Brentwood Book Stacks

Garden of Beasts - Jeffrey Deaver (Link to Catalog)
Reputed for his vow to take only morally righteous assignments in 1936 New York City, a German-American hit man is forced by the government to pose as an Olympic contender and kill a member of Hitler’s regime. Thriller, Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award Winner (Goodreads)
Private Games - James Patterson (Link To Catalog)
The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the games’ organizing committee and his mistress have been killed. It’s clear that it wasn’t a crime of passion, but one of precise calculation and execution.#3 in Jack Morgan Series, Mystery (Goodreads)
Gold - Chris Cleave (Link to Catalog)
Kate and Zoe have been friends since they met training for track cycling at the age of nineteen. Now, at thirty-two, they are facing their last and biggest race—the 2012 Olympics. Kate is the more naturally gifted, but her daughter is fighting leukemia, and she has to balance that with her intense training. Zoe has a compulsive need to win at any cost, and her obsession may threaten her relationship with Kate. Literary Fiction (Goodreads)
Running the Rift - Naomi Benaron (Link to Catalog)
Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life. Literary Fiction, Winner of the 2010 Bellwhether Prize (Social Justice). (Goodreads)

Garden of Beasts - Jeffrey Deaver (Link to Catalog)

Reputed for his vow to take only morally righteous assignments in 1936 New York City, a German-American hit man is forced by the government to pose as an Olympic contender and kill a member of Hitler’s regime. Thriller, Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award Winner (Goodreads)

Private Games - James Patterson (Link To Catalog)

The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the games’ organizing committee and his mistress have been killed. It’s clear that it wasn’t a crime of passion, but one of precise calculation and execution.#3 in Jack Morgan Series, Mystery (Goodreads)

Gold - Chris Cleave (Link to Catalog)

Kate and Zoe have been friends since they met training for track cycling at the age of nineteen. Now, at thirty-two, they are facing their last and biggest race—the 2012 Olympics. Kate is the more naturally gifted, but her daughter is fighting leukemia, and she has to balance that with her intense training. Zoe has a compulsive need to win at any cost, and her obsession may threaten her relationship with Kate. Literary Fiction (Goodreads)

Running the Rift - Naomi Benaron (Link to Catalog)

Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life. Literary Fiction, Winner of the 2010 Bellwhether Prize (Social Justice). (Goodreads)