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In this biography of Stalin, the author rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's…
near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, he posits the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions outside of the context of the history of imperial Russia. 2014.
Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help a hated enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, break into a high security vault to steal something…
belonging to the Lord of the Underworld. Sequel to "Cold days". 2014.
In "Stereoblind", no single thing is ever perceived in just one way. Shot through with asymmetry and misconception, the prose…
poems in Emma Healey’s second collection describe a world that’s anxious and skewed, but still somehow familiar--where the past, present, and future overlap, facts are not always true, borders are not always solid, and events seem to write themselves into being. An on-again, off-again real estate sale nudges a quartet of millennial renters into an alternate universe of multiplying signs and wonders; an art show at Ontario Place may or may not be as strange and complex (or even as “real”) as described; the collusion of a hangover and a blizzard carry our narrator on a trancelike odyssey through Bed Bath & Beyond. Using a diverse range of subjects--from pharmaceutical research testing to Tinder--to form an inventory of ontological disturbance, Healey delves moments when the differences between things disappear, and life exceeds its limits. 2018.
Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, believes a young girl has been snatched from an Atlanta…
airport. Soon the entire facility grinds to a halt all because of Will's hunch. But he intends to find the girl--no matter what. 2013.
The most bruising battle in the superhero world isn't between spandex-clad characters; it's between the publishers themselves. For over fifty…
years, Marvel and DC have been locked in an epic war, tirelessly trading punches and trying to do to each other what Batman regularly does to the Joker's face. This book presents the story of the greatest corporate rivalry never told. It is also an alternate history of the superhero, told through the lens of these two publishers. 2017.
April 2003, Iraq. This novel explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra Wigheard, a nineteen-year-old gunner…
on an American Humvee who is captured during a deadly firefight and awakens in a prison cell; Abu Al-Hool, a lifelong mujahideen beset by a simmering crisis of conscience as he struggles against enemies from without and within, including the next wave of far more radicalized jihadists; and Specialist Sleed, a tank crewman who goes along with a "victimless" crime, the consequences of which are more awful than any he could have imagined. 2017.
When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard locked eyes across a run-down bayou bar, something definitely sparked between them. Shaw was…
the kind of tall, dark, and ruthless man who was bad news to women and stunning, elegant Jordie definitely shouldn't have been in a dive like this. Unfortunately, romance wasn't in the air; Shaw Kinnard was there to kill her. As Shaw's partner takes aim at the New Orleans party planner, she's certain her time has come, but Shaw has other plans. The hit man abducts Jordie hoping to get his hands on the thirty million dollars her brother has stolen. Now on the run from the FBI and her brother's crooked boss, they'll have to work together to stay alive, but staying together might be the most dangerous thing they could do. Bestseller. 2016.
Hidden in Graystone Manor is a book containing all the dark secrets of Harmony Harbor, and Ava DiRossi is determined…
to find it. No one - especially not her ex-husband, Griffin Gallagher - can ever discover what really tore her life apart all those years ago. With Griffin back in town, it’s more important than ever that she find the book before someone else does, because her ex is still angry with her for leaving him - and he still has no idea Ava never stopped loving him. Ava is no longer the vibrant, happy woman Griffin had once loved and married, and he would do anything to bring back the sparkle to her brilliant green eyes. But what’s never changed are the sexy sparks of attraction between Ava and Griffin, and he won’t give her up again without a fight. Sequel to "Mistletoe Cottage". 2017.
Siglufjördur: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland where no one locks their doors--accessible only via a small mountain…
tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavík--with a past that he's unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theater, Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one and secrets and lies are a way of life. Past plays tag with the present and the claustrophobic tension mounts as Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness--blinded by snow and with a killer on the loose. 2017. Uniform title: Snjoblinda.
Sixteen-year-old Jimi knows people change, but nothing could prepare her for what's about to happen to her best friend, Del.…
Del is obsessed with becoming a chimera: a person who pays back-alley geneticists, known as "genies," to illegally splice animal genes into their own. The resulting physical changes have scared lawmakers into drafting legislation declaring chimeras officially nonpersons, so when Del goes missing, Jimi is desperate to find him before he alters himself forever. As she tries to save him, Jimi must face down unscrupulous people and risk her own life, all while knowing that if getting spliced is the choice Del has made, it means he's leaving her behind forever. For senior high readers. 2017.
More than a comedian and improv genius, Stephen Colbert delights fans with his wit, audacity, and innovative uses of language…
and the media. In this biography, journalist Bruce Watson charts Colbert's development. 2017.
American heiress Emma Dunster has always been fun-loving and independent with no wish to settle into marriage. She plans to…
enjoy her Season in London in more unconventional ways than husband-hunting. But this time Emma's high-jinks lead her into dangerous temptation. Alexander Ridgely, the Duke of Ashbourne, is a notorious rake who carefully avoids the risk of love until he plants one reckless kiss on the sensuous lips of this high-spirited innocent and condemns himself to delicious torment. Little does he know that his passion has touched the very soul of the lovely enchantress, and committed them both to a lifetime of splendid ecstasy. 2016.
New York attorney Stone Barrington reaps the whirlwind after advising a walk-in client how to live safely on several million…
dollars in ill-gotten gains. Sequel to "Doing hard time", followed by "Carnal curiosity". 2014.
On Christmas Eve, a woman arrives in town to talk to Sheriff Walt Longmire and his predecessor Lucian Connally. They…
do not recognize her - until she reminds them about a blizzard on Christmas Eve, 1988, when they used a vintage plane called Steamboat to save her life. Some strong language. Sequel to "Serpent's tooth", followed by "Any other name". 2013.
British teenager Georgia continues her quest for a boyfriend. In her journal she records her feelings for sexy Italian Masimo,…
her old mate Dave, and her ex-crush Robbie. Meanwhile, she prepares for a school play and a Viking wedding and copes with her quirky family. Senior High. 2007.
After moving to Texas, 18-year-old Reagan Truman finally feels like she has a place where she belongs--and she isn't willing…
to let anything put that at risk. But when her life is imperiled, and the town teams up to save her, Reagan learns the true value of trusting the love in her heart. Sequel to "Welcome to Harmony", followed by "The comforts of home". 2011.
Approached by an Israeli police officer who is tailing a man in possession of a stolen religious relic, Virgil Flowers…
learns that the artifact reveals startling details about the biblical King Solomon and that dangerous rivals are killing everyone who would protect it. 2013.
As manager of an elementary school cafeteria, middle-aged Margaret Tuttle is objective and self-contained. She has no interest in emotions…
or attachments to those around her. But when Birdie Freeman begins to work for Margaret, things begin to change. 2001.