Sunday, March 25, 2012

David Baldacci New York Times best sellers

David Baldacci was born in Richmond in 1960. He received his Bachelor’s degree in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, after which he practiced law for nine years in Washington, D.C.

Zero Day by David Balacci

John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth.
Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective, a headstrong woman with personal demons of her own, joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that absolutely nothing he’s seen in this small town, and no one in it, are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond the hills of West Virginia, he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force.

David has published 23 adult novels, all of which have been national and international bestsellers.
These books have been translated into more than 45 languages and sold in more than 80 countries.

Absolute Power
Total Control
The Winner,  
The Simple Truth,  
Saving Faith,  
Wish You Well,  
Last Man Standing,
The Christmas Train,
Split Second,
Hour Game,
The Camel Club,
The Collectors
Simple Genius
 Stone Cold
The Whole Truth
 Divine Justice
 First Family
 True Blue 
Deliver Us From Evil
Hell’s Corner
 The Sixth Man
One Summer
Zero Day.

 David has also published two young adult novels:
Freddy and the French Fries: Fries Alive! and
Freddy and the French Fries: The Adventures of Silas Finklebean.

In addition, David Baldacci is a contributing editor for Parade magazine.

Friday, March 16, 2012

HARDCOVER FICTION books. LONE WOLF, by Jodi Picoult

HARDCOVER FICTION
LONE WOLF, by Jodi Picoult 
($28.) The children of a man who studies wolves must make difficult decisions when he is seriously injured in an accident. 
Luke Warren has spent his life researching wolves. He has written about them, studied their habits intensively, and even lived with them for extended periods of time. In many ways, Luke understands wolf dynamics better than those of his own family. His wife, Georgie, has left him, finally giving up on their lonely marriage. His son, Edward, twenty-four, fled six years ago, leaving behind a shattered relationship with his father. Edward understands that some things cannot be fixed, though memories of his domineering father still inflict pain. Then comes a frantic phone call: Luke has been gravely injured in a car accident with Edward’s younger sister, Cara.

Suddenly everything changes: Edward must return home to face the father he walked out on at age eighteen. He and Cara have to decide their father’s fate together. Though there’s no easy answer, questions abound: What secrets have Edward and his sister kept from each other? What hidden motives inform their need to let their father die . . . or to try to keep him alive? What would Luke himself want? How can any family member make such a decision in the face of guilt, pain, or both? And most importantly, to what extent have they all forgotten what a wolf never forgets: that each member of a pack needs the others, and that sometimes survival means sacrifice?

Another tour de force by Picoult, Lone Wolf brilliantly describes the nature of a family: the love, protection, and strength it can offer—and the price we might have to pay for those gifts. What happens when the hope that should sustain a family is the very thing tearing it apart?

VICTIMS, by Jonathan Kellerman
KILL SHOT, by Vince Flynn
CELEBRITY IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb
PRIVATE GAMES, by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan

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