Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends, the fellow members of the Women's Murder Club, investigate the death of a little girl who was shot on the steps of a San Francisco church.
With action that sizzles from the opening paragraph and insider details that bring the story to vivid life, The Third Option showcases a New York Times bestselling author who is just hitting the peak of his extraordinary storytelling powers. Fresh from retaking a battle-scarred White House after a vicious terrorist attack on the president, Mitch ...
A searing, eye-opening expose of the inequality built into America's public education system, written by the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age and Rachel and Her Children. Kozol blames the disparity among public school systems on the local funding structure that ensures a direct connection between affluence of a community ...
No one likes to be alone during the holidays. For New York's most posh dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together. But Lt. Eve Dallas, on the trail of a ritualistic serial killer, has made a disturbing discovery: all of the victims have been traced to Personally Yours. Eve soon enters an elite world of ...
First introduced in "Freakonomics," here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology graduate student who infiltrated one of Chicago's most notorious gangs.
This title is a classic introduction to the principles of form, space, and order--the fundamental vocabulary of every designer and architect. The author interprets form, discussing point, line, plane, volume, proportion, scale, circulation, and the interdependence of form and space. He then analyzes architectural models drawn from around the world ...
Midnight is a hustler-but one with a mindset and a mission. A tall, dark, and handsome hero in his own way, Midnight would, in mainstream American society, be characterized as a threat and dismissed as a criminal. But in her beautiful, captivating style, Sister Souljah reveals the heart of a man that readers will love and cheer for until the very ...
For the first time in one volume, the three novels that introduced Connelly'sgreat LAPD homicide detective, maverick Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch: "The BlackEcho, The Black Ice", and "The Concrete Blonde".
When her world is brutally destroyed, Anari is consumed with desire for revenge. She and her best friend Monica enter a life of drugs, fast money, and betrayal, only to adapt to the lifestyle that pushed them in the game in the first place.
New York lawyer-turned-investigator Stone Barrington returns in Stuart Woods' 18th suspense tale--this time to clear his name. A dark cloud of suspicion looms over the charming hero when his date, his secretary, and his neighbor are all murdered within 24 hours of one another. As the D.A. homes in, Stone enlists the help of his best friend and ...
In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level drug ...
Far from Louisiana, Detective Dave Robicheaux and his wife attempt to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. But the serenity is soon shattered when two college students are found brutally murdered. This gripping "New York Times" bestseller is available in a tall Premium Edition.
When Stone Barrington's erstwhile lover, Arrington Calder, phones him to say that her husband has been murdered and she's been accused of the crime, Stone immediately goes to Los Angeles to find the real killer and exonerate Arrington. Arrington's husband, Vance, was a movie star, and the couple's glamorous Hollywood milieu gives Stone ample ...
The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation.
A militia group called the Green Band attacks Wall Street in the hopes of igniting an economic world war. It's up to Wall Street power attorney Caitlin Dillon and fearless federal agent Arch Carroll to thwart their efforts.
Driven by a keen sense of right versus wrong in the fight against crime following Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux has his own demons of alcoholism and rage to contend with as well.
Toby Harpur, a 39-year-old emergency-room doctor, uncovers the secrets behind a bizarre rash of patient abductions and fatal mistakes at a Boston hospital.
Blanche DuBois, a fading Southern belle, arrives to see her sister Stella in New Orleans. An alcoholic, clinging to the Southern tradition, she criticizes Stella for losing the family home to marry the rugged and crude Stanley Kowalski. Blanche lives in her own grieving, half-mad fantasy world; this ires Stanley, who ruins her relationship with ...
An anthropologist examines the lives of the working poor in Harlem, New York City. Katherine Newman spent two years on her project, and got to know many individuals and groups. In the best social science, she unravels layers of society in the community and shows how they interrelate. She is perceptive on issues of self-esteem and status. The ...
For her homework assignment, Eva has to write a story about what happens in her everyday life. Eva thinks nothing interesting ever happens to her, and that she has nothing to write about. But Eva's neighbors help her to use her imagination and see all the wonderful things that are happening on her "boring" block. Color illustrations accompany the ...
Philadelphia Special Operations detective Matt Payne is up to his ears in police work. He has two baffling cases: one, involving a botched investigation into police corruption, and the other involving a beautiful woman and a group of urban terrorists. All this, and a personal life that's a mess. But Payne can't let his problems stall him, as every ...
Clark takes the reader through the stories of three ambitious, educated women who aspire to escape the ghetto and follow their hopes and dreams. None of the friends can resist their attraction to their thug boyfriends, which threatens to hold them back from their dreams.
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