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 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 As evocative and moving as Charles de Lint’s Newford books, with the three-dimensional protagonists and enthralling action of Mercedes Lackey’s fantasies, Nine Gates makes our world today as excitingly strange and unfamiliar as any fantasy realm . . .and transports readers to a wondrous magical world drawn from Chinese lore and legend. Brenda Morris has barely had time to become accustomed to the idea that she has some of the powers of the Rat, a member of the Chinese Zodiac; that her elderly, former child-star “aunt,” Pearl, is the Dragon; and that the young African-American former soldier she trains beside is the Dog. Brenda has learned that our world is not the only world and that her not-quite-Chinese ancestors came from a magical place, the Lands of Smoke and Sacrifice, created thousands of years ago by the destruction of China’s books and scholars during the time of the first Emperor. Now, generations later, the Lands are once again at war, and the magics of the Thirteen Orphans are desperately needed. A mission to capture those powers went disastrously wrong and now the Lands’ Dragon, Tiger, Snake, and Monkey are trapped on Earth unless the Orphans can build the Nine Gates. To do that, they must first save the Four Guardians of the Land Between, who are under magical attack. Complicating things is the fact that Brenda has fallen hard for the handsome man who is the Tiger, much to the distress of the sensual young woman who is the Snake. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159407 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159407 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:37:00 EST As a lovely weekend approaches on the Yale campus it appears that a number of students--including the sons of both the Secretary of the Army and newest Supreme Court justice--may have gone missing. Attention quickly focuses on the fortress-like tomb of one of Yale's secret societies. Suspended Boulder police detective Sam Purdy soon finds himself in New Haven, where he joins FBI agent Christopher Poe and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake to solve the riddle of what is going on inside the windowless stone tomb on the edge of campus as, one by one, students are sent out of the building's front door to die. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159406 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159406 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:36:00 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 In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder enjoys a blissful childhood at her mother's side, learns the art of healing through the humble womanly art of "fixing hair," and encounters first love with a boy named Tuck. When Tuck leaves her, Calla transforms her sorrow into inspiration and heads for the wild and colorful city of New Orleans--where she realizes the full power of her "healing hands" and Tuck presents her with an offer that is colored by the memories of lost love. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159404 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159404 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:34:00 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 Both a razor-sharp thriller and a poignant love story, this twisting tale of psychological suspense is Patterson’s most compelling novel in years Mark Darrow grew up in a small Ohio town with no real advantages beyond his intelligence and athletic ability. But thanks to the intervention of Lionel Farr—a professor at Caldwell, the local college—Darrow became an excellent student and, later, a superb trial lawyer. Now Farr asks his still-youthful prote;ge; for a life-altering favor. An embezzlement scandal has threatened Caldwell’s very existence—would Darrow consider becoming its new president? Darrow accepts, but returning to his alma mater opens old wounds. Sixteen years ago, on the night of his greatest triumph as Caldwell’s star quarterback, he discovered the body of a black female student named Angela Hall at the base of the Spire, the bell tower that dominates the leafy campus. His best friend, Steve Tillman, was charged with Angela’s murder and ultimately sent to prison for life. But now, even as Darrow begins the daunting task of leading Caldwell, he discovers that the case against his friend left crucial questions unanswered. Despite his new obligations—and his deepening attachment to Farr’s beautiful though troubled daughter—Darrow begins his own inquiry into the murder. Soon he becomes convinced that Angela’s killer is still at large, but only when another mysterious death occurs does he understand that his own life is at risk. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159401 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159401 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:31:00 EST In the crosshairs of a political bribery investigation, Dempsey Jo Killebrew suddenly finds herself unemployed and the victim of a sleazy smear campaign by her former boss. Dempsey decides to take up her father's offer of flipping a recently inherited family home in Guthrie, Ga., where she quickly slides into the renovation groove, fits in with the locals, and embarks on a romance. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159380 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4159380 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:30:00 EST The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. It's a case that could earn Derek Mitchell even greater star power. When the Wheeler family approaches him about defending Creighton for his uncle's murder -- even before he's charged -- he jumps at the chance. But Derek soon discovers that Julie will stop at nothing to secure justice for Paul -- and that includes preventing Derek from defending Creighton. Infuriated, Derek realizes that his hands have been tied in a way that could not only cost him the case, but ruin his entire career. Although Creighton has a rock-solid alibi, Julie is convinced that he is responsible for Paul's murder. But the homicide detectives have another theory. Caught in several lies, and keeping secrets from Derek and the police, Julie is suspected of casting blame on Creighton to cover her own crime. Meanwhile, Derek fears he's once again being duped...yet he burns with jealousy when he thinks of Julie with her late lover. But the more Derek learns about Creighton and his darker side, the more he doubts the young man's innocence. And hiding in a squalid motel under an assumed name is the one man, a career criminal, a killer, who knows the truth. The clock ticks down toward a shocking ending as Derek and Julie seek to learn whether Creighton's fascination with movie murders is merely a bizarre hobby or depravity. Has he begun reenacting cinema's goriest scenes...and, if so, who will be his unwitting costars? They won't know until the final SMASH CUT. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4136545 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4136545 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:20:00 EST Heyday is a brilliantly imagined, wildly entertaining tale of America’s boisterous coming of age–a sweeping panorama of madcap rebellion and overnight fortunes, palaces and brothels, murder and revenge–as well as the story of a handful of unforgettable characters discovering the nature of freedom, loyalty, friendship, and true love. In the middle of the nineteenth century, modern life is being born: the mind-boggling marvels of photography, the telegraph, and railroads; a flood of show business spectacles and newspapers; rampant sex and drugs and drink (and moral crusades against all three); Wall Street awash with money; and giddy utopian visions everywhere. Then, during a single amazing month at the beginning of 1848, history lurches: America wins its war of manifest destiny against Mexico, gold is discovered in northern California, and revolutions sweep across Europe–sending one eager English gentleman off on an epic transatlantic adventure. . . . Amid the tumult, aristocratic Benjamin Knowles impulsively abandons the Old World to reinvent himself in New York, where he finds himself embraced by three restless young Americans: Timothy Skaggs, muckraking journalist, daguerreotypist, pleasure-seeker, stargazer; the fireman Duff Lucking, a sweet but dangerously damaged veteran of the Mexican War; and Duff’s dazzling sister Polly Lucking, a strong-minded, free thinking actress (and discreet part-time prostitute) with whom Ben falls hopelessly in love. Beckoned by the frontier, new beginnings, and the prospects of the California Gold Rush, all four set out on a transcontinental race west–relentlessly tracked, unbeknownst to them, by a cold-blooded killer bent on revenge. A fresh, impeccable portrait of an era startlingly reminiscent of our own times, Heyday is by turns tragic and funny and sublime, filled with bona fide heroes and lost souls, visionaries (Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin, Alexis de Tocqueville) and monsters, expanding horizons and narrow escapes. It is also an affecting story of four people passionately chasing their American dreams at a time when America herself was still being dreamed up–an enthralling, old-fashioned yarn interwoven with a bracingly modern novel of ideas. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4099075 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4099075 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:12:00 EST John Hart’s New York Times bestselling debut, The King of Lies, announced the arrival of a major talent. With Down River, he surpassed his earlier success, transcending the barrier between thriller and literature and winning the 2008 Edgar Award for best novel. Now, with The Last Child, he achieves his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and courage in the face of evil. Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he’d been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is---confident in a way that he can never fully explain. Determined to find his sister, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown. It is a desperate, terrifying search, but Johnny is not as alone as he might think. Detective Clyde Hunt has never stopped looking for Alyssa either, and he has a soft spot for Johnny. He watches over the boy and tries to keep him safe, but when Johnny uncovers a dangerous lead and vows to follow it, Hunt has no choice but to intervene. Then a second child goes missing . . . Undeterred by Hunt’s threats or his mother’s pleas, Johnny enlists the help of his last friend, and together they plunge into the wild, to a forgotten place with a history of violence that goes back more than a hundred years. There, they meet a giant of a man, an escaped convict on his own tragic quest. What they learn from him will shatter every notion Johnny had about the fate of his sister; it will lead them to another far place, to a truth that will test both boys to the limit. Traveling the wilderness between innocence and hard wisdom, between hopelessness and faith, The Last Child leaves all categories behind and establishes John Hart as a writer of unique power. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098968 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098968 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:11:00 EST A man who thrives on wickedness and counts on forgiveness, Curtis Black proclaims to his wife, Charlotte, that he will sin no more. He's finally learned his lesson about straying, and he's got the repercussions of his past misdeeds to remind him. First there's his new baby daughter, Curtina, and her mother, Tabitha, Curtis's former mistress, who demands that the preacher be a part of their lives--or else! Then the interim pastor who took over while Curtis was on a book tour threatens to blackmail Curtis if he tries to push him out of the pulpit. But Curtis isn't the only one who has transgressed. In their darkest moments, husband and wife must ultimately work together to save their family, their marriage, and their souls. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098960 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098960 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:11:00 EST Explosive elements coverge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098959 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098959 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:10:00 EST A young woman discovers an ancient book and a cache of old letters in her father's library, and thus begins her adventurous quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, a search that will span continents and generations, and a confrontation with the darkest powers of evil. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098958 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098958 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:08:00 EST Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium. Once safely back in America, Lindros persuades Bourne to help track the money trail of terrorists buying the nuclear material in Odessa. But once there, Bourne is hampered by confusing flashbacks of unfamiliar places and events and he wonders: Is someone brainwashing him in order to throw him off the trail? Worse, is the man he saved in Africa really Martin Lindros? Now, Bourne is alone gathering evidence while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who won't let anyone stand in their way of destroying the U.S. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098957 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098957 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:05:00 EST Potosi;, the richest city in the Western Hemisphere, finds its future threatened when the King of Spain discovers that the coins the city has been circulating throughout the world are not pure silver. The city must prepare to be judged by the King’s top prosecutor, and by the Grand Inquisitor. In the midst of this tension, Mother Maria Santa Hilda finds herself at odds when the daughter of a wealthy man mysteriously dies in her care. Despite the fact that it looks as though the girl committed suicide, she has her buried at the convent, a decision a powerful enemy will use against her. Her life at stake, the Abbess and her fellow sisters find themselves in a race against time to prove the true cause of the girl’s death. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098956 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098956 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:04:00 EST To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her. As Rachel searches for the truth behind a terrifying murder, an even greater menace threatens, for the demon Algaliarept will stop at nothing to claim her, and the discovery of a shocking family secret throws Rachel's entire life into question. If she is ever to live free, Rachel must first walk willingly into the demonic ever-after in search of long-lost ancient knowledge. But when you dance with demons, you lay your soul on the line . . . and there are some lines that should never be crossed. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098955 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098955 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:03:00 EST A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ("cancer of the pseudonym"), but in late 2006 King found the original typescript of Blaze among his papers at the University of Maine's Fogler Library ("How did this get here?!"), and decided that with a little revision it ought to be published. Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. -- of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs -- and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers. But then George is killed, and Blaze, though haunted by his partner, is on his own. He becomes one of the most sympathetic criminals in all of literature. This is a crime story of surprising strength and sadness, with a suspenseful current sustained by the classic workings of fate and character -- as taut and riveting as Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098954 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098954 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:01:00 EST Facing an inexorable assault on far more than his life, successful family man and bestselling novelist Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich finds himself in a desperate struggle with relentless sociopath and reclusive critic Shearman Waxx. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098953 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098953 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:00:00 EST Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler’s People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, Gone With The Wind. Twelve years in the making, the publication of Rhett Butler’s People marks a major and historic cultural event. Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. Through Rhett’s eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell’s unforgettable pages: Langston Butler, Rhett’s unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau, Rhett’s best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O’Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War. Of course there is Scarlett. Katie Scarlett O’Hara, the headstrong, passionate woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhett’s: more like him than she cares to admit; more in love with him than she’ll ever know… Brought to vivid and authentic life by the hand of a master, Rhett Butler’s People fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by Gone With The Wind. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098952 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098952 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:59:00 EST With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work. As Maisie discovers, the villagers are bitterly prejudiced against outsiders who flock to Kent at harvest time—even more troubling, they seem possessed by the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid. Maisie grows increasingly suspicious of a peculiar secrecy that shrouds the village, and ultimately she must draw on all her finely honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases. Rich with Jacqueline Winspear’s trademark period detail, this latest installment of the bestselling series is gripping, atmospheric, and utterly enthralling. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098951 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098951 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:58:00 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 Rendered a fugitive when he is wrongfully implicated in a terrorist attack that interrupted his secret rendezvous with his dishonored spy wife, physician Jonathan Ransom struggles to clear his name, only to discover that he may be a pawn in an international plot. An ambush on a convoy of limousines turns a romantic rendezvous into a terrorist bloodbath and Doctors Without Borders physician Jonathan Ransom, apprehended by the police and threatened with life imprisonment unless he helps secure his wife Emma's capture, escapes and becomes a spy himself in order to track down Emma and discover the true nature of the conspiracy she appears to be masterminding. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098007 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098007 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:32:00 EST Married off by their silk merchant father on the eve of England's late-fifteenth-century War of the Roses, two sisters find their subsequent lives marked by a scandalous affair with Edward IV and the inner workings of a powerful silk dynasty. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098006 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098006 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:31:00 EST New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is back with a gripping story of obsession and its deadly consequences. After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating. In a place where football is practically a religion, Griff committed a cardinal sin, and no one is forgiving. Foster Speakman, owner and CEO of SunSouth Airlines, and his wife, Laura, are a golden couple. Successful and wealthy, they lived a charmed life before fate cruelly intervened and denied them the one thing they wanted most-a child. It's said that money can't buy everything. But it can buy a disgraced football player fresh out of prison and out of prospects. The job Griff agrees to do for the Speakmans demands secrecy. But he soon finds himself once again in the spotlight of suspicion. An unsolved murder comes back to haunt him in the form of his nemesis, Stanley Rodarte, who has made Griff's destruction his life's mission. While safeguarding his new enterprise, Griff must also protect those around him, especially Laura Speakman, from Rodarte's ruthlessness. Griff stands to gain the highest payoff he could ever imagine, but cashing in on it will require him to forfeit his only chance for redemption-and love. Griff is now playing a high-stakes game, and at the final whistle, one player will be dead. Play Dirty is Sandra Brown's wildest ride yet, with hairpin turns of plot all along the way. The clock is ticking down on a fallen football star, who lost everything because of the way he played the game. Now his future-his life-hinges on one last play. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098005 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098005 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:30:00 EST After arriving at the family estate of her husband Clement Ducharme, pregnant bride seventeen-year-old Hedie Rails learns through old diaries of the dark side of the Ducharme legacy. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098004 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4098004 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:29:00 EST "A novel graphic from Hill and Wang." In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4057899 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4057899 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:25:00 EST In Bon Temps, Louisiana, a race of unhuman beings--older, more powerful and far more secretive than vampires or werewolves-- is preparing for war. And Sookie Stackhouse will find herself an all-too human pawn in their battle as she investigates the murder of a were-panther. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054571 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054571 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:19:00 EST When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, her heart stops--the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. She investigates the story behind the flyer, uncovering clues no one was meant to discover, and when she digs too deep, she risks losing her own life--and that of the son she loves. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054570 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054570 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:18:00 EST Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor and heart-transplant recipient, is given a plum assignment--the murder trial of theatrical agent Gregg Aldrich, accused of murdering his wife. During the trial, Emily experiences sentiments that defy all reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich's fate is decided by the jury. In the meantime, she does not realize that her own life is now at risk. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054566 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054566 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:18:00 EST On a winter day in 1916, American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity. Charlie Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places simultaneously, an extraordinary delusion that brings together the fortunes of three men: Leland Wheeler, son of the world's last (and worst) Wild West star, as he finds unexpected love on the battlefields of France; Hugo Black, drafted to fight under the towering General Edmund Ironside in America's doomed expedition against the Bolsheviks; and Chaplin himself, as he faces a tightening vise of complications--studio moguls, questions about his patriotism, his unchecked heart, and, most menacing of all, "his mother." http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054565 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054565 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:17:00 EST Winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award. London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought-iron fence, the coroner rules her death as suicide. Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced and suspects that Morgan's fatal fall may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters. Meanwhile, MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is leading a covert operation when she discovers that her boss is involved in espionage. Only when Stratton's path crosses Diana's does the pair start to uncover the truth. And soon they also begin to realize they like each other a little too much.... http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054563 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054563 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:16:00 EST Thirty years ago, in the summer after his junior year of high school, Jonathan Stride fell in love with Cindy Starr, the girl who would become his wife. But that same summer, Cindy's sister Laura was brutally murdered. The police suspected a drifter of committing the crime, but Stride and Cindy were convinced the killer was someone close to Laura. Someone who got away with murder. Now, as Laura's best friend returns to town, old emotions are unearthed - leaving Stride searching for answers as past violence spills into the present. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054446 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054446 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:29:00 EST Ellis Island Superintendent Joseph Hannegan stands alone in trying to protect the interests of immigrants--and of his country--against the rampant corruption overtaking the immigration station. As yet another scandal unfolds, Hannegan believes he may finally have enough evidence to rout crooked Assistant Commissioner Edward McNabb. But when young Irish immigrant Maggie Flynn steps off the ferry and shoots her fiancé on Ellis Island soil, Hannegan's mission is derailed. What begins as an annoying distraction soon grows into a web of lies shocking even to the toughest Tammany politician. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054444 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054444 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:28:00 EST "Just before Danny Cadogan's fourteenth birthday, his father leaves. Having drunkenly run up a gambling debt he cannot pay, Big Dan Cadogan takes the easy way out and abandons his wife and children to face the wrath of the men sent to settle the score. Determined to protect his mother, brother, and sister, Danny turns into a young man set on makiing his way in a violent and dangerous world. He becomes a Face. And not just a Face, but the most feared criminal in England. Out for all he can get. At any cost. Danny's ruthlessness on the streets of London doesn't stop at his front door. He rules his wife, Mary, and his children with an iron will--and his fists. But if Mary breaks her silence, it could shake Danny's criminal empire right to the very core. And for a Face at the top of his game, there's only one way to go. Down. Because, after all, debts can be paid without money."--p. [4] of cover. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054443 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054443 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:27:00 EST A young mother, blond and pretty, disappears without a trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness and her handsome, secretive husband as the prime suspect. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054442 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054442 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:26:00 EST In 2012, Jed DeLanda, mathematics genius and Mayan descendent, earns a living by using his smarts on the internet. However, his life gets turned upside-down when his old teacher, Taro, offers him a chance to travel back to 664 A.D., and learn about Mayan culture. This exciting adventure takes a turn of the worst, when Jed accidently ends up in the body of a man who is about to be sacrificed. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054424 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054424 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:25:00 EST In 1854, beautiful, adventurous Rosa Barr travels to the Crimean battlefield with Florence Nightingale's nursing corps--then disappears without a trace. When Mariella Lingwood, Rosa's cousin, leaves her surgeon husband's side to follow the trail of her elusive cousin to Sebastopol, she encounters Rosa's dashing stepbrother, a reckless cavalry officer whose complex past -- and future -- is inextricably bound up with her own. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054421 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4054421 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:24:00 EST A new breed of vampire, that hunts during the daytime, bring panic to the village of Tepes. The mysterious D is a vampire hunter, one of those who protect the ordinary humans against the alliance of mutants and the race of vampires known as the Nobility, in the distant future of 12,090 A.D. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4049999 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4049999 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:00:00 EST "As part of the celebrations for its 100th anniversary, the publishers of the Tozai News have commissioned the creation of the 'Ultimate Menu,' a model meal embodying the pinnacle of Japanese cuisine. This all-important task has been entrusted to journalist Yamaoka Shiro, an inveterate cynic who possesses zero initiative--but also an incredibly refined palate and an encyclopedic knowledge of food..."--Cover flap. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4049998 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4049998 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:59:00 EST "...three of the original graphic novel releases collected into one volume, featuring color artwork, updated text and bonus content" --P. [3] of cover. Pages numbered from right to left. "Three in one"--Cover. The wandering swordsman, Himura Kenshin, once an assassin, now fights to protect those in need. English; translated from the Japanese. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4049996 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4049996 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:58:00 EST When Honora and Sexton Beecher are rendered penniless by the crash of the stock market, Sexton is forced to work in a nearby mill that is plagued by violence, and as they try to reconstruct their lives, they are confronted by passions of every kind. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4049995 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4049995 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:57:00 EST This tale of impossible love--told with the same narrative grace and keen eye for human emotion that have distinguished all of Anita Shreve's cherished bestsellers--leads us into a harrowing world where forbidden passions have catastrophic consequences. In a Nazi-occupied Belgian village, Claire Daussois, the wife of a resistance worker, shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret attic hideaway. As she nurses him back to health, Claire is drawn into an affair that seems strong enough to conquer all--until the brutal realities of war intrude, shattering every idea she ever had about love, trust, and betrayal. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4049994 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4049994 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:56:00 EST In this superb novel, John Hough brilliantly renders life in the Union Army during the Civil War as he tells the story of two young brothers coming of age who volunteer to serve their country. Luke and Thomas Chandler grew up on Martha's Vineyard, raised by their abolitionist father and Rose, their headstrong and beautiful Cape Verdean housekeeper. When a recruiter comes to the island, the boys, who have already witnessed their father and Rose helping a runaway slave to freedom and who are determined to join the fight against slavery, eagerly enlist in the storied Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Rose, however, finds that without the protection of the brawny Luke, even she, a free woman of color in the North, can be a victim of malicious prejudice. Luke and Thomas join the Union Army in Virginia as it recovers from a devastating loss at Chancellorsville. Throughout the hot days of early summer the brothers march with the army through Virginia and Maryland, crossing the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsylvania. They experience unaccustomed hardships: food that is barely edible, terrible thirst, chilly nights, and rain-soaked marches. They share in the camaraderie of their fellow soldiers, spending their evenings discussing over card games what they will do when the war ends, alternately exhibiting anxiety and bravado as the next battle looms. The brothers quickly discover that their abolitionist views make them unpopular with many of their fellow soldiers. They witness the hostility of the Southerners whose homes they pass on the march, and the cheers of the Pennsylvanians, who welcome them back north. And then one day their march ends in a little town none of them has ever heard of, Gettysburg. On the eve of battle, Luke shares a secret with his younger brother that causes a rift between them, a separation that they will take onto the field. Seen the Glory portrays life in the Army of the Potomac as no other novel ever has. The climactic battle at Gettysburg is rendered as vividly as in the classic Civil War novel The Killer Angels. John Hough does full justice to the townspeople, including free blacks suddenly imperiled by the arrival of the Confederate army, and the Rebel soldiers themselves, battle hardened, war weary, yet convinced they are fighting for a just cause. But above all this is a heartbreaking story about two brothers united and then separated by the powerful bond that only love can forge, and break. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045411 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045411 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:50:00 EST While readying her grandmother's abandoned home for sale, Connie Goodwin discovers an ancient key in a seventeenth-century Bible with a scrap of parchment bearing the name Deliverance Dane. In her quest to discover who this woman was and seeking a rare artifact--a physick book--Connie begins to feel haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials and fears that she may be more tied to Salem's past than she could have imagined. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045407 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045407 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:29:00 EST Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past life behind him, to go "from crooked to slightly bent." But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045252 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045252 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:28:00 EST In this poignant tale of self-discovery, a young man struggles to survive the New York City housing projects in the face of familial, communal, and personal devastation. Born to a thirteen-year-old in the bathroom of his family's small apartment, Abraham Sing leton enters a world laden with the obstacles inherent in an impoverished community. In spite of the crack epidemic and the HIV crisis that ravage their neighborhood, the Singleton family -- cousins, an uncle, an aunt, Abraham, and his mother -- is held together by Abraham's heroic grandmother, whose deep faith and stoic nature have always given them a sense of wholeness and hope. But when the family goes through several harrowing losses, not even his grandmother may be strong enough to lead them through. At the center of this story is Abraham, the youngest of the Singletons. Deeply intuitive and cerebral, he is determined to thrive in a place that has destroyed the dreams of those around him. College means opportunity, yet it also means leaving behind those he loves. Abraham's journey into adulthood will break his heart but ultimately offer the possibility of redemption. In this haunting, lyrical, and evocative novel, Matthew Goodman composes a paean to the power of family and belonging in the African-American community. Hold Love Strong is a spellbinding coming-of-age tale about love, hope, and the will to survive, and a stunning universal story about the incredible capacity of the human spirit. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045247 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045247 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:27:00 EST To have and to hold takes on a whole new meaning when one bride's past catches up with her and brings the present crashing down. Milly is engaged to Simon--who is wealthy, serious, and believes her to be perfect. Milly's secret history behind a previous marriage to an Oxford homosexual is locked away so securely she has almost persuaded herself that it doesn't exist--until, only four days before her elaborate wedding. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045245 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045245 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:25:00 EST When a Tehrani scientist sends encrypted messages to the CIA about Iran's secret nuclear program, Harry Pappas commences communication with him, positive that his information is legitimate. As the agency looks into pretexts for attacking Iran, the scientist grows certain that his life is in danger. Therefore, Pappas enlists the help of British operatives, the Increment, who possess licenses to kill. As the ordeal grows in complexity, Pappas may have to betray his country to find a resolution. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045241 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045241 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:24:00 EST In Los Angeles, a geological surveyor maps out a proposed subway route--and then goes missing. His eight-year-old daughter, in her desperation, turns to the one person she thinks might help--she writes a letter to Sherlock Holmes.--From publisher's description. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045237 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045237 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:22:00 EST TV reporter Riley Spartz pursues a curious story of a bride left at the altar and finds herself caught in a dangerous missing-person case. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045203 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045203 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:21:00 EST Moving to Calgary to take over her late grandmother's junk shop, charm-caster Alysha Gale learns that she will be serving the fey community, which proves to be deeply troubled with problems that may be more than Alysha's family can solve. Alysha Gale is a member of a family capable of changing the world with the charms it casts. Then she receives word that she's inherited her grandmother's junk shop in Calgary, only to discover upon arriving that she'll be serving the fey community. And when Alysha learns just how much trouble is brewing in Calgary, even calling in the family to help may not be enough to save the day. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045198 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045198 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:20:00 EST Detective Simon Ziele lost his fianceé in the wreck of the General Slocum and shortly thereafter headed to Westchester County to escape the violence of the city. But just a few months into his tenure, he catches the worst homicide of his career: a young woman is brutally murdered in her own bedroom in the middle of a winter afternoon. A day's investigating leads him to Columbia University's noted criminologist, Alistair Sinclair, and one of his subjects, Michael Fromley, who has a history of violent behavior and brutal fantasies. But what would lead him to target Sarah Wingate, a notable mathematics grad student at Columbia? Is it really Michael behind the murder, or is someone else copying his signatures? This is what Simon Ziele must discover, with the help of the brilliant but self-interested Alistair Sinclair, before the killer strikes again. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045195 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045195 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:19:00 EST As Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Faith Mitchell and Will Trent try to connect two murders to a hit-and-run victim, Atlanta physician Sara Linton becomes more involved in the investigation--an investigation which soon culminates in the hunt for a sadistic serial killer. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045192 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4045192 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:18:00 EST n October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles's Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade. Inspired by this notorious true crime, Edgar®-winning author Megan Abbott's novel Bury Me Deep is the story of Marion Seeley, a young woman abandoned in Phoenix by her doctor husband. At the medical clinic where she finds a job, Marion becomes fast friends with Louise, a vivacious nurse, and her roommate, Ginny, a tubercular blonde. Before long, the demure Marion is swept up in the exuberant life of the girls, who supplement their scant income by entertaining the town's most powerful men with wild parties. At one of these events, Marion meets -- and falls hard for -- the charming Joe Lanigan, a local rogue and politician on the rise, whose ties to all three women bring events to a dangerous collision. A story born of Jazz Age decadence and Depression-era desperation, Bury Me Deep -- with its hothouse of jealousy, illicit sex and shifting loyalties -- is a timeless portrait of the dark side of desire and the glimmer of redemption. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4044692 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=4044692 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:56:00 EST