Recent Acquisitions
From beloved, bestselling historical novelist Tracy Chevalier, whose mega-hit Girl with a Pearl Earring enchanted readers around the world, comes a poignant, unforgettable adaptation of Othello set in the fierce world of preadolescent children, where the grown-up forces of love and jealousy, and the hurt of being ostracized, can be as real and as devastating as for any adult. “O felt her presence behind him like a fire at his back.” Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat’s son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day–so he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can’t stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players–teachers and pupils alike–will never be the same again. The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard, where kids fall in and out of love with each other before lunchtime, and practice a casual racism picked up from their parents and teachers. Taking us vividly into the lives and emotions of four eleven-year-olds–Osei, Dee, Ian and his reluctant “girlfriend” Mimi–Tracy Chevalier’s powerful drama of friends torn apart by jealousy, bullying and betrayal will leave you reeling.
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974 twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. A stranger calls to Gwendy: “Hey, girl. Come on over here for a bit. We ought to palaver, you and me.” On a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black coat like for a suit, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat.
An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy’s personal assistant and occasional nanny—and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady.
When Russia constructs its most dangerous weapon since the atomic bomb and launches carefully plotted attacks on unsuspecting U.S. and European targets, Brad McLanahan and his Scion team arm themselves with the world’s most advanced technological weaponry to prevent a full-scale cyber war.
In this book, Limbaugh combines the four Gospel stories into a unified account and guides readers on a faith journey through the Four Evangelists’ testimonies of the life of Jesus Christ. Along the way, Limbaugh shares his insights on Jesus’ words and deeds as well as His unique nature as fully human and fully divine. In The True Jesus, you will learn: Why even the apostles failed to completely understand Jesus’ true identity and mission until after his crucifixion. Why Jesus selectively revealed His divinity instead of consistently proclaiming it. The real basis for the rejection of Jesus’ message by skeptics in His hometown and elsewhere. The historic events preceding Jesus’ birth that providentially paved the way for Christianity. How Jesus’ message utterly contradicted modern attempts to portray him as being non-judgmental. Who really is the true Jesus? Open this book and begin your odyssey toward the answer.
One enchanted summer, two couples begin a friendship that will last more than twenty years and transform their lives. A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston’s most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts, Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship–and flirt with an unexpected attraction–of their own. Year after year, Adam, Eliza, Eve, and Carl eagerly await their reunion at Wild Dunes, a condominium complex at the island’s tip end, where they grow closer with each passing day, building a friendship that will withstand financial catastrophe, family tragedy, and devastating heartbreak. The devotion and love they share will help them weather the vagaries of time and enrich their lives as circumstances change, their children grow up and leave home, and their twilight years approach.
June, 1950: the North Korean army, a formidable force backed by Soviet arms and training, invades South Korea, with the intent of uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops. But the US is no better equipped than their allies. The American and United nations troops are fighting for their lives against the most brutal weather conditions imaginable, and an enemy that outnumbers them more than six to one. This struggle, and how the Americans respond, form the core of this novel. The Frozen Hours tells the story of “Frozen Chosin” from multiple points of view: Oliver P. Smith, the commanding general of the American 1st Marine Division, who famously redefined defeat as “advancing in a different direction”; Marine Private Pete Riley, a World War II veteran who now faces the greatest fight of his life; and the Chinese commander Sung Shi-Lun, charged with destroying the Americans he has so completely surrounded, ever aware that above him, Chairman Mao Tse-Tung watches his every move.
Un cuerpo extranamente envuelto en un pano inusual acaba de ser descubierto y se sospecha que la identidad es de Gail Shipton, estudiante de posgrado de ingenieria informatica, vista por ultima vez la noche anterior en un bar de moda en Cambridge. Al parecer fue asesinada pocas semanas antes del juicio por una demanda de $100.000.000 contra su ex gerente financiero. Ahora el medico forense Kay Scarpetta de Massachusetts, duda que sea una coincidencia. Tambien teme que el caso pueda tener una relacion con su sobrina Lucy, genio en informatica.
En Edilean, Virginia, Sara Shaw aguarda con impaciencia el día de su boda con el seductor Greg Anders. Pero apenas tres semanas antes de la ceremonia, Greg recibe una llamada telefónica en plena noche y se va sin dar ninguna explicación. Dos días después, Sara ve, azorada, que un hombre se cuela en su apartamento. El int ruso dice llamarse Mike Newland y asegura ser el hermano de su mejor amiga. En realidad, es un policía de incógnito y su misión consiste en valerse de Sara para localizar a una mujer que no solo es una de las delincuentes más buscadas de Estados Unidos– sino la madre del hombre con quien Sara pretende casarse. Aunque Newland siempre se ha esforzado por mantener en secreto los lazos que lo unen a Edilean, a medida que él y Sara van conociéndose mejor, no puede evitar compartir con esta algunos de sus secretos, secretos que no ha contado nunca a nadie.
Rani Patel, almost seventeen and living on remote Moloka’i island, is oppressed by the cultural norms of her Gujarati immigrant parents. But when Mark, an older man, draws her into new experiences, red flags abound.