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A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don’t have. The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade. A young, untested dictator is determined to prove his strength by breaking the deadlock. Like his father before him, he hangs his plans on the country’s nuclear ambitions. Until now, that program was impeded by a lack of resources. However, there…

In her highly anticipated new novel, Judy Blume, the New York Times # 1 best-selling author of Summer Sisters and of young adult classics such as Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, creates a richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends and strangers, whose lives are profoundly changed by unexpected events. In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early…

The perennial New York Times bestselling author returns with an emotionally resonant novel that illuminates the power of friendship in women’s lives, and is filled with her trademark wit, poignant and timely themes, sassy, flesh-and-blood characters, and the steamy Southern atmosphere and beauty of her beloved Carolina Lowcountry. Few writers capture the complexities, pain, and joy of relationships—between friends, family members, husbands and wives, or lovers—as beloved New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank. In this charming, evocative, soul-touching novel, she once again takes us deep into the heart of the magical Lowcountry where three amazing middle-aged women are bonded…

In the past few years, the killing and capture of many Al-Qaeda leaders has left the terrorist organization wounded—but by no means dead. And they intend to prove it. On a dark summer night, two Chechen mercenaries emerge from the waters off Nantucket to kill a high-value target, the former president of the United States, Jake Cazalet. Unfortunately for them, Cazalet has guests with him, including black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his colleague, Afghan war hero Captain Sara Gideon. The Chechens do not survive the night, but Dillon is curious as to how they even got on the island. What he discovers sends a chill through his bones—a name from very far back in Dillon’s past. If this man is working…

A bomb goes off, but how many passengers on the MV Buckingham have lost their lives? You will find out only if you read the opening chapter of Mightier than the Sword. When Harry arrives in New York, his publisher Harold Guinzberg tells him he has been elected as the next president of English PEN, which will give him the opportunity to launch a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who is languishing in a Russian Gulag in Siberia. His crime, writing a book Uncle Joe, which gives an insight into what it was like to work for Josef Stalin. So determined is he to see Babakov released, Harry puts his own life in danger. Emma Clifton, now Chairman of Barrington Shipping, is…

В пригороде Стокгольма в раздевалке спортивного клуба найден зверски убитый мужчина. Позже в его доме обнаруживают зарубленных с чудовищной жестокостью жену и маленькую дочь. Похоже, убийца задался целью вырезать всю семью, однако тяжело раненный сын выжил. Комиссар уголовной полиции Йона Линна узнает, что в живых остался еще один член семьи — старшая сестра мальчика. Он понимает: необходимо найти девушку до того, как это сделает убийца. Чтобы поскорее допросить единственного свидетеля, Йона Линна связывается с врачом Эриком Марией Барком и убеждает его загипнотизировать мальчика. Только так можно получить описание преступника. Эрик нарушает свое давнее обещание отказаться от занятий гипнозом.…

Летней ночью на борту дорогой безлюдной яхты, дрейфующей в шхерах Стокгольма, находят утопленницу в сухой одежде. На следующий день в апартаментах в богатом районе Эстермальм умирает мужчина. Как ему удалось повеситься на ламповом крюке в абсолютно пустой комнате с очень высокими потолками, где не на что взобраться? И все-таки комиссар полиции уверен: это самоубийство. Стремительно раскручивается цепь мрачных событий. Странным образом они связаны со скрипкой, принадлежавшей великому Паганини, и губительным контрактом, осененным его именем. И напрасно двое влюбленных пытаются найти спасение на обманчиво приветливых островках среди фьордов - бесстрастный убийца, методично идущий по их следу, вездесущ…

After five hectic years of retirement from Lord’s Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, from a so-called pleasure trip to the land of his Irish ancestors. While glad to be at home in Mitford, something is definitely missing: a pulpit. But when he’s offered one, he decides he doesn’t want it. Maybe he’s lost his passion. His adopted son, Dooley, wrestles with his own passion—for the beautiful and gifted Lace Turner, and his vision to become a successful country vet. Dooley’s brother, Sammy, still enraged by his mother’s abandonment, destroys one of Father Tim’s prized possessions. And Hope Murphy, owner of Happy Endings bookstore, struggles with the potential loss of her…

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine - a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school…

30 июля 1994 года в курортном городке Орфеа, вальяжно расположившемся на побережье Атлантического океана в штате Нью-Йорк, произошло событие, повергнувшее в шок богемных обитателей этого тихого и спокойного места. В собственном доме был убит мэр города, его жена и десятилетний сын. Рядом с домом обнаруживают труп девушки, которая, судя по всему, стала случайной свидетельницей преступления. Убийцу удалось найти. 23 июня 2014 года. Молодой капитан полиции Нью-Йорка Джесси Розенберг уходит в отставку. На вечере, посвященном этому событию, появляется журналистка Стефани Мейлер, которая сообщает Джесси, что во время расследования убийства мэра, которое вели Розенберг и его напарник Дерек Скотт, настоящий…