Set in 1980s New York City during the peak of the crack cocaine epidemic, the story follows Boomer Frontieri, a retired detective. He assembles a renegade team of former New York cops—all forced out of the department due to minor injuries—to hunt down a brutal crime ring involved in child kidnapping and drug trafficking.
Gregor—a teenaged boy, the lone survivor of his family—is hiding from the Germans in the forest. He hides in a cave, where he meets a mysterious stranger who saves his life. He hides in the village, posing as a deaf-mute peasant boy. He hides among the partisans of the Jewish resistance. But where, he asks, is God hiding? And where can one find redemption in a world that God has abandoned? In a story punctuated by friendship and fear, sacrifice and betrayal, Gregor's wartime wanderings take us deep into the ghost-filled inner world of the survivor.
What happens when a thirty-five-year-old average American woman spends one year following every piece of Oprah Winfrey's advice on how to "live your best life"? Robyn Okrant devoted 2008 to adhering to all of Oprah's suggestions and guidance delivered via her television show, her Web site, and her magazine. LIVING OPRAH is a month-by-month account of that year.
Some of the challenges included enrollment in Oprah's Best Life Challenge for physical fitness and weight control, living vegan, and participating in Oprah's Book Club. After 365 days of LIVING OPRAH, Okrant reflects on the rewards won and lessons learned as well as the tolls exacted by the experiment.
In the dark days of the Blitz, crime goes undercover...It is October 1940 and undertaker Francis Hancock is called out to Epping Forest to attend to the corpse of a young gypsy girl who has died suddenly. At the wake, a gypsy named Lily claims to see a vision of the 'Blessed Virgin'. Meanwhile the Military Police are looking for a German spy - Martin Stojka - who they believe is a Nazi spy. Then Lily is found stabbed through the chest. Could it be a crime of passion or cold-blooded murder? Is Martin Stojka who he says he is? There is someone lurking in the shadows who will stop at nothing to find what Martin has in his possession...
The secrets of ScotlandÂ’s Rosslyn Chapel have remained hidden for centuries. After a decade of research, two Scottish historians have pieced together the real story.Millions of people worldwide became familiar with the mystery of Rosslyn through Dan BrownÂ’s blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code and hundreds of thousands have since travelled there to marvel at its magnificent carvings and to wonder if some fabulous treasure lay buried beneath its medieval walls.Pseudo-history writers, Grail seekers and conspiracy theorists claim that the secret history of the Holy Bloodline of Christ, the Ark of the Covenant, the embalmed head of Jesus and the legendary treasure of the Knights Templar are all buried under Rosslyn Chapel. But what is the truth? Did the Templars really escape to Scotland? Does the enchanted White Lady of Rosslyn actually guard the Holy Grail? Was the chapel built to hide the Treasure of the Temple of Jerusalem?
A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet?Her husband Daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be enough to bring Daniel back home?
The story follows Giovanni Sidgewick Stears, a Boston Brahmin and part-time CIA agent. He finds himself entangled in a dangerous political plot to depose a pro-Western North African monarch, dragging him into a savage and complex web of international intrigue.
The story follows Paula, a dedicated suburban general practitioner (GP) who is deeply traumatized after her close friend and her friend's children are murdered by an estranged, violent husband. Haunted by feelings of guilt and the failure of the legal system to protect them, Paula faces a severe ethical dilemma when a patient arrives at her clinic showing clear signs of domestic abuse. Terrified of what will happen if the patient leaves her husband, Paula must decide how far she is willing to go—and if she can justify taking a life to save a life.
Freya North reunites her popular McCabe girls – sisters Cat, Fen and Pip – in her warm and sexy new novel.Despite their mother having run off with a cowboy from Denver when they were small, and having been brought up in a draughty house in Derbyshire by their eccentric uncle Django, the McCabe girls actually consider themselves very normal and well-adjusted.Pip is stepmother to 10-year-old Tom, Fen has a young baby and Cat has returned to England to start a family. Their mid 30s are promising to be a time of comfort and contentment. However, at their uncle’s 70th birthday party, an unexpected guest arrives. Old family secrets are unearthed.
The book focuses on the theme that a person can never stray too far from God's plan and purpose, offering guidance on how to find a fresh start after experiencing defeat or disappointment.
The Narrative: The book is a deeply moving family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer growing up in war-torn Jerusalem during the 1940s and 1950s.The Core Conflict: It chronicles a young boy caught between a fussy, logical father and a romantic, dreamy mother, building up to the tragic pivotal moment of his mother's suicide when he was just twelve and a half years old.Historical Scope: Beyond a personal autobiography, it acts as a biography of Israel itself before and during its creation, sweeping through 120 years of family history across Vilna, Odessa, Poland, and Prague.
Colette Jones has had drink problems in the past, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to alcohol. Her oldest son has thrown away a promising musical career for a job behind the counter in a builders' merchants, and his drinking sprees with his brother-in-law Bill, a pseudo-Marxist supermarket butcher who seems to see alcohol as central to the proletarian revolution, have started to land him in trouble with the police. Meanwhile Colette's recently widowered older brother is following an equally self-destructive path, having knocked back an entire cellar of homemade wine, he's now on the gin, a bottle a day and counting. Who will be next?
