The lives of two couples become intertwined after the worst airplane disaster in Washington's history reveals a secret that will forever transform their lives

Random Hearts

Literature & Fiction

Warren Adler

United States

Scribner

Twilight Child

When Frances's husband dies and she remarries, her former in-laws attempt to obtain the right to visit their grandchild from a newly appointed family court judge

American cancer specialist, Dr. Alex Cousins is on a covert mission to the USSR. He is tasked with prolonging the life of Soviet Politburo Chief, Viktor Moiseyevich Dimitrov, who is suffering from advance stage leukemia. But the tenuous confidence between the unlikely cohorts is shattered one night as Alex accidentally discovers Dimitrov's diabolical plans of a nuclear strike on China. Alex soon finds himself dispatched, homeward bound on a 6000 mile journey aboard the Trans-Siberian Express; long enough, Alex realizes, to silence him from alerting the U.S. of the imminent destruction.Reluctant, at first, to embark upon the journey, Alex is beckoned into the Siberian expanse by the haunting memories of his grandfather, Aleksandr Kuznetzov, who wove tales of magic and mystery breathing an ethereal life into this seemingly desolate place. As the train lumbers east across snow-cloaked mountains, glimmering past the forest glow, a watchful eye rests on the American doctor. Surrounding him are people beaten and broken by life, each drawn to this emperor of trains in search of a brighter future. Most curious is Anna Petrovna Valentinova, the gorgeous history professor, and Alex's alluring travelling companion. As Anna enchants Alex with the love for her homeland, a passionate romance, transcending political implications, unfolds under KGB surveillance.A train attendant yearns for love, a deformed man seeks revenge on an old enemy, and a persecuted Jewish couple runs to a new home as the Trans-Siberian Express roars onward through a cavern of hopes and memories, coloring its tracks with tales of love, loss and nuclear intrigue, from one end of Russia to the other. An epic journey across a land and a people Winston Churchill declared, "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

Trans-Siberian Express

Genre Fiction

Macmillan

When the daughter and grandson of an organized crime leader are kidnapped by terrorists in the Middle East, he decides to kidnap the President in order to force the government to take action

We Are Holding The President Hostage

Literary

Worldwide Library

The people who run the influential newspaper the Washington Chronicle have just exposed and brought down a President through their investigative reports. Flushed with power, they are now attempting to create their own choice for Chief Executive. Clashing relationships within the media and in the political arena reveal the motives, insecurities, and thirst for ascendancy between rival factions fighting for power. With rich emotional characterizations, this story tears the curtain from the spin-doctors and sinister figures that populate the corridors of power in the nation's capital. Anyone who wants deeper insights into the true nature of Washington politics and intrigue will revel in this tense and suspenseful tale set in the cradle of democracy.

Henderson Equation

Pocket

During a family reunion at their ancestral castle, the famed Von Kassel family -- arms dealers for over a hundred years -- suddenly find themselves in possession of stolen plutonium capable of creating the most destructive weapon on earth. Previously aloof from the moral implications of their business, the family is torn apart by the deadly potential of their recent acquisition. Family conflicts are ignited that had long been avoided in order to maintain solidarity and the insulation of wealth and power. Through fascinating and startling familial relationships, the reader is drawn into the web of power and intrigue that motivates people who once believed they were above moral or ethical considerations.

Blood Ties

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Romance

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Cult: A Novel of Brainwashing and Death

Cult is about a man's desperate attempt to rescue his brainwashed wife from a religious death cult. In the light of the World Trade Center horror, it provides a timely insight into the dangers posed by these destructive organizations. A thriller with a chilling climax, it shows how the power of sinister forces using mind control techniques can turn innocent people into weapons of destruction.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Stonehouse Press

The children in The War of the Roses were determined not to repeat the devastation, destruction and self-immolation engendered by their parents, which were evoked in that bestselling novel and then the most famous movie ever made about divorce. In The Children of the Roses, Josh marries Victoria for evermore, and his hugely overweight, happy-go-lucky sister Evie finds pleasure at the trough and through a series of live-in lovers. But in all-too-human, unpredictable and often hilarious turns, the betrayals begin. Soon Josh and Victoria are on their way to their own form of internecine warfare and disaster. Victoria's demonic and male-hating mother and the overstuffed and ever-sympathetic Evie are their constant counterfoils. Antagonists include a suave headmaster, who turns out to be a relentless sexual predator, and a blackmailing husband. The couple's children, Michael and little Emily, engineer some stunning surprises of their own that will forever change their parents' wayward ways. From noted storyteller Warren Adler, The Children of the Roses is an absolute page-turner. "A funny new spin on dysfunctional family life-engrossing, unpredictable and touching."--Sidney Sheldon

The Children of the Roses

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Random Hearts

Twilight Child

Trans-Siberian Express

We Are Holding The President Hostage

Henderson Equation

Trans-Siberian Express

Blood Ties

Random Hearts

Cult: A Novel of Brainwashing and Death

The Children of the Roses