In 1997 four people suffering from debilitating and incurable ailments are suddenly and inexplicably cured after exposure to some tropical homeopathic remedy. Their lives and the lives of their families are obviously impacted by this remarkable occurrence knowing that they are no longer facing imminent death, or suffer through life with a permanent disability. Father Pavlos, a Greek Orthodox priest, becomes the steward of the leaves and is determined to return the magical herbs back to the...

Privateeye V.I. Warshawski finds herself up against rampant corruption in Chicago’shospitals in the fourth novel in Sara Paretsky’s New York Timesbestselling series.Young, diabetic, and pregnant, Consuelo Alvarado is lucky tohave a mentor in V.I. Warshawski. But not even V.I. can help when Consuelo goesinto premature labor in a remote suburb; mother and baby both die in the nearbyhospital. When a young resident sta...

Jonathan Langley's life took a devastating turn when he lost his eyesight to a rare illness.Once a successful painter and printmaker, Jonathan now lives in complete darkness, rarely leaving his apartment and angry at the world. When he encounters his precocious 11-year-old neighbor, Lupe, the two form an unlikely friendship. Her cheerful presence shatters his hardened exterior, revealing a gentle man struck by tragedy. Lupe leads him to a fresh perspective by showing him the power ...

Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women writers in this extraordinary collection of contemporary mystery fiction, introduced and edited by Sara ParetskyThe voices here include professional crime solvers who take you from the mean streets of V.I. Warshawski’s Chicago in a case of music and murder . . . to the California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW skids into a shooting . . . to the gang-held turf of Sharon McCone’s San Francisco, where an eye ...

V I Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V I takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms, who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.Through young Josie Dorrado, V I meets the girl's mother, who voices her worries about sabotage in the little flag manufacturing plant wher...

A dead man is jolted back in time—by two months—and must try to identify his own murderer, in this suspenseful "existential thriller" ( Kirkus Reviews).On the morning of July 9, 2012, New York Times investigative reporter Andrew Stilman is jogging along the Hudson River when he feels a sudden, sharp pain in his lower back. He collapses in a pool of blood. When he regains consciousness, it's May 7, 2012—exactly two months earlier.From that mo...

Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on SteroidsA warts-and-all exploration of the struggles suffered and triumphs achieved by America's health-care professionals, Hospital follows a year in the life of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, which serves a diverse multicultural demographic. Unraveling the financial, ethical, technological, sociological, and cultural challenges encountered every day, bes...

A taut thriller that takes readers from the office suites of Manhattan to the tidy elegance of Sag Harbor and the rough-and-tumble western plains of Brazil.“Fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher should enjoy Jack Dana’s adventures.”—Publishers WeeklyJack Dana, a star student at Yale, joins the military after 9/11—only to have sniper fire cut short his career as a Marine Corps infantry officer. While recovering at Walter Reed Hospital, h...

Its the summer of 1980. Philadelphia Police Homicide Captain, John Quintana and his elite Dead End Gang are on the hunt for a diabolical serial killer. It is the most puzzling case the squad has ever encountered. Pressure mounts when Quintana and his special squad are left with little clues. The City of "Brotherly Love" finds itself in the grips of a fiendishly clever killer, whose methods baffle both the police and the medical community. The case is as perplexing as the murders themselves...

This account of growing up with a mentally ill mother "belongs on a shelf of classic memoirs, alongside The Liars' Club and Angela's Ashes" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).As an NPR correspondent, Jacki Lyden visited some dangerous war zones—but her childhood was a war zone of a different kind.Lyden's mother suffered from what is now called bipolar disorder or manic depression. But in a small Wisconsin town in the sixties an...

Ten people you've never met are about to change your life. I know this because they changed mine, in spite of my best efforts to remain unchanged. For a long time, I resisted the idea of writing this book. In the end, though, I realized that I couldn't keep these people, or the gifts they had given, to myself. One page at a time, I will unpack the bittersweet beauty of their stories for you. I'll share a little bit of my story too. But the soundtrack to all of this will be your story, and tha...

Hunting Mexican guerillas, a CIA agent fights to regain his memory and stay aliveDavid doesn't remember the bomb going off. In fact, he doesn't remember anything at all. He was on a mission in Buenos Aires when the explosion sent a piece of shrapnel into his skull, and it missed killing him by a fraction of an inch. His memory in tatters, he returns to the United States to heal, meeting his wife for what seems like the first time. His memory will return gradually, t...