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"[Evanovich] is funny and ceaselessly inventive."
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Do yourself a favor and read this one."
—Washington Post
The author of so many spectacularly successful mystery novels featuring the inimitable Stephanie Plum, #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich displays a more playfully romantic side with The Rocky Road to Romance. Evanovich delights with a classic, pre-Plum contemporary
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"Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth’s legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated “on the basis of sex” to be unconstitutional. In a time...
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When a caller to a late night radio talk show announces his intention to murder a woman he's kidnapped within seventy-two hours, mayhem ensues. And Paris Gibson, the mysterious host of the show in question, finds herself in the spotlight for the first time in years. Who has been abducted? And what is the identity of the caller, known only as 'Valentino'? The clock is ticking and in the midst of the front to track down the missing woman, Paris finds...
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The View from Mount Joy, Lorna Landvik’s delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about a man, a supermarket, the roads not taken, and the great, unexpected pleasures found in living a good life.
When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson and his widowed mother move to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull High’s libidinous head cheerleader, the kind of girl a guy can’t say...
When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson and his widowed mother move to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull High’s libidinous head cheerleader, the kind of girl a guy can’t say...
5) Ghost radio
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In this chilling first novel by filmmaker, composer, and graphic novelist Leopoldo Gout, a ghost story call-in program opens a doorway into the paranormal.
"Ghost Radio reminded me of early Stephen King. The story sticks with you long after you've finished the final page." -James Patterson
From the cramped bowels of a dimly lit radio station, Ghost Radio is beamed onto the airwaves. More than a call-in show to tell scary stories about vampires...
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"It's Father's Day weekend, and it looks like some of the well-intentioned wisdom that Charlie D dispenses on his late-night radio call-in show might blow up in his face. One young listener seems intent on killing his father and the rest of his family. Unfortunately, no one knows where he is. Time is running out, until Charlie's own long-estranged father enters the picture."--P. [4] of cover.
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A National Book Award-winning author, Stanley Elkin creates novels that are tapestries of humor, satire, and caricature. In books like Mrs. Ted Bliss and The Living End, he offers wry visions of contemporary culture. The Dick Gibson Show is a hilarious panorama of the world of talk radio. At night, a little boy listens to radio stations from Detroit, Memphis, and New Orleans. When he grows up, his first job is with a tiny station in Butte, Montana....
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Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, with a young, addicted mom, Bobby Estell fell in love with country music. Abandoned by his father at the age of five, Bobby saw the radio as his way out--a dream that came true in college when he went on air at the Henderson State University campus station broadcasting as Bobby Bones, while simultaneously starting The Bobby Bones Show at 105.9 KLAZ. Bobby's passions were pop, country music, and comedy, and...
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Starry night: As the host of a radio program for the lovelorn, Jessie Richmond is surprisingly lonely, especially with the holidays approaching. So she decides to make the trek to her uncle's bookstore in rural New York state and hold a speed dating event--only to find herself snowed in--with one very special single ...
Mistletoe and mimosas: After years of hard work, real estate agent Layla Gentry has her dream home on Pine Cove Island. She's perfectly...
13) A do right man
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Best-selling author Omar Tyree presents his fifth novel, one that grapples with the difficult juggling act of career, relationship, love and life.
Bobby Dallas is an attractive, honest guy making his way in the radio broadcasting field. When a lucky break finally gains him some well-deserved respect and excellent pay, his life is on track except for one very important thing: the perfect woman. As he searches earnestly for love, Bobby learns that...
14) Hot blooded
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A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank call. All in a day's work for a celebrity. Who would think to link the two? Then a second hooker's corpse turns up. Samantha's ominous caller persists, along with a mysterious female claiming to be a woman from her past --...
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Jean Shepherd (1921-1999), master humorist, is best known for his creation A Christmas Story, the popular movie about the child who wants a BB gun for Christmas and nearly shoots his eye out. What else did Shepherd do? He is considered by many to be the Mark Twain and James Thurber of his day. For many thousands of fans, for decades, "Shep" talked on the radio late at night, keeping them up way past their bedtimes. He entertained without a script,...
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"Dumped by her boyfriend and demoted from WBBB's prime-time spot, radio producer Allie McGuffy has nowhere to go but up. She plans to make her comeback by turning temporary DJ Charlie Tenniel into a household name. And if he's willing to help cure her breakup blues with a rebound fling, that's an added bonus. Charlie just wants to kick back, play good tunes and eat Chinese food. He's not interested in becoming famous. But he is interested in Allie....
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"Few voices epitomize the sound of sports television quite like Verne Lundquist's. A fixture on air since the 1960s, Verne has covered just about every sport there is, making some of the most enduring calls in the history of sports. In Play by play, one of America's most beloved sportscasters turns the spotlight on his own life, chronicling his incredible life covering Southeastern Conference football and some of the most iconic moments in sports...
20) The legend
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"Griffin Tardiff, 16, sidelined from hockey because of a serious injury, starts Grade 11 in a new school an hour away from his home town of Ottawa. He chooses, as his community service, a spot at the local radio station. Then he gets involved in the lives of a family in his new neighbourhood which opens his eyes to other intriguing possibilities."--
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