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Stephen L. Carter
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Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, where he has taught since 1982. He is the author of the best-selling novel The Emperor of Ocean Park, and seven acclaimed nonfiction books, including The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion and Civility: Manner, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy. He and his family live near New Haven, Connecticut.
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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $15.00
Bestselling author Stephen L. Carter delivers a gripping political thriller set against the backdrop of Watergate, Vietnam, and the Nixon White House.
Philmont Castle is a man who has it all: wealth, respect, and connections. He's the last person you'd expect to fall prey to a murderer, but then his body is... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $25.95
Stephen L. Carter’s brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven week son the New York Times best-seller list. Now, in Jericho’s Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the reader’s attention until the very... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $7.99
A riveting novel of ambition, revenge and the power of familial obligations.
Talcott Garland is a successful law professor and devoted family man. When his father, a disgraced former Supreme Court nominee, is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Talcott suspects foul play. Guided by the elements of a mysterious puzzle that his... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $15.95
Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and powerful African American couple. Driving home through a swirling blizzard late one night, the couple skids off the road. Near the sight of their accident they discover... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2003
Price: $14.95
In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord—families who summer at Martha’s Vineyard—and the inner circle of... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Read by Bahni Turpin
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $31.95
The author of The Emperor of Ocean Park, with the powers of observation and richness of plot and character, returns to the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town’s past, the secrets of a... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Read by Peter Francis James
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $19.99
In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord—families who summer at Martha’s Vineyard—and the inner circle of... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $16.95
The Culture Of Disbelief has been the subject of an enormous amount of media attention from the first moment it was published. Hugely successful in hardcover, the Anchor paperback is sure to find a large audience as the ever-increasing, enduring debate about the relationship of church and state in America continues. In The Culture Of Disbelief, Stephen Carter explains... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $26.95
“Carter twists plotlines like pretzels while wryly skewering America’s wealthy intellectual elite.” —People
John Grisham called Stephen L. Carter’s first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, “beautifully written and cleverly plotted. A rich, complex family saga, one deftly woven through a fine legal thriller.” The Chicago Tribune hailed Carter’s next book, New... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Read by Dominic Hoffman
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $29.95
“Carter twists plotlines like pretzels while wryly skewering America’s wealthy intellectual elite.”–People
John Grisham called Stephen L. Carter’s first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, “beautifully written and cleverly plotted. A rich, complex family saga, one deftly woven through a fine legal thriller.” The Chicago Tribune hailed Carter’s next book, New England... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2002
Price: $26.95
An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard—old families who summer on Martha’s Vineyard—and the... Read more >
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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.95
Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and powerful African American couple. Driving home through a swirling blizzard late one night, the couple skids off the road. Near the sight of their accident they discover... Read more >
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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
Bestselling author Stephen L. Carter delivers a gripping political thriller set against the backdrop of Watergate, Vietnam, and the Nixon White House.
Philmont Castle is a man who has it all: wealth, respect, and connections. He's the last person you'd expect to fall prey to a murderer, but then his body is... Read more >
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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $25.95
Stephen L. Carter’s brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven week son the New York Times best-seller list. Now, in Jericho’s Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the reader’s attention until the very... Read more >
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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.95
Stephen L. Carter’s brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven week son the New York Times best-seller list. Now, in Jericho’s Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the reader’s attention until the very... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Read by Kirsten Potter
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $20.00
Stephen L. Carter’s brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven week son the New York Times best-seller list. Now, in Jericho’s Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the reader’s attention until the very... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Read by Peter Francis James
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 4, 2002
Price: $13.48
An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard—old families who summer on Martha’s Vineyard—and the... Read more >
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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Read by Richard Allen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 21, 2003
Price: $38.50
In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord—families who summer at Martha’s Vineyard—and the inner circle of... Read more >
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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Read by Bahni Turpin
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $17.50
The author of The Emperor of Ocean Park, with the powers of observation and richness of plot and character, returns to the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town’s past, the secrets of a... Read more >

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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Read by Dominic Hoffman
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
“Carter twists plotlines like pretzels while wryly skewering America’s wealthy intellectual elite.”–People
John Grisham called Stephen L. Carter’s first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, “beautifully written and cleverly plotted. A rich, complex family saga, one deftly woven through a fine legal thriller.” The Chicago Tribune hailed Carter’s next book, New England... Read more >
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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2002
Price: $14.95
An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard—old families who summer on Martha’s Vineyard—and the... Read more >
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A Novel
Written by Stephen L. Carter
Read by Bahni Turpin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 3, 2007
Price: $30.00
With the powers of observation and richness of plot and character, the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park returns to the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town’s past, the secrets of a... Read more >
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Written by Stephen L. Carter
Read by Mirron Willis
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $30.00
@In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha’s Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie Wesley, Harlem’s rising literary star. When Eddie’s younger sister mysteriously... Read more >











