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Nearest Exit- Olen Steinhauer
Milo Weaver has nowhere to turn but back to the CIA in Olen Steinhauer’s brilliant follow-up to the New York Times bestselling espionage novel The Tourist The Tourist,
Steinhauer’s first contemporary novel after his awardwinning historical
series, was a runaway hit, spending three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and garnering rave reviews from critics. Now
faced with the end of his quiet, settled life, reluctant spy Milo
Weaver has no choice but to turn back to his old job as a “tourist.”
Before he can get back to the CIA’s dirty work, he has to prove his
loyalty to his new bosses, who know little of Milo’s background and less
about who is really pulling the strings in the government above the
Department of Tourism—or in the outside world, which is beginning to
believe the legend of its existence. Milo is suddenly in a dangerous
position, between right and wrong, between powerful self-interested men,
between patriots and traitors—especially as a man who has nothing left
to lose.
Kings of the Earth - Jon Clinch
We’re told that there are seven deadly sins; not on the
list is the deadliest of them all: Betrayal. For each of the detectives
at the agency, a betrayal—personal, against a child, against the
elderly—becomes not only the driving force behind an investigation, but
the source of the kind of resolve that cannot be derailed by threats of
any kind. Tamara’s case began as something personal but
explodes as her investigation of her former lover Lucas Zeller leads to a
scam bilking charities in the name of helping the homeless and
indigent. For Nameless, with a case he doesn't want but can't turn
down, trying to find out who is gaslighting an old woman only exposes
the ugly side of family. When he goes home, tired and annoyed, he
discovers that his adopted daughter, Emily, has a secret of her own.
Runyon has a different difficulty: his case of a bailjumper with some
bad family ties is easy enough as these things go, but he’s being
confronted by a demon that is going to try to force him into a
betrayal…. Three people who care, three people devoted to helping
others trying to help themselves, three people finding themselves in a
world of hurt because of the betrayers.
The Long Song - Andrea Levy
Small Island introduced Andrea Levy to America and was acclaimed as “a triumph” (San Francisco Chronicle). It won both the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. With The Long Song, Levy once again reinvents the historical novel.
Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The Long Song is
at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the
Amity sugar plantation, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Caroline
Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her
into the great house and rename her “Marguerite.”
Resourceful
and mischievous, July soon becomes indispensable to her mistress.
Together they live through the bloody Baptist war, followed by the
violent and chaotic end of slavery. Taught to read and write so that she
can help her mistress run the business, July remains bound to the
plantation despite her “freedom.” It is the arrival of a young English
overseer, Robert Goodwin, that will dramatically change life in the
great house for both July and her mistress. Prompted and provoked by her
son’s persistent questioning, July’s resilience and heartbreak are
gradually revealed in this extraordinarily powerful story of slavery,
revolution, freedom, and love.
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke - Sally Gunning
On the eve of the Revolutionary War, a young woman is
caught between tradition and independence, family and conscience,
loyalty and love, in this spellbinding novel from the author of The Widow's War and Bound
Jane Clarke leads a simple yet rich life in the small village of
Satucket on Cape Cod. The vibrant scent of the ocean breeze, the stark
beauty of the dunes, the stillness of the millpond are among the daily
joys she treasures. Her days are full attending to her father's needs,
minding her younger siblings, working with the local midwife. But at
twenty-two, Jane knows things will change. Someday, perhaps soon, she
will be expected to move out of her father's home and start a household
of her own. Yet some things—including the bitter feud between
her father and a fellow miller named Winslow—appear likely to remain the
same. When the dispute erupts into a shocking act of violence, Jane's
lifelong trust in her father is shaken. Adding to her unease is Phinnie
Paine, the young man Jane's father has picked out as son-in-law as well
as business partner. When Jane defies her father and refuses to accept
Phinnie's marriage proposal, she is sent away to Boston to make her
living as she can. Arriving in this strange, bustling city
awash with red coats and rebellious fervor, Jane plunges into new
conflicts and carries with her old ones she'd hoped to leave behind.
Father against daughter, Clarke against Winslow, loyalist against rebel,
command against free will—the battles are complicated when her growing
attachment to her frail aunt, her friendship with the bookseller Henry
Knox, and the unexpected kindness of the British soldiers pit her
against the townspeople who taunt them and her own beloved brother,
Nate, a law clerk working for John Adams. But when Jane
witnesses British soldiers killing five colonists on a cold March
evening in 1770, an event now dubbed "the Boston Massacre," she must
question seeming truths and face one of the most difficult choices of
her life, alone except for the two people who continue to stand by
her—her grandparents Lyddie and Eben Freeman. Grippingly
rendered, filled with some of the lesser known but most influential
figures of America's struggle for independence—John and Samuel Adams,
Henry Knox, James Otis—The Rebellion of Jane Clarke is a compelling story of one woman's struggle to find her own place and leave her own mark on a new country as it is born.
Ice Cold - Tess Gerritsen
New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen’s relentless,
inventive novels take readers on pulse-racing thrill rides that are as
satisfying as they are heart-stopping. Now, in this edge-of-your-seat
suspense novel, a mysteriously isolated town stands abandoned as a
silent watcher waits.
In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston
medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a
spur-of-the-moment ski trip. But when their SUV stalls on a snow-choked
mountain road, they’re stranded with no help in sight.
As night
falls, the group seeks refuge from the blizzard in the remote village of
Kingdom Come, where twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and
abandoned. Something terrible has happened in Kingdom Come: Meals sit
untouched on tables, cars are still parked in garages. The town’s
previous residents seem to have vanished into thin air, but footprints
in the snow betray the presence of someone who still lurks in the cold
darkness—someone who is watching Maura and her friends.
Days
later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news
that Maura’s charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked
and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend.
The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come,
where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow. As horrifying
revelations come to light, Jane closes in on an enemy both powerful and
merciless—and the chilling truth about Maura’s fate.
 Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery - Christopher Fowler
Murder doesn’t get more peculiar than this. A lonely hearts
killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most
well-known pubs. What’s even more peculiar, Arthur Bryant happened to
see the latest victim only moments before her death—at a pub torn down eighty years ago!
It’s only the beginning of a case littered with clues that defy
everything the veteran detectives know about the profiles of serial
killers and the methodology of crime.
What do the Knights
Templars, the secret history of English pubs, and the discovery of an
astounding religious relic have to do with this recent crime spree? More
important, do the Peculiar Crimes Unit’s two living legends have enough
life left in them to stop a murderous conspiracy…and a deadly cupid
targeting one of their own?
Real Food Has Curves - Mark Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough
Dumping the fake stuff and relishing real food will make you feel
better, help you drop pounds, and most importantly, take all the fear
out of what you eat. Does that sound too good to be true? It
isn’t—despite the fact that lately we’ve given up ripe vegetables for
the canned stuff; tossed out sweet, tart orange juice for pasteurized
concentrate; traded fresh fish for boil-in-a-bag dinners; and replaced
real desserts with supersweet snacks that make us feel ridiculously
overfed but definitely disappointed. The result? Most of us are
overweight or obese—or heading that way; more and more of us suffer from
diabetes, clogged arteries, and even bad knees. We eat too much of the
fake stuff, yet we’re still hungry. And not satisfied. Who hasn’t tried to change all that? Who hasn’t walked into a supermarket and thought, I’m going to eat better from now on?
So you load your cart with whole-grain crackers, fish fillets, and
asparagus. Sure, you have a few barely satisfying meals before you
think, Hey, life’s too short for this! And soon enough, you’re back to square one. For real change, you need a real plan. It’s in your hands. Real Food Has Curves is
a fun and ultimately rewarding seven-step journey to rediscover the
basic pleasure of fresh, well-prepared natural ingredients: curvy,
voluptuous, juicy, sweet, savory. And yes, scrumptious, too. In these
simple steps—each with its own easy, delicious recipes—you’ll learn to
become a better shopper, savor your meals, and eat your way to a better
you. Yes, you’ll drop pounds. But you won’t be counting calories.
Instead, you’ll learn to celebrate the abundance all around. It’s time
to realize that food is not the enemy but a life-sustaining gift. It’s
time to get off the processed and packaged merry-go-round. It’s time to
be satisfied, nourished, thinner, and above all, happier. It’s time for
real food. Shape your waist, rediscover real food, and find new
pleasure in every meal as Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough teach you
how to:• Eat to be satisfied• Recognize the fake and kick it to the
curb• Learn to relish the big flavors you’d forgotten• Get healthier and
thinner • Save money and time in your food budget• Decode the lies of
deprivation diets• Relish every minute, every bite, and all of life REAL FOOD. REAL CHANGE. REAL EASY.
Fur, Fortune and Empire - Eric Jay Dolin
From the best-selling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries.
As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his
name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in
his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What became
immediately apparent, however, from the Indians clad in deer skins and
“good furs” was that Hudson had discovered something just as
tantalizing.
The news of Hudson’s 1609 voyage to America
ignited a fierce competition to lay claim to this uncharted continent,
teeming with untapped natural resources. The result was the creation of
an American fur trade, which fostered economic rivalries and fueled
wars among the European powers, and later between the United States and
Great Britain, as North America became a battleground for colonization
and imperial aspirations.
In Fur, Fortune, and Empire,
best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the
fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was “get the furs while they
last.” Beavers, sea otters, and buffalos were slaughtered, used for
their precious pelts that were tailored into extravagant hats, coats,
and sleigh blankets. To read Fur, Fortune, and Empire then is to
understand how North America was explored, exploited, and settled, while
its native Indians were alternately enriched and exploited by the
trade. As Dolin demonstrates, fur, both an economic elixir and an agent
of destruction, became inextricably linked to many key events in
American history, including the French and Indian War, the American
Revolution, and the War of 1812, as well as to the relentless pull of
Manifest Destiny and the opening of the West.
This work
provides an international cast beyond the scope of any Hollywood epic,
including Thomas Morton, the rabble-rouser who infuriated the Pilgrims
by trading guns with the Indians; British explorer Captain James Cook,
whose discovery in the Pacific Northwest helped launch America’s China
trade; Thomas Jefferson who dreamed of expanding the fur trade beyond
the Mississippi; America’s first multimillionaire John Jacob Astor, who
built a fortune on a foundation of fur; and intrepid mountain men such
as Kit Carson and Jedediah Smith, who sliced their way through an awe
inspiring and unforgiving landscape, leaving behind a mythic legacy
still resonates today.
Concluding with the virtual extinction of the buffalo in the late 1800s, Fur, Fortune, and Empire
is an epic history that brings to vivid life three hundred years of the
American experience, conclusively demonstrating that the fur trade
played a seminal role in creating the nation we are today. 16 pages of
color and 16 pages of black-and-white illustration.
 Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World - Mark Frauenfelder
From his unique vantage point as editor-in-chief of MAKE
magazine, the hub of the newly invigorated do-it-yourself movement, Mark
Frauenfelder takes readers on an inspiring and surprising tour of the
vibrant world of DIY. The Internet has brought together large
communities of people who share ideas, tips, and blueprints for making
everything from unmanned aerial vehicles to pedal- powered iPhone
chargers to an automatic cat feeder jury-rigged from a VCR.
DIY
is a direct reflection of our basic human desire to invent and improve,
long suppressed by the availability of cheap, mass-produced products
that have drowned us in bland convenience and cultivated our most
wasteful habits.
Frauenfelder spent a year trying a variety of
offbeat projects such as keeping chickens and bees, tricking out his
espresso machine, whittling wooden spoons, making guitars out of cigar
boxes, and doing citizen science with his daughters in the garage. His
whole family found that DIY helped them take control of their lives,
offering a path that was simple, direct, and clear. Working with their
hands and minds helped them feel more engaged with the world around
them.
Frauenfelder also reveals how DIY is changing our culture
for the better. He profiles fascinating "alpha makers" leading various
DIY movements and grills them for their best tips and insights.
Beginning his journey with hands as smooth as those of a typical geek,
Frauenfelder offers a unique perspective on how earning a few calluses
can be far more rewarding and satisfying than another trip to the mall.
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