48:00 EST California, 1985. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. His search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901719 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901719 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:48:00 EST In the rugged Black Hills of South Dakota, a childhood friendship matures into an adult passion when something ... or someone ... threatens Lil Chance and her dream to open a wildlife refuge. The heartless killing of Lil's beloved cougar and recollections of an unsolved murder catapult New York investigator Coop Sullivan into action to keep Lil safe. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901717 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901717 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:47:00 EST Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears and LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller, gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil in this heart-pounding story of beauty and murder. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901716 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901716 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:46:00 EST Engrossed in a new relationship to the point that her studies begin to suffer, college junior Veronica is devastated when a plea for help goes unheeded, but a surprising request from her mother teaches her about family, love, and independence. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901715 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901715 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:45:00 EST From their first meeting on a New York City subway, the lives of two very different people--Sebastian, an adolescent growing up with a reclusive father, and Maria, a young single mother of two--are changed forever by their relationship. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901709 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901709 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:45:00 EST In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helen--terrified, but intrigued--is drawn to him. The fact that he is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple with their first challenge. But as the lovers struggle to find a way to be together, they begin to discover the secrets of their former lives and of the young people they come to possess. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901708 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4901708 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:44:00 EST A chilling debut from a bright new talent— a masterful psychological thriller to delight fans of Nicci French and Minette Walters It’s every mother’s nightmare...One minute Jess Finnegan is strolling through the Tate Museum with her new husband Mickey and their 8-month old son. The next she is frantically searching for them—both have completely disappeared. As the police launch a massive manhunt, Jess discovers that the people closest to you are not always what they seem. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4885199 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4885199 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:06:00 EST Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed student of magic, is reduced to tending the library at Sabria's last collegia magica, where he fights off despair with scholarship. When the king charges him to investigate an attempted murder that has disturbing magical resonances, Portier believes his dreams of a greater destiny might at last be fulfilled. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4885198 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4885198 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:06:00 EST Pilot, navigator, engineer, doctor, scientist-ship's cat? All are essential to the well-staffed space vessel. Since the early days of interstellar travel, when Tuxedo Thomas, a Maine coon cat, showed what a cat could do for a ship and its crew, the so-called Barque Cats have become highly prized crew members. Thomas's carefully bred progeny, ably assisted by humans-Cat Persons-with whom they share a deep and loving bond, now travel the galaxy, responsible for keeping spacecraft free of vermin, for alerting human crews to potential environmental hazards, and for acting as morale officers. Even among Barque Cats, Chessie is something special. Her pedigree, skills, and intelligence, as well as the close rapport she has with her human, Janina, make her the most valuable crew member aboard the Molly Daise. And the litter of kittens in her belly only adds to her value. Then the unthinkable happens. Chessie is kidnapped-er, catnapped-from Dr. Jared Vlast's vet clinic at Hood Station by a grizzled spacer named Carl Poindexter. But Chessie's newborn kittens turn out to be even more extraordinary than their mother. For while Chessie's connection to Janina is close and intuitive, the bond that the kitten Chester forms with Carl's son, Jubal, is downright telepathic. And when Chester is sent into space to learn his trade, neither he nor Jubal will rest until they're reunited. But the announcement of a widespread epidemic affecting livestock on numerous planets throws their future into doubt. Suddenly the galactic government announces a plan to impound and possibly destroy all exposed animals. Not even the Barque Cats will be spared. With the clock racing against them, Janina, Jubal, Dr. Vlast, and a handful of very special kittens will join forces with the mysterious Pshaw-Ra-an alien-looking cat with a hidden agenda-to save the Barque Cats, other animals, and quite possibly the universe as they know it from total destruction. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4885197 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4885197 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:05:00 EST Fate is on its way to the tenants of 66 Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change lives ... One of them is falling in love; another is torn between two lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4885196 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4885196 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:04:00 EST Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4860199 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4860199 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:16:00 EST Former Army sniper Mercy Gunderson hunts down the killer of Native American teens in the first book in a gripping new mystery series. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4860198 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4860198 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:15:00 EST Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827956 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827956 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:33:00 EST Following the acclaimed Dog On It, the second mystery in the Chet and Bernie series featuring an irresistible canine narrator. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827955 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827955 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:32:00 EST rom the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life. Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged. His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is—well, something quite different. We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tyler’s lovely novel resonates so deeply. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827949 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827949 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:29:00 EST Pregnant veterinarian Maura Kelly, along with U.S. Marshall Jack Menard, risks everything, including the life of her unborn child, to unravel the mystery of a smuggler's cache of mutated animals, a puzzle that involves fractal intelligence, stem-cell research, and a secret history of the Book of Genesis. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827948 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827948 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:28:00 EST Candy industry--Fiction. Family-owned business enterprises--Fiction. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827947 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827947 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:28:00 EST A mesmerizing thriller -- told in reverse!The 13th Houris the story of a man given the chance to go back in time in one-hour increments to prevent a vicious crime from destroying his life.Nick Quinn is being held in jail, accused of the murder of his beloved wife, Julia. He knows she's dead; he saw her bloody corpse, shot in the head at point-blank range. The police tell him they found the murder weapon with his fingerprints on it in the trunk of his car. Nick is confused, grief-stricken --and completely innocent.At 9 p.m. on July 28, a gray-haired gentleman visits Nick in the police interrogation room and asks him a simple question:"If you could get out of here, if you could save her, would you?"He hands Nick a golden talisman that allows Nick to go back in time, one hour at a time, for a total of twelve hours. With each hour that Nick travels back, he finds more clues to the identity of Julia's real killer, but he also discovers that his actions in the past may have unexpected repercussions in the future.In his race against time to save the woman he loves most in the world, Nick will find that friends become enemies, old loyalties are tested, and Julia's murder is part of a larger scheme that has its roots in greed and vengeance. Nick has the ability to save Julia, the chance to put his own world in balance, but he is venturing down a precarious route. If he hasn't set things right by the thirteenth hour, his desperate attempts to save Julia's life may lead to a far greater catastrophe than he could have ever imagined.A surprising and utterly original thriller,The 13th Houris pure page-turning suspense -- full of double crosses, cliffhangers, and shocking revelations. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827860 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4827860 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:51:00 EST When she’s not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth Galloway lives happily alone in a remote area called Saltmarsh near Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants - not quite earth, not quite sea. When a child’s bones are found on a desolate beach nearby, Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson calls Galloway for help. Nelson thinks he has found the remains of Lucy Downey, a little girl who went missing ten years ago. Since her disappearance he has been receiving bizarre letters about her, letters with references to ritual and sacrifice. The bones actually turn out to be two thousand years old, but Ruth is soon drawn into the Lucy Downey case and into the mind of the letter writer, who seems to have both archaeological knowledge and eerie psychic powers. Then another child goes missing and the hunt is on to find her. As the letter writer moves closer and the windswept Norfolk landscape exerts its power, Ruth finds herself in completely new territory – and in serious danger. THE CROSSING PLACES marks the beginning of a captivating new crime series featuring an irresistible heroine. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4708595 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4708595 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:11:00 EST When Colorado carpenter Gary Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Gary, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Gary and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4668620 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4668620 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:20:00 EST Andy Pickard, newly married, still unsure of himself and his choice of Rangering as a career, must unravel this tangled series of events and accomplish his mission of bringing an accused killer to justice. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618185 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618185 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:48:00 EST English Captain Charles Hunter and his crew of ruffians sail from colonial Jamaica to infiltate a Spanish-controlled port, commandeering the galleon El Trinidad and its fortune in gold after a bloody battle. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618183 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618183 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:47:00 EST In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618182 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618182 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:47:00 EST Nathan Bedford Forrest was the most reviled and celebrated, loathed and legendary, of Civil War generals. We see Forrest off the battlefield, in the more hidden but no less telling moments of his life: wooing the woman who would become his wife; battling an addiction to gambling; overcoming his abhorrence of the bureaucracy of the army to rise to its highest ranks. We see him taking part in the business of slave trading, but treating his own slaves humanely. We see him with his slave mistress, with whom he fathered several children, and we see him reveal his gift for inspiring courage but not change. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618181 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618181 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:45:00 EST The once peaceful city of Park Falls has been tainted by a series of gruesome murders and missing persons. Cynthia Ford, well known as the town crazy, comes forward to speak with retired police detective Derrick Peters one January afternoon. She claims to have information about the murders, but does she hold the key to unlocking the mystery or has she truly gone insane? To Derrick's disbelief she utters one word: Zombies. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618180 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618180 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:44:00 EST McLaughlin and Kraus, authors of the popular novel The Nanny Diaries(2002), venture back to the 1980s in their third novel. Kate Hollis fell in love with Jake Sharpe in grade school, dated him in high school, and at 30, has yet to get over him. How can she when Jake, now a rock star with several hit singles to his name, has spent the last 10 years singing about her and about their relationship? When Kate hears that Jake has returned to their hometown with his new fiancee in tow, she jumps on a plane, ready to confront him for exploiting their personal memories in his quest for superstardom. But when Kate sees him again, all her old feelings churn to the surface, and her resolve weakens further when she learns he feels the same. But just as the novel barrels toward what appears to be the most cliched of endings, the authors pull out a surprise and give the reader, and Kate, a completely unexpected and wholly satisfying conclusion. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618179 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4618179 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:42:00 EST Two hundred years ago, Britain lost the Napoleonic War and fell under the thumb of French domination. Gaining independence after decades of civil disobedience and anarchist bombings, the Socialist Republic of Britain is now a small, unimportant backwater connected by a railway bridge, steam-powered dirigible, and mutual suspicion to France. When a British diplomat is murdered to look like suicide, ferocious Detective-Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard stalks a ruthless murder squad through the heart of a Belle Epoque Paris, the center of the greatest empire in a world of steam-driven hansom cabs, automatons, and flying machines. LeBrock's relentless quest can lead only to death, truth... or war. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4614479 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4614479 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:52:00 EST Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn’t America dominate the sport internationally...and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style? These are questions every soccer aficionado has asked. Soccernomics answers them. Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology, and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game works, Soccernomics reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about soccer. An essential guide for the 2010 World Cup, Soccernomics is a new way of looking at the world’s most popular game. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4614477 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4614477 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:51:00 EST In The Art of a Beautiful Game, Chris Ballard, the award-winning Sports Illustrated writer who has covered the NBA for the past decade, goes behind the scenes to examine basketball in ways that will surprise even die-hard fans. An inveterate hoops junkie who played some college ball, Ballard sits down with the NBA's most passionate, cerebral players to find out their tricks of the trade and to learn what drives them, taking readers away from the usual sports talk radio fodder and deep into the heart of the game. Ballard talks to Dwight Howard, a prolific shot-blocker, about the enervating feeling of meeting another man at the height of his leap; challenges Steve Kerr to a game of H-O-R-S-E to understand the mentality of a pure shooter; reveals the roots of Kobe Bryant's unmatched killer instinct; and spends time with LeBron James to better understand both his mental game and his seemingly unlimited physical skills. He tracks down renowned dunkers from Dominique to Shaq to explore the impact of the dunk on the modern game, shadows Shane Battier during his preparations to defend LeBron, takes lessons from a freethrow shooting guru who once hit 2,750 in a row, and attends an elite NBA training camp to feel the pain that turns a prospect into a pro. Packed with lively characters and basketball history, and grounded in superb writing and the reportage that is the hallmark of Sports Illustrated, The Art of a Beautiful Game is an often witty, always insightful look at the men like Steve Nash, Yao Ming, and Alonzo Mourning who devote themselves to this elegant and complicated sport. It ultimately provides basketball fans what they all want: an inside read on the game they love. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4614475 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4614475 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:50:00 EST Western http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4614474 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4614474 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:48:00 EST A landmark publication of the literary master's unfinished final work is a fragmented draft as hand-written on 138 index cards that were originally requested for destruction and have been released by his son, in a volume that features removable facsimile reproductions. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4561878 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4561878 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:19:00 EST Nine new short works include the stories of a grieving mother who is aided by a surprising source, a woman's response to a humiliating seduction, and a nineteenth-century Russian émigré's winter journey to the Riviera. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4561877 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4561877 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:15:00 EST Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534308 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534308 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:47:00 EST From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534307 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534307 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:46:00 EST In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico-from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City-Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence. Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. There in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America's hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. He finds support from an unlikely kindred soul, his stenographer, Mrs. Brown, who will be far more valuable to her employer than he could ever know. Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach-the lacuna-between truth and public presumption. With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Barbara Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist-and of art itself. The Lacuna is a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534306 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534306 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:45:00 EST The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling everything within the Dome. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534305 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534305 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:44:00 EST The deaths that still shape the Spider-verse! During the early 1970s, a pair of plot lines changed comic-book mortality forever. Shock followed shock when Spider-Man lost a friend, a lover and an enemy in a dynamic drama that stunned readers as no comic deaths had before and few have since! http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534304 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534304 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:43:00 EST Young Roland Deschain takes the first steps towards his eventual fate as the implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, as he uncovers a plot to destroy the network that maintains the world's uneasy peace. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534303 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4534303 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:42:00 EST In the wake of a man's graphic murder in front of hundreds of party-goers, the victim's best friend, investment expert Grove O'Rourke, is entreated by the man's widow for help, a situation that is further complicated by a dark secret and an expensive cover-up. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4524240 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4524240 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:04:00 EST Four years ago, Emily Locke's life was shattered when her infant daughter and husband were lost in an inexplicable accident. She has nearly rebuilt her fragile mental health when a disgraced former police detective, now working as a P.I., resurfaces to ask for her help in gathering reconnaissance at a Texas skydiving establishment over a thousand miles away. Emily knows better than to work with Richard Cole again, but can't refuse when she learns it's about a missing child. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4458165 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4458165 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4458164 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4458164 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:59:00 EST A former Washington D.C. police cop out to prove herself and a young lawyer from aprestigious law firm meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they investigate the death, they start uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation's capital--and what began as a fairly routine homicide takes a terrifying and unexpected turn into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4431879 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4431879 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:35:00 EST New in the series from New York Timesbestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface. To make matters worse, Tolliver learns from his older brother that their father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with other family members. Tolliver wants no part of the man- but he may not have a choice in the matter. Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so many years before. And what she finds out will change her world forever. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4431878 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4431878 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:34:00 EST Fegan has been a "hard man," an IRA killer in northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted day and night by twelve ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent victims. In order to appease them, he's going to have to kill the men who gave him orders. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399840 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399840 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:44:00 EST A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399838 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399838 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:42:00 EST When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399837 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399837 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:41:00 EST The story of a romantic relationship is told in the form of a catalog from the auction of objects previously owned by the fictional couple. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399831 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399831 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:40:00 EST In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political power England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph? In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399816 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399816 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:30:00 EST Although it is not the vampire way to interfere with human politics, they remember the destruction of the first World War. Their food supply was badly depleted, leading to a vampire famine, and a devastating vampire war. When London’s vampire tribunal senses that Hitler is paving the way for another human war, they are determined to break the spine of the Nazis before much more damage is done. But as they delve deep into Hitler’s war machine, they discover that the Nazis are more monstrous than they ever imagined, and that they are more encumbered by their inhumanity than they ever thought. A vampire saga in the tradition of The Vampire Chronicles, the debut title in this exciting new series follows the beautiful and cunning Brigit’s attempt to escape from the continent and return to her long-time lover Eamon in London, while shepherding out dangerous cargo that is the only hope of salvaging their mission. As Brigit, a millennial vampire, over a thousand-yearsold and possessed of special powers earned by age, hurls toward her destiny on a Reich train, she is tailed by vampire hunters and Nazi officers out to destroy her. Her soul’s eternal love waits for her across the channel, and she’ll need his strength and the strains of humanity yet alive inside her if she’s ever to find her way back home. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399813 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399813 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:29:00 EST Anne Cassidy, a 48-year-old New Age devotee living in Sedona, Ariz., knows something major has gone wrong when her daughter, Miranda, a college dropout and aimless drifter currently in Pittsburgh, Pa., doesn't answer her calls and Randa's phone is later disconnected. After two months, Anne must face a mother's worst fear that her daughter has vanished. Meanwhile, Randa has crashed her car and left it to start a new life after accepting a ride from "George," an odd stranger who's either a serial killer or a covert CIA operative. George drops her off in Lawrence Beach, Va., where she takes a chambermaid job at a cheap motel. At the end of the tourist season, Randa's reduced to living in a friend's van while female bodies continue to surface in the seaside community. In Pittsburgh, Anne hunts for clues to her daughter's disappearance and revisits the equally disturbing disappearance of Nick, her pilot husband, in 1984. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399812 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399812 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:28:00 EST Whatever is given ? even a difficult and challenging moment ? is a gift. Living as if each day is a thank-you can help transform fear into courage, anger into forgiveness, isolation into belonging, and another?s pain into healing. Saying thank-you every day inspires feelings of love, compassion, and hope. These ideas are the basis for this timely book. Authors Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons present a simple, but comprehensive program for incorporating gratitude into one's life, and reaping the many benefits that come from doing so. The book is divided into ten chapters from "Thank You Power" and "Ways to Stay Thankful in Difficult Times" to "Gratitude as a Spiritual/Cultural Practice " and "Putting Gratitude into Action." Each chapter includes stories of individuals whose lives have been transformed by embracing this program, along with motivating quotes and blessings, and a suggested gratitude practice such as keeping a weekly gratitude journal and starting a gratitude circle. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399792 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399792 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:27:00 EST Andy O'Hara, a post-doctoral researcher in a London cancer research institute, agrees to help an attractive colleague, Gina, who is collaborating with a pharmaceutical company. She is working on a virus-based vaccine but has discovered the company is planning a clinical trial of the vaccine in Africa without preliminary animal tests. Andy gets a tip-off that Gina's corporate collaborator has a shady past, but also discovers a scientific reason why the vaccine may be doomed to failure. As this excerpt begins, Andy and his friend Christine have helped Gina set up an illicit mouse experiment in their own animal facility, a move that could end all their careers if discovered. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399791 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4399791 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:26:00 EST The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4374835 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4374835 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:54:00 EST When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie-a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance-mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems--which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they're after? http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4374833 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4374833 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:53:00 EST E. Lynn Harris is the author of eleven previous novels and the memoir What Becomes of the Brokenhearted. His recent novels Basketball Jones, Just Too Good To Be True, I Say A Little Prayer, A Love of My Own, and Any Way the Wind Blows have hit bestseller list including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and other publications. Harris divides his time between Atlanta, Georgia and Fayetteville, Arkansas. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4373817 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4373817 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:07:00 EST When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends--a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4373816 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4373816 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:06:00 EST Autobiography of LeBron James http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4373815 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4373815 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:05:00 EST By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard's Egg glows with childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mundane lives, and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them-the intimately personal, the fantastic, the shockingly real...whether it's what lives in a mysterious locked room or the secret feelings we all conceal. In this dramatic and far-ranging collection, Margaret Atwood proves why she is a true master of the genre. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4373814 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4373814 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:04:00 EST n her acclaimed Persepolis books and in Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi rendered the events of her life and times in a uniquely captivating and powerful voice and vision. Now she turns that same keen eye and ear to the heartrending story of her great-uncle, a celebrated Iranian musician who gave up his life for music and love. We are in Tehran in 1958, and Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran’s most revered tar players, discovers that his beloved instrument is irreparably damaged. Though he tries, he cannot find one to replace it, one whose sound speaks to him with the same power and passion with which his music speaks to others. In despair, he takes to his bed, renouncing the world and all its pleasures, closing the door on the demands and love of his wife and his four children. Over the course of the week that follows, his family and close friends attempt to change his mind, but Nasser Ali slips further and further into his own reveries: flashbacks and flash-forwards (with unexpected appearances by the likes of the Angel of Death and Sophia Loren) from his own childhood through his children’s futures. And as the pieces of his story slowly fall into place, we begin to understand the profundity of his decision to give up life. Marjane Satrapi brings what has become her signature humor, insight, and generosity to this emotional tale of life and death, and the courage and passion both require of us. The poignant story of one man, it is also a story of stunning universality–and an altogether luminous work. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4328383 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4328383 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:01:00 EST When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular happiness manuals. Might her condition be hyperthymia? Hypomania? Russell's amateur inquiries lead him to college counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa's spell. Dubbed Miss Generosity by her classmates, Thassa's joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement, Thomas Kurton, whose research leads him to announce the genotype for happiness. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4328382 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4328382 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:01:00 EST The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4316337 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4316337 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:12:00 EST Everything is over for leading actor Simon Axler. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his confidence. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, and his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for the bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a darker and more shocking end. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4316336 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4316336 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:11:00 EST A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248686 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248686 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:36:00 EST Dan Brown's new novel, the eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international phenomenon, "The Da Vinci Code," which was the bestselling hardcover adult novel of all time with 81 million copies in print worldwide, will be published in the U.S. and Canada by Doubleday on September 15, 2009. THE LOST SYMBOL will have a first printing of 5 million copies, and it will once again feature Dan Brown's unforgettable protagonist, Robert Langdon. Brown's longtime editor, Jason Kaufman, Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday said, "Nothing ever is as it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. This book's narrative takes place in a twelve-hour period, and from the first page, Dan's readers will feel the thrill of discovery as they follow Robert Langdon through a masterful and unexpected new landscape. THE LOST SYMBOL is full of surprises." http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248685 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248685 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:34:00 EST It is April 17, 1861---the day Virginia secedes from the Union and the sixteenth birthday of John Alan Muro. As the Commonwealth erupts in celebration, young Muro sees his dream of attending medical school in Philadelphia shattered by the sudden reality of war. Muro's father, believing that the Disagreement will pass, sends his son instead to Charlottesville. Jefferson's forty-year-old University of Virginia has become a haven of rogues and dilettantes, among them Muro's roommate, Braxton Baucom III, a planter's son who attempts to strike a resemblance to General "Stonewall" Jackson. Though the pair toasts lightheartedly "To our studies!" with a local corn whiskey known as "The Bumbler," the war effort soon exerts a sobering influence. Medical students like Muro are pressed into service at the Charlottesville General Hospital, where the inexperienced Dr. Muro saves the life of a Northern lieutenant, earning the scorn of his peers. As the war progresses, Muro takes up yet another cause---winning the affections of the beguiling Miss Lorrie Wigfall. Here, too, Muro faces a cunning adversary. Just as the fighting is closing in, Muro is forced to make a choice that will shape the rest of his life http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248684 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248684 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:33:00 EST In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248683 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248683 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:33:00 EST Transport to the colorful and dangerous court of imperial Rome and into the remarkable lives of two young captives-- the children of Cleopatra, Egypt's most powerful and notorious ruler, and her lover Marc Antony. Taken in chains to Rome as ten-year-olds, twins Selene and Alexander cling to each other, and to the hope of one day returning to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248682 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248682 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:31:00 EST Jillian Perry has been found dead in the woods, leaving behind a husband of three weeks and a young daughter. The police can't determine how she died--but forensic investigator Theresa MacLean suspects foul play. To complicate matters, a former boyfriend of Jillian's unexpectedly petitions for custody of the daughter. Obsessed with Jillian, he also suspects that Jillian was murdered, and now he and Theresa believe Jillian's daughter may be in danger of meeting a similar fate. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248681 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248681 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:30:00 EST "With her parents lost to unknown assassins, Princess Ben ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia. Starved and miserable, locked in the castle's highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room. So begins her secret education in the magical arts: mastering an obstinate flying broomstick, furtively emptying the castle pantries, setting her hair on fire ... But Ben's private adventures are soon overwhelmed by a mortal threat to her kingdom. Can Ben save the country and herself from foul tyranny?" http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248680 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248680 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:29:00 EST Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms -- a struggle that could very well mean her death. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248660 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4248660 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:28:00 EST After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4244403 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4244403 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:15:00 EST Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4244402 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4244402 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:14:00 EST Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her fifteen-year-old sister, Andrea, was murdered near their home in Oldham-on-the-Hudson, a rural village in New York's Westchester County. There were three suspects: Rob Westerfield, nineteen-year-old scion of a wealthy, prominent family, whom Andrea has been secretly dating Paul Stroebel, a sixteen-year-old schoolmate, who had a crush on Andrea and Will Nebels, a local handyman in his forties. It was Ellie who had led her parents to a hideout in which Andrea's body was found -- a secret hideaway in which she met her friends. And it was Ellie who was blamed by her parents for her sister's death for not telling them about this place the night Andrea was missing. It was also Ellie's testimony that led to the conviction of the man she was firmly convinced was the killer. Steadfastly denying his guilt, he spent the next twenty-two years in prison. When he comes up for parole, Ellie, now an investigative reporter for an Atlanta newspaper, protests his release. Nonetheless, the convicted killer is set free and returns to Oldham. Determined to thwart his attempts to whitewash his reputation, Ellie also returns to Oldham, intent on creating a Website and writing a book that will conclusively prove his guilt. As she delves deeper into her research, however, she uncovers horrifying and heretofore unknown facts that shed new light on her sister's murder. With each discovery, she comes closer to a confrontation with a desperate killer. Gripping and relentlessly compelling, Daddy's Little Girl, a portrayal of a family shattered by crime, reflects Mary Higgins Clark's uncanny insight into the twisted mind of a killer and is further evidence of why she is America's favorite author of suspense. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217168 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217168 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:57:00 EST Journey with nineteen-year-old Ki'leah Alrhiane Del'Sivahr, who flees an isolated life as High Princess of Si'vad to escape an arranged marriage and run away with the Palace Bard. When he fails to meet her, fate sweeps Ki'leah into an alliance with a band of men and women known as the Fey-Velahr. Despite her doubts and inadequacies, Ki'leah soon discovers that she is a useful accessory to the quest, a vital member-for she alone possesses information, carefully guarded within the lore of her royal ancestors, that could unlock the mystery.... http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217166 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217166 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:56:00 EST Lucy Burns wants a normal life : friends, love, and a family of her own. And she could have it all if only she could break free from the job she hates. That job? Facilitator to hell. And her boss is a real devil. After nineteen years of doing the Devil's dirty work, Lucy wants out, but it all seems hopeless until Teddy Nightingale, her easy listening music idol, gives her the answer : a little-known loophole. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217164 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217164 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:56:00 EST The courageous, spirited Mary Queen of Scots tells her own story--from her youth as a young girl married to the invalid young King of France to her short reign as Queen of Scotland and her tragic imprisonment by her ruthless, merciless cousin Queen Elizabeth. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217163 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217163 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:54:00 EST In this hilarious, romantic comedy, two twenty-something neighbors embark on a zany mission to meet the founder of Starbucks, and in doing so, find each other. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217162 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217162 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:53:00 EST Years after spending a lonely childhood at the side of a make-believe best friend named Michael, theater maven's daughter Jane encounters a loving flesh-and-blood Michael who is exactly like the figure of her childhood imagination. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217160 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217160 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:53:00 EST "I left my wedding dress hanging in a tree somewhere in North Dakota. I don't know why that particular tree appealed to me. Perhaps it was because it looked as if it had given up and died years ago and was still standing because it didn't know what else to do ..." In her deliciously funny, heartfelt, and moving debut, Cathy Lamb introduces some of the most wonderfully eccentric women since The divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood and The secret life of bees, as she explores the many ways we find the road home. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217159 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217159 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:52:00 EST A science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in a dingy backstreet room. Set in a multi-layered story of the death of a woman's sister and husband in the 1940's, with a novel-within-a novel as a background. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217158 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4217158 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:51:00 EST Skilled gun-for-hire Gideon takes an assignment from a former lover in Arizona that pits him against another group of assassins in Argentina. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159411 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159411 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:40:00 EST In this captivating reinvention of the werewolf novel, S. A. Swann propels readers into the darkest days of the Middle Ages, weaving a rare blend of soaring romance, historical intrigue, paranormal thrills, and spiritual questioning to tell a story that forever changes those who hear it. When a monk inadvertently discovers a lair of werewolf young, he unleashes what will become the Church’s most powerful–and secret–weapon. Clandestinely raised by the Teutonic Order, these lupine creatures serve as instruments of God against pagan unbelievers. Trained to slip into villages cloaked in human form, they are all but unstoppable. Only one, called Lilly, has cunningly fled her brutal master. Uldolf is too young to remember the massacre eight years earlier that claimed his village, his arm, and his kin. But he knows the pain of loneliness. When he sees what appears to be a beautiful young woman, injured and cowering in the woods, he races to her aid. Uldolf and his adoptive family will do anything to protect the terrified girl, but the danger is greater than they can possibly imagine. For death is the only life Lilly has ever known–and if their humanity can’t pierce the darkness Lilly harbors in her soul, they’ll soon come to know it, too. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159410 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159410 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:39:00 EST Elfland is an intimate, sensual novel of people—both human and Aetherial—caught between duty and desire. It’s a story of families, and of Rose Fox, a woman born to magic but tormented by her place in her adopted world. Led by Auberon Fox, a group of Aetherials—call them the Fair Folk, if you will—live among us, indistinguishable from humans. Every seven years, on the Night of the Summer Stars, Lawrence Wilder, the Gatekeeper, throws open all gates to the Other World. But this time, something has gone wrong. Wilder has sealed the gates, warning of a great danger lurking in the realm beyond them. The Aetherial community is outraged. What will become of them, deprived of the home realm from which their essential life force flows? Rose Fox and Sam Wilder are drawn to the lands beyond the gates, even as their families feud over Lawrence’s refusal to do his duty. Struggling with their own too-human urges, they discover hidden truths that draw them together in a forbidden alliance. Only by breaching the dreaded gates and daring the danger beyond can they confront that which they fear most— their otherness—and claim their birthright. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159408 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159408 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:38:00 EST Popular television personality Valerie Adler turns to her long-forgotten, Illinois hometown friend Addie Downs when she runs into a bit of trouble involving betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159405 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159405 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:35:00 EST Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case of a missing heiress from Montreal--an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged work in the lab. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159403 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159403 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:33:00 EST A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159402 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159402 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:32:00 EST John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing what else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels it's his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098950 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098950 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:58:00 EST