Northfield
10 best books like Northfield (Johnny D. Boggs): Always Watching, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, The Dangerous Dimension, First, There Is a River, Heart of the Witch, County Line, The Front Porch Prophet, Dark Legacy, Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy, Hunt at the Well of Eternity
Author | Brandilyn Collins |
ISBN | 0310715393 |
This daughter of a rock star has it all until murder crashes her world.
The exciting and suspenseful Rayne Tour series features sixteen-year-old Shaley OConnor, on tour with her mothers popular band. Shaley lives in a whirlwind of backstage secrets, hotels, and limos. With beauty and fame of her...
Author | Edith Wharton |
ISBN | 1593080905 |
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
Author | L. Ron Hubbard |
ISBN | 1592128289 |
Dr. Henry Mudge undergoes a striking personality change when he discovers a mathematical formula"Equation C"that defines a mysterious negative dimension. He is instantly transported to any location in the solar system by merely thinking of iteven when he doesn't want to..
Author | Kathy Steffen |
ISBN | 1932815937 |
This was a riveting story about Emma's escape from an abusive, delusionary husband who uses his belief in God as justification for heinous crimes and mistreatment of others. It seems like a coming of age story, of sorts, as Emma regains her self-confidence and emerges as a confident, spirited woman....
Author | Alicia Dean |
ISBN | 0505528266 |
Ravyn Skyler is abducted one night by the Tin Man serial killer. His plans on mutilation and rape don't include her being a witch. Which he suffers for greatly.
But Ravyn now has to cover the fact that she's used her powers to harm another person. Not only can she not tell the authorities how she...
Author | Bill Cameron |
ISBN | 1935562525 |
When the steadfast Ruby Jane Whittaker drops out of sight, dogged ex-cop Skin Kadash sets out to discover what drove the woman he loves to leave her life behind so suddenly and without explanation. The discovery of a dead man in her apartment, followed by an attack by a mysterious stalker, leads Skin first...
Author | Raymond L. Atkins |
ISBN | 1933836385 |
What do a trigger-happy bootlegger with pancreatic cancer, an alcoholic helicopter pilot who is afraid to fly, and a dead guy with his feet in a camp stove have in common? What are the similarities between a fire department that cannot put out fires, a policeman who has a historic cabin fall on him from...
Author | Anna DeStefano |
ISBN | 0505528193 |
“Die!” scream her nightmares. The voice is her sister’s, the compulsion stronger than any ordinary dream.
Maddie Temple can’t go through this again. Her twin has been in a coma for the last ten years. Their psychic link was severed. At least, that’s what she thought.
But...
Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy
Author | Gregory Salsbury |
ISBN | 0137056532 |
"A superb introduction to the necessary financial planning no American over 40 can afford to ignore." Publishers Weekly "It's time for many individual investors to make some hard choices. Baby Boomers are learning to deal with the fact that they really can't have it all--at least not all at once. Retirementology...
Hunt at the Well of Eternity
Author | Gabriel Hunt |
ISBN | 0843962461 |
What do a missing Confederate regiment, a lost Mayan city, and the fountain of youth have in common? They're all parts of the plot of Hunt at the Well of Eternity!
Gabriel Hunt is a globetrotting adventurer in the mold of Doc Savage and Indiana Jones. His brother Michael is head of the Hunt Foundation,...
Author | Lawrence Kaplan |
ISBN | 0982411707 |
House of Ghosts is a gripping mystery that takes readers through some of the most shrouded history of the twentieth century. In August 1944, Allied forces launched a top-secret aerial assault on the I. G. Farben oil and rubber plant, the flight plan taking bombers directly over the Auschwitz-Birkenau...
Author | Madison Smartt Bell |
ISBN | 0375424881 |
From the author of All Souls’ Rising which The Washington Post called “A serious historical novel that reads like a dream,” comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals.
With the same eloquence, dramatic...
Author | Jason Pinter |
ISBN | 1426845367 |
A Henry Parker novella that is about 40 to 50 pages long. It takes place one night between The Fury and The Darkness.After one of the most harrowing weeks of Henry Parker’s life, night has finally come. Settled in with Amanda Davies, he sleeps before preparing to chase a story alongside his mentor, Jack...
Author | Thomas Hoover |
ISBN | 0786013133 |
In Life Blood, Thomas Hoover brings together impressive storytelling skills with fascinating, authentic medical detail and more than enough suspense to keep readers poised on the edge of their seats. Like Tess Gerritsen's In Their Footsteps, Michael Palmer's The Patient, and Nelson DeMille's...
Jim Longworth is an attractive and brilliant Chicago homicide detective
with a reputation for being difficult. When his captain wrongfully accuses
him of sleeping with his wife and shoots him, he is exiled and forced to
relocate. He lands in the sleepy, middle-of-nowhere town of Palm...
Author | Michael Genelin |
ISBN | 1569474842 |
Jana Matinova entered the Czechoslovak police force as a young woman, married an actor, and became a mother. The regime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her daughter’s respect for her. But she has never stopped being a seeker of justice.
Now, as a commander in the Slovak...
Author | Andy Remic |
ISBN | 0007324154 |
Another review that’s far more difficult than the book actually warrants.
The story deals with the legendary retired hero Druss Kell, who wields the famous battle axe Snaga Illana (um, in all fairness, the author does cite David Gemmell as a big influence) and the events surrounding an invasion...
The Wicked House of Rohan
A fallen woman. A most wicked plan for redemption.
Venice, 1740.
Desperate, starving, Kathleen Strong makes her way to a job interview that promises a chance at proper employment...and maybe a bite to eat. Accused of "gross immorality," she's adrift after being dismissed from her...
Need the job done right? Get a handyman with the right-tools.
Pleasure Inn, Book 1
Interior decorator Lindsay Bell jumped at the chance to help restore the old inn at Mason Creek. What could be more fun than letting her imagination run wild on an unlimited budget? Eagerly she plans to turn her assigned...
Author | Timothy Hallinan |
ISBN | 0061255807 |
Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of...
Author | Christie Craig |
ISBN | 0505527316 |
Who knew getting married could get you murdered?
What happens when you realize you're about to marry a man you don't love—a man who doesn't love you? When accidentally flushing her $8,000 engagement ring down the toilet isn't enough of a sign for Katie Ray to call off the big day, fate gets busy....
What is the dark secret that Martin Lancaster's family seem determined to stop him uncovering? When Martin was eighteen, his father was tragically lost at sea during a transatlantic yacht race. Twenty-five years later, Martin discovers hidden logbooks in his mother's attic, and vows to find out the...
Author | J.A. Jance |
ISBN | 0380711079 |
The hunter is free to kill again -- and hour by hour, he draws closer . . .
The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture–murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'otham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd -- a teacher on the reservation -- put Carlisle...
The resurrection of Zachary Ellison has brought on a series of events that are changing the world forever. Maxwell, one of the last surviving members of a secret Order of occultists, has failed to catch him in time and is tasked to begin reviving the Order while attempting to minimize the damage his old...
Author | Erin Kellison |
ISBN | 0505528290 |
Well done Erin Kellison on a great novel. This story was nicely fast-pace. The story keeps you constantly riveted, wanting more. Great characterization and story. No matter how well I thought I had things figured out, I would get unexpected results.
This was recommended to me by a friend and would...