"The Barrons like to think of themselves as a typical American family. Never mind the fact that Todd drops bombs on Afghan targets one minute and sits down to dinner with his wife and kids the next. A
"I am unacquainted with evil, there being no mirrors here," begins the testimony of Ethan Harms, hero of Harms' Way, Thomas Rayfiel's dark depiction of prisoners and prison life. Harms' Way takes us i
1938, Hitler visits Italy. An expatri-ate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest round the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with th
There are two themes to Radiomen. First, if there are aliens interacting with our world they are likely just as confused about who or what God is as human beings are; and second, whoever they are, the
In 1976, a small-scale marijuana grower in Calfornia's Humboldt County has his farm raided and flees to Mexico where he finds himself at odds with the local drug lord.
Police detective Irene Chavez, newly returned to a small town in Puget Sound with her fourteen-year-old-son, finds herself in the middle of a mystery as she investigates what appears to be a sailing a
Matt Duffy is in crisis. His son, Jack, is a high school bully who attempts suicide after Matt snuffs out a fast-moving teen romance. Outwardly, Matt is fine, but inside he is filled with guilt and re
On the brink of her fortieth birthday, Katie Olmstead is in no mood to celebrate. Still tending bar to support a stalled art career, she continues to struggle with her temperamental teenage son, C.J.,
A memoir about an illicit love affair that the reader comes to realize is different than the author confesses. Alfred Buber is a pillar of his community, a respected man with a secret, and a secret li
eemed accidental, a respected pediatrician is charged with murdering a man who had been his friend. In those intervening years, the pediatrician, Dr. Benjamin Weber, has married his friend's widow an
Matt Younger is a 30-year-old boat delivery captain, who returns to Amelia Island, Florida from the Dominican Republic to make a confession to his dying father. With two companions, a cook named Jess
Planet of the Dates follows the exploits of Phil Corcoran, a girl-crazed Milwaukee teen stumbling toward adulthood in the summer of 1980. Phil's personal transition coincides with a cultural shift: f
Clara Buchanan has run her modest hometown newspaper for just over a year when an epidemic of paranormal sightings breaks the usual fare of football scores and family reunions. Flying saucers and dead
"For Zaima al-Aziz, her poetry is the most direct expression of her anger and pain. It pours out from her in sharp, clear language, more like expulsion than expression. She is an Iraqi American who ha
After a Southampton home owner is found dead, Sam Acquillo and defense attorney Jackie Swaitowski discover that the main suspect, a Colombian immigrant, may be innocent, despite the fact that the chie
When an acquaintance from the old neighborhood is arrested and held responsible for the disappearance of a number of black boysùand the murder of one of themùreporter Willie Black is not so sure the m
"As a young man, Gigi Paulo arrives in New York and is immediately drawn to a girl he sees in a bar near Penn Station. Before he can approach her, she is gone. He returns to the bar for weeks, hoping
A serial killer is on the loose in Naples, Florida, an enclave of wealth and privilege on the Southwest Gulf Coast. At first, the murders have been disguised as accidents, but when Police Chief Wade H
"The town of Soldiers Grove is nestled amongst the driftless hills of southwestern Wisconsin. Its winters are long, its warmer seasons bright and challenging. The population is fewer than 600, includi
Walter Samson is a successful book editor in post-World War Two New York. He has more than enough money, an interesting wife, Phyllis, two smart children and reason to believe he's leading the good A
Disgraced, down-on-his-luck former homicide detective Jared McKean must save his goth son, Josh, from jail, when Josh becomes the lead suspect in the gruesome murder of a goth fringe group leader, and
While investigating the death of a teen movie star, Captain Josie Corsino has to sort through a myriad of suspects and risks losing her career, family, and life.
When Rachel and Neil host their eccentric friends Mike and Tilda Spender and their daughter Addie for dinner, the night spins out of control, threatening Rachel and Neil's marriage.
Rand Taber, one of The Times'"25 artists under 25 to watch" has painter's block. He needs to get out of New York and work again. Introduced to Harris Montrose, an artistic giant and eccentric who has
All Cry Chaos, a debut thriller by the immensely gifted Leonard Rosen, is a masterful and gripping tale that literally reaches for the heavens. The action begins when mathematician James Fenster is as
In 1988 Alan Ripley is a successful suburban lawyer, happy at home as well as at work, with a deep sense of gratitude at having found his way to this place. Given his history, he has every reason to f
In a dream, a vision—or, perhaps, reality—Flora finds herself in the Heavenly Court, where her expiration date is proclaimed: She is to die in twenty-five years. Her parents and in-laws watch from be
Two people, two faiths, one hope, one destiny . . . A white woman and a black man, stranded in the desert in a land laid waste by an undeclared war. She is a campaigning academic and believes in just
Pushed by his grandson Seabold, William, dying of old age, describes his life in a diary, where he unlocks disturbing memories about his childhood, fears about the future, and impressions of the peopl
Jesse Terrill has reason to be angry. His mother has abandoned him, his brother was murdered by a terrorist, and his father is in the state mental hospital-a victim of a mugger's assault. Arrested fo
In steamy, corruption-ridden Manila, at the height of Ferdinand Marcos' brutal regime, two unlikely young lovers come together: Rue Caldwell, the wife of an American counter-insurgency specialist and
Rosie Kettle, quick and intuitive, leaves her small town in the California desert to attend art college in San Francisco in the late 60’s, where she discovers a passion for photography and music. Thro
A lyrical and, at times, refreshingly humorous journey of one woman's search for her truth, this debut novel unfolds in a sequence of two alternating narratives. In the first story line Tildy Glick r
Dwight Lockwood, son of the Secretary of Defense, crafts his life under his father's shadow. Brought up in a world of family secrets and taboos, Dwight struggles to create an independent psychic life
George Young accepts a job working for the government as a civilian interrogator in a secret holding prison, and begins to question his job and his own identity when one of his prisoners unexpectedly
"The elusive lover of Do Not Find Me returns to tell her side of the story in The Autobiography of Corrine Bernard. From her hapless childhood under Nazi occupation to her life as a woman of letters i
Randall Burns is forty-eight, out of a job, and tired of wasting his time pounding away on Match.com as if it were a game of Whac-A-Mole. One day at a Barnes & Noble, he comes across a travel guid
"A notorious, international big game hunter and his beautiful, former flight attendant wife are gunned down at long range late one sweltering summer night while swimming naked on their seaside estate
A seemingly happy couple living on Manhattan's Upper East Side suffers deep domestic discord that precipitates husband and father Roger's purchasing a handgun and planning to commit a desperate act.
