San Antonio College Library

A stunning new novel from the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart of Stone plumbs the undercurrents of marriage and contemporary adolescence. Critics hailed Renate Dorrestein's A Heart of Stone as "stunning" (Time), "striking and finely tuned" (The New York Times), and "Hitchcockian" in its suspense (The Washington Post). In Without Mercy bestselling Dutch novelist Renate Dorrestein reenters the edgy, chilling domestic territory that won her...

The effect of bad company on a boy's life. At 16, David Nachman, a doctor's son in Pennsylvania takes part in a drag race--racing in reverse--and loses control of his car. For years he is haunted by the death of the little girl he killed.

In a novel chronicling the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable, American engineer Chester Ludlow, his wife Franny, journalist Jack Trace, and musician Katerina Lindt and her husband, Joachim, become caught up in the excitement of the project.

A father journeys to a town in Mexico in an effort to learn what drove his son to commit suicide. The father is Atticus Cody, a rich Colorado rancher whose son adopted a beatnik lifestyle on the Gulf Coast. As he investigates, Cody receives a big surprise.

North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence -- but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with...

In New York, a father's worst nightmare arrives just before Christmas when Edward Ives learns his son Robert, 17, was murdered in the street for $10 by another teenager. The novel describes his coming to terms with his loss.