Adult

For the first time ever, the guardians of Agatha Christie’s legacy have approved a brand-new novel featuring Dame Agatha's most beloved creation: Hercule Poirot. In THE MONOGRAM MURDERS, Poirot plunges into a mystery set in 1920s London --- a diabolically clever puzzle that will test his brilliant skills while baffling and delighting longtime Christie fans and new generations of readers discovering him for the first time.

Louie Mo left behind a successful career as a stunt double in Hong Kong and now makes his living as a hired knee-breaker in Los Angeles. Troy, an aspiring director, is beginning to realize that he’s made a mistake by directing a film for Avi Ghazaryan. When Louie is hired to scare Troy, Troy recognizes him as the stunt man he once was, and begs Louie to take the lead role in the movie based on Troy’s pet screenplay. The two team up in a race against the clock to pull off an impossible film of epic proportions.

DARING: MY PASSAGES is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared. Always on the cutting edge of social issues, Gail Sheehy reveals the obstacles and opportunities encountered when she dared to blaze a trail in a “man’s world.” DARING is also a beguiling love story of Sheehy’s tempestuous romance with and eventual happy marriage to Clay Felker, the charismatic creator of New York magazine.

Naomi and Nathan are lovers and competitors --- nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity. Naomi is in Paris investigating story of Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy: Célestine was killed and partially consumed, and Aristide is the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe’s and travels to Toronto to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. The narratives become entwined in a gripping plot involving geopolitics, 3-D printing, and, in a number of varieties, sex.

Set in a logging town on the lawless Pacific coast of Washington State at the turn of the 20th century, THE BULLY OF ORDER is a novel of fate and redemption in which the lives of an ill-fated family are at the mercy of violent social and historical forces that tear them apart.

David Bowie --- the iconic superstar of rock, fashion, art, design, and the quintessential sexual liberator --- is a living legend. However, for the past five decades, he has managed to retain his Hollywood star mystique. Through scores of interviews with Bowie’s lovers (both male and female), his girlfriends, business associates, groupies, and band members, Wendy Leigh has written an intimate biography of rock’s greatest enigma.

Sheila E., born Sheila Escovedo in 1957, picked up the drumsticks and started making music at the precocious age of three. By 19, she had fallen in love with Carlos Santana. By 21, she met Prince. THE BEAT OF MY OWN DRUM is a walk through four decades of Latin and pop music, as well as a heartbreaking and redemptive look at how music can save a person’s life.

Maddy is a social worker trying to balance her career and three children. She fell in love with her husband, Ben, drawn to his fiery passion, but now he lashes out at her. She vacillates between tiptoeing around him and asserting herself for the sake of their kids --- until the rainy day when they’re together in the car and Ben’s volatile temper leaves Maddy in the hospital fighting for her life.

Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland narrowly escapes death at the Battle of the Bulge, saving a young, beautiful prisoner of war named Rosita Lowenstein in the process. The two marry and return to Texas, where Weldon enters the oil business and meets dangerous people hell-bent on destroying his marriage. The prospect of losing his wife prompts Weldon’s wildest and most courageous act yet --- one that takes its inspiration from his encounter years earlier with the notorious Bonnie and Clyde.

Joel Reynolds, a crusading attorney, stumbles on one of the US Navy’s best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound --- and drives whales onto beaches. As Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas. Investigating this calamity, Balcomb is forced to choose between his conscience and an oath of secrecy he swore to the Navy in his youth.