Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop - Mequon

The violent death of a journalist leads agent turned art restorer Gabriel Allon to Russia. The stakes are high; he's playing by "Moscow Rules" now. The grim Moscow of Soviet times has been replaced with a city awash in oil and bulletproof Bentleys, where a former KGB agent and current arms dealer is ... (more)about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated weapons to terrorists unless Allon can put a stop to it. But the clock is ticking!

The McKotch family's deepest fears, hopes and hostilities collide within the walls of their rambling retreat on Cape Cod in Jennifer Haigh's latest novel. Long divorced, Frank and Paulette hide a mountain of grievances from their three adult children who are busy with crises of their own. As summer approaches, ... (more)events in their lives force them to confront themselves, their choices, and opportunities for reconciliation and love that may still await. Haigh is also the author of Mrs. Kimble.

Join Mequon author Lesley Kagen and celebrate the publication of her second novel. Would-be reporter Gibby McGraw, brain damaged after a car accident that took both of her parents, stumbles on the dead body of the next governor of Kentucky. She may have gotten her big break, but she got a lot more than ... (more)she bargained for too! Good thing she's also learning that some things are more important than all the brains in the world, and that miracles occur in the most unexpected moments.

Leigh Fielding wants a life. She's been on dialysis for the past five years and just wants to make it to her 30th birthday. Thanks to a kidney transplant it looks like her wish may really come true. To celebrate she embarks on a road trip from Wisconsin to California, but her trip takes an unexpected ... (more)detour when she picks up a seventeen-year-old hitchhiker. Jess Riley's novel is a journey of friendship, hope and discovery.

Maggi McCormick Gordon shares her enthusiasm and devotion to the art of quilting with American Folk Art Quilts. The twenty-five quilts in the book are from the Wisconsin State Historical society collection, each with its own unique history and story. Quilters inspired to create their own version of the ... (more)lovely historical quilts can do so with the aid of patterns and block layouts included in the b

Fan favorites Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are back in the latest thriller by Robert Crais. Hired by a defense attorney, Elvis's discovery of a videotape helped clear an innocent man of murder and made Elvis a hero. But now that "innocent man" is found dead holding photos of the murder victim and Elvis finds ... (more)himself on trial.

Meet Wisconsin’s own Christina Schwarz, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novel Drowning Ruth. Her latest novel weaves past and present into a portrait of a marriage on the brink of collapse and is set mainly in Madison, Wisconsin, (with scenes in other locations throughout the state ... (more)including a trip to Summerfest). In 1963 a plot for revenge destroys a career, a friendship and a family. The consequences of the scandalous event reverberate and touch the next generation when, thirty years later, one of the now-adult children struggles to decide whether to end his affair or his marriage. Meanwhile, his wife is harboring a secret of her own.