Promotions - Title Listings - "Futures, April 23, 2012"

The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.

In Amped, people are implanted with a device that makes them capable of superhuman feats. The powerful technology has profound consequences for society, and soon a set of laws is passed that restricts the abilities, and rights, of amplified humans.

In Between You and Me, twenty-seven-year-old Logan Wade has built a life for herself far from her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma. But when she gets a call that her famous cousin needs a new assistant, it's an offer she can't refuse.

Here is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both.

It's back to Corduroy Mansions--the slightly dilapidated but well-lived-in mansion block in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood--for the third installment in Alexander McCall Smith's latest beloved series.

New York, 1933. The city and nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end.

Two forever friends face their biggest betrayals yet and learn the hard way that putting your trust in the wrong hands can change your life forever.

In the newest chilling thriller from Linda Castillo, Chief of police Kat Burkholder is called upon to assist when an Amish teenager disappears without a trace.

Johanna Lindsey sweeps readers into the ballrooms and country houses of England's elite society in the sparkling, passion-filled tale of a desperate debutante who learns in a most delightful way that she can't fight her scandalous attraction to her virile matchmaker.

Clare is living a quiet life in Manhattan as an urban birder and nature blogger when her niece turns up on her doorstep. The two long for a relationship with each other, but they'll have to dig deep into their family's difficult past in order to build one.

Join crime investigator Malin Fors on a manhunt that takes her to the darkest corners of the human heart in this chilling first novel from Scandinavian crime writer Mons Kallentoft.

From Alan Furst comes this gripping novel of espionage and deception in 1938 prewar Paris.

Nick Kavanaugh, a cop with a dark side, and his wife, Kate, a distinguished lawyer, find themselves struggling to make sense not only of a disappearance and robbery, but also of a shadow world, where time has a different rhythm and where justice is elusive.

In Porch Lights, three generations of a family--a grandmother, a mother, and a son--will discover the indelible power of love.

Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. The stage is set for seven days of resentment, guilt, long-held grudges, fading dreams, and rising hopes.

A Chinese National working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off the streets of Shanghai in broad daylight. His one-man security detail goes missing as well. Grace Chu, forensic accountant, and John Knox, an import/export entrepreneur, are hired to find out who is behind the kidnapping.

Jason Bourne must learn the identity of an amnesiac he has fished out of the sea before he and Mossad agent Rebeka are killed.

America's enemies have sharpened their attacks. Unable to succeed separately, they have joined forces in a cunning alliance. Their audacious plan will lead former NAVY SEAL and CIA operations office Maxwell Moore down paths he never imagined.

In this final installment in the riveting Pern saga, Pern is imperiled by the after effects of a plague that killed scores of dragons and left the planet helpless against the fall of deadly Thread. The only hope for the future lies in the past.

Mary Kay Andrews, author of Summer Rental, delivers her delicious new escapist novel about small towns, old flames, and deep secrets.

Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are on their way to the Indian Ocean. What they will find there on a smoldering hulk of a ship will eventually lead them to the discovery of the most audacious scheme they have ever known: a plan to permanently alter the weather on a global scale.

On a warm June evening, the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. But what begins as a graduation celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver of the car dead and her twin brother in a coma.

Talulla, pregnant, grieving, and on the run, must face her werewolf future without Jake. Premature labor under a full moon leaves her near death, but with her newborn son in her arms, she believes the worst is over. Until the door opens, and a new nightmare begins.

Amid the nightmarish, disorienting tangle of mud and dead vegetation in northern Sudan, a series of harrowing and inexplicable occurrences are causing people on an expedition to fear a centuries old curse.

Beneath Lausanne Cathedral, in Switzerland, there is a secret buried before time began, something unknown to angels and men, until now...

When Harvard University English professor Gilbert Reedy is mysteriously murdered and thrown off his fourth floor balcony, Lizzy and Diesel take up his twenty-year quest for the Luxuria Stone, an ancient relic believed by some to be infused with the power of lust.

A year ago, fresh out of Harvard Law School, Mike Ford landed his dream job at the Davies Group, Washington's most powerful consulting firm. Now, he's staring down the barrel of a gun, pursued by two of the world's most dangerous men.

Here is the remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama's ancestry that is also a portrait of American itself.

New York Times political columnist Gail Collins zeroes in on what makes Texas so important and why the rest of the country needs to know and care about what is happening there.

In a groundbreaking work based on hundreds of interviews, and a trove of letters, journals, and other documents, David Maraniss presents a richly textured account of Barack Obama and the forces that shaped him.

The Queen of Burgers has drawn together this ultimate collection of over 200 recipes for burgers, sliders, sloppies, fries, and sides, and so much more!

From David Sanger, here is the first comprehensive assessment of Obama's foreign-policy challenges and achievements.

Deni Y. Bechard reveals how his obsession with his father's life of crime nearly became his own undoing.

Anyone who wants to shape family dinner into a time of greater enjoyment and engagement will find Dinner: A Love Story a terrific guide. Warm, funny, packed with recipes and photos, it will help inspire the most faint-hearted cooks to pre-heat the oven.

Hilarious, terrifying, and insightful, Fear of Loathing on the American Campaign Trail '72 is an epic political adventure that captures the feel of the American democratic process better than any other book ever written.

With a blend of storytelling, landmark research, step-by-step lessons, and a slew of engaging exercises supported by an interactive website, Genius presents Mike Byster's revolutionary system to have you thinking like a genius no matter what your age or IQ.

Here is an engaging, provocative, and ultimately useful look at the 'moral mentality' that rescues the idea of a good life from the political right.

In this intimate portrait of an extraordinary father-son relationship, Mark K. Shriver discovers the moral principles that guided his legendary father, Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., and applies them to his own life.

Groupon's Biggest Deal Ever is the exclusive and unparalleled account of the incredible rise of discount giant Groupon and the compelling story of its offbeat founder Andrew Mason as he created a juggernaut of online commerce and ignited a consumer revolution.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran offers this riveting, intimate account of America's trouble war in Afghanistan.

Here is the true story of an intimate diary and a scandalous trial that rocked Victorian England.

In this searing narrative that takes readers from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Anthony Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach--one that included every major power.

William H. Draper offers this riveting look at the relationship between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

A startling look at how unsustainable debt levels, in the U.S. and around the world, are endangering many standard investments and what people need to know to protect their money.

Here is a complete and all-natural diet and fitness system to combat the decline of testosterone levels in men to achieve a stronger, leaner body, and lasting health for life.

Popular national radio host Monica Crowley delivers a fast paced, funny, sharply argued tour of the country's disastrous years under Barack Obama.

From the winner of Top Chef: Masters comes this tale of personal discovery, unshakable determination, and the passionate pursuit of one man's struggle to find a place for himself in the kitchen, and in the world.

Zoobiquity explores how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species, while encouraging us to see our connection to all living beings.

Three kids--Anna, Jose and Henry--are complete strangers with more in common than they realize. Snowed in together at a Washington D.C. airport, news stations have announced that the famous flag that inspired The Star Spangled Banner has been stolen. Anna, certain that the culprits must be snowed in too, recruits Henry and Jose to help catch the thieves and bring them to justice.

Inspired by her own granddaughter Natalie, Vice President Joe Biden's wife, Jill, tells a story through a child's eyes of what family life is like when a parent is at war across the world.

Rapture, the fourth and final Fallen novel, finds Daniel and Luce running out of time. To stop Lucifer from erasing the past, they must find the place where the angels fell to earth.

When Alina Starkov reveals a dormant power that not even she knew existed, she is torn from eveything she knows and whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Three best friends use their brains and savvy to make their high school dreams come true.

When vital research about the time gene is stolen, the Hourglass team must find the criminal. And even if they succeed, it may be too late.