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In 1924, the English mountaineer Ashley Walsingham dies attempting to summit Mount Everest, leaving his fortune to his former lover, Imogene Soames-Andersson - whom he has not seen in seven years. Ashley's solicitors search in vein for Imogene, but the estate remains unclaimed.
Nearly eighty years later, new information leads the same law firm to Tristan Campbell, a young American who could be the estate's rightful heir. If Tristan can prove he is Imogene's descendant, the inheritance will be his. But with only weeks before Ashley's trust expires, Ashley must hurry to find the evidence he needs.
Victorian London is a violent cesspool of squalid depravity. Only twelve detectives - the Murder Squad - are expected to solve the thousands of crimes committed here each month. Formed after the Metropolitan Police's spectacular failure in capturing Jack the Ripper, the Murder Squad suffers the brunt of public contempt. But no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own...
A Scotland Yard inspector has been found stuffed in a black steamer trunk at Euston Square Station, his eyes and mouth sewn shut. When Walter Day, the squad's new hire, is assigned to the case, he finds a strange ally in Dr. Bernard Kingsley, the Yard's first forensic pathologist. Their grim conclusion: This was not just a random, bizarre murder. It appears that the police - possibly the squad itself - are being targeted, and the devious killer shows no sign of stopping before completing his grim duty. But Inspector Day has one more surprise, something even more shocking than the crimes: the killer's motive.
Ruth Lennox, mother of three, is found dead in a pool of her own blood. Struggling to piece together a motive, Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson calls in Freida Klein, hoping her psychological insights and keen powers of observation will offer a new angle on the case.
But when it emerges that the mother was leading a secret life, her family closes ranks. Freida herself is distracted, still reeling from an attempt on her life, and grappling with her own depression and a rare feeling of vulnerability. Her longtime lover, Sandy, worries about her - especially when Freida arrives unannounced on his doorstep in New York City. Then a patient's chance remark rings an alarm bell for Freida, sending her down a dangerous path that seems to lead to a serial killer who's long escaped detection. Is Freida getting closer to unraveling either case? Or is she just the victim of her own paranoid, fragile mind? Because as Freida knows, every step closer to a killer is one more step into a darkness from which there may be no return...
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Cascade, Massachusetts, 1935.Desdemona Hart Spaulding, a talented young artist who studied in Paris, has sacrificed her dreams of working in New York City to put a roof over her newly bankrupt and ailing father's head. Two months later ?he has died...
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The House at Riverton is a sweeping debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death, and a vanishing way of life, told by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for a lifetime....
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One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London town house. In the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power.
Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside the lines of the conventional notion of beauty. In this book she shares the wisdom she's accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon. This is a book only Diane Keaton could write - a smart and funny chronicle of the ups and downs of living and working in a world obsessed with beauty.
Keaton offers up a message of empowerment for anyone's who ever dreamed of kicking back against the "should"s and "supposed to"s that undermine our pursuit of beauty in all its forms. From a mortifying encounter with a makeup artist who tells her she needs to get her eyes fixed to an awkward excursion to Victoria's Secret with her teenage daughter, Keaton shares funny and not-so-funny moments from her life in and out of the public eye.
In 1924, the English mountaineer Ashley Walsingham dies attempting to summit Mount Everest, leaving his fortune to his former lover, Imogene Soames-Andersson - whom he has not seen in seven years. Ashley's solicitors search in vein for Imogene, but the estate remains unclaimed.
Nearly eighty years later, new information leads the same law firm to Tristan Campbell, a young American who could be the estate's rightful heir. If Tristan can prove he is Imogene's descendant, the inheritance will be his. But with only weeks before Ashley's trust expires, Ashley must hurry to find the evidence he needs.
Victorian London is a violent cesspool of squalid depravity. Only twelve detectives - the Murder Squad - are expected to solve the thousands of crimes committed here each month. Formed after the Metropolitan Police's spectacular failure in capturing Jack the Ripper, the Murder Squad suffers the brunt of public contempt. But no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own...
A Scotland Yard inspector has been found stuffed in a black steamer trunk at Euston Square Station, his eyes and mouth sewn shut. When Walter Day, the squad's new hire, is assigned to the case, he finds a strange ally in Dr. Bernard Kingsley, the Yard's first forensic pathologist. Their grim conclusion: This was not just a random, bizarre murder. It appears that the police - possibly the squad itself - are being targeted, and the devious killer shows no sign of stopping before completing his grim duty. But Inspector Day has one more surprise, something even more shocking than the crimes: the killer's motive.
Ruth Lennox, mother of three, is found dead in a pool of her own blood. Struggling to piece together a motive, Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson calls in Freida Klein, hoping her psychological insights and keen powers of observation will offer a new angle on the case.
But when it emerges that the mother was leading a secret life, her family closes ranks. Freida herself is distracted, still reeling from an attempt on her life, and grappling with her own depression and a rare feeling of vulnerability. Her longtime lover, Sandy, worries about her - especially when Freida arrives unannounced on his doorstep in New York City. Then a patient's chance remark rings an alarm bell for Freida, sending her down a dangerous path that seems to lead to a serial killer who's long escaped detection. Is Freida getting closer to unraveling either case? Or is she just the victim of her own paranoid, fragile mind? Because as Freida knows, every step closer to a killer is one more step into a darkness from which there may be no return...
Joan, a young American dancer helps a Soviet ballet star, the great Arslan Rusakov, defect in 1975. A flash of fame and a passionate love affair follow, but Joan knows that, onstage and off, she is destined to remain in the background. She will never possess Arslan, and she will never be a prima ballerina. She will rise no higher than the corps, one dancer among many.
After her relationship with Arslan sours, Joan plots to make a new life for herself. She quits ballet, marries a good man, and settles in California with him and their son, Harry. But as the years pass, Joan comes to understand that ballet isn't finished with her yet, for there is no mistaking that Harry is a prodigy. Through Harry, Joan is pulled back in a world she thought she left behind - back into dangerous secrets, and back, inevitably, to Arslan.
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in their therapy practice. Grace is also the author of the forthcoming You Should Have Known, a book in which she castigates women fro not valuing their intuition and calls upon them to pay attention to their first impressions of men.
But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man she thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of the spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.
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- New Arrivals....
When Ibby Bell's father dies in an accident in the summer of 1964, her mother deposits Ibby in New Orleans with her eccentric grandmother, Fannie, and throws in her father's urn for good measure. Fannie's rundown Victorian mansion is like...
- New Books...
Cascade, Massachusetts, 1935.Desdemona Hart Spaulding, a talented young artist who studied in Paris, has sacrificed her dreams of working in New York City to put a roof over her newly bankrupt and ailing father's head. Two months later ?he has died...
- New Arrivals....
In this kaleidoscopic setting, two unforgettable characters are brought to life. Emilie Guillaudeu, the museum's longtime taxidermist, is horrified by the chaotic change Barnum brings. Ana Swift, a professional giantess, is jaded by a world of gawkers...
- Books, Books, And ....... More Books
After years of throwing make-believe weddings in the backyard, flowers, photography, desserts, and details are what these women do best: a guaranteed perfect, beautiful day full of memories to last the rest of your life. With bridal magazines to her...
- Feature Books!
The House at Riverton is a sweeping debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death, and a vanishing way of life, told by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for a lifetime....