Michael Malone
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Michael Malone's The Last Noel is a beautiful gift to American fiction. In a deeply touching tale, The Last Noel captures the exuberance and poignance of a lasting friendship between a man and a woman from very different backgrounds. Noni Tilden and Kaye King grow up and grow close as their lives come dramatically together through four decades of tumultuous change in a small southern town. The story begins in 1963 when Kaye first...
Author
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
The polite Piedmont town of Hillston, North Carolina, wants to go on believing it is still too temperate to require homicide experts. But when the wife of a state senator is found beaten to death, the inner circle of Hillston's ruling families arranges to have the case assigned to Detective Justin Savile, the charming black sheep of the dynasty that founded the town. Aided by his wise-cracking, working-class partner, Cuddy Magnum, and a young woman...
Author
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Street-smart and straightforward police chief Cuddy Mangum and his refined homicide detective Justin Savile V are determined to keep their town's cultural, political and racial divisions stable...even peaceful. But when a young black activist is murdered while in the process of fighting for his brother's freedom from death row, the lines keeping Hillston, North Carolina, in balance start to crumble. Thrust into a dirty political campaign and torn...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"There's humor and action aplenty, but Four Corners is also a warmhearted look at how we love and forgive. Five hundred and forty-four pages never seemed so short"—People, 4 stars, People Pick
The Four Corners of the Sky is master storyteller Michael Malone's new novel of love, secrets, and the mysterious bonds of families. Malone brings characters to life as only he can, exploring the questions that defy easy answers:
...Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"John Docherty's mother has just been taken into a nursing home following a massive stroke and she's unlikely to be able to live independently again. For in a box, in the attic, he finds undeniable truth that he had a brother who disappeared when he himself was only a toddler. A brother no one ever mentioned. A brother he knew absolutely nothing about. A discovery that sets John on a journey from which he may never recover. For sometimes in that space...
6) The everything college survival book: from social life to study skill-all you need to fit right in!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
7) First Lady
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller! Critically acclaimed novelist and award-winning short story writer Michael Malone is the smart, literate, compassionate voice of the American south. His gift for crafting the great American comedy, as he did in Handling Sin, is matched only by his ability to create mystery novels ripped with tension, twists and humanity. A woman's body has been found-murdered, mutilated, tagged and addressed to Lt. Justin Savile V and Police...
8) Handling sin
Author
Pub. Date
[1986]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent, and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac convertible. Left behind is a mysterious list of seven outrageous tasks that Raleigh must perform in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Based on unprecedented access to the corporation's archives, The Intel Trinity is the first full history of Intel Corporation-the essential company of the digital age- told through the lives of the three most important figures in the company's history: Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove.
Often hailed the "most important company in the world," Intel remains, more than four decades after its inception, a defining company of the global digital...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating exploration of the history of memory and human civilization
Memory makes us human. No other animal carries in its brain so many memories of such complexity nor so regularly revisits those memories for happiness, safety, and the accomplishment of complex tasks. Human civilization continues because we are able to pass along memories from one person to another, from one generation to the next.
The Guardian of All Things is a sweeping...
11) House of spines
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ran McGhie's world has been turned upside down. A young, lonely and frustrated writer suffering from mental-health problems, he discovers that his long-dead mother was related to one of Glasgow's oldest merchant families. Not only that, but Ran has inherited Newton Hall, a vast mansion that belonged to his great-uncle, who had been watching from afar as his estranged great-nephew has grown up. Entering his new-found home, it seems Great-Uncle Fitzpatrick...
12) A suitable lie
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Andy Boyd thinks he is the luckiest man alive. Widowed with a young child, after his wife dies in childbirth, he is certain that he will never again experience true love. Then he meets Anna. Feisty, fun and beautiful, she's his perfect match and she loves his son like he is her own. When Andy ends up in the hospital on his wedding night, he receives his first clue that Anna is not all that she seems. Desperate for that happy-ever-after, he ignores...
14) Bad Samaritan
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
DI Ray McBain's new case finds the victim’s family and friends all under suspicion, and he has to untangle a sordid web of lies, deceit, blackmail, infidelity and cyberstalking. When Stigmata, a deranged serial killer from McBain’s tortured past, starts taking out new victims—with the suspects and McBain himself in his sights—the case gets even more treacherous. The pressure intensifies until McBain calls on Kenny O’Neill, his old underworld...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A bold vision about the ways companies will adapt and be reborn in a revolutionary world where business models implode and the search is on for what will work. The fate of newspapers and the music industry is a harbinger of what awaits every company: an aging business model in its death throes as people wake up to the grim fact that their products and the way they deliver them are out of sync not only with what customers want but how they want it....
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