At Risk featured Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano, a shrewd man of mixed-race background and a not inconsiderable chip on his shoulder; District Attorney Monique Lamont, a hard-charging woman with powerful ambitions and a troubling willingness to cut corners; and Garano's grandmother, who has certain unpredictable talents that you ignore at your peril. And in The Front, peril is what comes to them all. D.A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As part of ...

Did you know that sex can dramatically boost your overall well-being? If you, like many people, are hitting midlife and feeling that sex is just not what it used to be, think again. While you are experiencing a variety of physical and emotional changes, sex can still be one of the enduring pleasures you can enjoy through midlife and on to your golden years. Now this unique guide provides important information on age-related changes in ...

What shall we do, all of us? All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts? What's real is what's imagined in nine tales of transformation by Francesca Lia Block.

Part Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow investigates a shocking web of drugs, murder, and smuggling in this gorgeously-written seventh installment in the Shamus-nominated series. Part Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow hasn't shed the sense of Koyanisquaatsi--the Hopi word for World Out of Balance, or, for Laura, the feeling that society is falling down. She's just been offered another hacker job by an anonymous client, work that would be illegal and probably unethical; her romance with ...

Maddie McKenzie, vacationing investigative reporter, stumbles upon a conspiracy of international proportions. People are dying. Operation Titan and its ruthless puppet masters must be stopped.

New York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing novels that chill the bones, curdle the blood, and tap into our darkest fears. He creates characters so real that you'll feel as if they're friends or family, and throws them into situations so terrifying that you won't be able to look away until you turn the final page. Now, in Faces of Fear, Saul proves that there's a fine line between perfection ...

New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a tale of corruption and betrayal, revenge and reversal--where friends become foes, and heroes become criminals in the ultimate abuse of power. When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up to find herself in bed with Jay Burgess, a rising star detective in the Charleston PD, she remembers nothing of how she got there ... or of how Jay wound up dead. Handsome and hard-partying, Jay was a ...

Someone's left a man's body in Donald Strachey's car--the grandson of Albany's most connected political fixer. A letter from the deceased asks Strachey to dismantle his grandfather's party machine. Like a chess master, Strachey moves ten suitcases, an army of colorful pawns (all of whom think they're king), and $2.5 million across the continent and around Albany. One of the funniest in the series. (Filmed for release by HereTV in 2008; originally published 1986.)

The year is 2144 ... and the battle over Earth's precious resources has raged for a century. With global economies in ruins and all-out world war more than a possibility, the U.S government turned to the Union Aerospace Corporation, giving it carte blanche on the legendary red planet of Mars in a desperate bid to construct an off-world outpost that might provide resources, a military advantage...as well as something so secret that even members of ...

On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever, who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a friend--a dog of alarming intelligence--and a threat that could only have come from the darkest corners of ...

When Erik's father acquires yet another gambling debt, a most unusual payment is demanded. Erik must go to live in the castle in the wood and never see his father again. Even the thought of numberless books doesn't make him happier about the deal. But when he arrives at Arraine DuBois' castle deep in the enchanted woods, Erik finds even more than he'd bargained for--magic, wonder, love, danger, fear?and death.

The sixth gripping mystery featuring part-Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow. When a reclusive Navajo and his female companion turn up dead--an apparent murder/suicide--Laura and her lover, policeman Nathan Brittles, take on the case. But things aren't always as they seem, and this time, with a mythical demon thrown into the mix, Laura may be in over her head. A computer hacker and registered P.I., Laura Winslow has seen death before, but it never looked quite ...