Reading Group Guide About the Book When long-hidden secrets about his past come to light, John Wade — a Vietnam veteran and recent candidate for the U.S. Senate — retreats with his wife, Kathy, to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days of their arrival, Kathy mysteriously vanishes into the wilderness. As a search [...]
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Erika-san by Allen Say
“In her grandmother’s house, framed pictures hung in the hallway. One of them showed a cottage with lighted windows. Erika would remember that picture all her life.” Based on a true story, the newest masterpiece from the Caldecott medalist Allen Say, Erika-san, traces the life of a young girl—inspired as a child by a magical [...]
Carroll, Sean B. — Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
“[Carroll is] the rare scientist with an easygoing writing style.” - USA Today “[Carroll is] the new, user-friendly public face of evolutionary science.”- U.S. News & World Report Just two centuries ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of the history of our planet and the life on it, including our own [...]
Martin, Andrew — Murder at Deviation Junction: A Jim Stringer Mystery
“Andrew Martin draws readers . . . into the romance, mystery and danger of the railroad age . . . no matter how deeply Jim plunges into the poverty and filth of England’s industrial age, he never loses his sense of wonder at the monstrous beauty of its great machines.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times [...]
Fulmer, David — Lost River: A Valentin St. Cyr Mystery
“Valentin’s fourth case immediately draws the reader into its tapestry of the Big Easy in a memorable bygone era.” – Kirkus Reviews “Enjoyable . . . With his usual lucid prose, Fulmer details the grubby ‘crib’ life that exploited scores of women prostitutes while padding rich men’s wallets . . . those looking for some [...]
Desmond, Adrian and Moore, James — Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution
“Desmond and Moore’s fascinating new look at Darwin forces us to revise and expand the way we look at this revolutionary figure, and to see him wrestling with moral as well as scientific questions. And it is a reminder of just how much the issue of slavery loomed over everything in the nineteenth century, including [...]
Perry, Thomas — Runner: A Jane Whitefield Novel
“There are probably only half a dozen suspense writers now alive who can be depended upon to deliver high voltage shocks, vivid, sympathetic characters, and compelling narratives each time they publish. Thomas Perry is one of them.”—Stephen King “Thomas Perry is a true original.”—Jonathan Kellerman “Perry is a master at nail-biting suspense.”—Los Angeles Times “One [...]
