Winter
10 best books like Winter (Rod Rees): A Short History of the World, A Place Called Armageddon, Boomerang Bride, Jane Carver of Waar, The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found, Dead Politician Society, The Hunt, From the Ashes, Meet the Annas, Protector
A Short History of the World
| Author | Christopher Lascelles |
An interesting concept--condensing human history into 150 pages of readable prose--but unevenly executed. First, the positives. Lascelles correctly focused more space on recent history as that tends to be neglected in public schools and imperfectly understood by the populous. Also, his writing...
| Author | C.C. Humphreys |
| ISBN | 1409114864 |
To the Greeks who love it, it is Constantinople. To the Turks who covet it, the Red Apple. Safe behind its magnificent walls, the city was once the heart of the vast Byzantine empire.
1453. The empire has shrunk to what lies within those now-crumbling walls. A relic. Yet for one man, Constantinople...
Matilda Geoffrey had risked it all for love.
She'd left Australia to be with Barry—the man who had swept her off her virtual feet. Now, wearing a wedding dress, she's alone on Main Street in small-town Wisconsin, and things aren't working out exactly as planned….
In town for his...
| Author | Nathan Long |
| ISBN | 1597803960 |
Jane Carver is nobody's idea of a space princess.
A hard-ridin', hard-lovin' biker chick and ex-Airborne Ranger, Jane is as surprised as anyone else when, on the run from the law, she ducks into the wrong cave at the wrong time-and wakes up butt-naked on an exotic alien planet light-years away...
Gary Fuller's entertaining and engaging guide enhances geographic know-how with good, old-fashioned fun, using trivia to open up new worlds of knowledge for all readers. Often dismissed as unimportant, trivia here highlights issues that are far from trivial, pondering, for example, what peaceful...
| Author | Robin Spano |
| ISBN | 1550229427 |
When the mayor keels over dead in the middle of a speech, a clandestine student society immediately takes credit for his demise. Their mission is to create a perfect political system by any means at their disposal. Clare Vengel, a rookie officer fresh from the police academy and beyond bored with her...
| Author | Jan Neuharth |
| ISBN | 0972950311 |
The complex and romanticized lifestyle of elite foxhunters is revealed in this thrilling murder mystery. An attractive and wealthy lawyer and horseman, Doug Cummings personifies the old money equine subculture of Middleburg, Virginia. Driven to succeed, Cummings's climb to the top is halted when...
| Author | Jeremy Burns |
| ISBN | 1936558327 |
A DEADLY CONSPIRACY
Graduate students Jonathan and Michael Rickner, sons of eminent archaeologist Sir William Rickner, are no strangers to historical mysteries and archaeological adventures. But when Michael is discovered dead in his Washington, D.C. apartment, Jon refuses to believe the...
| Author | Robert Dunn |
| ISBN | 0970829353 |
In the early 1960s, the girl group The Annas ruled rock ‘n’ roll with their wild beehive hair-dos, soaring harmonies, and bad-girl attitudes. Narrated by their songwriter, Dink Stephenson, this suspenseful tale follows the rollercoaster life and mysterious death of the haunted-eyed and raven-haired...
| Author | Laurel Dewey |
| ISBN | 1884820859 |
I got this for free in one of the Barnes and Noble Free Friday giveaways so I guess I can't complain too much.
The story's not bad and the writing's not terrible but, if you're looking for an original storyline, this isn't it. Detective Jane Perry, like every other character in the book, is a walking...
| Author | Lory S. Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1936558025 |
There's hope for the future, but what about the past?
It’s the 24th century and humans, with the help of artificial intelligences (A.I.s), have finally created the perfect post-dystopian society. To make equally perfect citizens for this world, the elders have created History Camps,...
| Author | Michael John Sullivan |
| ISBN | 1936558440 |
What if you had a chance to ask a loved one for forgiveness after they died? What would you say? Would you give up your own lifetime of happiness for someone else? Michael Stewart confronts these questions as he travels back in time through a mysterious tunnel in an old church when the Romans ruled with brutal...
| Author | Richard Bowker |
| ISBN | 0553268104 |
In an America broken by a "limited" nuclear war, no one has use for would-be private eye Wally Sands. No one except for Dr. Charles Winfield, an eccentric scientist who believes he was cloned from a prominent biochemist as part of a top-secret project undertaken before the war.
Sands sets out...
| Author | James Forrester |
| ISBN | 1402272669 |
Your God. Your Country. Your Kin.
Who Do You Betray?
1563: Anyone could be a suspect; any Catholic could be accused of plotting against the throne. Clarenceux keeps his head down and his religion quiet. But when a friend desperately pleads with Clarenceux to hide a manuscript for him, he...
The Crime of Julian Wells
| Author | Thomas H. Cook |
| ISBN | 0802126030 |
With THE CRIME OF JULIAN WELLS, Thomas H. Cook, one of America's most acclaimed suspense writers, has written a novel in the grand tradition of the twisty, cerebral thriller. Like Eric Ambler's A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS and Graham Greene's THE THIRD MAN, it is a mystery of identity, or assumed identity,...
| Author | Tim Davys |
| ISBN | 9100116084 |
Chaufförerna i sina röda pickuper hämtade gamla mjukdjur, ”de nötta och de trötta”, som det hette. Vart de gamla djuren fördes visste ingen, men de försvann och sågs aldrig mer. Det var inte konstigt att Chaufförerna var fruktade, inte konstigt att man ville att det skulle finnas något...
| Author | Yvonne Montgomery |
| ISBN | 1614174253 |
Denver stockbroker, Finny Aletter, dreams of quitting her cutthroat job to restore historic houses, but the murder of her boss—and ex-lover—Elliot Fulton keeps her in the world of scavengers.
When a prized manuscript that once belonged to Elliot surfaces, Finny tops the list of possible...
| Author | Dale Brown |
| ISBN | 0061713023 |
New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown (“The best military adventure writer in the country” —Clive Cussler) joins forces once again with Jim DeFelice for another electrifying Dreamland novel, Raven Strike. In this breathtaking international thriller, Dreamland’s elite Whiplash...
Dylan Hunter has it made. At 29, he has great friends, a huge job, all the women he can handle, and no commitments. A public relations executive, Dylan has dashed up the ladder of success by mastering the art of the spin bending the truth to his and his clients’ needs. But when a former lover steps back...
| Author | Cathy Maxwell |
| ISBN | 0380808315 |
New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell’s classic romance Married in Haste is a fan-favorite marriage-of-convenience tale that resonates with unforgettable passion and love.
Brenn Owens, The Earl of Merton, has come to London to choose a bride. A sexy war hero, he has his pick...
| Author | Michael Malone |
| ISBN | 1402201478 |
Curse you, Michael Malone! CURSE YOU for keeping me up late at night and making me deplete half my stock of tissues.
I read his novel The Four Corners of the Sky, which, despite it not being typical of my usual reading preferences, I thoroughly enjoyed. When this was offered as a Free Fridays pick...
| Author | Ernesto Mallo |
| ISBN | 1904738567 |
"This is not simply a triumph of style; it is both a reflection on a time of bloodshed and a raw vision of human misery."—Guillermo Saccomanno, winner of the Argentine National Literature Prize
"This man knows. He knows about guns, knows about women, knows about dead bodies. . . . But above...
| Author | Glen Cook |
| ISBN | 0812533763 |
It has ended. It begins again.
In Kavelin: Lady Nepanthe's new life with the wizard Varthlokkur is disturbed by visions of her lost son, while King Bragi Ragnarson and Michael Trebilcock scheme to help the exiled Princess Mist re-usurp her throne - under their thumb.
In Shinsan: a...
| Author | Vicki Pettersson |
| ISBN | 0062064649 |
“Exceptional. Mystery, crime scene drama, and more than enough romance to keep the heart pumping blend seamlessly into an enthralling read that kept me glued to the pages.”
—Kim Harrison
“A delectably dark paranormal thriller. I’ve always been a fan of Pettersson’s work,...
| Author | Linda Ladd |
| ISBN | 0786017171 |
This was a Free Friday selection on the Nook, which I don't typically download, but this looked like it might be an interesting mystery. What to say about this book? About halfway through, I couldn't figure out if I was continuing to read because I actually wanted to know what was going to happen or if I was...
