Ruby Sisson Library

American media mogul Stephanie Gallo's daughter is kidnapped in Afghanistan by a terrorist group. When the group explains that they'll trade Gallo's daughter for Mustafa Khan, a top Al-Qaeda operative, the U.S. president calls in Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath. Without back-up or resources, Harvath must sneak into Afghanistan's Policharki prison and not only bust out Khan, but also figure out a way to outsmart the...

"It's a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national security conference has just been held, bringing together the world's greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It's American politicking at its best. That's when all hell breaks loose." "When presidential candidate...

Hosseini, the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns," has written a new novel about how people love, how they take care of one another, and how choices resonate through generations. From Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos--the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.

In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric...

While traveling with her family to Holland to visit her grandparents, Trixie once again loses her beloved Knuffle Bunny. Contains fold out pages. One track of sound disc has page-turn signals.

Gertrude LaRue receives funny typewritten and paw-written letters from he dog, Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home.

Amos Decker and his journalist friend Alex Jamison are visiting the home of Alex's sister in Barronville, a small town in western Pennsylvania that has been hit hard economically. When Decker is out on the rear deck of the house talking with Alex's niece, a precocious eight-year-old, he notices flickering lights and then a spark of flame in the window of the house across the way. When he goes to investigate he finds two dead bodies inside and it's...

Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass includes all 84 original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. This edition is limited to 1,000 copies. Journey with Alice down the rabbit hole into a world of wonder where oddities, logic and wordplay rule supreme. Encounter characters like the grinning Cheshire Cat who can vanish into thin air, the cryptic Mad Hatter who speaks in riddles and the harrowing Queen of Hearts obsessed with the phrase "Off...

The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.

"How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Walter Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom." "Based on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk - a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate...