Don't look twice, by Andrew Gross

Detective Ty Hauck (from The Dark Tide) is in the gas station with his 13-year-old daughter when a shotgun is fired through the plate glass window. Dead is a federal prosecutor. The action never stops, even when the killer is found. Gross is a co-author with James Patterson and has developed the right ingredients for a real page-turner.

Mounting fears, by Stuart Woods

Another in the series about Will Lee, now President of the United States, and his wife Kate, now CIA Director. A group seizes a missile site in Pakistan; a vice president has cancer; affairs are covered up and uncovered; the elusive Teddy Faye is discovered in Panama City. Another great suspense story from Woods.

Terminal freeze, by Lincoln Child

A story from frozen Alaska; scientists find something buried in ice that looks like a sabre-toothed tiger. A documentary team flies in to film the unveiling of the corpse, but instead the thing defrosts itself and becomes what it was when it was flash-frozen: a killing machine. Blood, gore, and ice trucking - what fun!

Critical mass, by Whitley Streiber

Las Vegas is blown up by an atomic bomb. Yeah, I'm in! We follow James Deutsch as he tracks the trail of the bomb and tries to get to the President before the traitors within the government find him. His ex-wife, Nabila, is also on the job. Will they find the next bomb before it blows up Washington? Read and find out!

Lethal legacy, by Linda Fairstein

What's beneath the fabled 42nd Street library? Alex Cooper and her two cohorts, Mike and Mercer, are looking for clues to a murder and get a behind-the-scenes look at NYPL. Rich donors, eccentric board members, secret tunnels - for library lovers, this is great fun; library staff and conservators will be horrified by the rough handling of rare books and maps. Put on white gloves before you pick up that bloodstained clue!!

Racism 101, by Nikki Giovanni

What a wonderful collection of messages! "... the biggest stumbling block to progress in America is still racism... we have to find a way to comfort young white people about the fact that, though they will never ... rule the world again, they can make valid contributions to our planet. The world is not, and has never been, white..." A great way to touch base with how far we've come, and how far we still need to go.

Enough, by Juan Williams

Subtitle: the phony leaders, dead-end movements, and culture of failure that are undermining Black America - and what we can do about it. Williams is excited by Bill Cosby's perceptive, focused challenge to parents in his famous speech celebrating the anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling. "Study," Cosby (and Williams) tells students. "That's all." Williams quotes statistics such as the difference in the amount of time spent studying by white, African-American, Hispanic and Asian students, the amount of time spent watching TV, the number of middle-class African-Americans leaving inner city schools, and time spent by parents helping their children with homework. It all points to more parental involvement. Williams is scathing of so-called civil rights leaders who help their own families to succeed, but don't lead marches on our failing schools or stand in front of crack houses.