Editorial Content for Inmate 1577
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When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, FBI Profiler Karen Veil and her team are lead to a mysterious island ripped from city lore whose long-buried, decades-old secrets hold the key to their case --- Alcatraz. The Rock.
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When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, FBI Profiler Karen Veil and her team are lead to a mysterious island ripped from city lore whose long-buried, decades-old secrets hold the key to their case --- Alcatraz. The Rock.
About the Book
National Bestselling Author Alan Jacobson brings back renowned FBI Profiler Karen Vail in an intelligent thriller that bridges time and space.
When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, Vail heads west to team up with SFPD Inspector Lance Burden and her former task force colleague, Detective Roxxann Dixon.
As Vail, Burden, and Dixon follow the killer’s trail in and around San Francisco, the offender continues his rampage, leaving behind clues that ultimately lead them to the most unlikely of places: a mysterious island ripped from city lore whose long-buried, decades-old secrets hold the key to their case. Alcatraz. The Rock.
It’s a case that has more twists and turns than the famed Lombard Street…and a novel that Clive Cussler calls “A powerful thriller, brilliantly conceived and written.”
Editorial Content for Headstone: A Jack Taylor Novel
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Ken Bruen is brilliant. He has earned a Ph.D. in metaphysics, though if one was to address him as “Doctor,” I am reasonably sure he would turn crimson; he has taught instructional English as a second language in several countries; and he writes crime novels that turn up with great regularity on the bookshelves and annual “best of” lists of those who consider themselves and are thought to be aficionados of the genre. He is also, despite the dark nature of his work, one of the most genuinely kind and polite individuals you could ever hope to meet. Read More
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Nothing has ever truly terrified Jack Taylor until he confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
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Nothing has ever truly terrified Jack Taylor until he confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
About the Book
Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages. In HEADSTONE, an elderly priest is nearly beaten to death and a special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises and Jack Taylor has encountered most of them. But nothing before has ever truly terrified him until he confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.
Most would see a headstone as a marker of the dead, but this organization seems like it will act as a death knell to every aspect of Jack’s life. Jack’s usual allies, Ridge and Stewart, are also in the line of terror. An act of appalling violence alerts them to the sleeping horror, but this realization may be too late, as Headstone barrels along its deadly path right to the center of Jack’s life and the heart of Galway. A terrific read from a writer called “a Celtic Dashiell Hammett,” HEADSTONE is an excellent addition to the Jack Taylor series (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Editorial Content for Elizabeth and Hazel
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In 1957, integration of schools in the United States was still an unreal concept, certainly unwelcome in the South, where the recent Supreme Court ruling, Brown vs. Board of Education, was less well known at that time than it is now, nearly 50 years later. But it would change the country, and many lives, by stating that “separate but equal” education was unconstitutional. Two lives that were changed completely were those of Elizabeth Eckford, an African-American teenager, and Hazel Bryan, a 15-year-old white girl, both residents of Little Rock, Arkansas. Read More
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In 1957, a photograph was taken of a black high school girl walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, being screamed at by a white girl. In this gripping book, David Margolick recounts how the photograph has unexpectedly followed both women throughout their lives.
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In 1957, a photograph was taken of a black high school girl walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, being screamed at by a white girl. In this gripping book, David Margolick recounts how the photograph has unexpectedly followed both women throughout their lives.
About the Book
The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation --- in Little Rock and throughout the South --- and an epic moment in the civil rights movement.
In this gripping book, David Margolick tells the remarkable story of two separate lives unexpectedly braided together. He explores how the haunting picture of Elizabeth and Hazel came to be taken, its significance in the wider world, and why, for the next half-century, neither woman has ever escaped from its long shadow. He recounts Elizabeth’s struggle to overcome the trauma of her hate-filled school experience, and Hazel’s long efforts to atone for a fateful, horrible mistake. The book follows the painful journey of the two as they progress from apology to forgiveness to reconciliation and, amazingly, to friendship. This friendship foundered, then collapsed --- perhaps inevitably --- over the same fissures and misunderstandings that continue to permeate American race relations more than half a century after the unforgettable photograph at Little Rock. And yet, as Margolick explains, a bond between Elizabeth and Hazel, silent but complex, endures.
Editorial Content for The Killing Song
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I had the privilege of attending the Killer Nashville conference in 2010 and witnessing something extraordinary. Kelly Nichols, who, with sibling Kristy Montee, constitutes the award-winning writing entity known as P.J. Parrish, was on a panel. At one point, she pulled out a large corkboard festooned with post-its, sheets of paper, index cards and the like. It looked chaotic, but there was a definite order to it; it was the motherboard, if you will, of a P.J. Parrish novel, a map of the collaborative process in which Nichols and Montee engage each time they create their magic. Read More
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At 35, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Matt Owens is adrift. But when his beloved younger sister Mandy is murdered on a dance floor, Matt follows a chain of musical clues --– “killing songs” --- to hunt the anonymous killer.
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At 35, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Matt Owens is adrift. But when his beloved younger sister Mandy is murdered on a dance floor, Matt follows a chain of musical clues --– “killing songs” --- to hunt the anonymous killer.
About the Book
Matt Owens is a Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist, but at 35, he’s adrift, more inclined to hit the bottle alone than the Miami Beach club scene. But when his beloved younger sister Mandy comes to visit, Matt wants to show her a new world. It’s the trip of her dreams, but the nightmare begins when Mandy disappears from a crowded dance floor. When her lifeless body is found, one clue --- a grisly rock song downloaded onto her iPod --- may be the calling card of a serial killer.
Shattered with grief and guilt, Matt begins a lonely journey to find Mandy’s killer, following a chain of musical clues that lead him from an abandoned London rock club to a crumbling Scottish castle and finally to the ancient bone-strewn catacombs below Paris. Only one person believes in his quest --- Eve Bellamont, a dedicated French detective whose own five-year obsession to find the phantom killer has left her an outcast in her own department. Together, they race to decipher the “killing songs” that the madman leaves with each victim and stop him before another beautiful young woman dies.
Editorial Content for You Deserve Nothing
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A morally ambiguous literary novel about a charismatic teacher and impressionable students is not an original tale. But that doesn't mean it can’t be a compelling and fascinating one. YOU DESERVE NOTHING by Alexander Maksik takes this tried-and-true formula and gives it a bit of a shake. The result is a tense examination of power, sexuality, courage and education. Read More
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William Silver is a charismatic young teacher whose unconventionalily raises eyebrows among his colleagues. His students, however, are devoted to him. But when Silver succumbs to a forbidden temptation, his fall renders him a criminal to some, and all too human to others.
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William Silver is a charismatic young teacher whose unconventionality raises eyebrows among his colleagues. His students, however, are devoted to him. But when Silver succumbs to a forbidden temptation, his fall renders him a criminal to some, and all too human to others.
About the Book
Set in Paris, at an international high school catering to the sons and daughters of wealthy families, YOU DESERVE NOTHING is a gripping story of power, idealism and morality.
William Silver is a talented and charismatic young teacher whose unconventional methods raise eyebrows among his colleagues and superiors. His students, however, are devoted to him. His teaching of Camus, Faulkner, Sartre, Keats and other kindred souls breathe life into their sense of social justice and their capacities for philosophical and ethical thought. But unbeknownst to his adoring pupils, Silver proves incapable of living up to the ideals he encourages in others. Emotionally scarred by failures in his personal life and driven to distraction by the City of Light's overpowering carnality and beauty, Silver succumbs to a temptation that will change the course of his life. His fall will render him a criminal in the eyes of some, and all too human in the eyes of others.
In Maksik's stylish prose, Paris is sensual, dazzling and dangerously seductive. It serves as a fitting backdrop for a dramatic tale about the tension between desire and action, and about the complex relationship that exists between our public and private selves.
Editorial Content for Falling Together
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In this extraordinarily lovely and absorbing read, Pen Calloway is long estranged from the two friends who filled her soul and enriched her life for eight wonderful years. In the six years since their painful falling-out, she has gained and lost one job, fallen in love and had her heart broken, moved in with her brother, and enjoyed mothering her daughter. Ever since her beloved father died, Pen has been fragile emotionally and can't help thinking that her best friends, Will and Cat, loved her father, too --- and they don't even know he’s gone. Read More
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Brimming with the author’s trademark wit, vivid prose and captivating characterizations, FALLING TOGETHER brilliantly explores our deepest human connections and confirms Marisa de los Santos as one of America’s most exciting contemporary novelists.
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A remarkable friendship ended abruptly, only to be resurrected in great need years later at a college reunion. This launches three formerly devoted companions and reluctant family members alike on a sobering, enlightening journey across the world and through the past.
About the Book
Following the phenomenal success of her novels LOVE WALKED IN and BELONG TO ME, New York Times bestselling author Marisa de los Santos returns with FALLING TOGETHER an emotionally resonant, powerfully moving, and pitch perfect novel about friends, family, and love. Truly modern women’s fiction at its finest, this is the unforgettable tale of a remarkable friendship that ended abruptly, only to be resurrected in great need years later at a college reunion, launching three formerly devoted companions and reluctant family members alike on a sobering, enlightening journey across the world and through the past.
Brimming with the author’s trademark wit, vivid prose and captivating characterizations, FALLING TOGETHER brilliantly explores our deepest human connections and confirms Marisa de los Santos as one of America’s most exciting contemporary novelists.
William Kent Krueger
Editorial Content for Robert Ludlum's The Ares Decision
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The Robert Ludlum franchise, the absence of its founder notwithstanding, soldiers on. At the rate at which the Bourne and Covert-One titles, among other Ludlum-influenced works, are being written, it will not be long at all before Ludlum will be (indirectly) responsible for more books written after his passing than during his life. Read More
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Covert-One's top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate an attack in Uganda, and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it's different.
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Covert-One's top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate an attack in Uganda, and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it's different.
About the Book
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group --- -Covert-One. It is only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out.
In northern Uganda, an American special forces team is decimated by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries.
Covert-One's top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it's different. The parasite had been purposely kept alive and crudely transmitted in acts of terrorism. Now the director of Iranian Intelligence is in Uganda trying to obtain this biological weapon to unleash it on the West.
Smith and his team are ambushed and cut off from all outside support just as they begin to suspect that forces much more powerful than the Iranians are in play-forces that can be traced to Washington itself.
Editorial Content for Drama: An Actor's Education
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Having been a fan of both John Lithgow’s drama and comedy, it’s easy to see where he gets his motivation. From primary education at various schools in Ohio, New Jersey and Massachusetts, and growing up the son of the highly skilled and regarded actor/director Arthur Lithgow, John Lithgow learned the craft at an early age. Read More
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In this riveting and surprising personal history, John Lithgow shares a backstage view of his own struggle, crisis and discovery, revealing the early life and career that took place out of the public eye and before he became a nationally known star.
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In this riveting and surprising personal history, John Lithgow shares a backstage view of his own struggle, crisis and discovery, revealing the early life and career that took place out of the public eye and before he became a nationally known star.
About the Book
Emmy Award-winner John Lithgow presents a charming, witty, and revealing memoir about his family, his work, and his life in DRAMA --- an intimate story of insights and inspirational reflections from one of America’s most beloved actors. Lithgow pays tribute to his father, his greatest influence, and relives his collaborations with renowned performers and directors including Mike Nichols, Bob Fosse, Liv Ullmann, Meryl Streep, and Brian De Palma. A compelling reflection on the trials, triumphs and changes across his long career, Lithgow’s DRAMA illuminates the inner life of a celebrated talent, and points the way forward for anyone aspiring to greatness in their own life.


