The first book introduces the audience to several of the main characters in the series. Opening with a horrific crime that is the catalyst for events that takes place throughout the storyline. The main character is Eli Booth who runs an intricate network of criminal masterminds and leaders from every prison gang. The work of the network spreads from prison to prison as they attack law enforcement at it's core. The law enforcement community doesn't put the pieces together because the crimes...

**NOW A NETFLIX SERIES, DEPT. Q—STARRING MATTHEW GOODE, CHLOE PIRRIE, AND ALEXJE MANVELOV!Get to know the detective in charge of Copenhagen's coldest cases in the first electrifying Department Q mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen.**Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last ...

Bestselling author David Levithan (Every Day; Boy Meets Boy; Will Grayson, Will Grayson with John Green) treats the tragic events of September 11th with care and compassion in this novel of loss and grief, but also of hope and redemption.First there is a Before, and then there is an After. . . .The lives of three teens—Claire, Jasper, and Peter—are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Claire, a high school junior, has t...

This psychological thriller of a North Korean spy living in Seoul is "perhaps the most intriguing and accomplished Korean fiction yet to appear in English " ( Kirkus).Foreign film importer Kim Ki-Yong is a family man with a wife and daughter. Living a prosperous life in Seoul, South Korea, he's an aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi. But he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Then, a...

“[A] rich read, part allegory, part a tale of retribution, part an exploration of honor, love, sex, marriage, war…an important and courageous book.”—Khaled Hosseini“An expansive work of literature” that portrays the oppressive nature of Afghan society toward women (New York Post)In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs the plight of those who confide in it. It is belie...

Henry meets Christa on the west tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, just as they're both about to jump off and kill themselves. Despite his paralyzing depression--and her panic over a second bout of cancer--they can't go through with their plans knowing that the other is going to die. So they make a pact--they'll stay alive for 24 hours, and try to convince each other to live. From the Staten Island Ferry to Chinatown to the Museum of Modern Art--Henry and Christa embark on a New York C...

Reese Larkin is desperate to find the perfect mattress. His job is in jeopardy and he's been forced to separate from his wife and children, but he believes that if he can find the ultimate sleep system his life will begin anew.In her seventh novel, Cordelia Strube grabs readers by the neuroses with a dark but wickedly fun story about a former Greenpeace activist forced to turn marketeer who battles against a world in which he is confronted by shift mattress sales clerks, a Fred and...

At twenty-years-old, Robin MacKenzie is waiting for his life to start. Waiting until his summer working at a Philly restaurant is over and he's back with his boyfriend Peter. . .until the spring semester when he'll travel to London for an acting program. . .until the moment when the confidence he fakes starts to feel real."Engaging. . .capturing intimately the mood of the period." –Publishers WeeklyThen, one hot June weekend, Robin gets dumped by his boyfriend and ...

Marge Piercy carries her portrait of the American experience back into the Fifties—that closed, repressive time in which forces for the upheavals of the Sixties ticked away underground. Spanning twenty years, and teeming with vivid characters, Braided Lives tells the powerful, unsentimental story of two young women coming of age.Jill, fiercely independent, dark, Jewish, an intellectual with Detroit street smarts, is a poet, curious, avid of life—a “professional student” an...

I Want To Have Sex With You is a light-hearted and humorous look into some of the words and actions men portray in order to simply get laid. It's a well-known fact that men constantly have sex on the brain and everything in life seems to lead to wanting sex. This novelty book takes a look at some typical scenarios where males are hoping to get sex and get it now.

Artis is a teenager whose inquisitive nature often gets him into trouble with the Adults. When he is caught looking out of forbidden windows in his school, he starts a chain of events that ultimately lead him to the answers he's always sought. Why are all the children trapped in this school? Who put them in there? And how can they escape?

How She Bleeds is a body of work filled with emotion, trauma, heartache and abandonment, while one’s own strength is realized in the aftermath. This book speaks about the horrors of sexual abuse, the pain of unrequited love, and having the strength to endure hardships. Her words are both haunting and healing, taking the reader on a journey through the most heartbreaking and life changing moments of the writer's life. This work of raw honesty and vulnerability will undoubtedly leave the rea...