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Steel, Danielle

Hurricane Ophelia is bearing down on New York City. And in a matter of hours, six people, along with their families, friends, and millions of other New Yorkers living around them, will be caught up in the horrific flooding it unleashes. Ellen Wharton has flown into New York from London, regardless of the weather and her husband's worry. The successful interior designer is inten...

Steel, Danielle

They come together by chance in the heart of New York City, four young women at turning points in their lives. Claire Kelly finds the walk-up apartment—a spacious loft in Hell's Kitchen. But the aspiring shoe designer needs at least one roommate to manage it. She meets Abby Williams, a writer trying to make it on her own, far away from her successful family in L.A. Four years l...

Steel, Danielle

Meyer, Stephenie

In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, the...

Brown, Dan

Dan Brown ha escrito su novela más apasionante y controvertida hasta la fecha. Inferno es una lectura absolutamente entretenida. El profesor de simbología Robert Langdon se despierta en un hospital en mitad de la noche, desorientado y con una herida en la cabeza. No recuerda nada de las últimas treinta y seis horas. Ni cómo ha llegado hasta allí, ni el origen del macabro objeto...

Mankell, Henning

Una noche de otoño, Fredrik Welin —el protagonista de la exitosa novela Zapatos italianos— se despierta cuando un incendio arrasa su casa. A sus sesenta y nueve años, este solitario médico jubilado sale penosamente de entre las llamas, calzado con unas botas de lluvia (pero ambas pertenecen al pie izquierdo). Sólo quedan, a la mañana siguiente, unas ruinas malolientes: ha perdi...

Mankell, Henning

Fredrik Welin, médico retirado, vive solo y alejado del mundo en una isla junto a la costa sueca; pero su reclusión voluntaria se ve perturbada un día por la llegada de un antiguo amor al que abandonó en el pasado. Se trata de Harriet, quien, gravemente enferma, ha venido a pedirle que cumpla una antigua promesa de juventud: llevarla a una laguna del norte del país. Con su pres...

Le Carre, John

Dos jóvenes enamorados se encuentran en el oscuro sótano de una casa anónima en Bloomsbury. En la misma habitación están sentados dos miembros del servicio de inteligencia británico que buscan información. Perry y Gail acaban de regresar de unas vacaciones en el Caribe, donde conocieron al misterioso Dima, un millonario ruso que teme por su propia vida y que cree que sólo podrá...

Brontë, Emily

Brontë, Emily

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece, an iconic fable of guilt and redemption set in Puritan Massachusetts, has long been considered one of the greatest American novels. The story of Hester Prynne—found out in adultery, pilloried by her Puritan community, and abandoned, in different ways, by both her partner in sin and her vengeance-seeking husband—possesses a reality heightened b...

Poe, Edgar Allan

A new selection for the NEA's Big Read programA compact selection of Poe's greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program.This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller's art as "The Tell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado,...

Wilde, Oscar

Twain, Mark

Mark Twain's satiric novel about two boys who trade places in Tudor England--written "for young people of all ages"--was his first foray into historical fiction. Set in 1547, The Prince and the Pauper brings together Tom Canty, an impoverished urchin who lives with his abusive father in London's filthiest streets, and pampered Prince Edward, the son of King Henry VIII. Noticing...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Douglas Adams / Adams, Douglas

In Life, the Universe and Everything, the third title in Douglas Adams' blockbusting sci-fi comedy series, Arthur Dent finds himself enlisted to prevent a galactic war."Wild satire . . . the feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes." Chicago Tribune"Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has re...

Lee Child

Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat ... but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing colleague, a cryptic note about two hundred d...

Wendig, Chuck

"Star Wars: Aftermath [reveals] what happened after the events of 1983's Return of the Jedi. It turns out, there's more than just the Empire for the good guys to worry about."—The Hollywood Reporter As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance—now a fledgling New Republic—presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy's scattered for...

Lagercrantz, David

One of the Best Books of the Year NPR * USA Today * O, The Oprah Magazine * Esquire A genius hacker who has always been an outsider. A journalist with a penchant for danger. She is Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo. He is Mikael Blomkvist, crusading editor of Millennium. One night, Blomkvist receives a call from a source who claims to have been given information...

Swan Huntley

A spellbinding psychological debut novel, Swan Huntley's We Could Be Beautiful is the story of a wealthy woman who has everything—and yet can trust no one. Catherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immaculate Manhattan apartment, she collects fine art, she buys exquisite handbags and clothing, and she constantly redecorates her home. A...

Alexandra Oliva

Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva's fast-paced novel of suspense. She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, some...

Lindsey Lee Johnson

C.a. Belmond

Douglas Adams

Steel, Danielle

Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman—the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art dealer—as his second wife. In two marriages, he fathered a challenging son and three very different daughters. But as irresponsible as he was irresistible, he ultimately shrugged off the deman...

Steel, Danielle

It starts on a summer evening, with the kind of magic found only in Paris. Once a year in the City of Light, a lavish dinner takes place outside a spectacular landmark—the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame . . . a new setting each time. Selected by secret invitation, the guests arrive dressed in white, with tables and chairs, white linens, flowers, fine china, sparkling crys...

David Mitchell

Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't. Every nine years, the house's residen...

Alexander Freed

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED • A companion novel inspired by the hotly anticipated videogame Star Wars: Battlefront, this action-packed adventure follows a squad of soldiers caught in the trenches of the ultimate galactic war between good and evil.The bravest soldiers. The toughest warriors. The ultimate survivors.Among the stars and across the vast expan...

Jo Nesbo

One night, after the year's first snowfall, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day.Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and a suspicious letter he's received. The ca...

Fink, Joseph

This includes the episodes from season two of the podcast, in which we witness a totalitarian takeover of Night Vale that threatens to forever change the town and everyone living in it, and offers both an entertaining reading experience as well as a valuable reference guide to past episodes. ...