Portia Nathan’s territory as an admissions officer for Princeton University has been changed from the laid back high schools of the West Coast to the elite and often stodgy schools of New England, forcing her to alter her wardrobe as well as her expectations as she visits schools, answering questions and soliciting applications to Princeton. Even a change of wardrobe doesn't prepare her for Quest Academy, though. Quest Academy is a new private school with unorthodox teaching methods, a seemingly unstructured curriculum and outspoken, unreceptive students. Instead of expounding on the benefits of attending Princeton, she finds herself defending the value of higher education of any sort. Strangely, rather than becoming
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Detective Abbie Kearney is called to the scene of a grisly murder in the parish church in her old Buffalo neighborhood. The area, called the 27th county (Ireland has 26 counties) because of all the Irish who live there, is referred to locally as simply "The County." Fiercely loyal to their Irish heritage and to each other the residents close ranks when outsiders try to infiltrate their insular community. Although she was raised there, as the adopted daughter of storied police officer, John Kearney, Abbie is regarded as an outsider because of her birth parents’ shortcomings and because she dared to leave the neighborhood to attend Harvard and came back to assume a position in law enforcement, an area that residents consider to be a man’s domain. While she is not of The County, she understands The County and when a
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The Bennett family, consisting of a rainbow collection of 10 adopted siblings, their widowed father, their grandfather (a Catholic priest) and their Irish nanny, is leaving New York City for the serenity and safety of their Upstate New York vacation home. Detective Michael Bennett is especially glad to be away from New York, because his most recent case involved a cold-blooded drug lord who has sworn revenge for the killing of his lover. Although Manuel Perrine, AKA “The Sun King,” is behind bars, his money and power allow his reach to extend to unknown and unimagined extremes. Expecting to find tranquility and security at their summer residence in Newburgh, the Bennetts are shocked to find
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In this sixteenth Inspector Rebus novel, set in 2005 at the G8 summit meeting near Edinburgh, Scotland, a Member of Parliament turns up dead outside Edinburgh Castle -- an apparent suicide. Or is it? Then another body is found, in a place called the Clootie Well. This is a spot where people over the years have left clothing draped over tree branches for luck, or to appease the fairy folk. Clues point to the possibility of a serial killer. Add to that the violent protests against the G8 summit, and Detective Inspector Rebus has his hands full, even if his superiors weren’t doing their best to keep him off the case. After all, Rebus is a known troublemaker approaching retirement age and his boss doesn’t want him around to mess things up. The result is that
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His daughter has a rare disease and for a chance at her survival, private detective Easy Rawlins needs a lot of money, fast. He needs it so badly that he’s considering accepting his friend’s offer to help rob an armored car full of cash. Luckily, a different employer suddenly appears and soon Easy is traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco. His job is to track down some people and documents. It’s the summer of 1966 and he finds a strange collection of people in the Bay area and the promise of a fresh wind blowing away old prejudices. He also finds a dead body and incriminating photographs dating back to the
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As Charles S Lindbergh makes his historic solo flight to Paris in 1927, citizens around the world watch, not realizing how this monumental achievement will alter their everyday lives. For one star struck young girl, Anne Morrow, the event would prove to rock her world and would lead to joy and despair when she becomes The Aviator’s Wife. Anne Morrow, the quiet, bookish daughter of a diplomat, is accustomed to taking a backseat to her flamboyant sister and her celebrated parents, but when Colonel Charles Lindbergh notices her spirit of adventure and her willingness to embark on a life of travel and exploration he asks her to marry him, making her the most famous bride in the World. Enduring physical discomforts in
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Do not let the strange title deter you from this great story. We’ve all heard the expression that the love of money is the root of all evil and this story is a perfect example of that reality. Four men who work for minimum wages all have need of more money than they can ever earn under their present conditions. They work for one of the largest law firms in New York City, and their job is to copy the briefs for the hundreds of lawyers who work in the offices above their basement print shop. The four are as unlike each other as night and day. Rich, a former construction worker now attending college with the vision of going on to law school is in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Visalia, or Vise, is a former petty thief who
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