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Turner shares her childhood challenges--a life lived in countries around the world until her father, a State Department official whom…
she so admired, died suddenly when she was a teenager. She talks about her twenty year marriage, and why she and her husband recently separated, her close relationship with her daughter, her commitment to service, and how activism in controversial causes has bolstered her beliefs. And Turner reveals the pain and heartbreak of her struggle with rheumatoid arthritis, and how, in spite of it, she made a daring decision: to take a break from the movies and relaunch her stage career. Along the way, Turner describes what it's like to work with legends like Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, William Hurt, Steve Martin, Francis Ford Coppola, John Huston, John Waters, and Edward Albee, and, with characteristic irreverent humour, shares her behind-the-screen stories of dealing with all types of creative, intimidating, and inspiring characters. 2017.
Lindy West is ferociously witty and outspoken, tackling topics as varied as pop culture, social justice, and body image. Her…
empowering work has garnered a coast to coast audience that eagerly awaits her highly anticipated literary debut. 2016.
Shevedieh, the self-styled best thief in Styria, lurches from disaster to catastrophe alongside her best friend and greatest enemy, Javre,…
Lioness of Hoskopp. After years of bloodshed, the idealistic chieftain Bethod is desperate to bring peace to the North. There’s only one obstacle left - his own lunatic champion, the most feared man in the North: the Bloody-Nine. Combines previously published, award-winning tales with exclusive new short stories. Violence explodes, treachery abounds, and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue’s gallery of side shows, back stories, and sharp endings from the world of the First Law. 2016.
Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At twenty-eight, he's focused only on walking a straight line…
- getting his teaching degree, working out at the gym religiously, and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him on a rainswept night in North Carolina, his plans are upended in a way that will rattle the foundations of his carefully structured life. As for Maria, the hardworking lawyer and daughter of Mexican immigrants, Colin will challenge every notion she's ever had about herself and her future, making her question what truly makes her happy. Before the couple has a chance to envision what a life together might look like, however, menacing reminders of events in Maria's past begin to surface. And as the threat of violence begins to shadow her every step, she and Colin will be tested in increasingly terrifying ways. Will demons from their past destroy the tentative bonds they have forged, or will their love protect them, even in the darkest hour? Bestseller. 2015.
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison expects hostility as she becomes the first female head of the vice squad in London’s…
Soho. Suddenly she is told how to handle the murder of a male prostitute, the newest case of her main assignment, Operation Contract. This is more than the hazing Tennison expected, and she is determined to discover why. Sequel to "A face in the crowd: Prime Suspect 2". 2013.
At 1:15 AM, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's on the floor of…
a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then, very troublingly, to the Minneapolis police department itself, and then, most troublingly of all, to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons. Sequel to “Stolen prey”, followed by “Field of prey”. 2013.
Features 16 tales about the connections between people - and the decisions that have the power to alter their lives.…
In the title story, a married couple decides to divorce. The next night, the man falls into a coma - and his wife is forced to make a difficult decision. 2012.
The author explores the vital role of silence in the Christian story. How should one speak to God? Are our…
prayers more likely to be heard if we offer them quietly at home or loudly in church? How can we really know if God is listening? From the earliest days, Christians have struggled with these questions. Their varied answers have defined the boundaries of Christian faith and established the language of our most intimate appeals for guidance or forgiveness. MacCulloch shows how Jesus chose to emphasize silence as an essential part of his message and how silence shaped the great medieval monastic communities of Europe. He also examines the darker forms of religious silence, from the church's embrace of slavery and its muted reaction to the Holocaust to the cover-up by Catholic authorities of devastating sexual scandals. 2013.
During World War II, many of the young men of Haven, Pennsylvania are fighting in Europe. Unable to serve due…
to an earlier car accident, Andy Gilbert must stay at home and keep his job as a telegram delivery boy, bringing news of the dead to their families. Living alone and shunned by those who were once his friends, Andy soon becomes discouraged. 2003.
In 1862, during the Civil War, eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother, Rosco, take turns describing their lives as slaves…
on a Virginia plantation. Summer dreams of learning to read, but Rosco’s yearning for freedom is more intense. Grades 5-8. 2000.
Detective Olivia Sutherland discovers a blackmailer who preys on young people, murdering without hesitation. Along with firefighter David Hunter she…
must scour the city for a calculating criminal who is close and moving in for the kill. Sequel to "I can see you", followed by "You belong to me". 2010.
In a luxury private safari lodge in Kruger National Park, Detective Sergeant Tom Furey has just woken to a protection…
officer's worst nightmare - the VIP in his charge, British government minister Robert Greeves, has been abducted. Furey vows not to stop searching until Greeves is found - dead or alive. He and his South African counterpart, Inspector Sannie van Rensburg, go against official orders and start the hunt for the kidnappers through the outer limits of the national park, to the coastal waters of Mozambique. Increasingly drawn to Tom, Sannie can't resist involving herself in his dangerous mission, even risking her job to help him. 2008.
When Claudia Carfax discovered a cache of old letters hidden under her aunt's house in the Cowichan Valley, she found…
the story of her own family's past. William Newton-Lanes, sent away from England in disgrace in 1909, sends lively letters home that paint an intimate picture of island life of the time. Fiction, inspired by real letters. 1995.
Weaves the tale of a small band of abolitionists working in secrecy within Dallas’s close-knit society. There’s Joseph Shaw, an…
undertaker and underground railroad veteran with a shameful secret; Ig Bodeker, a charismatic, melancholic preacher; Rachel Bodeker, a fierce abolitionist, Ig’s wife and Joseph Shaw’s lover; Rebekah, a freed slave who’ll sacrifice everything for the cause; Samuel Smith, a crypto-freedman whose love for Rebekah exacts a terrible cost; and, towering above them all, a near-mythical one-armed runaway who haunts area slavers and brings hope to those dreaming of freedom. c2013.
When Orange County, California, supervisor Will Trona is murdered, his disfigured adopted son, Joe, blames himself. But Joe is also…
a county cop. While seeking revenge, he learns more about Will and the shady political deals he was involved in. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2001.
Solicitor Helena Flemming and pathologist John Eisenmenger investigate the death of cell biologist Millicent Sweet, an employee at Pel-Ebstein Pharmaceuticals…
(PEP). Eisenmenger finds that the pathologist changed the autopsy report to death by natural causes, even though Sweet's body was riddled with numerous cancers that all developed within the week before her death. Now Eisenmenger and Flemming are in a race to uncover the details of PEP's secret research project. Explicit descriptions of violence, descriptions of sex, and explicit strong language. 2004.
Historian David Bercuson explores the problems in the Canadian Armed Forces which have been exposed in the wake of the…
murder of Shidane Arone in Somalia at the hands of Canadian soldiers. Bercuson discusses the recent history and changes within the army, how this has affected what its soldiers do, and how this resulted in the problems of the Somalia mission and made Arone's death possible. 1996.
Tom Bantry just can't understand why the pretty Cora Lee won't give him the time of day, especially after he…
rescued her from a man like Rufus Earle. Soon, however, Tom has other problems to think about. He stands to lose his ranch to the Earle brothers while his good friend Silas Sidwell hopes to benefit from the chaos the troublemakers are causing. 2010.