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When music legend Leonard Cohen first wrote and recorded “Hallelujah,” it was for an album rejected by his longtime record label. A decade later, Jeff Buckley reimagined the song for his much-anticipated debut album. Three years after that, Buckley would be dead, his album largely unknown, and “Hallelujah” still unreleased as a single. How did one obscure song become an international anthem for human triumph and tragedy?

In the most ambitious anthology of its kind, the world’s leading mystery writers --- including Michael Connelly, Kathy Reichs and Ian Rankin --- come together to champion the greatest mystery novels ever written. In a series of personal essays that reveal as much about the authors and their own work as they do about the books that they love, over a hundred authors from 20 countries have created a guide that will be indispensable for generations of readers and writers.

CROSSING ON THE PARIS is an historical novel about three women of different generations and classes, whose lives intersect on a majestic ocean liner traveling from Paris to New York in the wake of World War I.

For 30 years, Charlie and Donna Barton have run The Bridge, providing the people of middle Tennessee with coffee, conversation and shelves of good books. Then in May, the hundred-year flood swept through Franklin and destroyed nearly every book in the store. Now the bank is pulling the lease on The Bridge. Despondent and without answers, Charlie considers the unthinkable. Then tragedy strikes, and suddenly everything changes.

Katie weaves ordinary stories and surprising insights in satisfying reflections on the spiritual life, relationships, and life as we know it.

In 1938, Trudi Kanter fell deeply in love with Walter Ehrlich, a charming and romantic businessman. But as Hitler’s tanks rolled into Austria, the world this young Jewish couple knew collapsed, leaving them desperate to escape. This is the true story of Trudi’s astonishing journey from Vienna to Prague to blitzed London seeking safety for her and Walter amid the horror engulfing Europe.

The island of East Pukapuka lies in the path of a tsunami that threatens to kill all of the inhabitants. A girl named Butter is rescued from the tsunami by a Loggerhead seat turtle, who carries her away on his back. When the two are about to sink into the ocean, Butter is plucked out of the sea by Jesus Dobby, the boozy owner of a salvage boat who believes he has found a "turtle-girl" hybrid.

A story offering a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soul

Set in 1972, the Soviet Union has planted a mole in the top echelons of the CIA. Three years earlier, CIA agent Chris Holbeck took part in a mission to engineer the defection of a Soviet KGB officer, Sasha Plotkin, who might have known the mole's identity. However, Sasha was a no-show on the day of the agent's defection. Now Sasha is back in order to make another attempt to defect. Despite the risk, Chris is willing to put his life and marriage on the line in the hopes that this time Sasha will reveal the mole's true identity.

In a groundbreaking biography that draws on unprecedented access to Springsteen and those closest to him, acclaimed music critic Peter Ames Carlin presents the most revealing account yet of New Jersey’s favorite son.