The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson
EAN: 9781415964385
Summary: Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the mu... More
Artists in Crime
Ngaio Marsh
EAN: 9780786139163
Summary: When murder upsets the creative tranquillity of an artists’ colony, Scotland Yard sends in its most famous investigator. What begins as a routine case turns out most momentous for Roderick Alleyn, whose heart is captured by one of the suspects. More
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs
EAN: 9781433283796
Summary: Walker & Daughter is a little yarn shop in a quiet storefront in Manhattan. Its Friday Night Knitting Club members are almost a sisterhood, but everyones lives are thrown into disarray when unexpected changes shake up the shops comfortable world. More
Bones
Jonathan Kellerman
EAN: 9781415956700
Summary: When it comes to writing deftly layered, tightly coiled novels of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman reigns supreme as “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Now, Kellerman has worked his magic again in this chilling new masterpiece.The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something “real dead . . . buried in your marsh.” The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it’s a prank, but w... More
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
EAN: 9781433247972
Summary: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a humorous and nostalgic book depicting the carefree days of boyhood in a small Midwestern town. The characters are based on Twain?s schoolmates and the town, Hannibal, Missouri, is where Twain grew up.Just what did boys do in a small town during the mid-1800s, a time when there were no televisions, no arcades, and no videos? They whitewashed fences, floated down rivers, traded marbles, formed secret societies, smoked pipes, and, on occasion, managed to attend the... More
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Katherine Howe
EAN: 9780307701985
Summary: Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launche... More
Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child
EAN: 9781415938676
Summary: From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Child’s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into th... More
The Birth of Venus
Sarah Dunant
EAN: 9781415952467
Summary: Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is chan... More
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
EAN: 9780786133673
Summary: Pride and Prejudice captures the affectations of class-conscious eighteenth-century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries. The story of the novel’s two protagonists, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, is told with wit and thoroughly describes the problems that arise from miscommunication, first impressions, true love, and scandal. More
