Are you looking for new fiction books to read? Check out these top 5 books on the NY Times Bestsellers list.
Heat Rises (Richard Castle)
The third book in the Nikki Heat series, Heat Rises partners NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook. A murder has been committed at a New York bondage club and Nikki's on the case. It becomes even more bizaare and dangerous when she finds out the victim is a parish priest. She is soon pitted against New York's most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a death squad out to gun
The Piano Teacher by Janice Lee
by Jaclyn Abergas September 9th, 2011 | Authors, Fiction, Reading
The Piano Teacher is an intricate and moving tale of an Englishwoman living in Hong Kong, trying to find where she belongs, 10 years after the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Claire Pendleton is an Englishwoman, married to an English engineer who is overseeing the construction of a new reservoir in Hong Kong. She doesn't care much about her life there and socializes with other expatriate wives to have something to do. But when Claire's offered and accepts a job as a piano teacher to the wealthy Chen's daughter, she meets someone who makes life more exciting for her. Will
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
by Jaclyn Abergas August 11th, 2011 | Fiction, Reading
The Imperfectionists, written by Tom Rachman, follows the chaotic, adventure-filled lives of the reporters, editors and executives of an international English-language newspaper while they struggle to keep the paper and their personal lives alfloat. Kathleen is the editor-in-chief who has been betrayed and chosen to focus on her job. Arthur is the obituary writer, who has had his life transformed by an unspeakable tragedy. Abbey is the head of the accounting department, who thinks she's finally going to have a love life but her work life will always ruin it. Lloyd, a veteran freelancer from Paris, goes to great
Books for Boys
by Angela Yorke July 25th, 2011 | Children's, Reading
One of my earliest memories of my brothers is that I never saw them reading except when they were cramming for an exam. For some reason, you just didn’t see many boys with books back then, and I can’t say that the present situation is very much different either. However, it’s likely that the following books would garner the interest of most young male readers.
A novel set in a dystopian future and a critique of how mass media affected general interest in literature, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has all of the elements that would appeal to those bearing
A novel set in a dystopian future and a critique of how mass media affected general interest in literature, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has all of the elements that would appeal to those bearing
Remarkable Creatures (Tracy Chevalier)
by Jaclyn Abergas July 13th, 2011 | Fiction, Reading
Remarkable Creatures is Tracy Chevalier's sixth book, released in 2009. It's the story of two unlikely friends in 1810 and a remarkable discovery on the south coast of England. Elizabeth Philpot is a middle-class spinster, who loves to explore the world around her, more than a woman should in the 1800s. On one of her excursions, she meets Mary Anning, a lower-class merchant, who has the eye for discovering fossils that no one else sees. One day, Mary Anning discovers an unknown creature resembling a crocodile but with a huge, bulbous eye. She suddenly puts their small town on
