An extraordinary international thriller by the former deputy assistant secretary of state and author of the national bestseller "The Golden Hour."  "In the life of every country, at a moment of extreme national disruption, there is a brief period of breakdown, when everything is uncertain, events can turn on a dime. That is the moment to act, to shape events how you want them to go. That is" Minute Zero.  Fresh off the harrowing events of "The Golden Hour," State Department crisis manager Judd Ryker is suddenly thrown into a quickly developing emergency in Zimbabwe, where a longtime strongman is being challenged for the presidency. Rumors are flying furiously: armed gangs, military crackdowns, shady outside money pouring in, and, most disturbing for the United States, reports of highly enriched uranium leaking into the market.  And that s all before Ryker even lands in the country. It gets much worse after that. If he can t get control, shape his "Minute Zero," a lot of people are going to die not least of all himself."

Minute Zero

Todd Moss

Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.

Giant Very Big Spider

Unknown, Author

The internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Forty Rooms, which outshines even that prizewinning novel.Totally original in conception and magnificently executed, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and ultimately emotionally devastating. Olga Grushin is dealing with issues of women’s identity, of women’s choices, that no modern novel has explored so deeply. “Forty rooms” is a conceit: it proposes that a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime. They form her biography, from childhood to death. For our protagonist, the much-loved child of a late marriage, the first rooms she is aware of as she nears the age of five are those that make up her family’s Moscow apartment. We follow this child as she reaches adolescence, leaves home to study in America, and slowly discovers sexual happiness and love. But her hunger for adventure and her longing to be a great poet conspire to kill the affair. She seems to have made her choice. But one day she runs into a college classmate. He is sure of his path through life, and he is protective of her. (He is also a great cook.) They drift into an affair and marriage. What follows are the decades of births and deaths, the celebrations, material accumulations, and home comforts—until one day, her children grown and gone, her husband absent, she finds herself alone except for the ghosts of her youth, who have come back to haunt and even taunt her. Compelling and complex, Forty Rooms is also profoundly affecting, its ending shattering but true. We know that Mrs. Caldwell (for that is the only name by which we know her) has died. Was it a life well lived? Quite likely. Was it a life complete? Does such a life ever really exist? Life is, after all, full of trade-offs and choices. Who is to say her path was not well taken? It is this ambiguity that is at the heart of this provocative novel.

Forty Rooms

Grushin, Olga

<p>John Wells has just barely managed to stop an operation designed to drive the United States and Iran into war, but the instigator disappeared behind an impenetrable war of security. Now it's time for him to pay, and Wells has made it his personal mission. There are plenty of crosscurrents at work; the White House and the CIA are adding extra complications and other countries are starting to sniff around. It is when Russia and China enter the mix that the whole affair looks set to combust. With alarming speed, Wells is once again on his own...</p>

The Wolves: A John Wells Novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Berenson, Alex

Thrillers & Suspense

<p>Jana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn't needed each other. They would never have found each other except for the art which drew them together. They would never have become family without their love for the music, for each other. After the group's youthful, rocky start, they experience devastating failure and wild success, heartbreak and marriage, triumph and loss, betrayal and enduring loyalty. They are always tied to each other - by career, by the intensity of their art, by the secrets they carry, by choosing each other over and over again.</p>

The Ensemble

Literature & Fiction

Aja Gabel

Literary

What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw

After a series of missteps in the face of newfound fame, actor Charlie Outlaw flees to a remote island. But soon after his arrival, a solitary hike into the jungle takes him into real danger. As he struggles with gaining fame, his ex, Josie, struggles with its loss. The star of a cult TV show in her early twenties, Josie has spent the years since searching for a role to equal that one. As she gets ready for a reunion of the cast at a fan convention, she thinks all she needs is to find a part and replace Charlie. But she can t forget him; to get him back she'll need to be a hero in real life.

Stewart, Leah

Contemporary

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