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The Honorary Consul
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Graham Greene |
In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American … |
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Phineas Redux
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Anthony Trollope |
*The Palliser Novels*, book 4: *Phineas Redux* |
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King Coal
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Upton Sinclair |
**King Coal** is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single … |
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The Crazed
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Ha Jin |
"In his new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of contemporary Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, l… |
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Diamondhead
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Patrick Robinson |
From the author of the critically acclaimed Admiral Morgan series comes a topical, provocative, military thriller that marks the start of a brand-new series starring Navy SEAL Mack Bedford. |
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The Founding Five
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Maud Muller |
Angered by Barry Goldwater’s defeat in the 1964 Presidential election, five wealthy and powerful men devise a plan to get the country moving in the right direction. Their plan is a brilliant one and … |
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One Knight Only
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Peter David |
King Arthur--in his modern incarnation as Arthur Penn--has been elected President of the United States. But with political power comes powerful enemies. An assassination attempt against Arthur puts h… |
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The October killings
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Wessel Ebersohn |
(a Yudel Gordon novel)
The OCTOBER KILLINGS is the fourth novel in which prison psychologist Yudel Gordon appears, although in this one he is not the main character. The action in the first three … |
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The teeth of the tiger
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Tom Clancy |
When a terrorist leader and a drug warlord form a dangerous alliance, three new Hendley Associates agents--FBI agent Dominic Caruso, his Marine captain brother Brian, and their cousin, Jack Ryan, Jr.… |
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No saints or angels
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Ivan Klíma |
"Kristyna, a dentist, lives in Prague with her unruly teenage daughter, Jana. Born on one of the most momentous days of the last century - the day Stalin died - Kristyna's life seems full of uncertai… |
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The mark of the assassin
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Daniel Silva |
When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the East Coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling… |
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Thinner, blonder, whiter
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Elizabeth Maguire |
"Julie Moran is at the pinnacle of book publishing and at the center of New York City's cultural scene. The editor of the country's most prominent African-American writers, Julia is the white queen o… |
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Crossbones
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Nuruddin Farah |
"A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old f… |
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David's story
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Zoë Wicomb |
"Unfolding in 1991 South Africa, at the moment of Nelson Mandela's release, the novel explores the underground world of activists, spies, and saboteurs in the liberation movement - a world seldom rev… |
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House secrets
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Lawson, Michael |
When Joe DeMarco is asked by the Speaker of the House to probe the apparent accidental death of a reporter who was trailing presidential hopeful Senator Paul Morelli, dirty secrets and divided loyalt… |
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When She Woke
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Hillary Jordan |
In the future, abortion has become a crime as a series of events threatens the existence of the United States. One woman wakes up to discover that her skin color has been changed to red as punishment… |
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The Bellarosa connection
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Saul Bellow |
A novella by the Nobel Prize-winning American novelist whose other novels include "The Adventures of Augie March" and "Herzog". The book is an exploration of the meaning of memory and the central cha… |
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Angels of vengeance
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Birmingham, John |
"When an inexplicable wave of energy slammed into North America, millions died. In the rest of the world, wars erupted, borders vanished, and the powerful lost their grip on power. Against this backd… |
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The race
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Richard North Patterson |
**Can an honest man become president? In this timely and provocative novel, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics.**
Corey Grace--a ha… |
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Los informantes
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez |
When Gabriel Santoro's biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke … |
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