Product By Zondervan (5 customers reviews) List Price : $14.99 Available From 3 Sellers

Read the rest of this entry

Product By William Morrow Cookbooks (59 customers reviews) List Price : $31.99 Available From 24 Sellers

Read the rest of this entry

Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance “Tempe” Brennan gets caught in mysteries past and present when she’s called in to determine if illegal antiquities dealer Avram Ferris’s gunshot death is murder or suicide. An acquaintance of Avram suggests the former: he hands Tempe a photograph of a skeleton, taken in Israel in 1963, and insists it’s the reason Avram is dead. Tempe’s longtime boyfriend, Quebecois detective Andrew Ryan, is also involved with the case, so the duo head to Israel where they attempt to solve the murder and a mystery revolving around a first-century tomb that may contain the remains of the family of Jesus Christ. This find threatens the worldwide Christian community, the Israeli and Jewish hierarchy and numerous illegal antiquity dealers, any of whom might be out to kill Tempe and Ryan. Not that Tempe notices. She has the habit of being oblivious to danger, which quickly becomes annoying, as does Reichs’s tendency to end chapters wi (more…)

In Quebec, winters can be slow for the forensic anthropologist. The temperature rarely rises above freezing. The rivers and lakes ice over, the ground turns rock hard, and snow buries everything. Bugs disappear, and many scavengers go underground. The result: Corpses do not putrefy in the great outdoors. Floaters are not pulled from the St. Lawrence… and some of last season’s dead are not found until the spring melt.” Readers of Kathy Reichs’s cool and clever first forensic thriller Déjà Dead will recognize the ironic voice of Tempe (short for Temperance) Brennan, the North Carolina-born scientist who winds up working at the Laboratoire de Médicine Légale in Montreal. Here she bristles at the conservative attitudes of some of her Canadian colleagues. Despite the cold weather, Tempe’s workload quickly becomes heavy: the bones of a long-dead nun now up for sainthood have been moved and tampered with; a deadly house fire turns out t (more…)

The second book in the Write Great Fiction series, Plot & Structure offers clear and concise information on creating a believable and engaging plot that readers can’t resist. Written by award-winning thriller and suspense author James Scott Bell, this handy instruction guide provides: * Easy-to-understand techniques on every aspect of plotting and structure, from brainstorming story ideas to building scenes, and from using subplots to crafting knock-out endings * Engaging exercises, perfect for writers at any level and at any stage in their novel * Practical and encouraging guidance from one of the most respected writers publishing today Full of diagrams, plot brainstormers, and examples from popular novels, mastering plot and structure has never been so simple.

About the Author
A former trial lawyer, James Scott Bell is the award-winning author of The Darwin Conspiracy, Deadlock, Final Witness, and the Shannon Saga series. A frequent speaker at writing (more…)

There are all kinds of books out there purporting to explain that odd phenomenon the novel. Sometimes it’s hard to know whom they’re are for, exactly. Enthusiastic readers? Fellow academics? Would-be writers? Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster’s 1927 treatise on the “fictitious prose work over 50,000 words” is, it turns out, for anyone with the faintest interest in how fiction is made. Open at random, and find your attention utterly sandbagged. Forster’s book is not really a book at all; rather, it’s a collection of lectures delivered at Cambridge University on subjects as parboiled as “People,” “The Plot,” and “The Story.” It has an unpretentious verbal immediacy thanks to its spoken origin and is written in the key of Aplogetic Mumble: “Those who dislike Dickens have an excellent case. He ought to be bad.” Such gentle provocations litter these pages. How can you not read on? Forster’s critical writing is so ridiculously plain (more…)

Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today’s masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history. Thomas C. Foster—the sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor—now examines the grammar of the popular novel. Exploring how authors’ choices about structure—point of view, narrative voice, first page, chapter construction, character emblems, and narrative (dis)continuity—create meaning and a special literary language, How to Read Novels Like a Professor shares the keys to this language with readers who want to get more insight, more understanding, and more pleasure from their reading.

A (more…)

When forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan joins the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team mobilized to investigate an airplane crash in North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains, she literally stumbles on a body part that doesn’t match up with the remains of any of the plane’s passengers. The leg she grabs out of the jaws of a coyote feeding on the carnage scattered around the site belongs to an unidentified elderly man, and seems to have no connection with the disaster. But an abandoned hunting lodge near the crash site does, although before Tempe can figure out exactly how they’re linked, she’s pulled off the DMORT unit and forced to stand idly by as her professional reputation goes up in flames. When Andrew Ryan, a detective familiar to readers of Kathy Reichs’s earlier books (Deja Dead, Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions), appears on the scene, another mystery begins to unfold. There seems to be no trace of two men on the plane’s manifest (more…)

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher is the perfect antihero–tough as nails, but with a brain and a conscience to match. He’s able to see what most miss and is willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. Each book in Lee Child’s smart, addictive series (The New York Times has referred to it as “pure escapist gold”) follows the wandering warrior on a new adventure, making it easy to start with any book, including his latest gem, Bad Luck and Trouble. However, be forewarned…once you meet Jack Reacher, you’ll be hooked, so be prepared to stock up on the series. –Daphne Durham Who Is Jack Reacher? A Video from Lee Child Watch the video A Note from Lee Child Two years ago I was on a book tour, promoting that year’s new Jack Reacher novel, One Shot. One particular night, the event was held in a small town outside of Chicago. The date was June 21st. As I was giving my talk and answering questions and signing books, that date was nagging away at th (more…)