Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife’s death, even when he believed that a reckless hit and run driver was the cause. But when he learns that in fact she was murdered, he devotes himself to hunting down her killers. On a frozen lake near the US-Canadian border, he wrestles with a decision that could change his life forever…
New York Times best-selling author Mark Helprin reveals a powerful, rapturous novel set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. In the intoxicating beauty of its prose and emotional amplitude of its storytelling, Mark Helprin’s Paris in the Present Tense is a soaring achievement, a deep, dizzying look at a life through the purifying lenses of art and memory.
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy until he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear — a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird… Bestselling author Christopher Moore now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore — death and dying — and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.
