Barnes: 1105 books

Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Julian Barnes continues to reinvigorate the novel with his pyrotechnic verbal skill and playful manipulation of plot and character. In Love, etc. he uses all the surprising, sophisticated ingredients of a delightful farce to create a tragicomedy of human frailties...

An unexpected passion ignites as secrets are exposed in Sophie Barnes's captivating Regency-set romance Despite the diversions offered at Thorncliff Manor, former spy James, the Earl of Woodford, has one purpose in staying there. He must find an encoded book that exposes a conspiracy within...

SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD is a classic Boston based murder mystery that continues where DEAD MEN TALK left off.It is the further adventures of Private Investigator and ex-cop Jack Kelly.This time Kelly is exposed to a more depraved side of the cutthroat business of the cheap detective.A story of greed and...

Tess Kendrick, teen fixer extraordinaire, makes her debut in a pulse-pounding thriller about a deadly conspiracy at the heart of Washington that's Scandal meets Veronica Mars. When sixteen-year-old Tess Kendrick is sent to stay with her older sister, she has no idea that the famed Ivy Kendrick...

DEAD MEN TALK is a modern murder mystery, taking place in Boston where the author was a private investigator for eleven years. Johnny Barnes has been a cop for the last 18 years, outside of Boston. A dozen homicides leads this offbeat detective through Bostons rock & roll nightclubs, strip...

A bold new anthology born of rage and sorrow and hope. 30 writers look at what today's politics and policies will do to shape our world a generation from now. Some of today's most visionary writers of science fiction project us forward to the world of the future; a world shaped by nationalism,...

A paranormal thriller from master storyteller Steven Barnes: A broken family struggles to hold itself together against a plot to unleash global genocide in Twelve Days Around the world, leaders and notorious criminals alike are mysteriously dying. A terrorist group promises a series of deaths...

Ariyana shows up on a farm in the middle of Mississippi. She isn't even aware that she's on Earth. She fled from her past, and then she meets Blake. Blake owns the land that Ariyana finds herself on. He wants to believe what she's told him about coming from a different planet, but what Blake doesn't know is if Ariyana is hiding something from him. A secret that even she doesn't know.

Share one man's journey through a world of poetic verse. Start the voyage with his humble beginnings. Continue down a path of introspection. Join him as he comes to the eventual realization that everything flows ever on.   Explore through stanza after stanza of unrestrained...

With five stars from Readers Favorite and Jersey Girl book reviews, along with a four and a half star average on Amazon, this is a must read. It's the story of Rey Naresh, a ninth grader who struggles through school with bullies, peer pressure, strange influences from the past, and a conspiracy at his school involving a medication that controls minds.

Laurence Olivier was one of the best-known and most pioneering actor-directors of Shakespeare on screen. This is the first study to provide a comprehensive analysis of Olivier's Shakespearean feature films and his unique Shakespearean star image. Through an examination of Olivier's unmade film Macbeth,...

Lord William finally meets his match in the latest Summersby Tale from Sophie Barnes, author of How Miss Rutherford Got Her Groove Back. Lucy Blackwell is desperate, reckless, and maybe a little bit crazy. That's the only possible explanation for tricking a man she doesn't know into a dance,...

‘We value truth in this family. Carpe Diem. Seize the day. We’re all just food for worms. So tell them you love them. Have fun, mount a donkey, whatever, just feel alive.’ Charades is fun, right, with those people, yes, your family, the ones you try to get away from at Christmas. For...

This book, written from the perspective of a practicing primary care physician, interweaves patients’ stories with fascinating new brain research to show how addictive drugs overtake basic brain functions and transform them to create a chronic illness that is very difficult to treat. The idea that...