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Martin Anderson has a racehorse, a deep-sea fishing boat, a vacation home in Tahoe, and a Caddy in the garage. But his life is in freefall.

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Martin Anderson has a racehorse, a deep-sea fishing boat, a vacation home in Tahoe, and a Caddy in the garage. But his life is in freefall.

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Martin Anderson has a racehorse, a deep-sea fishing boat, a vacation home in Tahoe, and a Caddy in the garage. But his life is in freefall. It's the 1970s, and with the arrival of the oil crisis and gas rationing, his small aircraft business is tanking, as is his extravagant suburban lifestyle. Martin keeps many secrets from his wife, such as his mounting debt and his penchant for sneaking into neighborhood homes and making off with small keepsakes. So when he's given the opportunity to clear his debt by using one of his planes to make a few drug runs between California and Mexico, Martin doesn't think twice…or at all, for that matter.

Things quickly spiral out of control when Martin's simple plan lands him in the midst of gun-toting Mexican thugs. After a narcotics agent arrives on his doorstep, he becomes increasingly paranoid, both about the police and about his associates in the drug world --- a feeling that seems justified when he stumbles upon the scene of a brutal double murder. Martin wants out, but he wants his money, too.

Deeply funny and suspenseful, David Anthony's novel is a perfect snapshot of the excesses of American culture.

Robert Dugoni’s David Sloane series has branded him “The undisputed king of the Legal Thriller.” Tomorrow, on June 7th, the fourth in the series --- MURDER ONE --- hits book stores, much to the excitement of his readers.

Neil Young

Studios are passé for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
 

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Neil Young

Bill Wilder

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
 

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Bill Wilder

Woody Allen

I took a speed reading course and read WAR AND PEACE in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
 

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Woody Allen

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Editorial content for Summer Rental

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Sometimes, when you need a change in your life, the tide just happens to pull you in the right direction....

Ellis, Julia, and Dorie. Best friends since Catholic grade school, they now find themselves, in their mid-thirties, at the crossroads of life and love. Ellis, recently fired from a job she gave everything to, is rudderless and now beginning to question the choices she's made over the past decade of her life. Julia --- whose caustic wit covers up her wounds --- has a man who loves her and is offering her the world, but she can't hide from how deeply insecure she feels about her looks, her brains, her life. And Dorie has just been shockingly betrayed by the man she loved and trusted the most in the world...though this is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems and secrets. A month in North Carolina's Outer Banks is just what each of them needs.

Ty Bazemore is their landlord, though he's hanging on to the rambling old beach house by a thin thread. After an inauspicious first meeting with Ellis, the two find themselves disturbingly attracted to one another, even as Ty is about to lose everything he's ever cared about.

Maryn Shackleford is a stranger, and a woman on the run. Maryn needs just a few things in life: no questions, a good hiding place, and a new identity. Ellis, Julia, and Dorie can provide what Maryn wants; can they also provide what she needs?

Five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life. Five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness. Five people who each need a sea change, and one month in a summer rental that might just give it to them.

SUMMER RENTAL © Copyright 2011 by Mary Kay Andrews. Reprinted with permission by St. Martin's Press. All rights reserved.

June 3, 2011

IndieBound Next List --- June

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Check out IndieBound's Next List for the month of June! Find your local IndieBound store to get more information, check out the book, and take it home with you! Some great titles, including Tayari Jones' SILVER SPARROW, the latest Bookreporter.com Bets On pick!

Interview: Lisa Jackson, author of Wicked Lies

Jun 3, 2011

Sisters Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush have teamed up to write WICKED LIES, a sequel to their 2009 romantic suspense novel, WICKED GAME. Their latest is a paranormal thriller in which a psychopath is hell-bent on destroying a newly pregnant woman who has the psychic ability to sense evil approaching.

Charles Dickens, DAVID COPPERFIELD

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
 

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Charles Dickens, DAVID COPPERFIELD