A tale of two Mikes. . .and the one that got awayOnce upon a time in the 1980s, a girl named Beau was torn between two Mikes: did she prefer her high-school sweetheart or the sexy stranger she'd picked up in an airport bar? One she ev...
Kitty Fane has an affair, and when her husband, a bacteriologist, finds out, he forces her to go with him to a cholera epidemic in the hopes that she will contract the disease and die. Once she is surrounded by all the desolation and ...
In Bombay, a retired professor named Nariman Vakeel looks back on his life, and specifically his failure to marry the woman he really loved, instead submitting to an arranged marriage. He lives now with his stepchildren, but when he b...
Investment analyst Lynn Gregory was used to taking risks. But even Lynn has her doubts when Matt, her best friend and roommate, asks her to participate in a charade to hide his sexuality from his parents. The plan seemed simple enou...
Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible Tru...
Gregg OlsenDescribes how the 1985 discovery of the body of a young boy, who remained unidentified and unclaimed for two years, led to the child's father, Eli Stutzman, the son of an Amish bishop, whose facade as a dedicated farmer and family man...
Enchanted No More (Luna Books)
Robin D. OwensAs one of the last surviving Mistweavers, half-blood Jenni knows what it's like to be caught between two worlds: the faery and the human. But the time has come to choose. The Lightfolk require her unique talent for balancing the eleme...
Call Me Irresistible R.S.V.P. to the most riotous wedding of the year . . . Lucy Jorik is the daughter of a former president of the United States. Meg Koranda is the offspring of legends. One of them is about to marry Mr. Irresisti...
The Thistle and the Rose: The Tudor P...
Jean PlaidyFrom the pen of the legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy comes the story of Princess Margaret Tudor, whose life of tragedy, bloodshed, and scandal would rival even that of her younger brother, Henry VIII.Princess Margaret Tudor i...
"On the riskiest mission of his career, Nicoli had allowed his life essence and his physical form to be separated. And the Harvestors had taken the bait - his body. Now he needed the cocky pilot who'd stolen his vessel to help ...
Terror on Tuesday (Lois Meade Mysteri...
Ann PurserWorking-class mum and housecleaner Lois Meade plies her sleuthing skills once again after discovering a dead body--dressed in a suit of armor--in a chapel.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Guilty When the First Lady dies in a fiery car crash, rookie attorney Jessica Ford is the only survivor of the tragedy. As the nation mourns, Ford has reason to believe it wasn't an accide...
A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cas...
Ann RuleWith this gripping true crime anthology, the first in a 5-book series, former Seattle policewoman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule turns her unflinching eye on compelling true crime accounts from her personal case fil...
In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protec...
While investigating a century-old crime of passion on an island off New Hampshire, Jean becomes fixated on the case and begins to project this knowledge on her own marriage, believing that her husband is unfaithful, causing unrealized...
Name All the Animals: A Memoir
Alison SmithRecounts the author's teenage experience of losing her beloved older brother in a car accident, a loss after which she managed her grief by engaging in self-destructive behaviors until her forbidden love for another girl helped her de...
August 2005.Amid death and destruction, hurricane-savaged New Orleans has a new dark force to fear.As the rescue efforts unfold, a grisly discovery is made at one of the massive refrigerator 'graveyards.' One of these metal hulks cont...
The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Editi...
John SteinbeckAs a high school kid struggling to write fiction, some books meant more than others, and some burst upon me with the power of a thunderbolt. John Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath was one of those. The humanity of the story lifted me as a ...
Just days before the once grand La Belle Riviere hotel is to be torn down, Adrienne Reynolds and her teenage daughter Skye stumble upon the body of Adrienne's best friend, Julianna Brent, a discovery that is just the beginning as Adri...
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler'Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-s...
In his first appearance, Burke, the hard-boiled private eye and self-appointed avenger of abused children, is hired by a beautiful woman to follow a child's murderer through the alleyways and tenements of New York City. Reprint. 25,00...
I Am Not A Serial Killer (John Cleave...
Dan WellsJohn Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential.He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those...
Can a man bent on settling down convince a free-spirited woman that doesn't believe in 'happily ever after' to risk her GYPSY HEART? Reformed bad boy Gage Dougherty wants to settle down. Free spirited bartender Sable Castle wants ...
I Cried, You Didn't Listen: A Survivo...
Dwight Edgar Abbott'The author's well-written story comes at the reader fast and furiouslyâ¦shocking readers into an awareness of the inhumanity of America's juvenile penal institutions.'-Publishers Weekly At age nine, a family tragedy forced ...
The Tale of Hill Top Farm (The Cottag...
Susan Wittig AlbertAfter purchasing a farm in the beautiful Lake District of England, the animal lover attempts to make friends among her fellow villagers, while her animal companions find themselves caught up in solving a baffling mystery, in the first...
When Tessa St. James stumbles upon an ancient tome, she is transported back to Camelot, where she encounters fierce knight Galahad the Chaste and finds a passion like no other in his arms, and together they embark on a crusade for the...
Alexander Cold is about to join his fearless grandmother on the trip of a lifetime.An International Geographic expedition is headed to the dangerous, remote wilds of South America on a mission to document the legendary Yeti of the Ama...
In Jonathan Ames's comic novel, Jeeves is the valet to a young writer with a drinking problem. Alan Blair and his faithful sidekick end up at a writer's colony in upstate New York, where Alan hopes to write his great novel. Instead, h...
In the first volume in the new Shooting Stars miniseries, Cinnamon escapes from the tedium, unhappiness, and turmoil of her family life through her daydreams of imaginary people and places, until she discovers her own unique and speci...
Shane McNamara, the author of the Texas West series in which the hero, Dare Calder, refuses to be hitched to just one woman, finds his beliefs challenged by his new writing partner Devin James - a fiesty vision of beauty who is deter...
Tossed out of the house after being raped by her mother's boyfriend, Lady finds herself trapped in a dead-end, minimum-wage job until she meets Cream, the leader of a notorious New York City gang, who recruits her for his prostitution...