North House

For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, they have met hundreds of civic leaders, workers, immigrants, educators, environmentalists, artists, public servants, librarians, businesspeople, city planners, students, and entrepreneurs to take the pulse and understand the prospects of places that usually draw notice only after a disaster or during a political campaign. The America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems, but it is also crafting solutions.

Maddie arrives in the winter wonderland ready to defeat the claim of Jordan’s mystery relative. Instead, she finds surprising struggles and diversions in the idyllic town during the Christmas season when her ex-boyfriend, attorney Stewart Dunham, shows up to represent the interloper. Maddie sharpens her legal skills in outwitting him and a greedy mining enterprise bent on changing Starlight forever. She and Jordan form an alliance, and the ensuing legal battle leaves her emotionally vulnerable until Trevor Kirk, a geologist, focuses her mind back to what is important.

This Noble Land is Michener's most personal statement about America, an examination of the issues that threaten to fragment and undermine the nation - racial conflict, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the decline of education, the inadequacies of our health care system - as well as a thought-provoking prescription for sustaining our "outstanding success". First published shortly before Michener's death, This Noble Land stands as a wake-up call for a troubled era, infused with the wisdom and passion of a lifetime.

Serving as an Air Force surgeon at the height of the Iraq War, Major Brad Cummins fails to save an injured soldier yet must mend the Iraqi national maimed in the same IED blast. Still blaming himself for losing the GI after successful surgery, Brad is haunted by the Iraqi's words: Maybe you should rethink what you really are. Returning to Mississippi to practice surgery with his twin brother, Brad soon discovers him shot to death in a suspected robbery and wearing a Dr. Brad Cummins name tag

Who was America's first and only Emperor? Why are there ships buried under the streets of San Francisco? Was the word "hella" really created in the East Bay? Bay Curious brings you the answers to these questions and much more through fun and fascinating deep-dives into hidden gems of Bay Area trivia, history, and culture. Based on the award-winning KQED podcast of the same name, Bay Curious brings a fresh eye to some of its most popular pieces and expands to cover stories unique to this book.

La luz y las tinieblas se enfrentan de nuevo en la tercera parte de la saga de «Los dioses del norte». Un viaje donde la magia te conducirá a la verdad.

Tras su incursión en Gaua, Emma y Teo piensan que todo lo que han vivido en Gaua es solo una aventura para recordar. Pero lo que no saben es que se ha abierto una brecha entre los dos mundos, y que una parte de Ada, su prima pequeña, sigue siendo presa de Gaueko. Una historia llena de magia y fantasía en la cual incluso los más vulnerables pueden llegar a ser dioses.

Small southern towns are not always sleepy—particularly in Larkspur, Mississippi, where homes burst into flames and lives crumble. It is the suspicious death of a young woman that costs premiere plastic surgeon Dan Foxworth his surgical dynasty, his life, and that of his wife. Devastated by the loss of both parents and unable to meet a bitter grandfather's expectations, Sher Foxworth tries to save an elderly woman from her burning home. Suddenly the accidental hero, his life is turned upside down by disturbing twists of fate.

Minoru Aose es un arquitecto de mediana edad cuya carrera y familia se desmoronaron con el estallido de la burbuja económica de Japón y que ha acabado refugiándose en la mediocridad. Sin embargo, su vida da un vuelco cuando recibe un encargo muy peculiar: diseñar una casa a su antojo en el espléndido terreno que sus clientes, los Yoshino, poseen en las montañas.

A pesar de los dos mil años transcurridos desde su desaparición, el Antiguo Egipto aún ejerce una poderosa fascinación. Antonio Cabanas abandona el terreno de la ficción para presentarnos una apasionante visión del Antiguo Egipto a partir de sus historias más difundidas y también de las más desconocidas..., y nos desvela numerosos enigmas que arrojan luz sobre la historia, la costumbres,las creencias y la tecnología de los habitantes de la Tierra Negra.

Tinker Murtagh thinks his new job is simple, but he's never robbed a medical clinic before - and he's never dealt with someone like Dr. Henry Van Deman. In Fresh Frozen by Darden North, a childless young policeman and his desperate, infertile wife meet Lucille Wax and her sales catalogue of human embryo and egg donors. Suddenly their Mississippi community faces grisly murder, the world of Hollywood celebrity, and a physician with a hidden agenda.

In the year 2000, Senator Kerry Kilcannon's insurgent campaign against Vice President Dick Mason has come down to the last seven days—the time remaining until the California presidential primary. Whoever wins in California is likely to win the Democratic nomination, a prize that the Vice President is determined to deny Kerry at any cost. And for all the votes and enthusiasm his passion and personal magnetism have gained him, Kerry's problems are formidable.

As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting, but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized.

Cuenta la leyenda que, en el valle del Baztán, los dioses convivían en hermandad y las criaturas del día y de la noche podían vivir en armonía. Pero Gaueko, el temible dios de la noche, empezó a atemorizar a los humanos con su séquito de lobos y la diosa de la tierra, Mari, engendró la Luna y el Sol para protegerlos de la oscuridad. Sin embargo, las ansias de poder de Gaueko le llevaron a tramar un plan para raptar al Sol y así instaurar de manera definitiva su reinado de las sombras.

A construction worker unearths a human skull dating to the 1960s on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Dr. Diana Bratton is a surgeon surrounded by bodies after the discovery of her Aunt Phoebe’s 50-year-old note detailing the manners of death. Suicide, accident, natural cause, and one death classified undetermined are soon crossed off this list - leaving Diana to believe that only murder remains. When Diana spots photographs in a 1966 university yearbook, Phoebe is linked not only to that death, but to the recent deaths of two local men.

Wenn du sein Flüstern hörst, ist es zu spät... Nach dem plötzlichen Tod seiner Frau will Tom Kennedy mit seinem kleinen Sohn Jake neu anfangen. Ein neues Haus, eine neue Stadt - Featherbank. Doch der beschauliche Ort hat eine düstere Vergangenheit. Vor 20 Jahren wurden in Featherbank fünf Kinder entführt und getötet. Der Mörder wurde unter dem Namen "Kinderflüsterer" bekannt und schließlich gefasst. Die alten Geschichten interessieren Tom nicht. Als jedoch ein kleiner Junge aus der Stadt verschwindet, machen Gerüchte die Runde, dass der Täter von damals einen Komplizen gehabt habe.

Wenn du sein Flüstern hörst, ist es zu spät... Nach dem plötzlichen Tod seiner Frau will Tom Kennedy mit seinem kleinen Sohn Jake neu anfangen. Ein neues Haus, eine neue Stadt – Featherbank. Doch der beschauliche Ort hat eine düstere Vergangenheit. Vor 20 Jahren wurden in Featherbank fünf Kinder entführt und getötet. Der Mörder wurde unter dem Namen "Kinderflüsterer" bekannt und schließlich gefasst. Die alten Geschichten interessieren Tom nicht. Als jedoch ein kleiner Junge aus der Stadt verschwindet, machen Gerüchte die Runde, dass der Täter von damals einen Komplizen gehabt habe.

Niemals hat Paul den Tag vergessen, an dem er Charlie Crabtree in der Schule zum ersten Mal begegnete. Charlie mit seinem überlegenen Lächeln und den dunklen Fantasien, mit denen er Paul in seinen Bann zog. Sie waren Freunde. Bis zu dem Tag als Charlie den Mord beging und danach spurlos verschwand. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre später kehrt Paul erstmals in seine Heimatstadt zurück. Seine Mutter liegt im Sterben, die Pflegerin hat ihn alarmiert. Gleich nach seiner Ankunft passieren seltsame Dinge.

A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history - the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega - and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.

In Dark Lady, Richard North Patterson displays the mastery of setting, psychology, and story that makes him unique among writers of suspense, and one of today's most original and enthralling novelists.