The lady and the poet / Maeve Haran.
Set against the sumptuousness and intrigues of Queen Elizabeth I's court, reveals the untold love affair between the famous poet John Donne and Ann More, the passionate woman who, against all odds, became his wife.
(read more)Don't kill the messenger / Eileen Rendahl.
(read more)Somewhere to belong / Judith Miller.
Although she's always longed to see the outside world, Johanna Ilg believes her future is rooted in the Amana community inhabited by devout Christians. But when she learns a troubling secret, the world she thought she knew is shattered and she is forced to make difficult choices about a new life and the man she left behind. Berta Schumacher has lived a privileged life in Chicago, and when her parents decide they want a simpler life in Amana, Iowa, she resists. Under the strictures of the Amana villages, Berta's rebellion reaches new heights. Will her heart ever be content among the plain people of Amana?
(read more)The secret of the glass / Donna Russo Morin.
(read more)Kokoro / Natsume Sōseki ; translated with an introduction and notes by Meredith McKinney.
(read more)Enemies among us : a thriller / Bob Hamer.
FBI agent Matt Hogan is assigned to pose as a volunteer at a nonprofit chariry, in effort to track a terrorist cell group.
(read more)Diary of a confessions queen / Kathy Carmichael.
(read more)Red inferno, 1945 : a novel / Robert Conroy.
(read more)Born under a million shadows : a novel / Andrea Busfield.
The Taliban have withdrawn from Kabul’s streets, but the long shadows of their regime remain. In his short life, eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been abducted, and Fawad and his mother, Mariya, must rely on the charity of parsimonious relatives to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence. Ever the optimist, Fawad hopes for a better life, and his dream is realized when Mariya finds a position as a housekeeper for a charismatic Western woman, Georgie, and her two foreign friends. The world of aid workers and journalists is a new one for Fawad, and living with the trio offers endless curiosities—including Georgie’s destructive relationship with the powerful Afghan warlord Haji Khan, whose exploits are legendary. Fawad grows resentful and worried, until he comes to learn that love can move a man to act in surprisingly good ways. But life, especially in Kabul, is never without peril, and the next calamity Fawad must face is so devastating that it threatens to destroy the one thing he thought he could never lose: his love for his country.
(read more)Everything here is the best thing ever : stories / Justin Taylor.
(read more)Don Juan : his own version / Peter Handke ; translated from the German by Krishna Winston.
(read more)A different light / Mariah Stewart.
"... In her New Jersey town, beautiful, vibrant Athena is well known as the young widow of a police officer slain in the line of duty and as the daughter of a beloved former city councilman. But when she meets Quentin Forbes, a tough newspaper reporter, emotions that she believed died along with her husband start to stir again. Then she is asked to run for mayor, and the political contest that follows will test her newfound feelings to the breaking point, teaching her that things are not always as they appear ..."--p.[4] of cover.
(read more)Hot rocks / Nora Roberts.
When her notorious past catches up with Laine Tavish, proprietor of the antique shop Remember When, it's up to her and an enigmatic stranger named Max Gannon to find out who's chasing her-and why.
(read more)Naked moon / Domenic Stansberry.
Set in San Francisco in the crumbling vestiges of Italian North Beach. Before becoming a private investigator, Dante Mancuso worked for a secret corporate security firm that prized effectiveness over legality. When he left, it was not on good terms, so he made sure to take enough inside information to keep himself safe from reprisal. When SFPD Detective Leanora Chin starts asking questions about his cousin Gary's family warehousing business, Gary turns to the security firm for help, which they're willing to provide, so long as Dante agrees to settle his past debts by doing them one last favor.
(read more)Antiques bizarre / Barbara Allan.
(read more)Walking to Gatlinburg : a novel / Howard Frank Mosher.
(read more)Wolf in tiger's stripes / Victoria Gordon.
(read more)A question of motive / Roderic Jeffries.
(read more)Deadly inheritance / Simon Beaufort.
(read more)Back with vengeance / C.J. Carver.
(read more)Rich again / Anna Maxted.
(read more)The dark- eyes' war / David B. Coe.
A bitter old woman's curse and the deeds of previous generations wreak terrible consequences on both sides of a misbegotten war between the Qirsi of the Southlands and an Eandi army from Stelpana.
(read more)Listen / Rene Gutteridge.
(read more)Brendan / Morgan Llywelyn.
(read more)Shalador's lady / Anne Bishop.
The Black Widows see visions that will change the land--and Lady Cassidy--forever even as she makes it her duty to restore the land and people of Shalador and prove her ability to rule.
(read more)The world inside / Robert Silverberg.
(read more)The dragon factory / Jonathan Maberry.
Otto Wirths was the second-worst mass murderer in the history of the world. Compared to him Hitler, Stalin, Attila the Hun, and even Alexander the Great were amateurs, poseurs who could not hold a candle to Otto and his body count.
(read more)The glass room / Simon Mawer.
(read more)The Bad Kitty Lounge / Michael Wiley.
Greg Samuelson, an unassuming bookkeeper, has hired Joe Kozmarski to dig up dirt on his wife and her lover Eric Stone. But now Samuelson has taken matters into his own hands. It looks like he's torched Stone's Mercedes, killed his boss, and then shot himself, all in an hour. But as Kozmarski discovers, nothing's ever simple. Eric Stone wants to hire Kozmarski to clear Samuelson. Samuelson's dead boss, known as the Virginity Nun, has a saintly reputation but a red-hot past. And a gang led by an aging 1960s radical shows up in Kozmarski's office with a backpack full of payoff money, warning him to turn a blind eye to murder.
(read more)Out of body : a court of angels novel / Stella Cameron.
Born of an ancient family of clairvoyants, Marley Millet finds that her psychic gift is both unsettling and incredibly dangerous. She never wants to "travel" again--but the choice is not hers to make. After glimpsing the fates of two missing New Orleans jazz singers, Marley knows she has no choice and must speak up before more women disappear. Flinty cop-turned-writer Gray Fisher, who interviewed both chanteuses before they vanished, takes a special interest in Marley's incredible story--and in Marley. Scouring the wild clubs of the French Quarter, Marley and Gray make an unlikely and uneasy team. But their determination is matched only by the heat between them...and the evil they have uncovered.--Publisher's description.
(read more)Petrodor / by Joel Shepherd.
(read more)Gardens of the sun / by Paul McAuley.
(read more)Tooth and claw / Nigel McCrery.
After a year of working at home in order to control his synaesthesia (the rare neurological condition that causes his brain to crosswire his senses), DCI Mark Lapslie gets a visit from Sergeant Emma Bradbury, summoning him back to active duty. A television reporter has been brutally murdered and the top brass think Lapslie is the man to investigate the crime. With no witnesses and no suspects, Lapslie finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Then he has a second murder on his hands: a man is found dead in a train-station bomb explosion. Lapslie begins to suspect that the two high-profile cases may be connected. Under pressure to produce results and with the media bearing down on him and his synaesthesia going wild, Lapslie approaches his breaking point, but the solution to what's beginning to look like the crimes of an especially evil and diabolically creative serial killer remains elusive.
(read more)Print the legend / Craig McDonald.
(read more)On deadly ground / Michael Norman.
When a southern Utah community torn apart by environmentalists, landowners, and businessmen becomes divided even further by the death of a local environmental group leader, the local sheriff turns to a newly-appointed Bureau of Land Management ranger for help.
(read more)The year of confusion / John Maddox Roberts.
(read more)The boys from Santa Cruz / Jonathan Nasaw.
"...When troubled teen Luke Sweet is left orphaned and homeless, the court ships him off to a treatment program for juvenile delinquents in Humboldt County. Little Luke has a twisted past, though, and when several members of the group turn up dead, he quickly becomes the number one suspect. Agent Pender must track him down before anyone else gets hurt. But when clues about another psycho-killer who goes by the name Asmador surface, the case becomes much more dangerous--and deranged--than anyone thought possible..."--Dust cover flap.
(read more)Lucky strike : plus A sensitive dependence on initial conditions and "A real joy to be had" : outspoken interview / Kim Stanley Robinson.
(read more)Long time coming : a novel / Robert Goddard.
(read more)The hundred thousand kingdoms / N.K. Jemisin.
(read more)Let it ride / John McFetridge.
(read more)The highly effective detective plays the fool / Richard Yancey.
(read more)Do they know I'm running? : a novel / David Corbett.
(read more)Best of Joe R. Lansdale / Joe R. Lansdale.
Sixteen short stories by cult figure Joe R. Lansdale, including five Bram Stoker Award winning stories and some of his rarer works. Lansdale includes an autobiographical essay describing his East Texas boyhood and the many influences on his fiction, from comics to fantasy.
(read more)Shadowglass / Erica Hayes.
(read more)A thousand cuts / Simon Lelic.
(read more)The boy with the cuckoo-clock heart / Mathias Malzieu ; translated from the French by Sarah Ardizzone.
Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleine--witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans--who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine. Dr. Madeline warns Jack that he must never, ever fall in love because his heart is too fragile for strong emotions. But of course he does...
(read more)The cross gardener / Jason F. Wright.
Filled with sorrow over the fatal car accident of his wife and their unborn child, John Bevan erects a small cross near the scene of the accident and then withdraws from life and love. But when he encounters a young man kneeling before the cross, touching it up with white paint. John's conversations and travels with this mysterious man--known to him only as the Cross Gardener--forever change his world.
(read more)Snowbound / Richard S. Wheeler.
(read more)The intrigue at Highbury : or, Emma's match / Carrie Bebris.
(read more)The summer hideaway / Susan Wiggs.
Claire Turner is a nurse with a terrible secret in her past. George Bellamy is a sick old man trying to make up for past mistakes. George's grandson Ross is a man back from a war and wanting a future. When George's illness draws Claire and Ross together, will they dare to risk everything for love?
(read more)The new dead : a zombie anthology / edited by Christopher Golden.
(read more)Drink the tea / Thomas Kaufman.
(read more)Vienna secrets : a Max Liebermann mystery / Frank Tallis.
(read more)Spellwright / Blake Charlton.
"Nicodemus Weal has trained at the wizardly stronghold of Starhaven since he was a boy. His mentor, the famous wizard Agwu Shannon, taught him how to cast spells made from luminescent magical runes, how to peel written words off a page and make them physically real, how to protect himself with defensive paragraphs, and how to thrust sharply worded sentences at an enemy. Initially, Nicodemus showed great promise. Able to forge magical runes with great speed, he was once thought to be the Halcyon--a powerful spellwright prophesied to prevent the apocalypse known as the Disjunction. There was only one problem: Nicodemus couldn't spell. Every time he touched a magical text, he unintentionally corrupted it, turning a useful spell into a dangerous, potentially deadly misspell. Even now, at twenty-five, Nicodemus's problem remains so bad that he is allowed to use his magic only for janitorial tasks. While his peers advance as wizards, he is still an apprentice, living with other disabled spellwrights and reading knightly romances that fuel his dreams of escape and adventure. When a powerful wizard is murdered with a misspell, Nicodemus and Shannon both are suspected. Worse, Nicodemus dreams of a foreign city under attack from an ancient, godlike spell...and wakes to find Starhaven abuzz with news of that city's actual destruction. A second nightmare makes Nicodemus begin to question his own sanity. When there are more mysterious deaths, the authorities hunt him as a murderer. Tormented and desperate, Nicodemus has no choice but to flee his pursuers so that he can discover the truth about the murders, the nature of magic...and himself."--Dust cover flap.
(read more)Hard rain : a thriller / David Rollins.
(read more)The man from Saigon : a novel / Marti Leimbach.
(read more)Last nocturne / Marjorie Eccles.
(read more)Venetia Kelly's traveling show : a novel / Frank Delaney.
(read more)Requiem by fire : a novel / Wayne Caldwell.
(read more)Secret whispers / V.C. Andrews.
(read more)Game over / Fern Michaels.
(read more)Apple turnover murder / Joanne Fluke.
Hannah has excellent reasons to despise the caddish Bradford Ramsey, as do many other women. Nevertheless, she'd rather not expose her youthful indiscretions, especially to her policeman beau. Hannah is very busy with the mayor's wife Lake Eden, Minn. charity event at which Ramsey is host. So what should she say when she stumbles upon his murdered corpse?
(read more)House rules : a novel / Jodi Picoult.
A teenager with Asperger's syndrome--smart, quirky, with a passion for crime scene analysis--winds up on trial for murder.
(read more)A stranger's wish / Gayle Roper.
(read more)The right call : a novel / Kathy Herman.
Ethan Langley is home for the summer, eager to renew his friendship with Vanessa Jessup and her infant son, Carter. Before Ethan is even settled, a series of random shootings leaves someone he loves dead. While police are scrambling for suspects, Ethan learns shocking details that could break the case. But it imperils the lives of those he's come to love. Will he make the right call?
(read more)As young as we feel / Melody Carlson.
"Once upon a time in a little town on the Oregon coast lived four Lindas--all in the same first-grade classroom. So they decided to go by their middle names. And form a club. And be friends forever. But that was forty-seven years and four very different lives ago. Now a class reunion has brought them all together in their old hometown--at a crossroads in their lives. Janie is a high-powered lawyer with a load of grief. Abby is a lonely housewife in a beautiful oceanfront empty nest. Marley is trying to recapture the artistic free spirit she lost in an unhappy marriage. And the beautiful Caroline is scrambling to cope with her mother's dementia and a Hollywood career that never really happened. Together, they're about to explore the invigorating reality that even the most eventful lives have second acts...and friendship doesn't come with a statute of limitations."--P. [4] of cover.
(read more)The gin closet : a novel / Leslie Jamison.
Urgent and auspicious debut novel told in the voices of a young woman and her fatally alcoholic aunt.
(read more)One true love / by Lori Copeland.
"In the final book in the Belles of Timber Creek series, schoolmarm Copper finds herself on a race for her life, and her heart"--Provided by publisher.
(read more)Hush : a novel / Kate White.
"An ordinary woman flees the scene of a murder--and realizes it's not just the law that may be coming after her"--Provided by publisher.
(read more)Blood vines / Erica Spindler.
(read more)Major Pettigrew's last stand : a novel / Helen Simonson.
Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers Ali a foreigner?
(read more)The changeling / Kenzaburō Ōe ; translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm.
(read more)What we are / Peter Nathaniel Malae.
Follows 28-year-old Samoan-American Paul Tusifale as he strives to find his place in a culture that barely acknowledges his existence. Paul drifts on and off the radar in San Jose, California, fighting to define himself within a system that has no easy or predetermined place for him. At first he tries to live outside society, an unemployed drifter who takes a personal interest in defiantly--even violently--defending those in need. But when life as an urban Robin Hood fails to provide the answers he seeks, Paul takes a chance on the straight-and-narrow.
(read more)Clean kill : a sniper novel / Jack Coughlin with Donald A. Davis.
(read more)The house of tomorrow / Peter Bognanni.
(read more)Mercy killing / Stephen Solomita.
(read more)Our lady of immaculate deception / Nancy Martin.
(read more)Blood hina : a Mas Arai mystery / Naomi Hirahara.
(read more)Cook the books / Jessica Conant-Park & Susan Conant.
Chloe Carter desperately needs a job, so she takes one assisting a cookbook writer. Unfortunately it stirs up painful memories of her ex-boyfriend Josh, who left her for Hawaii. While compiling a book of recipes from Boston's top chefs, she comes in contact with one of Josh's friends, Digger. Chloe manages to stay cool until later she finds Digger's apartment charred--with Digger in it. Not believing that an expert chef would die from a grease fire, she sets about looking for Digger's killer. But things get sticky when the tragedy brings Josh back to Boston--and back into Chloe's life.
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