Linda Moore takes you into two worlds you probably know little about - art sales in foreign countries, and Bogota, Colombia's drug world. She informs about both without being didactic and maintains a heart-wrenching tension throughout.
“Love thrillers? Me too, and Linda Moore's whip smart Five Days in Bogotá adds extra ammunition to the genre....” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You and With or Without You
“Add this to the thriller section.” —Booklist
“...a pulse-pounding game of cat-and-mouse.” —Kirkus Reviews
For fans of B. A. Shapiro's Art Forger and Daniel Silva's Art Collector, a courageous female art dealer blocks a heist of valuable paintings and an international conspiracy in this gripping caper.
Young widow Ally Blake risks everything to save her grieving family from…
This book took me into a world I thought I knew something about - Spanish Jews in 17th century Amsterdam - and expanded my knowledge of that world. The inner workings of modern day scholarship were also highlighted. Jumping between the centuries was tense and thrilling.
WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."-Toni Morrison Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a…
Viewing the trip down the Mississippi that Huckleberry Finn and Jim (now called James) from the point of view of James was really eye-opening. The need to be of two personalities for a slave was clearly brought out in language and actions. So much of what was necessary then is still prevalent today.
'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
James by Percival Everett is a profound and ferociously funny meditation on identity, belonging and the sacrifices we make to protect the ones we love, which reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. From the author of The Trees, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.
The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new…
Standing poolside, soaking wet, holding two soggy tickets to that evening’s Emmy Awards, Buddy Ralston tries to figure out who he is and who is this fantastic looking woman he’s hoping to pick up. It’s September 2019. Hollywood. A novel in the first person as told to the first cohort of the University of Me, or Who Do You, as it became to be called, founded by Buddy Ralston, né Sy Rabinowitz, three-time Emmy Award winner who finally learned how to become the person he’d hoped he’d become when he was a child.
