For the airline executives finalizing a merger that would make news in the business world, the nine a.m. meeting would be a major milestone. But after marketing VP Paul Rogan walked into the plush conference room, strapped with explosives, the headlines told of death and destruction instead. The NYPSD's Eve Dallas confirms that Rogan was cruelly coerced by two masked men holding his family hostage. His motive was saving his wife and daughter -- but...

Entwining history and fiction, the past and the present, The Muralist plunges readers into prewar politics and the plight of European refugees refused entrance to the United States, capturing both the beginnings of the school of Abstract Expressionism and the inner workings of today's New York art scene.

The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.

Detective Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on a senseless crime. This is Peabody's first case as primary detective, but she soon stumbles upon a tricky situation. Alone in the locker room after a workout, she overhears two officers arguing and realizes that both are guilty of corruption and murder and willing to kill to keep their secrets.

In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...

NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat, continuing to pursue the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered her execution over a decade ago, teams up with her lover to find the old spy, while a serial killer terrorizes the Twentieth Precinct, singling Nikki out as the recipient of his twisted messages.

Former Assistant D.A. Butch Karp and his wife Marlene Ciampi find themselves embroiled in a case that involves government officials, law enforcement agents, and corporate "suits" in New York City.

Skipper, Kowalski, Private, and Rico come face-to-face with zombies, robots, spooky noises, and a whole lot of frightening fun. Features eight spooky Penguin operations, including one never-before-seen mission!

It is the end of a long workday and she is out for a run. Shortly after 9:00 P.M. on April 19, 1989, a young woman jogs alone near 102nd Street in New York City's Central Park. She is attacked, raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. Many hours later, she is found lying in the mud, her body thrashing violently. I Am the Central Park Jogger recounts the mesmerizing, inspiring, often wrenching story of human strength and transcendent recovery that...

"A deeply moving nonfiction picture book about the 9/11 Survivor Tree and the spirit of America"--