Deadly Spritz

On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.S. submarine Flier struck a mine in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines as it steamed along the surface. All but fifteen of the more than eighty-strong crew went down with the vessel. Of those left floating in the dark, eight survived by swimming for seventeen hours before washing ashore on an uninhabited island. The story of the Flier and its eight survivors is wholly unique in the annals of U.S. military history. Eight Survived tells the gripping story of the doomed submarine and its crew from its first patrol, during which it sank several enemy ships, to the explosion in the Sulu Sea. Drawing on interviews with the survivors and on a visit to the jungle where they washed ashore—where a cast of fascinating characters helped the U.S. sailors evade the Japanese—Douglas Campbell fully captures the combination of extraordinary courage and luck that marked one of the most heroic episodes of World War II.

Winter is coming to an end on the Ligurian Riviera and in the hills behind the coast, Giuseppe Caponnetto is retiring from the police force. However, his friend, Commissario Bonfatti, involves him in solving a murder case. Caponnetto has his hands full with his new life - he has recently become the owner of the Osteria Il Golfo restaurant, which demands his attention, as well as Giulia, the attractive tenant and chef. But the brutal murder of an elderly man lingers in his thoughts, especially as the main suspect appears to have an airtight alibi. Between antipasti and primi piatti, Caponnetto embarks on a journey where everything he learned during his police career paves the way for new adventures in his future.

Not only the story of a colossus of a woman living in Kansas, Fat Girl, Terrestrial is also a meditation on God, treachery, and blind love. In Kingdom Come, Kansas, a town from which children once mysteriously disappeared, there lives a giant woman. Wallis Armstrong is not a pituitary mutant or a person battling a rare medical condition; she’s just an improbably large woman ill at ease in a world built for shrimps. Paradoxically, Wallis builds miniatures of crime scenes, and her specialty is staged suicides. She constructed her first diorama as a child when a boy in her fourth-grade class went suddenly missing. Wallis’s brother, Obie, believes the only explanation for his sister’s amplitude is that she is the incarnation of God on Earth, and he is her one true ardent disciple. Until he too disappears. Kellie Wells’s story of Wallis’s odyssey through this tight-fitting world is a churlish meditation on the existence and nature of God as well as an exploration of the treachery of childhood and the destructive nature of the most blindly abiding kind of love: that of a love-struck brother for a big sister, a disciple for an unwilling prophet, and a bone-weary god for a savage and disappointing flock.

Sailor York and the daring recruits of Explorer Academy uncover an elusive animal-smuggling ring in the first electrifying book in this new five-book series. Soon after Cruz, Sailor, Emmett, and Lani return for their second year at Explorer Academy, their sense of calm is shattered when Sailor’s older sister goes missing. Amidst incredible expeditions to far-flung destinations and competitive classes, Sailor bravely steps into the lead to discover how her sister’s sudden disappearance may be linked to an illegal and deadly animal-trafficking ring. Despite winning the prestigious North Star Award and being surrounded by close friends and teachers who she has traveled the world with, Sailor’s never felt less sure of herself. As the recruits face puzzling obstacles and try to follow complex clues, Sailor realizes there’s only one thing that could save her sister in time: revealing her own deepest secret.

Two families plunged into a bitter feud of class, scandal and revenge... Pride. Gazing from his magnificent Chawbury Manor, Miles Straker has it all. A society wife who runs his home like clockwork, four gorgeous children, a smart stucco in West London and, most importantly of all, his multi-national PR business. Greed. Utterly ruthless in both business and pleasure, Miles is a man who gets what he wants in a heartbeat, with a web of power that can bring a company to its knees or get you splashed on every front page. Envy. When self-made millionaire Ross Clegg buys the land adjoining the Straker Chawbury estate, Miles is overcome with jealousy. Not only are Ross and his family welcomed by the country elite, Ross's booming business means he's hailed as a hero of the people. Wrath. But Miles Straker is a dangerous enemy and he vows to take the Clegg empire apart piece by piece, starting with his obnoxious family... Battle rages from the boardroom to the bedroom as old money takes on the new, and two families are plunged into a bitter feud.

When a hostage situation in a gated community turns deadly, detective Claudia Hershey is spun into an investigation where the only certainties are deceit and betrayal. Whether she can restore tranquillity to the quiet Florida town and salvage her career depends on the community's newest residents - and who among them stays alive.

Though stressed by her irrational boss at a women’s shelter, Sonya Radisson befriends battered wife Renée Mowry. The day after Sonya is unjustly fired, Renée is kidnapped by hooligans who may be linked to Renée’s estranged husband. Since authorities would misread Renée’s fishy past, Sonya launches her own search-and-rescue attempt. Gunfights and motorbike chases ensue across a labyrinth of backwoods trails. One leads to an ominous valley not meant to be found—an enigma that will lower the odds of anyone leaving the Rockies alive. But Sonya is armed to the teeth and ready to face the darkest—and perhaps final—weekend of her life. Suspense and humor run as high as the body count in this offbeat, third installment of Ben Schneider’s expertly crafted Chrome Mountain Saga.