It is a time of political unrest in Great Britain. And behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even the KGB is ignorant of its existence–Aurora, the sinister brainchild of two of the worlds most dangerous men: the general secretary of the Soviet Union and master spy […]
Jeremy Wheales well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom – a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of […]
For two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters??a pleasant position, with one caveat. Her charges?? older brother, Leo Hathaway, is thoroughly exasperating. Cat can hardly believe that their constant arguing could mask a mutual attraction. But when one quarrel ends in a sudden kiss, Cat is shocked at her […]
With this suspenseful novel, the author of The Amber Room and The Romanov Prophecy moves from czarist Russia to papal Rome. At its core are the unspoken secrets of the 1917 Fatima prophecies, a topic that continues to reverberate among the faithful and the unfaithful alike.
Many are the lawyers who have ditched the day job and had taken up an even more lucrative profession: that of writing thrillers. But of the army of hopefuls who have followed the example of John Grisham, few are as talented and inventive as David Baldacci, who (in such books as Simple Genius) has demonstrated […]
Welcome to New York Citys Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep–sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we arent careful, shes going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldnt fit into, steal our boyfriends hearts, and basically ruin […]
??Set in post-independence India, the novel follows for eighteen months or so four linked families in Calcutta, the province of Purva Pradesh and its capital Brahmpur, and the cities??Delhi, Kanpur, Lucknow??trawled by the heroine??s mother in her search for a ??suitable boy??? But the greatness of the novel, its unassailable truthfulness, owes less to research […]
A unique collection of stories featuring Hercule Poirot and linked by mythological figures and classical legend and lore. Its everything “Christies admirers have come to expect” (New Yorker), including her fans favorite detective in a dozen of his most unusual cases.
A thrilling epic about an ancient clash reignited in our time- between a hidden society and heavens darkest creatures There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Genesis 6:5 Sister Evangeline was […]
In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit […]
The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archers most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Cliftons life begins in 1920, with the chilling words, I was told that my father was killed in the war. But it will be another twenty years before Harry discovers how his father […]
Equal parts soap opera, gossip page, sociological study, and dating manual, Sex and the City, Candace Bushnells regular New York Observercolumn, has attracted a cult following, propelling Bushnell to achieve her own star-status. This collection brings her pieces together for the first time, where they read as a twisted nineties society novel in serial format. […]
Shortly after his 12:30 appointment, Dr. Morley is found with a bullet through his right temple, the gun on the floor beside him. The authorities are satisfied that the amiable old dentist shot himself. Hercule Poirot is not. But who could have murdered him? One of Dr. Morleys glamorous patients? His hard-drinking partner? His secretarys […]
International Retail Marketing combines a broad thematic overview of the key issues concerning international retail marketing with a series of incisive cases and examples of industry practice from markedly different sectors as fashion, food and healthcare. The authors provide an accessible and wide-ranging outline of the fundamentals of the subject, such as trends in retail […]