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ADVENTURE larger story of corruption and intrigue ADV Against Cold Steel reaching deep into the heart of the Hoyt, Edwin P. LP-2588 occupation. When Stephen Decatur received his commission to captain after the firing ADV Stonewall's Gold of the Philadelphia, he had little time Mrazek, Robert J. LP-2274 to bask in glory. The spring of 1804 It is the final winter of the war, and in saw the bloody continuation of the the wake of an infamous order issued Tripolitan Wars, and the bashaw of by General Grant, Union armies have Tripoli was not about to give up laid waste to the majestic Shenandoah Mediterranean piracy and forced Valley. It is then that a stranger arrives tributes without a battle. And battle in the small village of Port Republic. was precisely what the U.S. Navy had When someone begins desecrating the in store for him. Before the merciless graves of soldiers buried near summer sun surrendered to an arid Jackson's former headquarters, Jamie Barbary autumn, Captain Stephen Lockhart uncovers an incredible secret Decatur would lead one of the most that could very well cost him his life. brilliant gunboat attacks ever logged in Pursued by men who would kill for the annals of naval history. what he possesses, fifteen-year-old Jamie embarks on a quest that will test ADV The Good German the limits of his courage and Kanon, Joseph LP-2509 endurance. With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin ADV Drop Zone correspondent for CBS, manages to Salazar, Michael LP-2589 wangle one of the coveted press slots Elite Air Force Special Forces Para for the Postdam Conference. His rescue Team operative Jason Johnson assignment: a series of articles on the is teamed with a hotshot Marine for a American occupation of postwar perilous mission. Johnson must drop in Berlin. His personal agenda: to find war-torn Bosnia to find evidence of the Lena, the German mistress he left ethnic cleansing of thousands of behind at the outbreak of the war. civilians through the use of a deadly When he stumbles onto a murder, an nerve toxin, and bring back a sample American soldier, he things he has so an antidote can be created. But there found the key that will unlock his are those who will do anything to see Berlin story. What he finds instead is a his mission fail. 1

ADV The Adventures of ANI Marley & Me Huckleberry Finn Grogan, John LP-2944 Twain, Mark LP-2134 John and Jenny were just beginning Mark Twain's story about a young boy their life together. Then they brought and his journey down the Mississippi home Marley, a wiggly yellow fur ball was the first great novel to speak in a of a puppy. Life would never be the truly American voice. Recounts the same. Marley grew into a barreling, adventures of a young boy and an ninety-seven-pound steamroller of a escaped slave as they travel down the Labrador retriever. He crashed through Mississippi River on a raft. screen doors, gouged through drywall, and stole women's undergarments. ANIMALS Obedience school did no good, Marley was expelled. But just as Marley ANI The Lost Pet Chronicles joyfully refused any limits on his Albrecht, Kathy LP-2771 behavior, his love and loyalty were boundless, too. Marley remained a Kat Albrecht is the only law- model of devotion, even when his enforcement based pet detective in the family was at its wit's end. United States. Since 1997, Albrecht Unconditional love, they would learn, and her search dogs have located lost comes in many forms. cats, dogs, ferrets, turtles, horses, and other species using techniques that are normally used to solve missing person ANI Let Sleeping Vets Lie investigations. Full of heartwarming Herriot, James LP-0117 and inspiring tales of rescue, The Lost The trials and anecdotes of a Yorkshire Pet Chronicles tells the story of Kat's veterinarian as he ponders the unlikely career path and of how questions of who is more difficult, discovering the work she loved animals or their owners. transformed her from a dissatisfied cop into a woman with a true personal and ANI Vets Might Fly professional calling. Herriot, James LP-0164

The intrusion of World War II and his sudden call to duty in the RAF leave

James herriot musing whimsically over the simpler days in the Yorkshire Dales he left behind.

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ANI Shy Boy: The Horse That BIO Jackie After Jack Came in from the Wild Andersen, Christopher LP-2143 Roberts, Monty LP-2142 Jackie Kennedy was only thirty-four This moving book tells a story of how when Camelot ended with a blaze of famed horse gentler Monty Roberts gunfire on November 22, 1963. Here met and eventually tamed his beloved Christopher Andersen draws on horse Shy Boy. Their unique previously sealed archival material and relationship began when Shy Boy was newly declassified documents to paint a wild mustang. Monty trekked for a sympathetic, yet often startling three days across 100 miles of high portrait of Jackie in all her complexity. desert, working his magic across the Alone after Dallas, Jackie summoned shimmering heat, until he connected the strength and dignity to go on. with this wild horse on the open range. The mustang came home with Monty, BIO Sweet Caroline: Last Child until one year later, when they returned of Camelot to the plains and Monty set Shy Boy Andersen, Christopher LP-2811 free and gave him a choice: return to his herd or stay with Monty. Through it all, the sole surviving member of Camelot's First Family, BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Caroline Kennedy, has remained largely a mystery. Until now. Christopher Andersen draws on BIO Tuesdays with Morrie important sources to provide a full, Albom, Mitch LP-2769 compelling portrait of Caroline, the Upon learning of his former college young wife and mother left to carry on professor and mentor's impending in her legendary family's name. death, Mitch Albom, award-winning sportswriter, "New York Times" BIO The Day Diana Died bestselling author, and TV Andersen, Christopher LP-2227 commentator, visited Morrie Schwartz every week. "Tuesdays with Morrie" is The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Albom's extraordinary chronicle of is a defining benchmark in history. their time together, a book filled with More than a year after the fatal car laughter, sadness, joy, and peace. crash, millions around the world still remain in shock. During the sixteen years since her wedding to Prince Charles, she had evolved from "Shy Di" to the most famous person in the 3 world. For all her fame, much of the BIO All Over but the Shoutin' human drama that swirled around her Bragg, Rick LP-2103 death remains veiled in intrigue. The author draws upon important sources, A haunting memoir by a Pulitzer many of whom have agreed to speak Prize-winning journalist, "All Over but here for the first time, to re-create the the Shoutin'" presents a gripping events leading up to that fateful night. account of people struggling to make sense and solidity of life's capricious promises. As he tells the wrenching BIO The Day John Died story of his own family's life in the Andersen, Christopher LP-2372 dirt-poor Alabama hills, where he got Retracing the life and tragic death of out, but has never been quite about to John Kennedy, Jr., this illustrated leave, Bragg attempts to both atone for biography of an American icon begins and to avenge the mistakes and in the Kennedy White House and cruelties of his past. covers his romances with Madonna and Daryl Hannah, his relationships BIO Marilyn: The Last Take with family members, his magazine, Brown, Peter LP-0209 and much more. Two veteran Hollywood journalists join forces to tell the complete story of BIO Princess Grace Marilyn Monroe's final days. Based on Bradford, Sarah LP-2079 thousands of newly discovered Princess Grace will be remembered as documents, hours of footage from her a fairy-tale heroine, the shy convent last film, and over 300 revealing girl from Philadelphia who achieved interviews, this is an astonishing stunning success as an actress, then account of what really happened abandoned her career in films, at age during the last 14 weeks in the life of twenty-six, to marry the ruler of a tiny Hollywood's legendary sex goddess. principality perched high above the Mediterranean Sea. Only a woman trained and devoted to duty could have given it all up for an even greater role:

Her serene Highness, Princess Grace of Monaco.

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BIO Sharing Good Times BIO Memories: The Carter, Jimmy LP-3022 Autobiography of Ralph Emery In this wonderfully evocative volume, Emery, Ralph LP-0162 former United States president and Here is Ralph Emery's uplifting and Nobel laureate Jimmy Carter writes true tale of his rags-to-riches life, from about the things that matter most, the a farm in Tennessee to the star-studded simple, relaxed days and nights that he world of Nashville. has enjoyed with family and friends through the years and across BIO Anne Frank: The Diary of generations. a Young Girl Frank, Anne LP-2002 BIO Turning Point Discovered in the attic in which she Carter, Jimmy LP-0210 spent the last years of her life, Anne It has been said that Jimmy Carter is Frank's remarkable diary has since the only man ever to have used the become a world classic, a powerful presidency as a stepping-stone to reminder of the horrors of war and an greater service. This is the story of eloquent testament to the human spirit. why Carter first sought office in 1962, and what he has accomplished since BIO Autobiography of then. Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin LP-2003 BIO I Am What I Ate. . .and This book is the straight-forward life I'm Frightened!!! story of a typically American character Cosby, Bill LP-2705 endowed with the great powers (Also available in regular print developed by self education, who (AP-0361)). Bill Cosby wants food exerted vast influence as a citizen and lovers to know that they are not alone. statesman for his own day and for the Here, Cosby reflects back on his own future of his country. sixty-five years of dining at the banquet of life.

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BIO A Lotus Grows in the Mud BIO Bob Hope: My Life in Hawn, Goldie LP-3205 Jokes In this candid and unconventional Hope, Bob LP-2704 memoir, Goldie invites us to join her Bob Hope celebrated his 100th in a look back at the remarkable people birthday, and to mark the occasion he and events that have touched her. It is collaborated with daughter Linda on a joyous spiritual journey of the heart this extraordinary collection of his best in search of enlightenment. With the jokes and anecdotes. The result is a effervescent humor and generosity that compelling and hilarious portrait of the are familiar to everyone, Goldie talks twentieth century's greatest entertainer about the lessons she's learned and the and a true national treasure. wisdom she feels she's been given, in the hope of giving something back. BIO Don't Shoot it's Only Me Hope, Bob LP-0114 BIO Me The great entertainer's memoirs of the Hepburn, Katherine LP-0161 personalities he has known along with Katherine Hepburn breaks her silence his personal triumphs. in this absorbing memoir. BIO Einstein: His Life and His BIO Seldom Disappointed Universe Hillerman, Tony LP-2410 Isaacson, Walter LP-3381 (Also available in regular print This is a brilliant intellectual tapestry, (AH-0403)). This is a splendid weaving Einstein's revolutionary memoir, an affectionate and scientific achievements, his prolific unvarnished recollection of the life of political initiatives, his complex one of America's best-loved writers personal life, and his fascinating today. Beginning with his upbringing personality. in Depression-era Oklahoma, this book spans Hillerman's tour of duty in France in World War II, his newspaper BIO Nancy Reagan: career, and his now legendary entry Unauthorized Biography into publishing. Photo inserts. Kelley, Kitty LP-0096 The daring behind-the-scenes look at the former First Lady.

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BIO Education of a Wandering tale of survival as vivid, harrowing, Man and often hilarious as its bestselling L'Amour, Louis LP-0208 predecessor.

From his decision to leave school at 15 BIO Mornings on Horseback to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo, a cattle skinner, a Mc Cullough, David LP-2057 merchant seaman, and a bare-knuckled From the diaries and letters of the prize fighter, here is Louis L'Amour's Roosevelt family, David Mc Cullough memoir of his life-long love of sketches a brilliant and intimate learning, a love that shaped him as a portrait of the young Teddy Roosevelt story teller and as a man. and his growth to manhood.

BIO West with the Night BIO John Paul the Great Markham, Beryl LP-2045 Noonan, Peggy LP-3261 "West with the Night" is a fascination The author brings her sharp and a mystery. Briefly, the book is an observations, acute sensibility, episodic account of some thirty Africa warmth, and wit to the life of the pope years, from childhood to 1936, in the and shows the personal effect his life of an amazing woman. journey had upon her and millions of others. Written with heart and depth, BIO My Life with Groucho: this is at once a moving elegy and a Growing Up with the Marx brilliant celebration of a man whose Marx, Arthur LP-0163 life taught others how to live.

The remarkable, sometimes tragic BIO Leap of Faith story of this Hollywood legend is told here with gritty, compelling, but Noor, Queen LP-2945 honest detail by Groucho's son, Arthur. This is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner BIO 'Tis: A Memoir to an Arab monarch. It provides a Mc Court, Frank LP-2110 compelling portrait of the late King Hussein and his lifelong effort to bring The sequel to the Pulitzer Prize- peace to his war torn region, and an winning "Angela's Ashes, " McCourt's insider's view of the growing gulf glowing memoir chronicles his story between the United States and the from impoverished immigrant to Arab nations. It is also the refreshingly brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher, a candid story of a mother coming to 7 terms with the demands the king's role BIO Beyond Band of Brothers as a world statesman placed on her Winters, Dick LP-3382 family's private life. But most of all it is a love story, the intimate account of They were called Easy Company, but a woman who lost her heart to a king, their mission was never easy. and to his people. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers,

they suffered 150 percent casualties BIO 90 Minutes in Heaven: A while liberating Europe; an True Story of Death & Life unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Piper, Don LP-3163 Recounts the extraordinary experience BIO In an Instant of a Baptist minister, Don Piper, who Woodruff, Bob LP-3383 was pronounced dead at the scene of a tragic car accident and experienced the In January 2006, the Woodruffs seems to glories of Heaven for 90 minutes, but have it all, a happy marriage and four who miraculously came back to life, beautiful children. Lee was a PR where he endured a long and painful executive, and Bob had just been named co-anchor of ABC's "World News recovery. Tonight." Then, while Bob was

embedded with the military in Iraq, an BIO Make Room for Danny IED killed his cameraman and nearly Thomas, Danny LP-0115 killed him. This book is the frank and Danny Thomas shares the laughter and compelling account of how Bob and tears from his early days in Chicago Lee's lives came together, were blown nightclubs to his successful television apart, and then miraculously put together again. career.

COOKING BIO Pieces of My Heart Wagner, Robert LP-3424 CKG Easy Elegant Dining An intimate tell-all of the life of the Alkire, Gratia LP-2073 Hollywood icon describes his A collection of elegant recipes relationships with such contemporaries especially created for the physically as Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, and challenged and visually impaired and Elizabeth Taylor; remembers his two for anyone who wishes to make marriages to Natalie Wood; and shares memorable dinners with ease. his observations about the transformations in Hollywood throughout the past half-century. 8

CKG Weight Watchers Healthy belonging to another people. He is Life-Style Cookbook Teague Severance, a rugged Weight Watchers Int. LP-0120 adventurer used to taking and getting what he wants. Side by side on a An exciting new cookbook with over dangerous quest, they will soar from 250 new health recipes that taste great the shimmering towers of Cidra's but without all the calories and fat. home to the mining towns of the

Family/Marriage galaxy's outback, to the deadly jungles of the planet Renaissance.

FAM Every Woman's Marriage: Igniting The Joy and Passion You Both FAN Harry Potter and the Half- Desire Blood Prince Ethridge, Shannon LP-3273 Rowling, J. K. LP-2946 Across the country, countless women live (Harry Potter, Book 6) (Also available as "desperate housewives," committed to in regular print (AS-0052)). Sixth- marriage yet longing for a deeper more year Hogwarts student Harry Potter intimate connection with their husbands. gains valuable insights into the boy The latest release in the bestselling Every Voldemort once was, even as his own Woman's series offers hope and help for world is transformed by maturing those ready to stop the blame game and friendships, schoolwork assistance pursue the marriage of their dreams. from an unexpected source, and Drawing on real-life stories from both devastating losses. men and women, as well as lessons from their own less-than-satisfying early years of marriage, authors Shannon and Greg FAN Harry Potter and the Ethridge offer penetrating insights about Order of the Phoenix what it takes to nurture a dynamic marriage. On every page, readers will Rowling, J. K. LP-2634 find practical tools and wise biblical (Harry Potter, Book 5) (Also available counseling for transforming a listless in regular print (AO-326)). The marriage into a vibrant, exciting phenomenal bestseller is now in relationship. paperback. In his fifth year at FANTASY Hogwart's, 15-year-old Harry faces challenges at every turn, from the dark FAN Sweet Starfire threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be- Krentz, Jayne Ann LP-2500 Named to the rise of Ron Weasley as the keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch She is Cidra, an ethereal beauty, Team. sheltered by a spiritual race but 9

FAN Harry Potter and the FAN Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. LP-2247 Rowling, J. K. LP-2432 (Harry Potter, Book 2) (Also available (Harry Potter, Book 4)(Also available in in regular print (BB-2986)). In the regular print (AE-0086)). The 4 th book of second book of the Harry Potter series, the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter the author takes up where she left off wants to get away from the pernicious with Harry's second year at the Dursleys and go to the International Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and Wizardry. Old friends and new the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush. He wants to find torments abound, including a spirit out about the mysterious event that's named Moaning Myrtle who haunts supposed to take place at Hogwarts this the girls' bathroom, an outrageously year, an event involving two other rival conceited professor, Gilderoy schools of magic and a competition that Lockheart, and a mysterious force that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He turns Hogwarts students to stone. wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry, he's not FAN Harry Potter and the normal, even by wizarding standards. Prisoner of Azkaban And in his case, different can be deadly.

Rowling, J. K. LP-2305 FAN Harry Potter and the (Harry Potter, Book 3) (Also available Sorcerer's Stone in regular print (BB-3125)). The third Rowling, J. K. LP-2170 book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series catapults into action when the (Harry Potter, Book 1) (Also available in young wizard "accidentally" causes the regular print (BB-2836)). Harry Potter Dursleys' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of to inflate like a monstrous balloon and invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped drift up to the ceiling. Fearing hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a punishment from Aunt Petunia and miserable life with the Dursleys, his Uncle Vernon (and from officials at horrible aunt and uncle, and their Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and abominable son, Dudley. All that is about Wizardry who strictly forbid students to change when a mysterious letter to cast spells in the nonmagic world of arrives by owl messenger, an invitation to Muggles), Harry lunges out into the a wonderful place he never dreamed darkness with his heavy trunk and his existed, there he finds friends, aerial owl Hedwig. sports, and magic around every corner.

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FAN Harry Potter and the FIC The Traveler's Gift Deathly Hallows Andrews, Andy LP-2942 Rowling, J. K. LP-3249 David Ponder feels like a total failure. (Harry Potter, Book 7) The heart of Once a Fortune 500 company executive, Book 7 is a hero's mission, not just in he now works for minimum wage while Harry's quest for the Horcruxes, but in his wife out-earns him cleaning houses. his journey from boy to man, and Just when he thinks he's hit bottom, Harry faces more danger than that David has an extraordinary experience. found in all six books combined, from Traveling back in time, he meets leaders & heroes at crucial moments in their the direct threat of the Death Eaters lives. From some of the wisest people and you-know-who, to the subtle perils who ever lived, he receives seven secrets of losing faith in himself. Attentive for success, and a second chance. readers would do well to remember Dumbledore's warning about making FIC A Scandalous Secret the choice between "what is right and what is easy," and know that Rowling Andrews, Beth LP-2814 applies the same difficult principle to Elizabeth, Countess of Dansmere, has to the conclusion of her series. contend with the attentions of two handsome gentlemen. The dashing count, GENERAL FICTION Oswald Gulbridge, who wants to marry her. But her sister's neighbor, the wealthy Mr. Dominick Markham, wants only FIC Invitation to Provence revenge, for he shares a secret with Adler, Elizabeth LP-2970 Elizabeth which could ruin them all. (Also available in regular print (AR-1220)). Invited to attend a family FIC Vinegar Hill reunion in Provence, Franny Marten Ansay, A. Manette LP-2234 leaves behind her unfaithful boyfriend Oprah's Book Club. Dutifully to enjoy the region's beautiful accompanying her unemployed landscapes and partake in its exotic husband back to her in-law's cold and cuisine, but her visit is rendered loveless house, Ellen Grier finds that dangerous by someone who would she must struggle to keep her prevent her discovery of family passionate spirit alive as she searches secrets. for the inner strength to endure an all- pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves.

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FIC A Little Less Than Kind FIC Plains of Passage Armstrong, Charlotte LP-2761 Auel, Jean M. LP-0097 At fifty, David had everything he ever Ayla's saga continues as she and wanted: the presidency of a large Jondalar set out on horseback across corporation, a luxurious mansion, and the windswept grasslands of Ice Age marriage to Abby, all made possible by Europe. the death of his best friend, Abby's husband. But Abby's son, finding the arrangement less than ideal, was FIC The Simple Truth determined to prove his stepfather a Baldacci, David LP-2097 murderer. John Fiske is a hard-driving former cop who defends the very people he FIC Blooming All Over once put away. Sara Evans is the sharp Arnold, Judith LP-2820 young attorney with a cottage on the Potomac and everything going her While Manhattanite Susie Bloom, the way. Brought together by the case of a owner of Bloom's deli, contemplates convicted killer, they desperately try to marrying Casey, the bagel master from unravel a secret that reaches into Queens, her cousin Rick, an aspiring Washington's power base: one simple filmmaker, features her in an truth that is killing everyone who gets infomercial, which launches a too close to it. surprising career, forcing Susie to make a difficult decision. Sequel to "Love In Bloom's," (LP-2779). FIC The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing FIC Love in Bloom's Bank, Melissa LP-2121 Arnold , Judith LP-2779 As a teenager, Jane Rosenal wonders who makes the rules for love. As an The Blooms have run the family deli older sister, wiser woman, she turns to for generations, and Grandma Ida isn't a book called, "How to Meet and about to let anything change that. So Marry Mr. Right." In a series of when her son, the president, meets an smartly comic, affecting, and untimely demise, the iron-willed insightful episodes, this book follows matriarch appoints her granddaughter, the life lessons of Jane as she Julia, who enters the inner sanctum of maneuvers her way through love, sex, Bloom's, family rivalries, outrageous and relationships, and learns when to discoveries, and piles of delicious fish, and when to bait. food.

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FIC Fallen Woman FIC Scarhill Barker, Ann LP-2762 Beeson, Jane LP-3033 When Fay Prescott travels to Old Kate Merlin has farmed Scarhill, on Drove House to take up a position as the remote Devon Moors, for more duenna to Rachel Proudfoot, she than fifteen years. Now, abandoned by settles in happily and even arouses the her husband, with two children to romantic interest of the local vicar. But raise, she has no choice but to sell. Fay has a past from which she cannot After initially accepting a neighboring escape, and the arrival of Sir Jackson farmer's offer, Kate sells to a rich Hooper as a houseguest throws London family. But the arrival of the everything she was trying to achieve Deneuves has a devastating effect on into jeopardy. the local community.

FIC Altered Images FIC Beast Barry, Maxine LP-3176 Benchley, Peter LP-0123 Everything is not as it seems at one of Bermuda becomes the scene of horrific Oxford's most prestigious colleges. On death and blood-chilling terror when the hunt for an art forger, Lorcan human abuse of marine life leads to Greene is bedazzled by talented deadly disaster. student Frederica Delacroix, but what is the secret she is hiding? And FIC Open House Morgan is everything Annis isn't looking for in a man, so why is she so Berg , Elizabeth LP-2447 attracted to him? Oprah's Book Club. A woman re- creates her life after divorce by FIC The Devil's Bones opening up her house and her heart. Bass, Jefferson LP-3323 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Investigating a suspicious death in Tiffany's, she settles down to which the victim's remains were found in a burned car, forensic anthropologist reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Money is tight Bill Brockton engages in an and to meet her mortgage payments, unorthodox experiment to better understand the case, which is further Sam decides to take in boarders. It is a complicated by psychotic nemesis love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman. Garland Hamilton's escape from custody.

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FIC Copper Beech FIC Tara Road Binchy, Maeve LP-0169 Binchy, Maeve LP-2242 Carved on the Copper Beach that Oprah's Book Club. A million-copy embraces the school yard in Shancarrig bestseller, is the story of two women, are declarations of love, hope, and one from Dublin, the other from identity, the youthful dreams of England. For one fateful summer, they children who played there. exchange houses and lives, discovering deep secrets about each other and themselves. FIC Echoes

Binchy, Maeve LP-0094 FIC Whitehorn Woods Divided as children by Ireland's rigid Binchy, Maeve LP-3388 class structure. Clare and David meet again as adults and rediscover their A new highway threatens to bypass the lost love. town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, but young Father Flynn is most concerned with the fate FIC Light a Penny Candle of St. Anne's Well, a spiritual mecca in Binchy, Maeve LP-0130 the path of the planned construction.

A story of two very different families and one very special friendship. FIC Dances with Wolves Blake, Michael LP-0090 FIC Quentins Lt. John Dunbar is sent to an abandoned army post on the western Binchy, Maeve LP-2578 frontier and gradually befriends and (Also available in regular print learns to respect the Comanche (AK-0093 )). While filming a Indians. documentary about Quentins, a famed Dublin restaurant, Ella Brady explores FIC All the Flowers are Dying the changing face of the city from the Block, Lawrence LP-2912 1970s to the present day as she (Also available in regular print captures the stories of the people who have made Quentins a center of their (AR-2182)). A man in a Virginia prison lives. awaits execution for three hideous murders he swears, in the face of

irrefutable evidence, he did not commit. A psychologist, who claims to believe the convict, spends hours with the man in his 14 death row cell, and ultimately watches in FIC Emma's Secret the gallery as the lethal injection is Bradford, Barbara T. LP-2940 administered. His work completed, the psychologist heads back to New York On her deathbed Evan Hughes's City to attend to unfinished business. grandmother tells her to go to London, where Emma Harte holds the key to FIC Bridge Over the River her future. But Emma Harte has been dead for 30 years. In London, Evan Kwai turns up at a flagship store in Boulle, Pierre LP-2008 Knightsbridge looking for a job. The magnificent story of Colonel Everyone notices the resemblance Nicholson, who built a perfect bridge, between owner Paula O'Neill, Emma for the enemy. Hart's granddaughter, and the young American. When a cousin of Paula's is smitten with Emma, it becomes FIC Fahrenheit 451 imperative to find out Evan's lineage. Bradbury, Ray LP-3390 As Bradford lets the story unfold in the Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman present and the past, Kate Reading Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and divulges Emma's family secrets one by watch books burn up. Then he met a one in a soothing, languorous voice seventeen-year old girl who told him and soft accents. Reading performs of a past when people were not afraid, each scene with practiced aplomb and and a professor who told him of a lets the multifaceted story gradually future where people could think. And reveal itself. Guy Montag knew what he had to do. FIC Where You Belong FIC A Sudden Change of Heart Bradford , Barbara T. LP-2183 Bradford, Barbara T. LP-2459 Val Denning is a young American Best friends since childhood, Laura photojournalist on the frontlines of Valiant and Claire Benson find solace Kosovo, where she and two colleagues in each other as Claire struggles to are covering the war. In a nightmarish cope with sudden tragedy and Laura's ambush, all three are shot, leaving investigation into artwork stolen by the Val's lover Tony dead. Soon Val Nazis suddenly leads to Claire's realizes she was lied to by the man she divorced husband's family. loved and that another man, a friend, has loved her for years. Val must start unraveling mysteries of a man's life

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FIC Heartswap FIC Closed Eye Brayfield, Celia LP-2592 Brookner, Anita LP-0167 Flora drinks herbal tea, meditates, and The story of a woman whose powers believes in the abundance of the of submissiveness and self-denial are universe. Georgie drinks black coffee, suddenly tested by the dizzying drives a car called Flat Eric and prospect of sexual awakening. believes in hard work. But they agree about a lot of things. They're both FIC The Da Vinci Code getting married. They know all men Brown, Dan LP-2810 are victims of their own biology, but (Also available in regular print (AO- they're not choosing Hillary Clinton 0095)). Harvard symbologist Robert for a role model. Which means they've Langdon and French cryptologist got the biology thing sorted out. So Sophie Neveu work to solve the when their old boss bets them they murder of an elderly curator of the can't seduce each other's fiancés, Louvre, a case which leads to clues they're up for it. Will it all go horribly hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a wrong? centuries-old secret society.

FIC Parting Shots FIC French Silk Bright, Freda LP-0178 Brown, Sandra LP-0127 Parting shots traces a forty-something A successful lingerie entrepreneur is woman's journey through divorce and suspected of murdering a televangelist out into a world where she must learn in this sultry contemporary southern to survive, and thrive on her own. tale.

FIC Jane Eyre FIC The Alibi Bronte, Charlotte LP-2022 Brown, Sandra LP-2166 One of the most popular books for A Saturday night encounter with a readers of all ages, this timeless and mysterious woman is the start of a compassionate story of an orphan girl living nightmare for would-be D.A. who became a governess in a doomed Hammond Cross, especially when she household, may well be the most re- turns out to be the prime suspect in a read novel in the English language. high-profile murder case. Cross now faces a moral dilemma, and a haunting question: Is she innocent of the crime, or was he set up as the perfect alibi? 16

FIC White Hot FIC Four Blondes Brown, Sandra LP-3090 Bushnell, Candace LP-2474 (Also available in regular print Four very different women endure (AR-1268)). Returning to her romantic intrigues, betrayals, liaisons, Louisiana hometown after the suicide and victories as they seek love amid the playgrounds of the rich and powerful. of her younger brother, Danny, Sayre Lynch examines the turbulent FIC Shadow of a Doubt relationship between Danny and their favored older brother and begins to Caughlin, William J. LP-0099 suspect that Danny was murdered. A once spectacular lawyer, now an alcoholic has-been, tries one last case in FIC Letters from Cleo and hopes of redeeming his once illustrious Tyrone career.

Browne, L. Virginia LP-2277 FIC Circle of Quilters From dreaming of catnip fields and Chiaverini , Jennifer LP-3262 tummy rubs to driving their mommies When the departure of two Elm Creek crazy, Cleo and Tyrone keep a busy Quilts founding members prompts an schedule. This is a love story, with influx of new applicants, the artists' Cleo and Tyrone playing the star- retreat considers several candidates, crossed lovers kept apart by their including a history lover, a chef, and a owners. They're vain, self-centered, gifted teacher. and manipulative, but somehow, in spite of all their scheming ways, Cleo FIC The Quilter's Homecoming and Tyrone still manage to wrap their Chiaverini, Jennifer LP-3389 furry little paws around your heart and hold on. Newly married couple Elizabeth and Henry have packed their wedding quilts and belongings and are ready for FIC Leaving Cold Sassy a cross-country adventure. However, Burns, Olive Ann LP-0175 when they reach the land they thought Readers will treasure this final glimpse they owned, they discover they've been of Will Tweedy and feisty young duped and are now penniless. Henry is school-teacher who captures his heart; hired on as a hand at the farm and of a town that so movingly captured Elizabeth is set on making the best of the heart and imagination of America; the situation. It doesn't take long for and of Olive Ann Burns, a writer who Elizabeth to stitch together the secrets didn’t get a chance to finish her tale. of the land, the ranch, and the past. 17

FIC Patriot Games FIC Lady Boss Clancy, Tom LP-0133 Collins, Jackie LP-0095 After saving the Royal family from a Santangelo is back and ready to take terrorist attack, Jack Ryan earns a on Hollywood. knighthood, and the undying enmity of the terrorist group responsible. FIC Nurse on Trial Converse, Jane LP-2257 FIC What Looks Like Crazy on Jennifer Mellin, R.N., is on trial, an Ordinary Day before the world, before her own Cleage, Pearl LP-2099 conscience. For she was the last person Oprah's Book Club. After more than a to see her mother, ex-movie star, alive. decade of living the high life, Ava Exhausted by caring for her Johnson returns to the sleepy little hypochondriac mother, her community in Northern Michigan professional senses numbed by a where she grew up. But what Ava never-ceasing tirade of hysterical perceives as an end is only the demands, had Jennie in fact given her beginning, because there is too much mother Angela the wrong pills from happening in her small hometown to the vast array of bottles in the ignore. A highly readable fiction debut medicine cabinet? Was Angela's death in the tradition of Terry McMillan and the result of foul play? Connie Briscoe. FIC Blindsight FIC Dangerous Kiss Cook, Robin LP-0124 Collins , Jackie LP-2212 Under a haunting aura of suspense, When a member of her family is forensic pathologist Dr. Laurie gunned down in a random holdup, Montgomery discovers a darkly Lucky Santangelo hunts for the killer corrupt scheme of murder, high-level throughout Los Angeles. But her quest cover-ups, and inescapable fear. for revenge tests her relationship with her husband. Then suddenly into her life comes a man from her past, a man with a dangerous kiss.

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FIC Toxin FIC Last of the Mohicans Cook, Robin LP-2109 Cooper, James F. LP-2025 On a special night out, a At the center of the novel is the father/daughter outing for burgers and celebrated 'Massacre' of British troops fries turns into tragedy as the girl and their families by Indian allies of becomes fatally ill and dies as a result the French at Fort William Henry in of E. coli poisoning. Taking a leave 1757. Around this historical event, from his practice, Dr. Kim Regis is Cooper built a romantic fiction of determined to find out who is captivity, sexuality, and heroism, in responsible for his daughter's death. which the destiny of the Mohican Not only does he hit a brick wall of Chingachgook and his son Uncas is silence, he soon meets with violence as inseparable from the lives of Alice and thugs attempt to stifle his inquiry. Cora Munro and of Hawkeye the frontier scout. FIC Vector Cook, Robin LP-2150 FIC Roses Will Bloom Again Forensic pathologists Jack Stapleton Copeland, Lori LP-2633 and Laurie Montgomery match wits Fifteen years ago, Lully broke up Sam with New York City cab driver Yuri and Emma's intended marriage, and Davydov, a former technician with the Sam watched Emma go without a Soviet biological weapons program fight. Now the same woman's dying and disgruntled émigré, who unleashes wish has thrown Sam and Emma back a deadly reign of terror on the streets into each other's lives. As they work of Manhattan. together to restore the crumbling Mansi Mansion, can they find the will FIC Vital Signs to finish what they started so long ago? Cook, Robin LP-0100 Marissa Blumenthal uncovers a bizarre FIC Double Take international conspiracy that uses the Coulter, Catherine LP-3429 latest reproductive technology to Violently attacked by a stranger six render women infertile. . .and worse! months after the brutal killing of her beloved husband, Julia Ransom is narrowly rescued by special agent Cheney Stone, who reopens the case of Julia's husband's death when he suspects a connection. 19

FIC Timeline rough-and-tumble country ruled by an Crichton, Michael LP-2177 eccentric royal family who put the fun in dysfunctional. Jeffrey Rodinov is When archaeologists make a shocking descended from one of the oldest discovery at a medieval site, they are families in Alaska. A Rodinov has swept off to the headquarters of a been protecting a Baranov for secretive multinational corporation that generations, and no one - not even a has developed an astounding mouthy, illegitimate princess, is going technology. Then the group gets the to keep him from doing it. chance to not only study the past but also to enter it . FIC The Royal Pain FIC Sahara Davidson, Mary J. LP-3260 Cussler, Clive LP-0181 In a world nearly identical to ours, In this action-packed thriller, Dirk Pitt where Russia never sold Alaska to the finds himself in the African Desert, U.S., the rough, beautiful country is saving a beautiful woman in distress ruled by the famously eccentric and trashing the bad guys. Baranov family. Oldest daughter Princess Alexandria, whose acid wit and chronic insomnia have turned her FIC Shifting Calder Wind into a tabloid darling, is a palace Dailey, Janet LP-2703 problem. Now Miss Royalpants is (Also available in regular print insisting that marine biologist Dr. Shel (AO-0129)). After recovering from a Rivers, who just wants to be left alone brutal attack, Chase Calder arrives at in his lab, wait on her hand and the Triple C Ranch to find out who dimpled foot. wants him dead and places his trust in his daughter-in-law Jessy Calder, FIC Versailles swearing her to secrecy about his true Davis, Kathryn LP-2498 identity. Fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette is traveling from Austria to France to FIC The Royal Mess meet her fiancé, the mild, abstracted Davidson, Mary J. LP-3385 Louis. He will become the sixteenth In a world nearly identical to ours, the Louis to reign in France, and North won the Civil War, flannel is the Antoinette will be his queen, although new bling, and Russia never sold neither shows a strong inclination Alaska to the U.S. Instead, it is a toward power, politics, or the roles that 20 they have been summoned to play. brings writer Annie Barnes back to the Antoinette gives birth to four children, New Hampshire mill town of her two of whom will outlive her; she falls youth to investigate the pollution in love; and she dies at the guillotine. caused by the local paper mill, a contamination that may have been the FIC Forms of Shelter cause of her mother's fatal illness. Davis-Gardner, Angela LP-0126 Beryl Fonteyn chronicles her years FIC The Summer I Dared growing up in Virginia and North Delinsky, Barbara LP-3088 Carolina. (Also available in regular print

(AR-0930)). The only survivors of a FIC Life with Father devastating boating accident off the Day, Clarence LP-2027 coast of Maine, Julia, Noah, and Kim Clarence Day's father stories are struggle with their brush with death, enduringly established among the their feelings of guilt, and their beloved classics of American changed perspectives on their lives. Literature. FIC The Woman Next Door FIC Flirting with Pete Delinsky, Barbara LP-2350 Delinsky, Barbara LP-2718 A poignant novel of deception, (Also available in regular print betrayal, love, and faith follows three (AN-0306)). Three years after a tragic couples whose lives are thrown into accident leaves her mother comatose, turmoil when their beautiful and much Casey Ellis loses the psychologist younger neighbor, who has been father she barely knew and is widowed for a year, announces that astonished to learn he has left her his she is pregnant, forcing each of the posh Boston townhouse, a situation wives to reevaluate their marriages and that leads her to discover her father's relationships. harrowing experiences with a mysterious woman named Jenny. FIC The Last Days of Dogtown Diamant , Anita LP-3178 FIC Looking for Peyton Place Among the inhabitants of Dogtown are Black Ruth, an African woman who Delinsky Barbara LP-3148 dresses as a man and works as a stone (Also available in regular print mason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious (AS-0068)). The death of her mother madam; Oliver Younger, who survives a 21 miserable childhood; and Cornelius lies beyond it. From this remarkable Finson, a freed slave whose race denies vantage point, Razi narrates the story him everything. At the center of it all is of her lost love, as well as the Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent soul, relationship of Amy and Scott, a young deeply lonely, who nonetheless builds a couple whose house she haunts life for herself and inspires those around seventy years later. her to become more generous and tolerant themselves. FIC Millstone FIC A Tale of Two Cities Drabble, Margaret LP-2054 Dickens, Charles LP-2038 At a time when sex is de rigueur, this is the 60s, after all, in newly energized The two cities, a lethal, vengeful Paris London, and illegitimacy taboo, during the French Revolution and a Rosamund Stacey finds herself leafy, tranquil London, are only one of pregnant after her only sexual the novel's stark dichotomies, which encounter. Despite her fierce are continued as Syndey Carton and independence and academic brilliance, Charles Darnay are drawn toward their Rosamund is naive and unworldly and separate destinies, their lives touched the choices before her are terrifying. by the same woman. But in the perfection and helplessness

of her baby she finds an unconditional FIC Out of Africa love she has never known before, and Dinesen, Isak LP-2055 the realization that motherhood and Dinesen's love for Africa and the independence are not mutually Africans who worked on her land is exclusive. brought to life in this version of her best-selling book. FIC House of Sand and Fog Dubus , Andre LP-2351 FIC The Mercy of Thin Air (Oprah's Book Club) House of Sand Domingue, Ronlyn LP-3207 and Fog opens with a highway crew In 1920s New Orleans, smart and composed of several nationalities fearless Raziela Nolan is in the throes picking up litter on a hot California of a magnificent love affair when she summer day. Massoud Amir Behrani, a suddenly dies in a tragic accident. former colonel in the Iranian military Immediately after her death, she under the Shah, reflects on his job- chooses to stay between, a realm that search efforts since arriving in the U.S. exists after life and before whatever four years before.

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FIC With Your Crooked Heart FIC Ghost of Castle Kilgarrom Dunmore, Helen LP-2096 Edwards, Jane LP-2125 In powerful and diamond-sharp prose, Mixing business with pleasure, Helen Dunmore writes a Dickensian genealogist Tara Delevan goes to story of two brothers who come from Ireland to look up the ancestors of a nowhere and want everything. Paul client and to find out why her fiancée and Johnnie are born twelve years Neal Riordan has extended his visit apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking. with relatives at Castle Kilgarrom. Their ascent to money and power Tara's arrival there causes quite a stir. looks easy from a distance, but it burns She bears an uncanny resemblance to those who get too close. When Paul an 18th-century woman who is said to marries Louise, Johnnie is part of the haunt Kilgarrom's halls. But Tara soon contract. Their daughter Anna, is discovers that Kilgarrom is teeming tangled in it from birth. with mystery and secrecy, and at its core are Neal and his cousin Eileen. FIC People Like Us Dunne, Dominick LP-0134 FIC Island Interlude When a journalist and confidant of Edwards, Jane LP-2215 New York society's elite puts his plan into action, high society finds out the Denise O'Shea and Natalie Engstromm hard way what happens when its both have the same destination: the intricate rules are broken. Hotel Caribe Azure, a luxury hotel in the Caribbean. Once there, they are to FIC Tuscany for Beginners supervise the sports program, along Edward-Jones, Imogen LP-3086 with handsome Roger Gates. Once there, the women are both affected by Having abandoned a dreary cheating the poverty of the natives and the husband and an even drearier English power that voodoo still holds over town, Belinda Smith has found her them. Then, disaster strikes the hotel very own Tuscan valley in the sun. when valuable jewelry starts Running Casa Mia, her own too, too disappearing from hotel rooms, and divine bed-and-breakfast, La Contessa evidence points to an inside job. of the Valley finds that life couldn't be more perfecto! Until, that is, the arrival of Lauren, a beautiful, feisty Wall Street ballbreaker who intends to open a place just like Belinda's, only much more glamorous. 23

FIC Susannah is Missing FIC The Loop Edwards, Jane LP-2133 Evans, Nicholas LP-2086 One day Andrea Collins and her 15-year- The Loop opens when a pack of old sister Susannah are living happily wolves makes a sudden and savage with their mother and grandfather, and return to Hope, Montana, where a the next Susannah is kidnapped. The century before they were slaughtered kidnappers are cunning enough to make it by the thousands. Now an endangered look like no crime has been committed, species, they reawaken the hatred that but they hadn't counted on Anna's will tear a town apart. At the center is tenacious and resourceful spirit. Teamed a dangerous liaison between wolf up with Jim Faraday who's also on the criminals' trail, they find Susannah, only biologist Helen Ross and Buck Calder, to discover that their nightmare has just son of the rancher who is Helen's most begun! powerful opponent.

FIC The Memory Keeper's FIC A Perfect Day Daughter Evans, Richard P. LP-2812 Edwards, Kim LP-3219 (Also available in regular print Dr. David Henry is forced by a (AP-0237)). Laid off from his sales blizzard to deliver his own twins. His rep job, Robert Paul decides to pursue son is perfectly healthy, but his his dream of becoming a writer and daughter has Down's syndrome. unexpectedly pens a best seller, but Rationalizing it as a need to protect his when his new world compromises his wife, he asks his nurse to take the baby marriage, he receives unexpected away to an institution. Instead, the guidance from a stranger. nurse disappears into another city to raise the child herself. FIC The Locket

Evans, Richard P. LP-2448 FIC The Quiet Rebel Michael Keddington develops a Erle, Joanna LP-2713 special bond with Esther, a woman Escaping from scandal to Elswick, who lives in the nursing home where Elise Hilliard is dismayed to find out he works when he loses his lover, and how small and quiet is this Sussex she will teach him lessons about love village. Worse is the discovery that and forgiveness when he is falsely landowner Nicholas Mariott, the most accused of abusing residents of the influential man locally, knows of the home. scandal and is prejudiced against her. 24

FIC The House of the Scorpion couple goes on to greater things than Farmer, Nancy LP-3212 even they imagined.

In a future where humans despise FIC White Oleander clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrâon, the 142- Fitch, Janet LP-2217 year-old leader of a corrupt drug (Oprah's Book Club) (Also available empire nestled between Mexico and in regular print (AC-0209)). This is the United States. the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster FIC The Girl at the Lion D'Or homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible Faulks, Sebastian LP-2195 circumstances. Each home is its own In mid-Thirties France, seeking asylum universe, with a new set of laws and from her past, a penniless orphan turns lessons to be learned. With up as a waitress at a tatty hotel by the determination and humor, Astrid sea. Befriended by the local confronts the challenges of loneliness landowner, the girl entrusts him with and poverty and strives to learn who a the highly charged scandal that in the motherless child in an indifferent Great War left her parentless. Her world can become. longing to be loved seduces him into tackling his own problems. A powerful FIC Mama's Bank Account story of love and conscience in a small Forbes , Kathryn LP-2051 French town. This is one of the most beguiling and best loved books ever to appear on the FIC Saratoga Trunk American Literary scene. Full of Ferber, Edna LP-2034 wisdom, affection, warmth and humor The alluring Clio Dulaine travels from it established "Mama" as everybody's Paris to New Orleans in the 1880'S, favorite wife and mother. hoping to find a rich man to marry. Instead, she falls in love with Texas FIC Death to the French cowboy Clint Maroon. The ambitious Forester, C. S. LP-2711 pair set out for Saratoga, home of the It is the Peninsular War, and fabulous racetrack where fortunes are Wellington's outnumbered army must quickly made and as easily lost. retreat before the invading French. Intrigued, Clint decides to make his Separated from his regiment, Rifleman fortune in railroads in Texas, with the Matthew Dodd finds himself alone in help of Clio's fabulous beauty, the 25 the Portuguese hills. Hunted down by a FIC Bulls Island group of French infantry, he stumbles Frank, Dorothea B. LP-3386 across a band of guerrillas and sees a way to turn the tables on his pursuers. Now Betts, a top investment bank executive, must leave her comfortable life in New York City to return to the FIC The Phantom of home she thought she'd left behind Manhattan forever. But spearheading the most Forsyth, Frederick LP-2233 important project of her career puts her With the help of the woman who had back in contact with everything she's originally freed him from torment, the tried so hard to forget: her estranged Phantom of the Opera escapes by ship sister, her father, J.D., and her past. to America to begin a new and secret life that leads him to power and FIC Sullivan's Island wealth, until a mysterious death-bed Frank, Dorothea LP-2246 message transforms his life once again. Born and raised on the idyllic Sullivan's Island, Susan Hayes FIC Passing By Samaria navigated through her turbulent childhood with humor, spunk, and Foster, Sharon E. LP-2818 characteristic Southern sass. But years The date is 1919, a time of unrest and later, she is a conflicted woman with drastic change. For Alena, though, life an unfaithful husband, a sometimes in Mississippi is perfect, and she prays resentful daughter, and a heart that she will never leave her home. But a aches with painful memories. As horrible discovery leads her to Susan faces an uncertain future, she challenge all she believes. Sent to realizes that she must go back to her Chicago, the outspoken young woman past, the only place she can truly call struggles to find herself and the one home. true thing that will save her. FIC The Corrections FIC Field of Thirteen Franzen, Jonathan LP-2473 Francis, Dick LP-2165 After almost fifty years as a wife and Four-time Edgar Award winner Dick mother , Enid Lambert is ready to have Francis presents a "fast-paced" fun. Unfortunately, her husband, is collection of thirteen tightly-plotted losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, tales featuring murder, mystery, and and their children have long since mayhem in the horseracing world. flown the family nest to the perils of 26 their own lives. Desperate for some experiencing visions of doom and pleasure to look forward to, Enid has disaster on some ancient seashore lost set her heart on an elusive goal: in the mists of the past? bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. FIC Divining Women FIC A Question of Guilt Gibbons , Kaye LP-2943 Fyfield, Frances LP-2760 Autumn, 1918: Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but not as When Eileen Cartwright becomes fast as Spanish influenza. Maureen obsessed with her lawyer, she plots to Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, murder his wife, hiring a hospital is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. janitor to do the job. Bumbling and Her husband, Troop, cold and careless remorseful, he is quickly caught. But of her condition, has battered her spirit Eileen's wealth and cunningly throughout their marriage. Into this meticulous planning make loveless marriage comes Troop's niece involvement harder to prove. to help in Maureen's last weeks of confinement. Horrified by Troop's FIC The Prodigy bullying, she realizes that her true duty Gansky, Alton LP-2680 is to protect her aunt. Toby, born to an unwed teenager in North Carolina, demonstrates FIC Stranger in Paradise miraculous powers to heal people and Goudge, Eileen LP-2401 control weather at an early age, but when a radio talk-show host profiles (A Carson Springs Trilogy, #1) In the Toby as a Messiah figure, events spin first volume of a new Carson Springs out of control. trilogy, a woman falls in love with a much younger man, igniting a storm of FIC Shapes in the Mist disapproval and dismay among the inhabitants of this unique California Gater , Dilys LP-2763 valley in which families have deep and Tania Forrester, a drama student in tangled roots and hide dangerous London, is amused when her secrets. roommate decides to join a coven. But events take a sinister turn with the appearance of a disturbingly charismatic woman called Opal. What does she want? And why is Tania 27

FIC Taste of Honey diplomat in Argentina, the kidnapping Goudge , Eileen LP-2558 of the diplomat's wife, and a scandal tying the United Nations to Iraq. (A Carson Springs Trilogy, #2) (Also available in regular print (AJ-0067)). FIC Driven Gerry Fitzgerald confronts a painful secret when the daughter she gave up Griffiths, W. G. LP-2679 for adoption twenty-eight years earlier Imagine a serial killer who has been comes into her life, seeking answers, slaying for decades, centuries, while her best friend, Samantha Kiley, millennia. Whose greatest delight is embarks on a scandalous love affair claiming as many innocent victims as with a much younger man. he can, and whose weapon is a car. Gavin Pierce is a Long Island detective FIC Wish Come True who loses his grandfather in a drunk Goudge, Eileen LP-2559 driving accident. As he probes the case, what he finds chills him to the (A Carson Springs Trilogy, #3) When bone. a beloved Carson Springs woman fights a murder charge, all the FIC Sisterchicks do the Hula! residents in this lush California valley rush to her aid. Gunn, Robin J. LP-2948 Wherever there's chocolate, there's FIC The Fourth Perimeter sure to be a sisterchick celebrating, and Green, Tim LP-2565 this trip to Hawaii is no exception. Best friends Hope and Laurie are on an Former secret service agent Kurt Ford audacious mission to commemorate is elated when his son Collin follows their fortieth birthdays in style. Surfing in his footsteps, but is shattered when and sailing, sushi and snorkeling, these Collin is found dead. When his son's two macadamia nuts from the death is ruled a suicide by police, Kurt mainland sample it all, unhindered by uncovers evidence that his son was a surprise little stowaway. murdered, and the president of the United States is involved. FIC East of the Mountains

FIC The Hostage Guterson, David LP-2152 Griffin, W. E. B. LP-3279 A retired doctor who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer Presidential Agent Charley Castillo decides to travel one last time into the investigating the death of an American wild country of Washington state and 28 then to end his life on his own terms. FIC The Dream Chasers But, as with all quests, the Fates Hammond, Melinda LP-2796 intervene. When Vivyan Lagallan decides it's

time to settle down, Fate has other FIC The Big Sky ideas for him, in the form of spirited Guthrie, Alfred B. LP-2005 Miss Eustacia Marchant. Eustacia is The Big Sky is a story as great as the determined to marry Rupert Alleyne, land that inspired it, sweeping while Vivyan is engaged to the westward from Kentucky, up the beautiful and highly respectable Helen Missouri River into Indian Country. Pensford. Then, into the mix, comes Towering above the novel is Guthrie's Vivyan's adventuring colleague, intent unforgettable hero, Boone Caudill, a on making a respectable alliance. true mountain man driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the FIC Not a Day Goes By blue sky and brown earth of the big, Harris, E. Lynn LP-2396 wild places. A legend before he turns John "Basil" Henderson has always 20, Boone becomes a powerful White played the field, on the pro football Savage, an untamed life force that only circuit and as an equal-opportunity one woman, the beautiful daughter of a lover. Now retired and a sports agent, Blackfoot chief, would dare to love . he decides to settle down with the beautiful Broadway star, Yancey FIC Disobedience Harrington Braxton. But this insatiable Hamilton, Jane LP-2318 opportunist joins forces with her Henry Shaw, a high school senior, is as unconscionable mother to dig up comfortable with his family as any Basil's most guarded secrets. seventeen-year-old can be. His father teaches history with a socialist tinge at FIC The Charmstone the Chicago private school Henry and Harrison, C. C. LP-3324 his sister attend. His mother, who After her archaeologist father is killed plays piano in an antique music group, in a mysterious car crash on the is a loving, attentive wife and parent. Navajo Indian Reservation, lapsed When he stumbles on his mother's socialite and museum designer email account, however, Henry Amanda Bell travels to the remote discovers undeniable evidence that she deserts of Monument Valley to fulfill is having an affair. his last wish, deliver and archive his

Southwest literary collection, a gift to 29 the fledgling Navajo Cultural Center. FIC House of the Seven Gables But to Durango Yazzie, the Center's Hawthorne, Nathaniel LP-2020 intensely driven director, her arrival is unexpected and intrusive. This 1851 classic novel, centering on an ancient New England mansion and its inhabitants, concerns the expiation FIC Afterburn of the sins of the fathers through the Harrison , Colin LP-2593 love and goodwill of succeeding Charlie Ravitch is an international generations. The evil takes root when corporate tycoon, a former Vietnam greedy, piratical colonel Pyncheon POW and husband and father on the obtains the property for the House of hard side of 50 who's on a quest for the Seven Gable by accusing Matthew immortality, and for a woman who can Maule of witchcraft. Years later, a make every dream come true. visiting country causing and an Christina Welles is a prison parolee, enigmatic young boarder reverse the cunning and well-schooled in the art of tide of misfortunes surrounding the manipulation. In a moment of chance, house. two lives are about to intersect, and two obsessions are about to be FIC Scarlet Letter indulged. Hawthorne , athaniel LP-2050

In the puritan atmosphere of colonial FIC The Reconstructionist New England, Hester Prynne is forced Hart , Josephine LP-2336 to wear a scarlet A (for adultery) for Jack is a psychiatrist, dedicated to giving birth to an illegitimate daughter. others, to the examination of other The child's father, the minister Arthur people's pasts and the reconstruction of Dimmesdale, knows peace only after their lives. He has so absorbed himself he has been shamed into confessing. in the problems of other people that he Hester, however, acknowledging no has not quite come to grips with his sin, cannot find such peace. Here is a own, to the detriment of his marriage masterful account of religious and and his own unexamined past. When sexual oppression, hypocrisy, and he and his sister Kate are summoned to intrigue by one of the giants of Ireland for the sale of the family home, American fiction. the burden's of the family's heritage return in full force as terrible truths emerge.

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FIC Mother of Pearl for, but that dream's been shattered. Haynes, Melinda LP-2214 Can Cal still be the hero she so desperately needs? Oprah's Book Club. The story revolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an FIC True Courage orphan, and Vaulable Korner, a fifteen- Henderson, Dee LP-2949 year-old white girl who is the daughter of the town whore and an unknown father. (Uncommon Heroes #4) FBI agent Both Even and Valuable are seeking the Luke Falcon has a dead woman on his family, love and commitment they never hands, a fresh victim from his old had and their search ultimately takes both adversary, Frank Hardin. But even that of them to places they never dreamed case will have to wait when Luke's they'd go. extended family disappears over Labor Day weekend. Fifth-grade teacher FIC Freefall Caroline Lane cares deeply for Luke, Heitzmann, Kristen LP-3304 but she's not certain she can handle the pressures of dating someone in his line When a young woman stumbles out of the Hanalei Mountains on the island of of work. When foul play strikes his Kauai with no memory of who she is or family, she gets a far closer view of how she got there, Cameron Pierce those pressures than she ever wanted. reluctantly agrees to investigate. Now known as Jade, the woman begins to FIC True Devotion recall fragments of what led her to this place, and she realizes the danger isn't Henderson, Dee LP-2950 over. (Uncommon Heroes, #1) Lifeguard Kelly Jacobs knew time for her rescue FIC Twilight was running out as the sea surged and Heitzmann , Kristen LP-2690 pulled, stinging her with cold. When Cal Morrison was the best firefighter she had nearly given up hope, Kelly's the town of Montrose had seen, until a best friend Navy SEAL Joe "Bear" tragedy left him with a fear he couldn't Baker plucked her from the sea. Then, shake. When Laurie Prelane arrives in Joe's arms, Kelly said the wrong with two small children in tow, Cal's thing, and now their friendship hangs memories of a love once lost are in the balance. But the man who killed stirred, even though he's no longer the her husband is closer than Kelly or Joe person she knew. But why has she realizes, and they're both about to returned? Laurie thought marriage discover that God is a refuge. would give her everything she longed 31

FIC True Honor failed assassin of Winston Churchill. Henderson, Dee LP-3172 (Uncommon Heroes, #3) Darcy St. FIC Eye of the Storm James retired from the CIA two years Higgins, Jack LP-0173 ago with an Intelligence Star for Valor. A deadly cat-and-mouse game Then September 11 happened. Friends between a master terrorist and a died. And her nation needed her back. special forces agent unfolds in this Now Darcy is hunting down a man heart-stopping thriller. who knew September 11 would happen. Her intelligence is keeping FIC The White House Sam "Cougar" Houston's SEAL team Connection deploying around the world. But Sam can't afford to take Darcy's contacts at Higgins , Jack LP-2167 face value, one of them wants her The master of intrigue and suspense dead. reunites the unforgettable team of his bestseller "The President's Daughter" FIC True Valor to stop an unidentified assassin, a Henderson, Dee LP-3166 woman who walks the streets of Manhattan, stalking the members of a (Uncommon Heroes, #2) Lieutenant secret political organization, and Grace "Gracie" Yates spent her killing them, one by one. deployment catapulting off the deck of the USS George Washington in an F/A-18 Hornet. Major Bruce "Striker" FIC At Risk Stanton, Air Force Pararescue Jumper, Hoffman , Alice LP-0121 had been pulling pilots and Special After she contracts Aids, 11-year-old Forces soldiers from behind enemy Amanda, her family, and her friends lines for twelve years. Deployed to struggle with the bitter truth of her different locations, they kept their illness and the hysteria it creates in relationship alive with love letters. their small community. Then Gracie's fighter jet went down in a dogfight, and now Bruce has one FIC Local Girls mission: get Gracie out alive. Hoffman, Alice LP-2184 FIC Eagle has Flown This is about a family torn apart by Higgins, Jack LP-0093 tragedy and divorce. Told in alternating voices, these stories are A Soviet general attempts to rescue the both disturbing and healing, each a 32 lesson of survival and a reminder of the Barbary War. No one thought he the ties of blood and the power of could achieve his goals and live to friendship. fight again.

FIC Daughter of Deceit FIC The Pearl Holt, Victoria LP-0170 Hunt, Angela LP-2801 The coming of World War I and a Diana Sheldon, a professional radio bizarre twist of fate lead beautiful counselor, had it all: lovely family, Noelle back to her past, into unsolved successful career, nice home. Then a mysteries, and finally to her true love. freak accident changes everything, and she views the world through new eyes FIC Now You See Her of grief. When a research foundation offers to restore her loss through a Howard, Linda LP-2230 medical marvel, Diana sees the answer Up-and-coming painter Paris Sweeney to her family's anguish, never finds herself painting a vivid murder dreaming that healing might prove based on a series of disturbing dreams. more destructive than hurt. But when her friend Chandra is killed in a similar fashion, Paris and her lover FIC The Cider House Rules become the prime suspects. Irving , John LP-2321 FIC Hellfire in Tripoli Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine, Homer Wells has Hoyt, Edwin P. LP-2127 become the protégé of Dr. Wilbur Lt. Stephen Decatur, U.S.N., was the Larch, its physician and director. There captain of one of two small American Dr. Larch cares for the troubled ships anchored off the seaport city of mothers who seek his help, either by Tripoli on a February night in 1804. delivering and taking their unwanted For years, the Barbary Pirates had been babies or by performing illegal based here, a plague to shipping. Now abortions. Meticulously trained by Dr. they had captured an American frigate, Larch, Homer assists in the former, but imprisoned her captain, and planned to draws the line at the latter. Then a use the ship against the Americans! young man brings his beautiful fiancée But Decatur had planned well for this to Dr. Larch for an abortion, and mission. Here is the true, exciting and everything about the couple beckons dramatic story of Decatur's exploits Homer to the wide world outside the that cold winter night, exploits which orphanage. Lord Nelson called the most daring of 33

FIC Exit Wounds FIC The Known World Jance, J. A. LP-2466 Jones, Edward P. LP-2821 Sheriff Joanna Brady probes the Henry Townsend, a black farmer and macabre death of a loner and her 17 former slave who falls under the dogs and discovers that secrets of the tutelage of William Robbins, the most past can run deeper and darker than powerful man in Manchester County, she's ever imagined. Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs FIC L'Affaire his affairs with unusual discipline. But Johnson, Diane LP-2800 when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the Amy Hawkins, who has made her estate's order and chaos ensues. In a fortune at the top of the NASDAQ, daring and ambitious novel, Jones has sets off to Europe to find culture, her woven a footnote of history into an roots, and maybe a cause to devote her epic that takes an unflinching look at considerable fortune to. A few days slavery in all of its moral complexities. into her trip, Amy is nearly swept away by an avalanche. Two of the FIC Love Me hotel guests were not so fortunate. Already suspect as an American, Amy Keillor, Garrison LP-2781 finds that her nationality freezes the When Larry Wyler's first novel social climate as she steps in to assist becomes a hit, he leaves his wife, Iris, the family. behind, buys a fabulous Manhattan apartment and moves into an office at FIC Le Divorce "The New Yorker." But Wyler's Johnson , Diane LP-2676 follow-up novel bombs badly and then comes a long spell of writer's block. Divorce follows this smart, sexy Then comes an invitation to write a American abroad as she arrives in newspaper advice column. As he doles Paris to visit stepsister Roxy, a poet out wisdom he slowly, painfully finds whose marriage into an aristocratic a measure of clarity for his own life. French family assured her of a coveted place in Parisian society. But all is not FIC On Every Side as it should be in the Persand household: Roxy's husband has just Kingsbury, Karen LP-3296 left her for the Czechoslovakian wife After the loss of his mother and of an American lawyer. Could "le separation from the girl he loved, Jordan divorce" be far behind? Riley fills the holes in his soul with 34 anger. He decides to reject the God he books ever written about the sea and leaned on in his youth and sues his those who sail upon it. hometown to have a popular statue of Jesus removed. FIC Estella

FIC Where Yesterday Lives Knight , Alanna LP-2151 Kingsbury, Karen LP-3314 In this tale of love, loss and redemption, Estella has become a woman consumed Ellen Barrett is a noted journalist with an by a love she sought to deny. As ward to uncertain marriage, a forgotten faith, and the eerie Miss Havisham, Estella passed haunting memories of the hometown and her childhood amidst the decaying love she left behind. She returns, trying splendors of Satis House. Though born to make peace with the people who still with breathtaking beauty, she was live there, with change, and with the schooled in cruel pride. future God offers.

FIC Black Dog FIC The Poisonwood Bible Laird, Thomas LP-2795 Kingsolver, Barbara LP-2114 Black Dog lives in the deep pit of the Fiery evangelist Nathan Price takes his human soul, where desolation and wife and four daughters to the Belgian depression also hang out. Chicago Congo in 1959. They carry with them detective Jimmy Parisi is fighting all they believe they will need but soon against fatigue and homicide burnout find that all of it, from garden seed to as he tracks a killer who is using a scripture, is transformed on African crude needle to drain the blood from soil. This is the remarkable story of young women before leaving them to one family's undoing and die. transformation.

FIC Captains Courageous FIC The Hour I First Believed Kipling, Rudyard LP-2010 Lamb, Wally LP-3418 The classic story of a spoiled rich boy Relocating to a family farm in who is lost overboard on a transatlantic Connecticut after surviving the crossing and saved by the men aboard a Columbine school shootings, Caelum fishing boat. After much protest, Harvey and Maureen discover a cache of Cheyne finally learns what it means to family memorabilia dating back five work for a living. This novel has generations, which reveals to Caelum delighted readers of all ages since the day unexpected truths about painful past of its publication and ranks with the best events. 35

FIC The Tribune FIC To Kill a Mockingbird Larkin, Patrick LP-2574 Lee, Harper LP-2040 Lucius Aurelius Valens, a soldier in the "To Kill a Mockingbird" is about service of Rome, was once a tribune of conscience-how it is instilled in two the Sixth Legion, but he has angered children, Scout and Jem Finch; how it those who can take his position, and his operates in their father, Atticus, a life. To avoid further trouble, he accepts lawyer appointed to defend a negro on the command of the Third Gallic Cavalry a rape charge; and how conscience Regiment stationed in far-off Galilee. grows in their small Alabama town." There Lucius expects a life of long, tedious patrols through the outlying province. No sooner has he arrived, than FIC The Given Day he stumbles on a massacre of soldiers and Lehane, Dennis LP-3367 the man they were protecting, a Roman senator and ally of the emperor. An epic tale set at the end of World War I follows the experiences of a

family whose lives mirror the political FIC Where the Heart Leads unrest of an America caught between Laurens, Stephanie LP-3320 its well-patterned past and an Wealthy Cynster connection Penelope unpredictable future. Ashford has devoted herself not to making a perfect society match, but to FIC When They Took Away the rescuing young orphans from London's Man in the Moon streets. But when her charges start disappearing, she turns to attractive Lehrer, Kate LP-0184 Barnaby Adair for help. A deadly Reese is a high-powered political avenger in an elegant guise, Barnaby consultant with a reputation for has solved crimes before, and can go rescuing candidates from their own where few others in society can. bungling. She's 45, twice divorced, and a closet romantic who can't understand FIC Absolute Friends why love continues to elude her. As she enters the critical phase of a Le Carre , John LP-2681 campaign for a candidate who may not This epic tale of loyalty and betrayal be all he appears to be, H. A. grapples spans the lives of two friends, ex-spies, with her mother's sudden stroke. from the riot-torn West Berlin of the

1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. 36

FIC Leaving Patrick FIC Hardly Knew Her Leith, Prue LP-2251 Lippman, Laura LP-3420 Patrick and Jane are a husband and wife Sixteen short stories all together for who increasingly live in different worlds. the first time, featuring Tess Patrick is not abusive nor is he unfaithful, Monaghan, New York Times but is this it? Forever? Jane is terrified bestselling author Laura Lippman’s that it is, so at 36, she walks out on her acclaimed private eye. marriage, embarks on a passionate affair, and makes a bid for the top in her firm. Patrick, meanwhile, falls for baby-faced FIC Call of the Wild Stella, who could lose him more than his London, Jack LP-2009 restaurant business. But has Jane mistakenly thrown away true love? Having been stolen away from his comfortable life with his loving FIC The Mercy Rule family, Buck, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, is forced to work on Lescroart, John T. LP-2089 a dog sled team in the fierce conditions Vowing to spend more time with his wife of the Klondike, where he must forget and kids, Dismas Hardy is hesitant to his happy past and turn to his animal take on the case of Graham Russo, a instincts in order to survive in his new could-have-been-great baseball player surroundings. indicted for the murder of his father, Sal. Everyone knows that Sal was dying and had to be Wen morphine injections for FIC A Night to Remember his suffering, but Graham insists he wasn't the one who administered the fatal Lord, Walter LP-2052 overdose. Was it suicide, mercy, or At 11:40 p.m. on April 4, 1912 the murder? "Unsinkable" Titanic struck an iceberg and began to sink. By 8:50 a.m. on FIC The Preacher's Daughter April 15 it was all over. The great Lewis, Beverly LP-3029 ocean liner was lost on its maiden voyage, the last of 705 survivors had (Annie's People #1) Annie Zook, the been pulled out of the freezing sea. In preacher's eldest daughter, is expected the nine hours in between, 2,207 to join the Amish church, but at 20 she people faced together the supreme is 'still deciding. Because of the strict crisis in their lives. rules that guide the Plain community, she must continually squelch her artistic passion, although it has become her solace. 37

FIC Beneath the Sun returns to her childhood home and to Lorrimer, Claire LP-2714 the garden she has always loved, where she discovers that some paths It was a routine flight to Africa, but the were meant to be taken and others passengers, including a honeymooning were meant to be buried forever. couple, were destined never to arrive. Hijacked at gunpoint, the pilot is forced to land in the desert where, in blistering FIC Lost Lake heat and with remote chance of rescue, Margolin, Phillip LP-2941 the passengers face imminent death. Vanessa Kohler is a tabloid reporter

living and working in Washington, D.C. FIC Beautiful Dreamer She writes fantastic stories about a vast Lowell, Elizabeth LP-2411 government conspiracy to cover up a The Nevada ranch that Hope Gardener secret military unit headed by General loves is dying thanks to the worst Wingate, a popular presidential candidate. Most dismiss her as a drought in the state's history. Hope crackpot. But a few powerful men know needs a miracle, and one day it comes better, and they've gone to great lengths in the form of Rio, a man who seems to discredit her. By chance Vanessa out of time in the modern-day West. discovers that a key player, long assumed He brings with him a reputation for dead, may be living under a new identity. finding water in any desert, but he She knows he holds the key to proving finds something in Hope, whose her theory, and demonstrating General passion tempts him to defy his own Wingate may not be the man he appears rules. to be.

FIC The Bancroft Strategy FIC Compelling Evidence Ludlum, Robert LP-3345 Martini, Steve LP-0125 Fired after an operation goes awry, Brilliant defense attorney Paul Madriani Todd Belknap, a renegade ex-field wrestles with the toughest case of his agent, takes matters into his own hands career. when a friend is abducted in Lebanon by a vicious militia group and the FIC Loving Daughters government refuses to intervene. Masters, Olga LP-0176

Set at the end of World War I, this is a FIC Susannah's Garden remarkable story of love, disappointment , Macomber, Debbie LP-3358 frustration, and desire, as two sisters Fifty-year-old Susannah Nelson fall in love with the same man. 38

FIC Lost Highways and their four adult kids, each of Matlock , Curtiss A. LP-3208 whom sees life, and one another, through thick and thin and entirely on Meet Rainey Valentine: thirty-five, twice their own terms. divorced, a woman with broken dreams but irrepressible hope. When her mother dies she inherits a truck, an old barrel- FIC The Interruption of racing mare, and a lifetime supply of Everything Mary Kay cosmetics. Rainey packs it all Mc Millan, Terry LP-3084 up and heads off, leaving Valentine, Oklahoma in her rearview mirror. Then, (Also available in regular print somewhere outside Abilene, she finds (AS-0185)). The perfect wife and him, a man as lost as she is. mother of three grown children, Marilyn Grimes struggles to deal with FIC The Touch the problems of midlife, an empty nest, Mc Cullough, Colleen LP-3027 wildly fluctuating hormones, too many demands on her time, and too little At its center are Alexander, who fled poverty in Scotland to make his fortune room for herself, as she struggles to in the American and Australian gold recall some of her own postponed fields; his wife Elizabeth, a sixteen-year- dreams and reinvent her marriage, old cousin sent from Scotland; and his friendship, family, and herself. mistress, Ruby, who is unknown to Elizabeth and is a partner in Alexander's FIC Waiting to Exhale rapidly growing company. Mc Millan, Terry LP-0139 FIC At Weddings and Wakes Robin Stokes is a successful insurance Mc Dermott, Alice LP-0122 professional recovering from a dead- end love affair. "They say love is a A moving novel about the times and two-way street. But I don't believe it, trials of a close-knit Irish-Catholic because the one I've been on for the family, as seen through the eyes of two young girls and their brother. last two years was a dirt road." After months of depression, shopping, and

dating all the wrong men, she's getting FIC A Day Late and a Dollar by with a little help from her friends, Short and still determined to fine the Real Mc Millan, Terry LP-2412 Thing. McMillan's high-spirited novel introduces the Price family: matriarch Viola, her sometimes-husband Cecil, 39

FIC Evening Star FIC The Host Mc Murtry, Larry LP-0172 Meyer, Stephenie LP-3437 The further adventures of Aurora A member of a species that takes over Greenway are examined in this the minds of human bodies, Wanderer stunning sequel to "Terms of is unable to disregard his host's love Endearment." for a man in hiding, a situation that forces both possessor and host to become unwilling allies. FIC Night Whispers Mc Naught, Judith LP-2458 FIC Sleeping Beauty In this gripping tale of murder and Michael, Judith LP-0136 betrayal, Sloan Reynolds is invited to When Anne returns to her hometown meet the father she never knew. Fear for her grandfather's funeral, she and resentment keep her away until discovers forgotten connections, she learns that he and several of his repressed hate, and a family battle that associates are being investigated for could end or save her chances for love. everything from fraud to murder. A dedicated policewoman, Sloan soon finds herself infiltrating her own FIC Annie's Rainbow family. Michaels, Fern LP-2084 Stumbling upon a bag filled with a FIC The Zero Game half-million dollars in cash on her graduation day, Annie Daisy Clark Meltzer, Brad LP-2682 decides to use the money to secure her Bored and disillusioned with their jobs future, but vows to pay back every as senior staffers to a respected penny, but a ten-year college reunion congressman, Matthew Mercer and embroils her with a decade-old robbery Harris Sandler become involved in the and an enraged thief out to reclaim his clandestine Zero Game, but when loot. someone close to them turns up dead, they discover the sinister intent of the FIC Crown Jewel "game" and realize that they are Michaels, Fern LP-2920 intended to become the game's next victims. (Also available in regular print (AR-0346)). The "New York Times" bestselling author delivers an emotionally charged and surprising 40 tale of two very different brothers and the winning ticket for a $302 million- the one woman who loves them both dollar lottery, and sets out to lose weight, and holds the key to a family secret. regain her self-esteem, reconcile with Vickie, and fall in love again.

FIC Hey, Good Looking FIC The Jury Michaels, Fern LP-3318 Michaels , Fern LP-3258 (Also available in regular print (AS- 1041)). The tragic death of thirty- (Also available in regular print (AR- three-year-old Russ forces his 2607)). When Paula Woodley has had girlfriend and wily aunts to confront enough of the broken bones and painful truths about his father's shattered self-esteem caused by her abandonment, stepmother's abusive husband, she turns to the blackmailing practices, and brother's women of the Sisterhood, an unwillingness to forgive the past. organization where women right wrongs and bring about justice, for help. FIC Lethal Justice Michaels, Fern LP-3315 FIC The Marriage Game (Also available in regular print (AS- Michaels, Fern LP-3360 0725)). A one-time successful securities broker who has spent a year behind bars Having failed to gain entry into the for a crime she did not commit, Alexis CIA, Sam, Slick, and a trio of ex- Thorn enlists the aid of the Sisterhood to wives set out to exact vigilante justice bring to justice the real criminals, her against a philanderer, an effort that is former employer, Roland Sullivan, and interrupted by their recruitment into a his lover, Arden Gillesie, who continue to secret law enforcement agency that is make millions by scamming the innocent. covertly spying on the five women.

FIC Pretty Woman FIC Vendetta Michaels, Fern LP-3177 Michaels, Fern LP-3127 (Also available in regular print (Also available in regular print (AR-2178)). Three years after she (AR-2072)). The Sisterhood, a group marries womanizing gold-digger Kent of friends who will do anything for Bliss, against the advice of her best friend each other, helps one of their own, Vickie, Rosie Gardener Bliss kicks her Myra Rutledge, seek revenge against husband out of the house, only to the playboy son of an ambassador discover that she has in her possession who, after killing Myra's pregnant 41 daughter in a hit-and-run accident, was FIC While I Was Gone never punished for the crime. Miller, Sue LP-2157

(Oprah's Book Club). The author FIC Weekend Warriors delivers an exquisitely suspenseful Michaels , Fern LP-2813 novel about how casually a marriage (Revenge of the Sisterhood, #1) (Also can be destroyed and how a good wife available in regular print (AO-0220)). can place all she holds dear at risk. Angry and depressed that justice was not served for her daughter's death, FIC The Sinister Swaps Myra recruits a group of female vigilantes to help women who have Minshull, Evelyn LP-2817 been victimized by the legal system, Welcome to Willow Bend, the home of beginning with a woman who was feisty red-headed widow Gracie Lynn raped. Parks, choir member, master chef, and sleuth. With the help of her friends in the choir of Eternal Hope and her cat, FIC Mexico Gracie unravels mysteries while Michener , James A. LP-0132 cooking and praying to God. Everyone Mexico is the magnificent story of an at Eternal Hope is mystified by strange American journalist who travels to ransom notes for lollipops and flowers report on two great matadors, and is and Christmas in the summer, and swept up in the story of his Mexican Gracie tries to get to the bottom of it. ancestors.

FIC A Theory of Relativity FIC Tales of the South Pacific Mitchard, Jacquelyn LP-2413 Michener, James A. LP-2039 (Also available in regular print Enter the exotic world of the South (AB-0379)). When his beloved sister Pacific, meet the men and women and brother-in-law are killed in a car caught up in the drama of a big war. accident, Gordon McKenna assumes The young Marine who falls madly in he will help raise their orphaned baby love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. daughter, until the child's paternal Nurse Nellie and her French planter, grandparents launch a scandalous Emile De Becque. The soldiers, custody battle. sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting for love in a tropic paradise.

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FIC Christmas, Present Charlotte into a ravishing beauty, Mitchard , Jacquelyn LP-2803 which leads her to Hollywood and instant stardom. There, she trades her David Connors had it all, a promising controlling mother for a controlling career, a beautiful wife, and a loving agent, but finds romance with a family, until a tragic accident on the holiest night of the year, Christmas Eve, handsome Mexican landscape changes his life forever. For David, designer, Michael Mondragon. When Christmas is no longer a season of hope Charlotte's body begins to reject the and good cheer. Instead it becomes one implants, she learns that she will die if of grief and despair. Even three years they are not removed. But Charlotte later, it is a grief he can no longer live prefers death to losing her looks, her with. However, an unexpected visit from career and the man she loves. St. Nicholas and the magical adventure that follows can change everything! FIC Jordan's Star Morris , Gilbert LP-2744 FIC Man Trap Bound for the Oregon frontier, Jordan Moffat, Gwen LP-2712 Bryce and her new husband, Colin, face In a remote Highland glen, single mother danger from both man and nature. All Ruth Ogilvy is losing the battle to keep that separates them from disaster is her daughter focused on schoolwork seasoned leadership, skillful guidance, rather than on the laird's student son. The and the hand of God. For Jordan, the laird himself is set on outshining journey is a passage from the romantic Balmoral when he opens his castle and ideas of a teenager to the wisdom and grounds to the public. Then the young character of womanhood. But nothing lovers disappear, and the day ends on a can prepare her for the test that awaits spectacular note of horror. beyond the journey's end.

FIC Girl in the Mirror FIC Time Lottery Monroe, Mary A. LP-2759 Moser, Nancy LP-2583 Born with a horribly disfigured face, Three people will be chosen to use the Charlotte Godowski spends her first 20 Time Lottery to make history, and to years shunned by her peers and change their own. These three winners will receive a second chance at life. They controlled by her mother until a will be transported back in time, into an settlement from a sexual harassment Alternate Reality, their Alternity, armed suit permits her to change her life with only their hopes and dreams. One forever. A jaw transplant and person will kill to take the place of one of reconstructive surgery transforms the winners. 43

FIC Bailey's Café men. But shortly after the return Naylor , Gloria LP-0166 voyage had begun, Bligh's tyranny once more brought rebellion to the Welcome to Bailey's Café, a magnet breaking point, and with the island still for a variety of society's drifters, each fresh in their memory, the men with a story to tell. suddenly rose in mutiny.

FIC Tea & Tiramisu Nelson, Karen LP-2481 FIC Beasts Miranda is house-sitting for her Oates, Joyce C. LP-2710 daughter and her Italian son-in-law in Set in an apparently idyllic New Venice on the edge of the Grand England college town, "Beasts" is the Canal. The Palazzo Bobolino seems to story of Gillian Brauer, a student who have attracted a selection of British falls in love with her professor, his waifs and strays, all determined to Bohemian lifestyle, and experience the "real" Italy. Miranda antiestablishment attitudes, and what has fallen once before for Venice's happens when she falls under his spell. false charms, and she's not about to make the same mistake twice. Venice FIC Back Roads may have passion and a flair for melodrama, but Miranda would much O'Dell, Tawni LP-2414 rather settle for tea and toast than a (Also available in regular print cappuccino any day of the week. (BB-2938)). Oprah's Book Club. With his abusive father dead (at the hands of FIC Mutiny on the Bounty his mother), and his mother in jail (for a crime most people seem to regard as Nordhoff , Charles LP-2030 a good deed), 19-year-old Harley The story of H. M. S. Bounty, which Altmyer's family is somewhere beyond set sail from England in 1787, bound dysfunctional. College is out, he's got for Tahiti. In charge was Lieutenant three needy younger sisters on his Bligh, a harsh taskmaster. Interminable hands. Can he rise to the occasion? storms lengthened the voyage, rations More important, will the sexy mom of ran low, and as his temper increased, his baby sister's best friend provide a Bligh raged at his underfed and much-needed tumble in the hay? embittered crew. The halcyon days that followed their eventual arrival in Tahiti, the soothing influence of the women, and the fresh food, quieted the 44

FIC How to Make an American FIC Blue Screen Quilt Parker, Robert B. LP-3286 Otto, Whitney LP-0129 (Also available in regular print (AS- Otto interweaves stories of a California 1355)). Hired to protect a spoiled quilting group with seven sets of actress, Boston private investigator instruction in the quilting process, Sunny Randall teams up with chief of ultimately conveying the significant police Jesse Stone when the actress's passages in women's lives. sister is murdered, a partnership that reveals seedy complications behind the actress's lifestyle. FIC The Dive from Clausen's Pier FIC Man and Boy Packer, Ann LP-2579 Parsons, Tony LP-2334 Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin all Harry Silver has it all, a beautiful wife, her life. At twenty-three, she's a wonderful son, a great job in the beginning to feel suffocated by her media, but in one night he throws it all good but unexceptional life. She longs away. Just yesterday, Harry gave for a change, an upheaval, a chance to himself a shiny red sports car for his begin again. That chance is granted to thirtieth birthday. Today he faces the her, terribly, when her fiancé is injured baffling questions of a suddenly single in an accident. Now Carrie has to dad. How do you wash a four-year- question everything she thought she old's hair? Should he eat green knew about herself. spaghetti for breakfast? Man and Boy is by turns funny, sharp, warm and FIC The Happy Room heart-wrenching.

Palmer, Catherine LP-2535 FIC Suzanne's Diary for Sent off to boarding school at a tender Nicholas young age, each of the Mossman children believed their parents had Patterson, James LP-2345 abandoned them. Now, drawn together Katie Wilkinson has found the perfect by their sister's tragic illness, they man at last, but one day, he disappears must face the truth of their past. As from her life, leaving no explanation but Peter and Julia make peace with each a diary for her to read. The diary was other and with their parents, they written by a new mother as a keepsake discover the God who never left them. for her baby son. In it she touchingly recounts her romance with his father, and

the unparalleled joy that having a family

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FIC When the Wind Blows FIC A Christmas Beginning Patterson, James LP-2122 Perry, Anne LP-3319 Frannie O'Neill is a talented veterinarian Spending his Christmas holidays on the whose husband was recently murdered. remote island of Anglesey, off the north Shortly after she comes across an coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn amazing discovery near her animal is called in to investigate when the sister hospital, Kit Harrison, a troubled and of the local vicar is found murdered and unconventional FBI agent arrives on draped over a gravestone in her brother's Frannie's doorstop. Reluctant partners, churchyard. the pair pursues clues that lead to danger, and murder. FIC Guardian of the Horizon Peters, Elizabeth LP-2702 FIC Dark Lady Recounts the adventures of Amelia Patterson, Richard N. LP-2172 Peabody and the Emerson family in 1907 In a steel-mill town on the verge of an and 1908, a period following their economic comeback, two prominent men banishment from the Valley of the Kings, are found dead within days of each other. during which Ramses, hopelessly in love In each case, the known character of the with Nefret, finds his plans interrupted by man seems grossly more contradicted by a plea for help from Prince Tarek from the circumstances of his death. But, as the Lost Oasis. assistant county prosecutor Stella Marz discovers, the victims and their deaths FIC Ain't She Sweet? may be connected in ways that no one Phillips, Susan E. LP-2648 would ever suspect. (Also available in regular print

FIC Silent Witness (AR-0223)). The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd Patterson, Richard N. LP-2111 sworn to leave behind forever. As the Patterson's most stunning novel to date rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, offers a powerful portrayal of the Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had complexities of male friendship, of the broken hearts, ruined friendships, and darkest recesses of love, and of the ways destroyed reputations. But 15 years in which the past stakes it claim upon the have passed, now she's come home, present. When attorney Tony Lord broke, desperate, and too proud to returns to his hometown to defend his show it. 46

FIC Another View FIC Treasures Pilcher , Rosamunde LP-2179 Plain, Belva LP-0183 There are only two men in Emma's life, A reckless act and an unpredictable her father, a remote artist who leaves her twist of fate threaten everything the in boarding school and sees her every few Osborne siblings hold dear. Now they years, and Christo, who has been her must choose to walk alone and watch stepbrother for a few months and now their dreams die, or work together to wants to get to know her. But until Emma salvage what they treasure. can understand what she means to them, there can be no room for love. FIC The Neighbor's Wife FIC Winter Solstice Purser, Ann LP-2158 Pilcher, Rosamunde LP-2306 Andrew and Annie Bishop and their four children have long dreamed of a place Retired London stage actress Elfrida like the Old Rectory in Round Ringford, Phipps never anticipated going off of a village in the heart of England with with a man, but after a devastating timeless rituals like church fetes, bonfire tragedy, Oscar Blundell asks for her night, conquer fights and pub gossip. But companionship. Joining them at a they don't understand the delicate web of Victorian house in Scotland are a relationships which holds such a place broken hearted young woman, a together, and that sets in motion a tragic teenage runaway, and a stranger who train of events that will test the village to arrives during a snowstorm. its heart.

FIC The Paid Companion FIC Fortune's Hand Quick, Amanda LP-3087 Plain, Belva LP-2126 In order to pursue his quest to catch a Rob McDaniel, a teacher with noble killer while keeping the high-society intentions, comes into some money husband-hunters at bay, the Earl of St. enabling him to go to law school. Merryn hires the sensible Elenora Lodge Upon graduation he lands a job with a to pose as his fiancée during the prestigious firm and marries the upcoming London season. daughter of the senior partner, leaving behind the hometown girl he had FIC Dream Country planned to wed. His career skyrockets Rice, Luanne LP-2379 but then takes a shocking turn that changes his life, his family's life and Years ago, Daisy Tucker traveled to reverberates into the next generation. Wyoming's Wind River Mountains to find inspiration for her art. Instead she 47 found rancher James Tucker. Their life FIC The Prince together was paradise until their three- Rivers, Francine LP-3321 year-old son, Jake, vanished. Heartbroken, Daisy left with Jake's twin Each novella in this new series from sister, Sage. Now, 13 years later, Sage beloved author Rivers tells the story of runs away, and Daisy turns to James to one of five biblical men who stood mend her family, and her heart. behind the great heroes of the faith: Aaron the priest, Caleb the warrior, FIC Redeeming Love Jonathan the prince, Amos the prophet, and Silas the scribe. Rivers, Francine LP-3179

The heroine, Angel, is a young woman FIC The Prophet who was sold into prostitution as a child. Michael Hosea is a godly man Rivers, Francine LP-3322 sent into Angel's life to draw her into Behind the men who shaped history the Savior's redeeming love. Angel are the heroes who forever changed it. expects nothing from men but betrayal. In The Prophet Francine Rivers tells She survives by keeping her hatred the story of Amos, a man of solitude alive and what she hates most are the who felt at home among the hills, a men who use her, leaving her empty man of conviction who heard when and dead inside. Then she meets God called, a man of fortitude who Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his spoke to a nation unwilling to listen. Father's heart in everything. Michael Before the Israelites rebelled against obeys God's call to marry Angel and to God and were devoured by war, they love her unconditionally. were warned by Amos, a prophet who refused to turn away.

FIC The Atonement Child FIC The Scribe Rivers , Francine LP-2507 Rivers, Francine LP-3387 In one horrific, terrifying moment, Dynah Carey's perfect life is shattered After the death and resurrection of by rape, her future irrevocably altered Jesus, Peter and Paul preached to the by an unwanted pregnancy, her doting nations, carrying Christ's message to family torn apart. Her seemingly rock- all who would listen. But when they solid faith is pushed to the limits as she were silenced, it was their scribe who faces the most momentous choice of brought their words to future her life, to embrace or end the generations. The Scribe tells the story untimely life within her. of Silas, the man behind the spotlight who recorded most of the New 48

Testament Scriptures we read today. FIC The Ground Beneath Her Five men answered God's call to serve Feet Him faithfully without recognition or Rushdie, Salman LP-2185 fame. They gave everything, knowing that their reward might not come until Vina Aspara, a famous and much- the next life. loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, FIC Carolina Moon and that of Ormus Cama, the lover Roberts, Nora LP-2244 who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her over and over throughout his own Returning as an adult to her South extraordinary life in music. Carolina hometown, Tory Bodeen plans to put the past behind her and open a home-design shop. Following FIC The Ancaster Demons the murder of her friend, Hope, Russell, Norman LP-2815 unsolved to this day, she is determined to find a measure of peace. But her To the folks of late-Victorian return will be more difficult than she Ancaster, the ancient figures of angels expected because Hope's killer is carved on the cathedral tower are nearby as well. guardians. But the stubborn Dean Girdlestone sees them as idols and orders their destruction. Resentments FIC Icy Sparks come to the surface, and on the night Rubio, Gwyn LP-2488 of the Ancaster Revel, the Dean's murdered body is discovered . (Oprah's Book Club) After years of living in a children's asylum for having spontaneous jerks and spasms, Icy FIC The Reader returns home and is quickly befriended Schlink, Bernhard LP-2115 by Miss Emily, who cares for her and teachers her the ways of life, Oprah's Book Club. Hailed for its transforming Icy into a new person and coiled eroticism and the moral claims forever changing her view of the it makes upon the reader, this world. mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.

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FIC Killer Smile when their husbands are killed in Scottoline, Lisa LP-2808 separate "accidents." An important link between the victims rises up from their (Also available in regular print ashes: each was employed by Kingsley (AR-1152)). When she receives International Group (KIG), the world's personal threats and an associate is largest think tank. murdered, young lawyer Mary DiNunzio realizes that her latest case, FIC The Last Time They Met involving a World War II internment camp suicide, may have deadly Shreve, Anita LP-2480 modern-day ties. At a literary festival, Linda Fallon meets Thomas Janes for the first time FIC The Lovely Bones in years. But this is no chance meeting, Sebold, Alice LP-2722 Thomas has planned this reunion with the woman he once had a passionate (Also available in regular print affair with. It had ended disastrously, (AS-0187)). As Susie Salmonshe so what good could come from looks down from heaven she tells us, rehashing the past. in the spirited voice of a fourteen-year- old, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. Susie watches life continuing FIC The Pilot's Wife after her brutal death: her loved ones Shreve, Anita LP-2454 holding out hope she'll be found, her When her husband, a pilot, dies in an killer covering his tracks. As months airplane crash off the Irish coast, pass without leads, she sees her family Kathryn Lyons finds herself in the contorted by loss. With compassion, media spotlight as rumors abound of longing, and a growing understanding, her husband's shocking secret past. she sees them face the worst, then, in time, pass through the grief and begin to mend. FIC Colony Siddons, Anne River LP-0168 FIC Are You Afraid of the Maude arrived at "Retreat" that first Dark? summer a 19-year-old bride whose Sheldon, Sidney LP-2724 Southern origins and gypsy-like beauty (Also available in regular print (AR- mark her as an outsider. Years later, 1099)).Two women become reluctant now a confident matriarch, she allies in a game of cat-and-mouse attempts to preserve the elite colony's future. 50

FIC Heavenly Date and Other FIC The Healing Quilt Flirtations Snelling, Lauraine LP-2581 Smith , Alexander LP-2819 When her Aunt Teza faces a second Journeying from Portugal, to Australia, bout with breast cancer, Kit Cooper to southern Africa and other exotic resolves to raise money for a new settings, this irrepressible collection of mammogram unit by creating a short fiction by the author of The No. 1 magnificent king-sized quilt to be Ladies' Detective Agency explores a sewn and auctioned by the women of wide range of romantic encounters, in Jefferson City. The women hold quiet all their diverse forms. suffering triggered by painful circumstances in common. Together they experience the curative powers of FIC Red Square The Healing Quilt. Smith , Martin C. LP-0179 Arkady Renko returns to Moscow and FIC A Walk to Remember begins an investigation that will lead Sparks, Nicholas LP-2140 him down the corridors of corruption, dirty dealing, and to the new lords of During his senior year, the last thing Russia. Landon Carter anticipates is Jamie Sullivan, the sweet, pious daughter of

the town's Baptist minister. What he FIC The Brushstroke Legacy undergoes is a change of heart that will Snelling, Lauraine LP-3274 forever alter the course of his life. Although everything in her life seems to be falling apart, Ragni Clauson FIC Message in a Bottle agrees to fix up her great- Sparks, Nicholas LP-2087 grandmother's cabin out in the Thrown to the waves and to fate, the Badlands. As Ragni and her rebellious bottle could have ended up anywhere. teenage niece, Erika, work together, But it found its way to Theresa they begin to uncover the art, and the Osborne, divorced and the mother of a life of Nilda, Ragni's great- twelve-year-old son. The letter inside grandmother who lived in the cabin in is signed "Garrett," and is an the early 1900s. expression of his love for a woman he has lost. Challenged by the mystery, Theresa searches for Garrett, and takes the reader along on a hunt about love.

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When Liz Sutherland's husband is FIC Gulliver's Travels tragically killed on Christmas morning, she is suddenly alone and facing Swift, Jonathan LP-2016 painful questions in the wake of an The unusual voyages and travels of unbearable loss. Over the next year, Englishman Lemuel Gulliver carry him Liz learns what it means to live again, to such strange locales as Lilliput, where not only for herself but for her the inhabitants are six inches tall: children, and about cherishing small Brobdingnag, a land of giants: an island miracles and believing in big ones. of sorcerers and a nation ruled by horses.

FIC Pearl FIC Saving Fish from Drowning Steinbeck, John LP-2032 Tan, Amy LP-3247 For the diver Kino, finding a On an ill-fated art expedition into magnificent pearl means the promise Burma, 11 Americans leave their of a better life for his impoverished Floating Island Resort for a Christmas- family. His dreams blind him to the morning tour and disappear. Through greed that the pearl arouses in him and twists of fate, they encounter a tribe his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the awaiting the return of a leader and the American dream, that wealth erases all mythical book of wisdom that will problems, Steinbeck's classic protect them from the ravages of the illustrates our fall from innocence. Myanmar military regime.

FIC The Fair Vision FIC The Bonesetter's Daughter Stewart, Eleanor LP-2260 Tan, Amy LP-2353 Most of the 102 passengers on the As a child, Ruth was subjected to her "Mayflower" traveled in one main cabin mother's notions about curses and ghosts that measured 25 x 80 feet. They were and her repeated threats to kill herself. Separatists, whose goal was to attain But now LuLing Young seems happy. freedom, personal, social, economic and Struggling to hold onto the past, LuLing spiritual. They had financed their passage begins to write all that she can remember by indenturing themselves to the London of her life as a girl in China. When Ruth merchants who paid their fare. With little discovers the papers, she finds each page understanding of the local wildlife, little reveals secrets about a mother's heart that skill at hunting, fishing, or growing food LuLing cannot tell her daughter. in the new land, the colonists had to 52

FIC The Joy Luck Club FIC Tennyson's Gift Tan, Amy LP-2915 Truss, Lynn LP-3171 In 1949 four Chinese women drawn This book is an imaginative cocktail of together by the shadow of their past, Victorian seriousness and farce that re- begin meeting in San Francisco to play imagines the world of the nineteenth- mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim century English poet laureate, placing sum, and "say" stories. They call their him in the midst of eccentric company gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly that includes dodgy Charles Dodgson forty years later, one of the members (aka Lewis Carroll). has died. When her daughter comes to take her place, she learns of her FIC The Adventures of Tom mother's lifelong wish, and the tragic Sawyer way in which it has come true. Twain, Mark LP-2108

Come along with Wishbone as he FIC The Widows of Wichita sniffs out hidden treasure with Tom County Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Thomas, Jodi LP-2628 adventures of a mischievous young (Also available in regular print boy and his friends growing up in a (AJ-0259)). Five women gather at a Mississippi River town in the West Texas hospital after an oil rig nineteenth century. Includes illustrated accident kills four men and burns the notes throughout the text explaining one survivor beyond recognition. As the historical background of the story. they wait together to find out which husband survived, the women come to FIC Digging to America know each other and learn how to cope Tyler, Anne LP-3283 with the tragedy. A chance encounter between two families, the Donaldsons, and the FIC Walden Iranian-born Yasdans, at the Baltimore Thoreau, Henry D. LP-2049 airport, as both couples await the "I went to the woods," Thoreau said, arrival of an adopted daughter from "Because I wished to live deliberately, Korea, prompts an examination about to front only the essential facts of life, what it means to be an American while and see if I could not learn what it had the lives of the two families intertwine to teach, and not when I came to die, over the years. discover that I had not lived."

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FIC Frangipani Age of New York, when society Vaite, Celestine LP-3210 people "dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's In Tahiti it's a well-known fact that world as he prepares to marry the women are wisest and mothers know beautiful but conventional May best. But it's Materena Mahi who really knows best of all. Everyone, everyone Welland. Then the mysterious except Materena's daughter, that is, Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New seems to think so. Materena is York after a disastrous marriage in determined that her girl will grow up to Europe, and he falls deeply in love be a smart, considerate, take-no-nonsense with her. young woman. But when Leilani meets Hotu, a handsome boy and a heartbreaker FIC The Book of Deborah for sure, Materena must figure out what's best for her daughter , and for herself. Whitehouse, Maggy LP-2816 Two thousand years ago a man was FIC A Thousand Country crucified for revealing ancient and Roads wondrous knowledge to the House of Israel. At the foot of the cross, as he Waller, Robert J. LP-2567 died, was a woman, raised as his sister, Robert Kincaid finds himself left with who had grown, learnt and taught with little but memories; memories of a him throughout his ministry. You will lonely existence lived mostly on the never have heard of her. This is her road, and memories of Francesca story. Johnson, the woman whose passion he stirred so briefly and so powerfully. FIC Singing Stones Searching for something he can't define, something to give meaning to Whitney, Phyllis A. LP-0182 the rest of his life, Kincaid takes to the Disturbances from the past menace the road again. In an old truck named present as a child psychologist finds Harry, with his dog Highway beside herself drawn to her ex-husband's him, he begins a long winding run daughter. back to Roseman Bridge. FIC Star Flight FIC The Age of Innocence Whitney, Phyllis A. LP-0137 Wharton, Edith LP-3396 A woman searches for the truth about The Age of Innocence is Edith her movie star grandmother's Wharton's masterful portrait of desire mysterious death. and betrayal in the sumptuous Golden 54

FIC Bridge of San Luis Rey Health/Diet/Exercise Wilder, Thorton LP-2007 "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" opens in HEA 10 Golden Rules for Good the aftermath of an inexplicable Health tragedy, a tiny foot-bridge in Peru de Vries, Jan LP-2333 breaks, and five people hurtle to their Designed to help readers maximize the deaths. For Brother Juniper, a humble benefits of a healthy lifestyle, this monk who witnesses the catastrophe, book combines a routine of healthy the question in inescapable. Why those eating and exercise with an five? Suddenly, Brother Juniper is understanding of the environment and committed to discover what manner of the hidden hazards caused by lives they led, and whether it was pollution. In today's society, the effect divine intervention or a capricious fate of diet and environment on well-being that took their lives. is becoming increasingly clear. Stress and lack of exercise are now FIC The Story of Edgar recognized as significant factors in the Sawtelle development of cancer and many Wroblewski, David LP-3365 degenerative disorders. Here the author, who has ten clinics throughout (Oprah's Book Club) Born mute, the UK and Ireland, offers a step-by- speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle step guide to good health. leads an idyllic life on his family's farm in remote northern Wisconsin where they raise and train an HEA Angela Lansbury's extraordinary breed of dog. But when Positive Moves tragedy strikes, Edgar is forced to flee Lansbury, Angela LP-0119 into the vast neighboring wilderness, The popular star shares her approach accompanied by only three yearling for living life to its fullest! "My pups. Struggling for survival, Edgar personal plan for fitness and well- comes of age in the wild, and must being." face the choice of leaving forever or revealing the terrible truth behind what has happened.

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Historical Fiction HIF Sword Song Cornwell, Bernard LP-3325 HIF White Doves at Morning Alfred of Wessex survives the Danish Burke, James Lee LP-2620 invasion only to find the Saxons (Also available in regular print targeted by Vikings, a conflict during (AN-0313)). Despite their misgivings which he harnesses the abilities of the about "the Cause," Willie Burke and formidable warrior Uhtred. his best friends, three young men from New Iberia, Louisiana, enlist in the HIF Siena Summer Confederate Army and head off to war, Crane, Teresa LP-2163 in a novel drawn from the author's own In 1918 as the Great War comes to a family history. close, a young girl named Poppy Brookes lightens the heart of a wounded soldier HIF The Hornet's Nest: A Novel with her friendship. But it is her older of the Revolutionary War sister, Isobel, who captivates Kit Enever and ensnares him. A decade later, Carter, Jimmy LP-2822 arriving in Siena to nurse her pregnant A novel of the American South during sister, Poppy finds a disturbing the Revolutionary War follows Ethan undercurrent in their relationship, and an Pratt, his wife Epsey, and their equally disturbing third party on the neighbors, Kindred and Mavis Morris, scene: an enigmatic Frenchwoman as as they become caught up in the calculating as she is beautiful. In the conflict and the problems confronting verdant Tuscan landscape, Poppy's own local Indian tribes. venture into love is overshadowed by bitterness from the past and a tragic desire for revenge. HIF Doomsday Rider Compton, Ralph LP-2699 HIF Morning Tide (Also available in regular print Gunn, Neil LP-2063 (AL-0090)). A senator's daughter has Hugh MacBeth is twelve years old and joined a doomsday cult and it'll take a lives in a small Scottish fishing village. man like Buck Fletcher to get her It is at that tender age that Hugh begins back. To find her, Buck must elude a to realize his mother's sadness and fear band of Chiricahua Apaches on the that he and his brothers will follow warpath and bring the cult leader their father to the sea. This is the story madman a little doom of his own . of a young boy learning to be a man.

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HIF Isaac's Storm: A Man, a HIF Morgan's Run Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in Mc Cullough, Colleen LP-2395 History Following the disappearance of his only Larson, Erik LP-2245 son and the death of his beloved wife, Isaac Cline was a scientist who believed Richard Morgan is wrongly convicted of he knew all there was to know about the a crime and exiled to England's 18th- motion of clouds and the behavior of century penal colony in Australia. storms. The idea that a hurricane could Morgan refuses to surrender to his fate, damage his home city of Galveston, and begins a soul-trying test to survive in Texas, was to him "an absurd delusion," this hostile new land where, against all so he ignored the unusual weather odds, he would find a new love and a patterns, ominous signs, and warnings new life. from Cuban meteorologists about an approaching storm. Within hours, at least HIF Captain at Arms 8,000 people would lose their lives in what is still the nation's deadliest natural Mc Cutchan, Philip LP-2141 disaster, and Isaac would suffer his own The Pax Britannica has become a very unbearable loss. fragile thing on the Northwest Frontier. Armies of Pathan warriors HIF The Wolf of Wierdmoor stand ready to annihilate Peshawar as a MacKie , Mary LP-2164 first step to driving the British out of the Indian sub-continent. But if an As governess to the undisciplined officer could infiltrate their ranks, Alexander, Georgiana Forrest's life is a constant battle. Red-haired, outspoken, danger might yet be averted. Being a and chafing against the rules of Victorian spy is something James Ogilvie, now a society, she dreams of a more pleasant captain in the Queen's Own Royal future. After a final battle with her young Strathspeys, hasn't tried before. charge, Georgiana is summarily Disguised as an arms dealer, he sets dismissed, with little hope of finding out across the Indus to talk his way another post. But it is then, with her into the confidence of the Pathan fortunes at their lowest ebb, that the leaders and their fanatical holy men, handsome Piers Cheviot steps in. From the sadhu. London Georgiana is transported to Moorhollow, the Cheviots' country house HIF Ogilvie at War in the wilds of Yorkshire. Her dreams appear to be coming true, but all is not as Mc Cutchan, Philip LP-2223 it seems. After six years in northwest India, Captain James Ogilvie and his

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overseas has come to an end. Then History they are informed that instead of heading for home, they are bound for HIS The Gangs of New York South Africa to aid the Kimberley Asbury, Herbert LP-2530 Relief Force in the Boer War. No sooner have they arrived than Ogilvie Looking at the lurid side of organized is involved in a daring project to crime from the 1800's to Prohibition, rescue a precious diamond known as this is a tour through a now the "Red Daniel" from the heart of unrecognizable city of abysmal besieged Kimberley. poverty and habitual violence. Asbury presents the definitive work on this

subject, an illumination of the gangs of HIF Beyond the Gathering old New York that ultimately gave rise Storm to the modern Mafia. Oke, Janette LP-2228 After following his father's footsteps to HIS Night Lives On become a Canadian Mountie, Henry Lord, Walter LP-2053 discovers that his job comes at a high emotional cost, while his sister, New thoughts, theories, and Christine, leaves their family home to revelations about the Titanic. seek a new life in Edmonton, only to find herself torn between love and HIS 1776 faith, in two love stories set in the Mc Cullough, David LP-3206 Canadian West . This is the story of the Revolutionary War during the nation's tumultuous HIF The Winter Queen beginning, and those who fought for Stevenson, Jane LP-2698 what we assume to be our rightful heritage and precious ideals. This is a Seventeenth-century royal-in-exile narrative history at its best, bringing to Elizabeth of Bohemia pursues a life an extraordinary period and a vast clandestine relationship with Pelagius, array of extraordinary characters on an African prince and former slave, both sides of the conflict. against the politically unstable and war-threatened climate of the period.

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HIS Sea of Glory: America's HOR Twilight's Child Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 Andrews V. C. LP-0138 Philbrick, Nathaniel LP-2919 Can Dawn finally realize her dreams in Cutler's Cove, or will her family destroy America's greatest frontier was not the her happiness? West; it was the sea. In 1838, an enormous expedition headed by the HOR Cell young, brash Lieutenant Charles Wilkes set out for the Pacific Ocean King, Stephen LP-3277 with six ships and hundreds of sailors (Also available in regular print (AS- on what would turn out to be a wide- 0728)). Mayhem and violence are reaching journey of adventure, unleashed around the world when a pulse discovery, and controversy. Using from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into savage, unthinking, diaries kept on board, historian homicidal maniacs, and only a small Nathaniel Philbrick uncovers the dark band of "normies" who somehow avoided saga that the official reports never told. the technological attack can stop the rampage. Horror

HOR Hearts in Atlantis HOR Dawn King, Stephen LP-2193 Andrews, V. C. LP-0092 Here, in five interconnected narratives In her fine new Virginia school, Dawn that span from 1960 to 1999, King draws Langchamp feels happy and safe. But a stunning portrait of the darker sides of nothing is what it seems. Now Dawn American life after the Vietnam War. and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a decent, respectable life, HOR Lisey's Story and Dawn's precious secret, hope to King, Stephen LP-3285 study singing can come true. Then (Also available in regular print (AS- Dawn's mother suddenly dies. 1468)). Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks HOR Midnight Whispers back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her Andrews , V. C. LP-0177 husband's successes as an award-winning Christie struggles to break the cruel novelist, and his secretive nature that bonds of the past, and to defy the curse established Lisey's supernatural belief that has haunted Cutler's Cove for systems, on which she eventually comes generations. to depend for survival. 59

HOR The Dark Half between the living and the dead takes a stand against evil in a battle where there King, Stephen LP-0091 are no innocent bystanders. The master of horror returns with another toe curling gem. Evidence HOR One Door Away from indicates that Thad Beaumont whose Heaven novels seem to be the product of a twisted imagination, may just be guilty Koontz, Dean LP-2516 of a series of monstrous murders. (Also available in regular print (AE-300). When Micky Bellsong HOR The Girl Who Loved Tom encounters Leilani Klonk, a disabled Gordon girl with a fierce spirit, and Leilani's King, Stephen LP-2189 stepfather Preston Maddoc, who Lost in the Maine woods, a nine-year- believes that aliens will heal Leilani by old girl keeps hope alive by listening her tenth birthday or take her with to Red Sox pitcher Tom Gordon on her them, she finally finds the meaning, walkman radio while the sun sets and a hope, and purpose in her troubled life, dangerous stalker draws nearer. but when the family disappears,

Micky, along with a detective drawn to HOR False Memory her courage and passion, embarks on a arduous mission, filled with evil and Koontz, Dean LP-2181 danger, to find them. (Also available in regular print (BB-3030)). It's a fear more paralyzing HOR Seize the Night than falling. More terrifying than Koontz, Dean LP-2117 darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It's the one fear you Moonlight Bay, California is a peaceful, cannot escape, no matter where you run, picturesque small town until children no matter where you hide. It's the fear of begin disappearing. The police aren't yourself. It's real. It can happen to you. much help since they've been corrupted And facing it can be deadly. "Fear for behind the shuttered walls of adjacent your mind". military base, Fort Wyvern. Christopher Snow is convinced that the children are HOR Forever Odd alive and that their disappearances have to do with secret research conducted deep Koontz, Dean LP-3248 within Fort Wyvern. But there are (Also available in regular print extremely violent and powerful forces (AS-0513)). In the unique world of Pico, protecting Fort Wyvern, and they will Odd, an unforgettable hero who lives stop at nothing to keep its secrets hidden.

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HOR Violin HUM Dave Barry is not Taking Rice, Anne LP-2188 This Sitting Down! The demonic ghost of a Russian Barry, Dave LP-2371 aristocrat uses his magic violin to (Also available in regular print enchant the exquisite Triana and (AC-0328)). Dave Barry Turns 50 transport her to a terrifying realm takes on the dangers of improperly where they join a battle of wills, in an sized brassieres, low-flow toilets, day evocative tale of seduction. trading, school science fairs, the IRS, the airlines, pine sap transfusions for tired Christmas trees, and more. HHHumor

HUM Tricky Business HUM Cat and the Curmudgeon Barry, Dave LP-2647 Amory, Cleveland LP-0116 A cash cow, top-heavy cruise ship The continuing saga of how Amory, a whose sole function is to carry self-described curmudgeon, copes with gamblers three miles from the Florida his cat, Polar Bear. coast, take their money, then bring them back so they can find more HUM Big Trouble money, gets into the biggest storm in Barry , Dave LP-2231 years. What happens to the passengers The scene is Miami. In ritzy Coconut in the midst of this is the story of this Grove, the teen son of Eliot, a newsman astonishing, wicked book. turned adman, sneaks up to spritz a cute girl with a Squirtmaster 9000 to win a HUM Sleeping Beauties high school game called Killer. Cheek, Mavis LP-2292 Meanwhile, two hit men sneak up to kill the girl's abusive step dad, Arthur. Arthur Tabitha's Beauty Parlor is a haven. The cheated his bosses at corrupt Penultimate, women who cross its portals enter a Inc., which equipped a Florida jail with perfumed world where never a harsh automatic garage-opener gates that note is struck. To Tabitha, beauty is a accidentally freed prisoners in a lightning broad canvas from which she will storm. draw out what she can. But when Chloe, Tabitha's trainee, sets out to prove that she can give her clients the makeover of a lifetime, the quest for feminine perfection achieves hilarious consequences. 61

HUM Cosbyology: Essays and Juvenile Ages 8 ---121212 Observations from the Doctor of Comedy JVI Tuck Everlasting Cosby, Bill LP-2437 Babbitt, Natalie LP-3018 The national bestseller from the funniest man in America, who looks (Fiction) Granted eternal life after back at his life, bit by bit. In this drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck wonderfully funny collection of stand- finds that living forever at one age is up material that touches on everything less a blessing than it might seem. from childhood and marriage to school, sports, and work, Cosby JVI Caddie Woodlawn returns to his early days of comedy to Brink, Carol R. LP-3017 give readers a look at the funny side of (Fiction) (Also available in regular life. print (BB-0658)). This beloved story follows the frontier adventures of HUM Happy to be Here Stories Caddie Woodlawn, a tomboy growing and Comic Pieces up in Wisconsin during the 1860's, and Keillor, Garrison LP-2058 explains how Caddie saves the Garrison Keillor's comic observations settlement from an Indian massacre. on American life make everyone happy to be here. JVI A Little Princess Burnett, Frances LP-3015 HUM Sometimes I Wake Up (Fiction) Presents an abridged version Grumpy. . .And Sometimes I Let of the tale of Sara Crewe, a pupil at Him Sleep Miss Minchin's London school, who is Linamen, Karen S. LP-2619 left in poverty when her father dies but If you feel stressed, disillusioned, or is later rescued by a mysterious simply worn-out by life, take heart. benefactor. The author delivers humor that will lift your spirits and insights that will help you experience true healing.

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JVI Secret Garden JVI Walk Two Moons Burnett, Frances LP-3012 Creech , Sharon LP-3014 (Fiction) (Also available in regular print (Fiction) On a long car trip from Ohio (BB-0887)). Nine-year-old Mary Lennox to Idaho, 13-year-old Salamanca Tree has no one left in the world when she Hiddle regales her grandparents with a arrives at Misselthwaite Manor, her story about her friend Phoebe, who mysterious uncle's drafty mansion on the receives a message from a potential edge of the moors. Miserable and lonely, lunatic and must cope with the Mary discovers a walled garden. It is in disappearance of her mother. Beneath the "secret garden" that many lives are Phoebe's story is Sal's own, and her transformed. search for her own mother who left for

Idaho one sunny morning and never JVI Stealing Freedom returned. Carbone, Elisa LP-2927 (Fiction) A novel based on the events in JVI The Cat Ate My Gymsuit the life of a young slave girl from Danziger, Paula LP-2929 Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being (Fiction) When the unconventional separated from her family, but who English teacher who helped her eventually escapes to freedom in Canada. conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, thirteen-year-old JVI Chasing Redbird Marcy Lewis uses her new-found courage to campaign for the teacher's Creech, Sharon LP-3007 reinstatement. (Fiction) It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old JVI Because of Winn-Dixie Zinny discovered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her Di Camillo, Kate LP-2937 family's house, she realized that things (Fiction) When ten-year-old India were about to change. Newbery Medal Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, winner Sharon Creech intricately weaves with her father, she doesn't know what the tale of a young girl who sets out in to expect, least of all, that she'll adopt search of her place in the world, and Winn-Dixie, a dog she names after the discovers it in her own backyard. supermarket where they meet. And

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JVI My Side of the Mountain Harbour. But true sanctuary can George, Jean C. LP-2938 always be found at a restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing, where (Adventure) A young boy relates his everything, including lasagna is served adventures during the year he spends on a waffle. living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his JVI Triss dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization Jacques, Brian LP-3005 that he needs human companionship. (Fantasy) (Also available in regular print (AK-0161)). (A Novel of JVI Old Yeller Redwall) Triss the squirelmaid, Gipson, Fred LP-2031 Shogg, and Welfo escape from slavery at Riftgard and are pursued across the We called him Old Yeller. The name sea toward Redwall by Princess Kurda, had a sort of double meaning. One part Prince Bladd, and a band of meant that his short hair was a dingy freebooters who seek the rumored yellow, a color that we called "Yeller" treasure of Brockhall. in those days. The other meant that when he opened his head, the sound he JVI From the Mixed-Up Files of let out came closer to being a yell than Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler a bark. Konigsburg, E. L. LP-2933 JVI Summer of My German (Fiction) For thirty-five years E. L. Soldier Konigsburg's story about Claudia, the Greene, Bette LP-2939 girl who ran away from home to the (Fiction) When German prisoners of Metropolitan Museum of Art, has war are brought to her Arkansas town entranced readers of all ages. during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of JVI A Wrinkle in Time them and must deal with the L'Engle, Madeleine LP-2930 consequences of that friendship. (Science Fiction) This is the story of the adventures in space and time of JVI Everything on a Waffle Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin Horvath , Polly LP-2935 O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of (Fiction) Primrose simply knows her the most popular boys in high school), parents did not perish at sea, but can't in search of Meg's missing father. convince the other residents of Coal 64

JVI Giver Justice. He will live either behind bars Lowry, Lois LP-3008 or in isolation for one year. Cole chooses Circle Justice. (Fiction) Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no JVI Monster choices. Every person is assigned a Myers, Walter D. LP-2936 role in the community. When Jonas (Fiction) Steve Harmon's black. He's turns twelve he is singled out to in jail, maybe forever. He's on trial for receive special training from the Giver. murder. And he's sixteen years old. The Giver alone holds the memories of Steve: "Sometimes I feel like I have the true pain and pleasure of life. Now walked into the middle of a movie. it's time for Jonas to receive the truth.

Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, JVI Sarah, Plain and Tall not my life, but of this experience. I'll Mac Lachlan, Patricia LP-3011 call it what the lady prosecutor called (Fiction) (Also available in regular me . . . MONSTER." print (BB-0891)). Their mother died after Caleb was born, their house on JVI Borrowers the prairie is quiet now, and papa doesn't sing any more. Then papa puts Norton, Mary LP-3006 an ad in the paper, asking for a wife (Fiction) Underneath the kitchen floor and he receives a letter from one Sarah is the world of the Borrowers, Pod and Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Sarah Homily Clock and their daughter, decides to come for a month. Will Arrietty. Matchboxes double as roomy Sarah be nice? Will she like them? dressers and postage stamps hang on Will she stay? the walls like paintings. Whatever the Clocks need in their tiny home, they JVI Touching Spirit Bear simply "borrow" from the human "beans" who live above them. Only Mikaelsen, Ben LP-3013 Pod is allowed to venture into the (Fiction) At fifteen, Cole Matthews house above, because the danger of has been fighting and stealing for being seen by a human is too great, yet years. The punishment for smashing Arrietty won't listen. Peter Driscal's skull into the sidewalk, his most recent crime, is harsh. This time, Cole will have to choose between prison and Native American Circle 65

JVI Winter Room Juvenile Ages 13 ---181818 Paulsen, Gary LP-3016 JVY Princess & the Pauper (Fiction) A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes Brian, Kate LP-3002 the scenes around him and recounts his (Fiction) Julia isn't like the other old Norwegian uncle's tales of an students at the Rosewood School. She almost mythological logging past. takes a bike to school, and goes home every night to her mom and her cat in a JVI Holes run-down apartment. While the others Sachar , Louis LP-3009 obsess over a visit from some princess, Julia worries about keeping a roof over (Fiction) (Also available in regular their heads. Then Princess Carina print (AK-0039)). The National Book shows up at Rosewood, and Julia finds Award and Newbery Medal-winning her answer. novel is the basis for Walt Disney's new motion picture adaptation starring Shia Le Bouf and Sigourney Weaver. JVY All-American Girl Believing his family is under a curse, Cabot, Meg LP-2992 Stanley Yelnats is sent to a harsh (Fiction) (Also available in regular print correctional camp in the Texas desert (AP-0080)). After happening upon a where he finds his first real friend, a situation where she ends up playing an treasure, and a new sense of himself. important role in saving the president's life, Samantha Madison's simple life is JVI Milkweed turned upside-down as she soon becomes a major news story, gets an appointment Spinelli , Jerry LP-3010 to the U.N., and discovers that the (Fiction) He's a boy called Jew. president's son has a crush on her. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who JVY Through the Looking- lives in the streets of Warsaw, who Glass: And What Alice Saw There steals food for himself and the Carroll, Lewis LP-3004 orphans, and who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He wants to (Fiction) Through the Looking-Glass be a Nazi someday, with tall, shiny tells of Alice's experiences when, jackboots and a gleaming eagle hat of curious about the world behind the his own. Until the day that suddenly mirror, Alice climbs over the mantel makes him change his mind. into the looking-glass world, where everything is reversed.

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JVY I Am the Cheese learning that before her 12th birthday Cormier , Robert LP-2932 she must marry a cruel man with three other wives, Nhamo desperately (Fiction) In this complicated, chilling decides to run away. novel of the savagery of modern society, Adam mentally relives his past while facing the interrogation and JVY Johnny Tremain trauma of his present life as a guest of Forbes , Esther LP-2999 the government. (Fiction) (Also available in regular print (BB-0818)). A young apprentice JVY Bud, Not Buddy silversmith is caught up in the danger and Curtis, Christopher LP-2994 excitement of Boston in revolt just before the Revolutionary War, in events leading (Fiction) When 10-year-old Bud to the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Caldwell runs away from his new Lexington. foster home, he realizes he has nowhere to go but to search for the father he has never known: a legendary JVY Hole in My Life jazz musician advertised on some old Gantos, Jack LP-2931 posters his deceased mother had kept. (Biography/Autobiography) The author Curtis has given a fresh, new look to a relates how, as a young adult, he traditional orphan-finds-a-home story became a drug user and smuggler, was that would be a crackerjack read- arrested, did time in prison, and aloud. eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a JVY Ginger Pye writer. Estes, Eleanor LP-2996 (Fiction) The disappearance of a new JVY Julie of the Wolves puppy named Ginger and the George , Jean LP-3000 appearance of a mysterious man in a (Fiction) (Also available in regular mustard yellow hat bring excitement print (SW-0774)). Protected by a wolf into the lives of the Pye children. pack while lost on the tundra, a 13- year-old Eskimo girl begins to JVY Girl Named Disaster appreciate her heritage, and the Farmer, Nancy LP-2997 oneness with nature that modern man (Fiction) After the death of her is destroying . mother, Nhamo is left a virtual slave in her small African village. Upon 67

JVY The First Part Last JVY Blizzard's Wake Johnson, Angela LP-2934 Naylor, Phyllis R. LP-2993 (Fiction) Sixteen-year-old Bobby and (Fiction) Ever since fifteen-year-old his girlfriend, Na, had planned to put Kate Sterling's mother died four years their baby, Feather, up for adoption, ago, nothing has been the same. Filled but Feather becomes impossible to with resentment and sadness, Kate has relinquish. shut herself off from the world and her family. Zeke Dexter is heading home JVY After the Rain to begin a new life after completing his prison term, but he is filled with Mazer, Norma F. LP-2990 anxiety. Will anyone in his small town (Fiction) After discovering her be able to forget his shameful past, or grandfather is dying, fifteen-year-old the crime he committed, and let him Rachel gets to know him better than start anew? ever before and finds the experience bittersweet. JVY Island of the Blue Dolphins

O'Dell, Scott LP-2998 JVY New Moon (Fiction) This is the story of Karana, Meyer, Stephenie LP-3436 the Indian girl who lived alone for (Twilight Saga, #2) Having begun a years on the Island of the Blue most unlikely romance, Bella and Dolphins. Year after year, she watched Edward are together and on the run in one season pass into another and the forest of Fork as dangerous wolves waited for a ship to take her away. and the revenge of a female vampire track them down at every turn. JVY Airborn Oppel , Kenneth LP-2991 JVY Twilight (Science Fiction) Matt Cruse is a cabin Meyer, Stephenie LP-3435 boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, (Twilight Saga, #1) When seventeen- ferrying wealthy passengers from city to year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live city. In a swashbuckling adventure with her father in Forks, Washington, reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert she meets an exquisitely handsome Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel creates boy at school for whom she feels an an imagined world in which the air is overwhelming attraction and who she populated by transcontinental voyagers, comes to realize is not wholly human. pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies. 68

JVY My Life in Dog Years JVY Stargirl Paulsen , Gary LP-3001 Spinelli, Jerry LP-3003 (Non-Fiction) Gary Paulsen has (Fiction) From the day she arrives at owned dozens of unforgettable and quiet Mica High School the hallways amazing dogs in his lifetime. In each hum with the murmur of "Stargirl, chapter of this wonderful book, he tells Stargirl." The students of Mica High the story of one of these special are enchanted. At first. Then they turn animals, among them Snowball, the on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned. puppy he owned as a boy in the Philippines; Ike, his mysterious hunting companion; Electric Fred and JVY Surviving the Applewhites his best friend, Pig; and Josh, the Tolan, Stephanie LP-2926 smartest dog in the world. (Also available in regular print (AR-0063)). (Fiction) Rumor has it JVY Where the Red Fern that Jake Semple burned down his old Grows school. Only one place will take him Rawls , Wilson LP-2928 now, a home school run by the Applewhites, a chaotic family of (Also available in regular print (BB- artists. Jake thinks surviving this one 892)). (Literature) Old Dan and will be a breeze. But is he really as little Ann, a boy and his two dogs. A tough or as bad as he seems? loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee Country. Old Dan had the brawn, little JVY Dicey's Song Ann had the brains and Billy had the Voigt, Cynthia LP-2995 will to train them to be the finest (Fiction) The four Tillerman children hunting team in the valley. Glory and finally have a home at their victory were coming to them, but grandmother's rundown farm on the sadness waited too. Close by was the Maryland shore. It's what Dicey has strange and wonderful power that's dreamed of, but after watching over only found, where the red fern grows.

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LIT Ivanhoe Literature/Classics Scott, Sir Walter LP-2021 LIT Great Gatsby (Also available in regular print Fitzgerald, F. Scott LP-2014 (AS-0175)). England is in turmoil, torn by fierce and bitter hatreds The timeless story of Jay Gatsby and between Norman and Saxon. Rival his love for Daisy Buchanan is widely claimants to the thrown have caused a acknowledged to be the closest thing civil war. Prince John, taking to the Great American Novel ever advantage of Richard's absence written. fighting in the Crusades, plots to make

himself crowned king. But Richard LIT Fried Green Tomatoes at returns and vows to take his revenge the Whistle Stop Café on John. Flagg, Fannie LP-0128 Folksy and fresh, endearing and LIT Treasure Island enduring, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Stevenson, Robert L. LP-2043 Whistle Stop Cafe tells the tale of two (Also available in regular print women and the cafe they ran in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering (BB-0831)). An old treasure map barbecue, coffee, love, laughter, and an begins an exciting voyage with Long occasional murder. John Silver, the dangerous pirate aboard. LIT Mayor of Casterbridge Inspirational/Motivational Hardy, Thomas LP-2026 (Also available in regular print (BB- MOT The Healing Path 2829)). Thomas Hardy's exploration Allender, Dan B. LP-2823 of his most tragic hero, Michael Henchard, is the classic tale of over- None of us escapes the heartache and ambition. From his drunken sale of his disappointments of life. To live is to wife and baby at a country fair to his hurt, and we all have the wounds to subjugation of a farming village, prove it. Regardless of how we've been Henchard's life is an epic attempt to hurt, we all face a common question: bring the world to heel as he hides What should we do with our pain? even from himself all vestiges of Suffering doesn't have to rob us of joy. emotional vulnerability. It can lead us to life, if we know the path to healing.

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MOT An Angel to Watch Over MOT Lies Women Believe and Me the Truth That Sets Them Free Anderson, Joan LP-2067 De Moss, Nancy L. LP-2952 True stories of children's encounters with We are like Eve. We have all angels . experienced defeats and failures, trouble and turmoil, and we ache to do MOT Flying Without Wings things over, to have lives of harmony Beisser, Arnold R. LP-0118 and peace. Nancy Leigh DeMoss sheds Arnold Beisser Contracted polio and light on how we can be delivered from became completely paralyzed at age bondage and set free to walk in God's twenty-five. This is his story of despair, grace, forgiveness, and abundant life. hope and achievement. MOT Wild at Heart: MOT A Book of Angels Discovering The Secret of a Man's Burnham , Sophy LP-2388 Soul This beautiful volume traces the Eldredge, John LP-3091 understanding of angels through history In his heart, every man longs for a and across cultures and relates the battle to fight, an adventure to live, and extraordinary stories of present day encounters with angels. a beauty to rescue. Now John Eldredge

invites men to recover their masculine MOT Matters of the Heart heart, defined in the image of a passionate God, and women to Bynum, Juanita LP-3170 discover the secret of a man's soul and In a sometimes longish essay, the author to delight in the strength and wildness chronicles her personal journey from men were created to offer. excessive ambition and agitated helplessness to true enlightenment. For MOT It was on Fire when I Lay years she ignored signs from God to slow down before she was led to the Bible Down on It passages that she shares throughout the Fulghum , Robert LP-0165 program. Bynum is a warm, sincere Picking up where he left off in "All I writer whose message of honesty and Really Need to Know I Learned in connection with God sometimes sounds Kindergarten," Robert Fulghum like a sermon. But overall, her intimate delivers more of his witty observations writing and the excellent work of narrator Sandra Burr help the program deliver a and inspiration. message that most overachieving spiritual seekers will understand. 71

MOT God's Promises for Your MOT Hope for the Troubled Need Heart Gill, A. L. LP-3167 Graham, Billy LP-2590 Here are Scriptures to set mind and America's foremost preacher offers a heart at ease. Topics include courage, book that speaks with boldness and patience, comfort and forgiveness. compassion to the millions of people This wonderful scriptural guide will who experience pain and frustration. help you learn more about the Billy Graham draws on a lifetime of promises of God for your family, ministry to help readers store up relationships, and how God truly wants strength for the storms and learn to live to bless and direct every Christian triumphantly in a world of pain. family . MOT The Secret of Happiness MOT Never Alone Graham, Billy LP-2580 Girzone, Joseph F. LP-2069 Happiness. It's what we all long for, Joseph F. Girzone is an author who but all too often we end up empty and answers the unasked questions that lie unsatisfied. Presented with Dr. hidden in so many hearts. The wisdom Graham's characteristic simplicity, this of his spirituality transcends the many landmark book teaches us to live factions of religion and speaks to above the circumstances of life and millions in a language all can rest in the true happiness God wants us understand. to have.

MOT Angels MOT Stories for a Faithful Graham, Billy LP-2070 Heart: Over 100 Treasures to Touch Billy Graham has written the classic Your Soul book on angels, filled with inspiration, Gray , Alice LP-2508 wisdom, and real-life experiences. Your spirit will be lifted, and your soul Angels continues to raise the standard touched by these powerful, tender by which all other books on angels will stories. From Max Lucado, Billy and be measured. Ruth Graham, Joni Eareckson Tada, Philip Gulley, Luis Palau, Sheila Walsh, and many others, these gentle moments illuminate a wondrous path to joy, contentment, forgiveness,

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MOT Treasures for Women MOT How to Make the Rest of Who Hope Your Life the Best of Your Life Gray, Alice LP-3317 Hansen, Mark V. LP-3394 Filled with touching stories of those Linkletter and Hansen team up to who have faced insurmountable odds inspire readers to embrace their old and yet still found hope, this book age, finding joy, power, and purpose shares principles and practices from for the second half of life. Scripture that remind readers that their sometimes-darkened path is never MOT Gathering of Hope without hope. Hayes, Helen LP-2068

Helen Hayes would like to share with MOT Get Over It and On With you these special words, the poems, It! the psalms, the prayers and the lyrics, Hammond, Michelle LP-2767 from sources down through the ages. Outspoken Bible teacher Michelle She hopes that in times of doubt or McKinney Hammond finds fear or loneliness, you too will turn to contemporary application in the ancient these words. stories of several men and women who took the path from suffering to overcoming. Their journeys teach us how MOT Touch of the Earth to press through hardship and get to the Hersey, Jean LP-2059 other side of our disappointment. Out of the threads of every day, drawn from the widely scattered substances MOT The Diva Principle of the earth, from our responses to Hammond, Michelle LP-3168 earth, to man, and to God, we are continually weaving a fabric. We are Drawing examples from some of the ever translating and molding all that Bible's great divas such as Deborah, we receive into a creation that is our and translating them into everyday individual development and growth. practical principles for living, Hammond shows readers how to excel MOT Guideposts for the Spirit in every area of life whether young or old, single or married by mastering the Hogan , Julie K. LP-2689 art of diva-tude. Presents more than one hundred stories celebrating the enduring and unconditional love of mothers, including works by Barbara Bush, 73

Elizabeth Dole, Marjorie Holmes, and mercy. She brings clarity and Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Leo understanding to the pageantry and Buscaglia. imagery of John's glorious eyewitness account of God's plan for our future. MOT Too Busy Not to Pray Hybels, Bill LP-3427 MOT The Gift for All People For the past twenty years, Too Busy Lucado, Max LP-2640 Not to Pray has stood as a classic on This collection of inspirational stories prayer. During those years, the world will help Christians treasure the hasn’t slowed down. If anything, the assurance of their salvation and help pace and intensity have increased. non-Christians embrace abundant, Brokenness and pain seem to have eternal life in Jesus Christ. increased as well. The urgent need for prayer is clear. Newly revised and MOT Walkin' with God Ain't expanded, Bill Hybels’ classic for Wimps broadens our vision for what our O'Connor, Karen LP-3395 eternal, powerful God does when his Karen O'Connor continues her people slow down to pray. delightful storytelling in these short

vignettes based on real life. Readers MOT Answered Prayers will chuckle as they read these funny, Laird, Rebecca LP-2824 heartwarming experiences for The editors of Guideposts books come themselves and then share them with across answered prayers every day. friends. Each humorous tale concludes Readers call, write, email and fax their with a biblical principle to encourage stories of the unexpected ways in which people in their spiritual walks. God provides, with just the perfect resolution. Share and marvel at these MOT Just Enough Light for the exclusive, true-life accounts of the Step I'm On incredible power of prayer and the ministry and fellowship that are part of it. Omartian, Stormie LP-2951 If you're experiencing a major life MOT The Vision of His Glory change, making an important decision, or simply needing encouragement to Lotz, Ann G. LP-2591 make it through the day, you'll find Anne Graham Lotz introduces the inspiration and hope in this candid, Book of Revelation in this beautiful refreshing look at how to walk chronicle of God's mystery, majesty, successfully through the difficult times 74 of life. By trusting God to provide just MOT The Blessings of enough light for each step you're on, Brokenness you can trade in anxiety about the Stanley, Charles LP-2543 future and regret over the past for peaceful assurance in the present. With gentle wisdom, Dr. Charles Stanley shines light on the process of being broken. He reveals the ways we MOT Praying God's Will for protest against it. And he gives us an Your Life inspiring look beyond the pain to the Omartian, Stormie LP-2582 promise of blessing. With distinctive style, best-selling author Omartian encourages women to seek MOT Walking Wisely God's blessings and guidance so they can grow in Him and stand strong in the Stanley, Charles LP-3169 midst of a changing culture . Dr. Stanley teaches how to apply God's wisdom to finances, MOT Everybody's Normal Till relationships with others, physical You Get to Know Them health, and day-to-day duties. This Ortberg, John LP-2953 significant volume presents a way of living that embodies wisdom from None of us are normal according to above. God's definition, and the closer we get to each other, the plainer that becomes. Yet for all our quirks, sins, and jagged MOT Messages of God's edges, we need each other. Now Abundance teacher and bestselling author John ten Boom, Corrie LP-2745 Ortberg gives us the tools for drawing Outlasting Ravensbruck and Hitler's closer to others in powerful ways. regime, Ms. Ten Boom went on to With humor, insight, and a gift for conquer hearts across the world with storytelling, he shows us how healing words of hope, forgiveness, community pays tremendous dividends and trust in God. Broadcast across in happiness, health, support, and Europe using the very radio equipment growth. the Nazis had built to spread their propaganda. MOT Meditations from the Road Peck, M. Scott LP-2066 Daily reflections from the road less traveled and the different drum. 75

MOT Having a Mary Heart in a sleuths James P. Dandy and his lady Martha World: Finding Intimacy love Dodee Swisher. With God In the Busyness of Life Weaver, Joanna LP-2947 MYS Tip a Canoe (Also available in regular print Abresch, Peter LP-2551 (AR-2170)). For women who feel they When senior citizens James P. Dandy aren't godly, loving, or doing enough, and Dodee Swisher go canoeing in this will show how we can deepen our South Carolina with the Elderhostel devotion and strengthen our service, program, their romantic rendezvous is doing both with less stress and greater interrupted when they stumble upon a joy. corpse in a nearby swamp.

MOT My Faith Still Holds MYS Axel of Evil Williams, Joyce LP-3310 Adams, Alina LP-3109 This book is filled with stories of faith (Also available in regular print that are shared by godly women from (AR-2079)). (A Figure Skating Mystery, around the world. Featuring First Lady Prime Crime) When a Russian figure Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Joni skating coach collapses during a practice Eareckson Tada, Gloria Gaither, Gracia and is pronounced dead, reporter Bex Burnham, Barbara Johnson, Kay Arthur, Levy has a hunch it's cold-blooded and others. murder, on ice.

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Adams, Alina LP-2750 MYS Killing Thyme (A Figure Skating Mystery, Prime Crime) Abresch, Peter LP-2478 (Also available in regular print (AK- (A James P. Dandy Elderhostel 0346)) When the judge who cast the Mystery). Take a few ambitious chefs, deciding vote that gave the gold to a a handful of amateur cooks on a week- Russian skater instead of America's long tour of Baltimore's greatest sweetheart is found brutally murdered, Rebecca "Bex" Levy, figure-skating restaurants, season with a bit of researcher for the 24/7 network, must competition for a spot on a new TV glide carefully as she investigates this show, "A Dash of Thyme", and throw baffling mystery. in a ruthless killer. Voila! A perfectly seasoned dish of homicide for amateur

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MYS On Thin Ice A cat, a mouse, and two corpses spell Adams, Alina LP-2894 murder for Alice Nestleton.

(Also available in regular print MYS Cat of a Different Color (AP-0265)). Thirteen-year-old Jeremy Hunt could be the future of figure Adamson, Lydia LP-2064 skating. He's got a winning smile, A mystery cat takes a talented actress flawless technique, and more talent than turned sleuth behind the scenes for most skaters twice his age. So when his murder. strangely protective father refuses to let him go to the Nationals, Rebecca "Bex" Levy, up-and-coming figure-skating MYS Henrietta Who? researcher for the 24/7 network, knows Aird, Catherine LP-2199 there's a better story off the ice than on. Life, for Henrietta Jenkins, had always And just as she's uncovering a sordid been a quiet affair, a home with her scandal, a past champion is murdered. widowed mother in Larking village, and her degree studies at the MYS Like Angels Falling university. Then, just before her 21st Adams, Jane LP-2332 birthday, her mother was run down on a village road, apparently the victim of With his resignation from the police a hit-and-run driver. But what seemed force approved, Ray Flowers' plans to at first a simple case turned set up a security and detection business dramatically into a murder with his old friend George Mahoney investigation. More than murder, for are in full swing. One of their first the post mortem revealed that Grace cases is to help an acquaintance whose Jenkins had never had any children! daughter has joined the cult known as

The Eyes of God. The cult is MYS Parting Breath disturbingly familiar to Ray. For eleven years, he led the inquiry into Aird, Catherine LP-2284 the ritualized murder of three boys. The University of Calleshire was The man convicted of the killings was experiencing another student sit-in. As cult leader Harrison Lee. But now he often happens, the cause was obscured by has died in prison, and his evil can be the effect, though the unlikely alliance of laid to rest. Or can it? the Dean and the college porter ensured that matters didn't get too out of hand. There was no need to call in the police, MYS Cat in Wolf's Clothing everyone was agreed on that point, until Adamson, Lydia LP-0151 one of the students was found dying in a

77 college quad to a background of under MK Ultra can have terrifying, Elizabethan madrigals. Inspector Sloan and sometimes tragic, human found his investigations hampered by the consequences. It is the unenviable task eccentricities of both the academic and of Senator Joe Maguire to monitor the the student bodies, not to mention the goings on of MK Ultra and to pick up victim, whose cryptic last utterance the pieces when things go wrong. defies explanation. MYS Baseball Cat MYS Stiff News Allen , Garrison LP-3038 Aird, Catherine LP-2594 (A "Big Mike" Mystery) When a No one was too surprised when semi-professional baseball team visits octogenarian Gertrude Powell was Empty Creek, Arizona, the game hasn't found dead at Almstone Manor, a even begun before somebody uses the retirement home for former members owner's head for a baseball, and scores of the Fearnshire Regiment and their a deadly hit. A corpse before morning dependents. She had, after all, been coffee is not Penelope Warren's usual very ill. But on the morning of her style. But the ex-Marine proprietress funeral, her son Lionel receives a very of the mystery bookstore knows that disturbing letter, from his mother. In it, the free-spirited denizens of Empty she claims that someone is trying to Creek are depending on her and kill her. Now Gertrude had led a full Mycroft, her twenty-five-pound and exciting life, but for every fact Abyssinian cat, to investigate. Inspector Sloan turns up about her, there seems to be a mystery too. And MYS Royal Cat the other residents of Almstone Manor Allen, Garrison LP-3110 aren't talking. Empty Creek, Arizona has been MYS The Assets transformed into Merry Olde England by the annual Elizabethan Spring Allbeury, Ted LP-2283 Faire. The fun ends when Carolyn Codename: Operation MK Ultra. The Lewis, the less-than-popular retired most secret operation in the CIA teacher playing The Virgin Queen, is involving mind control under the executed in the dark of night. Then the influence of drugs and hypnosis, it murderer takes an encore, and it's up to uses unwitting individuals for Penelope Warren and her Abyssinian intelligence gathering and counter- cat to do the sleuthing behind the espionage. It operates outside the law. scenes. The illicit experiments carried out 78

MYS The Patient at Peacocks MYS Tightrope for Three Hall Babson, Marian LP-0206 Allingham, Margery LP-2198 Life and death are the ingredients as A young woman doctor, struggling to three people try frantically to leave save the life of her rival, is threatened Dartmoor on a foggy evening. Only by a cunning madman who has been one helicopter is available for driven to madness by the very woman transportation. Which desperate that Dr. Anne Fowler is caring for! passenger will be carried out of the misted Moors on the precious seat? MYS Frozen MYS Dolly Departed Ashford, Lindsay LP-2900 Baker, Deb LP-3428 Megan Rhys has been asked to advise on the murders of two young Doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch prostitutes, dumped like rubbish, answers an invitation to a party at an seemingly the victims of two men unfamiliar dollhouse shop, and winds working together. But there is up in the thick of a murder mystery of something wrong with the information miniature proportions. When Gretchen the police are giving her. Is someone is finds Charlie Maize, owner of Mini trying to manipulate Megan, or are her Maize, on the floor, dead and covered own prejudices clouding her with toppled miniature room boxes, judgment? she fears that Charlie’s death wasn’t an accident. One of the boxes depicts a MYS Private View murder, complete with a tiny bloody axe. Atkins, Meg E. LP-2617 The murder of a local art gallery owner MYS Goodbye, Dolly and the theft of the painting he had just Baker, Deb LP-3334 privately shown had stumped DCI Sheldon Hunter, and remained While attending her first major doll unsolved. Four years later, Hunter show, Gretchen Birch, a doll receives a series of anonymous letters restoration artist, is forced to and phone calls implicating a family in investigate the murder of a sleazy the picturesque town of Rush Deeping reporter when the killer begins sending in the death. her boxes of Kewpie dolls with cryptic, threatening messages that

contain the clues to cracking this case.

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MYS Murder Passes the Buck MYS Blood Lure Baker, Deb LP-3222 Barr, Nevada LP-2917 When her neighbor on Michigan's (An Anna Pigeon Novel) District Upper Peninsula gets shot dead in his park ranger Anna Pigeon is forced to deer blind on opening day of hunting reexamine her "spiritual connection" to season, unconventional, irrepressible God's creatures when she works on a 66-year-old Gertie Johnson seizes the project that has her hanging out bloody opportunity to become a detective. lures to attract grizzly bears in Glacier Gertie is abetted by her grandson Little National Park. Although she manages Donny, man-hungry best friend Cora to snatch an occasional moment of Mae, and volunteer bodyguard Kitty. It solitary communion with nature, doesn't help that the death has already there's no time for meditation when a been ruled an accident by the local rampaging bear attacks the researchers' sheriff, Gertie's son. campsite.

MYS Uncommon Grounds MYS Flashback Balzo, Sandra LP-2895 Barr, Nevada LP-2615 Patricia Harper has been killed by an (Also available in regular print espresso machine hot-wired to (AL-0308)). (An Anna Pigeon Novel) electrocute its owner, and in Taking a temporary post as ranger in Dry Uncommon Grounds, her very own Tortugas National Park to escape dealing gourmet coffee store, on opening day. with a marriage proposal, Anna Pigeon Maggy Thorsen, displaced PR investigates a mysterious boating executive turned coffee maven, wants accident that leads her to uncover sinister to know who killed her partner and put local crimes from the past. the future of Uncommon Grounds in jeopardy. Maggy desperately needs the MYS Hard Truth store to succeed, so she joins forces Barr, Nevada LP-3072 with Sarah Kingstown, Patricia's Newlywed park ranger Anna Pigeon closest friend, to investigate her assumes her new post as district ranger killing. at Rocky Mountain National Park,

where three young girls have

disappeared during a religious retreat. Two of the girls emerge a month later, and with them comes a sense of disembodied evil in the park. 80

MYS Hunting Season MYS Death of a Hussy Barr, Nevada LP-2496 Beaton, M. C. LP-2194 (Also available in regular print Finding out who set a rich tart's car on (AG-0242)). Working at Mt. Locust, a fire while she was still in it requires all historic Mississippi plantation, park Scottish Police Constable Hamish ranger Anna Pigeon comes upon the Macbeth's extraordinary common body of the brother of a local candidate sense and insight into human nature. for sheriff, and must deal with dark When it comes to solving a murder, family secrets and political intrigue as Hamish lets no grass grow under his she investigates the crime. feet, not even when the killer appears to be the wrong person entirely. MYS Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet MYS Death of a Snob Beaton , M. C. LP-2136 Beaton, M. C. LP-2106 An irascible but endearing sleuth in a When Jane Wetherby offers Police small English town. The new vet has Constable Hamish Macbeth a holiday taken a shine to Agatha Raisin, but at her "Happy Wanderer" health farm before romance can bloom, he on the isle of Eileencraig, his flagging accidentally kills himself. spirits begin to rise in anticipation of some tender, loving care. MYS Agatha Raisin and the Unfortunately, the visit doesn't prove Walkers of Dembley to be the holiday Hamish had hoped for. Windswept Eileencraig is Beaton, M. C. LP-2954 inhabited by hostile islanders, more When the kind, shy Sir Charles Fraith than a few of which would gladly be receives a letter from Jessica Tartinck, rid of "The Happy Wanderer." The president of the Dembley Walkers company at the health farm is hardly Association, his tranquil life is thrown better, and when one guest is found at into chaos. The feisty Ms. Tartinck has the foot of a cliff with a broken neck, chosen the naive baronet for the latest no one is too broken up. attack in her campaign against landowners over the use of public MYS The Librarian footpaths. Although Sir Charles Beinhart, Larry LP-3197 suggests a reasonable offer, Jessica chooses to ignore him, and ends up How did nebbish university librarian murdered in Sir Charles's field. David Goldberg end up hunted by Homeland Security and on Virginia's 81

Ten Most Wanted list for bestiality? It MYS The Coin Conspiracy begins so innocently when Goldberg Berger, Eileen M. LP-2555 starts moonlighting for an eccentric, aging conservative billionaire whose Welcome to Willow Bend, home of final wish is to leave behind a Gracie Parks, feisty red-headed memorial library about himself. But he widow, choir member, chef and sleuth. has a secret that must never be Gracie believes the best place to solve revealed, and the men with the guns a problem is alone with God in her want the fellow indexing the archives. warm, cozy kitchen. She unravels mysteries while cooking and prays to God with her hands full of cookie MYS Funeral Expenses dough. Bell, Pauline LP-3199 The reception that follows the funeral MYS Death and the Family Tree of Edgar Smith is not a sober affair in Berry, Linda LP-3299 any sense of the word, thanks to the antics of his daughter Lorraine. When, Ogeechee's oldest living ex-mayor, later on in the day, Lorraine's dead Julian Stubbs, is murdered the day body is found in her sister's spare after he is honored at the town's room, the police are called and DCI bicentennial celebration. It's also the Mitchell begins a murder investigation day after a ruckus at a family reunion now that the party's well and truly raises Stubbs family hackles. When over. Chief of Police Henry Huckabee and Officer Trudy Roundtree investigate MYS Reason to Murder Julian's death, more family mysteries come to light. Missing valuables, Bennett, R. A. LP-3202 secret resentments, old gossip, how "Karen was murdered, Mr. Conroy." much of that, if anything, is connected Frankie Conroy, ex-rugby league to Julian's death? player, ex-policeman, and now none- too-successful private detective, MYS Death and the Icebox listened to the chilling words and for a Berry, Linda LP-2663 brief moment he began to believe. Had this elderly woman experienced the (A Trudy Roundtree Mystery) The violent death of her daughter from discovery of a long-dead body in an abandoned refrigerator sends Ogeechee, more than a hundred miles away? Georgia, police officer Trudy Roundtree into the small town's past, where she uncovers rivalries, jealousy, and

82 murder. When the body is identified as a MYS The Case of the Roasted young woman who was last seen more Onion than 30 years earlier, shortly after a wedding shower in her honor, Trudy digs Bishop, Claudia LP-3220 into secrets thought long buried. (Also available in regular print (AS-0313)). (The Casebook of Dr. MYS A Puree of Poison McKenzie, Prime Crime) When a Bishop, Claudia LP-2742 fellow veterinarian in gunned down by (Also available in regular print (AL- a sniper for no good reason, Austin 0110)) While town residents are McKenzie and his wife Madeline, preparing to celebrate the 133rd entering into the high-stakes world of anniversary of the Battle of Hemlock equestrian competition, must race Falls, the Quilliam sisters are against time to catch a killer. investigating the deaths of three people who all had their last meals at the inn. MYS The Case of the Tough Talking Turkey MYS Fried by Jury Bishop, Claudia LP-3332 Bishop, Claudia LP-2611 Gobbling up clues to catch the real (A Hemlock Falls Mystery) (Also available in regular print (AH-0318)). killer, veterinarian Austin McKenzie The Quilliam sisters embark on their decides to investigate the murder of latest mystery when two fast-food rivals, Old Man O'Leary, a much-despised Holcomb's Wholesome Fried Chicken turkey farmer, after an innocent and Colonel Cluck, engage in a deep fat turkey-feed salesman is framed for the frying contest, resulting in the theft of a crime. butcher knife and the murder of a celebrity judge. MYS Murder in the Bastille Black, Cara LP-3399 MYS Ground to a Halt Aimée Leduc, dressed for a dinner at Bishop, Claudia LP-3293 an elegant restaurant in the Bastille (Also available in regular print (AS- district of Paris in her new Chinese silk 0937)) . When the International jacket, is chagrined to see the woman Association of Pet Food Providers seated at the next table wearing an convention guests begin fighting like cats identical jacket. When the woman and dogs over switching to vegan pet leaves her cell phone on the table, food, which results in murder, inn owner Aimée follows her to return it and is Sarah Quilliam and her sister, Meg, guided by a pet psychic, investigate. attacked. Regaining consciousness, she 83 finds that a concussion has left her a valuable poem, a case that leads to the blind and that the woman she followed discovery of a handmade book of dessert was murdered. recipes written in the form of crossword puzzles.

MYS Moonflete MYS Corpus de Crossword Black, Veronica LP-2791 Blanc, Nero LP-2697 Melody Fletcher is eighteen when she (Prime Crime) (Also available in regular first sees Moonflete, the beautiful print (AO-0100)). Angered over a house on the Lancashire moors built developer's plans to build on fifteen acres by her father for her Chinese mother, of land in Tanyesville, Massachusetts, the Silver Moon. For Melody, dressed in townspeople are stunned when his plans her mother's clothes, moving through a are put on hold after his crew unearths macabre charade planned by her the skeleton of a young woman, forcing father, it brings danger and the Belle and Rosco to use their talent for shadows of past secrets that have crosswords to solve the case. twisted many lives. MYS Death on the Diagonal MYS Cape Refuge Blanc, Nero LP-3259 Blackstock, Terri LP-3152 Also available in regular print The brutal murders of Thelma and (AS-1499)). Crossword puzzle editor Wayne Owens have stunned the Cape Belle Graham comes to the aid of her Refuge community. Their son-in-law is husband, Roscoe, as they investigate a accused, but the police chief thinks the devastating fire at the Collins family Owens' ministry, a halfway house, stables, which is being blamed on a hard- shelters more likely suspects. Morgan drinking manager, and discover a Cleary struggles to keep the house dysfunctional family made up of an aged running with her husband in jail. Her patriarch, his grown children, and his embittered sister, Blair, wants no part of much-younger bride. it, until her search for the true killer uncovers some startling findings. MYS Hope to Die

MYS A Crossworder's Delight Block, Lawrence LP-2415 Blanc, Nero LP-3128 After the brutal slaughter of an upscale couple during a home invasion, the (Also available in regular print killers themselves turn up dead in a (AS-0517)). Private detective Rosco Brooklyn hellhole, one apparently killed Polycrates and crossword editor Belle by his partner, who then took his own Graham investigate the disappearance of life. Matt Scudder knew the slain couple 84 and is drawn to this case that the cops found in a crime scene unlike any have quickly and eagerly closed. Scudder other. His murder can only be suspects a third party was involved: a described as ritualistic, and the prime cold, diabolical man who Scudder fears is suspect is Carmen Brockham. just getting started.

MYS Like a Lamb to Slaughter MYS Monsieur Pamplemousse Block, Lawrence LP-3112 Hits the Headlines Bond, Michael LP-2667 Here's a scintillating collection of mystery short stories by one of the The flawless production of Claude genre's acknowledged masters. The Chavignol's popular culinary television compilation features such Block show is a pleasure to watch, but the trademark characters as Matthew audience's enjoyment of the show Scudder and dapper defense attorney comes to a halt when Chavignol starts Martin Ehrengraf. to choke on an oyster. First on the scene, M. Pamplemousse performs the Heimlich maneuver, but to no avail, MYS The Burglar on the Prowl Chavignol has been poisoned. Block , Lawrence LP-2701

Antiquarian book dealer and MYS Death of a Turkey fashionable thief Bernie Rhodenbarr once again indulges his appetite for Borden, Kate LP-3173 breaking and entering in his never- Mayor and single mom Peggy Jean ending quest for fun and profit. Turner is happily anticipating her favorite holiday. But this year is MYS Baptised in Blood different. Dealing with an obnoxious Bolitho , Janie LP-2293 neighbor and organizing a reenactment of the first Thanksgiving for the Carmen Brockham, owner of tourists, she's being pulled in more Rickenham Green's largest department directions than a wishbone. Then store, has finally found a man she Peggy is forced to put aside all wants to marry. The only thing thoughts of Thanksgiving when her standing in her way is her childhood antagonistic neighbor is found dead on friend, and manager of Brockham's, the village green. Malcolm Graham. When Malcolm fails to turn up for work one morning, it is so out of character that his assistant calls the police. His body is 85

MYS Cat Who Blew the Whistle MYS Cat Who Had Fourteen Braun, Lilian J. LP-2071 Tales When an affluent owner of an historic Braun, Lilian J. LP-0108 steam locomotive and private railcar Fourteen mysteries featuring those disappears with millions of dollars mischievous Siamese cats. belonging to Moose County investors, international police join together in a MYS Cat Who Knew a search for the fugitive. Cardinal Braun, Lilian J. LP-0152 MYS Cat Who Came to Qwill and his sharp-witted cats play Breakfast detective once again when a body is Braun, Lilian J. LP-2065 found in Qwill's orchard. Quiet Pear Island, affectionately known as Breakfast Island, is about to MYS Cat Who Said Cheese be turned upside down. The Braun, Lilian J. LP-2074 development of a major resort complex (Also available in regular print is causing a ruckus with local (BB-2556)). During the Moose County residents, summer people and Great Food Expo, Qwill and his crime- mainland fishermen, they're all solving Siamese have plenty of delicious hopping mad. When a cabin cruiser distractions. But after a mysterious death, explodes in the marina, there's general they have to put aside the treats and cook alarm. up a solution to the case!

MYS Cat Who Dropped a MYS Cat Who Wasn't There Bombshell Braun, Lilian J. LP-0200 Braun, Lilian J. LP-3280 Skulduggery strikes the Bonnie Scots (Also available in regular print (AS- Tour as Jim Qwilleran and his friends 0730)). While the town of Pickax is from Pickas set forth on a never-to-be- swept up in its sesquicentennial forgotten adventure. celebrations, a hurricane brews, and members of a local family fall deathly MYS The Cat Who Brought ill. James Qwilleran and his famous Down the House felines Koko and Yum Yum have their Braun, Lilian J. LP-2637 work cut out for them. Reluctant millionaire and small town

reporter Jim Qwilleran and his cats, Koko

86 and Yum Yum, confront a new mystery MYS The Cat Who Talked when octogenarian Thelma Thackerary Turkey returns to Moose County to turn the old opera house into a film club. Braun, Lilian J. LP-3037 In James Qwilleran's opinion, "A town MYS The Cat Who Had 60 without a bookstore is like a chicken with Whiskers one leg," and since the late Eddington Smith's bookstore burned down, Pickax Braun, Lilian J. LP-3380 has been somewhat off balance. To the A twenty-ninth installment of the popular rescue comes the Klingenschoen series finds Moose County in an uproar Foundation, manager of Qwill's estate, over a string of lucrative inheritances and which considers a new bookstore a a bee sting-related death, throughout worthy investment. Pickax prepares to which Polly departs for Paris, Koko the celebrate the groundbreaking just as the irrepressible Siamese meets a piano body of a man shot execution style is tuner, and Qwill writes a play. discovered in the nearby woods.

MYS The Cat Who Saw Stars MYS The Cat Who Went Up Braun, Lilian J. LP-2450 the Creek Jim Qwilleran struggles to dispel Braun, Lilian J. LP-2556 rumors circulating in Moose County (Also available in regular print that extraterrestrial beings are (AG-0158)). Koko, who is busy toying responsible for the disappearance of a with the squirrels as they search stray backpacker, while his sleuthing for black walnuts, Yum Yum, and James Siamese companion, Koko, develops Qwilleran embark on their latest mystery an interest in the night sky. when gold prospectors, wildlife photographers, and pirates arrive at the MYS The Cat who Smelled a Nutcracker Inn to take part in a game. Rat Braun, Lilian J. LP-2354 MYS The Cat Who Went Bananas A record-breaking drought in Moose County is believed to have fueled a Braun, Lilian J. LP-3071 rash of fires at local historic mine sites. (Also available in regular print But Jim Qwilleran thinks it's arson. (AR-2080)). Qwill and his clever cats When a mysterious explosion is have their work cut out for them in this followed by a blood-chilling murder, "New York Times" bestseller when the he and his Siamese cats Koko and Theatre Club's new play does not Yum Yum start sniffing around. 87 continue past opening night because a Inspector Witherspoon must weed out the member of the cast is suspiciously killer. But when Nye's maid disappears, killed and a rare book is stolen. the inspector's housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries , and her staff are on the case. MYS Invitation to Murder Bright, Elizabeth LP-3114 MYS Mrs. Jeffries Questions (Also available in regular print the Answer (AR-1359)). (A Card-Making Mystery) Brightwell , Emily LP-2239 Hearing a murder over the phone, Disliked by nearly everyone, Hannah Jennifer Shane, the owner of her own Cameron wasn't mourned when she card-making business, receives died at the hands of a burglar. It's up to threatening letters and, while teaching Scotland Yard's Inspector Witherspoon card-making lessons and cutting her and his housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries to ex-fiancé out of her life, teams up with find out the murderer was indeed a her eccentric aunt to piece together the burglar, or someone closer to home. clues and expose a killer.

MYS Mrs. Jeffries and the MYS Mrs. Jeffries Reveals Her Feast of St. Stephen Art Brightwell, Emily LP-3356 Brightwell, Emily LP-2595 Assigned to investigate the murder of The artist's model never even showed Stephen Whitfield during a Yuletide up to Neville Grant's house, nor was celebration in West Brompton, expected according to the cranky Mr. Inspector Witherspoon is none too Grant. But with all of his ranting and happy when Scotland Yard insists that raving, it was hard getting a straight the case be solved before Christmas, answer. Then, one of Grant's and his busy household staff puts their houseguests suddenly dies right before sleuthing talents to work to help him their eyes, and it's no accident! Now, find the killer. Mrs. Jeffries has to work double-time to find the missing model and the MYS Mrs. Jeffries Pinches the killer. And she'll have to get her whole Post staff involved, before someone else becomes the next subject.

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MYS Mrs. Jeffries Rocks the MYS Mrs. Jeffries Takes the Boat Cake Brightwell, Emily LP-2550 Brightwell, Emily LP-2174 A woman is found stabbed to death in the The evidence was all there: a dead middle of a locked garden. Only the body, two dessert plates, and a gun. As residents have keys, but the more if poor Mr. Ashbury had been sharing Mrs. Jeffries investigates, the more cake with his own killer! Now, Mrs. puzzled she becomes. Jeffries and her staff must do some snooping around. They're more than MYS Mrs. Jeffries Stalks the happy to help dish up some clues. Hunter Brightwell, Emily LP-3115 MYS Mrs. Jeffries Takes Stock (Also available in regular print Brightwell, Emily LP-2240 (AP-0263)). Mrs. Jeffries, the When her employer, Inspector housekeeper for Inspector Witherspoon, Witherspoon, is saddled with the employs her keen skills of detection to baffling murder of a man who had solve the murder of Sir Edmund Leggett, allegedly cheated his stockholders out who, after becoming the object of a disturbed young woman's affection, is of a fortune, housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries found dead at his engagement party. comes to the rescue.

MYS Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the MYS Mrs. Jeffries Weeds the Chimney Plot Brightwell, Emily LP-2903 Brightwell, Emily LP-2404 (Also available in regular print Annabeth Gentry thinks someone wants her dead. And when her (AL-0224)). Inspector Witherspoon is housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, discovers perplexed. No one seems to know the three attempts on Annabeth's life, she identity of the dead man dressed like a realizes the eccentric old lady may be vicar and propped against the outside right after all. Now she must unearth wall of St. Paul's Church, clutching the answers, and fast! address of an abandoned cottage. When a skeleton is found stuffed in the MYS Catch as Cat Can cottage's chimney, Witherspoon gathers all his resources to link the two Brown, Rita M. LP-2436 events, including his very efficient (A Mrs. Murphy Mystery) Mary housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries. Minor "Harry" Haristeen, her Welsh

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Corgi, Tee Tucker, her portly gray cat for the casino project, and must prove Pewter, and of course, feline sleuth her innocence before she is forced to extraordinaire, Mrs. Murphy, arrive in take on a new hobby in prison. small Crozet, Virginia, for the annual Dogwood Festival. As spring fever hits MYS The Gourdmother the air, so does murder. Mrs. Murphy Bruce, Maggie LP-2955 soon knows who the murderer is, and who's next in line. (Also available in regular print (AR-1357)). Arriving in the small MYS Cat's Eyewitness village of Walden Corners, New York to start a new life, Brooklyn transplant Brown, Rita Mae LP-3074 Lili Marino, while transforming gourds When a statue of the Blessed Virgin into beautiful works of art, gains a Mary starts mysteriously crying tears sense of belonging, until she stumbles of real blood, terrible events are upon the dead body of her newfound prophesied, and it's not long before friend's husband on the first day of things start shaking up the sleepy little hunting season. town of Crozet, Virginia. MYS Contents Under Pressure MYS The Switch Buchanan, Edna LP-0201 Brown, Sandra LP-2392 The latest story of Britt Montero, a Melina Lloyd suggests to her identical Cuban-American crime reporter, begins twin sister, Gillian, that she take her with the violent, suspicious death of a place as a media escort to astronaut Col. black football star that provokes a "Chief" Hart. Later, Melina receives massive police cover-up. As Britt uses all word Gillian has been brutally murdered, her savvy and prowess to crack the story, and Hart, though innocent, is the prime citywide outrage grows and Miami suspect. Together, they are determined to becomes a war zone. find Gillian's killer. MYS A Stained White Radiance MYS Gourdfellas Burke , James Lee LP-0160 Bruce, Maggie LP-3294 Cajun police detective Dave (Also available in regular print (AS- Robicheaux must confront the Sonnier 1056)). As the town of Walden family, which features monsters, a Corners goes to war over plans for a televangelist, and his childhood casino, gourd crafts maven Lili Marino sweetheart. discovers that she has been framed for the murder of an outspoken advocate 90

MYS The Tin Roof Blowdown MYS Rounding the Mark Burke, James Lee LP-3425 Camilleri, Andrea LP-3267 Driven by a keen sense of right versus Andrea Camilleri's earthy and urbane wrong in the fight against crime Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano following Hurricane Katrina, casts his spell on more and more fans Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux with each new mystery. Two seemingly has his own demons of alcoholism and unrelated deaths form the central mystery rage to contend with as well. of Rounding the Mark. They will take Montalbano deep into a secret world of

illicit trafficking in human lives, and the MYS Grave Apparel investigation will test the limits of his Byerrum, Ellen LP-3336 physical, psychological, and moral When a holiday sweater-hating diva is endurance. found beaten and left for dead wearing a hideous acrylic number that screams MYS The Patience of the Spider Christmas, "Crimes of Fashion" Camilleri, Andrea LP-3337 columnist Lacey Smithsonian must Still recovering from his gunshot unravel the mystery before she wound, Inspector Montalbano is becomes the next fashion victim. feeling the weight of his years, and of his solitude. But if withdrawing from MYS Excursion to Tindari society has become natural of late, Camilleri , Andrea LP-3047 he'll soon be forced to interact with others, compelled to intervene as a (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery) A web of hatred and secrets threatens to young Don Juan is found murdered in squeeze its victims to death. This is front of his apartment building early Montalbano's most unusual and one morning, and an elderly couple is challenging case yet and the one that reported missing after an excursion to will either change him or break him. the ancient site of Tindari, two seemingly unrelated cases for MYS The Snack Thief Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at the Camilleri, Andrea LP-2825 Vigata police headquarters. Then he Suspecting a link between the murder of discovers that the couple and the an elderly man and the shooting of an murdered young man lived in the same Italian fisherman, Inspector Montalbano building. encounters impoverished housekeeper and sometime prostitute Karima, whose

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MYS The Terra-Cotta Dog MYS Chocolate Dipped Death Camilleri , Andrea LP-2971 Carter, Sammi LP-3195 A mysterious tete-a-tete with a (Also available in regular print Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned (AR-2342)). When poisoned bon-bons loot from a supermarket heist, and lead to the demise of an obnoxious dying words lead Inspector trophy wife, and the town Montalbano to a secret grotto in a troublemaker, during Divinity's Tenth mountain cave watched over by a life- Annual Confectionary Competition, sized terra-cotta dog. What the candy shop owner Abby Shaw must Inspector discovers is a fifty-year-old find a sticky-fingered killer bent on crime that takes him on a journey sweet revenge. through Sicily's past. MYS Female--Handle with MYS Open Season on Lawyers Care Cannon, Taffy LP-2529 Chambers, Peter LP-2792 LAPD detective Joanna Davis races The tawny-haired bundle of dynamite against time to catch the serial killer that erupted into P.I. Mark Preston's who is targeting the sleazy attorneys of office called herself Abigail H. Los Angeles, but who begins to take a O'Hagan the First. The beauty was a personal interest in stopping her lawyer in search of a trusted employee investigation any way he can. who had decamped with her wealthy father's company payroll. But how was MYS Candy Apple Dead Preston to help someone who seemed to be able to handle everything, Carter, Sammi LP-2956 including him? (Also available in regular print (AR-1348)). (A Candy Shop Mystery, MYS Lady, This is Murder Prime Crime) When she is stood up Chambers, Peter LP-2265 by fellow merchant Brandon Mills, Abby Shaw, the owner of the Divinity Jeannie Benson was a sweet and lovely Candy Shop, is shocked when he is girl who disappeared suddenly from found murdered and discovers a whole Vale City. Six months later she was new and disturbing side to this man found on a mortuary slab in Monkton whom she thought she knew when she City, but now she was Ruby Capone, a launches her own investigation. cheap bar pick-up. Racket boss Benito gave Mark Preston five thousand dollars to find out what happened to 92

Jeannie. He soon discovered that she was dead. What followed was a long, had made some odd friends, and races circuitous journey to Brighton, being against time to find the killer that's tailed all along the way, passed from one waiting for him. to the next like the baton in a relay race. It was only the last comer who could be MYS Speak Ill of the Dead trusted, and his name was Jonathan Blake .

Chambers, Peter LP-2901 Anthea Horan was a country girl who MYS Death with an Ocean View had left for the bright lights fourteen Charles , Nora LP-2768 years earlier. Given the hopeless task of tracking her down, Mark Preston The once sleepy beach town of Palmetto, Florida is plagued by progress, and a found himself on an involved and developer's plan to raze the Ocean Vista twisted trail. There were involved and condo has board president Stella Sajak in twisted people, too, and then high- an uproar. But when Stella says she'll go priced lawyer Elmo Davis wanted to to City Hall and fight this to the death, no join the investigation. one thinks to take her statement literally. And when Kate Kennedy begins to MYS The Vanishing Holes investigate the murder, she discovers that Murders this little corner of the sunshine state is Chambers , Peter LP-2322 cursed with corruption.

Dexter Hadley hired Mark Preston to MYS Who Killed Swami check up on his wife, then was Schwartz murdered before Preston began. Hadley's employers then asked Preston Charles, Nora LP-3051 to investigate a claim from a reputable Once a snowbird, Kate Kennedy is client that a tractor had been delivered now a full-time South Florida resident to them with holes drilled in the and sometime sleuth. At a dinner for bodywork. When the machine was Swami Schwartz, the founder of the returned to the factory, the holes had Palmetto Beach Yoga Institute, the disappeared. Preston had doubts about food is fabulous and the dancing is finding the missing holes, but the delightful. That is, until Swami two- puzzle intrigued him. steps all over Kate's new shoes and then keels over dead after someone MYS The Time Bomb spikes his double espresso with Chance, John N. LP-2839 cyanide. Kate teams up with her best friend Marlene to sort through The contact was in the hut at the appointed time: the only trouble was, he suspects. 93

MYS Shock Treatment MYS Keepsake Crimes Chase , James H. LP-2635 Childs, Laura LP-2614 Gilda Delaney had never stopped (A Scrapbooking Mystery) blaming herself for the accident that Scrapbooking shop owner Carmela crippled her husband. At least, that Bertrand turns sleuth when her was the story she told Terry Regan, a estranged husband is accused of story he had no reason to doubt, murdering a powerful New Orleans infatuated as he was with everything businessman, and amidst clippings, about her. It was only afterwards that patterns, and pictures finds a clue that he began to wonder. will prove his innocence.

MYS Death by Darjeeling MYS Photo Finished Childs, Laura LP-2489 Childs , Laura LP-2834 Theodosia Browning is busy serving (Also available in regular print steaming teas and blackberry scones at (AL-0227)). (A Scrapbooking the annual historic homes garden party Mystery, Prime Crime) When her while the guests sing her praises. But late-night "Crop Till You Drop" the sweet smell of success turns to session is interrupted by the murder of suspense when an esteemed guest is a neighboring shop owner, found dead, his hand clutching an scrapbooking queen Carmela Bertrand empty teacup. finds herself, as well as her customers, under the scrutiny of the police, MYS Frill Kill forcing her to carefully assemble the clues to solve the crime . Childs, Laura LP-3408

When her friend Ava hires a sexy tarot MYS Shades of Earl Grey reader to entertain during a Halloween bash at her New Orleans scrapbooking Childs, Laura LP-2532 store, Carmela never expected to While attending a high society stumble upon the corpse of a beautiful engagement party, Indigo Tea Shop model or be attacked herself on the owner Theodosia Browning is steeped way home, but as she and Ava launch in mystery when the groom meets with their own investigation into the crime, disaster and the wedding ring, a family they discover that something evil is heirloom from the crown of Marie lurking in the shadows of the French Antoinette, vanishes. Quarter.

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MYS A Better Class of Murder MYS Silence of the Hams Christmas, Joyce LP-2278 Churchill , Jill LP-3036 Lady Margaret Priam and Betty Trenka Pompous, pig-headed attorney Robert join forces to solve a high-tech Stonecipher is a major pain in the ham Manhattan murder among the very rich. hocks. So no one is terribly upset when To her delighted surprise, suburban he's fatally mashed by a falling rack of sleuth Betty Trenka finds herself hams at the new deli where suburban ensconced in a luxurious New York City single mom Jane Jeffry's son works hotel preparing to investigate the part-time. But when Stonecipher's wealthy, ruthless computer entrepreneur most obnoxious employee meets an Gerald Toth for her country neighbor, Ted Kelso. An expert tester of software equally appropriate end, Jane knows programs, Ted has been offered a the fat's really in the fire. suspiciously large sum to approve Toth's top secret new brainchild. MYS Never Kissed Goodnight Claire, Edie LP-2429 MYS Dying Well Leigh's cousin, Cara, seems to have the Christmas, Joyce LP-2256 perfect life. She has a knock-out Everybody who is anybody is at Dr. Dale figure, an adorable son, and a rich, Reeve's 50th birthday bash. But Lady devoted, gorgeous husband. But if Margaret Priam is uneasy about the Cara's life is so wonderful, why does arrival of Dr. Dale's wife and his she show up at Leigh's apartment? It mistress. Lady Margaret's worst fears are appears Cara's husband, Gil, has been realized, as someone is about to take a lying and sneaking around. Leigh shortcut to death off the terrace. investigates through the streets of Pittsburgh, and is shocked to find out MYS Forged in Blood what Gil's secret really is . Christmas, Joyce LP-2397 On a Roman holiday together, Lady MYS Loves Music, Loves to Margaret Priam and Betty Trenka Dance become embroiled with an artist and an Clark , Mary H. LP-0111 art dealer involved in the notorious art of forgery. As the men plot to infiltrate a A young woman is murdered while villa where a rare Raphael painting is investigating newspaper personal ads. kept under lock and key, a dead body Now her friend is marked as the next turns up in the estate's fountain. Soon, victim. Betty and Lady Margaret realize murder never takes a holiday. 95

MYS Case of the Paranoid MYS Hair Raiser Patient Cohen, Nancy J. LP-2608 Clarke, Anna LP-0199 A volunteer for Ocean Guard, a coastal Professor Paula Glenning investigates preservation group, salon owner Marla some dirty doings at Windsor Clinic. Shore takes charge of their upcoming Taste of the World fundraiser, but MYS Dream On when the occasion is turned upside down by sabotage and by the murder Cohen, Anthea LP-2264 of Ocean Guard's unpopular attorney, Elizabeth has always known that her Benjamin Kline, Marla joins forces daughter, Nina, doesn't care for her. If with old friend Detective Dalton Vail she's honest with herself, she has little to find a killer. liking for the girl either. Brooding, difficult and sexually provocative, MYS Highlights to Heaven Nina is heading for trouble, even if her besotted and ineffectual father makes Cohen , Nancy J. LP-2842 excuses for her at every turn. When the (Also available in regular print local school is set alight and the police (AP-0376)). (A Bad Hair Day start looking for an arsonist, Elizabeth Mystery) When a dead body, with is sure her daughter is involved. But, excellent highlights, is discovered in owing to the affair in her life, she her neighbor's home, all signs lead refuses to talk to the police. professional hair stylist Marla Shore to the Heavenly Hair Salon where she MYS Died Blonde discovers a link between the murder Cohen , Nancy J. LP-2899 and the exotic pet trade.

(Also available in regular print (AR-1737)). There's no love lost between MYS Married to the Mop Marla and Carolyn Sutton. Carolyn has Colley, Barbara LP-3111 never forgiven Marla for leaving Charlotte LaRue is back on the job Hairstyle Heaven to open her own place, when she begins working for notorious especially since Marla's clientele grew as crime boss Robert Rossi and his high- Carolyn's faded. Still, it's a nasty shock society family. As family heirlooms when Marla enters the meter room behind the shopping center that houses both their disappear and family feuds flame, the salons and stumbles over her rival's body. big man himself winds up dead at his Carolyn's neck is broken, and a hank of own party. The case seems cut-and-dry her hair is missing. to everyone but Charlotte.

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MYS The Manchurian MYS One Bad Apple Candidate Connolly, Sheila LP-3421 Condon, Richard LP-3059 Meg Corey arrives in Granford, The controversial 1962 film of The Massachusetts, to sell her mother's old Manchurian Candidate was taken out colonial home and apple orchard. of circulation for twenty-five years Instead, she becomes embroiled in after JFK's assassination. Equally development plans that include her controversial, and just as timely today, land, and her former flame from is Richard Condon's original novel. Boston. When he's found dead, Meg Published at the height of cold war must find a killer. paranoia, this terrifying and suspenseful political thriller features MYS Don't Drink the Water Sergeant Raymond Shaw, ex-prisoner Cooper, Susan R. LP-2288 of war, Medal of Honor winner, American hero and brainwashed There is no love lost between novelist/sometime sleuth E.J. Pugh and assassin. her three sisters: four high-strung Texas

redheads who have made sibling rivalry MYS Angels Flight an art form. In an attempt to ease their Connelly, Michael LP-2094 stretched thin family ties, the ladies and A black lawyer who has built his their respective mates have rented a reputation by bringing lawsuits vacation home together on the Caribbean alleging racism and brutality by police island of St. John. But reconciliation officers is found murdered, and the list must take a back seat to crime detection when a waterlogged corpse is discovered of suspects includes half of the LAPD. clogging up the cistern of their stunning Harry Bosch is given the unenviable beachfront house. task of heading up the investigation. He knows all too well that one misstep MYS Bad Scene could result in explosive violence. Copper , Basil LP-2197

Laconic L.A. private eye Mike MYS The Black Ice Faraday is coming up on the half- Connelly, Michael LP-0198 century mark when a hulking boat- Detective Harry Bosch begins his own builder named Alex Prosser brings him investigation into the alleged suicide of a case that winds him up in a whirlpool a narcotics agent. of murder and terror. Aided in the investigation by his caustic blonde secretary, Stella, Mike finds that 97 nothing in the case is what it seems, MYS Point of Origin including the supposed mobster fished Cornwell, Patricia LP-2088 from the sea near Bridport Inlet . This white-hot new Kay Scarpetta novel

pits Virginia's chief medical examiner MYS Tuxedo Park against an audacious and wily killer who Copper , Basil LP-2829 uses fire to mask his crimes. When Scarpetta learns that her nemesis, Carrie Laconic L.A. private investigator Mike Grethen, is somehow involved, the Faraday is plunged into a maelstrom of investigation gets personal and tragedy mystery and murder when the head of strikes too close to home. a fashion empire, millionairess Mrs. Van Gimpel, hires him to protect her MYS Southern Cross daughter from big-time racketeer Mark Cornwell , Patricia LP-2918 Adams. Aided by his blonde secretary, Stella, Mike finds one bizarre fact Former police chief Judy Hammer has opening out into another. been brought in to clean up the police force in Richmond, Virginia. She and two

assistants must find the link between the MYS Black Notice desecration of Confederate president Cornwell, Patricia LP-2171 Jefferson Davis's statue and the brutal The discovery of the decomposed body murder of an elderly woman . of a stowaway aboard a cargo ship arriving in Richmond from Belgium MYS Trace leads Chief Medical Kay Scarpetta on a Cornwell, Patricia LP-2957 perilous international odyssey from (Also available in regular print Virginia to Paris on a mission that could destroy her career and threatens her own (AR-1226)). Now freelancing from life and the lives of everyone she loves. south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to her old haunts in Richmond, MYS Isle of Dogs Virginia, only to encounter a host of Cornwell, Patricia LP-2365 baffling and unwelcome surprises as she investigates the death of a (Also available in regular print fourteen-year-old girl. (AE-0294)). Chaos breaks loose when the governor of Virginia orders that speed MYS Unnatural Exposure traps be painted on all streets and highways. The eccentric island of Cornwell, Patricia LP-2120 Tangier, fourteen miles off the coast in Dr. Kay Scarpetta is newly returned from Chesapeake Bay, responds to this outrage Dublin, where she was called in to by declaring war on its own state. examine the remains of a murder victim 98 whose limbs and head were expertly he continues to elucidate the causes of severed, a signature of a cunning serial mysterious deaths and defy the killer on the loose again after an eight- incumbent Communist government year sabbatical, when the same killer bureaucracy. In his latest investigation, apparently strikes again, this time much something wild and evil is loose in closer to home. After Scarpetta Vientiane. investigates the murder scene, the killer boldly contacts her through the Internet, inviting her to download photos of the MYS Latte Trouble murder victim and signing off with a Coyle , Cleo LP-2958 chilling screen name: deadoc. When (Also available in regular print Scarpetta determines that the victim was exposed to a rare smallpox-like virus (AR-1222)). (A Coffeehouse Mystery, before she died and, later, that she herself Prime Crime) When designer Lottie may have been infected. Harmon displays her latest collection of coffee-inspired fashion accessories MYS The Coroner's Lunch called "Java Jewelry" at the Village Blend Coffeehouse, manager Clare Cotterill, Colin LP-3174 Cosi soon discovers that a new The Coroner's Lunch is set in Laos, once mystery is brewing when barista part of Indochina and recently taken over Tucker is accused of trying to poison by the Communist Pathet Lao party, and Lottie. features Dr. Siri Paiboun, a physician trained in Paris. For lack of other candidates, most of the educated class has MYS On What Grounds fled, he has been appointed chief coroner. Coyle, Cleo LP-2707 After months of boredom there is a Clare Cosi used to manage the historic sudden spate of bodies, and the Party Village Blend coffeehouse, and now, wants certain answers. after ten years and a little friendly cajoling, she's back to the grind. Clare is MYS Thirty-Three Teeth thrilled to return to work, until she Cotterill, Colin LP-3376 discovers the assistant manager unconscious in the back of the store, The reluctant national coroner of Laos, coffee grounds strewn everywhere. The Dr. Siri Paiboun, is no respecter of police deem it an accident. But Clare persons or Party; at the age of seventy- can't get some things out of her mind. Is two he can afford to be independent. she in danger? And, are all detectives this With helpers Mr. Geung, a mentally handsome? Includes recipes and coffee- challenged lab technician, and Nurse making tips. Dtui, whose nickname means "Fatty,"

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MYS Through the Grinder Berkshire Hills sorting out a valuable Coyle, Cleo LP-3030 collection of Joycean papers, and solving a murder. (Also available in regular print (AP-0267)). When several of her MYS Fifty-Seven Heaven customers meet an untimely demise, Cruse, Lonnie LP-3409 Clare Cosi, owner of the Village Blend coffee shop, is confronted by a rich It was no surprise to anyone in blend of murder and betrayal when her Metropolis, Illinois, when somebody new boyfriend is named the prime strangled Kitty Bloodworth's suspect . extremely irritating cousin, Will Ann Lloyd. But it was a big surprise when MYS A Catered Murder the Bloodworths discovered her body Crawford , Isis LP-2737 stuffed into the trunk of their beloved '57 Chevy. One by one, the (Also available in regular print Bloodworth's family members, friends, (AP-0372)). When Bernadette Simmons and antique car club buddies produce goes to work for her sister Libby's alibis proving that none of them killed catering business in New York, it's a Will Ann. Yet one of them must have. recipe for disaster as the two find themselves in the midst of a murder mystery they can really sink their teeth MYS Voice Out of Darkness into. Includes seven recipes. Curtiss, Ursula LP-2636

Thirteen years ago Monica died in a MYS A Catered Wedding terrible skating accident. Katy never Crawford, Isis LP-2897 forgot the horror of it all. She tried to (Also available in regular print save her foster sister, but Monica's last (AR-1349)). Leeza Sharp's dream words were "Katy pushed me." Now wedding turns deadly when she is Katy is working successfully in New murdered just hours before her trip down York, the torment of the past behind the aisle, and it is up to her caterers Libby her, until threatening notes start to and Bernadette Simmons to solve the arrive. case of the nightmarish nuptials. MYS Final Intuition MYS James Joyce Murders Daniels , Claire LP-3196 Cross, Amanda LP-0205 Cally Lazar, recovering attorney, Kate Fansler, professor-cum-amateur clairvoyant energy worker, and sleuth, spends a bucolic summer in reluctant finder of dead bodies, is back 100 for another round of intuitive sleuthing success, with everyone dressed as and lethal vibes. Callie's Thanksgiving vampires, werewolves and assorted holiday becomes a hell of a day when monsters. The fun was interrupted by a her ailing Aunt Daphne keels over spectral figure calling himself after the turkey dinner. But her illness Nosferatu, who warned the isn't the cause: according to Daphne's merrymakers they were tampering devoted teenaged caretaker, someone with the unknown. People dismissed has been trying to poison Daphne. him as a crank, until a girl was found ritualistically murdered. MYS Strangled Intuition Daniels, Claire LP-2751 MYS Chopping Spree When a party ends with one of Cally's Davidson, Diane M. LP-2468 massage clients strangled with her own (Also available in regular print necklace, the police suspect the woman's (AG-0239)). While setting up to cater husband. But one look at his aura and an event for the over-privileged "Elite Cally knows that he's no killer. Shoppers" of Westside Mall, Goldy Schulz is nearly run down by a truck. MYS Nice Knight for Murder Then she finds an old friend dead, Daniels , Philip LP-2484 stabbed with one of Goldy's new The death of Sir Francis Waterman was knives. Soon, the egg-timer's ticking bound to cause ripples, but they would on Goldy's life. Features 10 recipes. become tidal waves if people knew he was murdered. D.O.N. Bradman had not MYS Killer Pancake become the great cricketer his father had hoped. However, he had less spectacular Davidson, Diane M. LP-2077 talents which the government Colorado caterer Goldy Bear faces her appreciated, and now found himself most challenging assignment ever when appointed as a one-man board of enquiry. she decides to cater the Mignon There had been so many women in Cosmetics Low-Fat Luncheon. As Goldy Waterman's life, it seemed hopeless at wrestles with cream, butter, and eggs, first. Only the dead man's daughter soon she wishes she'd stayed clear of the seemed a likely source of information, beauty biz, especially when she learns but she didn't take to Bradman. Not at that to get inside the mall where the first, anyway. banquet is being held, she will have to wade through an angry mob of MYS The Dracula Murders demonstrators. It seems that Mignon Daniels, Philip LP-3049 Cosmetics' animal-testing policies have made them a target. On the day of the The Festival of Horror Ball was a great 101 banquet a rising star from Mignon lies never, or rarely, return. Now a dead on the pavement, a hit-and-run that professor and noted folklorist, Fever was no accident. Before long, Goldy is has decided to flee academia and enmeshed up in a homicide investigation. return to the family home he thought he'd left behind forever. But the MYS Sticks & Scones quiet life and ways of the Blue Davidson , Diane M. LP-2356 Mountain region are deceptive. When Fever spots an apparition at a railroad The author of Tough Cookie presents crossing, it turns out to be an omen of another culinary mystery in which two suspicious deaths. Colorado caterer-turned-sleuth Goldy Schulz whips up a traditional MYS The Witch's Grave Elizabethan banquet for an eccentric millionaire, with disastrous results. De Poy, Phillip LP-2748 Fever Devilin, now a college professor MYS The Lion's Game and noted folklorist of Appalachia, has returned to the deceptively quiet life De Mille, Nelson LP-2237 among his hill-country people. When John Corey has signed on as a contract Truevine Deveroe, a local girl reputed agent with the Federal Anti-Terrorist to be a witch, goes missing and the Task Force and is awaiting the arrival local mortician turns up dead near of a Libyan defector at JFK airport. Devilin's home, Fever finds himself in But something goes horribly wrong, the midst of a very difficult situation. after killing everyone on the flight, With very little time, and lives at stake, "The Lion" attacks the airport's ATTF he must unravel the mystery. headquarters and disappears. As a bloody trail of terror streaks across the MYS No Age to Die country, John and his FBI "mentor," Kate Mayfield, soon learn that their Dean, John LP-3201 quarry is more than a man, he has all When an old convict is released from a the instincts of a predatory wild prison sentence for child murder, DCI animal. John Blizzard is ordered to warn him about his future conduct. But as news MYS A Minister's Ghost of the release spreads and another teenager is killed within hours, De Poy, Phillip LP-3113 feelings run high in the community Fever Devilin left behind the hill- and Blizzard struggles to contain a country folk of the Appalachians when rapidly escalating situation. he headed for college, intending to 102

MYS Bloody River Blues Bellehaven's beloved librarian Helma Zukas. But the long overdue Deaver, Jeffery LP-2357 introductions are interrupted by murder Hollywood location scout John Pellam when a corpse is found in the garden of thought the scenic backwater town of Helma's newest neighbor. And when the Maddox, Missouri, would be the perfect chief's investigation has him digging too site for an upcoming "Bonnie and Clyde" close to the truth, he's helped to a nearly style film. But after real bullets leave two fatal fall from a cliff, with a potentially people dead and one cop paralyzed, he's incriminating library book found within more sought after than the Barrow Gang. reach. Determined to uphold the privacy Pellam had unwittingly wandered onto rights of library patrons, Miss Zukas the crime scene just minutes before the refuses to give police the borrower's brutal hits, now the Feds and local people name. want him to talk. Mob enforcers want him silenced. Trapped in a town full of MYS Chain of Evidence sinister secrets and deadly deceptions, Pellam fears that death will imitate art. Disher , Garry LP-3401 Inspector Hal Challis has been MYS The Irish Village Murder summoned to Mawson's Bluff, his Deere, Dicey LP-2972 childhood home in the Australian (A Torrey Tunet Mystery) When Outback, where his father is dying. American translator and sometime sleuth Sergeant Ellen Destry is left to head an Torrey Tunet returns home to the Irish investigation into a ring of pedophiles village of Ballynagh, she wants nothing near Melbourne. Challis's sister's more than to relax in front of a peat fire. difficult husband disappeared four But when she finds an eight-year-old girl years ago; while Challis is in town his waiting forlornly at the bus stop in the corpse is found in the local graveyard. gathering darkness, Torrey takes charge Challis and Destry have their work cut of delivering her to the country house out for them. where her aunt works as housekeeper. What they find at Gwathney Hall is not a MYS Birth Marks warm welcome, but cold-blooded murder. Dunant, Sarah LP-3269 Soon after Hannah Wolfe is hired to MYS Miss Zukas Shelves the find missing ballet dancer Carolyn Evidence Hamilton, Carolyn's body is fished out Dereske, Jo LP-2324 of the Thames with stones in her Police Chief Wayne Gallant has arranged pockets and a fetus in her belly. The a meeting between his children and police think it's a no-brainer, but

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Hannah suspects something else is MYS Bridge of Fear going on. Her investigation takes her Eden, Dorothy LP-2483 from the London dance world to the upper echelons of Paris society in Following a brief but passionate courtship, Abby Fearon marries the man search of the child's father, whose of her dreams and discovers during the explanation only raises more honeymoon that her new husband has questions. undergone a disturbing transformation .

MYS Fatlands MYS Listen to Danger Dunant, Sarah LP-2985 Eden, Dorothy LP-3200 Private investigator Hannah Wolfe has The telephone becomes an instrument of taken on one of the less glamorous torture in a quiet London square, as a jobs in the security world, chaperoning young widow waits distractedly to hear teenage rebel Maggie Shepherd around from the kidnapper of her two small London. But Maggie's father is paying children.

Hannah more than the job is worth, it MYS File M for Murder seems. Or perhaps not. He's on the Animal Liberation Front's hit list. But Edghill, India LP-3055 why? When violence explodes, this is Cornelia Upshaw has sworn off men. what Hannah must discover. She's a single mother, a transplanted Southerner living in New York and working as a secretary for a temp agency. MYS Nose for Trouble Her current gig is at Dayborne Ventures, Durgin, Doranna LP-3116 a high-rolling Wall Street financial house. At Dayborne, the executives get Anxious to get away from the expensive perks. Some would kill for a pressures of the east coast and into a corner office. Now it looks like someone climate where his trauma-induced has. And Cornelia, typing and filing in asthma isn't a daily challenge, Dale front of the victim's locked door, is a Kinsall, DVM, hauls his baggage and suspect. his young Beagle to a vet clinic in the high desert. He arrives to a clinic MYS Corridors of Death populated by an eccentric staff, and a Edwards , Ruth D. LP-2266 community abuzz about a recent murder. The buzz gets even louder At the close of a top-level meeting in the offices of the British Civil Service, a when Dale stumbles across a second respected senior civil servant is found victim. murdered with his skull crushed in.

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Detective Superintendent James Milton Special Forces Agent turned soldier of of Scotland Yard is bewildered: who in fortune, and Stephanie's mentor. Now his gray, conventional world would want Stephanie must test her skills against Sir Nicholas Clark dead? And can a the master, and also deal with her murder investigation proceed grandmother, two goons on her tail, successfully within the complex and three corpses. bureaucracy of Whitehall? But Milton is surprised when he finds out most everyone, including his wife and son, MYS Chocolate Quake wanted Sir Nicholas dead. Fairbanks, Nancy LP-2664 (A Culinary Mystery with Recipes) MYS Murder Can Upset Your (Also available in regular print Mother (AH-0218)). After learning that her Eichler , Selma LP-2519 mother-in-law has been arrested for the Philanthropist Miriam Weiden was murder of Denise Falk, and seems to murdered just after leaving a plea for be determined to antagonize everyone help on Desiree Shapiro's answering in jail with her, food writer Carolyn machine. Desiree agrees to investigate Blue sets out to discover the identity of the murder, and discovers that Miriam the real killer. Includes delicious San was different from the lady the world Francisco recipes. held in such high esteem. MYS Crime Brulee MYS Poison Blonde Fairbanks, Nancy LP-3117 Estleman, Loren D. LP-3402 Forty-something food writer Carolyn Blue gets a taste of New Orleans Flashy Latino singer Gilia Cristobal, cookery and crime. When a friend of wanted in her native country for a hers goes missing, Carolyn turns sleuth murder she did not commit, hires to search for answers, a trail that leads private investigator Amos Walker to right into an alligator swamp. Includes find the missing person whose identity over a dozen recipes. Gilia has been paying to use. MYS Death a l'Orange MYS Hot Six Fairbanks, Nancy LP-2752 Evanovich , Janet LP-2418 (A Culinary Mystery with Recipes, Prime Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum goes Crime) A culinary tour of France is a after bail jumper, Ranger, who dream come true for aspiring food writer happens to be Carlos Manoso, former Carolyn Blue, but as she and her family 105 travel through Normandy and the Loire embroiled in mystery when she visits a Valley with a group of academics, she modern art museum where a suddenly finds murder on the menu. performance art piece about death results in murder. MYS French Fried Fairbanks, Nancy LP-3403 MYS Truffled Feathers Carolyn Blue and her husband Jason Fairbanks, Nancy LP-2775 are in Paris for his lecture tour and she (A Culinary Mystery with Recipes, plans to enjoy the city's culinary Prime Crime) The CEO of a large delights. But delight turns deadly when pharmaceutical company invites a poisonous recipe appears on the local Carolyn and Jason Blue to New York menus. Includes authentic French and offers Jason a job as a consultant. recipes. But before Carolyn gets a chance to get a true taste of the Big Apple, the MYS Mozzarella most CEO is dead, keeled over from a Murderous heaping helping of pastrami. Carolyn Fairbanks, Nancy LP-2959 wonders if the well-liked CEO hadn't ruffled one too many feathers. Includes (Also available in regular print over a dozen authentic New York (AR-0939)). (A Culinary Mystery recipes. with Recipes, Prime Crime) When her newfound friend, a lovely Italian MYS The Kills woman named Paolina, is found dead Fairstein, Linda LP-2896 in the hotel pool, food writer Carolyn Blue sets out to find the truth and put a (Also available in regular print clever killer behind bars, while (AR-0353)). Manhattan sex crimes sampling some of Italy's finest cuisine. prosecutor Alexandra Cooper discovers that her current date rape MYS The Perils of Paella case has become complicated by her Fairbanks, Nancy LP-2708 client's secrets, as well as by a colleague's investigation into the (Also available in regular print murder of an elderly Harlem woman. (AL-0226)). (A Culinary Mystery with Recipes, Prime Crime) MYS Furnished for Murder Arriving in Barcelona to employ her keen sense of taste for her column, Ferrars, Elizabeth LP-2200 food writer Carolyn Blue finds herself When Meg Jeacock rented the furnished cottage next to her house, 106 she decided not to face the fact that her Hammermill tumbles nine stories to her tenant had some rather sinister untimely death. At first, Betsy thinks the characteristics. Her husband was fall was an unfortunate accident. The convinced that any man who would trouble is, Belle's unsavory reputation pay three months' rent in advance for causes suspicions to flare. that cottage must be a crook. And when the stranger showed an MYS Cutwork inexplicable interest in Shandon Ferris, Monica LP-2747 Priory, the big house nearby whose elderly owner had recently died, it (Also available in regular print became clear that there was trouble (AL-0217)). Almost everyone in brewing. Excelsior, Minnesota, craftsy and non- craftsy alike, has turned out for the art MYS Ninth Life fair. So when an artisan is murdered Ferrars, Elizabeth LP-2482 there, the list of suspects is practically endless. Betsy Devonshire wants to When Caroline left the hospital, her help out in the police investigation, but sister Fenella insisted that she when her best friend, Officer Jill recuperate in Fenella's house in the Cross, confides that they have a lead, West country. It would be a chance for Betsy can't keep the news to herself. Caroline to get to know her new Now she must first regain Jill's trust, husband, she insisted, and it would be then figure out who had designs on the restful in the old house at Dexter dead designer. Abbas. But it was anything but restful.

Fenella's husband was moody, excitable, reckless and inexplicably MYS Embroidered Truths affluent, a surprising man for Fenella Ferris, Monica LP-3073 to have married. Then the brooding (Also available in regular print progresses to violence, and death. (AR-2620)). (A Needlecraft Mystery,

Prime Crime) Needlework shop MYS Crewel Yule owner and amateur sleuth Betsy Ferris, Monica LP-2974 Devonshire becomes embroiled in a (A Needlecraft Mystery) Part-time sleuth dangerous and all-too-personal case, and full-time owner of the needlework when her friend Godwin is arrested for shop Crewel World, Betsy Devonshire the murder of his significant other, often has a hand in anything crafty. Then, John, after a nasty quarrel. at this year's needlework convention in Nashville, Milwaukee shop owner Belle 107

MYS Dying for a Clue knife. Jennifer knows that Emmie Fitzwater, Judy LP-2216 could never kill anyone. Edgar's current wife, however, with her lush A Jennifer Marsh Mystery. To help her body and scheming brain, fits the bill. writing, mystery novelist Jennifer But unless Jennifer and her writers' Marsh joins private detective Johnny critique group can figure out who's Zeeman on a search to track down the been plotting murder, Emmie's neck birth parents of adopted teenager will be in the noose, and reluctant Diane Robbins, but she gets more than witness for the prosecution Jennifer she had bargained for when a late night will be the one to tighten it! rendezvous erupts into murder and she is targeted by a killer out to destroy all MYS Dying to Get Her Man evidence of the past. Fitzwater , Judy LP-2490 MYS Dying to be Murdered Bride-to-be Suzanne Gray is found frozen to death on her lover's grave Fitzwater , Judy LP-2297 with a suicide note tucked in her glove. A Jennifer Marsh Mystery. Society Mystery writer Jennifer Marsh sets out matron Mary Bedford Ashton hires to discover what really happened, but Jennifer to live in her historic mansion that proves difficult when Belle, and for a week and record everything that old flame of Sam Culpepper's, happens, believing this will prove her suddenly appears to reclaim Jennifer's impending death to be murder. During man. her stay, Jennifer encounters a sinister housekeeper, threatening notes, a MYS Dying to get Published bloodstained bed and her own Fitzwater, Judy LP-2124 bedroom door which locks only from the outside. It's a case to die for and What does it take to get a book contract? That's the lament of every unpublished Jennifer may do just that. author, including aspiring murder- mystery novelist Jennifer Marsh. After MYS Dying to Get Even submitting eight diligently crafted manuscripts to every prominent publisher Fitzwater, Judy LP-2085 in New York, Jennifer has collected Edgar's Down Home Grill is enough rejection letters to wallpaper a flourishing, but the reprehensible room. But that doesn't stop her from owner, Edgar Walker, is finite. concocting one killer of a scheme for her Jennifer Marsh finds his body, and next novel. Suddenly Jennifer's lifelong catches her dear friend Emmie, Edgar's love affair with crime fiction brings her former wife, nearby, gripping a bloody face to face with real-life murder. 108

MYS Gin and Daggers MYS Murder She Wrote: A Fletcher, Jessica LP-2285 Palette for Murder This mystery is set in England, and Fletcher, Jessica LP-2248 brings you the ever popular Jessica Jessica Fletcher has come to the Fletcher as the main character. In her elegant Hamptons on Long Island's usual role as sleuth, Jessica finds gold coast for a sinfully sweet spell in herself at a Mystery writers' the sun and a chance to indulge her convention, and in the middle of a secret burning passion, painting. But murder. Marjorie Ainsworth, leading Jessica has only a brief time behind the mystery writer, has been murdered on easel before she finds herself under the the night before the opening of the gun to solve a murder as tantalizing as convention. Jessica uses her uncanny its victim. A mysterious masterpiece, a intuition and her skills in deduction to mountain of money, a mourning solve the murder of her good friend. millionaire, and a slightly mad painter lead her down a twisting trail of MYS Martini's and Mayhem illusion and confusion, and into the path of danger. Fletcher, Jessica LP-2192 (Murder She Wrote) Promoting her MYS Strawberry Shortcake newest book in glamorous San Murder Francisco, Jessica Fletcher visits a women's prison and afterwards finds a Fluke, Joanne LP-2845 mysterious diary in her bag that makes (A Hannah Swensen Mystery) When her suspect that an inmate has been a flour company chooses Lake Eden, falsely accused of murder. Minnesota, as the site for its annual Dessert Bake-Off, Hannah is thrilled to MYS Murder at the serve as head judge. When a fellow Powderhorn Ranch judge is found dead, facedown in Fletcher, Jessica LP-2175 Hannah's celebrated strawberry shortcake, the stakes are rising faster During a visit to an old friend's than dough. Hannah will have to be Colorado ranch, best-selling mystery careful because someone is cooking up writer Jessica Fletcher comes face to a recipe for murder. Includes seven face with murder when a vacationing recipes. couple turns up dead and Jessica joins forces with a local reporter to uncover suspicious links between the victims and a nasty gang of land developers. 109

MYS Fury MYS To the Hilt Ford, G. M. LP-2833 Francis, Dick LP-2112 (Also available in regular print Alexander Kinloch, an eccentric artist (AC-0121)). Former New York Times who lives alone on a Scottish reporter Frank Corso has six days to mountainside, receives a card from his investigate the case of a convicted mother in London summoning him to the bedside of his dying stepfather. The news killer on death row before the possibly takes him by surprise, but the realization innocent man is put to death. that his stepfather is unintentionally about to take Alexander to the grave with MYS Blood Sport him is the shock that draws Alexander Francis, Dick LP-0107 out of the untamed wilderness and into the much more perilous company of Investigator Gene Hawkins witnesses polite society. an "accident," and can't wait to delve into the case. MYS Under Orders MYS Comeback Francis, Dick LP-3338 Francis, Dick LP-0153 When three corpses turn up on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day, including a Peter Darwin's veterinarian friend has jockey who had earlier in the day won the a problem: racehorses are dying Triumph Hurdle, ex-jockey-turned-sleuth mysteriously after he operates on Sid Halley investigates a possible link to them, and his investigation only causes Lord Enstone's mysterious losing streak. this cruel enigma to escalate.

MYS Cold-Case Killer MYS Shattered Francis, Dorothy LP-3308 Francis, Dick LP-2303 Foot reflexologist Keely Moreno and her When jockey Martin Stukeley dies boyfriend, P.I. Punt Ashford, put their after a fall at Cheltenham, his friend, lives in danger when they agree to help up-and-coming glass artisan Gerald Maxine Jackson and her son. Randy Logan, finds himself embroiled in a Jackson served twenty years in prison deadly search for a stolen videotape. before DNA evidence proved that he did Believing the tape contains priceless not murder his girlfriend, Dyanne Darby. information, a vicious group of Randy is bitter over all he has lost. criminals thinks Gerald has it. To Unable to find a job as an ex-con, living survive, Gerald will have to uncover with his mother, he's determined to find the truth about Martin's death. the real killer and even the score.

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MYS Conch Shell Murder international conspiracy. Mistaken for one of the gang members, Clare hopes Francis, Dorothy LP-2612 she can fool the others, just long enough Newly licensed Private Detective Katie to alert the police. Hasworth faces her first murder case with more than a little anxiety, not only is she a newcomer, but the Chitting family MYS Island-in-Waiting would give Sherlock Holmes a migraine. Fraser , Anthea LP-2093 Who murdered Alexa Chitting before she When Chloe visits the Isle of Man for had time to change her will, leaving her the first time, she is disturbed to find fortune to the Key West Preservation that she "recognizes" both landscapes Society rather than to friends and family? Her husband? Lover? Daughter? and people she has never seen before. Nor can she account for her intuitive knowledge of the island's history and MYS Pier Pressure legends. As she becomes involved Francis, Dorothy B. LP-3060 with her brother's school, she realizes (A Keely Moreno Mystery) Keely that one of the masters has a telepathic Moreno's foot reflexology courses never old over her, and is influencing her taught her how to deal with a corpse. strange and vivid dreams. To her After finally breaking free from her horror, the dreams are beginning to abusive ex-husband, Keely is pursuing a come true. new career in Key West. All goes well until she reports to the home of her MYS Motive for Murder wealthy patient, Margaux Ashford, and finds her dead, killed by a bullet later Fraser, Anthea LP-2340 found to have been fired from Keely's When Emily Barton applies for the own gun. post of temporary secretary to writer Matthew Haig, it does not occur to her MYS Dangerous Deception that she might be putting her life in danger. But from the first she feels a Fraser, Anthea LP-2145 secretive air about the place. Why had Seeking time alone, Clare Laurie has her predecessor left so suddenly? And come to the isolated Welsh hotel of why did innocent comments about Carreg Coed after breaking her swimming provoke such strong engagement under a cloud of suspicion reaction? Her uneasiness increases and scandal. But the atmosphere seems strangely oppressive, with all the when she discovers that the book they residents absorbed in each other's lives. are working on is based on a local Then, Clare is drawn into a ruthless murder, so far unsolved.

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MYS The Stone son and lands a job at the town's senior Fraser , Anthea LP-2220 citizens center. She then settles into the viola position in a small amateur Those with long memories in the village orchestra, seated next to an unpleasant of Ickfield treat their megalith with oboist who drops dead from his chair increasing respect as its sinister cycle comes round again. But the Prior family, during rehearsal. Some think he ate moving into their new home on the poisoned puffer fish, but an autopsy hillside beneath it, know nothing of the proves he was murdered. Stone's dark history. Unfortunately, their ignorance affords them no protection MYS Ghost of a Chance against the forces that have disrupted the lives of their predecessors. A hundred- Galenorn, Yasmine LP-2753 year-old diary and some curious pebbles Single mom Emerald O'Brien owns the alert local antique dealer Adam Sandys to Chintz'n China Tea Room where possible danger, but despite his vigilance guests are served the perfect blend of fifteen-year-old Vanessa is increasingly tea and tarot reading. She never set out disturbed by the Stone's malign influence. to be a detective, but once word gets out that she can communicate with the MYS Stripped dead, there's no turning back. Freeman, Brian LP-3375 They looked like isolated cases: a hit- MYS The Case of the Perjured and-run and a celebrity murdered Parrot during a fling with a prostitute. No one Gardner, Erle S. LP-2287 could ever imagine they'd be linked to Did wealthy Fremont Sabin divorce his a brutal crime in the city's steamy past wife before his untimely death? That's and that the race against the clock to the multimillion-dollar question. And corner a determined serial killer would the right answer will mean a windfall stir up secrets long thought buried with for either the dead man's angry son or the dead. As Detectives Jonathan headstrong widow. But with no Stride and Serena Dial are called to document declaring who the affable investigate, they have no idea what eccentric intended to leave his fortune they're stepping into. to, Perry Mason faces a prickly puzzle. Even more puzzling, however, is the MYS Murder in C Major talking parrot, Fremont's beloved pet. Frommer, Sara H. LP-2584 But the bird found at the scene proves Young widow Joan Spencer returns to to be a foul-mouthed imposter. her hometown with her college-bound 112

MYS The Case of the Curious sun-bathed near the course, someone Bride made off with her Cadillac, her trailer, Gardner , Erle S. LP-2282 and all her belongings, including her precious diary. The woman blames the After con man Greg Moxley married police, who suspect her of having Rhoda Lorton, he took her money and stashed away nearly half a million flew, only to have his plane crash. dollars allegedly stolen by her father, Years later, Rhoda wed millionaire who is now in prison. She swears that scion Carl Montaine, but now Moxley both she and her father are innocent. has turned up alive and well, with So who is bankrolling her leisurely plans to pocket the Montaine fortune, lifestyle? Why is she so desperate to or else make Rhoda's bigamy public. find her diary? And who, if not Desperate to protect the good name of Mason's beautiful client, would murder Montaine, Rhoda seeks out Perry a key witness? Mason. But before Mason can reel in Moxley, somebody murders the scheming blackmailer. MYS Elusive Mrs. Pollifax Gilman, Dorothy LP-0155 MYS The Case of the Silent The grandmotherly CIA operative is Partner back-this time with eight expertly Gardner, Erle S. LP-2510 forged passports hidden beneath a new Florist Mildreth Faulkner finds her hat, and a mission to help the arch-competitor, Harry Peavis, secretly Bulgarian underground. buying stock in her small, family- owned corporation. While Peavis MYS A Murderous Glaze proposes a partnership, Mildreth Glazer, Melissa LP-3339 suspects he's plotting a power play. To keep the scurrilous shareholder from When a dead body shows up in her muscling her out, she seeks Perry shop, Carolyn Emerson, owner of a Mason's expertise. paint-your-own-pottery studio called Fire at Will, is accused of murder, which threatens her business, and turns MYS The Case of the Sun to her studio's club, the Firing Squad, Bather's Diary for help in piecing together the clues. Gardner, Erle S. LP-2298 The blonde wandering nude at the Remuda Golf Club tells Perry Mason a strange story. While she peacefully 113

MYS Leave No Stone Unturned MYS Death Takes a Gander Glidewell, Jeanne LP-3422 Goff, Christine LP-3061 While volunteering at the local library, (Also available in regular print middle-aged Kansas widow Lexie (AR-0111)) (A Birdwatcher's Mystery, Starr happens across an article about Prime Crime) While investigating the unsolved murder of Eliza Pitt, "accidents" at Elk Lake and the former wife of police academy student Drummond Hotel, including the death Clayton Pitt, likely the same Clayton of her partner, which has been ruled a Pitt who is her newly acquired son-in- suicide, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Special law! Lexie can’t stand by and let her Agent Angela Dimato becomes daughter, Wendy, become his next suspicious and soon learns that killers victim, nor does she want to alienate of a feather flock together. her with these suspicions. So she decides to investigate the cold case. MYS Death Medicine

Goldring, Kat LP-2492 MYS A Nest in the Ashes A freak blizzard forces Willi and Goff , Christine LP-2691 Native American investigator Quannah Concerned about the environmental Lassiter to hole up in an inn near consequences of the prescribed burn he Austin. But inside, someone is has been asked to oversee, National Park murdered. As Willi investigates, she Service ranger Eric Linenger finds his job encounters war-painted warriors come- complicated by the protests of local to-life from old photos, whispering environmentalists, the damage caused by an out-of-control blaze, and the murder of winds, and Quannah's stories of tribal his boss, Wayne Devlin, whose body is snow snakes. Willi must trust her found near the origin of the fire. instincts and Quannah's strange visions to narrow the clues to this chilling MYS Death Shoots a Birdie crime.

Goff, Christine LP-3292 MYS Little Shop of Murders (Also available in regular print (AS- Goodwill, Susan LP-3374 1054)). When her best friend Dorothy MacBean falls in love with renowned When Walter, a bathrobe-clad birder Guy Saxby, a man accused of octogenarian, robs a bank using a murdering his protégé, Rachel Wilder banana as the hold-up weapon, Kate agrees to help prove his innocence, and Aunt Kitty speed off after him in until some evidence comes to light that Kitty's mammoth 1974 Eldorado just might prove his guilt. convertible. But instead of retrieving 114 their cold hard cash, they find a still- MYS G is for Gumshoe warm dead body, much to the Grafton, Sue LP-0110 consternation of a certain handsome law enforcement official Kate knows. Celebrating her 33rd birthday, Private Eye Kinsey Millhone finds herself on the

hit list of the top triggerman. MYS Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders MYS H is for Homicide Goulart, Ron LP-2335 Grafton, Sue LP-0157 In Hollywood, Groucho Marx, comedian- cum-amateur-sleuth, and his writer Frank Kinsey Millhone goes undercover to Denby have developed a name for expose a car insurance scam. themselves as private investigators. To get away from the murder and mayhem, MYS O is for Outlaw they entrain for New York. One of their Grafton, Sue LP-2186 first stops is a Broadway show, one that The 15th novel in the best-selling series never makes it to the second act: a finds Kinsey Milhone investigating why character opens an on-stage door, and a her ex-husband Mickey, the man she left very real body falls out. Groucho and years ago after his implication in a fatal Frank's reputation has preceded them, beating, lies dying in an L.A. hospital. and they once again find themselves on Kinsey uncovers evidence that Mickey the hunt for clues. was innocent of the beating charge, but as she searches those in Mickey's life, she MYS Groucho Marx, King of must also search the blind spots of her the Jungle own life, including one that hides a killer. Goulart, Ron LP-3245 Frank Denby and Groucho Marx arrive MYS P is for Peril on the set of the new Ty-Gor film, a Grafton, Sue LP-2359 Tarzan knockoff, expecting to have While mired in the case of a missing Groucho do his humorous walk-on. doctor, his angry ex-wife, and his What they find is that Randy beautiful current wife, Kinsey Milhone Spellman, the star of the picture, has gets a shock. A man she finds been murdered. Frank's wife, Jane, is attractive is hiding a fatal secret, and about to have a baby, and the amateur now a whole lot of beauty, money, and detective team has promised to lay off lies prove to be a fatal distraction from the sleuthing. But when a stuntwoman what Kinsey should have seen all who has gone missing is suspected of along: a killer standing right before her the murder, Jane insists they clear her eyes. name. 115

MYS Q is for Quarry happy. Soon, he and his wife Theo are Grafton, Sue LP-2642 conducting separate investigations. Tony is interviewing suspects, and (Also available in regular print Theo is gathering information at her (AK-0236)). Eighteen years after the quilt shop, "gossip central." body of an unidentified young woman is discovered in a quarry off MYS Unholy Ghosts California's Highway 1, two police detectives nearing retirement enlist Greenwood , D. M. LP-2315 Kinsey Millhone's aid to help identify Aggressive, unreliable and frequently the long-ago murder victim. intoxicated, Father Hereward Marr's only discernible virtue as a parish MYS S is for Silence priest is his talent for deathbed Grafton, Sue LP-3225 conversions. So when his body is found in a pit he dug in an attempt to (Also available in regular print repair the central heating, few are truly (AS-0744)). In Kinsey Millhone's 19th sorry. But, as it becomes clear that his excursion into the world of suspense death was not accidental, Deaconess and misadventure, a daughter wants Theodora Braithwaite, enjoying a the solace of closure in the mystery break from her duties in her inner-city surrounding her mother's absence. parish, is asked by the Bishop to lend a Thirty-four years earlier, Violet hand. And Theodora knows the dead Sullivan put on her party finery man's wife, from her London group for and left for the Fourth of July battered clergy wives. fireworks display. She was never seen again. MYS Dust MYS Murder by Serpents Grimes, Martha LP-3379 When an old friend pulls Richard Jury Graham, Barbara LP-3404 into the investigation of a wealthy Murder arrives in the Smoky bachelor's murder, Jury soon finds Mountains along with the earliest himself in over his head with the flowers of spring when a snake- beautiful chief inspecting officer and handling preacher is murdered with his the false leads surrounding the once- own snakes. Tennessee sheriff Tony charismatic dead man, last seen alive Abernathy is happiest when his job in a club named Dust. only requires minimal work, and searching for a killer doesn't make him

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MYS The Old Wine Shades MYS Detective Grimes, Martha LP-3313 Hailey, Arthur LP-2190 (Also available in regular print (AS- Serial killer Elroy "Animal" Doil is 1062)). Richard Jury considers the hours away from the electric chair. In authenticity of a fantastical tale, told by a his last hours of life, he wants to make stranger and fellow patron at the Old a confession, to Detective Malcolm Wine Shades pub in London, about a Ainslie, the man who put him away. string theory scientist's wife, son, and And as much as he'd like to, Ainslie dog, who disappeared without a trace can't ignore the criminal's request, nine months earlier .

because although Doil is guilty of a MYS The Stargazey gruesome double murder, his confession could close ten other Grimes, Martha LP-2083 unsolved slayings. What Ainslie On a bleak November day, Richard Jury learns, however, will thrust him into an rides old double-decker bus #14 investigation that leads directly to elite travelling to Fulham Road when a levels of city government, and some of woman boards the bus in front of the his trusted colleagues. Stargazey pub, leaves, reboards, and leaves again. Curious, he follows her to the gates of Fulham Palace. Had he gone MYS The Chinese Alchemist beyond the gates, he might have averted a Hamilton, Lyn LP-3341 murder and later another at a crusty old men's club. Antiques dealer Lara McClintoch is targeted by ruthless criminals while MYS A Real Basket Case trying to recover an eighth-century Tang Dynasty box that contains an Groundwater, Beth LP-3361 immortality elixir formula etched on Even with her Colorado Springs-based the inside. The rare item holds the key gift-basket business, Claire Hanover not only to the death of a museum feels unfulfilled and lonely. Her curator, but to Lara's own survival. children are grown and her workaholic husband ignores her. Her friends' marriages are no better, and Claire's MYS Dain Curse divorced and bitter friend urges Claire Hammett , Dashiell LP-2062 to have a fling with their handsome This story of wild and crazy Gabrielle aerobics instructor. While giving her a Leggett moves from robbery to massage, he's shot and killed, and murder, dope, and a sinister cult in San Claire's husband, Roger, is found Francisco. holding the smoking gun. 117

MYS Columbo: The Hoover into an investigation into a series of Files bizarre murders. Harrington, William LP-2241 MYS Dial M for Meat Loaf Tell-all biographer Betsy Clendenin was many celebrities' worst fear. But Hart, Ellen LP-2983 when she began writing a book that As Minnesota housewives race to meet would expose secrets buried in the the deadline for the "Times Register's" notorious Hoover files, someone meat loaf contest, unsavory Kirby decided she'd gone too far. A mail Runbeck is killed by a car bomb. bomb soon sends her, and the evidence When the town's former mayor, near she's unearthed, up in flames. The death from a stroke, confesses to the killer thinks he's pulled off the perfect murder, his wife and two children deny crime, but what he doesn't realize is it. Food maven and family friend that "perfect crimes" are Columbo's Sophie Greenway wonders about his specialty. innocence, and finds this murder seasoned with secrets and scandal. MYS Ghost at Work Hart, Carolyn LP-3417 MYS Slice and Dice When the pastor's wife discovers a Hart, Ellen LP-3062 murdered body on her porch, ghost If all goes according to plan, Connie sleuth Bailey Ruth Raeburn applies her Buckridge's culinary empire will soon beyond-the-grave talents for solving boast a state-of-the-art cooking academy puzzles to keep suspicion from falling and restaurant in her hometown of on the innocent pastor. Minneapolis-St.Paul. But, primed by an anonymous e-mail informer, investigative MYS Death on a Silver Platter writer Maria Damontraville is preparing to cook Connie's goose with a major Hart, Ellen LP-3054 expose of her strategies for success. Then (Also available in regular print food critic Sophie Greenway stumbles on (AJ-0267)). (A Culinary Mystery) the missing ingredient in this unsavory Restaurant reviewer and amateur sleuth stew, murder. Sophie Greenway, a dear friend of Carl's daughter Elaine, becomes embroiled in MYS Arson and Old Lace the dark secrets of Prairie Lodge, the Harwin , Patricia LP-2960 grand mansion built by Carl Veelund for his family, when she accidentally "You're a librarian, not a detective," stumbles upon an old diary that draws her Catherine Penny's daughter reminds her. Catherine, suddenly single in her sixties, 118 is leaving behind New York City and a a brutish bodyguard, and the profit- failed marriage for a lovely 17th-century hungry owner of his newspaper. cottage in the idyllic English village of Far Wychwood. But behind the town's MYS Hunting Badger quaint stone walls and lace-curtained windows lurk dark secrets and whispers Hillerman, Tony LP-2107 of witchcraft. And when her crusty Navajo crimebusters Leaphorn and Chee neighbor dies in a tragic fire, Catherine return in a novel set on the vast Navajo alone suspects arson. Reservation sprawling across Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, and played out against the unhappy memories of an MYS Slaying is Such Sweet actual 1998 manhunt that produced Sorrow canyon country legends of FBI bungling, Harwin, Patricia LP-2961 but no arrest.

Librarian and former New Yorker Catherine Penny has settled in the tiny MYS Skeleton Man English town of Far Wychwood. But Hillerman, Tony LP-2830 nowhere is too far for painful (Also available in regular print (AR- memories when her ex-husband, who 2093)). While assisting Sergeant Jim left her single in her sixties, arrives Chee and his fiancée, Bernie, investigate with his new lady love. Catherine can't what appears to be a simple trading post avoid him at an awards ceremony for robbery, former Navajo Tribal Police their son-in-law, Peter, who is a shoo- lieutenant Joe Leaphorn turns up a clue in for a prestigious appointment at that leads to a search for the remains of a Mercy College. Then Peter's rival for passenger, carrying a fortune in the appointment is found murdered. diamonds, on a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon fifty years earlier.

MYS Basket Case MYS The First Eagle Hiaasen , Carl LP-2494 Hillerman, Tony LP-2229 (Also available in regular print (Also available in regular print (AG-0054)). Former investigative reporter Jack Tagger gets his chance to (BB-2817)). Just when Lt. Jim Chee escape the doldrums of obituary writing thinks he has an open and shut murder as he investigates the suspicious case, retired Navajo Tribal police "accidental" death of rock star Jimmy officer Joe Leaphorn blows it wide Stoma, the infamous leader of Jimmy and open exposing a complicated web of the Slut Puppies, if he can escape his superstition and science where outside ambitious young editor, the star's widow, forces converge and collide. 119

MYS The Sinister Pig look forward to seeing her. So why is Hillerman, Tony LP-2805 Richard Lewis, the once dashing wartime hero, still devoted to her? And (Also available in regular print why is Laurence Marvel, thirty years (AP-0382)). Discovering a link between her junior, so happy to be her constant the woman he loves and a political companion? And was it simply bad murder and a twisted conspiracy, Navajo luck when Freda was attacked during a tribal police Sergeant Chee joins a map- robbery and only weeks later rushed to wielding Joe Leaphorn on the heels of a the hospital again? fleeing Washington power broker.

MYS Dead Frenzy MYS A Death in Two Parts Houston, Victoria LP-2692 Hodge, Jane A. LP-2196 (A Loon Lake Fishing Mystery) When Patience Smith discovers on her Between a fishing tournament and a 21st birthday that she is penniless, she biker convention, Loon Lake is decides to return to her cousins' home flooded with visitors. And for the most as companion to her grandmother, the part, they're less-than-savory formidable Mrs. Feathers, whose main characters. The million-dollar fishing entertainment seems to involve cruelly prize is bringing out the worst in some manipulating her family. Surprisingly, people and the motorcycle rally is the old lady takes an immediate liking actually a front for a drug operation. to Patience and changes her will to To get to the bottom of all this, Doc leave her a considerable fortune. So Osborne agrees to go undercover, as a hours later when she is found biker! It only takes a few revs of the poisoned, it seems that only one person engine and a quick taste of chrome to had a motive to want the old lady dead. get him hooked.

MYS Death Among Friends MYS Dead Jitterbug Holt, Hazel LP-2148 Houston, Victoria LP-3063 A Sheila Malory Mystery. Freda (Also available in regular print Spencer, Chairman of the Brunswick (AR-0661)) When advice columnist Lodge Management Committee, and local Loon Lake resident Hope undoubtedly possesses good leadership McDonald is murdered, police chief qualities but she is also particularly Lewellyn Ferris, with the help of unpleasant, and few residents of diehard fisherman Doc Osborne, sets a Taviscombe, including Sheila Malory, trap to reel in a clever killer. 120

MYS Dark Shore MYS Hula Done It? Howatch, Susan LP-2072 Hunter , Maddy LP-3118 Sarah Hamilton, the second wife of the (Also available in regular print enigmatic Jon Towers, comes to the (AR-1740)). During a blissful cruise to Cornish farmhouse where his first wife the Hawaiian Islands, Emily Andrew and had mysteriously and accidentally her offbeat group of Iowa senior citizens died, but why did everyone who had are confronted by an all new mystery been together that fatal weekend gather when Professor Dorian Smoker, a again, and what was the ghastly secret renowned expert on the legendary someone was trying to hide? Sarah's Captain Cook, falls overboard just before dreams become nightmares on the telling them about a long-lost treasure. stark cliffs of Cornwall as the past looms over the future. MYS Norway to Hide Hunter, Maddy LP-3343 MYS String of Lies Emily Andrews begins to expect the Hughes, Mary Ellen LP-3342 worst when her transgender ex-husband Jackie is assigned to be her roommate for When Jo McAllister, the owner of Jo's her Scandinavian tour with her favorite Craft Corner, stumbles upon the dead Iowa senior citizens, Jackie's new novel body of Parker Holt, who had designs raises the ire of an ardent critic who turns on the small businesses in town, she, up dead, and Emily must track down a using creativity and cunning, must killer, all the while trying to salvage her prove the innocence of her friend Dan upcoming nuptials from her mother's and his construction crew who stand machinations. accused of the crime. MYS Pasta Imperfect MYS Gently in Trees Hunter, Maddy LP-3031 Hunter, Alan LP-2793 The discount travel package to Italy Chief Superintendent Gently, C.I.D., seemed like a great deal: Emily called "the thinking man's Maigret" by Andrew could lead her globe-trotting H.R.F. Keating, usually stirs up some Iowans on the trip of a lifetime and fertile ideas about the human condition bring her family to boot. Maybe she in the course of his murder cases. In should have read the fine print; sharing this story, he meets with a watershed their itinerary with a group of hyper- theory that brings morality, physics, competitive aspiring romance writers and metaphysics into line with each is just a prelude to more Machiavellian other for the first time. drama than an Italian opera. 121

MYS Top O'the Mournin' Bruce's visit to an old college friend, Hunter, Maddy LP-2962 wealthy industrialist Reginald Purington, had ended in his death. Emily Andrew is earning some much- Although it looked like a heart attack, needed green by navigating the a small black doll found on the corpse twisting roads of Ireland with a group intrigued Fallon, who decided to of seniors, including her beloved Nana. investigate. But once the hearty troupe from Iowa lands on Irish sod, trouble starts MYS Long Time No See brewing: there's a death-defying incident with a horse-drawn carriage, Isaacs, Susan LP-2487 and a gender-bending encounter with Judith Singer's life has changed. She Emily's ex-husband. And the plot now has her doctorate in history. Her thickens like Irish stew when the group husband, Bob, died one half day after settles into Ballybantry Castle, where a triumphantly finishing the New York ghost is said to wander the halls. City Marathon. And although 20 years have passed without seeing him, she's MYS State of the Onion never succeeded in getting her former Hyzy, Julie A. LP-3378 lover, Nelson Sharpe out of her thoughts. Never let them see you sweat, that's White House Assistant Chef Olivia MYS Hot and Bothered Paras's motto, which is pretty hard to honor in the most important kitchen in Isenberg, Jane LP-2778 the world. She's hell-bent on earning (A Bel Barret Mystery) things are her dream job, executive chef. But her scarier since that black day in nemesis is vying for it, too. After Ollie September that shook Manhattan and witnesses a murder, she learns from the world. But across the river in her Secret Service boyfriend that the Hoboken, New Jersey, community killer is a world-class assassin. And college professor Bel Barrett intends to Ollie's the only person alive who can live without fear. Then one of her co- identify him. judges of a scholarship contest is found dead, a woman who lived a MYS A Fine Day for Murder strange double life as academic by day and stripper by night. Unsure which Ingersol, Jared LP-2902 world harbors her friend's murderer, Fallon, an L.A. homicide detective, Bel decides to investigate both. was on vacation when he read about the death in Beverly Hills. Carroll 122

MYS A Buried Lie MYS Six Strokes Under Isleib, Roberta LP-2665 Isleib, Roberta LP-2706 Up-and-coming golfer Cassie Burdette Cassandra Burdette used to carry clubs finds herself in the hell of a pro-am on the PGA tour, now she's swinging tournament. Teamed up with four them at the Qualifying School for the doctors, she's afraid she'll overdose on LPGA Tour. The competition is fierce, their oversized egos. But when one of but the standout so far is Kaitlin them turns up dead, Cassie suspects Rupert, whose talent and beauty are these doctors prescribe to a very eclipsed only by her attitude. But it's different kind of game. still a shock when Kaitlin's psychiatrist is found brutally murdered, and even MYS Deadly Advice more of a shock when the police look at Cassie as a prime suspect. Isleib, Roberta LP-3307

As a clinical psychologist and author MYS Easy Streets of an online advice column, Dr. Rebecca Butterman is supposed to help James, Bill LP-3271 people resolve their internal conflicts, For years Colin Harpur's dubious boss, not stir up her own. But when her next- Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, door neighbor allegedly commits ran a questionable but practical suicide, Rebecca's investigative arrangement with Mansel Shale and instincts make it hard to maintain Panicking Ralph Ember, owner of the appropriate boundaries. Monty Club: Iles would protect their businesses if they ensured peace on the streets. But after a small-time criminal's MYS Putt to Death house is firebombed, leaving the owner Isleib, Roberta LP-2754 and his daughter dead, mistrust and (Also available in regular print (AN- uncertainty pervade the formerly 0227)). Delighted when she is given managed streets. the touring pro job at a posh Connecticut country club, golfer MYS Devices and Desires Cassie Burdette is stunned when she James, P. D. LP-0154 stumbles upon the corpse of an Commander Adam Dalgliesh has a unpopular member and is forced to newly published book of poetry, and a turn sleuth once again to find a killer. fresh murder to solve.

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MYS Unnatural Causes MYS Day of the Dead James, P. D. LP-0207 Jance, J. A. LP-2725 Adam Dagliesh and his extraordinary (Also available in regular print aunt must discover why a mystery (AR-0897)). Joining the Last Chance writer was murdered in such a Club to review unsolved crimes, former grotesque fashion. sheriff Brandon Walker unexpectedly confronts one of his own botched cases and a serial murderer who is responsible MYS The Belles of Solace Glen for the heinous deaths of numerous James, Susan S. LP-2847 orphan girls in colonial Mexico. (Also available in regular print (AO-226)). (Prime Crime) When MYS Paradise Lost Leona, the town matriarch, has a heart Jance, J. A. LP-2420 attack right in front of her maid, Flip The desecrated body of a missing Paxton, carrying out Leona's dying Phoenix heiress is found in the Arizona wish, delivers three letters to her niece wilderness by two teenage girls, one of that cause a series of mysterious which is Conchise County Sheriff Joanna accidents to befall those named in Brady's daughter. When the body Leona's will, including Flip. becomes only the first piece in a twisted and sinister puzzle in which nothing MYS The Siren of Solace Glen seems to fit, Brady must find a way to protect her daughter from a murderer. James, Susan S. LP-3064

(Also available in regular print MYS Donna Rose and the Slug (AR-0673)). Newly engaged, cleaning War maven and occasional sleuth Flip Johnson, Norma T. LP-3032 Paxton finds her relationship threatened by the arrival of a beautiful Retired schoolteacher Donna blonde from Los Angeles who is being Galbreath loves her community of tormented by a dangerous stalker, Cedar Harbor, Washington, but it's bringing violence to the quiet town of changing. That fact is brought home to Solace Glen . Donna when, digging clams one morning, she finds the body of water board chairman Lyle Corrigan. Then, after she and Lyle's widow are

attacked, Donna begins to investigate.

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MYS Fine-Feathered Death instincts to catch a clever killer intent Johnston, Linda O. LP-3255 on framing her furry little friends. Kendra Ballantyne, Esq., is flying high. Her license to practice law has MYS Shaman Pass been rightfully restored, she's dating Jones, Stan LP-2964 the foxiest P.I. in all of L.A., and she State Trooper Nathan Active is still gets to moonlight as a pet-sitter. regarded as "half-white" by the Now, to earn a much-needed feather in Inupiats of the village where he is her cap, Kendra must work closely on stationed. He was born in Chukchi but a new case with law partner Ezra adopted and raised in Anchorage. Now Cossner. But things stop short when he is called upon to investigate the he's found murdered in his office and murder of a tribal leader who, while the only witness is of the avian fishing at an ice hole, was stabbed to persuasion. death with an antique ivory and wood harpoon which had just been returned MYS Meow is for Murder to the community by the Smithsonian Johnston, Linda O. LP-3298 in accordance with the Indian Graves Act. (Also available in regular print (AS- 0940)). The claws come out when Kendra Ballantyne, pet-sitter and MYS Remains to be Scene occasional sleuth, agrees to help prove Jordan, R. T. LP-3305 the innocence of her boyfriend's Polly Pepper is a living legend, straight manipulative ex-wife when she is from television's golden age, complete accused of murdering the man who has with a star on Hollywood's Walk of been stalking her . Fame. Polly could send audiences into tearful hysterics with even the lamest MYS Nothing to Fear but gag but that was thirty years ago. Ferrets These days, she'd kill for a decent role. Johnston, Linda O. LP-2963 It kind of looks that way when her dear friend's untimely death opens up a part (Also available in regular print in a blockbuster musical, then Polly's (AR-1225)). Former litigator-turned- rival for the role falls to her death. freelance-pet-sitter, Kendra Ballantyne, while minding her client's ferrets, stumbles upon the dead body of a reality star and hones her animal

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MYS They Call Me Miranda MYS Jupiter's Bones Judge, Sara LP-2794 Kellerman, Faye LP-2224 Miranda Hawton is mistress of A world-renowned astrophysicist- Hazelwood, with a kind but somewhat turned-cult leader has been found dead aloof husband and an adorable baby and LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker son. But she has lost her memory, and must find out if it was an accident, knows nothing of her past. Her suicide, or homicide. Decker will need husband, the only person who knows his wife's help in defusing a time bomb the truth, will tell her nothing. And of jealousy, greed, bizarre hidden although those close to her seem pasts, and deadly secrets ticking inside friendly enough, there is an underlying the cult's fortress. antagonism. MYS The Forgotten MYS Fax Me a Bagel Kellerman, Faye LP-2301 Kahn, Sharon LP-3065 Having submitted for counseling a Ruby, the widow of the rabbi in Eternal, troubled wealthy teen who desecrated Texas. When a patron drops dead in The a synagogue, Rina Lazarus discovers Hot Bagel, Ruby's friend the baker faces there is more to the case when the boy interrogation and Ruby starts wondering and his therapists are murdered. about a connection to her husband's still- unsolved hit-and-run death. MYS Wed and Buried

Kelner, Toni LP-3019 MYS Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker (A Laura Fleming Mystery) Since the birth of her six-month-old daughter, Keating, H. R. F. LP-3048 Laura Fleming has wanted to do Inspector Ghote embarks on a strange nothing but camp out in her Boston case when he is ordered to prevent the apartment and dream of having one killing of a flamingo in the Bombay zoo. good night's sleep. But then her Aunt And then there is the racehorse fancied to Nora calls to say there's trouble win the Derby, which gets replaced by a brewing back home in Byerly, North donkey, Saddled with a sergeant of Carolina. It seems Aunt Maggie has hilarious incompetence, he unearths the traces of a monstrous practical joker. gone and married Big Bill Walters - and now someone's trying to kill the old coot. That's enough to get Laura

packing the diaper bag.

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MYS Chameleon MYS Berried Alive Kienzle, William X. LP-0109 Kingsbury, Kate LP-2836 Sleuth father Koesler is on the track of (Also available in regular print a murderer responsible for killing the (AN-0213)). At the height of World War most influential people in his II, Elizabeth Harleigh Compton, the lady archdiocese. of Manor House, struggles to make sure that everything goes smoothly, a task complicated by the mysterious deaths of MYS The Ghost and Mrs. four American servicemen, all of whom McClure had red hair, spent their last nights alive Kimberly, Alice LP-2843 at the Tudor Arms, and died by (Also available in regular print poisoning. (AL-0309)). (A Haunted Bookshop Mystery, Prime Crime) When a MYS Fire When Ready guest author drops dead in the middle Kingsbury, Kate LP-2898 of a book signing after revealing a In World War II England, the quiet secret about a 1940s mystery that is village of Sitting Marsh is faced with linked to their bookstore, young food rations and fear for loved ones. widow Penelope Thorton-McClure and The residents depend on Elizabeth her aunt set out to find the truth, with a Hartleigh Compton, lady of the manor little otherworldly assistance. house, who stubbornly insists that life must go on. Then, after she quells their MYS The Ghost and the Dead fears about having a munitions factory Deb in the village, the factory explodes, Kimberly, Alice LP-3119 killing owner Douglas McNally.

(Also available in regular print MYS No Clue at the Inn (AR-1356)). When the author of a true crime novel is found strangled to death Kingsbury, Kate LP-3121 while promoting her book at Penelope When asked to manage the Pennyfoot Thornton-McClure's bookshop, Hotel over the Christmas holiday, Penelope and resident ghost, P.I. Jack former owner Cecily Sinclair Baxter is Shepard, who cannot rest in peace until delighted. When a housemaid goes the killer is found, are fast on the case. missing, soon followed by one of London's most renowned barristers, Cecily realizes that she may be on holiday, but death is not. 127

MYS Wedding Rows MYS The Inspector's Daughter Kingsbury, Kate LP-3120 Knight, Alanna LP-3223 (Also available in regular print In a desperate attempt to recover from the (AR-2091)). The townspeople of loss of her husband and baby son, Rose Sitting Marsh finally have a reason to McQuinn has returned home to celebrate as wedding preparations Edinburgh from the American Wild West. It seems that everything has moved begin for a local couple, but when the on in her absence, but Rose has little time blessed day ends in murder, Elizabeth to ponder her loneliness before she Hartleigh Compton, the lady of Manor unwittingly steps into the shoes of her House, is on the case. father, the legendary Detective Inspector Faro. MYS The Deadly Garden Tour Klein, Kathleen LP-3052 MYS The Crafty Teddy Divorced after twenty-three years of Lamb, John J. LP-3344 marriage, garden designer Liz Clarke When his wife's anniversary gift, a returns to Greenwich, Connecticut, valuable, antique teddy bear, is stolen, seeking the haven of her childhood. But retired cop Brad Lyon must discover her nostalgic memories are interrupted by the fur-fetched connection between the a hysterical phone call - her pregnant theft and the murder of a local museum goddaughter, Melissa, has discovered the curator. bloody body of the chairwoman of the Backcountry Garden Club's annual tour. Liz must shift her focus from dirt to MYS Mc Nally's Dare detection to save Melissa from suspicion. Lardo, Vincent LP-2827 (Also available in regular print MYS The Gowrie Conspiracy (AO-0351)). (An Archy Mc Nally Knight, Alanna LP-2709 Novel) In the wake of a murder during Tam Eildor's second time-quest, set in the a prestigious tennis benefit, Archy reign of James VI of Scotland and 1st of McNally investigates the identity of England, takes place in Falkland Palace. Lance Talbot, whom he suspects may not Tam rescues King James from a runaway be a true heir to a recently deceased Palm horse and spends some considerable time Beach dowager duchess and whose thereafter avoiding the attentions of his questionable relationships draw links to a grateful monarch while trying to solve double murder. the inexplicable murder of Queen Anne's midwife.

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MYS Pretty Poison MYS The First Law Lavene, Joyce LP-3066 Lescroart, John LP-2646 (A Garden Mystery) Meet Peggy Lee: John Lescroart returns with a botanist, detective's widow, and owner spellbinding novel about events that of The Potting Shed, an urban force defense attorney Dismas Hardy gardener's paradise in downtown and Lieutenant Abe Glitsky outside the Charlotte. It's a busy fall day for law and into a fight for their lives. Peggy. First she gives a quick cafe lecture on African violets, then has a MYS The Oath minor bike accident involving a good- Lescroart, John LP-2428 looking driver, and finally reaches her shop - only to find a dead man (Also available in regular print sprawled face down across one of her (AG-0201)). While investigating the seasonal displays, apparently done to murder of the head of San Francisco's death with a garden shovel. largest HMO, defense attorney Dismas Hardy discovers too many patients are MYS Mr. Paradise dying, and it looks like it is the Leonard, Elmore LP-2683 hospital that is killing them.

(Also available in regular print MYS The Second Chair (AR-0874)). At 27, roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and Lescroart, John LP-3028 their loft just fine. Kelly is a model for (Also available in regular print the Victoria's Secret catalog. Chloe is a (AR-0354)). A managing partner at his highly-paid escort, until she decides to thriving law firm, Dismas Hardy ditch her varied clientele in favor of a becomes involved in a high-profile steady gig as girlfriend to 84-year-old case involving the teenage son of a retired lawyer Tony Paradise, a.k.a. prominent San Francisco family who Mr. Paradise. One night Chloe has been arrested for the murders of convinces Kelly to join them. But the his girlfriend and English teacher, game gets out of control and before it's while an unseen killer, known as The all over, there will be two corpses, two Executioner, terrorizes the inhabitants angry hit men, one identity switch, a of the city with a series of shocking safe deposit box full of loot up for sniper killings. grabs, and fast on the scene, detective Frank Delsa.

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MYS On the Edge perils of running wild rivers are tame Lovesey, Peter LP-2666 compared to the hidden dangers in the high-stakes game of art collecting. Peacetime is a disappointment to Rose and Antonia, who enjoyed excitement and independence as WAAF plotters on MYS Murder on the Rocks an RAF base. But what are plotters for, if Mac Inerney, Karen LP-3221 not to plot? Antonia's ruthless scheme would give them both what they want. If Trading Texas heat for Maine's tangy salt Rosie doesn't lose her nerve, they could air, Natalie Barnes has risked it all to buy get away with murder. the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on Cranberry Island. She adores whipping up wicked blueberry coffee MYS The Detective Wore Silk cake and to-die-for fudge frosted Drawers brownies for her visitors. But when one Lovesey , Peter LP-2262 of her guests turns up dead, the police, Sergeant Cribb finds himself immersed and most of the islanders, think Natalie has added murder to the mix. in the world of nineteenth-century pugilism, investigating a ring promoting the dangerous, illegal sport MYS Pamela of bareknuckle boxing. Cribb sends Mac Kie, Mary LP-2095 Constable Jago, the police boxing She awoke in a hospital bed with no champion, as an undercover agent to identity and no memory of her past, the house rumored to be the gang's and had to be sedated. But other secret training center. Already the people knew she was Pamela Lane. decapitated body of one pugilist has They told her about the accident at her been fished out of the Thames. To cottage, and that she had nearly died in keep Jago out of the river's dark a fire. The stepmother who came to waters, Cribb must think on his feet in claim her seemed kind, but the more this mystery's final rounds. Pamela learned, the more questions

she had. Why hadn't she visited her MYS Blue Smoke and Murder family for five years? More important, Lowell, Elizabeth LP-3377 whose car had sped away from her Zach Balfour works part-time as a cottage moments before the rescuers consultant for St. Kilda. Protecting Jill arrived? will take him into familiar territory, but Jill is in deeper waters than she's ever known; as she soon discovers, the 130

MYS Wilder Rumors days. But when Bianca disappears after informing the Murder of the Month Book Mac Rae, Molly LP-3295 Club that the Russell County District Lewis Wilder thinks he's found an Attorney had killed his wife, Jane has to uncomplicated life when he becomes put aside her books to save her daughter. curator of the history museum in Nolichucky, Tennessee, a tiny town MYS Faux Finished snoozing in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He's wrong. While Marberg, Peg LP-3300 Wilder is getting to know his new Seville, Indiana, has one interior design neighbors, the Fox a burglar with a sense firm, co-founded by Jean Hastings and of style is getting acquainted with the her daughter, Jean Jr. Lately they're neighbors' portable antiques. And when finding that the keen eyes needed for anonymous envelopes of cash start plotting color schemes and tracking down arriving at the museum, rumors fly. flea market treasures also come in handy for interpreting more sinister designs. MYS An Ominous Death Mahon, Annette LP-3213 MYS Hanging Hannah Maggie Browne and the members of Marshall, Evan LP-2749 the St. Rose Quilting Bee are back, Literary agent Jane Stuart is eager to get attempting to solve a mystery as they back to a normal life. As she makes plans work on their quilts. Sometime Bee for her son's birthday party at a local inn, member Candy Breckner is at the Palo the body of an unknown woman is found Verde Care Center to recover from an hanging in the nearby woods. Editor Holly Griffin assigns Jane to represent a auto accident. When Maggie and the hot pop star as a distraction from the Bee decide to visit and bring her a lap murder until Holly, too, winds up dead. quilt, Candy breaks down: she fears an Jane is determined to solve both murders "angel of death" is at work in the with Winky's help . facility. Soon after, Candy dies suddenly. MYS Icing Ivy

MYS Murder of the Month Marshall, Evan LP-2521 Jane and Ivy were best friends until Ivy's Main , Elizabeth LP-3067 daughter was murdered. Now, at a Jane Serrano had a lifelong love of writer's retreat being held by Jane, they books, which had helped her through her intend to try healing those wounds. But husband's tragic death and conflicts with Ivy winds up dead, stabbed with an ice her youngest daughter, Bianca. She even pick, on a lonely mountain trail. took a job at a bookstore to fill her empty

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MYS Missing Marlene MYS Kiss Marshall , Evan LP-2755 Mc Bain , Ed LP-0159 Jane Stuart, a widowed young mother Detective Carella of the 87th precinct and literary agent, and Winky, her finds himself a helpless observer in the tortoiseshell cat with a nose for most painful case of his life. trouble. When her nanny fails to show up at school to pick up her son, Jane MYS Blue Blood begins to uncover the nanny's shocking Mc Bride, Susan LP-2840 secret life and finds a critical clue that could reveal a killer. Determined to escape her life as a socialite, much to the dismay of her MYS Stabbing Stephanie high society mother, Dallas heiress and Web site designer Andy Kendricks Marshall, Evan LP-2832 turns sleuth when her friend, Molly Deciding to take a much-needed O'Brien, is accused of killing her boss vacation, literary agent Jane Stuart gets at the sleazy local restaurant "Jugs," an a call from her late husband's cousin, investigation that embroils her with a Stephanie, asking if she can stay with shady TV evangelist, a fanatical anti- Jane for a few days before she starts porn activist, and a killer. her new job as editor at a hot publishing house. Jane reluctantly MYS Never to Let Go agrees, but soon realizes something rotten is going on in the publishing Mc Fadden, Marlene LP-2162 house. When Stephanie is found Twelve months have passed since murdered, Jane goes undercover to Sasha first met and fell in love with find the killer. Emil. After a whirlwind romance in Brittany, Sasha returned home full of MYS Toasting Tina plans for the future, and was overjoyed when Emil wrote daily and sent her an Marshall, Evan LP-2841 engagement ring. Then, suddenly, (Also available in regular print there was silence.Now, Sasha has (AP-0268)). While at a romance authors come back to Brittany, searching for convention, literary agent Jane Stuart and some explanation for Emil's abrupt her feline companion Winky find disappearance. But all she encounters themselves immersed in a murder is secrecy. She is determined that mystery when Tina Vale, the publisher someday, somehow, she will find Emil who destroyed Jane's reputation, is found again. electrocuted in her bathtub. 132

MYS Bitter Sweets MYS Death by Chocolate Mc Kevett, G. A. LP-3021 Mc Kevett, G. A. LP-2545 No sooner does P.I. Savannah Reid When gourmet cook Lady Eleanor, complete her Moonlight Magnolia a.k.a. "The Queen of Chocolate," is Detective Agency's first case, finding murdered under the watchful eye of someone's long-lost sister, than murder curvaceous P.I. Savannah Reid, enters the picture. Framed in a Savannah, with her reputation in diabolically clever double-cross, she tatters, must sift through a vast array of sets out to find the real culprit, only to suspects to catch a killer with a sweet discover that she's the prime suspect tooth. among the lovers, losers, and liars lurking in the victim's past. MYS Fat Free and Fatal Mc Kevett, G. A. LP-3364 MYS Cereal Killer (Also available in regular print (AU- Mc Kevett, G. A. LP-2727 0819)). Curvaceous P.I. Savannah (Also available in regular print Reid learns that you can never be too (AR-0108)). When two full-figured rich, too thin, or too twisted when her models meet untimely deaths, plus- boss, the newly svelte actress Dona sized private eye Savannah Reid Papalardo, becomes the target of a decides it's time to weigh the facts, and very determined killer who is search for suspects, before a cunning desperate for fifteen minutes of fame. killer strikes again. MYS Just Desserts MYS Cooked Goose Mc Kevett , G. A. LP-2607 Mc Kevett, G. A. LP-2661 Finding herself in over her head with a case involving a politician's It's hard for voluptuous private eye infidelities, chubby Detective Sergeant Savannah Reid to get in the Christmas Savannah Reid is told that she must spirit in San Carmelita, California; it's turn in her badge because she is a balmy 90 degrees. While she's on the overweight. case of a serial rapist who dresses like

Santa, Savannah looks over her list of suspects and tries to keep danger from dropping down her chimney.

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MYS Murder a la Mode blames the pageant, where competition Mc Kevett, G. A. LP-3057 is has become so fierce that someone's been driven to murder. (Also available in regular print (AR-2425)). Voluptuous private MYS Sugar and Spite detective Savannah Reid is chosen to Mc Kevett, G. A. LP-2572 compete for the affections of handsome Lance Roman on a reality TV show "Full-figured" private detective called "Man of My Dreams," but Savannah Reid is back. It's Valentine's things take a sinister turn when one of Day, and the former Dixie belle's only the producers is found dead on the set. shot at romance includes a stakeout with her ex-partner Dirk Coulter. After pulling an all-nighter, Dirk's ex-wife MYS Peaches and Screams Polly shows up at Savannah's door. Mc Kevett , G. A. LP-2893 Days later, Polly is found dead in a Plus-sized private eye Savannah Reid pool of blood in Dirk's home, shot by is about to discover the answer to that his service revolver. Savannah goes to age-old question: What could be worse work to clear his name. than going back home to the Deep South in the height of August MYS Star Spangled Murder humidity? It's going home to a Meier, Leslie LP-2831 wedding, not your own, without a ring As the Fourth of July approaches, small- on your finger or a date on your arm. town homemaker and part-time reporter But a hideous bridesmaid's dress is the Lucy Stone starts things off with a bang least of Savannah's problems after her as she sets out to catch the killer of the kid brother is arrested for murder. crabby neighbor with whom Lucy and her husband had a long-standing feud. MYS Sour Grapes Mc Kevett, G. A. LP-2826 MYS Tippy-Toe Murder (A Savannah Reid Mystery) Things Meier, Leslie LP-2493 finally seem to be calm in Savannah's A retired ballet instructor took a detour life, until her spoiled baby sister, into the woods and was never seen again. Atlanta, comes to San Carmelita to Then a local storeowner takes a compete in the Miss Gold Coast deathblow to the head with a video Beauty Pageant. Savannah is camera. And now, as Lucy Stone's own concerned over her sister's growing seven-year-old prima ballerina rehearses obsession with her appearance, and for her debut, a murderer prepares for an encore. 134

MYS Wedding Day Murder MYS Late, Late in the Evening Meier, Leslie LP-2553 Mitchell, Gladys LP-2669 Lucy is asked by her friend Sue Finch to In the small Oxfordshire village where help plan the wedding of Sue's daughter Ken and Meg Clifton spend their to an Internet millionaire. When the school holidays, the Fair is the most groom's body is found floating beside his exciting thing that ever happens, that yacht, Lucy's not convinced this was an is, until a double murder is committed. accident. Soon, Lucy finds herself The general opinion is that the village contemplating her own funeral as she contains a homicidal maniac. Mrs. launches a harrowing pursuit of a killer. Bradley, called in by her friend Mrs. Kempson, thinks otherwise. MYS Murder by the Book Meredith, D. R. LP-3256 MYS Death is a Cabaret (Also available in regular print Morgan, Deborah LP-2329 (AR-2426)). (Prime Crime) When Former FBI agent Jeff Talbot, a reference librarian Megan Clark stumbles professional antiques picker, is forced upon corpses all over town, she becomes to draw on his old crime-solving skills the prime suspect in the killings and must when a priceless French cabaret set, find the real killer, who is mimicking murders contained within the pages of commissioned by Napoleon for Agatha Christie's novels, leading her to Josephine, goes up for auction and believe that it might be one of her reading rival collectors start turning up dead. group members. MYS The Majolica Murders MYS Other Worlds: The Bell Morgan, Deborah LP-3198 Witch & the Stratford Haunting Ex-FBI agent and antiques picker Jeff Michaels, Barbara LP-2104 Talbot asks Lanny, a fellow picker, to A lofty assemblage of crime specialists scout out some antique majolica as a gathers one foggy evening in a London present for his wife, with no idea how club. There the conversation turns to costly it will be. Lanny is a bit of a murder. Best-selling author Barbara loner, but Jeff has always liked him. Michaels, delivers a page-turner in the So it comes as a total shock when the grand tradition, adding a sharp, young man is arrested for murdering modern sensibility to a delightfully an antiques dealer, after she sold two chilling novel. pieces of majolica she was supposed to hold for him.

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MYS The Marriage Casket MYS A Whisper of Evil Morgan, Deborah LP-2844 Morley, Des LP-2613 While browsing for antiques at the late Skilled undercover agent Janet La Barre Verna Rose's estate, ex-FBI agent and had just broken a major crime syndicate antiques collector Jeff Talbot discovers in Florence, Italy. On returning home, a bloodstain underneath the priceless she is immediately assigned to a case rugs, leading him to believe that Verna involving several missing girls. But what was murdered, and commences his is the connection between her last case own investigation where he stumbles and this one? And who is the mysterious Janet La Barre? upon an old marriage casket that holds the key to this mystery. MYS Bad Boy Brawly Brown

Mosley, Walter LP-2566 MYS The Weedless Widow Easy Rawlins returns in this dazzling new Morgan, Deborah LP-2554 novel of passion and justice in 1964 L.A. When his fishing buddy, Bill Rhodes, When an old friend asks Easy to find his is murdered and his lure collection missing stepson, Brawly Brown, Easy stolen, former FBI agent and antiques soon finds himself dodging the cops, who expert Jeff Talbot tracks the lures to an want to pin him for murder. online auction site, but when he gets closer, Talbot's agoraphobic wife is MYS Beyond the Grave abducted. Muller, Marcia LP-2296 A treasure chest buried by a priest in MYS Creature Cozies 1846 links John Quincannon, a private Morgan, Jill M. LP-3068 investigator in the San Francisco of the Featuring a lovable cast of crime- gaudy 1890's, to the cozy career, solving canines and sly, sleuthing cats, nearly a century later, of Elena this unique collection of eleven Oliverez, director of Santa Barbara's mysteries, written by some of today's Museum of Mexican Art. For all his most beloved authors with a little daring and ingenuity, Quincannon inspiration from their four-legged ultimately fails in his quest to uncover friends - takes the age-old friendship the priceless artifacts of the old between pets and their providers and Velasquez family. But in 1986, long stands it on its fuzzy ear. after his death, his notes on the case lead his unlikely collaborator Oliverez to the site of the lost fortune, and into the arms of a murderous peril. 136

MYS Play It Again, Spam quirky clan in line and out of trouble. Myers, Tamar LP-2965 But he's about to learn that when it comes to murder, there's no such thing Magdalena just found out that her as a clean getaway. Even though husband is a bigamist, her Amish Benjamin disapproved of his sister Country Inn has been destroyed by a Louisa dating the store's oily tornado, and now her sister is marrying ingredient supplier, he never wanted to her sworn enemy, the dim-witted find the guy dead, with a broken neck police chief. And in the midst of trying and lye burns on his handsome face. to pull her life and her inn back together, and trying to find new ways to use Spam in her simple country MYS Death Waxed Over cuisine, one of her guests is missing. Myers, Tim LP-3215 With the police chief stuck on Cloud (Also available in regular print Nine with her sister, it's up to (AR-1600)). (A Candlemaking Magdalena to solve this mystery in Mystery, Prime Crime) When his time for a piece of wedding cake. ruthless competitor, Gretel Barnett, is killed a few feet away from him, MYS The Cane Mutiny Harrison Black, owner of At Wick's Myers, Tamar LP-3214 End, has no interest in investigating (Also available in regular print the crime for himself, until he becomes the prime suspect in her murder. (AR-2522)). Winning the bid at an auction for the contents of an old locker that has been sealed for years, MYS Property of Blood Abigail Timberlake Washburn is Nabb, Magdalen LP-2670 delighted to discover a collection of The head of a prominent fashion beautiful old walking sticks, as well as house, Contessa Olivia Brunamonti, a gym bag containing a human skull, has been kidnapped and is being held and joins forces with her assistant and for ransom deep in the Tuscan hills. future sister-in-law C.J. to uncover a Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the killer. carabinieri, a Sicilian stationed in Florence, must track the kidnappers in MYS Dead Men Don't Lye order to save her life. Myers, Tim LP-3192 Benjamin Perkins thought he had his hands full taking care of his family's specialty soap store and keeping his 137

MYS The Night She Died MYS Love Her to Death Ormerod , Roger LP-2828 Palmer , Linda LP-3025 Retired Detective Inspector Richard Daytime drama writer Morgan Tyler Patton returns from walking his dogs has been promoted to co-executive to find an unexpected visitor. At first producer of Love of My Life, and her Connie Freeman's name means nothing new job makes her responsible for, to him. Then, suddenly, he remembers everything. That includes hostile a storm, violence, murder. Ten years studio execs, suspicious packages, and ago, Connie was found guilty of Cybelle Carter, a leading lady who's murdering her husband's mistress. terrified that her estranged husband Having served her sentence, now she's wants her dead. And when another desperate to clear her name. actress on the show is found dead, it looks like the killer missed his mark. MYS Case of Lies O'Shaughness, Perri LP-3085 MYS Deadlock Attorney Nina Reilly is ready to take Paretsky, Sara LP-0202 on her biggest challenge yet: coming The mysterious drowning of her home. As Nina unravels a murder, she hockey star cousin stirs Chicago exposes the secrets and lies lurking female investigator V. I. Warshawski behind tragedy. into action, leading her into the hazy labyrinth of the Great Lakes shipping MYS The Body in the Bookcase world.

Page, Katherine H. LP-2596 MYS Fire Sale Faith Fairchild is busy arranging the details of a society wedding. While Paretsky, Sara LP-3129 making some parish calls, she (Also available in regular print discovers the body of elderly Sarah (AS-0076)). Coaching the basketball Winslow. The house has been team at her former South Chicago high ransacked and Faith is determined to school, V.I. Warshawski investigates find the burglars responsible for sabotage at the site of the area's largest Sarah's death. employer, where an explosion has killed the facility's owner and launched a dangerous family rivalry.

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MYS Guardian Angel MYS Double Deuce Paretsky, Sara LP-0156 Parker, Robert B. LP-0203 When a crotchety 80-year-old starts Spenser delves into the drug-infested wrangling with a yuppie couple over the and poverty plagued world of a Boston state of the neighborhood, it's up to tough housing project, taking on street-smart private eye V.I. Warshawski to come to gangs while searching for suspects in his rescue. And the emotional stew the drive-by shooting of a 15-year-old thickens further when the old man's body girl and her child. turns up in a canal and Mr. Yuppie turns out to be a corrupt lawyer. MYS Hundred-Dollar Baby MYS Hard Time Parker, Robert B. LP-3346 Paretsky, Sara LP-2135 In a tale that reintroduces the character V. I. Warshawski takes on the of runaway prostitute April Kyle, a entertainment industry when a fateful poised adult April, now the head of an Good Samaritan act on behalf of a upscale Boston call-girl operation, woman lying injured in the street plunges requests private investigator Spenser's the plucky PI into a case involving help in preventing a local kingpin from dastardly deeds committed by the world's seizing control of her enterprise. largest provider of security and prison services. MYS Melancholy Baby MYS Cold Service Parker, Robert B. LP-2966 Parker, Robert B. LP-3123 (Also available in regular print When his buddy Hawk is beaten within (AR-1604)). Upset by her ex-husband an inch of his life, Spenser infiltrates a Richie's upcoming marriage, private ruthless mob in the name of friendship, detective Sunny Randall takes the case and revenge. of college student Sarah Markham, a troubled young woman searching for MYS Death in Paradise her birth parents, but her investigation Parker, Robert B. LP-2560 uncovers dangerous secrets that could (Also available in regular print not only shatter Sarah's life but also lead to painful secrets about her own (AE-0338)). A quiet New England town past. is shocked by the apparent murder of a troubled adolescent girl, a crime Chief of Police Jesse Stone cannot let go unsolved or unpunished. 139

MYS School Days multimillion reasons to want him dead, Parker , Robert B. LP-3194 she needs the best defense money can buy. Spenser is on the case, and would (Also available in regular print give anything to believe her. (AS-0528)). Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of MYS The Storm Runners her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting, Spenser wonders Parker, T. Jefferson LP-3347 why the boy seems unconcerned about Matt Stromsoe has come a long way his possible wrongful imprisonment. since his wife and son were killed in an attempt on his life. The explosion MYS Sea Change that tore his family apart also left him without an eye and wounded severely Parker, Robert B. LP-3312 in both body and spirit. He quit the (Also available in regular print (AS- police force and hit bottom pretty hard 1064)). Something has been killing but now he's got his life together, and people in the ocean, and when his best the man responsible for the murders, friend is found dead, rogue his best friend from high school, is oceanographer Brock Garner takes a behind bars. But Stromsoe's new life is personal interest and assembles a team about to collide with his old. to hunt the mysterious killer, in a thriller that explores what could MYS Blind Date happen when science forces nature to work against itself. Pattinson, James LP-2838 Steve Brady, reluctant secret agent and one-time antique dealer, had to take MYS Stardust the jobs that were offered, not only Parker, Robert B. LP-0112 because he needed the money but also Spenser signs on to protect a because they could twist his arm till glamorous star from anonymous the bones cracked. This time it was to harassments that soon turn to murder. be Iron Curtain country again, and, even though they handed out the same old reassurances, he didn't like the MYS Widow's Walk sound of it. Parker, Robert B. LP-2433 When one of Boston's elite is murdered, his new, young wife is accused. With no alibi, and

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MYS Southampton Row MYS The Rose Rent Perry, Anne LP-2427 Peters, Ellis LP-2218 As a divisive election approaches in In honor of her husband, young, Victorian England, passions are so high beautiful, and wealthy widow Judith that Thomas Pitt is ordered by his police Perle donates a house to the Abbey at superiors to postpone his holiday with Shrewsbury, for the annual rent of one Charlotte and the children. When the wife white rose. Judith has no shortage of of the Liberal candidate is found to have suitors, and if she remarries, her dowry been a participant in a séance, after which would be all the greater if the house the clairvoyant is found brutally were returned due to non-payment of murdered, Pitt is put on the case. rent. So when a priest charged with

delivering the rose is found murdered, MYS Lion in the Valley and the rose bush is found hacked to Peters, Elizabeth LP-3415 pieces, Brother Cadfael finds he must Amelia and her Egyptologist husband root out a killer. are in Dahshoor on a much-coveted burial chamber dig at the Black MYS The Sanctuary Sparrow Pyramid. But the brazen moonlight Peters, Ellis LP-2161 abduction of their 8-year-old son has Sudden drama strikes the Benedictine alerted Amelia to the presence of her monastery at Shrewsbury when a young arch nemesis, the Master Criminal. But man, pursued by a lynching mob, claims with Amelia nearly in his grasp, it's far sanctuary just in time to save his life. The more than ill-gotten riches that accusation is robbery and murder, yet motivates the evil genius this time. Brother Cadfael senses his innocence and sets out to solve yet another tangle of MYS Raven in the Foregate human passions where love plays its inevitable part. Peters, Ellis LP-2249 In mid-December 1141, a callous new MYS An Unmourned Death priest arrives at Brother Cadfael's Peterson, Audrey LP-2518 Benedictine Abbey along with his The sights, sounds, and smells of housekeeper and her nephew, Benet. Victorian England are brought to life When the priest is murdered, suspicion as Jasmine Molloy, female private falls on Benet, who has begun working detective, negotiates the professional in Brother Cadfael's herb garden. The and social challenges facing a young, sleuth's search to find the real killer .

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MYS The Lighthouse into a pocket and brought out Pronzini , Bill LP-2311 something wrapped in a white cloth. Dave blanched, recognizing his own Anticipating a peaceful and relaxing gun, now a murder weapon. year in which to write and illustrate a book, college professor Jan Ryerson and his artist wife Alix move to the MYS The Devil to Pay isolated Cape Despair Lighthouse on a Queen, Ellery LP-2463 desolate stretch of Oregon coast. But Stocks rose, stocks fell, but Solly their well-laid plans are twisted awry Spaeth always came out ahead. The fat shortly after their arrival. Jan little man with the computer mind was experiences several terrifying a financial wizard, at making other blackouts, but conceals them from his people's money disappear into his own wife, fearing that she will leave him if pocket. Then Spaeth made one fast she knows he will soon be blind. The deal too many, and someone decided villagers, suspicious of the couple to make a different kind of killing. By from the start, become increasingly the time Ellery Queen arrived on the hostile and resentful. And then the scene, Solly had cashed in his blue murdered body of a young woman is chips. discovered .

MYS Calamity Town MYS The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette Queen, Ellery LP-2398 Raichev, R. T. LP-3268 Wrightsville is a typical American town in the great American heartland. On the day of the royal wedding in Daddy Wright is the town banker, July 1981 at a house party on the Momma the town social lioness, banks of the Thames, a little girl Patricia the town beauty, Nora the wanders off on her own. Later, her doll town recluse, Lola the town scandal. is found floating in the river, but the It's time to find out which one is the child herself is never seen again. town poisoner. Twenty years on and Antonia Darcy, divorcee and Military Club librarian, still puzzles over that fateful day. For MYS Murder with a Past there was not only the disappearance Queen, Ellery LP-2609 of the little girl, Sonya Dufrette, but Confused, Dave objected as Julian also the strange behavior of her awful Smith interrogated him about his father, his exotic wife, and their wife's whereabouts. Smith reached hostess. 142

MYS Strip Jack MYS Crowner and Justice Rankin, Ian LP-2169 Roberts, Barrie LP-2671 When MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Busy criminal lawyer Chris Tyroll is Edinburgh brothel with a prostitute, dreaming of long lunches, golf, and Jack's friends rally round to protect holidays one morning when three him, but some of those friends, clients come to him with totally particularly his wife's associates, are different problems. As he investigates not so squeaky clean themselves. the cases with the help of his sharp Initially Detective Inspector Rebus is girlfriend, Sheila McKenna, a chance sympathetic, who hasn't succumbed to comment by a witness reveals that all temptation? But with the three cases are somehow connected. disappearance of Jack's wife, the young man's popularity begins to falter. MYS The Legatus Mystery Rowe, Rosemary LP-2675 MYS Judgment in Death Reunited with his long-lost wife whom he has rescued from twenty years of Robb, J. D. LP-2393 slavery, Libertus hopes for some well- In this futuristic series combining earned tranquility. But preparations are mystery and suspense, police under way for the Emperor's birthday lieutenant Eve Dallas tracks down a celebrations, and are brought to a halt cop killer to an underground criminal when the murdered body of a visiting hellhole known as Purgatory. This club ambassador from Rome is discovered is the last chance for atonement, a in the temple. place where one's fate depends on one's most intimate sins. MYS Mc Nally's Dilemma

Sanders , Lawrence LP-2238 MYS Loyalty in Death After shooting her philandering Robb, J. D. LP-2254 husband in the heat of passion, Melva As an unknown bomber stalks the calls on her friend Archy McNally to streets of New York City, sending Eve shield her daughter from the media. Dallas taunting letters about his When he finds big holes in the stories crimes, the New York City police of the mother and daughter, McNally detective races against time to stop the must find an elusive woman who killer before he strikes too close to knows the truth. home.

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MYS Mc Nally's Secret MYS A Mist of Prophecies Sanders, Lawrence LP-0131 Saylor, Steven LP-3216 Although he doesn't usually handle A beautiful young seeress staggers across burglaries, playboy/sleuth Archy the Roman marketplace and dies in the McNally agrees to handle a "discrete" arms of Gordianus the Finder. Possibly case for a society matron. And his mad and claiming no memory of her past, search for stolen property leads Archy Cassandra, like her Trojan namesake, was into a maze of sex, lies, and blackmail, reputed to possess the gift of prophecy. uncovering a secret that's much too For such a gift there are many in Rome who would pay handsomely, or resort to close to home. murder. Obsessed with Cassandra and her mystery, Gordianus begins to investigate MYS Seventh Commandment her murder.

Sanders, Lawrence LP-0098 MYS Knit One, Kill Two When a jewelry magnate is murdered, a female insurance investigator Sefton, Maggie LP-2967 uncovers a variety of odd characters (Also available in regular print while trying to figure out which one is (AR-0826)). Finding a killer becomes the murderer. an all-too-personal quest for Kelly Flynn when she returns to Colorado MYS Certain Prey from Washington, D.C., to uncover the truth about the death of her beloved Sandford, John LP-2154 Aunt Helen, turning to the knitting Lucas Davenport faces his most regulars at the House of Lambspun for unusual and most implacable foe in a few lessons in knitting and in Clara Rinker, the best hitwoman in the capturing a murderer. business. She isn't showy, not one of those movie killers; she just goes MYS Needled to Death quietly about her business, collects her Sefton, Maggie LP-3122 money and goes home. It's when she's hired for a job in Minnesota that things (Also available in regular print become complicated for her. A defense (AR-1873)). When Kelly Flynn takes a attorney wants a rival eliminated, and group of tourists to visit Vickie that ’s fine , but when a witness Claymore's alpaca farm, she is greeted survives, the attorney starts acting by a dead body and must unravel the weird and loose ends begin popping truth in order to bring a clever killer to up. justice .

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MYS Relative Danger cut out for her when she stumbles upon Shaw, June LP-3350 a body and runs afoul of a clever killer. Cealie Gunther was content to be half a couple, until early widowhood made her MYS Downtown realize she'd lost herself. Setting off to Siddons, Anne River LP-2078 rediscover herself, Cealie meets Gil Thurman, an exciting man, but too sure Smoky O'Donnel arrives in Atlanta in of himself. So she shows up early for her 1966 to work as a writer with Atlanta's granddaughter Kat's graduation and Downtown magazine. From the discovers that a death has altered the remarkable men who change her life to teenager's plans. To make good on her the great social movements sweeping deathbed promise to be there for Kat, the nation, Smoky's world creates a Cealie needs help and the only one she powerful story of the end of innocence. can turn to is Gil.

MYS Death By Deep Dish Pie MYS The Messenger Short, Sharon LP-2837 Silva, Daniel LP-3405 (Also available in regular print Recovering from a showdown with a master terrorist in Jerusalem, art (AO-228 )). To protect her community, restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is Paradise, Ohio, laundromat owner and enlisted by a ruthless papal secretary to stain-removal expert Josie Toadfern assist in the investigation of a embarks on a search through small- murdered Swiss guard whose killer town secrets for a killer as she may be targeting the pope. investigates the murder of a pie- making bigwig who drops dead after sampling the wares of the MYS Paper, Scissors, Death Breitenstrater Pie Company. Slan, Joanna C. LP-3423 Mousy housewife Kiki Lowenstein has MYS Death in the Cards two great loves: scrapbooking and her young daughter, Anya. But her happy Short, Sharon LP-3053 family album is ruined when her (Also available in regular print husband, George, is found naked and (AR-0410)). When a local "Psychic dead in a hotel room. As Kiki tracks Fair" brings a host of mystics and down George's murderer, she soothsayers to Paradise, Ohio, local discovers his sordid secret life. Laundromat owner and stain removal expert Josie Toadfern finds her work 145

MYS Bead on Trouble folks don't expect to find a buffalo Smith, Barbara B. LP-3351 grazing on the front lawn, but that's exactly what Mac discovers early one Kitzi Camden, a retired stateswoman autumn morning. The buffalo turns out who has taken up beading as a hobby, to be the campaign mascot for is forced to turn sleuth when talented gubernatorial candidate Lance beader May Feather turns up dead Bullock, the son of a man Mac has during a beading retreat at Camp never expected, or wanted, to see Green Clover and Kitzi embarks on a again. He is a part of her life she search for an elusive killer. would prefer to keep hidden.

MYS Killing Man MYS Who Killed the Queen of Spillane, Mickey LP-0158 Clubs? Hammer finds his secretary severely Sprinkle , Patricia LP-3050 beaten and a mutilated corpse in his It's a high-stakes game for Hopemore, desk chair, the victim of a vicious Georgia, county magistrate Maclaren killer who is clearly after Hammer. Yarbrough when she investigates the murder of a bridge maven. State bridge MYS Guess Who's Coming to champion Edith Whelan Burkett has Die? been dealt a string of bad hands. Not Sprinkle, Patricia LP-3297 only did her husband commit suicide, When Georgia magistrate MacLaren he left her with a pile of debts. But all Yarbrough is invited to join the Edie's problems are trumped by her Magnolia Ladies' Investment Club, a murder. Once again, Mac Yarbrough is group of snobby dowagers and in the thick of things. heiresses, she discovers that murder is on the agenda when, during her first MYS Who Let That Killer in meeting, she stumbles upon the club the House? president's dead body. Sprinkle, Patricia LP-2610 (Also available in regular print MYS When Will the Dead Lady (AK-0241)). Tragedy once again Sing? revisits the town of Hopemore, Sprinkle, Patricia LP-2776 Georgia when DeWayne Evans, the Hopemore, Georgia, county magistrate town's beloved high school chemistry MacLaren Yarbrough is having a teacher and softball coach, commits couple of weird weeks. Hopemore suicide, but county magistrate

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MacLaren Yarbrough believes that MYS Where There's a Will DeWayne was the victim of murder Squire, Elizabeth LP-2540 and sets out to prove her theory. Peaches Dann's friends have come into

an inheritance that's made them rich. MYS Kill the Messenger But the will has provisions for the Squire, Elizabeth LP-2082 inheritance of any heir who dies within Isaiah Justice, owner and publisher of the year. A strange feature for a young a small-town newspaper called "The and healthy bunch, or is it? Defender," is dead from cyanide poisoning. His death makes the front MYS Whose Death is it, page of his newspaper and becomes Anyway? the focus of an investigation by the Squire, Elizabeth LP-2989 paper's top reporters. Then "The Defender's" major stockholders receive Cousin Fern from California stops a takeover bid from the Gemtrex conversation at the lively family Group, a large, shady corporation that reunion by announcing that several had been trying to buy the "Old Man" members of the clan have "The Mark out when he was murdered. of Murder" in their hands. Fern's palm- reading proclivities make trouble as a

real murder rocks the family. When MYS Memory Can Be Murder young cousin Kim disappears and a Squire , Elizabeth LP-2255 body is found with a face like hers, Peaches Dann was working on her but hands different from Kim's book, "How to Survive Without a handprints, Peaches Dann hurries to Memory," when she was interrupted find the killer. by a call from a cousin she hadn't seen in years. Peaches couldn't quite place MYS Nothing Gold Can Stay Anne at first, but she agreed to pay her a visit. During her stay she discovered Stabenow, Dana LP-2597 a corpse stuffed in a laundry chute. Banished to the remote shores of The dead man had upset a lot of folks, Bristol Bay, Alaska State Trooper including Anne, with his angry words Liam Campbell has started to get his and nasty threats. But someone, life and career back on track. His apparently struck back. Now Peaches rocky relationship with pilot Wyanet has to recall every detail of her visit, in Chouinard is finally going smoothly, the hope that she can find the killer, until she finds a dead body on one of and save herself from suspicion. her mail runs. When more bodies turn

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and frightening about the place, it had MYS A Killer Collection an aura of evil, of hidden, violent Stanley , J. B. LP-3217 things. They said Gillian was dead but Raised by her antiques-loving mother, she didn't believe them. Searching out Molly Appleby is carrying on the the truth led to trouble, also murder . tradition as a writer for Collector's Weekly magazine. Her new assignment: MYS Fit to Die cover the kiln opening of a rising star in Stuyck, Karen LP-3193 Southern pottery-making. No one worth his weight in clay would miss it. That Lauren Prescott is fifty, fat (according includes George-Bradley Staunton, North to her husband) and flat broke after he Carolina's most obnoxious collector. Pity empties their bank account, closes his he should drop dead so soon after the dental practice, and leaves town festivities. Ruled an accident, the case is without a word of explanation. To land closed. But Molly is suspicious. a magazine job, Lauren is writing a profile of a fitness guru who died MYS Chili Con Corpses while jogging, a death that is looking Stanley, J. B. LP-3411 increasingly suspicious. Now Lauren must decipher the brutal reality behind When Lindy suggests the supper club these two men's public facades, while members join a Mexican cooking a killer waits and watches. class, the five friends jump at the idea.

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MYS Twilight at Mac's Place he feels little emotion. Richard Thomas, Ross LP-0113 Gilchrist was not a warm man and showed scant affection for his son or A Los Angeles homicide detective turned his wife. So it was astonishing when actor struggles to find out who wants his his lifelong friend Clive took Luke father's memoirs bad enough to kill for them. aside after the funeral to hand over a box of letters. The letters revealed that Richard, under the name Edward MYS Going Home Marshall, had a second family living Thomson, June LP-3224 only miles away. But the letters ended Solitary widower Alex Lambert, beloved when Kitty Marshall was brutally of his deaf daughter Charlotte, prefers to murdered. Could his father have been keep to himself amongst the well-to-do not only a bigamist, but also a population of the village of Northrope. murderer? That is, until the charismatic and smooth Noel Murray moves into the neighborhood and Charlotte goes missing MYS Fall Into Death while walking home from school. Are the Toll, Emily LP-3020 two events linked? (Also available in regular print MYS The Secret Notebooks of (AN-0321)). While helping her Sherlock Holmes mother transform a dilapidated old house into a bed-and-breakfast, travel Thomson, June LP-2846 agency owner Lynne Montgomery A new collection of cases, based on unearths two skeletons in the Dr. John Watson's secret notebooks of basement, a discovery that forces the master detective's investigations, Lynne to dig for clues in a town where features the inimitable Sherlock some secrets are better left buried. Holmes in the "Case of the Cardinal's Corpse," "Case of the Aluminum MYS Keys to Death Crutch," "Case of the Upwood Scandal," and "Case of the Vanishing Toll, Emily LP-3069 Barque," among others. Travel agent Lynne Montgomery is making travel plans, but this time, MYS The Unquiet Grave they're for her. With no tour groups to lead, she and her daughter are going to Thomson, June LP-2337 visit her old friend Peggy Parker, When Luke Gilchrist watches his whose new resort has just opened in father's coffin lowered into its grave, the Florida Keys. But Lynne finds 149 herself caught in a tropical storm of city, but the sudden appearance of his trouble when she discovers one of mentally ill brother, Michael, leads Joe to Peggy's friends dead on the beach. suspect that Michael could be the real thing. MYS Murder Pans Out MYS Murder at Union Station Toll , Emily LP-2693 Truman, Margaret LP-2968 Lynne Montgomery leads a group of San Diego schoolteachers to (Also available in regular print California's Gold Rush Country, where (AR-1606)). As Louis Russo, former they rough it at the Murmuring Pines mob hit man and government Campground. When a mysterious informant, travels to Washington, accident leaves the campground's D.C., by train, two men are at Union owner near death, it becomes clear Station awaiting his arrival, the young someone wants this to be Lynne's final writer whose forthcoming book is tour. based on Russo's life, and the man who will kill him. MYS Murder at Ford's Theatre Truman, Margaret LP-2643 MYS Personal Injuries When the body of a young theatre Turow, Scott LP-2210 volunteer named Nadia Zarinski is To Robbie Feaver, the law is all about found in a dark alley, two cops, Rick making a play to a client, a jury, or Klayman and Moses "Mo" Johnson, judge. But when caught taking bribes, soon discover that Nadia was the he's forced to wear a wire in exchange intern for, and the rumored lover of, an for leniency. Even as he looks after his influential right-wing Senator, ailing wife, Feaver must make tapes plunging them into a world of greed that will hurl his friends, enemies, and and corruption. an FBI undercover agent into a crisis.

MYS Murder at the MYS Wings Above the Washington Tribune Diamantina Truman, Margaret LP-3264 Upfield, Arthur LP-2056 (Also available in regular print A stolen airplane lands on a waterless (AS-0526)). (A Capital Crimes Novel) lake in the far west of Queensland. In When two women are found murdered in the cockpit is a beautiful girl, drugged the nation's capital, crime reporter Joe and paralyzed, but no trace of the pilot. Wilcox invents a serial killer stalking the Within twenty-four hours the plane is 150 destroyed and an attempt made to fading marriage to adulterous police poison the helpless stranger. Inspector detective Kevin Quinn, an antisocial Napoleon Bonaparte turns to the stepson Riley, and a host of small- unearthly powers of an ancient tribal town secrets that could have deadly Chieftain and seer to outwit a repercussions. conspiracy and save a life. MYS Digging Up Trouble MYS The Princeton Imposter Webber, Heather LP-3203 Waldron, Ann LP-3306 (Also available in regular print Professor McLeod Dulany's unassuming (AR-2424)). Hired to do a surprise star student, Greg Pierre, actually is assuming, a false name, that is. When the garden makeover for her stepson's aunt student who ousted him is found and uncle, landscaper Nina Quinn has murdered, suspicion falls on Pierre. But no idea that she has been directed to McLeod believes in Pierre's innocence, the wrong yard, that the real owner of and now must trace the clues left behind the property will drop dead from a to find a killer's true identity. heart attack, that her teenage stepson is up to his ears in possible illegal MYS Murder by the Slice trouble, and that no one is terribly sorry that a man is dead. Washburn, Livia J. LP-3353

When the nasty president of Oliver MYS Trouble in Spades Loving Elementary's Parent-Teacher Organization is stabbed during a fund- Webber, Heather LP-2969 raising carnival, retired schoolteacher Landscaping is Nina Quinn's business, and baker extraordinaire Phyllis but trouble seems to be her middle Newsome is shocked to learn that she name. Saddled with a recently may have used the knife that killed expelled, faithless local-cop husband, a her. teenaged terror of a stepson, and the yappiest, most unhousebreakable MYS A Hoe Lot of Trouble Chihuahua in captivity, Nina needs a Webber, Heather LP-2835 break. The backyard makeover she's doing for her sister Maria and her Master landscaper Nina Colette Ceceri fiancé, Nate, does the trick, until Nate Quinn turns sleuth to investigate the vanishes mysteriously, and Nina's murder of the elderly man who had gardening inadvertently turns up a introduced her to the joys of corpse. horticulture, while also dealing with a 151

MYS Murder and the Mad Angie plunge into the spooky heart of Hatter old New England to save their bird. Wilson, Barbara J. LP-2542 MYS Murder in the Forecast When sleazy talent agent Lemon B. Crenshaw entangles Brenda Midnight Wolzien, Valerie LP-2405 in a complex legal bind, the milliner Hired to remodel the grandest old and amateur sleuth decides to get even house on Cape May Island, contractor by stealing his beloved brassiere Josie Pigeon figures her summer is collection, only to find herself the made. But before she can lift a prime suspect in his murder. hammer, she finds her new employer, a wealthy New Yorker, murdered on MYS Pipsqueak the premises with a strip of drop cloth Wiprud, Brian M. LP-3070 twisted around his neck. When Hurricane Agatha sweeps away both (Also available in regular print the house and the body, Josie pursues (AN-0329)). New York City the truth and tries to nail down a killer. taxidermy collector Garth Carson and his girlfriend, Angie, launch a MYS Dead Folks' Blues rollicking, suspenseful quest to find Womack, Steven LP-3058 Pipsqueak the Nutty Nut, a stuffed- squirrel puppet of a popular 1950s Ex-newspaperman turned private children's TV show, making their way detective Harry James Denton needs any through a bizarre world of jive cult client he can get. It's just his luck that the first person to waltz into his Nashville members, club-goers, and murder to office is the woman who stole his heart in find the stolen squirrel. college, then was stolen by another man. That man is rich surgeon and relentless MYS Stuffed gambler Conrad Fletcher. But by the time Wiprud, Brian M. LP-3026 Harry catches up with him, Fletcher's gone from being in debt to being dead. Garth Carson buys, sells, and rents exotic taxidermy from his funky New York City storefront. He and his gal, MYS Dark Harbor Angie, have just acquired the most Woods, Stuart LP-3263 sinister stuffed critter in the world: a (Also available in regular print white crow in a bell jar that people are (AS-0518)). Investigating the unlikely dying to get their hands on. When the murder-suicide case of his cousin, who crow is stolen, along with $50,000 secretly worked for the CIA, Stone worth of their best stuff, Garth and Barrington is surprised to learn that his 152 cousin had named him the executor of his Shaker against Shaker and shatter their estate just prior to his death. peaceful society.

MYS Orchid Blues MYS Stolen Honey Woods, Stuart LP-2533 Wright, Nancy M. LP-2462 On the way to her wedding, Chief of When local university student Shep Police Holly Barker is sidetracked by a Noble is murdered, suspicion falls on high-tech bank robbery that results in the family of the woman Shep had murder, and she makes a startling tried to rape. But when she is brutally discovery that plunges her into the very murdered, Vermont-based sleuth Ruth center of psychotic criminality. Willmarth discovers hatred runs very

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REL The Power of a Praying REL Walking with Loneliness Woman Ripple, Paula LP-2044 Omartian, Stormie LP-2849 The popular view of loneliness seems (Also available in regular print limited to one of fear and hesitation, (AR-1986)). It may seem easier to pray that it has no redeeming value, is a for your family and your friends, but God sign of weakness, or is inherently wants to hear your requests for your life, destructive. Paula Ripple offers a too. Stormie Omartian has led nearly 2 message of hope and healing for all million women into deeper, more who encounter the mystery of fulfilling prayer lives. Now, through her loneliness in their lives. knowledge of Scripture and candid 155

REL Possibility Living: Add REL The Grace Awakening Years to Your Life and Life to Your Swindoll, Charles LP-3151 Years with God's Health Plan In this best-selling classic, Charles Schuller, Robert A. LP-2176 Swindoll awakens readers to the life- The author's father discusses how to impacting realities of God's grace, the create a physically healthy and spiritually freedom and joy it brings, the fear it fulfilling life through a natural foods diet, cures, the strength it lends to fasting, and prayer. relationships and the ever-increasing desire to know God . REL Success God's Way Romance Stanley, Charles LP-3150 "Success is defined by a continuing ROM Wildcatter's Kiss desire to be the person God called you to Adams, Kelly LP-2497 be and achieve those goals that God helps you to set," says Charles Stanley. This Sheer force of will kept Cally Taylor book includes ten steps to help you reach faithful to her late husband's dream, God's goals in your life, and what to do running his dilapidated farm and about the seven success blockers that drilling for oil with an ancient rig. That entangle believers. He also addresses same determination stopped her from applying the Golden Rule in your pursuit evicting Mike Donovan, the ruggedly of success, the power of a believer's handsome wildcat driller who'd thoughts, the secret of persistence, and manipulated his way onto her land and much more. into her home. Then, suddenly, guilt and misunderstanding shatter their REL Winning the War Within tentative trust. Stanley, Charles LP-3092 Dr. Charles Stanley talks about ROM Green Willows temptation, the enticements that trip us Alexander, Jan LP-2716 up, the protections God provides to help Mary Kirkpatrick was not given to us stay clear of Satan's traps, and the fanciful flights of the imagination. But escape route God makes available if we from the evening she came to work as go too far. Clarifying the distinction governess at Green Willows, she was between a test or a trial, which may come from God, and a temptation, which never convinced that a ghost wandered the comes from God, Dr. Stanley explains dark, rambling halls at night. But God's solutions for coping with trials, Mary's growing love for handsome triumphing over temptations, and Johnathon Tremayne blinded her to recognizing the difference. danger. 156

ROM Hot & Bothered Powell prove more of a challenge than Andersen, Susan LP-2914 most. Soon the men are engaged in a battle of wits and wills with the (Also available in regular print formidable pair. Are St. George and (AO-0366)). When her father is Marchmont both in danger of losing murdered and her half-brother is their wager? accused of the crime, single mother Victoria Hamilton returns home to ROM Dark Arches Colorado Springs to prove his Armitage, Aileen LP-2146 innocence with the help of a private investigator who happens to be a man Seduced under the arches of from her past, and the father of her Clondarra's village bridge, Irish shop child. girl Rosa Sheridan is persuaded to give up the baby for adoption and make a new life for herself in England. But ROM Just for Kicks she can never forget, particularly when Andersen , Susan LP-3229 her happy marriage doesn't bring her Las Vegas showgirl Carly Jacobsen the children she longs for. Twenty keeps finding out the hard way that her years later, a successful idea of fun differs radically from that businesswoman, Rosa's life becomes of her neighbor Wolfgang Jones. Sure, entwined again with three women from he looks incredible, and he seems to her past: the woman who arranged her have a thing for her legs, but the man's child's adoption; the woman who a robot. So what's with their adopted her; and Lucy, her child. chemistry? In Susan Andersen's laugh- out-loud follow-up to Skintight, ROM Wolf Shadow sometimes love is a sure bet, sometimes it's a losing proposition. Baker, Madeline LP-2575 (Also available in regular print ROM St. George and the (AJ-0212)). Raised as a member of the Dragon Lakota tribe, Teressa Bryant, now Andrews, Beth LP-3180 known as Winter Rain and preparing to become the wife of a powerful Richard St. John and Julian warrior, finds her life thrown into Marchmont wagered they could meet chaos when Chance McCloud arrives and seduce two beautiful and to take her back to her birth parents, mysterious young ladies. But forcing her to choose between family, Cassandra Woodford and Rosalind love, and honor.

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ROM The Wild Marauder ROM Chances Are Barker, Ann LP-3035 Bretton, Barbara LP-2913 Everyone in the neighborhood knows (Also available in regular print that Dora and Charlie are the perfect (AP-0135)). While preparing for her couple. But when it seems that impending nuptials, Maddy Bainbridge Charlie's head has been turned by the finds her happiness threatened when London scene, Dora's younger sister her fiancé's seventeen-year-old Fenella decides to remind him of what daughter reveals a shocking secret. he is missing. Her solution is to ask a stranger to flirt with Dora under ROM Somewhere in Time Charlie's nose. The plan succeeds, but soon Fenella wonders whether her Bretton, Barbara LP-3077 move was a wise one. Swept back through time, former lovers Emilie Cross and Zane Rutledge land in the midst of the American ROM A Secret Affair Revolution. But soon Emilie finds Bradford, Barbara T. LP-2116 herself caught between the man of her Barbara Taylor Bradford's novel tells own time whom she once loved and a the story of an illicit, fateful affair. man of the past who could give her the When a respected American TV home she's always longed for. newsman and a young artist meet in Venice and fall in love, the only hope ROM Harvard's Education for sustaining their relationship is via a Brockmann , Suzanne LP-3078 series of planned rendezvous. (Also available in regular print

(AO-0247)). Entering into the grueling ROM A Soft Place to Fall world of the U.S. Navy SEALs, where Bretton, Barbara LP-2857 women are not welcomed, FinCOM Annie Galloway's cherished dreams of agent P.J. Richards goes up against a career in art, a peaceful marriage, Senior Chief "Harvard" Becker who and a house full of children died when believes that a woman's place is at home, not in combat. her young, precious husband died.

Now, settling into a beachfront cottage in Shelter Rock Cove, Maine, Annie ROM Night Watch finds the strength to start over. All she Brockmann, Suzanne LP-2911 needs is courage and time. The last U.S. Navy SEAL Wes Skelly agrees to a thing she needs is handsome, charming blind date with Brittany Evans, the sister- next-door neighbor Sam Butler. in-law of a fellow SEAL, but when the 158 woman he has loved secretly for years ROM Seduction by Design suddenly becomes available, Wes is Brown, Sandra LP-2373 forced to choose between his dream and reality. A devoted executive with an amusement park in the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, Hailey ROM A Kiss Remembered Ashton's tough exterior hides a Brown, Sandra LP-2434 fragmented self-image that dashes any When Shelley Browning goes back to hope for a love life. Hailey soon meets college and enrolls the class taught by her Tyler Scott, the dynamic new owner of former high school teacher, with whom the park. He sees past her facade to the she shared a single kiss, they risk all real woman hiding behind it, but they've both worked for. Hailey's own doubts and fears may be what jeopardizes her only chance at ROM Bittersweet Rain total fulfillment. Brown, Sandra LP-2300 A woman attracts the affections of a ROM Silken Web man who spurned her years ago. But Brown, Sandra LP-0197 until he makes amends with the past, In this classic love story, beautiful she may remain the one woman he Kathleen finds she must make a may never have. heartbreaking choice between peace and security and passionate love. ROM In a Class by Itself

Brown, Sandra LP-2182 ROM Sweet Anger Dani Quinn returns to her hometown Brown, Sandra LP-2232 for her high school reunion, knowing that Logan Webster will be there. Her As she sets out to uncover the truth departure from him and the small about her late husband's mysterious Texas town where they were death TV newscaster Kari Wynne sweethearts had been abrupt and finds herself torn by conflicting painful, but she never had the chance feelings toward D.A. Hunter Mc Kee, to explain to Logan why she had to the man responsible for branding her leave. Now, 10 years later, she must late husband a thief, who awakens in come to terms with her past and her her a passion she has never known still-burning affection for an old flame. before.

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ROM Tempest in Eden ROM A Duke in Danger Brown, Sandra LP-2253 Cartland, Barbara LP-2541 A nude model, Shay Morrison is When he returns as a war hero from perfectly comfortable with her France in 1818, the new fifth Duke of sexuality, at least outwardly. But when Harlington discovers that his cousin she encounters Ian Douglas, a Alvina has allowed the family castle to conservative minister, his harsh fall into near ruin. He soon realizes disapproval forces her to confront the that she in the one woman who can pain hidden within her heart. Feeling help him restore the estate to its former scorned and challenged, Shay decides glory, but their blossoming love is to prove that Ian is susceptible to the threatened by a challenger to the title. same desire as any other man.

ROM A Kiss in Rome ROM The Devil's Own Cartland, Barbara LP-2281 Brown, Sandra LP-2461 To visit Rome was a wish that lovely Targeting a man whose tough exterior Alina Langley had never dreamed had kept him alive, a young woman would come true. Yet here she was, a formulates a desperate plan to save sheltered young country miss, nine children, teaming up with him impersonating an aristocratic, despite his disreputable and dangerous widowed beauty in a dangerous, looks, and finding an unexpected and perhaps even wicked, gamble to equally risky passion. reconcile a childhood friend with an adored beau. In Rome, the girls' host ROM A Coronation of Love was the handsome and scathing Cartland, Barbara LP-2389 Marquis of Teverton, the Casanova of London, and he kissed her. She loved Bride, widow, but never a wife, young the Marquis of Teverton. English-born Aldrina found herself Queen of Saria, burdened with the cares of state and the sinister attentions ROM Looking for Love of a wicked and ambitious royal suitor. Cartland, Barbara LP-2853 Fleeing to a palace by the sea, she met The Marquis looked down at Gilda, her Juro, as radiant as Apollo. cheeks wet with tears, her blue eyes too

shy to meet his. Gilda could only look up at him helplessly, thinking that he must see love in her eyes and know that she

160 was acutely conscious of his lips near to instantly and forever in love. But Fate hers. Then the wonder of the Marquis's was to test their newfound passion, for kiss made her feel as if the darkness and Charles was the only son of the Duke fear were all left behind, and he carried of Mountaired, the elderly widow her into the sunshine and up into the very Salema's father intended her to marry! heart of the sun . To refuse was to defy her father, yet love's honor demanded that Salema ROM Lovers in Lisbon and her penniless Charles flee. Cartland, Barbara LP-2129 Alone and starving, Felicita found it ROM The Love Pirate impossible to refuse the new life that the Duchesse de Monreuil offered. It was as Cartland, Barbara LP-2259 if a fairytale had come true, especially Set against the exciting and exotic when she met the irresistibly handsome background of nineteenth-century Marques Alvaro de Oliveira Vasconles. Malaya is the story of a young girl How could Felicita have known she was who found herself on a hazardous sea to be the instrument of an all-consuming voyage in the company of a notorious passion aimed like a vengeful sword at rake. the heart and pride of one of Portugal's oldest families? ROM The Prude and the ROM The Call of the Highlands Prodigal Cartland, Barbara LP-2549 Cartland, Barbara LP-2289 Lord Alistair McDonan's life of leisure When her sister, Nannette, falls in love comes to a sudden end when his older with the money-hunting Pascoe brothers die in a boating accident. As he Lowes, Prunella is determined to do reluctantly agrees to leave the everything in her power to put an end entertainments of London and take his to the romance. Upon realizing that she place as the new Chieftain of the family can't break up their relationship on her Clan in Scotland, he makes a nuptial pact own, she asks the Earl of Winslow, her with the mysterious Arina . handsome but lecherous neighbor, to help her. Instead of assisting her, ROM The Cave of Love however, the Earl has other things in mind. Cartland, Barbara LP-2081

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ROM Smile of the Tiger ROM Quadrille Charles, Caroline LP-3186 Chesney, Marion LP-2339 Christiana had everything she wanted Shy and dowdy Mary has been forced in life except the man she loved. She into a loveless marriage with the knew she would love him forever, but disdainful Lord Hubert Challenge. But she also knew she would have to forget his roving eye is much too prone to him, for he could never be hers. wander in the direction of the tantalizing Lady Clarissa for his young ROM Aunt Margaret's Lover wife's peace of mind. And so, when Cheek, Mavis LP-3181 Lord Hubert sets off to fight Napoleon, Mary determines to make herself a Aunt Margaret has just waved goodbye fashionable lady of London society, to her niece, Saskia. She has sent her and oust Clarissa's place in her to Canada for a year. Now, that she's husband's heart, once and for all. To been given a year of freedom, Aunt her delight, she is a radiant success, Margaret decides to kick up her heels a partnered on the dance floor by Beau little and have some fun. Brummel himself.

ROM Minerva ROM The Homecoming Chesney, Marion LP-2029 Chesney, Marion LP-2204 A prim maid confronts scandalous regency London! How is a country Lizzie, the youngest of the six Vicar of modest income to educate two Beverley girls, has seen each of her sons, marry off six daughters, and find sisters marry for love, even though all means of supporting his hounds and had been obsessed with regaining the hungers? The Reverend Charles exquisite seventeenth century ancestral Armitage decides that the best way is mansion that had been gambled away to send his lovely eldest daughter by their now deceased father. But Minerva to London for a season, in the Lizzie has always been different from hopes that she'll find a rich husband. her sisters. Red-haired and saucy, she Chaperoned by sprightly Lady has never cared about Mannerling, or Godolphin, the dutiful girl meets the marriage. Unfortunately, her mother, genteel and not-so-genteel members of Lady Beverley, knows that Lizzie is London society, some of whom delight her last chance if she ever hopes to in trying her virtue. preside over Mannerling again.

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ROM Trust Me ROM An Invisible Web Choate , Jane LP-2390 Coffin, Julie LP-2515 Social worker Casey O'Shaunessey With the disappearance of her gives 100 percent to the kids who are daughter, Lisa needed, more than ever, shuffled through the county foster-care the support of the man she loved. Why, system. To protect those kids, she's then, did she turn instead to a complete willing to take on anyone or anything, stranger? including the most hard-nosed member of the district attorney's office . ROM Dangerous Involvement Coffin, Julie LP-2203 ROM Love by the Book After her parents' death in a car Choate, Jane M. LP-2403 accident, Nicola takes a job as Anna Lancaster loves her 17-year-old secretary to the romantic novelist Lucy brother, Jeff, but he is growing Treryn. The old lady seems pleasant, if unreachable. Meanwhile, Detective a little brusque, and Nicola finds Brady Matthews is struggling to be herself falling in love with her quiet both father and mother to his orphaned schoolteacher grandson, Zachary. But niece and nephew. As Anna and Brady her other grandson, Alex, is quite a try to help the children in their lives, different character. An arrogant, good- something special grows between looking charmer, he is determined to them. seduce Nicola, and won't take no for an answer, until an unpleasant scene

leaves him humiliated and Nicola ROM Royal Wedding shaken. But Alex is not a man to take Christopher, Mary LP-3182 rejection lightly. Julie Elliott was thrilled to be in London, assigned to cover the Royal ROM Lost Memories Wedding, the most dazzling event of Coffin , Julie LP-2908 the decade! But Nick Tregarron found Elissa had no idea who she was or why it all absurd. Even as the handsome she had been found wandering the photographer opened the most Cornish coast. But Daniel Brett exclusive doors in London to her, he seemed determined to find the truth mocked her as a silly, starry-eyed behind her past. What was the key to young American reporter. unlocking Elissa's memory, and was it

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ROM Menace of Evil ROM Mackenzie's Woman Coffin, Julie LP-2861 Constant, Jan LP-0194 Someone seemed determined to ruin In a savage Scottish world where their chance of a happy future together. people hate her very name, how can Luke and Morwenna each had a past Jenna Winslow ever rid herself of the tinged with sadness. Now that fate had title, "Mackenzie's Woman," when brought them together, would the Alex, her lover, is both her livelihood shadows of the past be lifted? and her only protection?

ROM Drop Dead Beautiful ROM Jet Set Nurse Collins, Jackie LP-3392 Converse , Jane LP-2784 Lucky Santangelo's 16-year-old It sounded like a dream job when daughter Max goes looking for trouble wealthy financier Durward Kingsley when she hooks up with a guy she met suggested it: go along on an island on the Internet. Soon the beautiful, vacation as private nurse to his willful Max finds herself in deeper cousin's troubled daughter. But Roxy water than she could imagine. Ferris should have quit as soon as she met the "beautiful people" who were ROM The Spy's Bride the family's guests, or first gazed into Collum, Lynn LP-2399 the strangely sinister eyes of her young patient . Victoria Woodley will inherit a fortune on her 21st birthday, and her greedy guardian intends to force her into ROM Masquerade Nurse wedlock before that day, to his son. So Converse, Jane LP-2573 a desperate Victoria dresses as a boy When Kathy Barrett awoke in a and runs off to join her cousin at his hospital bed, she remembered a regiment in Portugal. But when British sickening skid, a crash, and nothing spy Lord Kit Harden hires "Victor" as else. How did she get there? Where his valet, he's shocked to discover her were her friends Jim and Lynne? Here true gender. Now, Kit feels like he's is the gripping story of a young nurse compromised a lady, and that the only who is the sole survivor of an accident, remedy is marriage. and who borrows the identity of her dead friend to find a new home and escape a threatening past.

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ROM Nurse in London Cranston filled her heart with hopeful Converse, Jane LP-2621 dreams. But her serene existence was in for a startling change. An unknown Lee Watson, the star of the top rock young woman, viciously beaten near group in England and America, was the death from an overdose of heroin, was victim of a crippling motorcycle accident. In pain and despair he had clung to Nurse brought to the hospital. Assigned to the Holly Brooks. Now, going back to case, Gail found herself working in London to resume his career, he begged heart-quickening closeness to the man her to come with him. And Holly went she loved. Then menace marred the because he needed her, stepping, picture. For the new patient harbored a unaware, into a psychedelic landscape tormenting secret that was to spell where she was a stranger. deadly danger for Gail.

ROM The Young Nurses ROM Riptide Converse, Jane LP-2276 Coulter, Catherine LP-2421 The doctor, Janet's handsome fiancée, the Becca Matlock, a speechwriter for the patient, Janet's beautiful and flirtatious governor of New York, is targeted by a boarder, Beth. The symptoms, strange, stalker, who shoots the governor to violent headaches, the prognosis, Beth's prove his point. Seeking refuge on the headaches may develop into heartaches coast of Maine, Becca finds herself at for Nurse Janet Leland. Two young greater risk. FBI special agents Savich student nurses welcome Janet Leland's and Sherlock arrive to help an old offer to board at her home, Beth, a friend of Savich's father, but the carefree party girl trying to grow up, and Phyllis, a somber wallflower eager to friend's relationship to Becca comes as blossom. Little does Janet realize that a surprise. before their stay is ended, her faith in her fiancée will be shattered, his reputation ROM The Countess challenged, and their future together Coulter, Catherine LP-2225 marred by tragedy. Andrea Jameson isn't a destitute ROM Undercover Nurse governess. She's young, rich, and toothsome, and adores her Dandie Converse, Jane LP-2326 Dinmont terrier, George. Andrea Nurse Gail Arnold was young, doesn't have a single dream of beautiful and happy, and her work at marrying Mr. Right. Instead she strikes the Narcotics Rehabilitation Center a bargain with the older, widowed Earl was interesting and rewarding. Her of Devbridge who promises her all the silent worship of handsome Dr. Bruce 165 razzle-dazzle without the obey part. ROM The Scottish Bride She's perfectly happy with the deal Coulter, Catherine LP-2349 until she meets the earl's nephew and realizes she might have made an Two months after Waterloo, Tysen exceptional blunder, but she doesn't Sherbrooke, a widowed vicar and have much time to ponder her choice, father of three children, discovers that because strange things are happening he has become the new Baron in Devbridge Manor. Barthwick of Kildrummy Castle in Scotland and sets out to visit his new

holdings, but his devout, sober world ROM The Courtship is soon turned upside down by Coulter, Catherine LP-2252 unfriendly Scottish locals and by the Determined, bookish Helen Mayberry beautiful and courageous Mary Rose and the rakish Spenser Heatherington, Fordyce. Lord Beecham, join forces to search for a mystical treasure known as King ROM Darling Kate Edward's Lamp, and the mismatched Crane, Teresa LP-2147 couple soon discovers a more precious Kate and Stephen sealed their love prize. with a new home, a flat in the old

mansion where they had played as ROM The Deception children and a promise to always be Coulter, Catherine LP-2119 together. Stephen's sudden death left From the moment innocent Evangeline Kate lonely and grieving, withdrawn de Beauchamps entered the household into her memories and the cocoon of of Richard Claredon, Duke of their perfect home. Then Jenny and Portsmouth, she felt herself falling Jaimie moved in next door, and Kate under the spell of a man who had found herself drawn into their warm, conquered many women with his loving family circle and drawn to looks, wealth and charm. But love was Jaimie with a guilty passion. But when a luxury Evangeline could not afford. Stephen had promised never to leave Napoleon's henchmen held her father her, he had meant exactly what he said. hostage and to save his life Evangeline was masquerading as a worldly young ROM No Strings Attached widow with a man who knew women Criswell, Millie LP-2973 very well indeed, or so he thought. (Also available in regular print

(AR-1111 )). When Samantha Brady, plagued by writer's block and her 166 never-ending search for Mr. Right, arrival of a female physiotherapist who sleeps with her roommate and best confidently takes on his case. friend, Jack Turner, after drinking too much wine, she discovers that the ROM Foxfire Light perfect man she has been searching for Dailey, Janet LP-2076 has been right in front of her all this time. Janet Dailey captures the beauty of the Ozarks and a love every bit as timeless.

Can a lasting love develop between two ROM Loving Enemy people who seem worlds apart. Cross, Catherine LP-2860 Daniel was in her thoughts constantly, ROM Green Calder Grass but could Kate trust him when he Dailey, Janet LP-2548 asked her to? A chance meeting was enough to tell Kate how much she was Jessy Niles Calder finds her marriage attracted to this man. Then she to Ty Calder threatened by the return discovered just who her handsome of his ex-wife Tara, whose devious and helper was. dangerous machinations divide the Calder family and threaten to destroy their marriage as well as their lives. ROM Calder Promise

Dailey, Janet LP-3081 ROM Masquerade (Also available in regular print Dailey, Janet LP-0148 (AR-1045)). Laura Calder, a sophisticated young woman of the world, Beautiful Remy seeks to remove the finds her plans to remained unattached masks that hide answers to questions thwarted by two men, Boone Rutledge, about who she is, and what the dashing the son of a Texas billionaire, and Cole Buchanan really means to her. Sebastian Dunshill, the Earl of Crawford, who vie for her affection, while an enemy from her past prepares to destroy the ROM Sentimental Journey Calder name. Dailey, Janet LP-2527 "Is it really me you want?" Jessica ROM For Bitter or Worse asked. She tried to pull away from Dailey, Janet LP-2499 Brodie. Jessica's meeting with Brodie Hayes after so many years was Confined to a wheelchair by an accident, accidental, yet devastating. The Brodie an embittered man makes his wife feel isolated, a feeling that is magnified by the Hayes she remembered had been a poor young man from the wrong part 167 of town. And he had pursued her older parts of spicy heat and laugh-out-loud sister unsuccessfully. Now Brodie was moments. a rich, powerful businessman welcome anywhere. Jessica couldn't help but ROM Doing It Right respond to his overwhelming charm Davidson, Mary J. LP-3309 but could she be sure his interest in her These two wickedly funny, sexy novellas was genuine? introduce the sort of lovers who'll steal everything, your wallet, your keys, your ROM Western Man inhibitions, and even your heart. There's never a dull night in the ER for Dr. Jared Dailey, Janet LP-2046 Dean, especially when he sees the woman Throughout her teenage years, Sharon of his fantasies beating up a mobster in Powell adored Colorado Rancher Ridge Thief of Hearts. In Wild Hearts, Kat Halliday, the handsome owner of the Wechter has no intention of letting spread adjoining her family's. This was a "Chess" McNamara steal her car, even if fact Ridge well knew, and it appealed to he's absolutely gorgeous. his already swollen ego. Now a mature young woman and wise to his games, ROM Hello, Gorgeous! Sharon has conquered her infatuation. Or has she? Davidson, Mary J. LP-3275 (Also available in regular print (AS- ROM Labrador Nurse 1390)). Shopping maven and beauty Dana, Rose LP-2863 salon owner-turned-bionic super spy, Caitlyn James, the government's new and To Nurse Nancy Gilchrist, a year's reluctant secret weapon, must track down contract to serve in a Labrador hospital a rebel cyborg, who happens to be meant not loneliness and desolation, but a dangerously sexy and well-equipped with chance to think, to read, and to take stock special enhancements. of herself as a person, removed from the hectic atmosphere of the big city. The ROM The Royal Treatment reality, she discovered, was somewhat less placid. Davidson, Mary J. LP-3126 In a parallel universe where Alaska is its ROM Dead and Loving It own country, complete with a royal Davidson, Mary J. LP-3266 family, an American tourist finds herself being wooed by the untamed crowned Worlds collide when she brings her prince. But, can a wild prince and a beloved Wyndham werewolves together modern American girl make a life with the vampires ruled by Undead together? Queen Betsy Taylor in this collection of four sensual novellas filled with equal 168

ROM Swimming Without a Net ROM Eternity Davidson, Mary J. LP-3412 Deveraux, Jude LP-0144 While trying to fit in with her own Carrie hardly seems the type to weather kind, Fred, a mermaid who hates being the difficulties of frontier life, but when out in open water, is torn between she sees the photo of Josh, a poor but Arthur, the High Prince of the handsome farmer in need of a wife, she merpeople, and Thomas, a gorgeous impulsively decides that she is just what marine biologist who has the he needs. opportunity to explore where no "lander" has gone before. ROM Temptation Deveraux , Jude LP-2453 ROM Becoming Strangers Forced to live in Scotland by her stepfather and work as a housekeeper, Dean, Louise LP-3034 Temperance O'Neil bargains for her In the pristine surroundings of the passage home to New York City by Caribbean, two couples on the verge of offering to find a wife for his nephew, separation are unable to escape their James. But the brusque James isn't troubles, until a few chance events interested in marrying anyone. As she allow them to make something out of attempts to match James with his ideal the ashes of their love. mate, Temperance makes a surprising discovery.

ROM Lake News ROM Twin of Fire Delinsky , Barbara LP-2159 Deveraux, Jude LP-0103 (Also available in regular print Blair Chandler always gets what she (AU-0695)). After she is wrongly wants, including the mysterious Dr. accused by a devious reporter of Lee Westfield. having had an affair with a newly appointed cardinal, Lily Blake retreats ROM Knight Triumphant to her home town in New Hampshire. Driven by the need to exact justice and Drake, Shannon LP-2374 clear her name, she forms an uneasy After her husband, Lord of Langley, dies alliance with the editor of the local from a deadly plague, Englishwoman paper, a man with his own grudge Igrainia finds herself a prisoner in her against the mainstream media. own castle, held hostage by Scottish warrior Eric Graham. When the English

king refuses Graham's offer to trade Igrainia for the wife of Robert the Bruce, 169 he marries her himself. What Graham ROM You Never Can Tell never expects is the desire his strong- Eagle, Kathleen LP-2302 willed bride stirs in his soul. Reporter Heather Reardon gets more ROM The Meddlers than she had bargained for when she searches for Kole Kills Crow, an Drummond, June LP-2864 advocate for Native American rights Through the tragic deaths of his father who has gone into exile after a brush and older brother, Dominic Barr has with the law. inherited Melburn Hall, a title, and a mountain of debt. He realizes he will ROM Yellow Ribbons have to sell the estate to avoid debtors' Edwards, Jane LP-0150 prison. Anxious to help, his neighbor, Kate Safford, recalls the legend of the Writing letters to a marine captain Twyford Gold, which disappeared makes Operation Desert storm a reality during the Danish invasion and might to teacher Holly Smith and her fifth- be found on Melburn ground. grade class.

ROM Barbara Pitcairn ROM After Hours Dunbar, Inga LP-2222 Erickson, Lynn LP-2802 Orphaned at fourteen and left in the (Also available in regular print care of two poverty-stricken aunts, (AO-0238)). After the death of her Barbara Pitcairn has seen her share of husband, Portia Carr Wells takes over hard times, until distant relative and the presidency of the Nature wealthy laird Sir Thomas Gifford takes Preservation Society and learns the her pity on her and invites her to live as husband may have been murdered, a one of his family. But on first sighting discovery that leads her to bodyguard the foreboding Busta House, his and NYPD Detective Nick Sinestra, luxurious mansion, Barbara is who is harboring a dark secret that overcome with a sense that all is not could destroy her. well inside. Her fears are compounded when Lady Gifford refuses to welcome ROM Husband and Lover her into the family, relegating her instead to the maids' quarters. To make Erickson, Lynn LP-2910 matters worse, Barbara catches the eye (Also available in regular print of her beloved eldest son, who is not (AR-0134)). When Deputy DA Julia all that he seems . Innes's husband is arrested for his late wife's murder twelve years ago, she 170 immediately teams up with former she was on an Italian culture course, homicide Cameron Lazlo to clear his but their burgeoning romance had been name, but the closer they get to the abruptly terminated by his unexplained truth, the more dangerous the departure. investigation becomes, until there is no one left to trust but each other. ROM Strange Inheritance Fairfax, Serena LP-2673 ROM Without a Trace Little does Gemma know that the Erickson, Lynn LP-2700 identity of the attractive mystery man Police sketch artist Jane Russo, unable who saved her and her motorbike from to use her special ability to delve into near disaster in a raging storm will the minds of victims and witnesses due only be revealed in very different to a traumatic event she cannot circumstances after her desperate dash remember, teams up with a wary FBI to her critically ill uncle's bedside. Her agent who helps her confront the past ordered existence is dramatically in order to catch a serial rapist and changed. killer who is terrorizing young girls. ROM To Kiss a Spy ROM Foul Play Feather, Jane LP-2552 Evanovich, Janet LP-3416 Grieving over the supposed death of her Veterinarian Jake Elliott offers Amy newborn child, Penelope, a lady-in- Klasse a job as his receptionist after waiting to the queen, meets spymaster she loses her television job to a Owen D'Arcy with whom she enters into chicken, and when the chicken a dangerous and passionate bargain, she will give him secrets from the court in disappears under suspicious exchange for his investigation into the circumstances and Amy is blamed, fate of her dead infant. they investigate together. ROM Ghost of a Chance ROM Paint Me a Dream Fitzpatrick, Flo LP-2904 Fairfax, Serena LP-2766 (Also available in regular print Francesca Marsham is in a dilemma. (AO-0362)). While choreographing An art dealer in a London gallery, she the new musical Bad Business on the can't avoid painter Rafe Rostov, who is Brazos, Kiely Davlin, delighted with in London to exhibit his work. Nine the perk of free Tex-Mex food, years ago, he had rescued her from two encounters the ghost of an actor whose horrific incidents in Florence where 171 matchmaking attempts lead her into and was soon to begin teaching music the arms of Rafe Montez, the in Chicago. But her dream was short- devastatingly sexy star of the show. lived. Discovering that Aunt Lotia suffered a mild heart condition, Sandy ROM Love is Forever felt bound to remain at home. Fox , Natalie LP-2331 ROM On Tall Pine Lake What, Sara asks herself, is she doing on this remote Greed Island, when the job Garlock, Dorothy LP-3335 she has come here for doesn't seem to Drawn to Simon Wright, the owner of exist? And why does the dark, enigmatic, the fishing camp where she lives and mega-rich shipping magnate, Alexander works, Nora Conrad is reluctant to Karakou, appear to be so obsessed with become involved with him, especially her? What is the dark secret that he is so after she hears that her half-brother, jealously guarding? The answers are Harold, has stolen a collection of there for her to find, but what will happen when Sara unravels the mystery and jewels and money from the bank in her discovers the fate that lies in store for hometown, in a suspenseful romance her? set against the backdrop of rural Arkansas. ROM Nurse Under Fire ROM Ribbon in the Sky Francis, Dorothy B. LP-2517 Garlock, Dorothy LP-0196 Private duty in Marlin Point, Florida, was the last thing Cass Meredith wanted. The Letty and Mike love each other dearly, month-long assignment had been handed but Letty's hypocritical, hell-and- to her by her friend and boss, and he brimstone preacher pa betrays Letty, expected her to accept it. But Cass had and engineers their separation. recently suggested a trial separation from handsome Tab Lyon, who wanted to ROM The Edge of Town marry her, leading him to take a job in Marlin Point! Garlock, Dorothy LP-2352 During the 1920s, plainspoken farm girl ROM Studio Affair Julie Jones is not prepared for the Jazz Age that sweeps flapper Birdie Stuart and Francis, Dorothy B. LP-2854 war veteran Evan Johnson into her small It had taken Sandy Stafford six years Missouri hometown. Evan soon begins to to graduate from music school, but court Julie, but a wave of crime threatens with her Aunt Lotia's help, she had their relationship, and secrets festering finally acquired the necessary diploma beneath the surface of a wholesome town are ready to explode. 172

ROM Train from Marietta suspected Grandfather Morris was up to his old tricks again. But this time Ellie Garlock, Dorothy LP-3233 was a little older, a little wiser, and very (Also available in regular print much in love. (AS-0659)). When Katherine Tyler is kidnapped by a band of outlaws while ROM The Greek Villa on a cross-country trip, cowboy T. C. Gould, Judith LP-2916 Castle rescues Katherine and hides her Her father's suicide leaves aspiring at a remote ranch where he lives with novelist Tracey Sullivan to face the bitter his five-year-old disabled daughter. fact that her life has been a lie. Among his things, she finds the identity of the ROM Honor's Splendor mother who abandoned her. And in a Garwood, Julie LP-0146 magnificent Greek villa, that woman, one of the world's most famous movie stars, Baron Duncan of Wexton captures the listens as her agent proposes a beautiful Lady Madelyne for revenge, ghostwriter for her long-awaited novel: but she enchants him into love. one of his up-and-coming clients in the States, Tracey Sullivan. ROM See Jane Score ROM Summer In France Gibson, Rachel LP-2528 Graham, Vanessa LP-2852 While covering the Seattle Chinooks hockey team, reporter Jane Alcott After going through a very bad time, meets career-focused goalie Luc Caroline was thankful to get a job Martineau, but their relationship is which would give her a whole summer threatened by Jane's other occupation, in the south of France. But it was writing the scandalous "Honey Pie" hardly going to help her recovery adventures. when the first person she met was Giles Guthrie, the original cause of all ROM Love is a Tempest her troubles!

Gordon, Angela LP-2128 ROM The Silverton Scandal When her grandfather denounced Ellie's love affair with actor Arthur Cartier, he Grange , Amanda LP-2668 was accused of being a meddling old Miss Eleanor Grantham is outraged man. But his word proved all too true and when her stagecoach is held up by a Cartier broke Ellie's heart. Then when highwayman, but her outrage turns to Cartier came back to Ellie, her father's astonishment when she discovers that partner, Morgan Harding, told her he the highwayman is none other than the 173

Earl of Silverton. She cannot begin to ROM The Turning Wheel imagine why a wealthy nobleman Green , Christina LP-2202 would stoop to highway robbery. In Devon for a family reunion, Nicki Bennett hopes to spend time with her ROM Remember with Roses increasingly frail father. But her Gray, Juliet LP-2268 stepmother Gee, and Gee's son Leo, involve her in a scheme to buy the old She had been so lovely, a delight to mill and waterwheel where Nicki had behold. And she had died because he spent many happy hours, and where she loved her too much to lose her to had her first kiss with Leo, her childhood another man. The memory of sweetheart. The mill is precious to Nicki, Marianne lingered like the scent of and she fears for its future if their plan roses on a summer breeze. But a man succeeds. The mill's owner, sculptor could not live in the past forever, even Robert Armstrong, seems to understand if it seemed there was no happiness to her feelings. She's very attracted to be found in the present or the future. Robert, but Leo is trying to rekindle their old love.

ROM Katie Starr ROM Blame it on Chocolate Green, Christina LP-3230 Greene, Jennifer LP-3187 Jessica Rowden is a determined young (Also available in regular print woman ahead of her time. When her father dies, he leaves behind the (AR-2096)). When chocolatier Lucy mystery of the Katie Starr, a ship that Fitzhenry and her sexy boss Nick, a man disappeared years before. The way out of her league, test out her newest recipe, an experimental strain of mysterious ship and some long-held chocolate, they succumb to one night of secrets will shape Jessica's life forever. intense, and unexplainable, passion, resulting in an unexpected surprise. ROM Lovers' Knot Green, Christina LP-3046 ROM Born to Love Were Lisa's growing feelings for a Greenwood, Leigh LP-2561 mysterious stranger enough for her to Holt Price is ready to settle down with give him her trust, especially when he the woman he pledged to marry, despite was so reluctant to talk about his past? the pain and devastation of war. Instead, Will he show Lisa what she really he finds himself gazing into the wants when some difficult decisions vulnerable eyes of a girl who is not his to have to be made ? take.

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ROM Enchanted Evening tells her how they built their life Hallberg, Lynnette LP-2485 together. Then he discovers her first marriage to Julian True, a man no Briana Winters is counting down the woman could refuse, or forget. minutes to her social ruin. If she Desperate to bring Mikaela back, Liam doesn't show up at her law firm's turns to the one person who could charity ball with the "fiancé" she's make her respond. bragged about, she'll be the laughingstock of the party. Too bad ROM Dark Road Home he's only a figment of her imagination, until a chance meeting brings Dr. Harper, Karen LP-2797 Chase Mitchell into the picture. She'd (Also available in regular print be happy to pretend that the handsome (AN-0338)). Seeking refuge in an physician is the man of her dreams, if Amish friend's quilt shop after an he's willing. Chase can't say no to episode with a stalker, attorney Brooke playing Prince Charming for the night, Benton is courted by Amish gentleman it's a role a man could get used to with Daniel Brand before she is swept up in beautiful Briana. a hit-and-run case involving four teenagers. ROM The Bargain Hammond, Melinda LP-3044 ROM The Falls Fashionable London in the 1780s is a Harper, Karen LP-2563 hotbed of vice and scandal, and the Claire Malvern is told that her notorious Earl of Aldringham retreats husband, Keith, committed suicide by to Bath in order to let talk of his latest jumping off the bridge at Bloodroot affair die down. There, he meets Falls. Soon she and Sheriff Nick Melissa Langham, a penniless but Braden dig into her husband's past and spirited orphan, who scorns his uncover a shocking picture of what advances. Unable to resist a challenge, really happened to Keith. the Earl is determined to win her affections. ROM Highland Summer ROM Angel Falls Hawksley, Elizabeth LP-2715 Hannah, Kristin LP-2422 In 1865, Robina Drummond is invited to spend the summer with the Penicuiks in When Mikaela Campbell falls into a the Scottish Highlands. Their neighbors coma, her husband, Liam, holds the are expecting an eligible bachelor that family together. Day after day Liam they want for their daughter, and Robina 175 is on their visiting list. They think Africa doing missionary work, James Robina, being poor, thirty-two and only Graham comes back home to Chicago, passably attractive, is on the shelf. But where he finally meets Rachel love is unpredictable. Ashcroft, the woman who has been sending him care packages, and tries to ROM Dunleary bring happiness and love back into her Heath, Monica LP-2717 life. The fabulous titled adventurer came from across the sea to claim Deirdre Rynne, a ROM The Guardian woman he had seen only in a photograph. Henderson, Dee LP-3155 But Brendan O'Leary, King of Inish Laoghaire, led a young, innocent girl into (O'Malley, Tyndale #2) A federal a cold, remote, desolate den he called judge has been murdered. There is home; on a cursed island that condemned only one witness, and someone wants its women to deceit and perhaps death. her dead. U.S. Marshal Marcus O'Malley thought he knew the risks of ROM The Search the assignment going in until he fell in love. Marcus has a case to solve, an Heggan, Christiane LP-3243 assassin to stop, and a lady to convince When Philadelphia assistant district he's right for her future. To do that he's attorney Sydney Cooper gets an urgent going to have to walk back into his late-night call from her best friend own past and wrestle with the complex asking to meet her, she can't help but matter of prayer and he's going to have wonder what kind of trouble to learn to trust again a sovereign God. investigative journalist Lily Gilmore has gotten herself into this time. But exasperation soon turns to fear when ROM The Healer she becomes the sole witness to her Henderson, Dee LP-3164 friend's brutal kidnapping. Knowing (O'Malley, Tyndale #5) Rachel she cannot rely on local law O'Malley is a trauma psychologist enforcement, Sydney believes she's whose specialty is helping children. Lily's last hope for survival. Captain Cole Parker has spent the last year fighting fires, investigating arsons ROM God's Gift and falling in love with Rachel. When Henderson , Dee LP-3153 a flood surges through their (Also available in regular print community, a crime scene is swallowed up by the waters. One (AS-0219)). After being injured in person is dead. Rachel fears that 176 another tragedy will follow unless the the grief of losing his sister, and from a O'Malleys can solve a murder still God he doesn't want to trust. He's run hidden by the floodwaters. into a mystery. Stolen jewels are turning up in unexpected places, and ROM The Negotiator his friend Meghan is caught in the Henderson, Dee LP-3154 middle of the trouble. Can Stephen rescue the woman he loves before (O'Malley, Tyndale #1) Kate catastrophe strikes? O'Malley's specialty is hostage situations, and she's learned to depend ROM The Truth Seeker only on herself in a crisis. But now Kate's a target. Someone's been Henderson, Dee LP-3156 sending her black roses, maybe the (O'Malley, Tyndale #3) Women are same person who just blew up an turning up dead, and Lisa O'Malley airplane and blamed her. Faced with has a habit of walking into crime the shocking evidence that the bomber scenes, curious. She's a forensic may be someone she knows, Kate has pathologist, and mysteries are her to decide if FBI special agent Dave domain. U.S. marshal Quinn Diamond Richman, and the God he trusts so has found loving her is easier than implicitly, is all he's supposed to be. keeping her safe. Lisa's found the killer, and now she's missing too. ROM The Protector Henderson, Dee LP-3157 ROM O Madcap Duchess (O'Malley, Tyndale #4) Jack O'Malley Hill, Pamela LP-3043 is a fireman who is fearless when it After the death of his devoted Queen- comes to facing an inferno. But when Duchess, Mary Tudor, the Duke of an arsonist begins targeting his district, Suffolk married a young girl who had his shift, and his friends, Jack faces the been his ward. She was Catharine ultimate challenge: protecting the lady Willoughby, a pretty Lincolnshire who witnessed the arsonist. heiress with Spanish blood who became a great favorite at court. After ROM The Rescuer Suffolk's death in 1545 she married Henderson, Dee LP-3165 again, it was said beneath her, and (O'Malley, Tyndale #6) Stephen became known as the Madcap O'Malley is a paramedic who has been Duchess. rescuing people all his life. But now he's running, from job burnout, from 177

ROM Venus Rising a carefree, fun-loving country squire, Hill, Pamela LP-2783 that would be no easy task. But life among the corruption and intrigue of After the death of his reprobate uncle, Elizabeth's household eventually left idealistic young squire Gareth its mark. Seaborne inherits the family estate together with money to be awarded ROM Unspoken upon his production of a son and heir within two years. When Gareth's Jackson, Lisa LP-2660 beautiful Viking wife fails to conceive, Shelby Cole thought she'd put Bad Luck, a plan is hatched whereby a devoted Texas behind her. She'd left her maidservant secretly gives birth to a hometown ten years ago, her world boy. shattered and her illegitimate baby dead. Now she's receiving anonymous letters claiming that her daughter is alive. But ROM Coming Home going home means demanding answers Holmes, Dee LP-2626 that her father, Judge Jerome Cole, won't Antiques-lover Olivia Halsey is afraid be happy to give, and facing Nevada Smith, the man who broke her heart. of becoming a bride. So she and her two best friends take a time-out from life and head home to Bishop, Rhode ROM Pool of Dreaming Island, where they all learn what to James, Dana LP-2338 throw away and what to treasure in Running her own graphics design firm their lives. in Cornwall wasn't easy, Kersty found, particularly when clients didn't pay ROM The Squire of Holdenby their bills! So Viscount Haldane's idea to publicize Ravenswood House as a Howard, Liz LP-2317 hotel was heaven-sent. Except that Born the second son of a Kersty knew the Viscount only as Neil Northamptonshire landowner, Drummond, and discovering the truth Christopher Hatton's personal completely altered Kersty's attitude ambitions were virtually non-existent. toward their budding relationship. Then a quirk of fate brought him to the attention of Queen Elizabeth and her ROM Rough Waters favorite courtier, Robert Dudley. He soon realized that in order to marry James, Dana LP-3185 the fascinating young lady-in-waiting Anya had gone to Hong Kong to assist of his choice, he would have to Dr. Simon Brody with his Floating achieve a certain standing at court. For 178

Clinic, a medical service for the more Marcus Lorimer, Earl of Felbeck, but she inaccessible areas of the colony. She does not expect that dealing with his was not there to concern herself with ward will be part of her duties. Miss his renowned talents with women. Jennette Goodison, a pretty young Unfortunately, her resolve did little to heiress, is used to having her own way, prevent her growing attraction for him. and right now that way is with the very unsuitable Merrick Downes.

ROM The Silver Snare ROM The Proud Pencarrows James, Stephanie LP-2723 Kaye, Gillian LP-2625 Their strong wills clashed from the moment the small plane crash-landed in As governess to the young Pencarrow the desert. Lucas Kincaid, primitive male, boy, Louisa Holland was interested dared to claim Jessica Travers with only in making the child happy. But primal passion and power. Now that the the rest of the family slowly began to nightmare was over, Jessie thought she influence her life, for good and bad. could escape on a luxury cruise to When it came to Richard Pencarrow, Mexico. Relentlessly, Lucas followed, could she afford to allow her heart to determined to transform her icy passion rule her head? into blazing need, determined to prove she belonged to him, forever. ROM A Compromising Passion

Kincaid, Nell LP-2522 ROM A Nurse in Conflict As a high-powered theatrical agent, Kaye, Gillian LP-2907 Andrea Sutton's business was turning Caught up in the dramatic 1940 people into stars. But when rugged ex- evacuation of Dunkirk, nurse Laura first baseman and centerfold Jim Terrington meets wounded Christopher Haynes came to her as a client, she Leybourne on her ambulance train. was in trouble. Launching an athlete Later, he seeks her out in London into an acting career was a challenge, where they have a whirlwind romance but ignoring the man who had been her and marry just before Laura sets off on fantasy lover since high school was her next mission. But when she returns going to be impossible. a year later, there is no news of him. ROM Forbidden Fires ROM A Wayward Miss Kincaid, Nell LP-2476 Kaye, Gillian LP-2785 Once his brown eyes and virile grace Well-born but penniless, Anthea had almost lured her into an Davenport becomes housekeeper to 179 impossible, forbidden love. Now he passionate woman who is harboring a stood before the portable cameras of dangerous secret. WKM-TV and coolly responded to her questions. It was odd that Amanda's ROM Taming the Heiress first New York assignment should King, Susan LP-2798 plunge her back into the past. And clearly Eric Harrison was more (Also available in regular print dangerous than ever. (AJ-0203)). While masquerading in high society as Lady Strathlin, a ROM With Every Loving beautiful heiress and the most eligible Touch woman in Scotland, Meg MacNeill Kincaid, Nell LP-2328 encounters Dougal Stewart, the one man who, armed with the knowledge Here on Windy Hill, surrounded by of her dark past, has the power to wildflowers, it all seemed so right. But destroy her. was it? Was Marina longing for the Dan Sommers she had known in college, the mountain-climbing young ROM Waking the Princess man addicted to crazy causes, and not King, Susan LP-2678 the sophisticated lawyer whose kiss (Also available in regular print now sent her senses reeling? Marina (AK-0149)). While concealing her true had made one decision; she would not identity as the subject of a painting that sell the old inn her beloved forever scandalized the Victorian art grandmother had left her. A gifted world, antiquarian Christina Blackburn is chef, she would open her own sent to Scotland where she once again restaurant. She knew she must not encounters the disastrous painting, as surrender to Dan until she was sure well as its dashing owner, Sir Aedan that that, too, held a promise. Arthur MacBride.

ROM Kissing the Countess ROM Oceans Apart King , Susan LP-2726 Kingsbury, Karen LP-3158 Determined to sell his childhood home He failed his family only once, long in the Highland mountains, Evan ago, but they never knew about it. Mackenzie, the new Earl of Kildonan, Now pilot Connor Evans's life and finds his life forever changed when a marriage are going great, until Connor rescue mission leads to marriage with finds himself face-to-face with his past spirited Catriona MacConn, a in the form of a seven-year-old boy.

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ROM Winter Love Song ROM Crystal Flame Kingston , Meredith LP-2586 Krentz, Jayne Ann LP-2524 Felicia Hollingsworth, ski champion and The last survivor of a proud heritage, Olympic hopeful, fell in love with her coolly sensual Kalena embarks on a instructor, married him, and lived happily daring mission to avenge her family. A ever after, until the divorce, and the soldier called the Fire Whip is devastating choice that drove Felicia commanded to tame her, but instead he from the carefree man she loved to a becomes the only lover to melt her world of loneliness and lies. Five years frozen heart. Their love, born of fire later, he's back, offering her a golden and ice, must shatter the darkness that gamble, purely business. But how could she return to his life, and not his arms? threatens their world.

ROM A Dark Champion ROM Falling Awake Kinley, Mac Gregor LP-2865 Krentz, Jayne Ann LP-2975 Despite her best intentions, peace- (Also available in regular print loving Rowena finds herself drawn to (AR-1763)). An expert in dream Stryder of Blackmoor, a powerful research, Isabel Wright finds her life warrior who vows to become the lady's becoming a nightmare when she loses champion when treachery, intrigue, her job at a sleep research center and and violence threaten her, even though becomes involved with a client, Ellis he swore allegiance to the Brotherhood Cutler, an operative for a classified of the Sword to never surrender to the government agency. passionate yearnings of the heart. ROM Light in Shadow ROM A Soldier's Heart Krentz, Jayne Ann LP-2658 Korbel, Kathleen LP-2445 (Also available in regular pirnt Over twenty years earlier, an unnamed (AK-0259)). Suspecting that a new nurse had struggled to pull Tony client is hiding a dark secret, home Riordan away from the brink of death. decorator Zoe Luce enlists the help of And now, Tony could see the investigator Ethan Truax, with whom confusion in Claire Henderson's eyes, she falls in love despite the dark could see her struggle with the same secrets of her past that could destroy nightmare images that had haunted their budding romance. him for years. Claire Henderson had saved his life, and it was time to return the favor. 181

ROM Truth or Dare ROM The Perfect Lover Krentz, Jayne Ann LP-2855 Laurens, Stephanie LP-2806 (Also available in regular print (Also available in regular print (AP-0294 )). In the sequel to "Light in (AN-0141 )). In search of the perfect Shadow," ( LP-2658 ) Zoe, an interior lover, and the perfect wife, Simon designer with an uncanny talent for Frederick Cynster is stunned when his sensing the past secrets of a house, and interest caught by the willful and her new husband, private investigator independent Portia Ashford, a young Ethan Truax, confront new problems woman he has known since childhood, when a shadowy figure from Zoe's past a situation that is transformed by a appears in Whispering Springs. shocking event that puts Portia in danger and that only Simon's ROM White Lies remarkable influence and strength can Krentz, Jayne Ann LP-3410 alleviate.

Fearing that her high-level psychic abilities have irrevocably damaged her ROM Doctor on Loan ability to have a healthy relationship, Lennox, Marion LP-2443 Clare Lancaster travels to California to As Briman Island's only doctor, assist her father's business and realizes Christie works day and night to care that things are not as they appear upon for the islanders. She knows that meeting financial consultant Jake Salter . marriage would mean abandoning

them, but when she saves a stranger's ROM Golden Tulip life, her life changes forever. He is Laker, Rosalind LP-0145 Doctor Hugo Tallent, a specialist from In 17th century Holland, young and Brisbane, and he offers Christie the gifted Francesa Visser finds dangerous help she badly needs, and so much obstacles in her search for romance. more.

ROM The Edge of Desire ROM A Man to Call My Own Laurens, Stephanie LP-3419 Lindsey, Johanna LP-2740 Christian Allardyce, 6th Marquess of (Also available in regular print Dearne, is reunited with the woman he (AN-0241)). Charismatic twins had left behind to fight for his country, Amanda and Marian Laton, sent to live when Lady Letitia Randall enlists his with their aunt on a sprawling 1870's help in clearing her brother's name. Texas ranch, find themselves

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Megan becomes determined to wed the ROM Captive of My Desires Duke of Wrothston. Lindsey, Johanna LP-3302 (Also available in regular print (AS- ROM Once a Princess 1382)). An eighth installment of the Lindsey , Johanna LP-0105 popular Malory family series finds young Gabrielle Brooks accompanying Tatiana knew nothing of her past until her pirate father on the high seas until the day a brash young man burst into he insists she return to London to find the saloon and claimed he was a king a proper husband, only to find herself and she his queen. falling for Drew Anderson, a carefree sea captain who is disinterested in ROM Dream Island matrimony. Litton, Josie LP-2523 Lady Joanna Hawkforte spent her ROM Gentle Rogue childhood reading about the wondrous Lindsey, Johanna LP-0104 beauty of Akora. But now the country of her dreams has become a symbol of her Georginia disguises herself as a cabin worst nightmare. Nine months ago her boy on board a ship, and finds herself brother embarked on a dangerous journey personal servant to the handsome ex- to find the mythic land, and Joanna never pirate captain. heard from him again. Believing he is being held captive in Akora, she is ROM Heart of a Warrior compelled to devise a desperate plan to Lindsey, Johanna LP-2423 find him, but fate is about to deliver a young Englishwoman into the arms of its Not used to seeing Nordic gods in her prince and sweep them both into a daring small California town, statuesque love that knows no boundaries. Brittany Callaghan knows that when blond Viking Dalden turns up on her doorstep, her dream man is very real. But ROM Soul Song intelligent, independent Brittany isn't Liu, Marjorie LP-3357 about to be subservient to any male. A Gifted and cursed with the ability to barbarian warrior from a land where see the future, Kitala Bell must save when women always obey, Dalden is M'cal, a seductive merman who has accustomed to fighting for what he risen from the watery depths, from the wants, and he sets out to make Brittany his conquest. grasp of an evil witch, a passionate 183 alliance that threatens their lives and their very souls. ROM Taming the Scotsman

Mac Gregor, Kinley LP-2659 ROM The Search for Love (Also available in regular print Lorrimer , Claire LP-2765 (AK-0142)). Fleeing a loveless Her mother had tried to keep her from marriage, Nora enlists the aid of Ewan marrying him, but at seventeen, beautiful green-eyed Beverly Brampton knew what MacAllister, the only man feared by she wanted. As Jonnie Colt's wife, now her father and unwanted fiancé, to mother of their five children, Beverly's protect her on the long journey from life should be complete. But why is Scotland to England, never expecting Jonnie becoming increasingly distant? Is to fall for the proud Highlander, whose something, or someone conspiring dark past and wounded heart have left against her? him reluctant to find true love.

ROM Eden Burning ROM Elusive Victory Lowell, Elizabeth LP-2314 Mackie, Mary LP-2221 Set against the lush and exotic The fog-drenched forest, the glare of the backdrop of Hawaii, follows two headlights, the sleek cars careening on tormented souls who find each other their wild courses. . .this was Bryony's and embark on a passionate journey world, the thrilling world of the car rally, fraught with danger. but it was being invaded. As manager of HF Motors, she regarded her company's

arch rival with aloof curiosity. "The ROM Love Song for a Raven Iceman" was notorious, an expert driver Lowell , Elizabeth LP-3265 with nerves of steal. Elusive and enigmatic, he posed a challenge she was Without warning, a ferocious storm in driven to meet. Bryony was tough and the Queen Charlotte Islands plunged independent, but Nils Thorssen touched a Janna Morgan into the frigid sea. But tender nerve. What passionate secrets lay before she could sink in the depths of behind his icy reserve? the choppy waters, an arm reached out through the darkness, pulling Janna to ROM Secret of the Glen safety. Her savior was Carlson Raven, and he was as untamed and enigmatic Mackie, Mary LP-3232 as the sea he loved. And they were Forced to flee from her native USA, stranded together in a deserted Alix finds a hideaway deep in the paradise. Scottish Highlands. She must remain

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For Sam Thibodeau, the feeling of ROM Pure Temptation falling in love for the first time began Mason, Connie LP-2564 the day Dee Dee Michaud beat up the A rogue without peer, Jackson bully who picked on him in the third Graystoke wants to make gaming and grade. Since then, they were carousing in London society his life's inseparable until the day after high work. Fresh off the boat from Ireland, school graduation when she ran off Moira O'Toole isn't fool enough to with another man, the same day Sam trust a rake. Yet after an accident lands was going to ask her to go steady. He her at Graystoke Manor, she finds hasn't seen her since, until one day herself hopelessly charmed by Black when she returns to the same small Jack Graystoke and his promise of town with a young son. Sam is happily pure temptation. married, yet he can't deny the feelings he still has for her. But something is ROM The Survivors terribly wrong. What secret is she Mc Call, Dinah LP-3398 keeping from everyone who holds her dear, that will also force Sam to make After a plane goes down in the a decision that will change his life. Appalachians, Deborah Sanborn, using her telepathic abilities, joins the rescue team led by Mike O'Ryan, who is ROM A Worthy Wife skeptical of her visions, to help find a missing five-year-old boy who, she Metzger, Barbara LP-2544 believes, is caught in the grip of a Having fallen in love with someone desperate killer. whom she considers the perfect man, Aurora is distraught when she ROM Snowbound discovers that her fiancée is already Mc Fadden, Marlene E. LP-2316 married, but Aurora is saved when the man's brother-in-law steps into the Her past was locked in her mind picture and offers to undo the wrongs following a car crash one winter night. he has done to her good name . She was surrounded by strangers 185

ROM Wedded Bliss fortune with a caveat regarding a crime Metzger, Barbara LP-2856 committed years ago, Olivia Lowell turns to a handsome young lawyer for Agreeing to a marriage of convenience help in understanding who her mother with the Earl of Rockford as a last resort, really was. beautiful widow Alissa Henning, determined to provide for her sons, vows to teach her new husband that there are ROM Free Fall more important things in life than money, Michaels, Fern LP-3333 including love. The loyal friends that make up the Sisterhood gather together to share their ROM Celebration many trials and tribulations and to exact Michaels, Fern LP-2155 revenge on America's favorite movie star, Desperately trying to pick up the pieces who did the unthinkable to one of their of her life after her husband of twenty own. years disappears with her eight-million- dollar trust fund, heiress Kristine Kelly ROM Listen to Your Heart wonders if she can ever trust another man, when banker Aaron Dunwoodie Michaels, Fern LP-2627 reveals his true feelings for her. (Also available in regular print (AL-0330)). Finding herself alone for ROM Charming Lily the first time in her life, New Orleans Michaels, Fern LP-2376 caterer Josie Dupre becomes involved with entrepreneur Paul Brouillette when Lily Harper built a new life for herself, their dogs fall in love, in a delightful trading the mountains in Wyoming for story that is complemented by Natchez, Mississippi. There, she is busy accompanying recipes. restoring an old house with the man she always loved, Matt Starr. But Lily's dreams for the future are threatened when ROM Plain Jane Matt disappears. Fearing foul play, Lily Michaels , Fern LP-2377 is determined to find him, embarking on Successful psychotherapist Jane Lewis a dangerous journey into unfamiliar wanted to be like homecoming queen territory. Connie Bryan back in college. However,

she was just a plain Jane. Today she is ROM Fool Me Once lovely and confident, and has never Michaels, Fern LP-3359 forgotten Michael Sorenson, the boy When her mother, who supposedly she'd admired from afar. Now, he's inspiring Jane to hope for a future died in childbirth, leaves her a vast 186 together. But she is haunted by the brutal, ROM The Adventuress unresolved attack that ended Connie Murray, Julia LP-2091 Bryan's life. The news of their elderly Uncle Claudius's impending nuptials has set ROM The Future Scrolls the Lyle family on its ears. Joseph is Michaels , Fern LP-2639 faced with debtor's prison, since he has After his wife steals holy scrolls lived on his expectancy for years. His entrusted to his family centuries mother is distraught, and his brother earlier, Alex Mendenares chases after Robert, concerned, journeys to the old her to retrieve them, bringing his man's side. But the blushing bride has young daughter to New York with jilted their uncle and is bound for him, where she meets and is watched London with a considerable amount of over by aspiring author Dani Arnold. his money, looking for new game. When Sir Robert Lyle appears, ROM Never Look Back undeniably attractive and unbearably wealthy, the prospect of relieving such Miller, Linda Lael LP-3097 a fat fish of some of his riches is (Also available in regular print tempting indeed. (AR-1647)). Reconciling with homicide detective Tony Sonterra and ROM The Rapids inheriting her father's vast estate, Neggers, Carla LP-2909 attorney Clare Westbrook opens a law office for disadvantaged clients and She has no time to take a break after finds herself targeted by a would-be playing a key role in the arrest of killer, a situation that tests her stormy dangerous fugitive Nicholas Janssen, relationship with Tony. but with Janssen fighting extradition from his Dutch prison, U.S. diplomatic security agent Maggie Spencer isn't ROM The Divided Heart about to back off, even when U.S. Morrant , Jean LP-3107 marshal Rob Dunnemore turns up There was something about Nic which asking some very tough questions. both intrigued and puzzled her, pulling Then Maggie and Rob discover the her in two directions. As Garland body of an American diplomat, and McLeod's friendship with the they realize there's another killer on charming Spaniard deepens, she begins the loose. to trust him. Then she finds out he has concealed his true identity. Mystified, she wonders why. 187

ROM Loving Stranger ROM September Pakeman , Louise LP-2858 Pilcher, Rosamunde LP-2118 Linda Weston knew nothing about The author brings characters from all Bluey, but somehow she felt safer over the world to the little town of when he was around. Although they Strathcroy, Scotland, for an had known each other for such a short extraordinary birthday party. A time, he seemed determined to protect heartwarming story of family joys and her. But from what, she wondered. sorrows.

ROM Forbidden ROM Improper Advances Paul, Megan LP-2674 Porter, Margaret E. LP-2799 Chloe has loved Kitt Maynard, the Darius Corlett assumes stunning archetypal Mr. Cool, all her life, but widow Oriana Julian is a scheming he's only ever thought of her as the girl adventuress after his fortune. But the next door. Just when it seems as if mysterious beauty stirs up an there might, at last, be a chance for undeniable passion that he is powerless Chloe to have a life with the man of to resist. Suddenly, he's pursuing this her dreams, his glamorous ex-wife creature who is hiding under an reappears on the scene, making it clear assumed name. Ana St. Alban has that Kitt belongs to her, and always come to this secluded hamlet to escape will. the scandal that plagues her life in London. ROM This Heart of Mine ROM Ardour Phillips, Susan E. LP-2323 Prior, Lily LP-2851 Molly Somerville is a successful children's book author who has a crush When a lonely olive-grower sows on pro football star Kevin Tucker, a seeds of love in search for romance, he man who can't even remember her cannot know the chaos he will cause. name. Molly's life turns when she and Instead of the voluptuous woman of Kevin are stranded in a paradise called his dreams, the mule Gezabel falls Wind Lake. There, Molly and Kevin head over hooves in love with him and battle their attraction and each other as the spell of Ardour is cast across the they face one of life's most important region. lessons.

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ROM I Thee Wed ROM The River Knows Quick, Amanda LP-2156 Quick, Amanda LP-3391 After meeting the "man of her dreams" Teaming up with wealthy and while trying to hide in the wardrobe at handsome Anthony Stalbridge, who a party, Ema Greyson is swept up into suspects prominent society figure a world of passion and intrigue. Elwin Hastings of hiding dangerous secrets, Louisa Bryce of late-Victorian ROM Rendezvous London investigates her beliefs about Hastings's criminal activities. Quick, Amanda LP-0149

A reckless charmer embarks on a ROM The Wicked Widow daring escapade to protect her honor, and her one true love. Quick , Amanda LP-2243 Known as the Wicked Widow, ROM Second Sight Madeline Deveridge has a bigger problem than her reputation. Her Quick, Amanda LP-3311 husband's ghost is haunting her, and (Also available in regular print (AS- he's as much a nuisance now as he was 1174)). Venetia Milton earns big bucks when he was alive. When she hires photographing the artifacts owned by the Artemas Hunt, a master of arcane brooding Gabriel Jones, whom she also talents, to help her, they both find their manages to seduce, but after hearing that arrangement complicated by searing he is dead, she is stunned when he winds up on her doorstep very much alive and desire . afraid for his life. ROM With this Ring ROM Slightly Shady Quick, Amanda LP-2123 Quick, Amanda LP-2378 As a writer of shocking Gothic novels, Beatrice Poole is no stranger to eerie When he burst into her antiquities shop in goings-on. Yet she thinks it's all Rome, Lavinia Lake knew Tobias March poppycock when Leo Drake, Earl of was nothing but trouble. He said he was Monkcrest, warns her about the in pursuit of a killer and was trying to Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite. Nothing save her. When March took her back to will stop her from investigating the England, Lavinia hoped that she would disappearance of the Rings from her find a way to repay Mr. March. Lavinia uncle's home and her uncle's death. Leo could never imagine how they meet has never encountered a woman so again, or that he'd become more deadly, willful, but this time Beatrice is on a and more compelling. collision course with evil.

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ROM Where the Road Ends ROM Sisters in Nursing Quinn, Tara T. LP-3079 Randall , Rona LP-2906 (Also available in regular print This is the story of three sisters born and (AJ-0210)). When her five-year-old son brought up within the precincts of a great is kidnapped and spotted in the company hospital. Their parents had been killed in of the nanny she recently fired, widow an accident when they were infants, and Amy Wainscoat joins detective Brad since then St. Bede's had been at once Dorchester in a desperate search that their home, their school, their work, and leads to a shocking conclusion, one that their world. And for Faith, Hope, and forces Amy to question everything she Charity, it will also be where they find has ever believed. love.

ROM The Doctor Falls in Love ROM Girls in White Randall , Rona LP-2269 Randall , Rona LP-2786 Young Dr. John Curtis opened his Against the fascinating backdrop of a children's clinic near Monte Carlo, not busy hospital we meet lab assistant Linda only because it was the ideal place for Powell, in love with the pathologist who his work, but because it gave him a only has eyes for microbes; Janet Humphrey, a staff nurse who is engaged fresh start in life. The past was behind to the boss but has yet to learn what love him, and so was Catherine, the nurse really is; and Meg Watling, a student who had jilted him for his best friend nurse afraid to grasp the happiness within Peter, who, she said, had the right her reach. ambition. But Peter's fashionable practice failed and, out of the blue, she wrote him to employ them both. As he ROM Sister at Sea needed trained help badly, he agreed, Randall , Rona LP-2622 but once they took up residence at the After a tragic accident for which he is clinic dangerous undercurrents were unjustly blamed, Dr. David Henderson set in motion. says goodbye to medicine, and to Helen, the nurse who has not only ROM Reluctant Promise defended him, but fallen in love with Redmayne, Ann LP-2623 him. When they meet again on a When Barney Tabley asked her to wait luxury liner, Helen is the ship's nurse, for him to return from war, Rose but David is now occupied with film Edmunds agreed, with a sense of unease. star Lola Montgomery. Did it have anything to do with her growing friendship with the mysterious Hugo Smith? 190

ROM Sanctuary Wood ROM Innocent in Death Redmayne, Ann LP-3231 Robb, J. D. LP-3340 An intriguing stranger has captured Investigating the baffling murder case Libby Garfield's heart, but is he all that of an absolutely ordinary and he seems? Libby had no idea why Karl seemingly much-loved private school had taken one of her holiday chalets, but teacher, futuristic New York City she was sure he was hiding something, lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to and also that he was stealing her heart. identify who may have wanted the

death of an innocent man, a case that is ROM Ghost Moon complicated by the machinations of Robards , Karen LP-2308 Eve's husband's former lover. Years after leaving, Olivia Morrison comes home to Louisiana with her ROM Hidden Star eight-year-old daughter to put things Roberts , Nora LP-2144 right with the Archer clan. But there is She couldn't remember a thing, not no welcome for her. Her step-cousin even who she was. But it was clear Seth, once her only comfort, is now Bailey James was in trouble, and she distant, and engaged. The bayou desperately needed Cade Parris to help echoes with memories of her mother's her live long enough to find out what mysterious death, thought by most to kind. be suicide by drowning. Olivia is determined to learn the truth and face a newly ignited passion for Seth. ROM Key of Knowledge Roberts, Nora LP-2651 ROM Born in Death (Key Trilogy, No. 2) (Also available Robb, J. D. LP-3301 in regular print (AL-0130)). This (Also available in regular print (AS- second novel in an electrifying new 1381)). When a pair of young lovers, trilogy from the best-selling author employees of a prestigious accounting follows Dana, who has a penchant for firm, are brutally murdered, mid- books, as she is forced to embark on a twenty-first-century lieutenant Eve dangerous quest to find the Key of Dallas finds the case complicated by Knowledge, or suffer a horrifying fate. the suspicious disappearance of a pregnant woman.

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ROM Key of Light first sight, and then her own duplicity Roberts, Nora LP-2650 becomes a barrier between her and happiness. (Key Trilogy, No. 1) (Also available in regular print (AK-0364)). The first in an electrifying new trilogy by the best- ROM Love Was a Jest selling author follows Mallory, a Robins, Denise LP-2764 woman gifted with artistic talent, as Scharlie was pushed into marriage by her she races against time to find the Key mother when she was only eighteen. For of Light, a perilous mission that could four years, her middle-aged husband either forge her destiny or shatter her restricted her social life, so much so that, life forever. within hours of her first escape, she had fallen passionately in love with ROM Key of Valor handsome, suave, already engaged Hugh. After a series of disasters, Scharlie begins Roberts , Nora LP-2652 to rebuild her life. (Key Trilogy, No. 3) (Also available in regular print (AL-0240)). In this ROM Bride for Ransom conclusion to the Key trilogy, three Roszel , Renee LP-0142 women are united by destiny as Zoe, searching for the Key of Valor, Sara Eller heads to a remote Alaskan unlocks the mysteries of the past to island to stop her sister from becoming save her future. Ransom Shepard's mail-order bride, but what's Sara to do when she finds ROM The Reef herself falling for the handsome Ransom? Roberts, Nora LP-2100

Tate Beaumont, a beautiful student of ROM Dancing in the Shadows marine archaeology, finds adventure, danger and passion when she reluctantly Saunders, Anne LP-3045 joins forces with diver Matthew Lassiter All her life, it seemed, Dorcas had and his uncle to find a legendary jeweled danced in the shadow of a more amulet said to be lost at the bottom of the dominant personality. Now that her sea. dancing career had come to an

untimely end, she hated the thought of ROM Love is Enough being beholden to Carlos Ruiz, who Robins, Denise LP-2719 was half English, half Spanish, and Fleur Lorraine, masquerading as a wholly charming. He said he wanted to princess for a film publicity stunt, protect her, but protection is often finds, to her own amazement, love at another word for domination. 192

ROM Islands ROM Bygones Siddons , Anne R. LP-2730 Spencer, La Vyrle LP-0143 (Also available in regular print After a bitter divorce, Bess and (AR-0296)). Anny Butler is a caretaker, Michael Curran have nothing left to a nurturer, first for her own brothers and say to each other, but when their sisters, and then as a director of an daughter makes a shocking agency devoted to the welfare of announcement, they find they must children. What she has never had is a real amend their past mistakes-and make a family. That changes when she meets and new beginning. marries Lewis Aiken. When they marry, she finds her family. But Anny must ROM Forgiving learn that everything is not as it seems, that some loves carry a secret and terrible Spencer, La Vyrle LP-0106 price. Sarah moves to a rough and tumble western town to start a newspaper, and ROM Lady Madeline's Folly find her missing sister. After Smith, Joan LP-0193 discovering her sister working in the local bordello, Sarah determines to Beautiful Lady Madeline is famous for make her paper a success, earning her proteges, but when she turns her lawman Noah Campbell's grudging "talents" to her young cousin, Henry respect, and love. But Sarah can't Aldred, he seems a little more than return his affections until she first reluctant. learns to forgive.

ROM Murphy's Law ROM Hummingbird Smith, Marcine LP-2546 Spencer , La Vyrle LP-0192 Farmer Thane MacDougal was Two men, wounded in the same train disillusioned with career women. Why robbery in Frontier Colorado, are left was it so hard to find someone who on Abigail McKenzie's doorstep to be would cherish only him and his son, nursed back to health. Soon after, both Murphy? The two of them had so men fall in love with nurse Abigail. much love to give. It just figured that the one woman he found irresistible was Meghan Forester, dedicated ROM Matters of the Heart veterinarian! Meghan liked little Steel, Danielle LP-3433 Murphy, until she learned his father Journeying to London to do a shoot of was the impossible Mr. MacDougal. one of the world's most celebrated

193 writers, Soho photographer Hope ROM Bad Moon Rising Dunne is instantly attracted by Finn Sutcliffe, Katherine LP-2562 O'Neill's boyish charm and accepts his invitation to his isolated Irish estate, Since the slaying of his family by the where gaps in his history and French Quarter Killer, brilliant confusing lies reveal Finn's sociopath prosecutor J.D. Damascus has been nature. ensnared in a nightmare, certain that the wrong man was convicted. He is aided in his search by a beautiful, ROM Message from Nam secretive, young woman with a Steel, Danielle LP-0195 shocking history. This touching romance high lights the friendships and romances of journalist ROM Texas Rain Paxton Andrews, who is on the front Thomas, Jodi LP-3209 line in Vietnam. (Also available in regular print

ROM The Wedding (AS-0656)). After a rebellious beauty, fleeing from an arranged marriage, Steel , Danielle LP-2235 disappears after nursing him back to A twenty-nine-year old high-powered health and stealing his horse, Texas entertainment attorney finds her life Ranger Travis McMurray is turned upside down when she meets a determined to track down this writer, is swept off her feet, and begins intriguing woman and bring her back planning a wedding. to the Whispering Mountain Ranch as his wife. ROM Wyndham's Bride Street, Mary LP-2672 ROM My Nerdy Valentine Emily had met Sir Charles Wyndham Thompson, Vicki L. LP-3407 at a neighborly party, but she had not With her busy schedule and her job, exchanged more than a dozen words aspiring psychologist Amanda with him. So it came as a shock to Rykowsky has no time for romance learn, the next morning, that he had but is delighted to receive a series of asked her father for her hand in anonymous love notes, until the marriage. And her father was in dire messages begin to take a sinister turn, need of the financial assistance and enlists the assistance of Wyndham had promised. stockbroker William Sloan to masquerade as her love to uncover the culprit. 194

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Thompson, Vicki L. LP-3080 (Also available in regular print ROM Rules of Engagement (AR-0272)). Inheriting her Thorne, Nicola LP-2160 grandmother's fortune, Ally Jarrett Rebecca Versey has just got engaged heads for the wilds of Alaska to pursue to her boss, charismatic advertising her dream of becoming a wildlife executive Max Lavery. This has photographer, accompanied by her caused envy among her colleagues and grandmother's personal assistant, considerable relief for Sir John and overprotective nerd Mitchell Lady Versey, who feared their Caruthers, unaware that Mitchell is beautiful, willful daughter would really a bodyguard out to protect Ally abandon all material comfort in favor from the schemes of her avaricious of her childhood companion, writer uncle. and erstwhile gardener Henry Lamb.

Max is everything Henry isn't: ROM Talk Nerdy to Me ambitious, dynamic, and groomed for Thompson, Vicki L. LP-3184 the top. But Becky is already finding Vicki Lewis Thompson returns with an herself being sidelined into the role of irresistible new tale of egghead love, "trophy wife," and is increasingly Fashion model Eve Dupree is fed up with unsure of her decision. being labeled "the pretty one" while her sister's called a genius. Eve's got loads of ROM The Doctor Who Forgot brilliant ideas, not least of which is the Vernon, Claire LP-2267 invention she's building in her garage. But when she turns to the nerd next door Dr. Peter Broome regains to help get it off the ground, she finds consciousness in a South African herself on dangerous ground. hospital, only to find he has lost his memory. Peter had then been involved ROM The Nerd Who Loved Me in an accident. Memories slowly Thompson, Vicki L. LP-3276 return, but not the answer to the question that plagues him: Is he (Also available in regular print (AR- 0075)). One of the hottest showgirls in married? Although he falls in love Las Vegas, single mother Lainie Terrell with a shy, unselfish girl, he can say gets more than she had bargained for nothing until he knows the truth. Then when she enlists the aid of Harry when a beautiful woman flies out from Ambrewster, the casino's shy, super England and tells him they are smart, and sexy accountant, as her engaged, he is in a real dilemma .

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ROM Fire Under Snow man she had never met and didn't want to. The rose-colored glasses slid from her Vernon, Dorothy LP-2310 nose, and an alarm sounded in her head, It was just a spark, yet the inferno it piercing the bubble of excitement caused had started had destroyed her life. Her by the company of this magnetic man. He husband's carelessness had caused the was Nick Farraday! fire, but Lorraine had been the one to suffer from it. She had lost everything, ROM Echoes from the Past career, pride, even the man she'd Vincent, Catherine LP-2624 married. Now she was forced to rebuild her life without him and she They were still husband and wife, but swore she'd never again make the she was under his roof against her mistake of trusting a man, until she wishes. She no longer wanted to be met Noel Britton, the one man who married to this domineering man, yet could break through her icy resolve. something about him still held her in Lorraine found it impossible to ignore his spell. She had turned her back on the feeling he aroused in her. him once. Was she prepared to do so again and lose everything she loved?

ROM Kissed by Moonlight ROM The Eagle and the Wren Vernon, Dorothy LP-2295 Whitmee, Jeanne LP-2263 The island paradise of Chimera had been Exiled from her beloved France and her father's dream come true, and now her Papa, Abigail Labeque is sent to Petrina had to watch it become just another tourist trap. Worst of all, the man live with her late mother's English responsible for the change was David uncle. But life at the impoverished Palmer, the man she had secretly loved Manor in Dorset was dull and for years, the man who had married her disappointing, until Abigail's curiosity for reasons unknown. Then Justine and longing for excitement led her into Hyland made it very clear that she and investigating a local secret. What was David were a couple, and suddenly in the mysterious "cargoes" her Petrina knew why David had taken a maidservant's lover, Jack helped to bride. Petrina was to be his shield, for he land in the cove on certain nights? was involved with another man's wife! ROM A Texas Sky ROM Wild and Wanton Wick, Lori LP-3160 Vernon, Dorothy LP-2862 (Yellow Rose Trilogy #2) Dakota She had gone on and on insulting Nick Rawlings, a Texas Ranger, has accepted Farraday to this stranger, talking about a Christ as a result of an injury in the line 196 of duty. When his friend, Darvi, is ROM Every Storm kidnapped, they learn to trust the Lord in Wick, Lori LP-3162 new ways and receive the gift of love when it comes. In 1945, on an island in the middle of the South Pacific, Rigg thought about ROM City Girl his ideals as he'd entered the war. He'd told the Lord he was up for anything. Wick, Lori LP-3161 He'd told God and his family that he (Yellow Rose Trilogy #3) As Reagan was willing to lay down his life for his Sullivan, a city girl, finds herself taken country. What he hadn't banked on with Texas ranching, and a certain Texas was an American woman, the lone rancher, she reckons with her own fears survivor of a plane crash, found nearly of marriage, family, and commitment stemming from her fragile past. A tender starved to death. He'd given everything story of overcoming fear and discovering to the war. Can he find a hidden gift in a better way of life. these desperate circumstances?

ROM Every Little Thing About ROM Paradise Island You Wilde , Hilary LP-2905 Wick, Lori LP-3159 When dancer Natalie Natal became too ill (Yellow Rose Trilogy #1) The first to carry out her latest engagement, she meeting between Slater Rawlings and and her husband and partner, Nick, persuaded Lauren to take her place. Liberty Drake could hardly be called Thrilled at the prospect of living and ideal. As acting deputy of Shotgun, working in luxurious surroundings on the Texas, Liberty is simply enforcing the romantic Paradise Island, Lauren didn't town laws. But Slater, a former Texas foresee the difficulties which might arise, Ranger with a restless spirit, is and arise they did. surprised to find himself on the wrong side of the law and it's a she who is ROM The Golden Maze arresting him. Despite his rocky start Wilde, Hilary LP-3108 in Shotgun, Slater finds himself drawn to the close-knit town, with its strong Cindy thought she had stepped right church family and the fascinating into a fairytale when, right out of the Deputy Drake. As his affection grows, blue, someone left her a castle, tiny Slater longs to see Liberty turn in her Claire Castle, in the beautiful Lake gun and badge. But can she give up her District. But there were conditions position when so many people depend attached to the bequest which slowly on her ? but surely began to take all the magic out of the situation. 197

ROM Uncertain Joy ROM Step Into My World Wilde , Hilary LP-2859 Wynne, Diana LP-2201 The job offered to Penny by the Fatherless Imogen Gordon was known as impressive Senor Juan del Riego "capable" even as a little girl, and as a certainly sounded glamorous, and it young woman she settled down to being couldn't have come at a better time as efficient. Turning her statuesque figure to far as she was concerned. He had her advantage in the tough business invited her to become governess to the world of property development, she three small children under his care on a deliberately submerged her femininity. But an unexpected and embarrassing tiny island off the coast of Spain. meeting with Sir Arthur reveals her Would she be able to cope with it? womanliness. He has all the confidence of wealth and property, but a humiliating ROM Nurse in Doubt tragedy in his past keeps him from Williams, Rose LP-2465 opening up to a relationship with Imogen. They are driven apart, until Imogen is Upon the death of her father, Edna was forced to reevaluate her life. in the uncomfortable position of sharing the family house with a Sociology stepmother barely older than herself in an atmosphere of open hostility. She SOC Our Endangered Values: couldn't walk out on her nursing job; America's Moral Crisis her stepmother wouldn't agree to Carter, Jimmy LP-3211 dispose of the property; and there was no one Edna wanted to marry enough Sustained by his lifelong faith, Jimmy to use matrimony as an escape. Then a Carter assesses disturbing societal new doctor joined the hospital staff. trends in a forceful and unequivocal but balanced and courageous way. President Carter has written ROM Reluctant Suitor importantly about his spiritual life and Woodiwiss, Kathleen LP-2809 faith. In this book, he offers a personal Sixteen years after her betrothed joined consideration of "moral values" as they the military to escape their arranged relate to the important issues of the marriage, Adriana rises to become one day. He puts forward a passionate of society's most desirable aristocrats defense of separation of church and and wonders if Colonel Colton will state, and a strong warning of where still resist the wedding. the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred. 198

Sports/Recreation SUS Saving Faith Baldacci, David LP-2139 SPO Funny Cide When a zealous CIA chief uncovers Jenkins, Sally LP-2770 evidence of bribery in high places, he Jenkins reveals how a horse, a trainer, compels Washington influence peddler a jockey, and a bunch of high school Danny Buchanan to spy on his clients, buddies took on the sheiks and blue but when Buchanan tells his story to bloods of the horse-racing world, and the FBI, the tables are turned. won.

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The carefully orchestrated life of SUS On Thin Ice Manhattan emergency room doctor Andersen, Susan LP-2525 and witness-protection program Olympic figure skater Sasha Miller now participant Peter Brown unravels in the performs with a renowned ice show, but a course of a high-stakes day that begins string a bizarre murders follows her from with a mugging, an elevator encounter city to city. Special agent Mick Vinicor is with a sexy pharmaceutical rep, and a investigating the murders and he's new patient who knows him from his convinced the beautiful skater knows previous existence. more than she's admitting. However, unraveling the mystery of her deepest secrets and twisted loyalties leaves him SUS The Charlemagne Pursuit vulnerable to emotions he can't afford. Berry, Steve LP-3366

SUS Dark Gold A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Angsten, David LP-3270 Malone on a perilous international (Also available in regular print (AS- quest that takes him and twin sisters 1646)). Setting out for Mexico with a with their own agenda from an ancient pair of college buddies to locate his German cathedral to the harsh, missing brother, Jack Duran discovers unforgiving world of Antarctica in that his brother had been searching for pursuit of the truth about the death of a shipwreck believed to be the site of a his father on a classified sub mission fortune in ancient gold and that the beneath Antarctica. divers on the search team have been disappearing one by one.

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SUS Not Comin' Home to You to battles between rival drug lords and Block, Lawrence LP-3024 the flow of illegal immigrants, the U.S. launches Operation Rampart under the He is Jimmie John Hall, "free and command of Major Jason Richter and white and twenty-two." She is Betty his Task Force TALON, who find Dienhardt, plain, friendless, and themselves targeted by drug kingpin oppressed by a bleak home life. In Enrique Fuera and a nationalist each other they find a chance for love Mexican president out to regain and fulfillment. But they are doomed. control of the U.S. Southwest. For Jimmie John has already embarked on a killing spree on the backroads of SUS Chill Factor the Southwest that will leave fourteen innocent people dead. Brown , Sandra LP-3131 (Also available in regular print SUS Tantalus (AS-0246)). When a serial killer who Brindley, Louise LP-2219 leaves a blue ribbon at the site of his For successful crime novelist Geraldine victims' last sightings appears in the Frayling, a new home promises a quiet peaceful town of Cleary, North life, but the peace is soon to be shattered. Carolina, police chief Dutch Burton The body of her alcoholic gardener is finds the case complicated by his ex- discovered in her garden shed only days wife's disappearance during a blizzard. before her mad French housekeeper is murdered, and the previous owner of her SUS Hello, Darkness house is found suffocated in his nursing home. Gerry's life has begun to resemble Brown, Sandra LP-2780 that of Virginia Vale, her best-selling (Also available in regular print detective, where black clad murderers (AO-0406)). The host of a late night, stalk the quiet streets, but the call-in radio show, Paris Gibson joins unsympathetic Detective Inspector Clooney hasn't come up with any forces with police psychologist Dean answers, so Gerry will have to take Malloy to identify a mysterious caller matters into her own hands. known only as "Valentino" before he can kill a woman whom he feels has SUS Edge of Battle wronged him, only to find herself the target of the would-be killer, who feels Brown , Dale LP-3226 that Paris destroyed his relationship (Also available in regular print with his girlfriend. (AS-1424)). With tensions escalating along the U.S.-Mexican border, thanks 200

SUS Ricochet SUS Crusader's Cross Brown, Sandra LP-3355 Burke, James Lee LP-3204 Investigating the alleged shooting of a (Also available in regular print burglar in the home of a high-profile (AS-0247)). After hearing an old Savannah district judge, detectives schoolmate's deathbed confession, Dave Hatcher and Bowen suspect the judge's Robicheaux begins a search for a dutiful trophy wife's declarations of prostitute he met decades earlier who had innocence and find the case dangerous ties to the mob, an endeavor complicated by the judge's notorious that proves dangerous in the wake of a soft-on-crime tactics. series of murders and the sudden appearance of a troubled young woman. SUS The Crush SUS Last Car to the Elysian Brown, Sandra LP-2557 Fields (Also available in regular print Burke, James Lee LP-2867 (AJ-0327)). After serving on the jury for a high-profile murder case, Dr. Rennie (Also available in regular print Newton suddenly finds herself the object (AP-0190)). Preparing to confront a man of obsession by the accused killer, whom who may have assaulted his friend, the jury had acquitted, and is drawn into detective Robicheaux finds himself a deadly game of vengeance with an investigating a car crash that ended the embittered police officer who will do lives of three teenage girls, a case that is anything to bring the man to justice. compromised by a grief-crazed father, a psychologically unbalanced assassin, and a cache of dangerous secrets . SUS Unspeakable

Brown, Sandra LP-2105 SUS Pegasus Descending Anna Corbett, a deaf widow, is coping with the recent death of her husband. She Burke, James Lee LP-3329 is living like a hermit on a cattle ranch in Precariously content in his strict AA East Texas with her 6-year-old son and lifestyle at the side of a woman he father-in-law when she unwittingly loves, New Orleans detective Dave becomes the center of a revenge plot Robicheaux finds his peace shattered engineered by escaped convict Carl by the appearance of a woman who is Herbold. She counts on her hired hand passing stolen money and the suicide Jack Sawyer to help her, but he has of another woman who may be the secrets of his own. Can Anna trust this daughter of Dave's long-time friend . man or will his demons doom them all?

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SUS The Rule of Four SUS The Second Time Around Caldwell, Ian LP-3095 Clark, Mary H. LP-2694 (Also available in regular print (Also available in regular print (AR-0880)). Endeavoring to decipher a (AN-0276)). A chilling corporate five-hundred-year old text that weaves scandal comes to light when the a mathematical labyrinth within a love aftershocks lead to a boy's mysterious story, researchers Tom Sullivan and disappearance, and the wife of a Paul Harris obtain a diary that may corporate businessman turned fugitive contain the key to the code, but when a assumes that her husband is fellow researcher is killed, they realize accountable, only to learn that the that the book contains a dangerous consequences of corporate misdeeds secret. can become a matter of life and death.

SUS Red Rabbit SUS Two Little Girls in Blue Clancy, Tom LP-2460 Clark, Mary H. LP-3400 The Soviet Union and the United Traumatized by the kidnappings of her States play a deadly game of cat and twin three-year-old girls, only one of mouse. Jack Ryan is at the center of whom was recovered, a mother begins the action, but it may already be too a desperate search when her returned late for a novice CIA analyst to do daughter claims that the other twin, anything about the conflict. believed dead, is still alive and in mortal danger. SUS I Heard That Song Before SUS No Place Like Home Clark, Mary H. LP-3371 Clark, Mary H. LP-3075 Marrying the son of her father's wealthy employer, twenty-eight-year- (Also available in regular print old gardener's daughter Kay Lansing (AR-2470)). Growing up under an becomes increasingly disturbed by the assumed identity after accidentally suspicion surrounding her husband, shooting her mother and escaping her Peter, in regard to the mysterious abusive father, Liza Barclay, unable to deaths of his first wife and a high- overcome fears that her past will school senior. reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.

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SUS Gone for Good investigate a series of puzzling murders and quickly discovers that the profile of Coben, Harlan LP-2534 the killer matches someone with whom (Also available in regular print he has worked with in the past, Detective (AG-0229)). Investigating his Harry Bosch. girlfriend's mysterious disappearance, Will Klein learns that she is somehow SUS Abduction tied to his brother's death and becomes Cook, Robin LP-2348 increasingly disturbed when he A mysterious transmission from the realizes that everyone he loves is bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a harboring dark secrets. crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific SUS Promise Me understanding, and a discovery that Coben, Harlan LP-3278 will change everything we know about life on Earth. (Also available in regular print (AS-

1466)). Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar offers a ride home to a young SUS Crisis girl to prevent her from accepting a Cook, Robin LP-3328 ride from a drunk driver, but when the Shocked and humiliated by a medical girl disappears, he is forced to rescue malpractice lawsuit that compromises her to prove his innocence. everything he has worked for, physician Craig Bowman receives help SUS Cast a Dark Shadow from his estranged brother-in-law, a Coffin , Julie LP-3183 medical examiner, who discovers a Why had her ex-husband suddenly Pandora's box of trouble after demanded custody of their daughter and exhuming the body of Craig's alleged to what lengths would he go to get his victim. wish? Why was Marc threatening Abigail's happiness, and, even worse, SUS Critical why would he threaten the future of her little daughter, Flora? Cook, Robin LP-3430 Achieving a successful life in spite of a SUS A Darkness More Than troubled past, Dr. Angela Dawson Night pursues business opportunities in three major cities only to find her efforts Connelly, Michael LP-2355 compromised by a surge of drug- The LAPD asks Terrence McCaleb to resistant staph infections, which are

203 investigated by medical examiner Admiral Jake Grafton must ferret out the newlyweds Laurie Montgomery and group responsible and overtake and Jack Stapleton. destroy the sub before an entire nation is brought to its knees. SUS Marker SUS Blow Fly Cook, Robin LP-3132 (Also available in regular print Cornwell, Patricia LP-2921 (AS-0251)). Investigating a series of (Also available in regular print bizarre deaths that have taken place (AP-0179)). (A Scarpetta Novel) among seemingly healthy young people Leaving Virginia in search of peace after routine surgeries, doctors and quiet, Dr. Kay Scarpetta journeys Montgomery and Stapleton confront to Florida, where a series of baffling institutional politics that hamper their murders entangles her in an ability to prove that the deaths were international conspiracy that confronts intentional, a situation complicated when her with the most unexpected Montgomery discovers that she carries a circumstance of her life. genetic marker for breast cancer and requires surgery herself. SUS Predator SUS Shock Cornwell, Patricia LP-3246 Cook, Robin LP-2438 (Also available in regular print (Also available in regular print (AS-0576)). Kay Scarpetta and her (AE-0180)). From the master of medical colleague Pete Marino investigate the suspense comes this chilling story of case of a man killed by a shotgun blast technology and greed run amok, set in a to the chest, while a woman is trapped Boston fertility clinic where donated eggs in an abandoned house in the South are utilized in a scientist's horrifying after being kidnapped by an unknown research. captor.

SUS America SUS Blindside Coonts, Stephen LP-2325 Coulter, Catherine LP-2739 After launching its maiden voyage, the USS "America," the world's most Married FBI agents Dillon Savich and technically advanced nuclear submarine, Lacey Sherlock face a baffling case, is pirated by terrorists and disappears the kidnapping of a six-year-old boy beneath the Atlantic with its warheads by people involved with a charismatic aimed directly at the United States. Rear evangelist. 204

SUS Point Blank SUS Atlantis Found Coulter, Catherine LP-3281 Cussler, Clive LP-2299 (Also available in regular print (AS- A Dirk Pitt Novel. When a research ship 0802)). Barely surviving a motel manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the bombing while trying to rescue a U.S. National Underwater and Marine kidnapped entertainer, FBI agents Dillon Agency is nearly sunk by a vessel from Savich and Dane Carver find themselves the past, Pitt finds himself caught up in working against an unstable villain with an ancient mystery with lethal ties to the designs on their families and fellow present, matching wits with a malevolent agents, while agent Ruth Warnecki and powerful adversary. follows leads about a lost treasure and a murdered music school student to the site SUS Black Wind of a hidden cave. Cussler , Clive LP-3076 SUS The Edge (Also available in regular print Coulter , Catherine LP-2211 (AR-2657)). (A Dirk Pitt Novel) In FBI agent Ford "Mac" MacDougal is the final days of World War II, the recovering from injuries he received in a Japanese launch a desperate last-ditch terrorist car bombing when his sister, effort to seize victory in the face of Jilly, a medical researcher, drives her certain defeat by sending two Porsche off an Oregon cliff, on purpose, submarines carrying a new strain of a it seems. By the time Mac reaches deadly virus to the west coast of the Portland, Jilly has come out of a four-day United States, but years after the subs coma, but after a few hours with her are lost at sea, someone plots to use brother, she vanishes. Mac's search turns their deadly cargo, and only Dirk Pitt up nothing, until he's asked by the local and his children, Summer and Dirk, sheriff to help investigate the murder of stand in the way. an elderly resident.

SUS Trojan Odyssey SUS Wizard's Daughter Cussler, Clive LP-2923 Coulter, Catherine LP-3373 Dirk Pitt recently discovered that he When Rosalind de la Fontaine, under the had two grown children, twenty-three- aegis of the Sherbrooke family, is year-old fraternal twins born to a introduced to the ton, she meets Nicholas Vail, the 7th Earl of Mountjoy, and is woman he thought had died. Summer drawn into a centuries-old mystery that is and Dirk have inherited their father's linked to her past and to a sixteenth- love of the sea, and they're about to century wizard. help him in the adventure of a lifetime. 205

The twins are working in a NUMA SUS The Man with Bogart's underwater enclosure trying to Face determine the origin of a brown tide Fenady, Andrew J. LP-2477 off Nicaragua when two startling things happen: Summer discovers a Plastic surgery gave him the face. strange and beautiful ancient artifact; Then he changed his name to Sam and the worst storm in years boils up Marlow. He bought a 1939 Plymouth, out of the sky, heading straight for rented an office, and hired a bombshell them. secretary. He may seem an unlikely hero for the seventies, but Sam's sleuthing provides a gripping and SUS Valhalla Rising amusing story of sex, murder and Cussler, Clive LP-2472 intrigue.

(A Dirk Pitt Novel) The past and the future collide in this "New York SUS Consent to Kill Times" bestseller. Confronting an Flynn , Vince LP-3133 extraordinary series of monsters, both (Also available in regular print human and mechanical, modern and (AS-0353)). Having earned numerous ancient, NUMA special projects enemies in his more than fifteen years director Dirk Pitt treads upon territory on the front lines of the war on terror, previously known only to legend as he CIA operative Mitch Rapp is targeted investigates the sinking of a luxury by the influential father of a terrorist cruise ship, the "Emerald Dolphin." who is demanding retribution for his son's death . SUS The Stone Monkey Deaver , Jeffery LP-2435 SUS Memorial Day (Also available in regular print Flynn, Vince LP-2977 (AG-285)). Forensics expert Lincoln (Also available in regular print Rhyme and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, (AR-1291)). Learning about an are recruited by the FBI to capture "the imminent terrorist attack, CIA Ghost, " a homicidal immigrant operative Mitch Rapp takes the lead in smuggler whose next intended victims, a commando raid into northern two families who jumped ship and Pakistan, where he obtains information vanished in New York's Chinatown about a planned nuclear attack but underground, are the only witnesses to suspects that a greater threat exists. his crimes.

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SUS Hornet Flight SUS The Other Daughter Follett , Ken LP-2644 Gardner , Lisa LP-2209 In June 1944, with the war not going Melanie Stokes learns from a reporter well for the British, the lives of three that she is the biological daughter of a people on both sides of the English serial killer executed years ago, the Channel intertwine as one of them same killer who murdered her adoptive makes a discovery that could change parents' young daughter. When the the course of the war. reporter turns up dead, Melanie must make a choice: run from the past, or SUS Whiteout face a grisly truth that could cost her her life. Follett, Ken LP-2978

(Also available in regular print SUS Killjoy (AR-2171)). A missing canister of deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding Garwood, Julie LP-2649 from the eyes. Human betrayal, (Also available in regular print medical terror, and a race against time. (AJ-0131)). With her quick mind and Like no other suspense author, Ken razor-sharp instincts, Avery Delaney is Follett reinvents the thriller with each a born profiler for the FBI. But soon new storyline. But nothing matches the this expert crime analyst will have to knife-edge drama of Whiteout. use every one of her adroit skills on the case of her life, one that hits SUS The Next Accident painfully close to home. Gardner, Lisa LP-2358 Risking everything to learn the truth SUS Careless in Red about his daughter's death, called an George, Elizabeth LP-3369 accident by police, FBI Special Agent On a lonely stretch of coastline, Pierce Quincy teams with former cop Lynley discovers the body of a young Rainie Conner on a desperate manhunt man. Thus begins a quest to unmask a for a killer. This psychopath's most clever and ruthless murderer. But this devastating weapon is an intimate time, Lynley's not in charge. He's a knowledge of his victims' darkest witness and possibly even a suspect. fears. Another thing all the victims have in common, Quincy loved them.

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SUS The Sinner SUS The Soldier Spies Gerritsen, Tess LP-2868 Griffin, W. E. B. LP-2451 (Also available in regular print Two Americans in the just-born Office (AO-0299)). Investigating the brutal of Strategic Services take on their most murder of one nun and the critical injury important assignment during World of another within a cloistered convent, as War II, to extract or eliminate those well the vicious killing and mutilation of Germans with the expertise to develop an unknown woman, medical examiner the atomic bomb. Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli stumble upon long-buried secrets SUS Last Call that link these horrific crimes and a horror that strikes all too close to home. Grippando, James LP-3326 Having proven the innocence of a best SUS The Fighting Agents friend who had been falsely accused of Griffin , W. E. B. LP-2419 murder, criminal defense attorney Jack The remnants of American forces who Swyteck is once again called upon to escaped from the Japanese flee into the help his friend when the latter is mountains of the Philippines in 1943. offered the identity of his mother's Led by an unorthodox officer, a ragtag killer in exchange for helping an army of American troops and Philippine escaped convict. soldiers must stand against the Imperial Japanese Army. Now a cadre of OSS SUS Last to Die agents is their only contact with the Grippando, James LP-2804 outside world, and their only hope for survival . Representing an accused hit man as a favor to his best friend, Miami lawyer SUS The Saboteurs Jack Swyteck investigates his client's Griffin, W. E. B. LP-3327 claims that a woman offered him her estate if he would kill her, a story that As the Battle of the Atlantic rages, is compromised by the deaths of other German U-boats are sinking U.S. potential heirs. vessels at will. Meanwhile, preparations are being made to invade Sicily and Italy. As the war heats up, SUS The Brethren "Wild Bill" Donovan and his secret Grisham, John LP-2180 agents find themselves battling on two They call themselves the Brethren: fronts at once. And fate is about to deal three disgraced former judges doing them a surprise that may doom them time in a federal prison in Florida. all. 208

Meeting daily, these judges-turned- involving the recruitment of a network felons reminisce about old court cases, of terrorists, and it is up to Blake and contemplate where they went Johnson and Sean Dillon to uncover wrong in their lives. They decide to the mastermind behind it all. use their jail time in a more profitable manner: devising an extortion scam so SUS Edge of Danger perfect that they won't know why it Higgins , Jack LP-2347 fell apart until it's too late. The Rashid family's British and Arab ancestries produced a remarkable SUS Skinny Dip family of warriors, as at home under Hiaasen, Carl LP-3094 the desert sun as on the streets of (Also available in regular print London. Now they direct their rage (AR-2474)). Doctoring water samples against the United States, whose to help his corrupt agribusiness president they hold accountable for a employer continue illegal dumping in series of attacks upon their power and the Everglades, biologist Chaz Perrone honor. It's up to American agent Blake attempts to murder his wife, who has Johnson and his colleague, former IRA figured out his scam and survives to enforcer Sean Dillon, to stop them. plot her husband's downfall. SUS Midnight Runner SUS Bad Company Higgins, Jack LP-2441 Higgins, Jack LP-2695 The murderous Rashid family is back in business, and British agent Sean When Hitler's secret diary resurfaces, Dillon must confront oil heiress Kate revealing a plot between the United Rashid, who's out to avenge her States and Germany to join forces brothers' deaths. against the Soviet Union, White House operative Blake Johnson acts to secure the diary and keep it hidden. SUS Trick of the Eye Hitchcock, Jane S. LP-2576 SUS Dark Justice For Faith Crowell, trompe l'oeil artist, it is the commission of a lifetime: Higgins, Jack LP-2979 painting the famed ballroom of an (Also available in regular print opulent Long Island estate. But her (AR-0867)). An attempt on the life of new patron has a macabre fixation on a the U.S. president during a visit to daughter brutally murdered in the Manhattan is the first step in a plot house a decade earlier, one so intense 209 that it jeopardizes Faith's own peace of psychopath. As she goes deeper into his mind. And as she pieces together the mind, she comes to realize he knows who details of the grisly crime that shadows she is. the house, Faith slowly discovers that she herself plays the starring role in a SUS Touching Evil bizarre and dangerous charade. Hooper, Kay LP-2495

Seattle police sketch-artist Maggie SUS Hiding in the Shadows Barnes listens as crime victims describe Hooper, Kay LP-2409 their ordeals, and then draws dead-on sketches of their assailants. Some think (Shadows Trilogy Series, No. 2) When Maggie is telepathic, but only Maggie Faith Parker awakens from a coma, she knows the truth behind her talent. But her has no memory of her life, or of her secret may be exposed when a madman friend Dinah, who has vanished without a abducts women and blinds them, leaving trace. Death is stalking both women and them barely alive. Maggie has her own one of them will not escape its lethal dark connection to the monster, an eerie grasp . link that may stretch back to a string of unsolved murders. SUS Out of the Shadows Hooper, Kay LP-2408 SUS All the Queen's Men (Shadows Trilogy Series, No. 3) When Howard, Linda LP-2213 teenagers become the prey of a ritual Niema Burdock knows the dangers of killer in a small Georgia town, Sheriff working with John Medina, the CIA's Miranda Knight has no choice but to call the FBI, even if it means bringing Agent legendary covert operations specialist. Bishop back into her life. Together Years ago, Burdock, a communications Miranda's local force and Bishop's team expert, witnessed her husband's death solve the murders even as Miranda and in a hazardous mission. But now Bishop face up to their dark past. Medina needs her help to crack an international terrorist ring. SUS Stealing Shadows Hooper , Kay LP-2394 SUS Open Season (Shadows Trilogy Series, No. 1) The last Howard, Linda LP-2375 time Cassie Neill used her psychic Tired of her boring life as a small-town abilities, she had been five minutes too librarian, Daisy Minor decides to give late in leading the LAPD to a killer. herself a "life makeover" for her 34th While trying to forget the past, Cassie is birthday. Transforming herself into a drawn into the mind of another party girl, she's declared open season for

210 manhunting. But her free-spirited fun is task force and returns to her Mississippi shattered when she witnesses something hometown, where she discovers she shouldn't, and becomes the target of a disturbing information about her father's killer. murder, which occurred when Cat had been eight years old. SUS Havana Hunter, Stephen LP-3093 SUS The Footprints of God Cuba, 1953: the Caribbean is fast Iles, Greg LP-2645 becoming a strategic Cold War hub, and Resisting those who would use a Soviet intelligence has taken Castro revolutionary new technology for under its wing. The CIA's response is to unethical purposes, doctor David send legendary gunfighter and ex-Marine Tennant and psychiatrist Rachel Weiss hero Earl Swagger. In Cuba, Earl finds find themselves running for their lives himself up to his neck in ambiguity, from a ruthless team of NSA agents where the rules of honor don't apply, and and turning to David's unusual dreams where the target seems to have more luck for guidance. than anyone else in Cuba.

SUS The Quiet Game SUS Pale Horse Coming Iles, Greg LP-2304 Hunter , Stephen LP-2469 When former prosecutor Penn Cage (Also available in regular print returns to his hometown of Natchez, (AG-104). In 1951 Mississippi, Thebes Mississippi, he doesn't find the peace State Penal Farm is a place of violence, he desperately craves. He finds that his racial terror, and horrific rumors. When own father is being blackmailed by a an old friend disappears inside Thebes, corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn Arkansas State Police Sgt. Earl Swagger infiltrates the prison and discovers a investigates, he uncovers a murderous savage world where death is the only secret, and the town's violent past. salvation. He barely escapes with his life, but he's not about to stay away for long. SUS Turning Angel Iles, Greg LP-3227 SUS Blood Memory (Also available in regular print Iles, Greg LP-3082 (AS-0888)). When the body of Kate (Also available in regular print Townsend turns up near the (AR-1918)). Experiencing panic attacks Mississippi River and his close friend, and blackouts at murder scenes, forensics physician Drew Elliott, admits to a expert Cat Ferry is suspended from her love affair with the murdered girl, 211 attorney Penn Cage once again tangles could be disastrous for Stephen, who is with the dark side of his hometown of trapped in dirty dealings. When a Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the threat puts Brian's life in danger, Julia secret world of an elite nearby high and Connor find themselves in a race school, teenage sex, drugs, and against time. violence. SUS One False Move SUS Shallow Graves Kava, Alex LP-2869 Jeffries , William LP-2452 (Also available in regular print A Hollywood film director looking to (AR-0735)). When a bank robbery goes shoot his next film in Cleary, New horribly wrong, leaving six people dead, York, gets a lukewarm reaction from con artist Melanie Starks, her seventeen- the town's inhabitants. When a friend year-old son Charlie, and a paroled is murdered, he learns how far the prisoner take an innocent author hostage town will go to keep its secrets hidden. and hide out in his secluded cabin in Platte River State Park. SUS The Killing Game SUS Monster Johansen, Iris LP-2226 Kellerman, Jonathan LP-2137 Eve Duncan, a forensic sculptor, begins to reconstruct the face of a Alex Delaware is back in a riveting and young girl whose skeleton was among devilishly ingenious story about an nine unearthed. But her discovery is asylum inmate who seems able to foresee grisly slayings. How can a nonfunctional merely bait in a trap laid out by a psychotic locked up in a supposedly cunning murderer who wants to play secure institution for homicidal madmen his killing game with his new victim: predict brutal murders in the outside Eve. world?

SUS No Way Out SUS Relentless Kane, Andrea LP-2361 Koontz, Dean LP-3434 When teacher Julia Talbot sees that her Unable to let go of a poor review of his favorite student, Mayor Stephen latest best-seller, novelist Cubby Stratford's son, Brian, seems anxious, Greenwich endeavors to track down the she suspects problems at home. reclusive critic only to trigger a terrifying Confronting Brian's family, she's chain of events that reveal the critic's warned off by his uncle, Connor sociopath tendencies as well as the Stratford. He knows her suspicions violent nature of the critic's mother .

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SUS Green River High had thought, while time continues to Kyle, Duncan LP-2060 run out and his client is in imminent Many people wrote letters to Tunnicliffe danger of injustice by his hands. when he disarmed a violent criminal and became a hero again. Some were old SUS With Malice friends, two were not. She had the face of Lee , Rachel LP-2531 a Sunday school teacher and the mind of a commando; he was as dishonest as he Tampa homicide detective Karen was distinguished, and both had known Sweeney is plunged into a deadly Tunnicliffe's pilot father, who vanished in world of sex, political intrigue, and a plane 20 years before with, among greed when she discovers that the link other items, a new identity and a secret between two murder victims, an exotic Japanese torpedo. dancer and an elderly nanny, is actually Senator Grant Lawrence, a SUS McNally's Folly man with dark secrets and dangerous Lardo, Vincent LP-2449 enemies. Hollywood leading lady Desdemona Darling is set to star in the Palm Beach SUS Be Cool Community Theater's production of Leonard, Elmore LP-2131 "Arsenic and Old Lace", and her arrival sets the whole town in a tizzy. But when An unforgettable, hilarious, and spot- an actor sips some prop wine and drops on insider's look at Hollywood as only dead, the play is filled with murderer. Leonard could write it, " Be Cool" Play director Archy McNally must takes readers on a back-side tour of separate the actions from the genuine Tinseltown's other big business, the article. music industry .

SUS Fatal Flaw SUS Tishomingo Blues Lashner, William LP-2922 Leonard, Elmore LP-2491 (Also available in regular print Warned by the local Dixie underworld (AN-0265)). When composed, to keep silent after witnessing a unemotional attorney Victor Carl murder, daredevil diver Dennis agrees to represent an old friend Lenahan is recruited by Detroit accused of murdering his fiancée, gangster Robert Taylor for a despite his belief in his guilt, he finds showdown that takes place during a himself traveling coast to coast as he Civil War reenactment. discovers things are not as simple as he

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SUS The Hearing SUS The Hades Factor Lescroart, John LP-2362 Ludlum, Robert LP-2307 When a homicide detective's daughter (Also available in regular print is killed, the aggrieved father pushes (AU-0470) A doomsday virus claims the main suspect for answers, D.A. the lives of four people across the Sharron Pratt sets out to revive her country, including virus researcher Dr. career by declaring war on the Sophia Russell. Her devastated and accused, and defense attorney Dismas enraged fiancé, Lt. Colonel Jonathan Hardy struggles to ensure a fair trial. Smith, uncovers evidence that someone out there has the virus, and SUS The Hunt Club the pandemic was planned. Smith Lescroart, John LP-3257 assembles a private team to aid in his fight against the deadly virus. When a federal judge is found murdered in Pacific Heights, P.I. Wyatt Hunt enlists his confederation of SUS The Prometheus Deception friends, stringers, and associates, the Ludlum, Robert LP-2440 Hunt Club, to bring the murderer to Nicholas Bryson, a agent for a covert justice. American group called the Directorate, comes out of retirement after learning SUS Blind Run the Directorate is actually a traitorous Lewin, Patricia LP-2746 group and joins forces with the CIA to (Also available in regular print put a stop to their actions. (AL-0158)). Ethan Decker is a specialized "Hunter" for the most SUS The Sigma Protocol secretive agency of the U.S. Ludlum, Robert LP-2471 government. But when an assassin (Also available in regular print kills Decker's young son, he leaves his unsuspecting wife, to save her from the (AE-0303)). When a childhood friend madman's threats, and exiles himself to unexpectedly attempts to murder him a remote desert in New Mexico. Then in Switzerland, an American a former member of Decker's team investment banker begins to unravel a entrusts him with two children, before mystery involving his famous financier being killed by the man who murdered father and a mysterious OSS case code-named Sigma. Decker's son .

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SUS The Tristan Betrayal letters, and a mysterious hobo. Then a Ludlum, Robert LP-2866 stiff turns up in a car on an empty beach, and Nick turns up with a Colt (Also available in regular print .45. (AR-0097)). Working for the U.S.'s secret intelligence forces in Europe SUS Executive Privilege during the Second World War, Stephen Metcalf undertakes a bold Margolin, Phillip LP-3370 plan for which he must locate and Suddenly, a small-time private eye and betray a former lover in order to a fledgling lawyer find themselves in protect free-world interests. possession of evidence that suggests that someone in the White House is a murderer. Their only problem? Staying SUS The Night Spider alive long enough to prove it. Lutz, John LP-2677 (Also available in regular print SUS Sleeping Beauty (AK-0412)). As a twisted killer Margolin, Phillip LP-2729 nicknamed the Night Spider terrorizes (Also available in regular print the city of Manhattan, targeting innocent women who live in high- (AR-0477)). While Miles van Meter is rises, retired NYPD Captain Thomas on tour to promote his new true-crime Horn and his detectives are baffled by book, the serial killer portrayed in the the absence of clues and must race book escapes from custody and goes against time to stop this clever after the daughter of two of his predator before he strikes again. victims, Ashley Spencer, whose only hope of escaping lies in the book about the crimes . SUS The Goodbye Look

Macdonald, Ross LP-2330 SUS The Associate Lew Archer has been hired to Margolin, Phillip LP-2486 investigate a burglary at the mission- style mansion of Irene and Larry Daniel Ames is on easy street as an Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son associate for the most prestigious law Nick, has a talent for disappearing, and firm in Portland, Oregon. When a the Chalmerses are a family with charismatic rights lawyer sues the money and memories to burn. As firm's client, a pharmaceutical Archer zeroes in on Nick, he discovers company, for manufacturing a drug a troubled blonde, a stash of wartime that causes unspeakable birth defects,

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Daniel believes the case has no merit. SUS The Jury But he's soon led into a vortex of Martini, Steve LP-2363 greed, corruption, deceit, and murder.

Paul Madriani agrees to represent Dr. SUS Ties That Bind David Crone, a respected geneticist accused of murdering a young Margolin, Phillip LP-2807 colleague. An incriminating note left (Also available in regular print behind by a dead key witness seems to (AN-0169)). When a presidential confirm Crone's innocence. But when candidate is brutally murdered, defense Madriani hits upon a scandal from attorney Amanda Jaffe finds herself Crone's past, an ethical nightmare representing the chief suspect, who threatens: the possibility of defending claims to have information linking the a guilty client. victim to a drug ring of high-ranking judges and public officials. SUS Someone to Watch Over SUS Double Tap Me Martini, Steve LP-3083 Mc Naught, Judith LP-2616 (Also available in regular print Seriously injured in a car "accident," Broadway actress Leigh Kendall (AR-2132)). Defense attorney Paul Madriani takes on the case of Emiliano awakens to find herself trapped in a Ruiz, a career soldier on trial for the nightmare when her rich, successful murder of a businesswoman and the husband mysteriously disappears head of a high-tech software company, during a blizzard, and she plunges into murders that could be tied to explosive a desperate search to find him and into government secrets. a menacing web of secrets, deception,

and danger . SUS The Attorney Martini, Steve LP-2236 SUS Picture Perfect A Paul Madriani Novel. Defense Michaels, Fern LP-3056 attorney and sleuth Paul Madriani is (Also available in regular print back, and on his most challenging case (AR-0309)). When her seven-year-old in this riveting new legal thriller. A nephew, a hemophiliac, mysteriously drug-addicted mother goes up against disappears during their camping trip, her daughter's newly rich grandfather pediatrician Lorrie Ryan races against in a contentious custody case that leads time to find the missing boy with the to criminal accusations, and ultimately help of FBI agent Stuart Saunders. murder. 216

SUS Be Mine accidents among the air tanker fleet produces a mounting body count. Veteran Mofina, Rick LP-2777 pilot Clark Maxwell becomes convinced San Francisco crime reporter Tom that a sinister cover-up is behind the rash Reed has seen a lot of sick messages in of horrific air disasters. Were the planes' his time, but the one delivered to inspection papers forged? colleague Molly Wilson is different. It's shockingly personal, the crime lab SUS Headwind confirms it was written in human Nance, John J. LP-2364 blood, and Molly's cop boyfriend has just been found brutally murdered. In a When beloved former President of the city of mist, shadows and fog, United States John Harris becomes the obsession has taken a deadly turn, and target of an international manhunt, his Tom is in a desperate race to save his only chance for survival is for airline career and stop a killer. pilot Captain Craig Dayton to keep a Boeing 737 in the sky, and stay on the run. SUS Blackout

Nance, John J. LP-2457 SUS The Hundred Days After a Boeing 747-400 is rocked by O'Brian, Patrick LP-2098 an explosion which kills one of the pilots, the latest in a series of bizarre In O'Brian's most ambitious book to accident that have sent passenger jets date, Napoleon escapes from Elba, and into horrifying death dives, FBI agent the fate of Europe hinges on a Kat Bronsky suspects that a deadly desperate mission: Stephen Maturin new weapon has been deployed. must ferret out the French dictator's secret link to the powers of Islam, and Jack Aubrey must destroy it. SUS Fire Flight Nance, John J. LP-2924 SUS Love is Murder A pair of ferocious forest fires rage out of Palmer, Linda LP-2871 control, threatening to destroy two American national parks, Yellowstone Morgan Tyler, the lead writer of a and Grand Teton, and incinerate highly popular soap opera, finds the thousands of homes and park buildings. truth stranger than fiction when As the desperate battle to squelch the Damon Radford, the head of daytime global warming-induced fires before they programming, is murdered and leaves "blow up" reaches fever pitch, a Morgan a vast fortune, causing her to mysterious string of violent airborne become the prime suspect in the case. 217

SUS Fatal SUS Bleeding Kansas Palmer, Michael LP-2547 Paretsky, Sara LP-3426 (Also available in regular print The pious late-twentieth-century (AK-0175)). Returning to his Virginia descendants of anti-slavery emigrants home to investigate the tragic deaths of worry about maintaining religious his wife and father, a young maverick superiority over a rival family while doctor encounters a series of launching an active harassment suspicious accidents that reveal a campaign against a Wiccan newcomer, bizarre syndrome that could place an effort that is challenged by a young countless lives at risk. man's military service and the birth of a promising cow.

SUS The Society SUS High Profile Palmer , Michael LP-2980 Parker, Robert B. LP-3372 (Also available in regular print Struggling with unprecedented levels (AR-1297)). Working vigilantly at a of pressure during a high-profile case trauma center and a soup kitchen, involving the murders of a surgeon Will Grant, a member of a controversial talk-show host and a group that works against insurance young woman, Paradise Police Chief companies to prevent unjust cost- Jesse Stone encounters numerous dead cutting practices, is accused by rookie ends and becomes increasingly detective Patty Moriarity of killing frustrated by the lack of interest on the managed-care executives. part of the victims' families.

SUS Blacklist SUS Perish Twice Paretsky, Sara LP-2782 Parker, Robert LP-2455 (Also available in regular print Boston private investigator Sunny (AP-0178)). Checking up on empty Randall comes to the aid of three family mansions for an old client, V.I. women as she investigates threats discovers the dead body of a missing against a prominent feminist and reporter who disappeared during the assists her best friend and older sister, McCarthy era, a find that is linked to each of whom is confronting a two prestigious Chicago families and wrenching personal struggle. leads to her involvement in the search for a missing boy with terrorist connections. 218

SUS Potshot game each has planned. And Alex Parker, Robert B. LP-2439 must contend with something he hasn't known since the loss of his wife: he's Murderous marauders lay siege to the falling deeply in love, and this small town of Potshot, Arizona, and romance will make him, and her, all the law is helpless to stop them. But the more vulnerable. when Boston P.I. Spenser comes to town, he gathers a posse of the best SUS Pop Goes the Weasel and the baddest to back him up. Patterson, James LP-2187 SUS Spare Change Alex Cross's pursuit of a killer has quickly produced a suspect, a British Parker, Robert B. LP-3368 diplomat named Geoffrey Shaffer. Called back from retirement when a Proving that Shaffer is the murderer, serial killer from a long-unsolved case however, is a difficult challenge. The reemerges, Detective Phil Randall diplomat engages in a brilliant series teams up with daughter and Boston of surprising countermoves, in court Private Eye Sunny Randall throughout and out, and Cross and his fiancée a series of murder investigations in soon become the targets of a deadly which the victims unsettlingly cabal of killers. resemble Sunny. SUS Exile SUS 1st to Die Patterson, Richard N. LP-3348 Patterson, James LP-2366 A successful attorney about to be married Four women, a police detective, an and preparing for a run for Congress, assistant D.A., a reporter, and a David Wolfe's life is thrown into turmoil medical examiner who call themselves when he is reunited with Hana Arif, a the Women's Murder Club, develop Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret love affair in law school, a reunion lifelong bonds as they pursue a killer marked by the assassination of the Israeli whose twisted imagination has stunned prime minister and by his efforts to an entire city. defend Hana when she is accused of being the mastermind behind the crime. SUS Cat & Mouse Patterson, James LP-2102 SUS Parallel Lies Two killers, one operating in America, Pearson , Ridley LP-2367 one in Europe, believe Alex Cross is Blaming Northern Union Railroad for the the only worthy opponent in the deadly collision that killed his wife and twins 219 two years earlier, Umberto Alvarez connected fiancé, Christy Petrino's believes he and his family are victims of freedom comes on the condition she a massive cover-up. Former cop Peter deliver a briefcase to North Carolina's Tyler looks to jump start his career after Ocracoke Island. There, Christy being suspended from the force. Now a becomes a witness in an investigation temporary investigator for the National of a serial killer who targets young Transportation Safety Board, Tyler women who look like her. investigates a series of train derailments caused by suspected terrorist Umberto Alvarez. SUS Paradise County Robards , Karen LP-2380 SUS The First Billion When her billionaire father dies a sudden Reich, Christopher LP-2577 and tragic death, Alex Haywood returns to her family's Kentucky horse farm to Reich electrifies readers with an sell her beloved home. But Joe Welch, ingeniously plotted story of nerve- the farm's stubborn and handsome jangling intrigue and hot-wired suspense manager, refuses to leave. Even as he and when former fighter pilot John "Jett" Alex clash, they also fall for each other, Gavallan, now the high-flying CEO of an hard. Just as their attraction flares, a investment firm, finds himself trapped in shocking murder with ties to the past cuts a conspiracy that could plunge the global close to home. economy into chaos.

SUS Vanished SUS Break No Bones Robards, Karen LP-3287 Reichs, Kathy LP-3349 Ten years after her young daughter Struggling with a lackluster teaching vanished, Sarah Mason receives a call position at an archaeology field school in from someone who sounds exactly like South Carolina, Tempe Brennan her daughter. Out of desperation she discovers a fresh skeleton among ancient reaches out to the former detective on the bones and traces leads to a free street case who wonders if someone is clinic where patients are going missing, deliberately tormenting the grief-stricken in a case with numerous suspects, mother. including a charismatic televangelist, the clinic's shady doctor, and several underpaid staff members. SUS Divided in Death Robb, J. D. LP-2870 SUS Beachcomber (Also available in regular print Robards, Karen LP-2741 (AP-0183)). When one of his trusted After breaking it off with her mob- employees, with whom he had been 220 working on a secret government SUS Witness in Death project, becomes the prime suspect in a Robb, J. D. LP-2291 double homicide, Irish billionaire Roarke enlists the assistance of When a celebrity is murdered Lieutenant Eve Dallas to uncover the practically under her nose, New York truth. detective Eve Dallas steps in to investigate, as both cop and murder witness. SUS Memory in Death

Robb, J. D. LP-3130 SUS River's End (Also available in regular print Roberts, Nora LP-2149 (AS-0131)). Eve Dallas's "tough cop" exterior is shaken when her former foster Traumatized by the events surrounding mother demands money in exchange for the breakup of her parents' marriage protecting secrets from Dallas's years ago, a young woman seeks to childhood, a situation that becomes more confront her past and know the truth complicated when the woman is found about the infamous night in her life murdered. that has become a part of Hollywood history. SUS Survivor in Death Robb, J. D. LP-2976 SUS Barracuda 945 (Also available in regular print Robinson , Patrick LP-2467 (AR-1420)). Roarke investigate while Barracuda 945 is the ultimate weapon. protecting the family's lone survivor A jet-black Russian nuclear hunter- and witness, a terrified nine-year-old killer, it runs deep, and its silence and girl. speed are fearsome. It can stay

submerged indefinitely and can fire SUS Visions in Death land-attack guided missiles from Robb, J. D. LP-2925 below the surface. Invisible to any pursuer, it is nearly impossible to track (Also available in regular print in the millions of square miles of (AR-0314)). New York Police ocean water. In the hands of a navy, it Lieutenant Eve Dallas reluctantly accepts brings instant credibility and respect. help from a psychic to solve a string of In the hands of a diabolical terrorist, it gruesome murders in 2059 Manhattan, but when her partner Peabody almost could launch unspeakable horror . becomes the next victim, the stakes are raised.

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SUS Conflict of Interest SUS Easy Prey Rosenberg, Nancy LP-2479 Sandford, John LP-2319 While trying three defendants for In life she was a high-profile model, robbery, district attorney Joanne but in death she's the focus of a media Kuhlman discovers that one of them is firestorm that demands action from developmentally disabled and may Lucas Davenport. One of his own men have been exploited by his crime is a suspect in her murder. But when a partners, but the case takes a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated dangerous turn when the young man slayings rock the city, Davenport vanishes. suspects a connection that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than SUS Chosen Prey anyone feared.

Sandford , John LP-2346 SUS Naked Prey Art history professor James Qatar's hobby of secretly photographing Sandford , John LP-2721 women develops into something more (Also available in regular print serious as he begins to act out his (AN-382)). Moving with his boss to fantasies, and soon kills one of his state-level cases, Lucas Davenport, prey. Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport having recently become the head of a realizes Qatar is a monster in the family, investigates the hanging deaths making. The only way to stop him may of an African American man and a be for Lucas to walk right into his lair. white woman, a case that proves more complicated than it appears. SUS Dead Watch Sandford, John LP-3303 SUS The Devil's Code (Also available in regular print (AS- Sandford, John LP-2368 1422)). Summoned by the White Computer whiz, artist, and House chief of staff to investigate a professional criminal Kidd and his series of elected official sometimes lover, LuEllen, are on the disappearances, Army intelligence run when a colleague disappears and veteran Jacob Winter finds the Kidd suddenly finds himself the situation worsening when one of the subject of a national manhunt and the missing victims is found brutally target of an unknown assassin. murdered .

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SUS The Confessor SUS A Brief Lunacy Silva, Daniel LP-2618 Thayer, Cynthia LP-3272 (Also available in regular print Jessie and Carl have made a terrible (AN-0161)). In the wake of a Munich mistake. They should have been more writer's assassination, Mossad agent careful. When Jonah came to their cabin Gabriel Allon and Vatican priest Pietro in the Maine woods asking to use the phone, they should not have let him in. embark on dangerous journeys that But he told them his campsite had been reveal long-buried secrets affecting the robbed and he was stranded with no fates of millions of people. money and no gear. Jessie took pity on him, thinking of her own missing SUS December 6 daughter, hoping she was receiving the same kindness. Now Jessie and Carl are Smith, Martin C. LP-2641 captives in their own home. Harry Niles, a disreputable American nightclub owner with a SUS The Program mysterious agenda, seeks to White, Stephen LP-2369 abandon his life in Tokyo while After her husband is gunned down, desperately trying to flee to the New Orleans District Attorney Kristen west on the last flight out before Lord enters the Witness Protection the Pearl Harbor attack. Program with her young daughter. But Kristen soon realizes she only has her daughter and psychologist Alan SUS Black Ice Gregory to trust. Assigned to help her Stuart, Anne LP-3096 slip into a new life, Gregory is Living paycheck to paycheck in Paris, supposed to be her ally, but could he American book translator Chloe be another person out to destroy her? Underwood would give anything for some excitement and passion, even a SUS Cold Paradise little danger. So when she's offered a Woods, Stuart LP-2370 lucrative weekend gig translating at a business conference in a remote Stone Barrington heads to Palm Beach chateau, she jumps at the chance. Then for his most glamorous scene-of-the- Chloe discovers that her employers are crime yet as he becomes reacquainted anything but entrepreneurs, and she with a case he thought was buried years ago. Stone must settle a romantic knows far too much. entanglement with former client Allison Manning, who asks Stone for 223 his help in squaring a charge of True Crime insurance fraud and getting rid of an recently-acquired stalker. TRU Smoke, Mirrors, and SUS Iron Orchid Murder Woods, Stuart LP-3089 Rule, Ann LP-3384 (Also available in regular print From the #1 bestselling true-crime writer in America comes a chilling (AR-2465)). Discovering that ex-CIA tech wizard and political assassin Teddy collection of tales about a variety of Fay is still alive, agent Holly Barker joins deceptive killers, young and old, rich an elite task force assigned to track him and poor, who commit murder by and becomes suspicious in the wake of a sleight-of-hand. Includes Rule’s series of insider tricks. insider commentary of the case of Mary Winkler, the Tennessee woman SUS L. A. Dead who killed her minister husband, Woods, Stuart LP-2456 Matthew, in 2006. Stone Barrington, an ex-cop-turned- lawyer, becomes caught between a TRU Too Late to Say Goodbye woman abandoned on the altar and Rule, Ann LP-3413 another suspected of murder.

Documents the murder investigation SUS Short Straw into the death of Jenn Corbin, whose apparent suicide in December 2004 Woods, Stuart LP-3354 was later discovered to be a murder Having married the seductive Barbara committed by her husband, Bart, a Kennedy against his better judgment, successful Atlanta dentist who was Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle awakens the also linked to the suspicious suicide of morning after his fortieth birthday to another woman years earlier. discover that his wife has vanished and that all of his money has been wired to Western Mexico. WES The Proud Ones Athanas, Verna LP-2598 Meet professional gunman Cass Silver. In Red Bone, Texas, Cass became the

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The sun glinted down on the dusty WES Blood and Gold town square as Sanderson waited just Ballard, Todhunter LP-3331 inside the courthouse door. Sanderson Adam Patch, a young doctor in the was big and tough. He had to be to town of Gopher, tries to stop the stay alive in Massacre. But even dreaded Tonopah fever at the height of Sanderson wasn't tough or fast enough a gold strike. for a shootout with the hired killers from the Box P spread. And now the WES Roundup Box P gunslicks were fanned out in a semi-circle outside, just waiting for Ballard, Todhunter LP-2173 him to show . Cliff Knight, Irv Strong, Apt Hempstead, all dead. But Ken Garrett was alive and it was his job to find the killer, to ride alone WES Two Tons of Gold onto a range at war with itself, Ballard , Todhunter LP-2570 smoldering with tension and suspicion. (Also available in regular print One man was working the big steal, plundering the herds, spreading havoc (AK-0318)). When his father is brutally and Garrett had to stop him or go down murdered by strikebreakers at the Bank like the three who had failed. of California, a powerful company that controls the miners, Major Mark WES The Long Trail Back Dorne embarks on a deadly mission of Ballard, Todhunter LP-2688 revenge that involves the theft of five Eight gaunt, saddle-sore men, all that million dollars in gold coins, but his remained of a once proud troop of enemies have another plan in mind. Confederate Cavalry. After the bitter years of war, Reese Carstairs was leading his men home, home to the lush valley of 225

WES Angel Fire WES Montana Breed Ballas, Jack LP-2876 Ballas , Jack LP-2686 Freedom meant everything to Kurt His father was white. His mother was Buckner. He knew how to go it alone, Sioux. The West was his destiny. At how to fight and kill. And that was nineteen, Rafe Gunn took the gold his why Melanie Corbin wanted to hire father left him and lit out for the West. him: He was well qualified to escort He wanted to find his Oglala heritage, her to the Colorado Territory, over the people who shared his ancestral terrain filled with hostile Kiowa and blood. But what he found was a harsh Arapaho. And maybe he'd better her land filled with desperados and killers. chances against the three men who Before Rafe Gunn could discover his wanted her dead. past, he would have to fight tooth and nail just to have a future. WES Gun Boss Ballas, Jack LP-2981 WES Powder River Trace Gundy had left the Apache tribe Ballas, Jack LP-2536 that raised him to join the white man's Giving up his daring ways in order to world, but he hadn't forgotten the become a family man, former Texas lessons he learned as a boy. Lessons in Ranger Case Gentry reluctantly offers rebellion, hatred, and survival. Now shelter to an old enemy and is drawn he's lost his wife to a gang of brutal back into the world of gunfighting for killers. He intends to track down the a final showdown. men who did it and take his revenge, even if it takes the rest of his life. WES Fargo: Panama Gold

WES Hanging Valley Benteen , John LP-2013 Ballas, Jack LP-2426 A soldier of fortune named Cleve Buckner was recruiting an army of When Lingo Barnes rescues Emily killers, gunmen and deserters from all Lou Colter from the kidnappers who over Central America. With foreign had ambushed her stagecoach, he money behind him, Buckner was going discovers that the young woman's to destroy the Panama Canal before it father and brother operate a mine that could be completed. Fargo's job was to has become the target of lowlifes who stop Buckner, and to eliminate him will do anything to gain control of the once and for all! profits.

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WES Sundance: Overkill WES Short Grass Benteen, John LP-2036 Blackburn, Tom W. LP-2341 Sundance's reputation as a fighting The riders of the short grass were men man had spread from Canada to baked in blood and bred in violence. Mexico, from the Mississippi to the Steve Lewellyn was no different, until he Pacific. There was no job too tough for met the woman he wanted. But she had the half-breed to handle, so when a no use for a man who was sure to end up wealthy banker's daughter was with a bullet in his back. So Lewellyn kidnapped by the Cheyenne, he offered rode North, alone, to change his ways. But the ruthless hunger for cattle, land Sundance $10,000 to rescue the girl. and power went beyond the Texas border. Sundance became a moving target for Trouble, and the girl, followed Lewellyn. both the U.S. Cavalry and his own blood brothers. WES Sierra Baron

WES Ranchero Blackburn , Tom W. LP-2654 Blackburn, Thomas LP-2168 Half a million acres of gold was a lot for a man to handle, even a hard-fighting New Mexico was a savage wilderness man like Mike McGann. But when he when Spencer Stanton rode into it. With learned that he owned it, he aimed to iron nerve and ready guns, he had forged his cattle empire out of it, but now, all keep it, and his aim was pretty damn that had built up was being threatened by good. Only suddenly he found himself a gang of savage, ruthless marauders. In the target for every gold-hungry gun in the Stanton Empire, Spencer had his own the territory, and before he could stop laws and his own brand of justice, and it the rush was on, for Mike McGann's God help the men he found guilty. land, and his blood.

WES El Segundo WES Law of the Land: The Blackburn , Tom W. LP-2599 Trial of Billy the Kid A range war to win, a blood score to Boggs, Johnny LP-2885 settle, and the Stanton Empire at stake. From his first jailbreak in Silver City Ripe for the picking, that's what the to his days riding with the infamous Stanton Empire looked like to the vicious Regulators, Billy the Kid has made gang of land-grabbers. Their first raid himself famous for his crimes. Now carried off a girl they thought was it's time for him to answer. Billy, Stanton's woman. The next time they would take all, unless Jaime Henry, however, has other plans. Stanton's right-hand man, tracked them to their lair and killed them one by one. 227

WES Last Stage West Buck was going to get his revenge, Bonham, Frank LP-2208 even if he had to take the law into his own hands! The Staked Plain was rough country, as dry and deadly as hate itself. So Harry Logan and Pete Canty made a WES Outlaw Gold deal. First, they would team up to track Bradford , Scott LP-3106 down the man who had derailed the One dead man was Walt Slade's tip-off Burnsville train and deliver him some that there was trouble brewing in frontier justice. Then, they would Corpus Christi. He rode into town to reload and shoot out the rage that lay track the source of the trouble. Five as thick as Texas dust between them. dead men were clear warning that the Texas Ranger was up against an WES Logan's Choice owlhoot who was playing for high Bonham, Frank LP-2342 stakes, and for keeps!

The Yacqui had few friends, and many dead enemies. Frank Logan had been a WES Hawk: The Sudden Guns friend, but he was dead. And now his Brady, William S. LP-2018 son had to prove that he was trustworthy . Jared Hawk was a gunfighter. His In two weeks, young Tom Logan had talent for killing was up for hire-if the to come up with $10,000 in stolen price was right. Philip Garrett hired Yacqui gold, or die the slow, cruel Hawk to take him and his niece death the Yacqui reserved for those through to Los Angeles, but a pack of who betrayed them. That would have professional guns blocked the way, suited some land hungry ranchers just and soon the old California Trail is fine, but Tom Logan's Colts had a way marked with gravestone. of finding what they were looking for.

WES Cold Corpse, Hot Trail WES Border Vengeance Brandvold, Peter LP-3362 Bouma, J. L. LP-2006 Trouble follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Buck Benlaw was out for blood. He'd Gideon Hawk closely when he finds been framed for a robbery he didn't himself the protector of a beautiful commit, and there was a price on his prostitute named Estella after he head. There were only two people who rescues her from a group of soldiers knew he was innocent-Buck himself, who believe she's their property. and Frank Garrett, who'd left him holding the bag after the hold-up. Now 228

WES Hell on Wheels the aid of a beautiful Russian countess Brandvold, Peter LP-3282 who is searching for her sister who, after discovering buried treasure in (Also available in regular print (AS- Arizona, has mysteriously vanished.

0372)). On his way home from a wedding in Sulfur, Montana, Judge WES The Devil Gets His Due John Bannon is attacked by Angus Whateley, who has just been released Brandvold , Peter LP-2757 from prison, and Sheriff Ben Stillman (Also available in regular print must come to his rescue, waging war (AL-0361)). Bounty hunter Lou on a gang of ruthless killers out for Prophet is caught in a deadly game of revenge. revenge when he joins forces with Louisa Bonaventure, "The Queen of WES Once a Lawman Vengeance," to find ruthless outlaw Brandvold , Peter LP-2431 Handsome Dave Duvall, the man who A courtesan and her client are found had murdered her family in cold blood. dead in the town of Clantick in the Montana Territory. Sheriff Ben WES Trouble on the Brazos Stillman must use his skills from his Brown, Will C. LP-2092 years as a Pinkerton detective to find Sixty thousand dollars was a lot of hard the killer before the townsfolk take the cash to have stolen from you. Especially law into their own hands. if you were a hard riding Texas Ranger named Trav Parker, and your job was to WES Once Late with a .38 keep it safe. It was enough to have Parker Brandvold , Peter LP-2758 drummed out of the Rangers. And it was enough to make him mount up and head (Also available in regular print for the Brazos. He had a stain on his (AK-0314)). Sheriff Ben Stillman finds name, and an outlaw gang was going to himself immersed in mystery when Tom pay for it in blood. Suthern, the owner of the Circle P Ranch, is brutally murdered and his future son- WES Bad Blood: Lucius Dodge in-law, Matt Parrish, who desperately and the Redlands War wanted Tom to sell the ranch to him, is found standing over the body. Butts, J. Lee LP-3135 (Also available in regular print WES Staring Down the Devil (AR-0717)). When Ruby, his Brandvold, Peter LP-3363 commanding officer's niece, goes Bounty hunter Lou Prophet comes to missing, Texas Ranger Lucius Dodge, armed with three pistols, a derringer, and 229 a bowie knife, sets out to find her and the powerful saga of Chief Joseph, last becomes caught in the middle of a rival and best of the Indian leaders, who clan war. tried to use reason with his own angry braves and the white commissioners WES Brotherhood of Blood who had doomed his people to a living Butts, J. Lee LP-2878 death, until all that was left to do was fight that last gallant, heart-breaking (Also available in regular print battle. (AN-0173)). Producer A. Maxwell Vought is determined to make a movie WES Sudden Guns about one of Deputy U.S. Marshal Hayden Tilden's most harrowing Cheshire, Gifford LP-2191 adventures, the capture of the ruthless His name was Pick Atherton, and Crooke boys, a vicious gang of outlaws trouble was his trade. He didn't look who brutally murdered Mary Beth Tall for it, but he found it wherever he Dog and kidnapped her young daughter. went. He knew how to handle it, but a man gets weary of killing, so Atherton WES Outlaw Justice bought himself a nice little spread, Cheshire, Giff LP-2402 built up his herd, and hung up his Ute Taplan's free ways got him guns. Then a man named Wells branded an outlaw. Taking to the Packford told Atherton to move on. badlands, he learned that his brother Packford was a tough man, a strong Loren and his chief gun, Joe Lake, man, with an army of hired guns, and were behind the real owlhooters he laughed when Atherton said he thereabouts. Promptly Ute rode like a figured on staying put. Packford had a wild Indian to spill the bad blood lot of learning to do, and Atherton was between himself and his brother, and the man to do the teaching. to wreak outlaw justice on the deadly Joe Lake. WES Mc Allister and the Spanish Gold WES Thunder on the Mountain Chisholm, Matt LP-2047 Cheshire, Giff LP-2312 On the run from the law, Mc Allister was hired to guard a bunch of gold-crazy From Lahmotta Canyon to Clearwater treasure-seekers. He had to contend with to the Big Hole in Camas Meadows marauding Apaches, a murderous sheriff, and onward, the battle raged. The a treacherous partner, and a beautiful girl, blood of red men and white mingled and when it looked as if he didn’t have a on that dark and tragic ground. This is 230 prayer, Mc Allister began to wish he had wanted to see him hang. He could only never heard of the Spanish Gold. put his trust in the lightning-fast draw of his six-shooter. But he was to learn that WES The Trail of Fear wasn't enough, that a man could save his skin yet lose his soul to a destiny far Chisholm, Matt LP-2041 worse than death, if he didn't trust Jack Owen was no hero. He had a soft someone! spot for kids and he hated guns. He was alone and he was a coward, he know that, WES Fast Gun but something he couldn't define had filled him with iron. Cool exhilaration Coburn, Walt LP-2539 rose when he realized that at last he Bryce Bradford had killed a friend of the wasn't afraid. He got to his feet, gun in powerful men of Buffalo Run, yet they hand. He was out-numbered and out- made him sheriff. Why? The attractive gunned, but he would never back down. mystery woman who was half owner of the saloon has a beckoning eye for him. WES The Second Gun What was her game? And the gunslingers who trailed him, what were they after? Cobb, James C. LP-2600 The answers were hidden in his past. The Wilson clan rules the roost in Granger, Arizona. With the county judge WES Guns Blaze on Spiderweb in their pocket, and most of the townsfolk Range employed by their ranching or mining operations, no one is willing to stand up Coburn , Walt LP-2475 to them, until Jake Murchison, a former Sundown, Montana, was a sick town with New York policeman, accepts the post of a deadly fever that was killing thousands town marshal. But the Wilsons aren't of cattle. Fresh out of veterinarian school, going to relinquish control quietly, and Jim Benton imposed a quarantine on all they'll do whatever it takes, legal or cattle coming into Montana. But the illegal, to run the marshal out of town on cattle-running gunmen of Spiderweb a rail. Range had too much at stake to obey that law. WES Branded Coburn, Walt LP-2294 WES The Square Shooter Pete Craven's outlaw father had Coburn, Walt LP-2309 abandoned him to the crazed rancher, Zee Bullets sprayed the pitch-black night, Dunbar, and Pete couldn't trust Zee's and Boone dove headlong into the pretty wife, Tracy, either. She was too roaring river. As he surfaced, a man free with her attentions to too many men. rushed out of the dark and jumped in He couldn't trust Montana law which 231 after him. It was the killer. Boone fight. The Ranger ignored him as if he fought his way to the far bank. When were dirt. Hawley flushed as the insult he finally reached it, his insides turned went home, roaring "Why, you lowdown to ice. Nothing but a steep, sheer wall range tramp, " Hatfield hit him in the of wet clay loomed in front of him, and mouth, hard, then stood perfectly still, his the killer was closing in from behind. hands hanging loosely by his sides, saying "You're called, Hawley. Either fill

your hand or crawl." WES Violent Maverick Coburn, Walt LP-2416 WES Guns of Vengeance Pablo Guerrero, outlaw and deadly Cole, Jackson LP-3124 gunman, was the most feared bandito Pecos Carns - king of the rustlers, was on the Arizona border. So, when as mean as they came. He took what he penniless cowman Pat Roper found wanted in cold blood and shot before himself gifted with Pablo's huge Two he said "please." Now he was leading a Block range after saving the gunman's band of gun-happy outlaws against a life, he couldn't figure out if he was the group of helpless ranchers. Ranger Jim luckiest, or unluckiest, cuss alive. For Hatfield rode in to put an end to the adjoining ranch belonged to bloodshed and found himself face to Pablo's lifetime enemy, Wig Murphy. face with a gang of the hungriest And any friend of Pablo's was a dead- killers he'd ever met, all out to see him on target for Murphy's guns . dead.

WES Fort De Chastaigne WES Gunsmoke Trail Coldsmith, Don LP-0187 Cole, Jackson LP-3105 Hoping to earn the trust and friendship Texas Ranger Jim Hatfield knew he of the native people, Captain Lefever was up against a trio of killers whose sets out from the new Fort de cruelty was unmatched in the State of Chastaigne on the Missouri River to Texas, and who left no man alive who establish trade relations with the stood in their way. He jerked his guns Spanish at Santa Fe. and fired as fast as he could pull trigger. Answering shots boomed, and, WES Border Hell above the roar, Hatfield heard the sound of hoofbeats. Cole, Jackson LP-3136

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WES Hell in Paradise and soul together and he's content with Cole, Jackson LP-2313 sitting in his St. Louis hotel room and drinking fine whiskey. When a rancher Luther Sherrall and his evil crew from Colorado asks him to deal with moved in on the richest range in some cattle rustlers, Colfax declines, Texas, and soon it was drenched in until he learns that a production of blood. Their scheme to get control of Titus Andronicus is playing nearby. the largest, lushest spread west of the

Pecos was working beautifully. Meanwhile, decent men were losing WES To Make a Killing everything they'd worked so hard to Conley , Robert J. LP-2684 gain, and many were dying. It was hell How could it have happened? A in the place called Paradise, and only prisoner, locked alone in a guarded one man could save the day. His name cell, had been shot and killed at close was Ranger Jim Hatfield. range. Sheriff Go-Ahead Rider already had his hands full in Tahlequah as the WES Outside the Law Cherokee capital braced for a vote on Conley , Robert J. LP-2731 the issue of a land grant. But Rider never expected a murder in his own Christopher Lang left his Yankee jail. And with his full-blood deputy, homeland to teach the classics in the Beehunter, under suspicion, Rider took Cherokee Nation. His class was a the crime personally. success, he'd become fast friends with deputy sheriff and fellow scholar George Tanner, and he was courting WES Frontier Feud beautiful Hannah Girty, a young Cook, Will LP-3240 Cherokee woman. Why would anyone Every trooper at Fort Smith was want Lang dead? Sheriff Go-Ahead perched atop a powder keg, for this Rider and Deputy Tanner will have to tiny frontier garrison had the task of dig deep to uncover the dark secrets keeping the peace among some 25,000 that made Christopher Lang an enemy. war-hungry Sioux and Cheyenne.

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WES Iron Man, Iron Horse WES Cain Basin Cook, Will LP-2273 Cord, Barry LP-2360 Although two men before him had When Steve Crystal married his wife, failed, troubleshooter Ben Holliday Mary, she was young, pretty, and full was determined to make the Midland- of life, and she soon felt cheated that Pacific line a paying proposition. With Steve neglected her to earn a hard constant threats from warring Apaches living as a cattleman. Finally, she went and treacherous cattle barons dogging off with another man, taking their child him, the chips were stacked against his with her. Bitter and vengeful, Steve every move. But more than Holliday's sold his ranch and set out to kill the railroad was at stake, the safety and man who had stolen his family. Then future of the entire West depended on he reached Resurrection Trail, leading the fate of that single train. to Cain Basin. There, Steve temporarily forgot his personal WES The Fighting Texan mission as he became embroiled in a Cook, Will LP-2743 violent range war, and somehow, in the midst of the gunfire, the heartsick There was magic in Jim Quartermain's cowboy made peace with himself. hands. The magic to kill a man. But the Texan wore the star, and his guns were on the side of the law. Then came WES Gallows Ghost the trouble on the San Saba, a bitter Cord, Barry LP-2601 personal feud. Reluctantly, The Nebraska Kid slid a jumpy glance Quartermain laid his badge aside. over the trail ahead. He saw nothing From that moment, like it or not, he except the tracks of four men who had was a gunfighter. preceded him; he knew these men were the Morgan riders. He settled WES Bitter Creek back, his knees tightening against the Coolidge, Dane LP-3147 roan's flanks, his muscles tensed for any sudden moves by the big stud. But (Also available in regular print a cold foreboding made him twist and (AR-1935)). Conned out of $20,000, look back down that empty pass. He Cal Watson, a prospector and mine wiped his mouth with the back of his owner, devises a clever, yet dangerous, sleeve and turned around. It took him a scheme to win back his money and long moment to register what he saw. publicly humiliate the man who tricked It can't be, he thought, his mind locked him, which he soon discovers is no and his body rigid. easy task. 234

WES Gun Junction secret of untold riches, and unspeakable crimes. Only a small army of expert Cord, Barry LP-2446 frontier fighters, or a Texas Ranger called Three men rode into Fulton, three Solitary, could hope to destroy it. loners with one thing in common, a way of life built around a gun. One WES The Deadly Amigos was a U.S. deputy marshal, one a discredited ex-Ranger, one a hired Cord , Barry LP-2387 killer. They had all come to do the The Amigos, a group of Mexican same job: avenge the death of one man revolutionaries, was being used as a and restore law to the territory. Or so front for Cass Borman's slick rustling they all said. operation. Borman's gang was made up of the worst killers on either side of the WES Shadow Valley border. But into this group came someone new. He was young, lean, Cord, Barry LP-2756 hard. Pete Galahad, he called himself. When Cole Barrett came home to the They tried to bully him, at first, then they Cross B ranch after the Civil War, he became a little afraid of him. There was found everything in a state of turmoil. something of the smell of death about His brother had been shot, his father him, and then one day, there was a beaten, his sister embittered by the showdown. In the split second it took death of her fiancé in the War. Cash Pete Galahad to draw his gun, he gazed Gillis had taken over the neighboring into the eyes of his brother's killer. Saber spread. He controlled Horsethief Pass, the only cattle trail out of WES The Gun-Shy Kid Shadow Valley. The price he Cord, Barry LP-2424 demanded for letting Cross B cattle go Looking for his missing brother, Kip through would ruin the Barret clan. Nunninger rode into dangerous But Cole wasn't about to knuckle Antelope Valley, and nothing was under to a bunch of thieves. going to stop him. But he was a boy on a man's errand, and the valley watched WES Six Bullets Left him, knowing that he'd be gunned Cord , Barry LP-2290 down before he grew to be a man. Kip "Deserta!" That was the name given by was sure that Antelope Valley held the the "Baron" to his new state, carved out truth of his brother's disappearance. He of the heart of Texas. An outlaw didn't know that it also held a bullet kingdom, it had been conceived in evil and a gravesite, both with his name and dedicated to depravity. It held the already on them! 235

WES The Gunsmoke Trail mystery of "Miguel." Before long, to Cord, Barry LP-2772 save their lives and those of the people at the ranch, they must draw on every Smoky Jennison was the hard-riding boss skill they have to track down a killer. of the Big Y. He was also one of the richest men in Arizona. It was his father's ambition that Bob Jennison would WES The Third Rider someday take over from him but, Cord, Barry LP-3139 humiliated in front of the woman he Five years of hard times had left their loved and hated by his father for his rebelliousness, Bob had no choice but to mark on Mel Rawlins. He had left the leave town. Then the Slade brothers Stirrup ranch a boy and came back a raided the Big Y, and they had a man, bitter, tough, gun-easy and law- reputation that few men challenged. shy. But the Stirrup had changed more than he had. The desert wind seemed to WES The Masked Gun have sucked all life from the prosperous ranch of his childhood. His father was Cord, Barry LP-2638 murdered, his two brothers gone, and the Sheriff Mido Peters tensed himself lawman who had married Mel's sister readying for a lawless New Year's Eve in carried a warrant for his arrest. Labelle. Rich Jake Grady had promised drinks on the house to any man that WES Bushwhackers at the night, and this, the sheriff knew, would Circle K mean nothing but drunkenness and riot. But the sheriff got even more than he Cunningham, Chet LP-2984 bargained for. He had not expected Riding toward the Circle K, Dave gunplay, and when bullets were Kemp had time to think about the exchanged between two strangers in town telegram he had received, only days causing death to mark the holiday, it was ago, from his sister, Janie. It had been plain that trouble was brewing, bad hard for Dave to leave St. Louis and trouble. For the dead man was a phony the study of law, but Janie would need U.S. Marshal and his killer a wanted him now. Their father was dead. But outlaw. when Dave arrives at the ranch, he

finds Janie and the ranch hand WES The Running Iron murdered. In town, Kemp learns from Samaritans the sheriff that his father had not died a Cord, Barry LP-2464 natural death, and vows revenge. Wandering cowmen Long Jim and Windy take on work at the V-Bar Ranch and become entangled in the 236

WES Survival Trail WES Guns of the Sioux Cunningham, Chet LP-3146 Curry, Tom LP-3104 Cavalry Sergeant Will Larson, part of The Black Hills of southern Dakota a routine patrol on a four day ride, is were mysterious and lofty peaks where ordered by the green patrol leader to untold wealth in gold was said to lie. ride down to the Rio Verde river. The They were also the sacred ground of river is a Chiricahua Indian stronghold, the great Dakota Sioux nation, where and Larson and his men are attacked no white man dared to tread. Then, and pinned down. When the patrol some intrepid pioneers penetrated the leader loses his head, the sergeant must hills, finding gold beyond their take over, and heads out to hike imagination. seventy miles across the waterless desert to bring a relief column to save WES Raiders of the Valley his comrades. Curry, Tom LP-2890

Kill and conquer, that was how WES The Ranger Way Manfred Von Wohl operated. Cunningham, Eugene LP-2153 Schooled in the ruthless Prussian ways It looked like Deaver Jones was going of war, the cattle baron was applying to end his young life on the end of a his murderous methods to the virgin Texas Rope. Arrested for robbing the lands of the American West. But then local bank and slitting the throat of its Bob Pryor, the Rio Kid, came on the cashier, his guilt seemed certain when scene, and vowed to stop him, or die three men sprung him from jail and a trying. train was robbed the next day. The sheriff, who hates Jones for personal WES Range of Doom reasons, takes an armed, lynch-minded Curry, Tom LP-2874 posse into the hills to track him down. When young itinerant bronc buster Dan There's only one man in Texas who Audley arrives in Belvedere, a settlement will stand by the fugitive, Texas in the Southwest, no one expects gunplay Ranger Shelley Raines. But in the to follow. Dan, who had roamed from furious gunslinging showdown that ranch to ranch since his father's death in a follows, that one Ranger turns out to blasting accident, was just looking for a be as good as an army! decent job without great responsibility. But in this violent frontier town, he meets people who teach him to be a man of strength and experience.

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WES The Outcast: Red Mesa unscrupulous, totally sadistic. Cypher, Luke LP-3431 Claiming to be Samantha's true husband, he took her away by force, Gunfighter-turned-preacher Amos over Justin's half-dead body. Hood, leaving the way of the gun to spread the Word of God, arrives in the WES Brady's Law forsaken town of Jericho, where he, while trying to save some lost souls, Dugan, Bill LP-2872 becomes caught in the middle of a war Dan Brady never claimed to be a hero, when he helps a widow defend her just a weary ex-soldier who came west ranch against ruthless cattle barons. for a new life. All he desires is to raise horses on hard New Mexico land with his

family, and to forget a past that haunts WES The Diehards him still. But he's the only witness to a Dean, Dudley LP-2090 cold murder in town, and he knows without his testimony the killers will ride The scent of death was in Brent Mackey's free. nostrils, and as sure as he was Cross Anchor's ramrod he would be riding point WES Boss of Panamint in the battle against Bushard. Bushard wanted Anchor, the king spread of this Ernenwein, Leslie LP-3330 vast Texas plain. Mackey said no. Lee Beauregarde had been a drifter for Bushard wanted Seanna Winter, the girl years. He wandered across the west in Mackey had dreamed of every mile up search of one thing, revenge. He was the trail and back. Mackey said no. Big hunting the bushwhacker who had Bend stretched as far as the eye could ambushed his father, and the trail now led travel, but for both Mackey and Bushard him into the Panamint Valley. When he it was too small. Somewhere out there a arrived a bloody range war was brewing grave was waiting. and he found himself in the middle of a showdown range fight. At stake were his WES Trail of the Hunter life, the love of a beautiful woman, and Dean, Dudley LP-2602 the identity of his father's killer .

Justin Emery was a hard man. He WES Bullet Breed hated his younger brother, Ford, although the reason lay in the distant Ernenwein , Leslie LP-2571 past. And when Justin began to suspect Once he was a rash, town-tamping that Ford was attracted to his beautiful deputy, proud of his gun. But and provocative wife, his hostility somehow, the pain-filled years had grew. Then Erd Quine entered Justin's taught him one everlasting truth; the life. Quine was a renegade, completely Bullet Breed, men like himself, always 238 died with their boots on. Regardless of ancient enemy, a foe he fought and how fast you are with a gun, there'll hated and deeply respected. He had to come a time when no speed on earth tame the river, before civilization can save you. Jim Cavanaugh heeded could come to this dry desert land. To the warning, he gave up the badge, he Slim Lacey, the town girl who wanted pulled out before that bullet caught up him, Ben Roman was as wild and with him. He was through. Then they unpredictable as the river itself. It was killed his brother and Jim Cavanaugh a strange triangle, the man, the river, once more got behind his badge, a and the girl. Two hung breathless on target for their guns, a lawdog waiting the violent, willful mood of the third . for a well-aimed slug! WES Rio Renegade WES Gunhawk Harvest Ernenwein, Leslie LP-2886 Ernenwein , Leslie LP-2442 They rode in darkly off the back trails, Lee Ransome stuck to the right side of the badges of their profession strung the law, but he was a wicked man with tightly against their thighs and a six-gun, and the memory of a pretty gleaming with oil. They were men who young girl who had died under a slapped leather for a living and loved renegade's fire filled him with a their work, and when they threw their seething hatred for every outlaw. irons into the Border Desert War it meant only one thing: before long, WES High Gun there'd be more than one riderless Ernenwein, Leslie LP-3098 bronc roaming the sage .

It was called Apache Basin, this raw, rough lonely land where the bones of WES Texas Guns many violently dead men had bleached Ernenwein, Leslie LP-3190 white beneath a scorching sun. Against "You can call me killer, gents, but Apache Basin Jim Modeen pitted don't forget the 'Mister'!" That was Jim himself, pitted his renegade streak, his Rimbow's challenge as he rode into the cavalry courage, his hard-won savvy helltown he'd sworn to tame, a border- of wilderness danger, and pitted his jumping, man-killing starbuster with a gun. dying lawman on his backtrail. But Rimbow was gunning for more than WES Rampage glory. Rawhide tough and lawless, he Ernenwein, Leslie LP-2735 meant to brace the range bawd whose The wild Colorado was Ben Roman's kiss had killed his best friend. 239

WES Trigger Justice WES Trail of the Tattered Star Ernenwein, Leslie LP-2506 Farrell, Cliff LP-2280 Jeff Tennant had been in Yuma prison If California went with the on a brand-blotting charge. Now he secessionists, the North could lose the was back at Tonto flats, fitted out with War Between the States, and Mike a new gun belt and holster, ready to McLish knew it. There was a big force fight for revenge and his plundered of Confederates gathered at El Paso. homestead. He had a quick-trigger All they needed was a leader and gang of killers against him . money to buy transport west and the money was on the way when their WES California Passage leader left San Francisco by Butterfield Farrell, Cliff LP-2391 Stage. Mike traveled on that same stage, along with two beautiful girls, a Luke Storm, last of the great fur trappers, professional gunslinger, and a spy who tough and alert as a mountain lion, as fast with his fists as with his guns, is faced could be working both sides against with the most deadly challenge of his life the middle. when he takes command of a wagon train loaded with treachery. WES Outcasts of Canyon Creek

Fisher, Clay LP-2272 WES Terror in Eagle Basin The vigilantes rode by night, a human Farrell, Cliff LP-2384 wolf pack. They took the trail of their Dan Cameron was one of the toughest quarry and ran it to its end. This time law officers in the towns along the they were hunting two wanted cattle trails of Montana and Wyoming. murderers and one out-of-work mining But he hung up his weapons for good camp whore. No one could stop them, when tragedy struck on his wedding or would dare to try, until they put day, and his bride died in his arms. their sinister rope on the wrong man. Then he learned his best friend and fellow lawman Ed Vickers was in trouble in Eagle Basin, and took the WES Rigged to Ride first stagecoach to New Mexico. When Flanagan, Mike LP-2603 he found Ed murdered, Dan was Under the guidance of veteran cowboy catapulted into a strange and deadly Jack Lomas, young rodeo rider Clay case, and needed some quick answers. Tory has slowly but steadily risen in Reluctantly, he forced himself to pick the ranks. But the two are thrown like up the weapons he'd vowed never to a greenhorn from a bronco when wear again. 240 suspicious mishaps begin to befall polite company, if he'd ever been in Clay's fellow riders. When they start polite company. But he didn't steal from digging for answers, Clay is attacked, friends. Now he was on the prod for a almost ending his rodeo career. It turns former partner, a man as tough and wily out that some very powerful people are and fast as Reagan, a man who'd cheated trying to fix the contest in their favor, Reagan out of his share of $40,000 in and they want Clay and Jack out of gold and a good-size ranch. And along the way he'd picked up a girl who had a commission. claim on the ranch herself.

WES Wyoming Gun Law WES Rawhiders of the Brasada Floren, Lee LP-0191 Foreman, L. L. LP-3237 Matt Williams hates the invasion of When "Mad" Madigan rode to his native homesteaders because they fence off the Texas, last of a hell-raisin' family that land he needs for his cattle. He swears folks in the Brasada had thought they had he'll drive out the new settlers, but soon successfully destroyed, he didn't come the invasion of farmers is matched by the alone. He came in siding a hand of invasion of hired guns, and hell is just a rawhiders. Now rawhiders were a strange gunshot away. lot of roving freeloaders. They camped where they wanted, rustled enough for WES Lobo Gray their own needs, worked only when they had to, and kept their own secret code. Foreman, L. L. LP-3253 But add a pistol-packer like Madison to The Lower-Pecos cattle country was run their ranks. by a crooked, power-hungry judge. He enforced his own brand of law with a WES The Jayhawkers horde of trigger-happy killers, headed by a top gunman called Lobo Gray. Nobody Foreman, L. L. LP-2891 who drew on Gray lived to regret it; they The dead man was strung to the oak died too fast. Even Judge Blake grew to branch by his wrists. A slip of paper fear his silent, efficient henchman. That's tucked in his belt marked him as a why he sent Gray into the Pecos high victim of the Jayhawkers. Once again, country and ordered the treacherous the Jayhawkers had mocked justice Yucatano to follow. with murder. Only this time, they'd chosen the wrong man to kill. Their WES Longrider victim had a friend: a hot-tempered Foreman, L. L. LP-3142 Texan who swore to avenge him . Lew Reagan, the Longrider, did a lot of things he wouldn't have talked about in 241

WES The Mustang Trail WES The Accomplice Foreman, L. L. LP-2629 Galloway, Marcus LP-3288 Rogue Bishop is a sardonic gambler and (Also available in regular print (AS- troubleshooter. Don Ricardo is a vain and 0994)). After killing a man, Caleb wily bandit. Together, they're both Wayfinder, who once believed that the humorous and deadly. In their current world was his for the taking, goes on the adventure, Rogue meets up with a run, encountering the notorious Doc crooked procurement officer and makes a Holliday, who, recognizing him as a fiery deal to provide remounts to the U.S. tempered quick draw, takes him under his Army in the Southwest. wing and turns him into an outlaw.

WES Blackleg Range WES The Years of Fear Foster, Bennett LP-2502 Grove, Fred LP-2655 Drying skeletons, where once the herds It was the Roaring Twenties, and they had prospered; Texas killers where once descended like a swarm of locusts on the the range knew peace. This was Price oil-rich Osage Indians of Oklahoma: Thorn's homecoming. Men fought over jackleg lawyers, thieves, "dope" doctors, water rights. Cowmen battled sheepmen. prostitutes, bootleggers, oily merchants, A kid was shot because he'd seen too and fortune hunters determined "to marry much. One man, though, can make a me a rich Osage" preying on naïve Indian stand against a country full of trouble. girls. Unsolved Indian homicides occurred at an alarming rate as witnesses vanished, fearing for their lives. Were all WES He Rode Alone the killings unrelated, or were they the Frazee, Steve LP-2206 work of someone with a powerful The boy walked out of the wilderness in motive? the late summer of 1855, carrying the sun-blackened remains of a jackrabbit he WES Bandit Bait had been eating for two days. He had Grover, Marshall LP-2004 been alone in there for ten days. Behind him were three graves, and with him was The Lone Star Hellions were tracking the memory of a family named Snelling through Nebraska, Kansas and that he would one day hunt down and Colorado, their quarry the kid outlaw destroy, slowly, terribly. That boy known as Blanco, a runaway from the became a man, bleak-eyed and infamous Jansen Gang. Man-hunting is dangerous, who rode, always alone, no chore for a woman, but the lady carrying only the grim comfort of a black from Idaho was tagging along and memory. Murder lay at the end of his giving the west's toughest trouble- trail, and a girl he loved. shooters a bad time. 242

WES Hell in High Country WES Cody's Law 01: Gunmetal Grover, Marshall LP-2019 Justice The search party moved higher into the Hart, Matthew S. LP-0185 mountains led by Big Jim Gage. The Texas Ranger Cody is the master of Beecham Gang was in the high every weapon in the west, White man's country after an attack on their or Indian's, and the servant of a Harmon City Bank, a hangrope fiercely held code of right and wrong, awaited their leader. Big Jim had his and he's on a land barron's trail. hands full knowing a wounded cougar was also on the prowl, crazed with WES A Killer Comes to Shiloh pain and eager to kill . Haseloff , C. H. LP-2023

Thunder splits the Arkansas night as WES Badge of the Law the Shiloh death bells toll the Hardin, Clement LP-2787 frightening news, a mysterious killer "You're not human. You're a machine has brutally cut down three young that happens to wear a law badge and a lives. Quickly the drive for revenge gun!" Jim Arden blinked and stared at threatens to destroy not only the town the glaring girl. Was it true? Was he a but the nearby peaceful Cherokee machine, without heart or blood or Nation. The only man strong enough to soul, that killed on command? And see the killer brought to justice without now, was that machine about to falter more bloodshed, is Quaker Joshua and go down before another, far more Shank. vicious machine, the killers of Gunlock? WES Guns of Fury Haycox, Ernest LP-2017 WES The Ruthless Breed Dane Starr, alias Dan Smith, wanted to Hardin, Clement LP-2514 close the door on his past and hang up The town of Coldbrook was closed his guns, but people wouldn't let him. tight, with ruthless old Troy Coldbrook Good men wanted him to settle their running it, and his headstrong son, scores for them, and bad men thought Wes, ready to destroy all comers. And they were faster and itched to prove it. Steve Benson was his special target. Starr had to keep killing just to stay He and Wes had a lot in common, they alive. both wanted the same stretch of rangeland, and the same girl.

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WES Rawhider McClain thundered into town with Heckelmann, Charles N. LP-2061 pistols smoking, the army sent Gate away on a special mission. A vicious renegade was out to settle a blood feud with Bill Horn and Horn's WES Colorado Gold back was his target. Sioux were after his scalp and they baited a trap Horn Hirt, Douglas LP-2732 couldn't resist. A corrupt cavalry Harrison Mandell had come to the officer longed to ride Horn into the Arizona outpost of Yuma, on the bug- ground and had the power to do it. infested banks of the Colorado River, Horn had his hands full of trouble and to find out who was stealing money a gun in each hand. from an upriver mining company call Mina del Agua Mala. But from the WES The Legend of Sotoju moment a saloon girl came running Mountain naked into the dusty street, and a love- Henry, Will LP-2538 crazed Indian was driven off with a shotgun, Mandell knew this was not This book tells the story of Ousta the going to be any ordinary case. Limper and her grandson, Tonkalla the

Mouse. Believed to be possessed by an evil spirit, the pair is banished from WES Devil's Wind their tribe. They have only one hope of Hirt , Douglas LP-2526 returning, this grandmother of seventy Matt Kendell believed that vengeance winters and the young brave only in belonged to the Lord, even after four his thirteenth summer: they must find savage bandits swept through the tiny and defeat Mato Sapa, the giant black village of San Pablo, leaving nothing grizzly of Sotoju Mountain. but a smoking, corpse-strewn ruin. But before escaping, the killers had flung WES Able Gate three young women over the backs of Hirt, Douglas LP-2685 their stolen horses, and they could still be alive. With their families gone only Ruthless badman Barrister McClain Matt could attempt a rescue. With a had sworn to avenge his brother's repeating rifle on his shoulder and death, and that meant nailing the hide anaching hear, he rode into perdition to of Able Gate. But big-name gunfighter proclaim man's justice in a storm of and secret cavalry agent Gate was blazing lead. lying low up Montana way, undercover as the mild-mannered artist Abernathy T. Gatelatch. Even as 244

WES Riverboat Queen was his life, and he would let Hirt, Douglas LP-2877 no one take that from him. On board were the beautiful Miss Cora Mills, the In the golden age of the Mississippi, men kind of lady men fought over; Lt. and women from all walks of life Sherman Dempsey, delivering gold to climbed aboard the mighty riverboats and forged a nation's destiny: Gambler Dexter Fort Leavenworth; and "Reverend" McKay had a heavenly way with a deck Saunders, a scheming river pirate . of cards. Land owner Clifton Stewart was heir to a cotton and sugar empire. WES Dead Man's Money Chambermaid Mystie Waters caught the Hodgson, Ken LP-3236 eye of every man on board, and Eli, the runaway, escaped his master's plantation (Also available in regular print only to be captured by slave hunters. (AS-0264)). Determined to collect a $20,000 reward, ruthless bounty hunter WES Riverboat: Assassination Asa Cain and his undertaker partner Hirt, Douglas LP-3191 Cemetery John are fast on the trail of the "Monster of Osage", serial killer They built their lives on the mighty with a penchant for decapitation who Mississippi and steered the course of has just claimed a wealthy history. The river offered landowner businessman's daughter as his latest Clifton Stewart a chance for a new life victim. and many chances for death. Genevieve St. James was a delicate, charming beauty, but underneath was a WES Hard Bounty killer as ruthless as any man. Senator Hodgson, Ken LP-2430 Stephen Douglas was running for Bounty hunter Asa Cain, also called President, and he was the nation's only "The Undertaker's Friend, " has put hope for peace. And Zachary was free more bandits and killers in the ground in name only, but the former slave that anyone. To him, it's a job, until it would bow to no man . becomes personal. The Dolven gang burns down Cain's West Texas ranch WES Riverboat: Mississippi and takes his sister and mother. Pirates Suddenly, Cain begins the hunt of his Hirt, Douglas LP-3125 life, searching for his family, for In the golden age of the Mississippi, murderers, and the truth. the river was a path that led to freedom, opportunity, and danger. Captain William Hamilton's Tempest 245

WES Return to Broken hair-triggered to explode. Just one man Crossing could stop it and his name was Boone Kermit. His father had created peace in Hoffman, Lee LP-2986 this valley, and made Boone swear to Shea Glencannon squinted out into the preserve it, no matter how alone he was, sunlit glare of the street. Someone had or how many bullets came at him from called out his name. The sound of it both sides. was high-pitched, harsh and hard as gravel. The meaning of it was knife- WES Night Marshal sharp: Trouble. And that was all that Holmes, L. P. LP-2385 Glencannon had found since coming home to Broken Crossing. When you Chris Waddell knew what a town like had his kind of ornery reputation, you Midas Hill was like after the sun went had to expect that your welcoming down. He had walked the streets of a committee would be carrying drawn dozen mining hells like it, with a star guns. on his chest and his guns just inches under his hands, waiting for the first bullet from the dark. Waddell was a WES Desert Rails lawman, one of the best, but here in Holmes, L. P. LP-2520 Midas Hill, toughs and hired guns ran the town and killed at will. From the Luke Fenimore had a railroad to build, a deadline to beat, and a quarter-million- moment he took the gold that hired dollar subsidy to win. But some shady him, Waddell knew his only hope was characters were out to see him fail. Guns to move fast, shoot faster, and try to roared and men died. Still, Luke didn't stay alive before his graveyard shift tuck tail. "If that’s the way they want it," became the real thing. he swore, "from here on in we play it rough!" WES The Plunderers Holmes, L. P. LP-2320 WES High Starlight Morgan Ewell was a law-abiding man. Holmes, L. P. LP-2258 He only killed in self-defense, and he had The fast-flowing Starlight River cut the never seen the inside of a jail. But when rich grasslands of Starlight Valley in half, the law said a ruthless land-grabber and a but now its sparkling waters were tainted money-hungry banker had the right to with blood. The uneasy truce between the take over every spread on the range, cattle ranchers on one side of this natural Ewell had to take a second look at the boundary and the sheepherders on the law and at himself. The choice was plain. other had been broken by a savage It was obey the law and be forced off the killing, and a full-scale range war was land he loved, or defy it, and be caught in 246 a deadly crossfire between a straight- WES The Last Gunfighter: shooting sheriff on the one hand, and an Savage Country army of hired guns on the other. Johnstone , William LP-3144

WES Bullet-Brand Empire For Frank Morgan, a reunion with his estranged son brings back bittersweet Hopson, William LP-3040 memories of another time and place. Stony Burns' welcome to the giant ranch Conrad Morgan is an Eastern of the woman known as the Cattle businessman trying to build a railroad Baroness of the Panhandle was a gun through an untamed corner of New leveled at him. The ranch was so big that Mexico Territory. Even though Frank its owner made the law there, and behind has revenge-hungry killers on his trail, her was suave, cruel Jeff Holmes, the scheming empire-builder who told her his kin needs him now. So with a gun- what to do. But Stony was no ordinary toting, hard-loving beauty named saddle tramp. Rebel by their side, father and son ride straight into a pitched battle. WES Trail West WES The Last Gunfighter: The James, Cy LP-2042 Burning Wayne Ulster had cleaned up many Johnstone, William LP-2653 dirty towns with brains, guts and a fast gun, but three men were too much for When Frank Morgan sets up camp in a him and he landed up full of lead. Sam lush valley in Montana, the last thing Spur, the most wanted man in the west, he expects to see is fire lighting up the helped track down his killers, assured night sky as fields, farms, and homes by the Governor of a free pardon, but are torched by so-called "range someone wanted the killers out of the detectives" working for two powerful way, badly. Someone who was a little ranchers. For the ranchers, the battle too close to the Governor's side for lines have been drawn in the form of comfort. newly settled farmland that's cutting through the ranges, separating cattle WES Hell Town from grazing land and water. But the settlers are breaking no law, and no Johnstone, William W. LP-3397 one is going to prevent them from Frank Morgan, the last gunfighter, building their homes and town, until must go up against the governor's the ranchers turn to a pair of vicious murderous militia when a fresh vein of mercenaries who won't stop until they silver is struck in the former run out of bullets. boomtown of Buckskin, Nevada. 247

WES The Last Gunfighter: home, arrives in Northern California to Showdown start a new life, he is unexpectedly Johnstone, William LP-2568 immersed in a case of mistaken identity that results in him being Drifting down to Idaho after a wild falsely accused of a crime, forcing him range war in Montana, Frank Morgan's to escape from jail and find the real fame as a gunfighter is traveling fast culprit. and far ahead of him. With his face on the covers of newspapers and dime novels, he's got nowhere left to hide, WES Big Brand because gunning down a legend like Kelton, Elmer LP-0101 Frank has become more than an Twelve stories of Texas, from the obsession to some. Bankrolled by rich Frontier days to the Great Depression. and powerful men, a dozen highly skilled killers finally have what they want, the elusive Frank Morgan in WES Dark Thicket their sights. But he's deadliest when Kelton, Elmer LP-0186 he's cornered, and he'll be damned if Wounded Confederate soldier Owen he dies for any man's greed. Danforth rides back to his native Texas as the Civil War nears its end, only to WES Reprisal find his homeland torn by secessionist Johnstone, William LP-2604 "home guards" and staunch Union A vengeful Frank Morgan journeys to loyalists. Now Owen must choose Colorado in hot pursuit of the outlaws sides in a battle no one can win. who had killed the woman he loved, but now he is confronted with a new WES The Cougar Basin War challenge, two vicious outlaw gangs who have embarked on a deadly spree of rape, Ketchum, Philip LP-2882 robbery, and murder and who have The three mounted strangers pulled up kidnapped Frank's own son as a hostage. close to the fire and one spoke, asking for Ben Carnaby. Startled, Ben began WES The Last Gunfighter: to ask how they knew his name when Imposter he became aware that three guns were Johnstone, William LP-2503 now covering him. Ben had no idea what this was all about. He stood (Also available in regular print tense, waiting. What happened next (AE-0309)). When Frank Morgan, was just the start of the Cougar Basin who is searching for a place to call War !

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WES Kiowa Trail and Killoe WES Brand of a Texan L'Amour, Louis LP-3284 Lawrence, Steven C. LP-3239 In "Kiowa Trail", educated in England, The rider on the gelding stared down at raised by Apaches, and hardened in the the frontier town. It had changed a great Civil War, cowboy Conn Dury finds deal since he saw it last but then so had himself helping the sister of dead he. His memories of the place were bitter friend seek revenge against wealthy ones because it was here, more than five men who would kill an innocent cow years ago, that a mob had beaten him for hand for daring to fall in love with one his Union sympathies and then driven him out. Well, now Ruel Crockett was of their daughters. In "Killoe", guiding coming back. settlers across unknown territory, Dan Killoe takes on the added WES Day of the Comancheros responsibility of helping a stranger who is being hunted by renegade Lawrence, Steven C. LP-2011 Commancheros. Their very name struck terror into men's hearts, the Comancheros, a savage army WES Monument Rock of cutthroats who swept across Texas, L'Amour, Louis LP-2113 leaving behind a bloodstained trail of robbery and murder. When Tom Slattery In the title story of this collection, a stumbled on some of their slaughtered newly sworn in marshal must match victims, he found only one survivor, wits with a mysterious killer, a man young Anna Peterson; with a cavalry who has made a fortune doing business escort, he set out to bring the murderers with his neighbors while secretly to justice . cutting their throats. These are Western stories that reveal a time and WES Saddle Justice place of desperate violence and true Lawrence, Steven C. LP-2504 courage in a wide-open country of fortune seekers, dreamers, lawbreakers He rode into Buffalo, sun-darkened, and pioneers told with the unparalleled dusty, and smelling of danger. His realism and suspense of America's name was Roderick, Sergeant Will own legend, Louis L'Amour. Roderick out of Fort Abraham Lincoln. The town had lynched his WES Outlaws of Mesquite younger brother only days before. Roderick was there to find out who L'Amour, Louis LP-0188 and why, in a town of casual justice Here are classic tales of frontier bad men, and whisky-fast draws, a town that and those who dared to challenge them. waited for him to make his move.

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WES Ghost of a Gunfighter WES Big Ugly Lee, Wayne C. LP-3100 Leighton, Lee LP-2505 Dave Paxton had been serving as a When he was a kid they called him Big scout when he received the letter Ugly, among other things. Later the saying that his uncle had been gun in his hand bought a kind of murdered, three shots in the back by an respect Bill learned he didn't like. But unknown killer. Now Paxton and his by then he was a man, and a man can brother, who he hadn't seen since do things a boy cannot. childhood, were to inherit their uncle's land. Only Paxton wanted more than WES The Lonely Breed that, he wanted revenge. Leslie, Frank LP-3290

(Also available in regular print (AS- WES Gun Country 1121)). After saving the life of a Lee , Wayne C. LP-2513 saloon girl and taking out four Brent Clark is trapped into accepting a hardcases, half-breed Yakima Henry is deadly mission: He must get into well- pursued by a relentless bounty hunter guarded Gunsight Canyon, convince and must rely on his mustang and his pretty Virgie Kurtzman that she is Winchester to stay alive . really heiress Virginia Pool, and smuggle her out, willingly or WES The Wild Breed otherwise. Leslie, Frank LP-3432 In order to rescue an old flame's WES Beyond the Pass brother from a Mexican prison, loner Leighton, Lee LP-2271 Yakima Henry goes up against deadly Apaches, scalp-hunting Rurales, and a Young Robert Buel was a bounty beautiful revolutionary. hunter, destined from birth to lead a tough life. He didn't understand how WES Connelly's Expedition his father could give up roaming and settle in a town like Dirken's Hole. Loomis, Noel LP-2587 Then Buel was assigned to that same Ross Phillips led the most ambitious town, to stake out some rustlers and trading expedition from Mexico into take them dead or alive. In that long, the United States and back. Fighting cold winter, Robert Buel finally got to the Comanche, the politicos, and know people, especially himself. attacks by his rivals, he took out

250 bullion worth over three hundred hideout for the dregs of the frontier thousand dollars, and brought back that no law-abiding community would goods to the same value. tolerate. Here Simon Crawford, a tyrant who ruled with fear and ill- WES Hang the Men High gotten wealth, held absolute power. The trail that led Caliper and Nogales, Loomis , Noel LP-2444 two footloose and reckless cowboys, to "Vengeance is mine!" shouted the Ramrod Ridge began when they judge, looking up at the twelve empty interrupted a necktie party where nooses on the gallows. He turned to Crawford's henchmen were trying to the hangman, asking "Have they ever extract the whereabouts of a cache of been used all at once?" The hangman stolen gold. moistened his lips as he whispered, "No, but I could do it. And when I WES King of Crazy River hang them, they never come back for more." Mac Donald, William C. LP-2656 Known to everyone as the King of WES Action at Arcanum Crazy River, Big Vink Thorpe certainly looked like a king. Tall, Mac Donald, William LP-2344 handsome, open-hearted, a true Gregory Quist had a twister by the tail cattleman of the old type, he was when he took on a wild town called known and liked throughout the Crazy Arcanum. He was a railroad River country. But one night he was troubleshooter whose fame with gun found dead, still clutching a poker and fist had spread across the West. hand, three aces and two eights, of When violent death claimed Vance sinister significance. Rance Duncan, McAllister and his lovely young wife, the murdered man's foreman, was and a land-hungry killer threatened the determined to avenge Thorpe's death. railroad right-of-way, Quist knew he And circumstances forced him to play had a job to do. He rode into Arcanum a lone hand in his search for the killer. in a cloud of gun smoke to find the killer and stop him before he struck WES Rebel Ranger again. Mac Donald, William C. LP-2736

WES The Riddle of Ramrod The valley was being torn apart by a bloody feud. Rifles and six-shooters Ridge exploded, lighting the night sky with Mac Donald, William LP-2892 brilliant lances of flame. A man cursed, Ramrod Ridge was a ghost town and a the words choking abruptly in his throat. 251

A horse screamed and fell, tossing its deadly trail instinct to boot. Together rider to the hoof-churned earth. The once- they ride for Wells Fargo and for justice, peaceful Valley was now a scarred and fight any outlaw foolish enough to battlefield. Into the midst of the fighting take up their challenge. walked Johnny Auburn, Texas Ranger, with his six-shooter strapped to his thigh. WES O'Rourke's Revenge

Martin, L. J. LP-2987 WES Scarlet Saddle (Also available in regular print Macrae, Mason LP-2037 (AR-0891)). Sentenced to death for When young Weston Day inherited the killing a man in a gunfight, hot- biggest ranch in Skull Valley, he also tempered gunslinger Ryan O'Rourke inherited an outsize load of trouble. Day's heads south to seek refuge in Mexico ranch carried some mighty fine cattle, but where, deep in the Huaqui Mountains, the land was coveted by his neighbor, a sheep man, and in the west sheep and he encounters both his worst enemy cattle don't mix. and his ultimate destiny.

WES Slaughter & Son WES Wolf Mountain Majors, E. LP-2132 Martin, L. J. LP-2774 Bert Slaughter is a leather-tough field (Also available in regular print detective for Wells Fargo, a man with a (AN-0284)). Brothers Colin and thousand friends and even more enemies. Kevin McQuade risk everything as His son, Ben, carries a college education they prepare to drive two hundred head and a gun. Together they go after Rance of cattle through hostile territory Cutler, an outlaw who has terrorized the swarming with Crazy Horse's Oglala southwest and now has cracked a string Sioux and Sitting Bull's Hunkpapa of impregnable Wells Fargo safes. But Sioux to the 5th Infantry at the Tongue the father and son have an even stronger River, a task complicated by a bloody reason to want Cutler's hide, he's the man who murdered Bert's wife and got away Indian war, a dangerous St. Louis scot free. gambler, and a young woman pursued by a wealthy man's thugs.

WES Nightmare Trail WES The Baynes Clan: Kansas Majors, E. B. LP-2130 Gambler (Slaughter & Son, Book 2) Bert Mc Cord, John S. LP-2569 Slaughter is a veteran field detective with a hard-won reputation as the best there is; With the Baynes, what you see is son Ben has a college sheepskin and a generally what you get. And what people 252 have seen and gotten for years is a chief himself, who swore vengeance. family that doesn't look for trouble, but There was the renegade who hated red never runs out of it. Cousin Rod Silvana men and white men alike. There was is a different story altogether. With Rita, the spitfire from the cultured East, Darnell Baynes's cultured nephew, what who trusted no man. And there was you see is the exact opposite of what you Starbright, the guide who feared less a get. He seems like an easy mark in a card thousand Indians than the bite of Rita's game, but he's made more money and lashing tongue. This is a thrilling novel of enemies playing poker than he can count. violence, hatred and justice, along the And he looks like a man you can push Oregon Trail. around, but a group of cattle rustlers is about to find out that he fights like a WES Hard Country Baynes. Merriman , Chad LP-2883 WES Wyoming Giant Hob Loman had been green when they Mc Cord, John S. LP-2501 killed his dad. Now he was grown, big, hard, fearless as his father before him. In his new position at a New York law He rode into Dalles City wearing his firm, Luke Baynes finds himself a pawn in the Tammany Hall scandal, appointed vengeance like a badge, his gun as a federal judge by greedy power triggered for action. Only later did his brokers. partner figure that Hob knew all along what he'd find there, the three men WES Texas Pride who'd hung Burley Loman.

Mc Guire, Tim LP-3254 WES Night Killer (Also available in regular print (AR-1949)). When gambler and con- Merriman, Chad LP-3099 artist Rance Cash wins a pile of cash and Hack Sumpter made it to Silver City. a champion racehorse named Lone Star Bushwhacked, robbed, and left for in a high-stakes poker game, he garners dead in the desert, he had no right to the hatred of Don Pedro Cuellar de be alive. There had been a lot of Meyor, a wealthy landowner who claims robberies in Silver City lately, and the that Lone Star is his property. dead victims couldn't identify their murderers. The citizens of Silver City WES Blood on the Sun kept their mouths shut and locked their Merriman, Chad LP-2773 doors. It looked as though Hack would There was the Indian chief's daughter have to find the killers by himself. who had been ravished. There was the

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WES Ride West for War help in the shape of a posse of Texas Merriman, Chad LP-2988 rangers, and the dead-eye, multiple- shot Walker-Paterson Colt revolver. Early in the Civil War, many states in the West hadn't taken sides: in certain wealthy mining areas, the scale could WES Riding Shotgun be tipped one way or the other. And so Miller, Jim LP-3145 long as a territory remained neutral, Gold Fever sweeps California. And unscrupulous characters could exploit now Finn Callahan is riding shotgun the situation. When this exploitation on shipments of the precious metal. included the shipment of arms, then But greedy outlaws have grabbed the army had good cause to Finn's woman, Tally. Bushwhacking, investigate, but not openly. Which is robbing, murdering, they're after more how Lt. Tracy Dalton found himself in than just a load of gold. Finn's steel- Oregon disguised as a mining hard mind has to figure the mystery, engineer. while his Colt Dragoon revolver confronts the killers. WES Rogue River Merriman, Chad LP-3241 WES Gallows for a Gunman Gold had been discovered where the Miller, Rod LP-3188 Rogue and Illinois Rivers spilled into (Also available in regular print the Pacific. Miners' shacks lined the (AR-1806)). When Harlow beach and the town of Sebastopol Mackleprang, who raped, murdered, steadily grew. Luke Prine journeyed and pillaged his way through the West, into Crescent City once a week returns to Los Santos to rob a bank and carrying gold dust and mail. Then kill an innocent man, he is captured and Luke got a warning. Someone had sentenced to die, and the townspeople been trading guns for Indian girls. share their stories of his unspeakable crimes on the eve of his hanging. WES Comanche Trail Miller, Jim LP-3244 WES Red Buffalo Comanche wars have consumed Texas Mitchum , Hank LP-0102 like prairie fire, from Linville to San Del Harrigan had hung up his guns for Antonio. And Mexican renegades have a bible, but the outlaws of Red Buffalo kidnapped Nate Callahan's wife and bring his past back to life. young son. Nate faces some mighty long odds. Good thing he gets some 254

WES For the Norden Boys community that seemed poised on the brink of a full-scale range war. Killer Nesbitt, John D. LP-2728 Mort Browder was part of the picture, the Down-on-his-luck Tom Atkins accepts man was capable of almost anything. But a job on a small ranch owned by the Browder couldn't work alone. Norden brothers. Soon, Tom begins to notice small but troubling things. The WES Hideout Valley townsfolk don't seem too friendly to the Nordens, and some of their Newton, D. B. LP-2512 neighbors are downright rude. It's not Jim Bannister did not look like someone long before Tom realizes exactly what on the dodge who had seen his way of he's gotten himself into by working for life destroyed and himself hounded by all the Norden boys. the power of a million dollar combine. For now, under the assumed name of Jim

Bryan, he was temporary marshal in WES Bullet Lease Morgan Valley, until he found his own Newton, D. B. LP-2205 Wanted poster lying on the floor of his Croy Roth's hatred for young Branch office. Kindred drove him to desperate measures. First he got Kindred kicked WES Shotgun Freighter out of his job as ramrod of Anchor. Newton, D. B. LP-2425 Then he got him thrown in jail on a The sleet had turned to snow. Soon trumped up charge. He made three every landmark, even the trail itself, savage attempts to kill him. Kindred was completely lost; Dan felt as rolled with each blow, came back though he were on a blind treadmill bloody but unbowed. He had a job to that was soundless except for this do in Rock River, and come hell or howling fury. Disaster, when it struck, Croy Roth he was going to tame this gave no warning at all. With visibility bullet range. at zero, he had no hint of the near fall-

off of the ground until the rear wagon WES Guns of Warbonnet wheel dropped from under him. He Newton, D. B. LP-3250 tried, at the last moment to leap for Ed Martin was returning to his old home safety, but he was too late. The wagon in Warbonnet. Eleven years before he had went completely over in a smashing of been falsely accused of a crime, timbers, and Dan's skull made crushing horsewhipped, and driven out. But now contact with something. he was coming back as a U. S. Marshal to find out just what was going on in a 255

WES The Oregon Rifles hunter whose infamy reached from Newton, D. B. LP-2733 Colorado Territory to Mexico. Only after soulless Al Hulett murdered Young Barney Stansel had run away Keller's wife and son did he turn to from home to join the Oregon Rifles, tracking killers. And any bounty he volunteer soldiers pitted against thousands of marauding Indians collects goes toward finding Hulett, terrorizing the Northwest Territories. and exacting some long-overdue After an Indian raid that nearly wiped out vengeance. But when a wound holds his entire company, Barney, badly Keller up, he removes the blinders wounded, was left for dead. Rescued by long enough to take in the welcome the only other survivor, he had to make a sight of his nurse, young widow bitter choice. The man who saved him Caroline Thompson. was a deserter, and to stick with him meant being branded with the same iron. WES Come A-Smokin'

Nye , Nelson LP-2470 WES The Oxbow Deed Young rancher Grete Marratt sat stone- Newton, D. B. LP-2605 faced and tight-lipped when the judge Two ex-jailbirds rode into Oxbow asked him why he had shot Deputy Valley one day, a used-up and tired old Marshal Hugh Clagg in cold blood. cattle thief and a young robber with a With no defense, he was found guilty vicious temper who trusted no one. and sent to Yuma for life. But Marratt And these were the good guys! They escaped, and, with the law at his heels, had come to reclaim the old-timer's stepped into another man's identity. Cross K, which was still good grazing land and now apparently stocked with WES Desert of the Damned Luke Blaine's herds from his vast Broken Arrow spread. The two Nye, Nelson LP-2327 planned to settle a legal issue and start The exploding vengeance of a man respectable new lives. Some people, who had lost everything but his though, weren't too happy to see this innocence, this time, Ben Reifel kind of men settle down as neighbors, decided, he was really hanging up his and they displayed their feelings with gun. Then a man named Breen put the well-aimed bullets. law on him for a killing he'd never done, and he found himself riding WES Ride the Red Sun Down toward a showdown he'd never wanted. The law of the gun was still Nicholson, Thom LP-3175

Martin Keller wasn't always a bounty 256 with Ben Reifel, and he began to stolen, and then he found himself, not wonder if it wouldn't always be, at his intended victim, lined up in the least until he was six feet under. sights of a rifle.

WES Gringo WES The Seven Six-Gunners Nye, Nelson LP-2015 Nye, Nelson LP-2606 Nobody knew what cards Walt Parras Any man who had fought in the held in the dirty game going on at the Chisum-Murphy feud was bound to Romero Ranch, but the safest way to have some enemies and Flick Farsom avoid a surprise was to get rid of him fast. When he went to rep for Romero at was no exception. But if Flick was Madigan's roundup, Parras was assigned looking for a quiet place to hole up in, a cowhand who would backshoot him for Tombstone was not the healthiest spot sure, but they had not reckoned on he could have chosen. Hidden in the Parras' will to live. Arizona mountains were three million dollars in plunder, and seven people WES Gunfight at the O.K. bound and determined to get their Corral hands on it. Sure Flick wanted a piece of that treasure for himself. The only Nye, Nelson LP-2250 trouble was the other people looking That deadly day in Tombstone, Wyatt for it didn't much care who they had to Earp, the most famed and notorious of kill to get it. lawmen, joined forces and stood gun by gun with Doc Holliday, the most feared gambler and badman in the WES The Sure-Fire Kid West. It was the strangest alliance the Nye, Nelson LP-2585 old frontier had ever known, and it A bleak-eyed man with a fast gun hand reached a bloody climax at the and an even faster temper, Luke North infamous O.K. Corral. was on the run from the law. Although he had killed a lot of men in his day, WES The Clifton Contract North had been framed for murder by a Nye, Nelson LP-2400 back-stabber named Towner. Every minute he spent on the dodge, North Twenty-five hundred dollars. That's was busy planning his revenge. what they offered gunman Ridge Butler. The job seemed fairly easy: seek out a certain rancher, and kill him. But, suddenly, the picture changed. First, Ridge had his money 257

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When the little drummer rode his wagon into Quinn's Crossing, few WES Ranger's Revenge could have foreseen the load of trouble Nye, Nelson C. LP-2417 it carried. The product Horatio Gill Ranger Dan Waggoner rode into the brought to Quinn's Crossing had flaming maelstrom of an entire country sparked many a range war. Gill's goal gone mad with fear and greed. in life was to sell barbed wire, and he Knifings and shootings were the law of didn't care what happened to the the land. Nothing could stop the gang people he sold it to. that ruled the Tonto Territory, unless a man took the law into his own hands. Dan Waggoner did. WES Gunfighter Breed Nye, Nelson C. LP-3137 WES Saddle Bow Slim This is a fast-moving, slam-bang Nye, Nelson C. LP-3189 western yarn based on the actual records of the notorious Black Jack When Whit Brown first rode into town, Ketchum gang which used to rob the he made two mistakes. He reported a corpse he'd found on the trail and he ran trains of the Rock Island Railroad. It afoul of Curly Bill Graham and his yes- takes place in the days when guns were man Marshal Ben Brush. The corpse was for hire by any man who could pay the one of Curly Bill's gunmen and Whit had price, and when the boldness of the no alibi. After Brush threw him in jail, outlaws gave men an excuse to take Whit knew he was in bad trouble. Brush the law into their own hands. gave Whit one chance to make his break for life, but there was a hitch, the only WES Gunshot Trail escape route was a dead-end alley.

Nye, Nelson C. LP-2279 WES The Stalking Moon From the pen of one of America's finest writers of Westerns comes this Olsen, Theodore V. LP-2270 suspense-packed narrative of the early Sam Vetch didn't know that his wife days of the range wars between the had been the woman of Salvaje, the cattle kings and the sheepherders. Into Ghost, and that she had borne two sons this seething feud came "Black" Clem by the Apache chieftain. When Salvaje Andros, whose fearsome legend made came to claim his own, the duel began.

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A deadly contest between two men of workers into barbarous slave camps. strong will, courage, and different Torture and death awaited any man who standards of honor, a duel that must challenged his maniacal dreams. But the end in tragedy. Rio Kid vowed to squash this rising Empire of Doom. WES Buckskin Man WES Point of a Gun Overholser, Wayne D. LP-2630 Owen, Dean LP-2631 He was a hard-muscled, long-boned man with a face burned to bronze by sun and When his riders had cut the rope wind. His buckskin shirt was darkened by holding the dead man to the beam, dirt and age; his black hat had two bullet Matt Kevney stood for a long moment holes in it. There was a knife strapped to gazing at the agonized face. He had his left side, a .45 Colt on his right side, not known Dave Temple very long, but and a Winchester rifle on his saddle. Rafe now Kevney had to avenge his Dolan was a legend. Maybe too much of lynching. That it was the work of Sam a legend. Justin's hired killers there was no doubt. WES By Gun and Spur Overholser , Wayne D. LP-2207 WES All Men are Strangers Ben Sarboe was tired of risking his life Paine, Lauran LP-2382 to protect other people. So he gave it He was a man who had been groomed up, but now trouble was stirring once for violence, raised in the ways of the more, and Ben didn't know if he was turbulent West. Life had made him as ready to take up a gun again. He was hard as iron and as wily as an old wolf. also tired of drifting aimlessly through He went in search of a cold killer and every dusty town and outlaw village in found, something incredible. the West. It was time for him to make a decision: put himself out to pasture for good, or grab the reins, and spit in WES Ambush Canyon the face of danger. Paine, Lauran LP-2343 U.S. Marshal Bob Fulton was an WES Golden Empire officer who let trouble come to him Owen, Dean LP-3041 before he moved to squelch it. But in In the remote mountains of Southern the case of Big Jim Morton's scheme California, the Rio Kid unearthed a to involve the other cattlemen in a nightmare conspiracy. A powerful, evil range war with Travis Quayle's tough master was forcing helpless Chinese Texans, Fulton waited almost too long. 259

Raiders struck Quayle's camp, and he wanted to lay them to rest. But stampeded his herd and shot down what Abner found back in the three of his men. Suddenly Marshal primitive mountains opened his eyes in Fulton found himself squarely between a number of ways. two trigger-itchy factions of cowmen sworn to destroy one another, and WES Ride to Battle Mountain when the gunsmoke cleared, Fulton Paine, Lauran LP-3289 had learned his biter lesson, never wait for trouble. Three men, arriving separately, met in the little New Mexico cowtown of Shafter. The only thing they had in common, on WES Apache Trail first sight anyway, was that each rider Paine, Lauran LP-2101 had an ivory butt on his sixgun. They had Will Graham had inscrutable blue, robbed a bank in Laramie, up in unsmiling eyes and an air of quiet Wyoming, and had previously arranged strength. To Karen Maxwell he was to meet in isolated, insular Shafter. But the fates decreed that each of those three the embodiment of Arizona itself, riders would end one phase of his life patient and strong and powerful. Even there, and begin another and before this though she had been raised in the state, happened, there would be gunfire. Karen was still not altogether at home there, and in the same way could not WES Rogue River Cowboy quite understand Will. One of his most incomprehensible traits was his Paine, Lauran LP-2406 impassiveness in the face of the To Bess Benton, the big stranger riding Apache threat, a threat Karen had into Eureka on a loose rein was just learned to fear since earliest childhood. another cowboy, distinguished only by But when the Apaches hit the warpath, his irritating arrogance. She did not see this quality would prove to be one of in Rufe Holt, whose parents lay buried Will's greatest assets. nearby, a nemesis in spurs; a man come back to avenge the dead and WES Outlaw Town solve an ancient mystery.

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was savagely beaten. WES The Lost Trail WES The Time of the Texan Paine, Lauran LP-2881 Paine , Lauran LP-3228 Town Marshal Will Chance had a two- bit stage robbery to investigate. What In the Old West, the peril to South Texas he discovered involved the richest and from Mexican marauders was a constant danger. Men retired for the night with the biggest cowman in Morgan Valley, knowledge that next day they might arise and that man's long-kept secret. Before robbed of their livestock, left destitute, or the smoke finally settled, Will had having to dig graves for their neighbors. dead men to bury, and a beautiful The Mexicans never forgave the Texans woman to break bad news to . for rebelling against Mexico and establishing a republic of Texas or for WES The Outcast joining the United States. National Paine, Lauran LP-2537 boundaries were violated, men killed, and blood shed in South Texas. He saw it as he came out of the arroyo, a sickening redness of the lowering sky. There was a running sore of flame and WES The Trail Drive wreckage against the deep-brooding Paine, Lauran LP-2275 night. The cabin and barn were blazing. Burt Sommers was the DB rangeboss. He saw it with a stunned horror that was His riding crew consisted of Sut, Pete, almost suffocating. He ran and ran. His Jack and Morgan. By taking a mountain father was outside, face down, sprawled pass as a shortcut, they could deliver and shot dead, shot three times. He never seventeen hundred head of upgraded bred saw his mother, for she was in the log cows to Florence Basin in less time than house. But he knew what had happened by using the regular trail. But in that to her. dark, overgrown canyon, they were attacked by renegade whites and outlaw WES The Saddlegun Man Indians. Then they were all nearly killed Paine, Lauran LP-2875 by a landslide. They buried Jack and When Marshal Gil Stevens' territory was staggered on, and were attacked by invaded by a band of very clever possemen who mistook them for renegades, he had the devil's own time of renegades. Every one of them emerged it trying to figure out how they worked, from that canyon a different man. 261

WES The War-Wagon accompanied the cowboys, but trembled at the hell that invariably broke loose. A Paine, Lauran LP-2386 curfew and ban on firearms was declared, Dick Chase came from Nebraska to take an ordinance Gaunt knew he couldn't over his uncle's cow outfit when the old enforce. man died. Dick was an experience, pragmatic cowman, and until he WES Guns of Hell Valley discovered that some long yearling replacement heifers had been rustled, he Prescott, John LP-3101 had demonstrated nothing but everyday Men aflame with hate, women with cow-savvy. But after that, when he found violent homeward hungers, these were the rustlers and uncovered a scheme he the last desperate outcasts of bullet-torn could scarcely believe, he became Lincoln County. Then, out of the dying something different: a manhunter. ashes of their vengeance, rose a gun king who swore: "I'll bring you home from WES Hunt the Man Down hell!"

Patten, Lewis B. LP-3140 WES The Renegade It all began with a raging snowstorm and a woman's terrified scream. And Prescott, John LP-3242 suddenly Mike Logan found himself When Clay got out of jail he found the forced to flee for his life, accused of a country turned against him. Now Robey, crime he never committed, and hunted by the man who had framed him for the a powerful rancher who vowed to shoot killing, had Clay over a barrel. He could him down like an animal. Enduring a either ride for Robey or get out. Then crippling wound, cold, hunger, and the Clay found his best friend dead, shot in treachery of those he'd reckoned as the back by one of Robey's gunslingers. friends, Logan swore that if death was in Clay made his choice. He was going to the cards, he'd also deal the hand of his face Robey. vicious pursuer. WES Left to Die WES The Law in Cottonwood Roderus , Frank LP-3252 Patten, Lewis B. LP-2687 The payroll belonging to Willow Creek's Marshal Morgan Gaunt was worried. miners has been stolen. A posse finds Cottonwood, Kansas, was about to be Wes Johnson in possession of five stampeded by the cattle drivers from thousand dollars. They declare him guilty Texas, thirsty for liquor and hungry for and string him up. They're wrong and women. Their lusts were satisfied by an fortunately for Wes, they're also careless. influx of gamblers, barmen, and saloon He survives his own hanging and gets a girls. Cottonwood needed the trade that second chance. Now he's plotting his 262 revenge. And he'll have to stay one step WES Holster Law ahead because these self-appointed Scott, Bradford LP-2632 executioners aren't likely to make the same mistake twice. Three hundred trigger-happy cowhands are on a march from Texas to the cattle

market at Dodge City. Suddenly a herd WES Winter Kill owner and his range boss were found Roderus, Frank LP-3235 murdered. Suspicions flared. Trigger fingers began itching. Nearly every Old Jug's been a ranch hand for more cowhand present was a Texan, and a years than he can remember, but he can Texan isn't given to arguing with words still ride and rope with the best of them. . When Jug uncovers a scheme to rustle cattle from under his watch, someone WES Raiders of the Rio Grande wants him out of the way and he's fired Scott, Bradford LP-3238 from the only job he's ever known. Now, "A belly full of lead for the man who Jug's going to find out who's responsible, opens the door!" Slade muttered as he and show them just how much fight one looked through the cabin window and old cowboy has left. saw the shotgun lashed to the table rigged to blast when the door was disturbed. "An WES Expedition old trick," the Ranger thought, "deadly Ross, Dana F. LP-0141 only if you're careless." Standing out of the line of fire, he smashed in the door Clay Holt leads a perilous expedition with a log, and the shotgun fired its load up the Yellow River. squarely into a bundle of dynamite!

WES The Devil's Corral WES Rangers at Bay Savage, Jr. Les LP-2657 Scott, Bradford LP-2789 (Also available in regular print Shocked and enraged, Walt Slade read the venomous editorial. His honor as a (AL-0180)). Includes "The Devil's Texas Ranger was tarnished by the Corral," in which an obstinate horse vicious, lying attack, but, as an named Devil gives Ed Ketland a run undercover agent, he could not protest. for his money; "Satan Sits a Big He knew the slander was just another Bronc," in which a carpetbag governor weapon in the brewing range war. But hires a gang of outlaws to enforce his the attack turned personal when hot new laws; and "Senorita Scorpion," in lead whined at Slade from ambush. which Chisos Owens embarks on a mission of revenge to find the enigmatic Scorpion. 263

WES The Lonely Buckaroo WES Shadow Valley Scott, Leslie LP-2888 Shirreffs, Gordon D. LP-2035 Blaine Mason had just sold the Bar Six Thirty-five of Drake Manning's ranch and left behind the coast with its hardcases swept over Holt Cooper's storms and its damp heat. He was ranch like a plague of locusts. They heading for a new home, perhaps in used wire cutters, bullets and fire. the Panhandle, or in the Rio Grande When they were done the place was a Valley. A brief stopover would give shambles. Then they went after him time to decide and to enjoy Cooper, but chasing him was like himself. But then Blaine was drugged chasing a phantom. Every time they and robbed of all his money. killed one of his cows he killed two of theirs, but now Cooper was down to his last load of cartridges, and WES The Texan Manning's gunslingers prepared to Scott, Leslie LP-2734 move in for the kill. No one saw Justin Slone move. One second his hands were empty, the next, WES Deep Hills two blackened muzzles threatened death! Justin Slone was the only man Stuart, Matt LP-2381 in Tombstone with guts enough to call In this blazing western story of range the play of the notorious Brocius gang. warfare, cowman Britt Larkin of the So Justin Slone was marked for death. Deep Hills gambles his life to fight for But he was an iron-hard Texan with the homesteaders . crushing fists and a greased-lightning draw. WES Gun Law at Vermillion Stuart, Matt LP-2383 WES Tascosa Gun Vermillion was tough, a raw Nevada Shelton, Gene LP-0190 frontier town where murderous hatreds When his boss's cattle are stolen, Jim smoldered, where killers walked the East becomes part of the west's biggest streets without fear of the law. There manhunt, and begins his career as a was no law in Vermillion, not even a lawman. Little did Jim know that big sheriff. This is the story of Clay Orde, trouble was brewing. who came to Vermillion wearing a gun and looking for a man .

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WES Saddle-Man WES Siege at High Meadow Stuart, Matt LP-0189 Trimble, Louis LP-2880 Hell is brewing in Indio Basin and ex- Eight long years had not dulled the Marshal Bruce Martell has the hatred that Cordell held for Mont misfortune of riding right into the Langsford. Eight long years had only middle of it . given the manhunter the chance to track Langsford down, to get him with WES Deadwood his back to Boot Hill. Eight years of pain and humiliation now looked down Tompkins , Walker A. LP-2873 the barrel of Cordell's carbine. Behind Vince Meade was the harrowing memory of the massacre at WES The Hostile Peaks the Little Big Horn. Custer, the Boy General, had left a legacy for him, a Trimble, Louis LP-2884 mission of justice. Vince had to round Someone had stolen a shipment of up a cowardly turncoat who bore the Army guns and ammunition, and that blood of cavalrymen. Plunging into the could mean real trouble for the isolated raw region that few returned from, settlers in that mountainous territory. Vince found that the trail led to Clint Larabee had been sent to find the Deadwood, where King Colt ruled with missing guns, but by the time he was hangman's rope and a bottle of rotgut. sure he knew where they were, there didn't seem to be much he was likely WES Lion of the Lavabeds to be able to do about it. Tompkins, Walker A. LP-3039 WES Buchanan's Gamble The Indian Kintupash was a foe worthy of Bob Pryor, the Rio Kid. This Ward, Jonas LP-3042 savage warrior combined subtle The killers had taken over the town, cunning with lion-like courage as he lock, stock, and barrel, and they led his marauding band against the weren't going to leave until there was white settlers. Pryor grudgingly nothing left to loot. They had the bank admired the enemy who was leading and the saloon and the sheriff's office him deeper and deeper into danger, and the poker game. And you had to while a white traitor waited for a clear like it or you ended up dead. But shot at the Rio Kid's back. Buchanan didn't like it.

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WES Buchanan's Revenge Cattleman's Bank has been robbed, Ward, Jonas LP-3103 there are dead bodies in the street, and the bandits have escaped. Barely able They said in Texas that Tom Buchanan to walk, Marshal Dillon is determined ate raw wildcat for breakfast and that to lead the posse. he was slow to anger like a rattler dozing in the desert sun. But now every saloon and dance hall had heard WES Gunsmoke: The Reckless the news: Buchanan was cleaning his Gun guns for the outlaws who had shot his West, Joseph A. LP-3251 best friend in the back. Marshal Matt Dillon's session with a fortune-teller, who sees blood, WES The Gun and the Law betrayal, and violent death in his future Wayne, Joseph LP-2286 is interrupted by gunfire. Outside, wealthy rancher Colonel Roberts lies Deputy Sheriff Brady Royal, all alone, had one purpose in life, to avenge the wounded, shot by Tom Gillespie as death of his brother, his friend the sheriff, payback for the massacre of thirty- and the innocent people who were all three Confederate prisoners, including murdered by two killers. A bullet through Gillespie's father, and the theft of more the heart was too tame. He wanted to than thirty thousand dollars in Yankee watch the killers swing. One was as sly gold. and dangerous as a wolf. The other was a madman with the cunning of a rattler. WES Hangman's Song They knew that their only chance to stay West, Charles G. LP-3316 alive was to kill Brady Royal. They roamed the empty land, and only his gun (Also available in regular print (AR- could stop them. 1163)). When Preacher Nathaniel Rix and his sons bring a new kind of WES Gunsmoke: Blizzard of religion, one that involves guns, to the Lead settlers on the Western frontier, annihilating sinners and saints alike, West, Joseph A. LP-3138 Jordan Gray, haunted by the tragic Marshal Matt Dillon and all of the death of his wife and son, vows to other favorites from the long-running teach this twisted man of the cloth a TV show are standing tall in this valuable lesson. brand-new Western adventure series. A shoot-out on the trail has left Deputy Festus badly wounded and Matt with a broken leg. Back in Dodge City, the 266

WES Shootout at Picture Rock WES Scorpion Showdown West, Joseph A. LP-3234 West, Tom LP-3291 (Also available in regular print Sam Moreland rode into trouble as (AR-2206)). U.S. Marshal John Kilcoyn blindly as a steer steps into quicksand and his friend, county sheriff Bat and now he was sitting in a courtroom, Materson, battle against renegade irons on his wrists, and listening as all Indians, relentless bushwackers, and a the evidence against him combined to former frontier lawman bent on revenge fashion a hang noose. The only way he to rescue a local doctor and his daughter. was going to get out of this was by finding the real Garrote Gang that had WES Rattlesnake Range done the mischief he was being West, Tom LP-2887 blamed for. No one even knew what they looked like because they never Brick Riley has come to Painted Rock left any witnesses alive to tell . because he'd heard there was a shooting feud storming up between the cattle ranchers and the sodbusting WES The Buzzard's Nest homesteaders. That kind of situation West, Tom LP-2790 was ideal for Riley; he was a hired The place was called Copper Valley, gun, and it wasn't long before he had a but the treasure it held was in gold and job with the Circle C. They stationed greenbacks. The outlaw who had him on the only reliable waterhole for stolen and hidden it was floating in the miles around, to run the nesters off. Rio Grande with a knife in his back. But when Riley saw how poor the The stranger who was searching for it families were, he couldn't stomach the met seven devious men, all driven by job. maddening greed. And the law stood by, unable to halt the inevitable clash. WES Renegade Roundup West, Tom LP-2889 WES Thunder Brakes Burt Craig was riding with the wolves, Wilson, Cherry LP-2138 and he didn't much like the company. He'd joined that bandit gang in hopes The February blizzard was raging of getting back his own stake, and so around the little depot of Blue Buttes far all he'd got was the chance to ride like a wild monster. Tex Rankin and in another holdup, and maybe stop his cowboy partner, the earnest Dell lead, or get hung if he got caught. Young, were awaiting the midnight Who'd ever swallow his story? train to whisk them down south. Then the wind blew in a slim young girl, 267

June Hale, who was looking for two men to help on her ranch, the Curly Q, while she went to attend to her injured father. Moved by her plight, Tex and Dell agreed. They watched her board the train going south, and then heard that the Curly Q was about to go under!

WES Massacre Basin Wynne, Frank LP-2879 "When I'm gone the wolves will come out of their holes and gang up on Hat." Such was the prophecy by which Nora Parrott had inherited the mighty Parrott Hat ranch, and by which her foreman, Clay Sebastian, was bound. And they knew who would lead the wolves; Buck DeSpain, whose methods were wilier but equally ruthless.

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