New Arrival

Shannon Bodine’s life revolves around her job as a graphic artist at a New York ad agency. But her world turns upside down when she learns the identity of her real father: Thomas Concannon.Obeying her late mother’s wishes, Shannon reluctantly travels to County Clare. There, amid the lush landscape steeped in legend, she meets her half sisters and their families, but she’s wary of opening her heart to them―or to their charming neighbor…Murphy Muldoon is a successful farmer and horse breeder with a romantic streak that can turn the most trite sentiment into poetry. Soon, his striking good looks and unpretentious ways have Shannon discovering the possibility of a love that was meant to be.

The story follows Jack Reacher, a giant, wandering ex-military cop who travels with no bags and no destination. He walks a 12-mile stretch of empty road between two small towns in Colorado named Hope and Despair. Reacher only wants a simple cup of coffee, but local deputies in Despair try to force him out of town. Driven by pure curiosity, Reacher teams up with a female police officer from Hope to break open the town's dark secrets. They soon expose a terrifying, hidden connection to a distant war.

Set against the backdrop of the intense rise and fall of the dot-com industry in 1999, the story follows a cautious banker named David Lane. David decides to break out of his routine and help his friend Guy Jordan launch a startup called ninetyminutes.com. However, the venture quickly turns dangerous when Guy has a severe falling out with his father and primary investor, Tony Jordan. When Tony is brutally murdered, David finds himself trapped in a volatile downward spiral of corporate corruption, disaster, and personal peril

When MI5 agent-runner Liz Carlyle is moved from Counter-Terrorism to the Industrial Espionage Section, it looks very much as if she has been sidelined. While vetting the director of a top-secret research establishment in the Peak District, however, Liz realises that her subject is lying to her and is a potential blackmail risk. Other more malign forces have arrived at the same conclusion, and soon a lethal Intelligence game is in play. With Martine Charrat, her opposite number in the French secret service, Liz is drawn into a desperate race. But as Liz soon discovers, their unknown enemies hold all the cards.

When MI5 agent-runner Liz Carlyle is moved from Counter-Terrorism to the Industrial Espionage Section, it looks very much as if she has been sidelined. While vetting the director of a top-secret research establishment in the Peak District, however, Liz realises that her subject is lying to her and is a potential blackmail risk. Other more malign forces have arrived at the same conclusion, and soon a lethal Intelligence game is in play. With Martine Charrat, her opposite number in the French secret service, Liz is drawn into a desperate race. But as Liz soon discovers, their unknown enemies hold all the cards.

Byron Winterleaf, a 23-year old white guy, is on the verge of losing his job as a translator at a Xhosa-themed restaurant. And during heavy rains his back garden in Observatory, Cape Town, is flooded, killing the marijuana plants that he'd been hoping to harvest for profit. But the flood also brings something else to the surface it's a bone, that much is clear, but whose? Susan Ridge, head of Restoring Dignity to Forgotten Minorities (RDFM) is adamant that it is the bone of a Khoi victim of the 1713 smallpox epidemic. She convinces Byron that his house should be converted into a museum, to honour these forgotten people. But it soon becomes apparent that Ridge's intentions are anything but honourable she is simply playing on a collective sense of guilt, in order to make a personal profit. Byron finds himself caught up in the middle of a cultural scam. However, this time it's not only his job at a restaurant that he stands to lose his house, the only sure thing in his life, becomes a battleground, and if he's unable to take control of the situation he stands to lose everything ...

A deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack's story. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family, godson and namesake of John Ames, gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned to Gilead, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father. Brilliant, loveable, wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with his father and his father's old friend John Ames.

Set during the tense atmosphere of 1930s Soviet Russia, the story follows Captain Alexei Korolev. After his previous dangerous investigation, Korolev is unexpectedly assigned by the NKVD state security service to look into the suspected suicide of a young woman named Maria Alexandovna Lenskaya. The case takes him to a bleak, battle-scarred movie set in Ukraine titled Bloody Meadow, where he quickly uncovers a web of secrets that puts his own life on the line.

This novel, set in England and Russia at the time of the Great War, tells the story of Alice Fry an independent woman in a world ruled by men and the two men who love her. In 1913, Alice meets Edward Cobb, eligible young son of a baronet, at an avant-garde party in Chelsea. They fall in love and get engaged, but Edward's family thinks Alice fast. When Alice's father becomes involved in a sexual scandal, Edward has to choose between Alice and his political career. He breaks off the engagement, not knowing that Alice is expecting his child. Desperate, Alice accepts the offer of a rich Russian, Baron von Rettenberg, to go to Russia as a governess for his children, while Edward enters an unhappy marriage. Alice gives birth to a son and yearns for Edward though the Baron von Rettenburg loves her. The Great War takes its terrible toll and the Russian Revolution explodes. Trapped by the Red Army in the Black Sea port of Novorossiik, Alice, her son and Rettenberg are saved by a member of the British Military Mission