Fern MichaelsThe Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of...

Janet EvanovichLow-rent bounty hunter Stephanie Plum reaches depths of personal experience that other women detectives never quite do. In Hot Six, for example, a sequence of new and hideous cars...

Carly PhillipsHe’s about to find out … She’s not just one of the guys.Annabelle Jordan and her two sisters were orphans in frilly dresses when they went to live with...

Olivia CunningWhere's the line...Between darkness and desireNeed and oblivionPain and pleasureDominatrix Aggie Martin is drawn to Sinners' bass guitarist, Jace Seymour, even before he invites himself to her dungeon for...

Thomas L FriendmanHot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global FutureThomas Friedman's phenomenal The World is Flat helped millions...

Leo Spitzer In the 1930s, thousands of people fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe found refuge in Latin America. But by late 1938, Bolivia was one of the few places in the entire...

Anita Brookner   BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • When romance writer Edith Hope’s life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, she flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury...

Paul Theroux In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and...

Ursula HegiA young man waits in a hospital room with his father, who has received the heart of a twenty-seven year old woman; a musician tries to protect her daughter...

Jamie Ford 1986, The Panama Hotel The old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the personal belongings...

JP O'Connell A heady historical drama about a British family who open an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the ‘Roaring 20s’.Hotel Portofino has been open for only...

Joanne Nihom and Esther Voet