Gerald Hammond is the exception to the rule; an honorable spy, whose lofty principles have brought him nothing but loneliness and isolation.
With the war in Europe at an end, Hammond returns to Washington only to find his unit disbanded and his wife moved out of the marital home.
Ostracized by the Washington elite, publicly humiliated by an unfaithful wife, and scorned by former friends and colleagues, he is forced to take a mundane job with an insurance company. . . But then comes the call.
The State Department wants him to rescue a young woman, trapped in Soviet East Germany. Should he succeed a plum job at The State Department awaits.

A kidnapped baby! A runaway teenager! A neighbourhood on the brink of being unmasked!

When a six month old baby disappears from his cot, a community is thrown into turmoil. The finger of blame is cast so easily, but one house on Golf Road conceals a secret that is about to blow the truth wide open.

Gripping, suspenseful and chilling to the bone, the families in this small community are about to find their lives changed forever.

How far would you go to survive?

When Thomas Monroe’s car breaks down on the side of the road, he’s sure the day can’t get any worse… until he receives a mysterious call warning him of impending doom. Seconds later, the United States is his by what appears to be an electromagnetic pulse, knocking the power grid almost completely offline. Millions will die in the coming weeks, and Thom, like most of the country, is unprepared. Worst of all, his daughter, the only family he has left, is halfway across the state at college.

Darcy Daniels works hard for her perfect portrayal of success. She sells designer eye wear, her fashion is flawless, as well as her high-class social connections. Her apartment is shabby, however the zip code signifies status: Houston’s Uptown Galleria. On the outside, her lifestyle supports chic and exciting, but things are not always as they seem.
Underneath, Darcy shares a connection with those suffocating from insecurities and low self-esteem. Her world appears to be shrinking and is taking its toll. And Prince Charming? Where is he? The natural ending to all she has worked toward.

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change, from a story about a famous writer caring for a dying but still willful father, to the tale of a young Indian boy who learns to value his own life by appreciating the deaths of others. Perceptions change, too, as “Another Proclamation” casts a shadow over Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and “Invisible Dog on a Leash” limns the heartbreak of shattered childhood illusions.

This is the incredible account of a flood of near-Biblical proportions in early twentieth-century America—its destruction, its heroes, its victims, and how it shaped natural-disaster policies in the United States for the next hundred years.

The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400. Then the freezing rains started and the flooding began. It continued for days. Some people drowned in their attics, others on the roads when they tried to flee. It was the nation’s most widespread flood ever—more than 700 people died, hundreds of thousands of houses and buildings were destroyed, and millions were left homeless.

Hailed as “an astute book of enormous importance” (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world’s premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles R. Morris recounts in thrilling detail a late-night against-the-clock “harvest run” to secure a precious transplantable organ, the heartbreaking story of a child’s failed transplant, and more. Along the way, Morris reflects on how doctors really think, rising health care costs, and the future of health care in America.