FOR RELEASE February 7, 2010

 

Madoff With the Money by Jerry Oppenheimer unearths details of the greedy financial operations of one of history’s all-time charlatans whose mindboggling case of fraud will continue beyond many of our lifetimes.

206 Bones by Cathy Reichs opens with America’s favorite forensic anthropologist, Temperence Brennan, regaining consciousness and discovering that she is bound hands to feet in a very small, dark, and cold enclosed space.

Alex Cross’s Trial by James Patterson is the story of a family’s courageous fight for freedom spanning four generations of people separated by time, connected by blood, and united by bravery.

Everything Will Be All Right by Douglas Wallace reveals the true story of a child who was relentlessly determined to free himself from the cycle of poverty, alcoholism, and violence that strangled his family for generations, and how his perseverance and ambition saved his life.

The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks focuses on Veronica Miller who reluctantly agrees to spend the summer with her divorced father, a former concert pianist and teacher who is immersed in composing a work of art, in a story of the many faces of love and how it can break our hearts – or heal them.

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Tracy Kidder paints an unforgettable portrait of a refugee from Burundi who ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries and living in Central Park until he meets the ordinary people who help him reach his goal of a medical degree and a life devoted to healing.

An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall as their destinies intertwine in war-torn Colonial America.