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The Rainmaker – John Grisham
John Grisham’s five novels — A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, and The Chamber — have been number one best-sellers, and have a combined total of 47 million copies in print. Now, inThe Rainmaker, Grisham returns to the courtroom for the first time since A Time To Kill, and weaves…
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Turn Coat – Jim Butcher
Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago’s first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the ‘everyday’ world is full of strange and magical things – and most of them don’t play well with humans. That’s where Harry comes in. Harry has always tried to keep his nose clean where the White Council of Wizards is concerned, but past…
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Turn Coat – Jim Butcher
Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago’s first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the ‘everyday’ world is full of strange and magical things – and most of them don’t play well with humans. That’s where Harry comes in. Harry has always tried to keep his nose clean where the White Council of Wizards is concerned, but past…
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Kiss Heaven Goodbye – Tasmina Perry
A delicious cocktail of glittering escapism and gripping entertainment, KISS HEAVEN GOODBYE is Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Tasmina Perry at her sizzling best… A hot summer. A private island. A dark secret… On the luxurious private island of Angel Cay, four privileged students toast the end of their exams, but one dark night will…
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Kiss Heaven Goodbye – Tasmina Perry
A delicious cocktail of glittering escapism and gripping entertainment, KISS HEAVEN GOODBYE is Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Tasmina Perry at her sizzling best… A hot summer. A private island. A dark secret… On the luxurious private island of Angel Cay, four privileged students toast the end of their exams, but one dark night will…
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The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel: The Warlock – Michael Scott
The fifth book of the enormously successful Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series: Sophie and Josh, the twins of prophecy, have been divided, and the end has begun. The Newman twins have finally been divided. The end is near. In San Francisco, Josh has chosen a side – and he will not stand with…
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Dear Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
An economist’s version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. The Undercover Economist is for anyone who’s wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so…
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Barbarians At The Gate: The Fall Of Rjr Nabisco – Bryan Burrough And John Helyar
“Barbarians at the Gate” has been called one of the most influential business books of all time — the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar’s gripping account of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers…
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The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide To Management – Alan Murray
From The Wall Street Journal comes the definitive guide to management ideas and practices with lasting impact. For decades, understanding management—what works, and what doesn’t—has been the pursuit of the world’s best and brightest. Globally, there are more than 1,500 credible schools offering master’s degrees in business administration, and hundreds of magazines and newspapers and…
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The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide To Management – Alan Murray
From The Wall Street Journal comes the definitive guide to management ideas and practices with lasting impact. For decades, understanding management—what works, and what doesn’t—has been the pursuit of the world’s best and brightest. Globally, there are more than 1,500 credible schools offering master’s degrees in business administration, and hundreds of magazines and newspapers and…
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The Secret Self – Christina Shelly
Since his teenage years, Adam has struggled with a terrible, inescapable truth—he is hiding the secret of a distinctly feminine self from the world. Following a startling adventure with a much loved and very beautiful aunt, Adam spends 12 years nurturing this self in the privacy of his home. But now he has moved to…
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The Secret Self – Christina Shelly
Since his teenage years, Adam has struggled with a terrible, inescapable truth—he is hiding the secret of a distinctly feminine self from the world. Following a startling adventure with a much loved and very beautiful aunt, Adam spends 12 years nurturing this self in the privacy of his home. But now he has moved to…
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Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village,…
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Handle With Care – Jodi Picoult
Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don’t want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they’d been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made…
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Handle With Care – Jodi Picoult
Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don’t want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they’d been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made…
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A Colossal Failure Of Common Sense: The Inside Story Of The Collapse Of Lehman Brothers – Larry Mcdonald With Patrick Robinson
One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of…
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Cold Fire – Dean Koontz
‘There is an Enemy. It is coming. It is relentless.’ Schoolteacher Jim Ironheart flies on an impulse to Portland, Oregon. There he risks his life to save a child from being killed. Reporter Holly Thorne witnesses his heroism, and is impressed by his self-effacement when he declines to be interviewed. Burnt out, cynical, and looking…
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Cold Fire – Dean Koontz
‘There is an Enemy. It is coming. It is relentless.’ Schoolteacher Jim Ironheart flies on an impulse to Portland, Oregon. There he risks his life to save a child from being killed. Reporter Holly Thorne witnesses his heroism, and is impressed by his self-effacement when he declines to be interviewed. Burnt out, cynical, and looking…
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Charmed Life – Diana Wynne Jones
Cat doesn’t mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Frustrated that the witches of the castle refuse to acknowledge her talents, Gwendolen conjures up a scheme that…
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Charmed Life – Diana Wynne Jones
Cat doesn’t mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Frustrated that the witches of the castle refuse to acknowledge her talents, Gwendolen conjures up a scheme that…
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No Impact Man: The Adventures Of A Guilty Liberal Who Attempts To Save The Planet, And The Discoveries He Makes About Himself And Our Way Of Life In The Process – Colin Beavan
What does it really take to live eco-effectively? For one year, Colin Beavan swore off plastic and toxins, turned off his electricity, went organic, became a bicycle nut, and tried to save the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his young daughter and his Prada-wearing wife along for the ride. Together they attempted to make…
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Nemesis – Jo Nesbø
Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is a nail-biting thriller from one of the biggest stars in crime fiction. Grainy closed-circuit television footage shows a man walking into an Oslo bank and putting a gun to a cashier’s head. He tells the young woman to count to twenty-five. When the robber doesn’t get his money in time,…
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The Informant – Kurt Eichenwald
The Informant is Mark Whitacre, a senior executive with America’s most powerful food giant, who put his career and his family’s safety at risk to become a confidential government witness. Using Whitacre’s secret recordings and a team of agents, the FBI uncovered the corporation’s scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers. But…
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A Prisoner Of Birth – Jeffery Archer
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson on any other day, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the prosecution witnesses happen to be a group of four upper-crust college friends—a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established…
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The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee: A Novel – Rebecca Miller
What part of our selves do we hide away in order to have a stable, prosperous life? Pippa Lee has just such a life in place at age fifty, when her older husband, a retired publisher, decides that they should move to a retirement community outside New York City. Pippa is suddenly deprived of the…
