"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?", his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is...

"A Hollywood hit….Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard." —Detroit NewsThe Chicago Tribune has dubbed Elmore Leonard, "the coolest, hottest writer in Americ...

Joe LaBrava first fell in love in a darkened movie theater when he was twelve -- with a gorgeous femme fatale up on the screen. Now the one-time Secret Service agent-turned-photographer is finally meeting his dream woman in the flesh...

"Holy Smokes. I'm A Father."Sabrina McKinley broke Jonas's heart when she left him for another man. Then the eldest Callahan brother gets the surprise of his life when he sees her again…holding his son. Even at six months,...

"Imagine one of the best episodes of the TV series Law and Order: SVU, but set in Wasington, DC" (Associated Press)—this riveting novel from former sex-crimes prosecutor Allison Leotta explores the intersection of sex and ...

National Book Award FinalistFrom one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionat...

Wonder Woman, created in 1941, on the brink of World War II, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, she has lasted the longest and commanded the most vast and wildly passionate following. Li...

Short story collection written by Native American authors.

In 1889, the gruesome murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress launched the trial of the century. When Toussaint-Augustin Gouffe entered 3, rue Tronson du Coudray, expecting a d...

The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and bestselling professor of psychology Angela Duckworth. ...

Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited ...

An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in fluxIn September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English ...

Movie Edition of the Dramatic Sequel to The ShunningKatie Lapp has been torn from her close-knit Plain family and community in the painful ordeal known as the shunning. But as she strikes out into the strange and sometimes dangerous &...

"I wish there was something I could do," Cousin Verena said, her voice cracking."But what?" Susie whispered, wiping her eyes. "The boy I've always loved thinks of me as his sister . . . and always has." ...

As the only daughter, Sylvia Miller of TheTinderbox has always held a special place in her Old Order family, one Adeline Pelham jeopardizes when she shows up at the Millers' Hickory Hollow farm. It isn't that Adeline means to be a t...

With her Amish parents' twentieth anniversary approaching, eighteen-year-old Sylvia Miller stumbles across a surprise--the old brass tinderbox her clockmaker father keeps in his Lancaster County shop has been left unlocked. Against he...

Based on a true story, this first of a trilogy of Civil War novels chronicles the fateful events of 1861 in western Virginia, as a young man learns to cope with his world turned upside down by war. It is April of 1861. The shocking e...

In luminous prose, award-winning author Yiyun Li weaves together the lives of unforgettable characters who are forced to make moral choices, and choices for survival, in China in the late 1970s.  As morning dawns on the provincial ci...

LOVE LOST, LOVE FOUND  Ready for a fresh start, Allison Parker moves back to her hometown in the suburbs of New York. While she'd once savored the dynamic pace of city life, sadly, it lost its allure after her husband's untimely deat...

From the critically acclaimed author of Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune comes a new delightful novel about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris.  ...

The Pink Cupcake Truck is here! From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin A reporter from LA comes to town and is found strangled to death in a local motel. He'd been inquiring about a cold case: ten years ago, a boy was killed in ...

In the game of love…Georgiana Lucas despises the arrogant and cruel Marquess of Westmorland even before learning that he's won the deed to her friend Kitty's home in a card game. Still, Georgiana assures Kitty the marquess wouldn't ...

It is a Charm City tradition—an annual visit to the Baltimore gravesite of Edgar Allan Poe on the renowned author's birthday by a mysterious cloaked figure bearing gifts of three roses and a half bottle of cognac. This year, privat...

Former homicide detective and CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left behind the Afghanistan battlefield for a trailer in New Mexico to forge a new career as a private investigator. Out of nowhere comes Ornella Neppi, a woman making a mess of her ...

Irene Hastings vacation was spoiled when she's mistaken for an escaped lunatic and held under house arrest at a private hospital. When murder strikes, the police think Irene would make a great suspect in this reprint of a 1946 comic m...

A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively—a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersect When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across ...

Life for Hyam is bittersweet. Admired by the citizens of Falmouth for his heroic rescue mission, he cherishes these peaceful days with Joelle by his side. Yet grief over the loss of his magical skills during the great Battle of Empori...

Catching two slippery convicts ain't gonna be easy, especially when three women demand to tag along. They have their own history with the outlaws, and Slocum never could refuse a lady-let alone three.

Jasmine and Lydia Lorraine are a mother and daughter act touring the west-and the only survivors of a bloody attack. And without Slocum's help, the killer might just finish the job.

THE LADY VANISHES John Slocum's riding his Appaloosa to the Triple T Ranch for work when he decides to pay a visit to his longtime friend Marybeth Meecher. But instead of a smile from her shining face, he's greeted by the business...