by Jimmy Buffett · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Fleeing the creditors who own his plane, Frank Bama heads for Cuba, where he meets up with an heiress to a hemorrhoid-ointment fortune and investigates the disappearance of her rock-star brother
by Donna Tartt · Knopf
No es fácil ir haciendo amigos en una universidad de Nueva Inglaterra si eres un chico modesto y falto de afecto que llega de California, y Richard Papen lo sabe; por eso agradece que lo admitan en un pequeño grupo de cinco estudiantes capitaneados por un profesor de literatura clásica con mucho carisma y pocos escrúpulos. Los chicos sueltan comentarios en griego y se ríen de la ingenuidad y la torpeza de los demás, pero bien mirado se pasan el día bebiendo y engullendo pastillas, hasta que un mal día las que parecían chiquilladas se convierten en palabras mayores. Solo entonces Richard y su pandilla descubren qué difícil es vivir sin máscaras y qué fácil es matar sin remordimientos. En El secreto, la primera novela de Donna Tartt, se unen la tensión de la novela psicológica, el ritmo de un thriller y la crónica de una juventud que pide demasiado a la vida sin saber bien qué entregar a cambio. El resultado es una obra que se cuenta entre las mejores del siglo XX. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
by Patricia D. Cornwell · Scribners
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist and her colleagues, investigates a couple killer.
by Robert James Waller · Warner
Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they became a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere -- and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.
by Janet Dailey · Little, Brown
A successful television news anchor who pulled herself through an ugly childhood is haunted by her past when she discovers that her father is linked to a murder on the famous Rutledge Estate Winery. (Romance).
by Susan Sontag · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
After the death of his wife in Naples, his adopted city, an 18th century English nobleman takes up with the remarkable if uneducated mistress of his nephew and eventually marries her.
by Rosellen Brown · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Rosellen Brown's long-awaited novel is the extraordinary story of a family's struggle to survive the throes of tragedy. Set in the small town of Hyland, the backdrop for Brown's Tender Mercies, Before and After centers on Carolyn and Ben Reiser and their two children, Judith and Jacob, who have moved to New England for the comforts of rural life. Carolyn is a pediatrician who devotes her time and energy to making young lives painless and healthy. Ben is a sculptor whose imagination works overtime, yielding strange creatures of benevolent, almost totemic significance. Jacob is their seventeen-year-old son, whose shyness conceals darker impulses he keeps hidden from his parents. And Judith is his unforgettable sister, puzzled by her brother's secrecy and sexual preoccupations, suspicious of his suppressed anger. When the chief of police comes looking for Jacob one evening to question him about the bludgeoning to death of his teenage girlfriend, the Reisers' lives are changed forever. Before and After is the compelling drama of the search for Jacob, his capture, and the chain of events set in motion by a brutal crime of passion. It's a story that pits parent against parent, brother against sister, family against community, blood loyalty against the law. With a flawless ear for dialogue and a profound understanding of character and motive, Rosellen Brown has given us a heart-wrenching novel that questions the very nature of violence in our society and our ability to ever really know our children. Beautifully written, compassionate and wise, Before and After confirms Rosellen Brown's reputation as a writer who "can do anything with language . . . She can engender and render five emotionssimultaneously, and throw over a whole novel a skein of sureness and sympathy" (Cynthia Ozick).
by Gore Vidal · Random House
A cyperpunk is destroying the tapes that describe the mission of Jesus Christ and his Gospel. Can Timothy save the day and the future of Christianity?.
by Sandra Brown · Warner
A beautiful fashion buyer is still in love with someone from her past -- and now, she must choose between him and the man she's planning to marry. Kathleen, a smart and sophisticated woman, is ready to marry the man of her dreams -- but she's in love with someone else. Erik is a talented videographer who finds women easy to love but doesn't want to settle down. And Seth, the wealthy heir to a department store fortune, could give Kathleen everything she wants . . . except the one thing that would make her happy. All three of them are about to get caught up in a web of lies so fragile that one fateful encounter could tear it apart -- and force Kathleen to choose between her family and the needs of her own heart.
by Jude Deveraux · Pocket
Samantha's landlord, Michael Taggart, is the most attractive man she has ever met, yet their relationship fails to develop. But as they probe her grandmother's past, Mike slowly uncovers the affection Sam has long since buried - leading the pair to the dangerous truth about a bloody night in 1928.
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.
