Stephen Thorne
For readers of This Is Where I Leave You and Everything Is Illuminated, “a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history and humor” (Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here)
When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander “Sasha” Karnokovitch, just...
6) The world's strongest librarian: a memoir of Tourette's, faith, strength, and the power of family
7) Dirty Money
--John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea
Master criminal Parker takes another turn for the worse as he tries to recover loot from a heist gone terribly wrong. In Nobody Runs Forever, Parker and two cohorts stole the assets of a bank in transit, but the police...
Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990's, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital—the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. Firebreak takes Parker to a palatial Montana "hunting lodge" where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery
...Top leaders in the business community—a financial journalist, a bestselling author, and cofounder of the Global Negotiation Initiative at Harvard University—teach you the character traits every employer wants to see in today's worker.
In the race to become multitasking superhumans, we've lost touch with the actual root of where all these valuable skills are found. This audio gives you the training you need to set yourself apart from
...Volume III of New York Times bestselling author Dianna Love's Treoir Dragon Chronicles of the Belador™ World races to the conclusion with nonstop action and gripping emotion with the world at stake.
Casidhe followed her conscience. It cost her everything, and Herrick will punish her for deceiving him. After a disastrous mission to the Caucasus Mountains, Daegan is out of mercy for any enemy but discovers important information about
...Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings, Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do with it-but just try explaining that to the cops, to the two rival criminal gangs who each think Chet's working for the other, and to
...12) The Cutie
Some people will do anything for money.
Mavis St. Paul had been a rich man's mistress. Now she was a corpse. And every cop in New York City was hunting for the two-bit punk accused of putting a knife in her.
But the punk was innocent. He'd been set up to take the fall by some cutie who was too clever by half. My job? Find that cutie—before the cutie found me.
14) Othello
15) Witchlock
16) Poison pill
Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency.
Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus in the United States.
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