Résultats de recherche de titre
Articles 3241 à 3260 sur 3617
Innocence: a novel
Par Dean R. Koontz. 2014
With a face that has driven him into solitude, deformed Addison only explores the city at night. While visiting a…
closed library, he witnesses an evil curator attack goth girl Gwyneth and decides to help her--embroiling himself in a mystery. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2013Heat lightning (Virgil Flowers Ser. #2)
Par John Sandford. 2008
Minnesota investigator Virgil Flowers, from Dark of the Moon (DB 65421), puzzles over corpses left on veterans' memorials. The victims…
have lemons in their mouths--a tactic used in Vietnam War executions. Flowers pursues an elusive acquaintance of the victims. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2008In book two of the series, troubled alcoholic police detective Harry Hole is sent to Bangkok to investigate after Norway's…
ambassador is found murdered in a hotel room. Sequel to The Bat (DB 77081). Originally published in 1998 in Norwegian. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2013The Rosie project: a novel
Par Graeme C. Simsion. 2013
Socially stunted geneticist Don Tillman embarks on an endeavor he calls the Wife Project. As he quantifies the qualities of…
a perfect wife, he encounters Rosie, who seeks Don's help in identifying her real father. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2013Walking on water: the fifth journal of the Walk series (The Walk #5)
Par Richard Paul Evans. 2014
In A Step of Faith (DB 76818), Alan reached the state line of Florida when he was called to California…
for a family emergency. After he deals with this new challenge, he returns to Florida to complete the last stage of his walk to Key West. Bestseller. 2014Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel
Par Lauren Weisberger. 2008
New Yorkers Leigh, Emmy, and Adriana, friends since college, seek changes in their lives as they near thirty. Newly dumped…
Emmy wants to date lots of men, gorgeous Brazilian Adriana decides to pick a man to marry, and editor Leigh meets a brilliant author. Strong language. Bestseller. 2008The beach house
Par Jane Green. 2008
When sixty-five-year-old eccentric widow Nan Powell learns that she may lose her beloved nine-acre Nantucket home, she turns it into…
a summer boarding house. Her first guests include a gay married man, a single mom, and Nan's own unhappy son. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2008The spies of Warsaw: a novel
Par Alan Furst. 2008
Warsaw, 1937. Colonel Jean-Franúois Mercier, French military attaché to Poland, spends his time socializing and recruiting spies. Mercier alerts his…
superiors to the threat of Nazi invasion but is ignored. Meanwhile he falls in love and rescues an agent. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2008The story of Edgar Sawtelle: a novel
Par David Wroblewski. 2008
Wisconsin, 1970s. Gar and Trudy Sawtelle raise an intuitive and intelligent dog breed on their farm. One dog, Almondine, can…
communicate with the Sawtelle's mute son Edgar. After Gar's brother arrives, Gar dies and fourteen-year-old Edgar flees into the forest with three of the dogs. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2008Bulls Island
Par Dorothea Benton Frank. 2008
Two decades ago, Elizabeth "Betts" McGee canceled her engagement to Charleston golden boy J.D. Langley because of a family feud…
and moved to Manhattan. Now Betts returns home to South Carolina on business. She wants to reconnect with her family while guarding old secrets. Some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2008Love the one you're with
Par Emily Giffin. 2008
Ellen has been happily married to her best friend's brother for one hundred days when she encounters Leo, who broke…
her heart eight years ago because he could not commit. As they get reacquainted, Ellen's desire for Leo resurfaces. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2008Where are you now?
Par Mary Higgins Clark. 2008
When she was sixteen, Carolyn MacKenzie's brother Mack disappeared but each Mother's Day Mack makes a brief call home. Ten…
years later Carolyn, now an attorney, interrupts the call to tell Mack that she will find him. Despite a warning from Mack, Carolyn persists--and finds herself in danger. Bestseller. 2008Phantom prey (Prey)
Par John Sandford. 2008
At his wife's request, detective Lucas Davenport agrees to look into the unsolved murder of her wealthy, widowed friend's daughter…
Frances Austin, who was a Goth. Now other Goths are being murdered. But a series of unusual bank transactions causes confusion. Descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. Bestseller. 2008Devil may care
Par Sebastian Faulks, Ian Fleming. 2008
James Bond is sent to prevent Dr. Julius Gorner from flooding England with heroin. Bond meets Scarlett Papava, who wants…
to save her twin sister from Gorner's clutches. But Gorner has plans to provoke a nuclear war with Russia. Violence, some descriptions of sex, and some strong language. Bestseller. 2008Hollywood crows: a novel
Par Joseph Wambaugh. 2008
Nathan Weiss and Bix Ramstead, cops in Hollywood's Community Relations Office, help residents with quality-of-life issues like graffiti and panhandlers.…
Both men become entangled with Margot Aziz, who wants to get rid of her wealthy husband. Sequel to Hollywood Station (RC 65317). Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2008The uncommon reader: A Novella
Par Alan Bennett. 2007
England. When the royal dogs stray into a mobile library parked near the palace, the Queen feels obligated to borrow…
a book. She soon develops an obsession with reading that changes her worldviews, distracts her from official duties, and prompts her to write her own masterpiece--with surprising consequences. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2007The regulators
Par Richard Bachman. 1997
After autistic six-year-old Seth Garin's family is murdered, he goes to live with relatives in a placid Ohio suburb. Mayhem…
erupts when the alien Tak, who inhabits Seth's body, emerges to attack the neighborhood with a bizarre force of violent, cartoonish creatures. Violence and strong language. 1996Change of heart: a novel
Par Jodi Picoult. 2008
Death row inmate Shay Bourne offers to donate his heart to the sister of the child he murdered. Bourne's ability…
to heal his fellow inmates leads priest Father Michael and attorney Maggie Bloom to question his verdict, while the child's mother, June Nealon, is stunned. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2008Morning light (Harrigan Family #1)
Par Catherine Anderson. 2008
Catholic clairvoyant Loni MacEwen moves to Crystal Falls, Oregon, and meets the cowboy of her dreams. Clint Harrigan doesn't believe…
Loni's visions of his son lost in the wilderness--especially since he doesn't have a son--until Loni's premonition becomes reality. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2008People of the book: a novel
Par Geraldine Brooks. 2008
Australian book conservator Hanna Heath analyzes a Hebrew manuscript created in medieval Spain and saved from destruction in 1990s Sarajevo.…
Hanna's discoveries--an insect wing, salt crystals, and wine and blood stains--reveal the codex's past and the lives of its guardians. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. Bestseller. 2008