historical novel is based on the Penobscot Expedition of the American Revolution, during which colonial ships and infantry were decimated by a small Scottish force, a battle that propelled the career of 18-year-old Scottish lieutenant John Moore …
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historical novel is based on the Penobscot Expedition of the American Revolution, during which colonial ships and infantry were decimated by a small Scottish force, a battle that propelled the career of 18-year-old Scottish lieutenant John Moore …
Our Kind of Traitor (Hardcover)
Vacationing at a posh tennis resort in Antigua, Perry and Gail are recruited by big-time Russian money launderer Dima to help him defect, an arrangement for which Dima promises to expose financial corruption but renders the hapless couple pawns …
Book DetailsISBN: 9780399156625Author: Robin CookPublisher: Penguin Group USADate Published: August 10, 2010Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.612 kgFree Delivery on BooksThis book will be delivered for free. It will be shipped priority to you from …
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
Book DetailsISBN: 9780618706419Author: Tim O'BrienPublisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtDate Published: October 13, 2009Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.249 kgDimensions: 13.34 x 19.69 x 1.91 cmFree Delivery on BooksThis book will be delivered for …
When his beloved younger wife and protege is rendered a top player in the international art scene, proud Marius introduces her to a leading journalist to cover her life story, unaware that an instant connection between his wife and the journalist …
Freedom (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how …
After his estranged soldier son, Danny, is charged with murder while serving in Iraq, Tom Bedford must come to terms with his own past--during which a shocking act of violence ended his parents' idyllic Hollywood union--if he is going to help …
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Paperback)
Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by her powerful family, her uncle, convinced that she had been murdered by someone from her own deeply dysfunctional clan, hires journalist Mikael …
While trying to deal with her mini-terror 2-year-old, financially strapped Becky Brandon attempts to plan a surprise party on a budget for her husband, Luke, and starts to come apart at the seams as she juggles the party, her precocious child and …
The lives of four strangers are thrown into chaos over an enormous, stolen desk, including an antique dealer in Jerusalem, a man in London and an American novelist who inherited it from a poet and victim of Pinochet's secret police.The lives of …
Despite job stress and a crumbling home life, workaholic businessman Lou Suffern gives Gabe, a homeless man, a job in his company's mail room; but the mysterious Gabe seems be in two places at once and he's meddling in Lou's private affairs…
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project against a …
The women of the Sisterhood find life after retirement to be too calm and peaceful, and when they reunite for a celebration in Las Vegas, they're called upon by the president to track down the wanted criminal Hank Jellicoe.Book DetailsISBN: …
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger …
young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married.Book DetailsISBN: 9780743273565Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldPublisher: Simon & SchusterDate Published: September 30, 2004Binding …
Frankenstein's Monster (Paperback)
sequel to Mary Shelley's classic finds Frankenstein's monster in the bitter landscape of the North Pole, where he works to discover his humanity while avoiding ship captain Robert Walton, who has vowed to destroy Victor Frankenstein's creation. …
Presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both women.The Somerset Maugham Award-winning author of …
Frustrated by her son's efforts to move her into assisted living, septuagenarian Daisy Phillips discovers a forgotten watch that once belonged to a lost love, a finding that prompts her visit to America to track down her former fiance and her …
Mary Ann in Autumn (Hardcover)
After suffering personal calamities in New York, Mary Ann Singleton moves back to San Francisco after being gone for 20 years and begins to slowly rebuild her life, only to confront fresh terrors when her past comes back to haunt her. By the …
The Death of the Adversary (Paperback)
Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II and first published in 1959, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated obsessed by an unnamed adversary, whom he watches rise to power in …
'Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Susie, a mother of four-year-old triplets, bristles at her neighbors' mixed reactions and tackles everyone from her husband's partners to the DA to …
Book DetailsISBN: 9781565126084Author: Brock ClarkePublisher: Workman Pub CoDate Published: October 5, 2010Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.544 kgDimensions: 16.51 x 23.5 x 3.18 cmFree Delivery on BooksThis book will be delivered for free. It …
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Hardcover)
Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to …
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Paperback)
Harriet Vanger, scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families, disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel …
The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback)
Caught in an impossible-to-resolve situation that spans the boundaries of temporal reality, this tale of a plucky librarian who is accidentally cast back in time focuses on the romantic complications of time travel. Movie Tie-in. Reissue. …
Kingsolver's ambitious new novel, her first in nine years (after the The Poisonwood Bible), focuses on Harrison William Shepherd, the product of a divorced American father and a Mexican mother. After getting kicked out of his American military …
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
After stumbling upon his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork and being blamed for the killing, fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, an autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, decides to track down the real …
Lyfe is a black Adonis and one of the most powerful businessmen in the country. But there’s a catch: His superior is his gorgeous wife Payton, who “discovered” Lyfe when he was a mere delivery man and brought him from the mean streets to the …
Presents a retelling of Henry James's 'The Ambassadors' that follows the efforts of divorced schoolteacher Bea Nightingale to navigate a turbulent year spent with her estranged brother's family.The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning …
Devastated by her teenage daughter's pregnancy, single mother and high school principal Susan Tate is targeted by unfair criticism when the pregnancies of additional teens are rumored to be part of a pact. By the best-selling author of Family …