Select Editions Volume 3 2005 Author:Tami Hoag, Adriana Trigiani, Jeffery Cruikshank, Jennifer Donnelly KILL THE MESSENGER-TAMI HOAG: New York Times best-selling author Tami Hoag delivers an uncommonly entertaining and provocative thriller. A grueling day for a young bicycle messenger Jace Damon is about to get worse. A sleazy lawyer sends Jace on a dangerous nighttime delivery and then the lawyer turns up dead. Jace is soon caught in a web of bla... more »ckmail and murder threatening not only his life but also his beloved little brother?s. ?Demonstrates once again why [Hoag is] so good at what she does.? /San Francisco Chronicle
THE QUEEN OF THE BIG TIME-ADRIANA TRIGIANI: It is the 1920?s and Nella Castelluca aspires to the ?Big Time?. She long to escape her immigrant parents? quiet farm and become a teacher in town. But her plans shift when she falls in love with a worldly and eligible bachelor. After he disappears from her life without explanation, Nella finds a strength she didn?t know she had until the unimaginable happens. A poignant tale of the limits and power of love. ?Trigiani is a wonderful storyteller.?/USA Today
MURDER AT THE B-SCHOOL-JEFFERY CRUIKSHANK: Eric MacInnes had everything. A student at the Harvard Business School, he had looks, charm, money so why commit suicide? When a Boston detective who is all business herself beings investigating, murder seems much more likely. And how convenient that the number one suspect, a struggling junior professor, is ?helping? her on her case. ?An entertaining picture of the world of academic finance and university politics.? Publisher?s Weekly
A NORTHERN LIGHT-JENNIFER DONNELLY: Sixteen-year-old Mattie collects words. It is her way of fending off the hard truths of her life as a penniless country girl in upstate New York. She also has a dream: to go to college--uncommon for women in the early twentieth century. But when tradgey at the lakeside hotel where she works, Mattie discovers just how powerful words--and dreams--can be. An unforgettable story of yearning and mystery. ?A quintessential coming-of-age story?..exceptionally well told.?/ The Christian Science Monitor« less