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A riveting second novel that unfolds over the course of Thanksgiving Day as two families are connected by a horrific crime. (read more)
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Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy waits for his destroyer, the Walker, to be repaired after battling alongside their Lemurian allies to repel the savage Grik, and questions the loyalties of Commodore Jenks, who may be devoted to those representing an even greater danger. (read more)
"In the final book in the Seasons of Sugarcreek series, an English woman and an Amish man must struggle with how much to sacrifice for their love"-- Provided by publisher. (read more)
Idyllic but remote, the Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched and untroubled by the modern world. So when the battered body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of a cliff, the local police - governed more by archaic rules of honor than by the law - are quick to close the case, dismissing her death as an accident. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to investigate further into the crime he believes has been committed. Refusing to accept the woman's death as an accident or suicide, Hermes Diaktoros sets out to uncover the truths that skulk beneath this small community's exterior. Hermes's methods of investigation are unorthodox, and his message to the islanders is plain - tell the truth or face the consequences. Before long, he's uncovering a tale of passion, corruption and murder that entangles many of the island's residents. But Hermes brings his own mystery into the web of dark secrets and lies - and as he travels the rugged island landscape to investigate, questions and suspicions arise amongst the locals. Who has sent him to Thiminos, and on whose authority is he acting? And how does he know of dramas played out decades ago? Rich in images of Greece's beautiful islands and evoking a life unknown to most outsiders, this wonderful novel leads the reader into a world where the myths of the past are not forgotten and forbidden passion still has dangerous consequences. (read more)
After escaping Germany during WWII, Jack and Sadie Rosenblum, together with their baby daughter, settle into a life of acting "English." In post-war England, however, no golf club will admit a Rosenblum. So Jack hatches a wild idea: he'll build his own. It's an obsession Sadie does not share, particularly when Jack relocates them to a thatched roof cottage in Dorset to embark on his project. (read more)
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Jack Carson, an Alzheimer's sufferer, witnesses a murder, but cannot give the police more than a few scattered details. Late rain explores the fear that drives how far people are willing to go to find what they want, and the steps they'll take to get it. (read more)
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"Roy and Rosalind Vines discover the true meaning of family for themselves and their two daughters when a young man in Roy's hometown claims that his real father is either Roy or Roy's twin brother"--Provided by publisher. (read more)
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The quiet Bangkok family life of American travel-writer Poke Rafferty, wife Rose, and daughter Miaow is threatened when a man from Rose's past forces Poke to uncover the whole truth about his wife's former life in a red-light district. (read more)
How do a few lines of poetry, a chance encounter in a London hotel, and a death in Sussex lead to a lost city of Arabia, and to the tombs of the Whispering Dead? Jack Haldean has evaded the truth for years, but now, enmeshed in the web of murder, theft and deception, he must find the answer and face up to the truth - a truth as deadly as any dragon. (read more)
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In a Jane Austen-inspired alternate universe, two sisters, one beautiful and the other skilled in the glamour arts, test the limits of their gifts on an unscrupulous suitor. (read more)
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"Ellen Lawrence wants to find a place where she fits--after all, she takes up less room now. Having shed 100 pounds and (most of) the accompanying self-doubt, she's jetted off to her high-school reunion against the advice of her controlling sister. So why not make the return trip by driving cross-country? In a moving van. With her long-lost best friend Alice... Each with their own baggage, dreaming of a fresh start to a life tainted with secrets and regrets, Ellen and Alice hit the open road. En route to California they meet an Amish runaway, a stray dog, a handsome florist and and surprisingly inept carjacker. And somewhere on that highway, Ellen might just find a place--and a voice--of her own"--P. [4] of cover. (read more)
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In the tradition of the Hitchcock-style "wrong man" spy thriller, Schow shakes up the crime genre with a dash of post-cold war espionage conspiracy, a sprinkle of Hollywood secret history, and a whole lot of big guns... (read more)
It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands and the summer has been hard. Rachel and Isaac DuPree had left Chicago fourteen years ago to stake their claim. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle are bellowing with thirst, and supplies have dwindled. Struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She is determined to give her surviving children the life they deserve, but Isaac will never leave his ranch: land means a measure of equality with the white man. Rachel must find the strength to do what is right--for her children, for her husband, and for herself. (read more)
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Miranda, daughter of the great Prospero, has been running the family business, quietly protecting the Earth from diverse magical threats for more than five hundred years. Her world is turned upside down when her father is kidnapped by the Three Shadowed Ones, and spirited away to Hell. (read more)
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Divorced and back in her home town of Riverport, popular children's-book author Jessie Schroeder finds herself involved in another murder. (read more)
When Texas Christian University student Dainty Prescott lands an unpaid internship with WBFD-TV, the station manager, Gordon Pfeiffer, tells her to spy on his wife, Paislee. To Dainty's dismay, Paislee turns out to be having an affair with Dainty's law school boyfriend and date for the Rubanbleu's debutante ball, Strayer Drexel Truett III. Next, a sorority sister asks the pampered princess to investigate her mom's very suspicious fiancé, and ditzy Dainty soon realizes being Nancy Drew is a lot more fun than being Diane Sawyer. (read more)
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"... collects a dazzling assortment of Niven's most eclectic work into one captivating volume. Here are hand-selected excerpts from his novels ... as well as numerous short stories, nonfiction articles, collaborations, and correspondence"--Jacket. (read more)
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Charlie is a crime writer, part-time thief-- and an amateur magician. He breaks into a conjurer's hotel room and makes a safe full of casino chips vanish into think air. When the victim disappears, Charlie is suspected of being his accomplice at cheating the roulette tables. (read more)
Ordered out of retirement to Pyongyang to cover up a crime of passion committed by the young leader of a transitional government vital to a tenuous peace agreement between the two Koreas, Inspector O finds his life threatened when the case tests his loyalties. (read more)
Traces the harrowing reconstruction of the United States after most of its population is killed by a natural disaster, an effort lead by President James Kipper and challenged by pirates, freebooters, and a rogue governor of Texas. (read more)
"Norah Bloomfield is feeling a bit unneeded these days. Her father is recovering from his heart attack, and her sisters, Valerie and Stephanie, are busy planning their weddings. But then a cantankerous Texan named Rowdy Cassidy crashes his small plane in Orchard Valley. The same Rowdy Cassidy who'd been Valerie's boss...and who'd demanded she marry him. Now he's Norah's patient, and in all her nursing experience she's never encountered a more difficult man. Or a more irresistible one! Except...is he still in love with her sister? When Norah's friend Sherry Waterman leaves Orchard Valley, Oregon, for Pepper, Texas, she's definitely not in the mood for Lone Star Lovin'. But if anyone can change her mind, it's Cody Bailman--a hardworking, good-looking rancher. Not only that, Cody has a twelve-year-old daughter who thinks Sherry's 'just perfect for Dad'!"--P. [4] of cover. (read more)
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When Jill becomes both pregnant and single at the end of one spring semester, she and her two closest friends plunge into an experiment in tri-parenting, tri-schooling, and trihabitating as grad students in Seattle. Naturally, everything goes wrong, but in ways no one sees coming. (read more)
Eliza Benedict's peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row. An edgy, utterly gripping tale of psychological manipulation. (read more)
Returning to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined the army at seventeen, Captain Tom Forsyth discovers that she is being blackmailed and sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy using his finely honed military skills. But can he save his mother's reputation and career as "the first lady of British racing", or will he find himself caught in the cross fire? (read more)
Miami,1969. Frances is captivated by the community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. On the dock of one stilt house, she meets Dennis, and turns away from her predictable life. Stiltsville becomes their island oasis-- until suddenly it's gone, and Francis is forced to figure out how to make her family work on dry land. (read more)
The war of Honce drags on, and the roads and seas are littered with bodies. Trapped, Dame Gwydre and Father Artolivan concoct a desperate plot to join forces with Laird Ethelbert and Bransen seeks to extricate himself from the selfish goals of all the combatants, including his old nemesis, Bannagran--the Bear of Honce and the man who slew his adoptive father. (read more)
"When zookeeper Theodora 'Teddy' Bentley fishes the body of Koala Kate out of Gunn Landing Harbor, she discovers that her fellow zookeeper didn't drown; she was strangled. The clues to Koala Kate's killer implicate other animal keepers at Gunn Zoo, including Outback Bill, marsupial keeper and Kate's Aussie ex-boyfriend; and Robin Chase, the big cat keeper who's got it in for Teddy. Also displaying suspicious behavior are several 'liveaboarders' at the harbor; Speak-To-Souls, a shady 'animal psychic'; and even Caro, Teddy's much-married, ex-beauty queen mother. But murderers aren't all Teddy has to worry about. Her embezzling father is still on the run from the Feds, and the motor on her houseboat is failing. To pay for the repairs, Teddy agrees to appear on a weekly live television broadcast featuring misbehaving animals that range from a cuddly koala to a panicky wallaby--and all hell breaks loose in the TV studio. All the while, the killer is narrowing in on Teddy...."--Dust cover flap. (read more)
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When a female security officer is discovered stabbed through the heart with a fencing sword, Dr. Siri's instincts tell him there is more to the mystery than anyone can imagine. (read more)
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Recovering from the emotional scars of recent traumas, National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon goes to stay with her friend, Geneva, in New Orleans, only to become the target of a dark curse, prompting her to investigate what is has to do with Geneva's creepy tenant and a fugitive mother accused of killing her family. (read more)
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A practicing witch from nearby Salem assists homicide detective Garrett and his partner Landauer in a horrifying case that could make their careers: the ritualistic murder of a wealthy college girl. (read more)
After Jack Wiley rallies corporate giant Capitol Group in an attempt to take over a small company that has developed an armor-reinforcing polymer that could change the course of modern warfare, he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal ever seen. (read more)
After the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on a beach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Detective Osama Ibrahim, along with the help of female coroner Katya and her friend Nayir, discovers that the victim was a controversial filmmaker and must discern whowanted her dead. (read more)
"...now, from Mina's own pen, we discover that the story is vastly different when told from the female point of view." --inside front cover. (read more)
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With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers and a bunch of singing vegans, Melbourne baker Corinna and her luscious Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase to find two missing runaways. (read more)
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"...New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero sum game...." --inside front cover. (read more)
"There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much, because the victims are street thugs and lowlifes. But as Homicide sergeant Matt Payne starts looking under the right rocks, he gets a feeling there's more going on than just bad guys burning one another..." -- inside front cover. (read more)
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"Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job -- usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. But the unpleasant task at hand turns serously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed." -- Dust jacket.. (read more)
Late one night Atlanta PI Dodge Hanley receives a phone call from his lost love, Houston realtor Caroline King, who asks him to come to Texas to help catch Oren Starks, a creepy over-the-top stalker who's out to kill Dodge and Caroline's 30-year-old daughter, Berry Malone. Dodge hasn't seen Berry since the day she was born. When Starks takes a shot at Berry in Caroline's house, hitting a work associate of Berry's instead, Dodge rushes to the rescue. While Merritt County deputy sheriff Ski Nyland, who falls for the equally smitten Berry, is no slouch on the case, the relentlessly ruthless Dodge plays the most crucial role in the effort to stop the bad guy. (read more)
NYPD detective Jack Kanon and Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson traverse Europe in hot pursuit of a serial killer, one who sends a postcard before each murder and was responsible for the slayings of Jack's daughter and her boyfriend. (read more)There are all kinds of new books for the modern crafter. Check out these titles!
Now, living by oneself in a studio apartment, one becomes highly attuned to any minor changes. What would normally be pinned on a roommate becomes the work of the paranormal…The alternatives are unthinkable…
from I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
from Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter: A Memoir by Barbara Mos
Dad was so reckless that it seemed he could have stepped quickly in any direction, at any time, and freed himself of his body.
The entertainment world may be just as book obsessed as we are! Not only have 1,000s of books been made in to movies, but tons of movies have set scenes in the library. My personal favorite is Matilda, but some other classics are All the President’s Men, The Breakfast Club, Ghostbusters, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
The standard pregnancy guide, What to Expect When You’re Expecting is now in its 4th installment. Check out the hip new mom-to-be on the cover, and expect to see more in-depth chapters on working moms, what to eat, and information on pregnancy complications.
Green is the word this month. So enjoy these great green reads for everyone in your family. And don’t forget to come to our special Earth Day storytime with stories and recycled craft ideas for kids and adults!
For the very young: 365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental, Touch the Earth by Jane Baskwill
For the teens: Hoot and Flush by Carl Hiaasen
For the adults: All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki, Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake
She’s everywhere! Jane Austen fans have been reinventing the wheel with these “spin offs.” But how do they compare to the real thing? I guess we’ll have to read them to find out!
The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy by Mary Street
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Rigler
Darcys give a ball : a gentle joke, Jane Austen style by Elizabeth Newark
Jane and the Barque of Frailty by Stephanie Barron
Just Jane: a novel of Jane Austen’s Life by Nancy Moser
Me and Mr. Darcy: a novel by Alexandra Potter
from How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
(about childhood)
…the wonder of the world seizing me with such fury at times that I had to touch forbidden china cups or throttle a little cousin or pet a dog’s head so strenuously that he looked as if he were coming out of the birth canal…