Fiction
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Blue
Water
A. Manette Ansay
The story of a couple who, after the death of their son, decide to sail
around the world in an attempt to leave their lives and memories behind.
The Shelters of Stone
Jean M. Auel
The fifth installment of Jean Auel's Earth's Children® series. In The Shelters of Stone,
Ayla and Jondalar complete their epic journey across Europe, join
Jondalar's people, the Zelandonii, and face new and perilous challenges.
Bunker 13
Aniruddha Bahal
A brilliant international thriller, set in contemporary Kashmir, about
an investigative journalist, espionage, and the temptations of drugs,
sex, and corruption in the Indian Army.
Lorelei's Guiding Light
Beth Chamberlin
Lorelei's Guiding Light chronicles the physical and psychological
journey of Lorelei Hills as she struggles to recollect her memory and
ultimately, come to terms with her true identity - Springfield's beloved
and presumed dead Beth Raines.
The Innocent
Harlan Coben
One mistake sent Matt from college to prison. Nine years on, one phone
call shows that your past never forgets you.
No Second Chance
Harlan Coben
Surgeon Marc Seidman's world comes crashing down when his
wife is murdered and his daughter kidnapped - and he has only one slim chance to get her back.
The Devil's Larder
Jim Crace
A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty-four short fictions about
appetite, food, and the objects of our desire.
An Accidental Woman
Barbara Delinsky
Barbara Delinsky tells the story of two lives irrevocably changed by
accidents years and miles apart in a stirring novel of emotional
intrigue and hope.
The Seven Sisters
Margaret Drabble
A woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her
three grown daughters, moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely
Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central
London.
Baudolino
Umberto Eco
This abundant novel includes dazzling digressions, outrageous tricks,
extraordinary feeling, and vicarious reflections on our postmodern age.
This is Eco the storyteller at his brilliant best.
My
Only Son
Christopher J. Gambino
"My only Son", is the story of Vinny Denucci, the son of Sonny Denucci,
the head of a New York organized crime family and the "Boss of Bosses"
of the five Mafia families of New York City.
Alone
Lisa Gardner
Sometimes the most frightening place to be is...ALONE. In the riveting
new thriller by Lisa Gardner, a police sniper does his job, only to
become a target.
Mercy
Julie Garwood
Bestselling author Julie Garwood brings her storytelling powers to an
electrifying new level in this eagerly anticipated novel, her second
with a contemporary setting. Mercy cements Garwood's reputation
as one of the premier writers of heart-pounding suspense.
People of the Owl
Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
In People of the Owl, Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
continue their USA Today bestselling First North Americans
series with a story of a vast empire and its people set in Poverty
Point, Louisiana 3,500 years ago.
The Constant Princess
Philippa Gregory
From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl, an enthralling
novel that answers the great question: Why would Katherine of Aragon
tell an enormous lie and cling to it until she changed the course of
history?
Seance
John Harwood
Set in Victorian England, Harwood's spellbinding second novel (after
The Ghost Writer) pays homage to such 19th-century suspense masters
as Wilkie Collins and Sheridan LeFanu.
The Traveler
John Twelve Hawks
A world that exists in the shadows of our own... A conflict we will
never see... There are those determined to control history and those who
risk their lives for freedom... Between them, stands one woman.
Turtle
Catcher
Nicole Helget
A rural Minnesota town struggling through change before, during and
after WWI forms the background for this emotional tale of star-crossed
love, vengeance and regret.
Hawkes Harbor
S.E. Hinton
Jamie is an orphan who grows up tough enough to handle almost any
situation. When he heads out to sea, he finds danger and adventure in
exotic ports.
Nam-O-Rama
Phillip Jennings
In NAM-A-RAMA, Phillip Jennings takes readers away from the talking
heads on their TVs and into an unpredictable and surreal world of fear
and friendship where nothing seems to make sense, like a twisted Alice
in Wonderland with napalm and land mines...
A Necessary Evil
Alex Kava
For the past four years, FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell has been driven
by blind determination to find Father Michael Keller, the human monster
whose acts of brutality continue to haunt her to this day. But with an
irony that only life can offer, now he has become the target.
Locked
Rooms
Laurie R. King
Mary Russell and husband Sherlock Holmes are in San Francisco to unlock
the buried memory of a shocking crime... one in Mary's own past.
Clearing
in the Wild
Jane Kirkpatrick
Award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick depicts a historically accurate
account of one woman's life in a communal religious colony of the 1850s.
Solomon vs. Lord
Paul Levine
He's Solomon; she's Lord. When a high-profile murder case throws Miami's
hottest young lawyers together, sparks will fly, in this wickedly funny
courtroom thriller.
The Thrall's Tale
Judith Lindergh
Set in Viking Greenland in A.D. 985, this dramatic historical novel
focuses on the intertwined lives of three women straddling the pagan
past and Christian future.
To the Power of Three
Laura Lippman
The three girls had been inseparable best friends since third grade. But
everything exploded behind the locked door of a high school girls’
bathroom on their last day on Earth together, because one of them had
brought a gun.
The Master of Plans Part II
Carol A. Miller
Still haunted by a psychic prophecy she heard decades ago—having finally
found—then lost true love, will this “fairytale” have a happy ending?
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Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True
Brigid Pasulka
On the eve of World War II in Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the
Pigeon courts the beautiful Anielica Hetmanská. But the war’s arrival
delays their marriage and wreaks havoc in all their lives.
Three Daughters
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Three Daughters is a bitingly funny first novel about a trio of
utterly different sisters whose shifting loyalties play out within a
Jewish family enmeshed in a web of well-meant secrets and lies.
The Elegant Gathering of White Snows
Kris Radish
Eight women embark on a journey that will change their lives as lovers,
wives, mothers, daughters, and friends. A book club favorite.
Fatal Voyage
Kathy Reichs
Written with the riveting authenticity, Fatal Voyage pairs witty,
elegant prose with pulse-pounding storytelling in a tour de force worthy
of crime writing's new superstar.
The Last Days & The Last Jihad
Joel C. Rosenberg
Assassinate Yasser Arafat? That's the provocative question at heart of
The Last Days, an explosive new political thriller about a new
war in the Middle East and a wave of Palestinian suicide bombers headed
for the United States..
Devil's Corner
Lisa Scottoline
A riveting tale of modern warfare and of one man trying to prove himself
in the heat of a chaotic, morally complex military engagement.
Faithless
Karin Slaughter
After pediatrician/ME Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver
stumble across a body in the woods, they discover themselves on the
trail to a dark secret.
Light Vision: Simultaneous Dimension Series, Book One
Coco Tralla
In the layers of antiquity Italians call Underground Rome, Diana DeMarco
awakens her "sight" through Italian witchcraft, but the life-threatening
rituals shock her into awakening.
Everything Changes
Jonathan Tropper
Novelist Tropper writes a touching, wickedly funny tale of a guy with
his life in order and luck on his side, until ... EVERYTHING CHANGES.
Ordinary
Heroes: A Novel
Scott Turow
A breathtaking story of courage, betrayal, passion, and the mystery of a
father's hidden war.
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NASTYbook
Barry Yourgrau
Nice is overrated. Why can't really cool parents dump their offspring?
Why can't talented imaginary friends desert their boring creators?
