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Happy Reading! TABLE OF CONTENTS

Adventure, Crime, Thriller ______1 Adventure, Crime, Thriller Series ______10 Amish Fiction ______11 Amish Fiction Series ______12 Christian Fiction ______13 Christian Fiction Series ______17 Christmas ______17 Classics ______18 Cozy Mystery ______19 Cozy Mystery Series ______22 Fantasy and Science Fiction ______23 Historical Fiction ______24 Historical Fiction Series ______27 Historical Mystery ______27 Historical Mystery Series ______29 Historical Romance ______29 Historical Romance Series ______32 Horror/Occult ______33 Horror/Occult Series ______33 Humorous Fiction ______33 Humorous Fiction Series ______34 Legal Fiction ______34 Legal Fiction Series ______35 Literary & Psychological Fiction ______35 Paranormal Romance ______40 Paranormal Romance Series ______41 Romance and Romantic Suspense ______41 Romance and Romantic Suspense Series ______48 Women’s Lives & Relationships ______49 Women’s Lives & Relationships Series ______53 Non-Fiction ______53 Biography ______57 Adventure, Crime, Thriller Bauer, Belinda Darkside Investigating the murder of a Atkinson, Kate paralyzed woman in a small Started Early, Took My Dog English town, local cop Jonas (Jackson Brodie) Holly is forced to relinquish the British author Atkinson’s case to an abrasive detective magnifi cently plotted novel who is unable to stop subsequent takes Jackson Brodie, a “semi- killings, a situation that causes retired” PI, back to his Yorkshire Holly to be targeted with hometown to trace the biological resentment and blame. parents of Hope McMasters, a woman adopted by a couple in the 1970s at age two. Block, Lawrence A Drop of the Hard Stuff (Matthew Scudder) Baldacci, David After a childhood friend is shot The Sixth Man (Sean King and down while attempting to atone for Michelle Maxwell) past sins, Scudder is drawn into a King’s old law professor Ted murder investigation that threatens Bergin, who has hired King and to upset his path toward recovery Maxwell to assist in his defense and get him killed in the process. of a serial murderer who has been apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit, is found dead in a Bolton, S. J. car by the side of the road before Now You See Me the PIs can meet with him. Young detective constable Lacey Flint stumbles onto a murder scene that a reporter likens to the crimes Berry, Steve of Jack the Ripper and as she races The Jefferson Key against time to prevent additional (Cotton Malone) deaths, she realizes that the killer Cotton Malone battles a group of is taunting her with secrets from families whose infl uence dates her past. back to the U.S. Constitution and who seek to crack a code devised by Thomas Jefferson himself in their quest for power. 1 Box, C. J. Burke, James Lee Back of Beyond Feast Day of Fools In this stand-alone from Edgar- (Hackberry Holland) winner Box, Cody Hoyt, an Interviewing an alcoholic Native investigator in the sheriff’s American who witnessed a murder department of Montana’s Lewis along the Texas-Mexico border, and Clark County and a (barely) Sheriff Hack Holland and his recovering alcoholic, goes in deputy, Sam Tibbs, recognize the search of the man who burned his work of serial killer Preacher Jack Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor to Collins in an investigation that is death. assisted by the enigmatic Anton Ling. Brown, Dale A Time for Patriots Clancy, Tom (Patrick McLanahan) Against All Enemies When the country explodes When ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell in violence after the president Moore arrives at a rendezvous institutes an unprecedented to take charge of a high-ranking austerity program, retired Taliban captive, the meeting takes Air Force general and aviator a horrifi c turn with news of a Patrick McLanahan trains a new potentially devastating coalition generation of dedicated patriots between the Taliban and the to hunt down those who threaten warring Mexican drug cartels on America. the blood-soaked U. S.-Mexico border. Burke, Jan Disturbance (Irene Kelly) Clark, Mary Higgins A brood of serial killers makes I’ll Walk Alone a family business out of stalking Alexandra “Zan” Moreland, an reporter Irene Kelly when they interior designer on the threshold spring their psychopathic father of a successful Manhattan career, Nicholas Parrish from jail and he is terrifi ed to discover that picks up where he left off all those somebody is not only using her years ago, with an all-consuming credit cards and manipulating her passion to end Irene’s life. fi nancial accounts to bankrupt her

2 and destroy her reputation, but detectives, including one who is may also be impersonating her in a drawn to cases of rough urban scheme that may involve the much combat and another who is more brutal crimes of kidnapping compelled by suicide, missing and murder. persons, and supernatural cases.

Coben, Harlan Connelly, Michael Live Wire (Myron Bolitar) The Fifth Witness When a pregnant tennis star (Mickey Haller) reports that her rock-artist husband Connelly brings back the Lincoln has gone missing amid scandalous Lawyer for a satisfying case that rumors, Myron Bolitar is forced pits him against a real-estate to confront deep secrets about his foreclosure mill. client’s past while struggling with fatherhood roles in his personal Deaver, Jeffrey life. Carte Blanche (James Bond) A James Bond thriller set in the Collins, Max Allen present day fi nds the iconic British No One Will Hear You spy engaging a horrifi c modern (J. C. Harrow) villain in a cat-and-mouse chase When an all-out sadist calling that takes him from the Balkans himself Don Juan sends in a tape and London to the African auditioning for a starring role in Continent. reality television, former sheriff and TV host J. C. Harrow has no Dietrich, William choice but to spotlight him along Blood of the Reich with another ruthless killer who Decades after a team of Nazi SS has captivated millions of viewers offi cers and an American zoologist in his quest for fame and victims. compete to locate a legendary energy source in the mountains Conlon, Edward of Tibet, modern-day software Red on Red publicist Rominy Pickett searches A gritty, darkly humorous for the truth about her family. crime novel follows an unlikely partnership between two NYPD

3 Estleman, Loren D. Hart, John The Left-Handed Dollar Iron House (Amos Walker) Michael and Julian, brothers Hired by a corrupt lawyer to abandoned as babies, lead lives of investigate an old Mafi a murder mounting desperation in a grim attempt on the life of his best orphanage tucked away in the friend, private detective Amos North Carolina high country, and Walker reluctantly follows a as adults, one of them vengefully string of vague leads in Detroit’s tracks fellow former orphans, underworld. asylum not an offer.

Francis, Felix Hill, Susan Dick Francis’s Gamble The Shadows in the Street Fans of Dick Francis’s suspense (Simon Serrailler) masterpieces should rejoice: his After two prostitutes are found son Felix has produced a mystery strangled and the wife of the St. with a racing setting (the Grand Michael’s Cathedral Dean and a National, no less); a retired but respectable woman on her way to still yearning ex-jockey as the work go missing, Chief Inspector detective; and an intriguing mix of Simon Serrailler is put on the case racing and another business, this and faces the greatest danger of his time the world of fi nance. life.

Gardner, Lisa Hoffman, Cara Love You More So Much Pretty (Detective D. D. Warren) A dark tale inspired by a true case Detective D. D. Warren of the encountered by the author as a Boston police and Massachusetts police beat reporter follows the state trooper Bobby Dodge are experiences of a young victim of together again, this time not domestic violence whose memory as lovers but as partners in the is further compromised by investigation of a state trooper community perceptions. who shot and killed her husband.

4 Hunt, James Patrick family court judge Hope Willis Get Maitland (Evan Maitland) to fi nd her missing daughter, Evan, an antique dealer and ex- Forensic Instincts, a team of cop, agrees to fi nd an antique chair renegade investigators comprised in London for a client, but ends of a behavorist, a techno-wizard, up trying to clear his name while an intuitive, and a former Navy on the run after he is framed for SEAL, must race against time to murder and Scotland Yard and bring Krissy back alive. English crime bosses target him. Keith, Eric Johansen, Iris Nine Man’s Murder Eve (Eve Duncan) In the tradition of Agatha When a CIA contact discovers Christie’s Ten Little Indians, nine possible information about Eve graduates of a detective training Duncan’s long-missing child, the agency assemble at an isolated forensic sculptor struggles to piece vacation home for a class reunion together clues about a believed- and soon thereafter, the murders dead person and her own early life. begin.

Jones, Solomon Kelly, Erin The Last Confession The Poison Tree (Mike Coletti) Picking up Rex after a ten-year Having walked a fi ne line between prison sentence for murder, Karen law enforcement and criminal remembers the bohemian summer elements throughout his decades in 1990s London when their as a homicide detective in South carefree romance became subject Philadelphia, a haunted Mike to a complicated family history Coletti discovers that a priest on and ended in violence. death row whom he helped to convict is actually innocent. Khoury, Alex The Templar Salvation Kane, Andrea (Sean Reilly) The Girl Who Disappeared Twice To save his kidnapped lover, FBI (Forensic Instincts) agent Sean Reilly must violate the When they are hired by veteran Vatican’s trust in order to locate

5 a document known as the “Fondo Lovesey, Peter Templari,” a secret history of the Stagestruck (Peter Diamond) infamous Templars. When a pop diva is brutally attacked minutes before a Knopf, Chris theatrical performance and the Bad Bird (Jackie Swaitkowski) chief suspect is promptly found Investigating an unusual set of dead, Detective Peter Diamond photos taken by a plane crash uncovers bitter rivalries among the victim, Jackie Swaitkowski is cast and crew and must confront surprised to discover familiar, his own mysterious theater phobia notorious faces in the pictures and to fi nd the killer. realizes that the crash may be tied to a mystery from her own past. Marklund, Liza Red Wolf (Annika Bengtzon) LaPlante, Alice A spate of killings that began with Turn of Mind the murder of a Swedish journalist Implicated in the murder of her prompts crime reporter Annika best friend, a brilliant retired Bengtzon to look into the deaths, surgeon with dementia struggles in an investigation that forces her with fractured memories of their to question her own husband’s complex relationship and wonders honesty. if she actually committed the crime. No Rest For the Dead A serial novel featuring Lippman, Laura contributions by twenty-fi ve The Girl in the Green Raincoat masters of suspense follows (Tess Monaghan) detective Jon Nunn as he re-opens Bed-ridden in the last months of a ten-year-old case to discover if her pregnancy, Tess Monaghan the wrong person was convicted watches a little girl in a green and put to death for the murder of raincoat play with her dog in the art curator Christopher Thomas. park across the street, until one day when she sees the dog running O’Donohue, Clare loose and worries that harm has Missing Persons (Kate Conway) befallen the girl. Chicago television producer

6 Kate Conway becomes a suspect discovers that he isn’t who his after her soon-to-be ex-husband superiors think he is -- or even is found dead and she discovers who he thinks he is -- and soon a link between his death and a learns what it’s like to be part of missing young woman who is the oppressed majority. the subject of one of her work assignments. Patterson, Richard North The Devil’s Light Palmer, Michael Sidelined after a colleague’s A Heartbeat Away blunder, CIA agent Brooke Preparing to give a State Chandler envisions a way to of the Union address when a halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off terrorist group releases a deadly a massive nuclear explosion and virus into the Capitol building, begins a race against time that President Max Hilliard is forced to returns him to Lebanon, where enlist the services of a virologist nothing is quite as it seems. who has been wrongly imprisoned for suspected terrorist intentions. Pilgrim, Kitty The Explorer’s Code Patterson, James Prominent oceanographer Now You See Her Cordelia Stapleton teams up with After building up a successful life archaeologist John Sinclair to fi nd in New York and hiding her past, a deed she inherited that is also Nina Bloom returns to Florida to being sought by a consortium of confront the terrible secret that underworld criminals, a quest that shattered her life eighteen years results in a high-stakes chase. ago and protect an innocent man who is framed for murder. Rankin, Ian The Complaints Patterson, James Malcolm Fox works for the Toys Scottish equivalent of Internal In 2061 Hays Baker, a supercop Affairs, “Complaints and and one of the genetically Conduct” (aka “the Complaints”), enhanced humans who rules over which investigates corrupt cops. and fi ghts against regular humans, In this fi rst book, he looks into

7 the case of Det. Sgt. Jamie Breck, Ross, Barbara who may be trading in child The Death of an Ambitious pornography over the Internet. Woman (Chief Ruth Murphy) Acting Police Chief Ruth Murphy Rollins, James of New Derby, a suburb of Boston, The Devil Colony (Sigma Force) investigates the death of prominent Sigma Force stalwarts Painter businesswoman Tracey Kendall Crowe and Commander Grayson and fi nds not only a multitude Pierce must investigate a of suspects but a danger to her gruesome massacre in the Rocky chance at becoming Chief. Mountains and root out a secret cabal that has been manipulating Sandford, John momentous events since the time Buried Prey (Prey) of the original thirteen colonies. Investigating the discovery of two bodies in a house demolition, Rosenfelt, David Lucas Davenport identifi es On Borrowed Time the victims as two girls who Proposing to his girlfriend Jen and disappeared in 1985, a cold case accompanying her to Kendrick that overshadowed the early years Falls in spite of rumors that no of his career. man has ever gone to the falls with Jen and come back the same, Sakey, Marcus Richard suffers a car accident on The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes the journey, then discovers that Jen Waking up half-drowned on an has disappeared. abandoned beach with no memory of who he is, a man stumbles on Roslund, Anders a BMW and assumes the identity Three Seconds of the person whose papers and Ex-convict Piet Hoffman -- a clothes he locates inside, soon family man, a rising member of fi nding himself targeted for the Stockholm’s Polish mafi a, and an man’s alleged activities. undercover police informant -- is sent to a maximum security prison to make himself the boss of the amphetamine trade so the police can shut it down. 8 Senuta, Michael Taylor, Brad Hazard One Rough Man (Pike Logan) Los Angeles-based private A debut series by a former Delta investigator John Hazard Force commander introduces the agrees to provide research for character of Pike Logan, a member famed historical writer Richard of a covert intelligence operation Armitage’s next novel by who learns about an imminent investigating a remote ghost town catastrophic attack by two criminal in the California desert. When he ideologists. returns, he is stunned to learn that Armitage’s body was found in his Thor, Brad offi ce, shot with the detective’s The Athena Project own gun, and he has been framed A group of female warriors for murder. from the nation’s most elite counter terrorism unit, the Slaughter, Karin United States Army’s 1st Special Fallen (Georgia) Forces Operational Detachment Georgia Bureau of Investigations Delta, deploys on a dangerous Detective Faith Mitchell, her international assignment with the partner Will Trent, and trauma code name Athena Project. doctor Sara Linton join forces to fi nd Faith’s mother, missing after Thor, Brad a deadly hostage situation that Full Black (Scot Harvath) leaves Faith a murder suspect In the wake of a former U.S. and the scapegoat for police President’s appointment to the corruption, bribery, and murder. United Nations, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is wrongly Smith, Wilbur A. implicated for a string of national Those in Peril emergencies and assassinations, An adventure set in the violent a situation that forces him to race world of modern piracy and against time to uncover the real terrorism follows the kidnapping culprit. of an oil heiress’s daughter for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release. 9 Truman, Margaret Evanovich, Janet Monument to Murder Smokin’ Seventeen (Capital Crimes) (Stephanie Plum) Though Truman died in 2008, her long-running Capital Crimes Gerritsen, Tess series lives on. Here, the trail of The Silent Girl (Jane Rizzoli and a twenty-year-old murder case Maura Isles) leads PI Robert Brixton deep into the corrupt underbelly of Jance, Judith A. Savannah’s power elite and right Betrayal of Trust (J.P. Beaumont) into the lap of a secret government organization that’s been offi ng Johansen, Iris “troublesome” politicians for Quinn (Eve Duncan) decades. Adventure, Crime, Thriller Johnson, Craig Hell Is Empty (Walt Longmire) Series Kava, Alex Brandman, Michael Hotwire (Maggie O’Dell) Robert B. Parker’s Killing the Blues (Jesse Stone) Leon, Donna Drawing Conclusions Child, Lee (Guido Brunetti) The Affair; Running Blind (Jack Reacher) Lustbader, Eric Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Cussler, Clive Dominion (Jason Bourne) The Jungle (Oregon Files); The Kingdom (Fargo Adventures); Michaels, Fern The Race (Isaac Bell) Home Free (Sisterhood)

Estleman, Loren D. Parker, Robert Infernal Angels (Amos Walker) Sixkill (Spencer)

10 Patterson, James in woodworking as well as a Mystery (Alex Delaware); new friendship with secret artist 10th Anniversary Suzanne Yoder. (Women’s Murder Club) Castillo, Linda Penny, Louise Breaking Silence A Trick of the Light (Kate Burkholder) (Inspector Armand Gamache) When Solly and Rachel Slabaugh, along with Solly’s brother Abel, Pronzini, Bill are found dead in a hog pit and Camoufl age (Nameless Detective) Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the gruesome scene, Reichs, Kathy she fi nds that the death may not Flash and Bones have been accidental but one of (Temperance Brennan) the most horrifi c hate crimes ever to befall the Amish community of Painter’s Creek. Robb, J. D. New York to Dallas; Treachery in Death (In Death) Cramer, W. Dale Paradise Valley (Daughters of Caleb Bender) Silva, Daniel Caleb Bender and other members Portrait of a Spy (Gabriel Allon) of an Ohio Amish community relocate to Mexico to avoid Woods, Stuart confl icts with Ohio’s laws, but Bel-Air Dead; Lucid Intervals; though they eventually connect Son of Stone (Stone Barrington) with the local people, they are endangered by the strife following Amish Fiction the Mexican Revolution.

Brunstetter, Wanda Eicher, Jerry S. The Journey (Kentucky Brothers) A Wedding Quilt for Ella When Titus Fisher moves to (Little Valley) Kentucky, escaping the girl who When her family pressures her to broke his heart, he fi nds his calling marry the new bishop, Ella asks

11 for six months to heal from the Marriage of the Heart by Kelly death of her former fi ance, Aden, Long; What the Heart Sees by while Aden’s brother Daniel Kathleen Fuller; and Healing helps Ella build the dream house Hearts by Beth Wiseman. incorporated into her wedding quilt. Amish Fiction Series

Harper, Karen Brunstetter, Wanda Dark Harvest The Healing (Kentucky Brothers) (Maplecreek Amish Trilogy) When someone begins targeting Cameron, Barbara the children of a peaceful Amish A Time to Heal community, town leader Luke (Quilts of Lancaster County) Brand must get help from the outside world. He teams up with Eicher, Jerry S. big city policewoman Kat Lindley Ella’s Wish (Little Valley) to stop the madness, a partnership that evokes forbidden passion. Fisher, Suzanne Woods The Search Harper, Karen (Lancaster County Secrets) Fall From Pride (Home Valley Amish Trilogy) When an arsonist sets fi re to their Gray, Shelley Shepard barns one by one, destroying her Autumn’s Promise beautiful murals, Sarah Kauffman (Seasons of Sugarcreek) must help outsider and arson investigator Nate MacKenzie Lewis, Beverly process the crime scenes while The Judgment; The Mercy adhering to Amish ways in a (Rose Trilogy) community riddled by fear. Wiseman, Beth Wiseman, Beth Plain Proposal (Daughters of the An Amish Love Promise); Collected here are three tales The Wonder of Your Love of Amish love and courtship: A (Land of Canaan)

12 Christian Fiction Copeland, Lori A Man’s Heart Since the man Jules loves can’t Baer, Judy stand the sight of her, it looks The Cinderella List like improving the prospects of Marlo Mayfi eld is beginning to her inherited Washington State lose hope that her Prince potato farm and strengthening her Charming exists until she caters relationship with her sister will be a party for a man who might her chief concerns, until cancer be the one, super-wealthy Jake takes the life of her best friend Hammond. But will she fi t into his and she fi nds herself caring for her blue-blooded world? friend’s two small children.

Baer, Judy Copeland, Lori Mending Her Heart The One Who Waits for Me (Love Inspired) (Carolina Moon) After quitting her high-powered Three young women fl eeing a job, Catherine Stanhope heads vindictive uncle following the end home to Pleasant, Minnesota, to of the Civil War encounter a young rest and regroup, but when she pregnant slave who is looking for arrives at her late grandmother’s freedom, a Cherokee Scout who house she fi nds a handsome fi nds a place of refuge for them, caretaker and his adorable nephew and a group of war-weary soldiers fi xing up the place -- not what she who rescue them from a cotton had in mind! fi eld fi re.

Cabot, Amanda Dean, Janet Scattered Petals (Texas Dreams) The Substitute Bride Determined to rebuild her life after Fleeing an arranged marriage, the death of her parents, debutante Elizabeth Manning Priscilla Morton moves to Texas exchanges places with a mail- and forges a relationship with order bride bound for New ranch foreman Zachary Webster, Harmony, Iowa, but Ted Logan’s but when the past intrudes, it threatens their relationship.

13 rustic lifestyle and rambunctious of the end of the world on children prove to be more of a December 21, 2012, as well as challenge than Elizabeth expects. Christian journalist Lisa Campbell, whose faith may hold the answers Eason, Lynette he needs. Too Close to Home (Women of Justice) Hodgson, Mona Gansberg Samantha Cash catches killers Two Brides Too Many through computers, but when she (Sinclair Sisters of Cripple Creek) poses as a target, her virtual world Kat and Nell Sinclair are headed becomes real -- and deadly. away from the manicured lawns of Maine to the boisterous, booming Gruver, Marcia mining town of Cripple Creek, Raider’s Heart Colorado to start new lives for (Backwoods Brides) themselves as mail-order brides. In the Old South, two bandit brothers, one violent and one Jenkins, Jerry B. gentle, vie for the hand of mild- The Brotherhood (Precinct 11) mannered Dawsey Wilkes. A Chicago police offi cer learns to deal with a life-altering tragedy Hake, Cathy Marie in a novel which should appeal Serendipity both to readers of Christian fi ction After a hasty courtship, Todd and and a wider audience of crime- Maggie fi nd their marriage falling fi ction fans interested in how cops apart, and when Todd’s mother respond to the tragedies in their tries to drive a further wedge daily lives. between them, they must make one last effort to recapture their Kingsbury, Karen love. Leaving (Bailey Flanigan) Bailey Flanagan leaves Hitchcock, Mark Bloomington after winning an The Mayan Apocalypse audition for a musical in New York In his search for the meaning of City, but she becomes worried life, oil tycoon Andrew Morgan about leaving her life -- and love encounters the Mayan prediction Cody Coleman -- behind.

14 Kinkade, Thomas when fate brings Sarah and Cord The Wedding Promise together in 1878, they must choose (Angel Island) between family ties and love. Liza Martin has booked a June wedding, the fi rst major event Morris, Gilbert at her inn, and hopes everything The Crossing comes together after noticing (Last Cavaliers Trilogy) tensions between the bride and In the years leading up to the Civil groom. War, widower Daniel Tremayne returns to his Amish roots, but his Lang, Maureen son, Yancy, joins a Virginia militia Look to the East (Great War) and becomes one of “Stonewall’s When the German army sweeps Boys” in the War between the in to occupy the French provincial States. village of Briecourt at the dawn of the First World War, two feuding Myers, Bill families, the Toussaints and the The God Hater de Colvilles, must work together An atheist philosophy professor to protect stragglers caught behind fi nds that the only way for a enemy lines. computer-generated world to survive is to introduce laws from McDonough, Vickie an outside source and create a The Anonymous Bride being to explain those laws, but an It’s been years, but Luke Davis evil virus threatens his law-giving is back in Lookout town -- older, being. wiser, and still alone, until he discovers that the woman who Palmer, Catherine betrayed him is now a widow, and The Gunman’s Bride all his plans fall at his feet. Laura Rose is New Mexico outlaw Bart Kingsley’s light in Morgan, Kathleen the darkness and he would do A Heart Divided anything to win back her trust, (Heart of the Rockies) but the past, with its dangerous The Caldwells and Wainwrights demands and debts, may destroy have been feuding for decades, so their new beginning.

15 Peterson, Tracie dark secret he carries will leave House of Secrets one person dead, a house burned When Bailee Cooper’s father down, and all of their lives forever arranges a surprise trip to the altered. summer house of her childhood, what is intended to be a happy Vetsch, Erica reunion for Bailee and her sisters Clara and the Cowboy quickly becomes shrouded by (Heartsong Presents) memories from the past. From his abusive, alcoholic father to the townspeople who treat him Peterson, Tracie as if he’s cut from the same cloth, To Have and To Hold to the insecurities that fi ll his own (Bridal Veil Island) head, nothing Alec ever does is Audrey Cunningham, a young good enough, so why on earth woman struggling to keep her would the boss’s daughter have ancestral property in 1886 declared her love for him? Georgia, discovers the man her father hired to help is more than he Well, Chris seems. Burying the Hatchet (Hometown) Longtime grump Earl Walker Schmidt, Anna thinks it may be time to fi nd a A Convenient Wife different church as his new pastor Widower Tyrone Justice’s is now a suspect in murder, but his simple plan to convince Caroline lady friend tries to convince him to Hudson to take in his children as stand up for his newfound friends wards is met by the Nantucket and fi ght for the truth. schoolmistress’s stunning request for a wedding instead! Whitson, Stephanie Grace A Most Unsuitable Match Seitz, Nicole A. Meeting on a steamboat journey The Inheritance of Beauty up the Missouri River on their way As children in 1920s Levy, S.C., to Montana, Miss Fannie Rousseau Maggie and George’s idyllic youth and Reverend Samuel Beck are was interrupted by the arrival of opposites in every way -- except in a mysterious magician, and the how they both keep wondering if their paths will ever cross again. 16 Witemeyer, Karen McDonough, Vickie To Win Her Heart Finally a Bride Ex-prisoner Levi Grant becomes (Texas Boardinghouse Brides) the Spencer, Texas, town blacksmith, where he meets trim Peterson, Tracie librarian Eden Spencer, and their Hearts Aglow (Striking a Match); love grows until Eden fi nds out Twilight’s Serenade (Song of about Levi’s checkered past. Alaska)

Christian Fiction Series Smith, Jill Eileen Bathsheba (Wives of King David) Brunstetter, Wanda E. Sarah’s Choice Well, Chris (Brides of Lehigh Canal) Nursing a Grudge (Hometown)

Cook, Jacquelyn Christmas The Wind Along the River (The River Between) Carr, Robyn Bring Me Home for Christmas Cote, Lyn (Virgin River) Her Abundant Joy Sensing that her law-student (Texas: Star of Destiny) boyfriend is about to pop the question and unsure of her feelings Jenkins, Jerry B for an old fl ame, second-grade The Betrayal (Precinct 11) teacher Becca Timm talks her twin brother into taking her on a Kingsbury, Karen guys-only hunting and fi shing trip Learning (Bailey Flanigan) with the secret goal of seeing her former boyfriend and assuring Macomber, Debbie herself that the fi re that once Bride Wanted; Groom Wanted burned so hotly between them is (From This Day Forward) defi nitely extinguished.

17 Dailey, Janet Macomber, Debbie To Santa With Love 1225 Christmas Tree Lane When she gets into an accident (Cedar Cove) with rancher Choya Barnett while Christmas tree farm owner Beth driving through Arizona, free- Morehouse has a new relationship spirited Jacquie Grey, who cannot with local vet Ted Reynolds afford to fi x her car, agrees to take and expects this Christmas to care of his little boy and his house be one of her best, but for two and, unexpectedly, fi nds a place to complications: someone left a call home. basket fi lled with puppies on her doorstep, and her daughters Davis, Krista have invited their dad, Beth’s The Diva Cooks a Goose ex-husband, to Cedar Cove for (Domestic Diva) Christmas. With presents stolen from under the Christmas tree, her sister-in- Patterson, James law’s father showing up with a The Christmas Wedding diva girlfriend a month after his This lighthearted mystery features separation, and more than one a widow who suddenly decides person thinking of a merry murder, to remarry on Christmas Day, when it actually happens, Sophie without telling her family or even Winston needs to fi nd the killer her three suitors who the groom and restore the Christmas spirit will be! before it’s too late! Classics Leone, Sarita The Christmas Bargain Alcott, Louisa May Appalled that her beloved Little Women grandfather would add a codicil to his will stipulating that she marry Dickens, Charles the disreputable James Whitman, The Old Curiosity Shop; A Tale of Duke of Willingham, by Christmas Two Cities Eve unless she chooses someone else, Iris Newgate sets out to fi nd a Douglas, Frederick man she can love. Narrative of the Life of Frederick 18 Douglas, an American Slave, unwittingly drawn into a murder Written By Himself investigation when the school’s unpopular principal turns up dead Flaubert, Gustave and suspicion falls on several PTA Madame Bovary: Provincial Ways members.

Melville, Herman Allan, Barbara The Confi dence-man: His Antiques Knock-Off Masquerade (Trash ‘n’ Treasures) When her “charmingly eccentric” Milton, John mother Vivian is accused of Paradise Lost and Paradise killing mousy-haired busybody Regained Connie Grimes after they were both involved in a bit of a scuffl e, Brandy Borne must fi nd the truth, Trollope, Anthony which immerses her in a scandal An Eye For An Eye involving questionable antiques and Cozy Mystery dark family secrets. Bolin, Janet Aames, Avery Dire Threads (Threadville) The Long Quiche Goodbye Willow Vanderling’s quaint new (Cheese Shop) embroidery shop is not a hit with Charlotte Bessette fi nds the grand the local zoning commissioner, so opening of her new cheese shop, when he’s murdered, the evidence Fromagerie Bessette, marred by a is stacked against Willow. crime of passion that causes her to become the prime suspect in the Carlisle, Kate murder investigation. The Lies That Bind (Bibliophile) While in San Francisco to teach Alden, Laura a bookbinding class at Bay Murder at the PTA (PTA) Area Book Arts, rare books Bookshop owner Beth Kennedy and antiquities expert Brooklyn becomes the secretary for Tarver Wainwright must investigate the Elementary School’s PTA, and is murder of Layla Fontaine, the

19 horrible director of BABA whose mystery herself and uncovers a past is inexplicably linked to long history of crime that could get Brooklyn’s boyfriend Derek. her killed.

Clark, Carol Higgins Connolly, Sheila Mobbed (Regan Reilly) A Killer Crop (Orchard) Private investigator Regan Reilly When her mother arrives and her husband Jack, head of unannounced during harvest the NYPD Major Case Squad, season, apple orchard owner Meg hop from one Jersey shore resort Corey fi nds things taking a turn town to the next in hopes of for the worse when an old friend is solving a tough case, one which is found dead on the property and her complicated when Regan bumps mother stands accused of the crime. into an old friend she hardly recognizes. Daheim, Mary The Alpine Vengeance Clement, Blaize (Emma Lord) Cat Sitter Among the Pigeons Editor/publisher Emma Lord is in (Dixie Hemingway) Alpine, Washington revisiting an Dixie desperately tries to save a old crime to solve some new ones, young woman and her infant from including maple tree poaching murderous con artists ready to kill and the shooting of an old friend, in order to hold on to the millions eccentric and reclusive artist Craig they stole from naive investors. Laurentis.

Connolly, Sheila Davidson, Diane Mott Fundraising the Dead (Museum) Crunch Time (Goldy Bear) When a collection of George Caterer and amateur sleuth- Washington’s letters go missing extraordinaire Goldy Schulz digs on the day of the Pennsylvania into a deadly smorgasbord that Antiquarian Society’s gala, includes a heaping helping of fundraiser Nell Pratt, frustrated murder, a double dose of arson, with the Society president and and nine adorable beagle puppies! her boyfriend for not pushing an investigation, looks into the

20 Doudera, Vicki Kelly, Sofi e Killer Listing (Darby Farr) Curiosity Thrilled the Cat Darby Farr investigates the murder (Magical Cat) of female real estate agent Kyle Small-town librarian Kathleen Cameron and discovers a secret Paulson discovers that the two and a host of suspects, including strays she has taken in are truly Kyle’s estranged suicidal husband, special when she, the prime her billionaire-developer ex-lover, suspect in a murder, gets some and his politically ambitious wife. unexpected feline help in solving the crime and clearing her name. Ferris, Monica Buttons and Bones (Needlcraft) Lowell, Virginia Needlework shop owner and part- Cookie Dough or Die time sleuth Betsy Devonshire fi nds (Cookie Cutter Shop) a Nazi skeleton buried beneath the Olivia Greyson fi nds her fl oorboards of an old cabin she is reputation and cookie shop in renovating and works to uncover a danger when she becomes the decades-old crime. prime suspect in the investigation of the murder of her mentor, who Hudgins, Maria left her a large sum of money Death on the Aegean Queen along with a collection of valuable (Dotsy Lamb Travel) antique cookie cutters. A car salesman from the U.S.A. goes missing from a cruise ship McCullough, Karen G. in the wee hours; the ship’s A Gift for Murder (Market Center) photographer knows something Just before a busy gift and home and would have told, but he’s also trade show opens, Heather murdered; and while the ship’s McNeil, assistant to the director security, Mykonos police, the of the Washington, D.C. Market F.B.I., and the Italian Carabinieri Show Center, fi nds a body in the all get involved in the cases, it center’s dumpster and enlists the takes Dotsy’s common sense and help of a newly hired security keen observations to sort it out. person, the mysterious former cop Scott Brandon, as she becomes a reluctant sleuth.

21 Richard, T. Dawn mortal enemy and fellow Par for the Corpse (May List) Episcopal church member, a With the consent of police offi cer woman who doesn’t care whom Mikey Murphy, sixty-eight-year- she hurts in order to get her own old amateur detective May Bell way. When the woman is run List goes undercover to catch a over by a car, and her mother is killer after the body of avid golfer arrested, Cleo must save her from the pen. Moira Finch is pulled out of Moody Lake. Cozy Mystery Series

Roker, Al Aames, Avery The Midnight Show Murders Lost and Fondue (Cheese Shop) (Billy Blessing) Professional chef turned amateur Albert, Susan Wittig sleuth Billy Blessing fi nds himself The Darling Dahlias and the in hot water when a brutal killing Naked Ladies (Darling Dahlias) cancels a TV show -- and its Mourning Gloria (China Bayles); host -- during its debut. Atherton, Nancy Shelton, Paige Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree Fruit of All Evil (Aunt Dimity) (Farmers’ Market) After agreeing to be the maid of Beaton, M. C. honor at her best friend Linda’s As the Pig Turns (Agatha Raisin); wedding, Becca, who sells Death of a Chimney Sweep homemade jams and preserves at (Hamish MacBeth) the local farmers’ market, fi nds herself in a sticky situation when Beck, Jessica Linda’s future mother-in-law is Evil Eclairs; murdered. Sinister Sprinkles (Donut Shop)

Toussaint, Maggie Brown, Rita Mae On the Nickel (Cleopatra Jones) Hiss of Death (Mrs. Murphy); Cleo witnesses an altercation Murder Unleashed between her mother and Mom’s (Mags and Baxter)

22 Cavender, Chris Morgan, Kaye A Pizza to Die For (Pizza Lover’s) Celebrity Sudoku (Sudoku)

Childs, Laura Richards, Emilie Scones and Bones (Tea Shop) A Truth for a Truth (Ministry is Murder) Fluke, Joanne Devil’s Food Cake Murder Riggs, Cynthia (Hannah Swensen) The Bee Balm Murders; Touch-Me-Not (Martha’s Hall, Parnell Vineyard/Victoria Trumbell) The Kenken Killings (Puzzle Lady) Ross, Ann B. Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle Hechtman, Betty (Miss Julia) You Better Knot Die (Crochet) Fantasy and Science Fiction Hyzy, Julie A. Buffalo West Wing Cameron, W. Bruce (White House Chef) Emory’s Gift In 1974, when thirteen-year- Lee, Amanda old Charlie Hall’s mother dies Stitch Me Deadly (Embroidery) and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie fi nds himself McCall Smith, Alexander drifting, nearly friendless, through The Saturday Big Tent Wedding a northern Idaho junior high Party school until he forms an unusual (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) friendship with a grizzly bear.

McKinlay, Jenn Fforde, Jasper Buttercream Bump Off One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Cupcake Bakery) (Thursday Next) An imminent war compels the Council of Genres to enlist the written Thursday to emulate 23 her retired living self on a Brooks, Geraldine peace-keeping mission up the Caleb’s Crossing Metaphoric River, a journey that The life of Caleb reveals a fi endish plot. Cheeshahteaumauk, the fi rst Native American to graduate Historical Fiction from Harvard, is told by Bethia Mayfi eld, the daughter of an Archer, Jeffrey English preacher on Martha’s Only Time Will Tell Vineyard, a gifted scholar (Clifton Chronicles) clandestinely absorbing Caleb’s Archer’s page-turner series opener lessons since her own education takes readers from 1920 to the has been discouraged because of outbreak of World War II -- the her sex. fi rst 20 years in the life of Harry Clifton, an intellectually gifted Bryant, Lynne youth from the Bristol dockyards Catfi sh Alley mingling in the grand estate of a The author’s own tumultuous millionaire shipping magnate and Southern history lends local challenged by secrets, mysteries, color to this sprawling tale of growing pains, and life-changing segregation, perseverance and decisions regarding his own interracial friendships in which paternity and destiny. Roxanne Reeves, Director of the Clarksville Pilgrimage Tour of Auel, Jean Antebellum Homes, is asked to The Land of Painted Caves research the possibility of offering (Earth’s Children) an African-American tour of her As Ayla studies to become a town. She contacts an 89-year- spiritual leader to Jondalar’s old ex-schoolteacher to help her people, the Zelandonii, she uncover Clarksville, Mississippi’s experiences a revelation while neglected history. gazing at a cave painting and also faces many challenges, including Dallas, Sandra being separated from Jondalar and The Bride’s House their young daughter, Jonayla. In 1880’s Georgetown, Colorado, seventeen-year-old hired girl

24 Nealie Bent dreams of living in the budding musicians, whose music gorgeous Victorian Bride’s House brings them together in ways that then under construction. Her future cause them to confront the racial is ultimately the house’s future, attitudes of their hometown. tracked through three generations of strong women. Franck, Julia The Blindness of the Heart Davies, J. D. A multi-generational family story Gentleman Captain set in 20th-century Germany that After losing his fi rst ship to a reveals the devastating effect of storm, Matthew Quinton, the war on the human heart. 21-year-old gentleman hero of this promising 17th-century English Garwood, Dorothy nautical saga, is given a second Keep a Little Secret chance when newly restored King Just arrived to take a teaching Charles II names him the captain position in tiny Sawyer, OK, of the frigate Jupiter and orders Minnesota native Charlotte Tucker him to Scotland to stop a potential is surprised to be attracted to rebellion. moody, rude Owen Wallace, one of the ranch hands at the spread Dew, Robb Forman where she will be living, who is on Being Polite to Hitler a deadly mission of his own and In 1953, Agnes Scofi eld must not about to let anyone change his navigate through her family’s mind. improprieties in order to break free from her teaching job and establish Gregory, Philippa an independent life for herself. The Lady of the Rivers (Cousins War) Edgerton, Clyde When the death of Joan of Arc The Night Train shows her the dangers faced At the center of this upbeat novel by strong women, Jacquetta, a celebrating the arrival of soul psychic descendant of a river music in a sleepy North Carolina goddess, studies alchemy and town in 1963 are two young men becomes the secret wife of Richard -- one black and one white -- both Woodville before returning to the court of Henry VI. 25 Griffi n, W. E. B. Mason, Bobbie Ann Victory and Honor The Girl in the Blue Beret (Honor Bound) A tale inspired by a true story Facing daunting challenges in the traces the efforts of a family man form of political threats against who tracks down the French the OSS and the early stirrings of Resistance members who saved the Cold War, Cletus Frade and his life decades earlier, a quest for his colleague conduct a secret healing and closure during which operation to counter the growing he falls in love with a woman who ambitions of Joseph Stalin. was among his rescuers.

Harper, Karen Meekings, Sam The Irish Princess Under Fishbone Clouds Elizabeth “Gera” Fitzgerald, born The Kitchen God has been into the fi rst family of Ireland, challenged by the Jade Emperor to takes refuge in England, navigates unravel the mysteries of the human ever-shifting alliances, and heart, and he carries out this task nurtures her secret plot for revenge by following the lives of Yuying after Henry VIII imprisons her and her husband Jinyi in twentieth- father and destroys her family and century China, where they attempt the home she loved. to hold their love together through years before, during, and after the Hodgkinson, Amanda Cultural Revolution. 22 Britannia Road Leaving Poland for England at Moran, Michelle the end of World War II, Silvana Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the is accompanied by eight-year- French Revolution old, near-feral Aurek, with whom While the tensions rise between she shares traumatic wartime the royalty and the people, memories that set them apart from Madame Tussaud is requested her husband, who has remade to tutor the King’s sister in wax himself as an Englishman to forget sculpting and must fi nd a way for the past. her family to survive the coming revolution.

26 Russell, Mary Doria Historical Fiction Series Doc Russell brings lethal Dodge City Chiavernini, Jennifer to life in a colorful group-portrait The Union Quilters of famous frontiersmen years (Elm Creek Quilts) before many of them would pass into legend at the O.K. Corral. Historical Mystery Doc Holliday is the tragic hero at the center of this terrifi c bio-epic set in a revisionist version of the Bayard, Louis Old West. The School of Night Centuries after the founding of See, Lisa a scholarly organization that Dreams of Joy covertly discussed religion, A continuation of Shanghai Girls science, and the black arts, fi nds a devastated Joy fl eeing disgraced Elizabethan scholar to China to search for her real Henry Cavendish searches for a father while her mother, Pearl, missing letter than may prove the desperately pursues her, a dual group’s existence and contain the quest marked by their encounters formula for alchemy. with the nation’s intolerant Communist culture. Black, Benjamin A Death in Summer (Quirke) Shaara, Jeff Summoned by Detective The Final Storm: A Novel of Inspector Hackett to investigate World War II in the Pacifi c the suspicious death of a (World War II) newspaper tycoon, Quirke A fi ctional account of the struggle discovers a relationship between for Okinawa through the eyes of the victim’s grieving sister and combatants on both sides: Private Quirke’s pathology assistant Clay Adams, Admiral Chester David Sinclair, a situation that is Nimitz, General Simon Bolivar further complicated by David’s Buckner, Jr., and General Mitsura relationship with Quirke’s Ushijima, the Japanese general in daughter and a deadly secret. charge of defending the island.

27 Downie, Ruth Perry, Anne Caveat Emptor Acceptable Loss (Ruso/Roman Empire) (William Monk & Hester Latterly) Newlywed Gaius Petreius Ruso When a murdered body is moves back to Roman-occupied discovered in the Thames, clues Britannia, where he investigates lead to a heinous child-pornography the disappearance of a tax man and case that police superintendent a considerable sum of money amid William Monk thought he had sinister warnings and a treacherous left behind, in an investigation conspiracy. that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to Meredith, D. E. consider painful sacrifi ces. Devoured (Hatton and Roumonde) The brutal murder of Lady Perry, Ann Bessingham, a free thinker and The Sheen of Silk leader in 1856 London society, In a tale set in 13th-century revolves around a missing packet Constantinople at the brink of a of letters written by a young Christian crusade, Anna Zarides scientist that, if published as Lady disguises herself as a eunuch Bessingham had planned, could named Anastasius to prove her radically change Victorian society. brother is innocent of a crime he did not commit. Moore, Graham The Sherlockian Perry, Ann Literary researcher and Sherlock Treason at Lisson Grove Holmes enthusiast Harold White (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt) is shocked when a scholar who Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, last discovered Sir Arthur Conan seen in 2008’s Buckingham Palace Doyle’s missing diary is murdered; Gardens, are back, tracking an while in 1890s London, Conan informer’s murderer to France Doyle hunts a serial killer to prove and helping the head of the his superiority to his famous London Special Branches who has character. discovered that a shadow from his past is about to rise again and strike.

28 Taylor, Andrew Historical Romance The Anatomy of Ghosts A tale set in eighteenth-century Balogh, Mary Cambridge fi nds bookseller The Secret Mistress (Mistress) John Holdsworth commissioned When Edward Ailsbury, the to investigate Lady Anne new Earl of Heyward, saves Oldershaw’s son’s mental illness, Lady Angeline Dudley from an a deep melancholy tied to a embarrassing situation, she’s not woman’s mysterious death and a just grateful, she falls in love -- he, secret society. of course, takes a little persuading! Historical Mystery Series Barker, Ann Spoiled Bowen, Rhys Evangeline Granby never expects Bless the Bride (Molly Murphy) to see the handsome young gallant with whom she indulges in a very Joyce, Brenda improper fl irtation at an inn again, Deadly Illusions; Deadly Kisses; and is horrifi ed to discover that he Deadly Vows (Francesca Cahill) is the Reverend Michael Buckleigh, the newly appointed curate for the King, Laurie R. village where she lives. Pirate King (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes) Barker, Ann Theodora in Love Rock, Judith After her father’s death, pretty The Eloquence of Blood Theodora Buckleigh’s new adopted (Charles du Luc) family wants to give her a London season, but since she has limped Winspear, Jacqueline from birth and dreads exposure to A Lesson in Secrets the social round, she takes evasive (Maisie Dobbs) action by accepting an invitation from Dorothy Wordsworth to stay with her and her poet brother William in Dorset, where she fi nds love, danger, and intrigue. 29 Blake, Jennifer Napoleon, Major Lord David Trent By His Majesty’s Grace is in no mood to have his father (Three Graces Trilogy) order him to court anyone, so for Lady Isabel Milton, who is plagued one night he plans on doing what by a curse, is offered a way out of he wants to do instead of what her forced marriage to Earl Rand is always expected of him. That Braesford when he is accused of a means dancing with the intriguing, terrible crime, but the more she gets yet vaguely familiar masked to know him, the more she believes woman at his family’s New Year’s in his innocence. Eve ball.

Brown, Carolyn Foley, Gaelan From Wine to Water (Angels and My Irresistible Earl Outlaws Trilogy) Forced back into Lady Pierson’s Tyrell, Isaac, and Micah are life by duty, the Earl of Falcon- cousins falsely imprisoned in a ridge stays for love, but their San Antonio jail when the sheriff happiness is endangered when offers them a deal they can’t his mission for the Inferno Club, refuse, to escort three sisters to whose warriors do anything to Louisiana on their way home to protect king and country, involves Mississippi. exposing a deadly plot that could threaten their lives. Enoch, Suzanne Rules of an Engagement Goodwin, Daisy While sailing on the high seas, The American Heiress Miss Zephyr Ponsley, who is This shrewd, spirited historical innocent in the ways of love, sets romance with fl avors of Edith her sights on Captain Bradshaw Wharton, Daphne du Maurier, Jane Carroway, believing him to be the Austen, Upstairs, Downstairs, perfect man with whom to have a and a dash of People magazine sensual adventure. charts the bumpy marriage of Ivo Maltravers, the proud English Ferguson, Sherry Lynn Duke of Wareham, currency-poor Major Lord David but heritage-wealthy, and Cora After years spent fi ghting Cash, the if-not-prejudiced then

30 certainly very forthright modern scandalous secrets that she never girl who may be the richest could have imagined. American heiress of the late- Victorian era. Klassen, Julie The Girl in the Gatehouse Heyer, Georgette Mariah Aubrey lives in an False Colours abandoned gatehouse on a distant Cases of mistaken identity relative’s estate, where she supports lead to humorous adventures herself and her servant by writing and unexpected romance for novels in secret, and when Captain Christopher Fancott and his twin Matthew Bryant leases the estate, brother as they try to organize the he is intrigued by the outcast. shaky fi nances of their widowed mother, in this edition of the classic Lindsey, Johanna Regency romance. When Passion Rules Raised by the assassin hired to Heyer, Georgette kill her in infancy, Princess Alana Venetia of Lubinia unsuccessfully tries to Determined to woo and win the contact her father the king, and is lovely Venetia Lanyon, a twenty- imprisoned as a pretender by the fi ve-year-old hopeless romantic, handsome captain of the palace notorious scoundrel Lord Damerel guards. pursues her with passionate abandon, but Venetia refuses his London, Julie amorous advances, vowing to The Year of Living Scandalously marry only for love. Keira Hannigan assumes her cousin’s identity to avoid an Hunter, Jillian arranged marriage, but when the A Duke’s Temptation Earl of Donnelly comes to visit, (The Bridal Pleasures) she must convince him to guard Among the fans of dark romantic her secret and help her solve a author the Duke of Gravenhurst is mystery involving missing jewels the well-born Lily Boscastle, who and murder. seeks employment as his personal housekeeper -- unaware he has

31 Mitchell, Siri L. succumb to forbidden passion until A Heart Most Worthy betrayal and pride threaten to tear On the eve of World War I, three them apart. Italian immigrants -- Julietta, Annamaria, and Luciana -- dream Historical Romance Series of love, but each harbors a secret from their families and from each Beverly, Jo other that could destroy their An Unlikely Countess hopes of fi nding happiness. (Malloren World)

Palmer, Diana Blake, Jennifer Lacy By Grace Possessed Cole Whitehall had asked Lacy (Three Graces) Jarrett to wait for him, but after World War I he returns to the Boyle, Elizabeth Texas cattle ranch a changed man. Lord Langley is Back in Town (Bachelor Chronicles: Standon Sands, Lynsay Widows) The Countess (Madison Sisters) After her despised husband dies, Camp, Candace Christiana meets the real Earl, An Affair Without End Richard Fairgrave, and he reveals (Willowmere) that her husband was actually his twin brother George, who stole his identity. Despite their mutual Harte, Amanda distrust, passion builds between Laughing at the Thunder them. (War Brides Trilogy)

Thomas, Jodi Hunter, Madeline Beneath the Texas Sky Dangerous in Diamonds; Sinful When Bethany Lane accepts a in Satin (Rarest Blooms) position as a cook on rugged Texas Ranger Josh Weston’s ranch, she James, Eloisa is plunged into the dangers of When Beauty Tamed the Beast frontier life, and together they (Happily Ever Afters)

32 Jeffries, Sabrina wife and twin daughters and soon How to Woo a Reluctant Lady fi nds himself being haunted by the (Hellions of Halstead Hall) dead passengers, all while his wife wonders why the strange denizens Laurens, Stephanie of the town have taken such an Mastered By Love (Bastion Club) interest in the girls.

Quick, Amanda Koryta, Michael Quicksilver (Arcane Society) The Ridge After the lighthouse keeper at the top of Blade Ridge hill is Sands, Lynsay found dead, strange things begin The Heiress (Madison Sisters) happening to the people and animals in the surrounding woods. Schmidt, Anne Breathless (House of Rohan) Horror/Occult Series Horror/Occult Harris, Charlaine Dead Reckoning Andrews, V. C. (Sookie Stackhouse) Family Storms (Storms) After a hit-and-run accident kills Preston, Douglas J. her mother and leaves her badly Cold Vengeance (Pendergast) injured, homeless Sasha is taken in by wealthy Mrs. Jordan March, a complete stranger who has never Humorous Fiction recovered from the loss of her own daughter and wants Sasha to take McCall Smith, Alexander her place. The Dog Who Came in from the Cold (Corduroy Mansions) Bohjalian, Chris Terence Moongrove’s estate The Night Strangers is turned upside down by the After he crashes his plane into cosmological experiments of two Lake Champlain, killing most New Age operators, while literary of the passengers, Chip Linton agent Barbara Ragg takes on a moves into a new home with his 33 companion of the Abominable Humorous Fiction Series Snowman and Pimlico terrier Freddie de la Hay is recruited by Goldberg, Lee MI6. Mr. Monk On the Couch; Mr. Monk on the Road Taylor, Patrick (Mr. Monk) An Irish Country Courtship (Irish Country) Legal Fiction In the small Irish village where he hopes to become a full partner in the local medical practice, Barry Fairstein, Linda O. Laverty questions his ambitions Silent Mercy (Alexandra Cooper) in the face of a romantic reversal, When the burnt headless body while housekeeper Kinky Kincaid of a young woman is found on dreads the loss of her status to Dr. the steps of a Baptist Church in O’Reilly’s new paramour. Harlem and another is found on the steps of a Catholic Church Thomson, Keith in Little Italy, New York ADA Twice a Spy Alexandra Cooper and NYPD cop Razor-sharp writing, laugh-out- Mike Chapman investigate. loud humor, and relentless derring- do combine in this sequel to Once Grisham, John a Spy. Reformed gambler Charlie The Litigators and ex-CIA agent Drummond are Law fi rm partners Oscar Finley still being hunted; Drummond is and Wally Figg see a chance for sinking into the throes of early huge fi nancial gain when they Alzheimer’s but can still revive learn of a pending class action his skills when occasion demands; lawsuit against the makers of and Charlie is in love with Alice Krayoxx, a popular cholesterol- Rutherford, a gorgeous NSA agent reducing drug suspected of who is snatched while Charlie causing heart attacks. and Drummond are off to the Caribbean to secure a miniaturized Leotta, Allison nuke hidden in a washing Law of Attraction machine. In this thrilling ride through D.C.’s

34 criminal justice system, Assistant up by a professor of sociology U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis makes who sees in the Kid a perfect a series of choices that jeopardize subject for his research. her career, her relationships, and her very life. Boyle, T. Coraghessan When the Killing’s Done O’Shaughnessy, Perri In one of his richest and Dreams of the Dead (Nina Reilly) most engaging novels, Boyle Nina Reilly collaborates with combines a dark sense of humor a grave exhumation expert and and a subversive streak as he triggers a cat-and-mouse game illuminates the dark underbelly between her former investigator of all-American idealism in a Paul van Wagoner and a brilliant grand environmental and family killer. drama revolving around the Channel Islands off Santa Barbara, Legal Fiction Series California.

Martini, Steve Cunningham, Michael Trader of Secrets (Paul Madriani) By Nightfall Peter and Rebecca Harris have Tannenbaum, Robert settled into comfortable middle Outrage age, with their careers as an art (Bruce Karp & Marlene Ciampi) dealer and editor blossoming and their daughter in college, until Literary and Psychological Rebecca’s brother -- with a history of drug problems -- shows up and Fiction makes Peter question his life.

Banks, Russell Diffenbaugh, Vanessa Lost Memory of Skin The Language of Flowers A young outcast known as the Kid The story of a woman whose who lives with other sex offenders gift for fl owers helps her change in a makeshift encampment under the lives of others even as she a south Florida causeway, is taken struggles to overcome her own past.

35 Donoghue, Emma former friend Larry Ott, who has Room lived under suspicion for twenty A 5-year-old narrates a story about years since a girl disappeared his life growing up in a single while on a date with him, after room where his mother aims to another girl disappears and Larry protect him from the man who has is blamed once again. held her prisoner for seven years, since she was a teenager. Frazier, Charles Nightwoods Egan, Jennifer Named the guardian of her A Visit From the Goon Squad murdered sister’s troubled twins, Working side-by-side for a record Luce struggles to build a family label, former punk rocker Bennie with the children before being Salazar and the passionate Sasha targeted by their father -- her hide illicit secrets from one sister’s killer -- who believes that another while interacting with the children are in possession of a a motley assortment of equally stolen cache of money. troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future. Goldman, Francisco Say Her Name Evison, Jonathan In a novel based on the author’s West of Here real-life tragedy, Goldman, Evison tells the alternating stories consumed with grief and guilt of the people who fi rst inhabited over the accidental death of his the mythical town of Port Bonita wife just before their second in Washington state from 1877- anniversary, obsessively collects 1891 and those living more than every memory of her, especially a century later in 2005-2006, who her writings, with the hope of must deal with the damage done keeping her alive in his mind. by their predecessors. Gordon, Mary Franklin, Tom The Love of My Youth Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Having not seen each other for African-American Constable Silas more than 40 years, Miranda and Jones must confront his white Adam unexpectedly reunite in

36 Rome -- where they once spent Krauss, Nicole a summer deeply in love -- and Great House spend the Italian afternoons taking This stunning novel consists walks together,experiencing the of four stories all anchored to city, bringing each other up to date a massive writing desk that and reviewing the betrayal that resurfaces among numerous drove them apart. households, among them a lonely American novelist clinging to Hannah, Kristen the memory of a poet who has Night Road mysteriously vanished in Chile; A disadvantaged teen fi nds an old man in Israel facing the friendship, acceptance and love imminent death of his wife of 51 with a prosperous Seattle-area years; and an esteemed antiques family, until a tragic accident dealer tracking down the items changes everything. stolen from his father by the Nazis.

Harrington, Laura Lukas, Michael David Alice Bliss The Oracle of Stamboul When her father is deployed to In this fable set in 1877, a Iraq, heartbroken teen Alice learns heartbreaking tragedy leaves to drive, joins the track team, goes young Eleanora Cohen marooned to her fi rst dance, and falls in love, in Istanbul during the last days of all while trying to be strong for the Ottoman Empire, but -- clever her mother and take care of her and engaging beyond her years precocious little sister. -- she soon catches the attention of the Sultan’s court. Kallos, Stephanie Sing Them Home Monroe, Mary Alice Three siblings who have lived in The Butterfl y’s Daughter the shadow of unresolved grief Following the migrating monarch since their mother’s disappearance butterfl ies across the United States when they were children are to Mexico while bringing her summoned home after their grandmother’s ashes to Mexico father’s death and forced to revisit for the Day of the Dead, Luz Avila the childhood tragedy that has defi ned their lives. 37 arrives in San Antonio to fi nd her O’Connor, Joseph aunt and meets her mother, who Ghost Light she had always believed dead. A collaborative effort between poet W. B. Yeats and resident Mosely, Walter playwright John Synge at Dublin’s The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray Abbey Theatre in 1907 gives way An elderly African-American man to a barrier-breaking affair with living in solitary squalor in Los teen actress Molly Allgood, who Angeles is offered an experimental -- after World War II -- looks back medicine that just might beat back on her career and the great love of his creeping dementia -- and will her life. almost certainly kill him in the process. O’Nan, Stewart Emily, Alone Napolitano, Ann Newly independent widow A Good Hard Look Emily Maxwell dreams of visits Flannery O’Connor fans will be by grandchildren and mourns drawn to this witty fi ctionalized changes in her quiet Pittsburgh version of her later years as a neighborhood before realizing an strong-willed, deeply lonely inner strength to pursue genius in Milledgeville, Georgia. developing opportunities.

Obreht, Tea Patchett, Ann The Tiger’s Wife State of Wonder Struggling to understand why her A researcher at a pharmaceutical beloved grandfather left his family company, Marina Singh journeys to die alone in a fi eld hospital far into the heart of the Amazonian from home, a young doctor in a delta to check on a fi eld team that war-torn Balkan country takes has been silent for two years -- a over her grandfather’s search dangerous assignment that forces for a mythical ageless vagabond Marina to confront the ghosts of while referring to a worn copy her past. of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book.

38 Picoult, Jodi Scottoline, Lisa Sing You Home Save Me Ten years of infertility issues Volunteering at her daughter’s culminate in the destruction of school so that she can keep an music therapist Zoe Baxter’s eye on a bully, Susan faces a marriage, after which she falls diffi cult choice when her daughter in love with another woman and is tormented at the same time an wants to start a family -- but her explosion occurs in the cafeteria, ex-husband, Max, stands in the a situation that causes Susan to be way. blamed for the bully’s injuries.

Pittard, Hannah Shteyngart, Gary The Fates Will Find Their Way Super Sad True Love Story A teenage girl’s disappearance In a dizzying satire set in America has an indelible impact on the in the near future, when a young, lives of neighborhood boys who hip, and unhappy Korean woman throughout subsequent years whom Lenny Abramov met in become increasingly obsessed Italy says she is coming to stay with rumors and suspicions, while with him in New York, even the her sister struggles with related tanks and soldiers stationed in emotional fallout. the city and the ongoing war with Venezuela can’t get him down. Rachman, Tom The Imperfectionists Simmons, Kelly Preoccupied by personal The Bird House challenges while running a Eight-year-old Ellie fi nds herself struggling newspaper in Rome, in dark territory when her an obituary writer confronts dementia-ridden grandmother mortality, an eccentric publisher begins using her as a sounding obsesses over his dog, and other board for the family’s most staff members uncover the forbidden secrets. paper’s founding by an impulsive millionaire.

39 Stevens, Chevy Paranormal Romance Never Knowing An adopted daughter locates her Bespelling Jane Austen birth mother only to discover the Jane Everett and Capt. Robert devastating truth: her mother was Mitford realize they are the only victim ever to escape a reincarnated soul mates; Caroline notorious serial killer, and the only Merrill suspects Mr. Blanchard of thing worse than fi nding out about being a vampire; Elizabeth Bennet her father is him fi nding out about encounters Charles Bingley and her. vampires; and Emma Woodhouse runs a dating service for the Verghese, Abraham supernatural. Authors include Cutting For Stone Mary Balogh, Colleen Gleason, Twin brothers born from a secret Susan Krinard, and Janet Mullany. love affair between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in Addis Graham, Heather Ababa, Marion and Shiva Stone Phantom Evil (Krewe of Hunters) come of age in an Ethiopia on the Heading a group of paranormal brink of revolution, where their investigators for the government, love for the same woman drives Jackson Crow, part English, part them apart. Cheyenne, uses his link to the realm of spirits to help solve the Wolitzer, Meg mysterious death of a senator’s The Uncoupling wife with the help of Angela In the wake of a drama teacher’s Hawkins, a police offi cer with decision to direct Lysistrata for paranormal intuition. the high school play, the women in the town begin to sexually reject Harkness, Deborah E. their husbands and boyfriends A Discovery of Witches in ways that force both men and Discovering a magical manuscript women to reevaluate their views in Oxford’s library, scholar on relationships and sexuality. Diana Bishop, a descendant of witches who has rejected her heritage, inadvertently unleashes a fantastical underworld of 40 daemons, witches and vampires Paranormal Romance Series whose activities center around an enchanted treasure. Castle, Jayne Canyons of Night (Arcane Kurland, Lynn Society/Looking Glass Trilogy) One Magic Moment (de Piaget) Medieval studies scholar Tess Alexander jumps at the chance Graham, Heather to live in a perfectly restored Heart of Evil; Sacred Evil; medieval castle and is drawn into a The Evil Inside world of magic and destiny when (Krewe of Hunters) she meets mysterious, sword- wielding mechanic John de Piaget. Main, Elizabeth C. No Rest for the Wicked Moning, Karen Marie (Immortals After Dark) Shadowfever (Fever) Fae seer and slayer MacKayla Showalter, Gina Lane succumbs to her passions The Darkest Secret; while witnessing the crumbling of The Darkest Surrender boundaries between the faerie and (Lords of the Underworld) human worlds. Romance and Romantic The Unquiet Suspense An appealing assortment of characters seek answers and, in some cases, internal “quiet” as Adair, Cherry they fi ght to make sense of a wide Undertow (Cutter Cay) variety of strange happenings in When Zane Cutter, the “Casanova this well-crafted anthology. The of the Caribbean,” convinces fi ve stories included are: J. D. mechanic Teal Williams to join Robb’s Chaos in Death; Mary him on a treasure hunt, passion Blayney’s Her Greatest Treasure; mounts between them as they are Patricia Gaffney’s Dear One; stranded together in the middle of Ruth Ryan Langan’s Unforgiven; the ocean with danger all around. and, Mary Kay McComas’s His Brother’s Keeper. 41 Andersen, Susan Burton, Mary Playing Dirty (Sisterhood Diaries) Senseless Way back in high school, golden Eva Rayburn, tormented by a boy Cade Gallari publicly revealed tragic event in her past, tries he’d slept with fat girl Ava to begin again in her Virginia Spencer to win a bet, but when he hometown, but when people start breezes back into town ten years being murdered, every victim is later, Ava’s a head turner who isn’t linked to her and what happened the gullible dreamer she once was ten years earlier at a sorority party. -- and she plans to prove it when he makes an offer she can’t refuse. Cain, Chelsea The Night Season Browne, Hester As heavy rains pound Portland Swept Off Her Feet and others tremble before the Enlisted by her straight-laced steadily rising waters, Oregon sister to value various objects in a sleuth Archie Sheridan and friend’s dilapidated Scottish castle, reporter Susan Ward come to the antiques dealer Evie Nicholson is harsh realization that the bodies of swept up in plans for a romantic those apparently drowned on the ball while uncovering scandalous Willamette River are victims of a secrets about an Edwardian serial killer hiding behind nature’s woman and falling for her host. merciless torrents.

Burton, Mary Carroll, Robin Merciless (sequel to Senseless) Deliver Us From Evil When defense attorney Angie After a blizzard takes down a Carlson, no stranger to the dark small plane carrying U.S. Marshal side of human nature, becomes Roark Holland, search and rescue the target of a serial killer, she is helicopter pilot Brannon Callahan drawn into a decades-long legacy must save him in more ways than of madness and murder that is one and safeguard the donor heart linked to a former client, Dr. he’s transporting to a government Dillon Dixon, who was recently witness on the edge of death. acquitted of attempted murder.

42 Collins, Jackie the antebellum rental house owned Goddess of Vengeance by handsome Jackson Bean. (Lucky Santangelo) Running a high-profi le casino D’Alessandro, Jacquie and hotel complex that ruthless Summer at Seaside Cove billionaire Armand Jordan is Jamie Newman comes to Seaside plotting to take from her, Lucky Cove, North Carolina, to heal her engages in a power struggle broken heart, but fi nds her plans against him, while Bobby becomes for rest and relaxation thwarted inadvertently involved in best by colorful neighbors, her drama- friend Frankie’s drug problems. prone mother, her traitorous half- sister, and her sexy landlord. Coulter, Catherine Split Second (FBI) Dailey, Janet While FBI agents Savich and Bannon Brothers: Trust Sherlock track down a female (Bannon) serial killer with possible ties With the two-million-dollar reward to Ted Bundy, Special Agent for the safe return of kidnapped Lucy Carlisle learns from her Ann Montgomery about to expire, dying father that her long- R. J. Bannon, agreeing to take missing grandfather may actually on this cold case, believes that have been murdered by her talented local artist Erin Randall grandmother years ago, an act is Ann -- a discovery that brings a connected to a mysterious group legacy of lies and deception to a called The Protectors. shocking climax.

Cunningham, Margaret P. Denholtz, Roni S. One True Place A Taste of Romance When True Cowley’s golf- Finding herself in a quandery obsessed husband drops dead and after falsely claiming that she has his duplicity comes to light, she a boyfriend, cooking show host takes advantage of a free burial Nicole Vitarelli enlists the help of plot in her southern coastal town her neighbor Jeremy Perez to play birthplace and is soon immersed in the part when her producer asks to a riddle of secrets and memories in have her boyfriend on her show.

43 Eakes, Laurie Alice trounced by a new competitor, Lady in the Mist (Midwives) and she then struggles with One morning just before dawn, her attraction to her rival while midwife Tabitha Eckles and fi nishing one last trip that turns British nobleman Dominick unexpectedly treacherous. Cherett cross paths on a misty beachhead in Virginia, leading The Knitting Diaries them on a twisted path through A collection of three stories about kidnappings, death threats, public love and knitting includes Susan disgrace and love. Mallery’s Coming Unraveled,in which Robyn Mulligan returns Foster, Lori home to run her grandmother’s When You Dare (Men Who Walk knitting store and meets handsome the Edge of Honor) T.J. Passman. Professional mercenary Dare Macintosh breaks his number one Lee, Linda Francis rule when he mixes business with Emily and Einstein pleasure after rescuing kidnap Sandy Portman, a wealthy New victim Molly Alexander. Yorker who attracts women like bees to fl owers, marries naive and Garwood, Julie optimistic Emily, becomes bored The Ideal Man with her, is killed while crossing After she witnesses the fatal the street on his way to ask her shooting of an FBI agent, Dr. Ellie for a divorce, and then returns Sullivan is targeted by a shadowy miraculously as an ugly mutt, criminal couple called the Einstein, to try to fi nd his way to Landrys, and Agent Max Daniels redemption. pledges to protect Ellie until she takes the witness stand. London, Julie A Light at Winter’s End Howard, Linda (Cedar Springs) Prey When her sister Hannah leaves Angie Powell is forced to relocate her baby with her, Holly, a her successful camping and tour college dropout and aspiring guide company when she is

44 songwriter who knows nothing McKenna, Lindsay about parenting, takes her nephew Deadly Identity to the family homestead, where (Jackson Hole, Wyoming) she grows to love him -- and then On the run, Rachel Carson takes Hannah returns. on a new identity and becomes a nanny for Sheriff Cade Garner, Loveday, Chrissie who is caring for a motherless A Love Shared little girl left in his protection; but The great love of Sarah’s life is her when passion enters the picture, horse, Major, until a broken arm Rachel must closely guard her from a fall causes her a whole lot secrets as well as her heart. of grief and a handsome stranger who also shares a passion for McKenna, Lindsay horses comes to the rescue. Deadly Silence McKenna draws on her own Mallery, Susan experience as a volunteer Already Home fi refi ghter in this story of hunky Just as recently divorced chef fi refi ghter Matthew Sinclaire and Jenna Stevens moves back home down-to-earth forest ranger Casey and sets up her own cooking store, Cantrell, whose efforts to help her hippie birth parents arrive, and Matt’s eight-year-old traumatized Jenna must fi gure out what to do and mute daughter recover from with them while still trying to get her mother’s death in a fi re lead to her life together. a romance between the two adults.

Martin, Kat Michaels, Fern Against the Wind Southern Comfort (Raines of Wind Canyon) Now sober, Atlanta homicide When she is forced to return to the detective Patrick “Tick” Kelly, still home town she hated, widow and haunted by the murder of his wife single mother Sarah Allen turns to and children, gets an unexpected Jackson Raines, with whom she second chance at happiness when went to high school, for help when he works with former DEA agent her late husband’s criminal past Kate Rush to expose a local comes back to haunt her. human traffi cking ring.

45 Miller, Linda Lael fourteen years for a murder he A Creed in Stone Creek didn’t commit, Virgil Skinner (Creed Cowboys) keeps his family safe by agreeing The fi rst installment of Miller’s to help Chief Deputy Warden Creed Cowboys contemporary Peyton Adams of the California romance series merges her Department of Corrections stop a extremely popular Creed and gang from taking over the state’s Stone Creek series as she most notorious supermax. introduces yet another branch of these endearing clans. Robards, Karen Justice Neggers, Carla Taking a job with a Washington, Saints Gate D.C. law fi rm after witnessing the While investigating the murder of murder of the First Lady, attorney a nun in an isolated Maine town, Jessica Ford investigates a rape FBI agent Colin Donovan goes victim’s suspicious recantation undercover as an Irish fi sherman on the stand, a situation that is and must decide if he wants to complicated by the disappearance work alone or with Emma Sharpe, of Jessica’s predecessor. an art detective, to stop a killer’s plot for eternal glory. Roberts, Nora Chasing Fire Noble, Elizabeth When someone blames Montana When You Were Mine wildfi re fi ghter Rowan for Recollections of her youth and her jump partner’s death and her almost forgotten dreams is determined to get revenge, of true love and a houseful of Rowan fi nds that she needs new children haunt the heroine of this recruit Gull’s help and support, bittersweet romance between two which severely tests her strict lonely 40-year-olds who were rule of never getting romantically once teenage lovers. involved with colleagues.

Novak, Brenda Sala, Sharon Inside (Bulletproof) Blood Stains (Searchers Trilogy) Released from prison after serving When Maria Slade fi nds out that

46 she was adopted at the age of four that her believed-dead husband after witnessing the murder of is still alive and is framed for her her prostitute mother, she travels assistant’s murder. to Oklahoma to seek the help of Detective Bodie Scott to fl ush out Staley, Deborah Grace her mother’s killer, and fi nd her What the Heart Wants: An Angel birth father. Ridge Novel When Candi Heart moves to quiet Senate, Melissa little Angel Ridge, Tennessee, she The Love Goddess’ Cooking hopes no one remembers that the School women in her family were once When Holly Maguire inherits her accused of being seductive witches Milanese grandmother Camilla’s by townsfolk, and that decades cooking school, she’s determined ago her moonshiner grandpa to become a teacher worthy of committed a deadly crime. her grandmother’s legacy -- until she falls hard for one of her Steel, Danielle students and learns a thing or two 44 Charles Street about fi nding her own recipe for Owner of a struggling art gallery happiness. and newly separated from her boyfriend, Francesca Thayer puts Sparks, Nicholas out an advertisement for boarders The Best of Me and soon her Greenwich Village Two former high school house becomes a whole new sweethearts return to their world. hometown for the funeral of a mentor and confront the choices Steel, Danielle they have made since they last Happy Birthday met. The reigning queen of elegant entertaining and her daughter, a Spindler, Erica work-addicted chef/owner of a Watch Me Die downtown New York restaurant, Stained-glass artist Mira Gallier are high achievers without men in fi nds her perfect life unraveling their lives until change arrives as when she begins seeing evidence signifi cant birthdays approach.

47 child’s babysitter -- elopes with a supposed scam artist, and Stewart, Mariah even more surprised when the Coming Home man’s daughter offers to fi ll in as (Chesapeake Diaries) babysitter. After years of seclusion, widower and former FBI agent Grady Romance and Romantic Shields returns to his hometown Suspense Series for his sister’s wedding and gets a second chance at love when he meets Vanessa Keaton, a boutique Carr, Robyn owner who is on the run from her Harvest Moon (Virgin River) past. Foster, Lori Summer Brides Savor the Danger; Trace of Fever Three tales of happily-ever- (Men Who Walk the Edge of after include Susan Wiggs’s The Honor) Borrowed Bride, in which Isabel Wharton, during her own bridal Gibson, Rachel shower, is whisked away by past Any Man of Mine (Hockey) love Dan Black Horse, who takes her back to her Native roots. Also Hunter, Madeline includes stories by Sherryl Woods Sinful in Satin (Rarest Blooms) and Susan Mallery. Macomber, Debbie Woods, Sherryl A Bend in the Road (Blossom Tea and Destiny Street); Two stories are included: in Tea Family Affair; Laughter in the and Destiny by Woods, therapist Rain; 1105 Yakima Street (Cedar Ann Davies is uncertain about Cove) having a relationship with contractor Hank Riley; in Light Mallery, Susan the Stars by RaeAnne Thane, Only His; Only Mine; Only Yours single father Wade Dalton is (Fools Gold) shocked when his mother -- and

48 Martin, Kat Women’s Lives and Against the Fire; Against the Law (Raines of Wind Canyon) Relationships

Miller, Linda Lael Andrews, Mary Kay The Creed Legacy Summer Rental (Creed Cowboys) Three longtime friends escape for a month-long vacation in North Moore, Laurie Carolina’s Outer Banks and the Couple Gunned Down, News at break comes at just the right time Ten (Debutante Detective) for each woman: Ellis questions everything she believed after losing an all-consuming job; Julia Palmer, Diana struggles with insecurities that Cattleman’s Pride; Merciless threaten a loving relationship; and (Long Tall Texans) Dorie confronts a maelstrom of problems after a shocking betrayal. Roberts, Nora Savor the Moment (Bride Baldacci, David Quartet) One Summer Jack, terminally ill and preparing Sala, Sharon to say goodbye to his family, has a Blood Ties (Searchers) miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident, and he Schmidt, Anne then must struggle to reunite his Breathless (House of Rohan) family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront. Stewart, Mariah Almost Home; Home Again Bauermeister, Erica (Chesapeake Diaries) Joy For Beginners Meeting with her fi ve close friends Woods, Sherryl to celebrate her recovery from Moonlight Cove (Chesapeake cancer, Kate announces that she Shores); will take up white-water rafting What’s Cooking? (Rose Cottage) if each of them will also do

49 something that equally terrifi es Brown, Eleanor them, a challenge that results in The Weird Sisters a tattoo, a bread-baking endeavor Unwillingly brought together to and a reconciliation. care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after Berg, Elizabeth famous Shakespearean characters Once Upon a Time, There Was discover that everything they have You been avoiding may prove more The prolifi c Berg delivers the worthwhile than expected. goods in this perceptive novel about a divorced couple reunited Clayton, Meg Waite when their beloved daughter goes The Four Ms. Bradwells missing. Reuniting when one of their number prepares for an important Binchy, Maeve judicial appointment, four former Minding Frankie law school friends look back on Agreeing to care for the baby that the personal and professional a terminally ill former girlfriend struggles they have shared and are claims is his, recovering alcoholic forced to confront a dark secret Noel turns to a loving network of that is uncovered by the hearing. family and friends for help until a social worker attempts to place the Cook, Claire baby in a foster home. Best Staged Plans Professional home stager Sandy Bohnet, Jennifer Sullivan, after reading her family Rendezvous in Cannes the riot act, takes a job in a Behind the parties and the boutique hotel in Atlanta where champagne at the glitzy, she becomes immersed in other glamorous Cannes Film Festival, people’s lives while trying to fi x two very different women are up her own. starring in their own real-life dramas and one thing’s for sure Daniels, Leslie -- by the end of the fi lm festival Cleaning Nabokov’s House both their lives will have changed Barb Barrett, numb and adrift after forever. losing custody of her children,

50 rents an upstate New York house Julia Everts, a woman chronically where Vladimir Nabokov once depressed by the loss of her son, lived, discovers a manuscript of surprises her family by making possible value, and fi nds a way to the bread and sparking new love again after the marriage she friendships. gave up everything for fails. Harbison, Elizabeth M. Dave, Laura Always Something There to The First Husband Remind Me Her happiness shattered by Unable to forget a fi rst love she her movie director boyfriend’s lost twenty years earlier after announcement that he intends an unforgiveable mistake, Erin to reconnect with a woman considers a marriage proposal by from his past, travel columnist her current boyfriend and wonders Annie Adams impulsively what might have happened if the marries a charming chef and earlier relationship had not ended. attempts to restart her life in rural Massachusetts. Hilderbrand, Elin Silver Girl Delinsky, Barbara Facing homelessness and a loss of Escape social standing after her husband Languishing in her career as a cheats rich investors out of billions business lawyer after relinquishing of dollars, Meredith and her best her dream to defend victims of friend Connie, who has troubles of corporate abuse, Emily Aulenbach her own, escape to Nantucket to impulsively abandons her husband heal. and returns to a New Hampshire town where she spent a watershed Kendrick, Beth college summer. The Bake-Off Two estranged sisters who Gee, Darien combined have never made Friendship Bread anything more complicated than Receiving an unexpected gift of brownie mix team up to enter a friendship bread and instructions national bake-off with a top-secret for creating more to pass along, recipe from the grandmother who orchestrated their reunion. 51 Michaels, Fern Rice, Luanne Betrayal The Silver Boat When her husband Alex is The fate of three sisters is linked to convicted of a crime he didn’t that of their parents’ summer home commit, Kate discovers an inner on Martha’s Vineyard, where they strength and steel-edged resolve gather to clean out the house for to clear her husband’s name and its sale. ruin those who destroyed their life together, without ruining her own Siddons, Anne Rivers future in the process. Burnt Mountain As a child, young Atlanta heiress Moyes, Jojo Thayer Wentworth found fi rst love The Last Letter From Your Lover and heartbreak at Camp Greyledge More than forty years after a car on Georgia’s Burnt Mountain, accident causes Jennifer Stirling so at fi rst she’s happy when she to lose her memory on the day she moves nearby with her husband planned to leave her husband for and he’s invited to the camp as a mysterious lover, journalist Ellie storyteller -- but then, as it often becomes obsessed by the story does, the past rears its ugly head. and seeks the truth in the hopes of revitalizing her career. Sullivan, J. Courtney Maine O’Neal, Barbara Descending on a family beach How to Bake a Perfect Life house won in a bet years earlier, The Rita Award-winning author three generations of women returns with the absorbing story of gradually reveal diffi cult secrets, Ramona Gallagher, a 40-year-old including a pregnancy, a terrible woman whose joy in running a crush and a deeply held resentment bakery in Colorado Springs helps for past misdeeds. her transcend a life that’s anything but perfect. Weiner, Jennifer Then Came You The plans of four women -- including a Princeton senior egg donor, a working-class

52 housewife surrogate mother, a recounts what his four-year old wealthy pregnant woman and son heard and saw when he her stepdaughter -- are thrown slipped from consciousness during into turmoil when the pregnant emergency surgery and entered woman’s husband suddenly dies heaven. and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby’s guardian. Bush, George W. Decision Points Wiggs, Susan In a page-turner structured around The Goodbye Quilt important decisions in his life and As her only child Molly readies presidency, Bush surprises with for college, local fabric shop a lucid, heartfelt look back, and owner Linda Davis shares one last despite the expected defenses of adventure with her daughter -- a past decisions, he is candid and cross-country road trip to move unafraid to admit when he thinks Molly into her dorm. he was wrong.

Women’s Lives and Calabrese, Frank Relationships Series Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster’s Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago’s Michaels, Fern Murderous Crime Family Late Edition (Godmothers) The son of mobster Frank Calabrese describes the violent Richards, Emilie world he endured before deciding Sunset Bridge (Happiness Key) to join with the FBI to shut down the family syndicate, recounting Non-fi ction the months he worked as an undercover insider to collect Burpo, Todd evidence for dozens of murders. Heaven Is For Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back In this inspirational bestseller, Nebraska pastor Todd Burpo

53 Collier, Marsha store owner who ran a newspaper Facebook & Twitter for Seniors ad before Christmas 1933 for Dummies anonymously promising 75 of From basic information about Canton, Ohio’s neediest residents establishing an Internet connection $5 (a signifi cant sum during the to rediscovering old friends, Great Depression) if they wrote sharing messages and photos, and letters describing their hardships. keeping in touch instantly with Twitter, this book by online expert Hingson, Michael Marsha Collier helps seniors jump Thunder Dog: The True Story of right into social media. a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Friedman, Thomas L. Zero That Used to Be Us: How The story of a four-legged America Fell Behind in the World superhero named Roselle, who led it Invented and How We Can her owner out of the ruins of the Come Back World Trade Center. Refl ecting on America’s past greatness and its slipping James, Bill position among global powers, Popular Crime: Refl ections on Pulitzer-Prize winning New the Celebration of Violence York Times columnist Friedman James presents a cultural analysis (The World is Flat) and foreign of sensational crime in America policy expert Mandelbaum (The that profi les such infamous cases Frugal Superpower) warn against as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the United States’ “dangerous the Black Dahlia murder, and O.J. complacency” in the face of Simpson’s trial to offer insight increasingly complex global into topics ranging from evidence challenges. practices to radicalism.

Gup, Ted Keene, James A Secret Gift In With the Devil: A Fallen Hero, Gup explores an unusual act of a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous generosity by his grandfather, Bargain for Redemption Sam Stone, a Jewish clothing Keene, facing a ten year prison

54 sentence, is offered a deal for Malarkey, Kevin freedom: enter one of the most The Boy Who Came Back From dangerous prisons in the U.S., Heaven: A Remarkable Account befriend a serial killer, and get him of Miracles, Angels, and Life to confess to the murder of two Beyond This World young women and tell where he This true story of an ordinary buried the one whose body is still boy’s most extraordinary journey missing. following a car accident that left him paralyzed offers new insights Levin, Larry on miracles, life beyond this world Oogy: The Dog Only A Family and the power of a father’s love. Could Love Attorney Levin shares the by turns Miller, James A. horrifying and heart-warming Those Guys Have All the Fun: story of Oogy, his gentle pit bull Inside the World of ESPN who went from brutalized bait for Miller presents the history of fi ghting dogs to beloved family sports channel ESPN based on member and therapy dog. interviews with nearly 500 current and former employees, featuring Lewis, Michael announcers and analysts as well The Big Short: Inside the as sports stars including LeBron Doomsday Machine James, Peyton Manning, and Jeff Versatile best-selling author Lewis Gordon. gives a different take on the 2007-08 credit crisis as he Muir, Nancy chronicles how a handful of Computers for Seniors for investment managers detected Dummies early on the growing bubble in the In the 2nd edition, copyright 2011, mortgage bond market and made learn how to choose the right fortunes betting against it. computer, get it set up, download music, exchange emails and photos with family and friends, work with fi les and folders, create and print documents, and simplify your fi nances while staying safe and secure online. 55 Myron, Vicki Seal, Mark Dewey’s Nine Lives: The Legacy The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: of the Small-Town Library Cat The Astonishing Rise and Fall of Who Inspired Millions a Serial Mobster Collects stories of cats and the Vanity Fair contributing editor people who loved them, featuring Seal unravels the complex case of new tales about or inspired by “Clark Rockefeller,” a fi endishly Dewey. clever con man who, over the course of three decades, insinuated Ozma, Alice himself into the highest echelons The Reading Promise: My Father of American society using only his and the Books We Shared wits and a borrowed name. A series of vignettes describes how the author’s father challenged Shawn, Allen himself to read aloud to her for Twin: A Memoir 100 consecutive nights when she Shawn highlights the diffi culties was in fourth grade and how they faced by American families decided to continue “the streak” coping with autism in the until the day she left for college. 1950s, describing how his institutionalized twin sister was Roth, Geneen a part of a secretive and dramatic Lost and Found: Unexpected family environment also marked Revelations about Food and by his father’s position as the Money editor of “The New Yorker.” When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings, the Tzemach Lemmon, Gayle resulting shock was the catalyst to The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: explore how emotional issues with Five Sisters, One Remarkable money mirror those with food and Family, and the Woman Who dieting. Risked Everything to Keep them Safe The story of a young Afghan woman who, at the age of 19, outwitted the Taliban to become a successful entrepreneur by

56 starting a tailoring business in compile a revealing portrait of Kabul that saved her family and Hollywood’s greatest golden boy. possibly hundreds of women from starvation. Carr, Howie Biography Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano, Whitey Bulger’s Enforcer and the Arkin, Alan Most Feared Gangster in the An Improvised Life: A Memoir Underworld More a refl ection on acting than a Between 1965 and 1982 Johnny straightforward memoir, Academy Martorano murdered twenty Award–winner Arkin’s musing on people, most at the behest of the creative process is a welcome famed Boston crime boss James window into the mind of an artist. “Whitey” Bulger, and here Carr carefully traces Martorano’s life, Baxter, Meredith from his middle-class upbringing Untied: A Memoir of Family, in Somerville, MA to his eventual Fame, and Floundering deal with the FBI. The actress best known for her role on the hit 1980s show “Family Chandler, Charlotte Ties” discusses the ups and downs Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, a of her life and career, including Personal Biography her childhood in Hollywood, Prolifi c biographer Chandler her tumultuous personal life, her delivers an evocative portrait of success as an actress, and her fi lm icon Marlene Dietrich (1901– struggles with alcohol. 1992), perhaps cinema’s ultimate manifestation of the mysterious, Callan, Michael Feeney dangerous, unknowable woman. Robert Redford: The Biography Biographer and novelist Callan Cheever, Susan marshals 14 years of self- Louisa May Alcott conducted interviews with the Cheever’s fascinating, provocative star and his associates, generous life of the author of Little Women excerpts from Redford’s personal and other classics draws on journals and copious research to extensive research using Alcott’s

57 journals and correspondence to faced and how she’s maintained cover such topics as her embrace her humor, optimism, and Jeannie of untraditional roles and her early magic throughout the roller- death. coaster ride of a memorable life.

Dench, Judi Eire, Carlos And Furthermore Learning to Die in Miami: With candor and wit, celebrated Confessions of a Refugee Boy actress Dench writes a companion A stranger in a strange land, Eire to the biography by John Miller, (Waiting for Snow in Havana), with her own stories on her roles, one of 14,000 children airlifted fame, trips to the Oscar red carpet, out of Cuba in Operation Peter fellow actors such as Sir John Pan in 1962, describes the classic Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Daniel American immigrant experience Day-Lewis, Gwyneth Paltrow, in Miami, with a mix of insightful and Stephen Sondheim, and her observation, humor, and heartfelt marriage and family. emotion.

Drummond, Ree Fey, Tina The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels Bossypants to Tractor Wheels -- A Love Story From her youthful days as a American blogger/food writer vicious nerd to her tour of duty Ree Drummond paints a warm on Saturday Night Live; from her and humorous real-life story of passionately halfhearted pursuit how she met and married her of physical beauty to her life as “Marlboro Man” and lived happily a mother eating things off the ever after with her family on an fl oor; from her one-sided college Oklahoma ranch. romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey Eden, Barbara reveals all, and proves that you’re Jeannie Out of the Bottle no one until someone calls you The star of the 1960s television bossy. comedy I Dream of Jeannie refl ects on the challenges she’s

58 Kanfer, Stefan E. Dodd, to acclimate to an Tough Without a Gun: the Life increasingly violent city where and Extraordinary Afterlife of he is forced to associate with the Humphrey Bogart Nazis while his daughter pursues A comprehensive profi le of the a relationship with Gestapo chief actor includes childhood and Rudolf Diels. friendships, his four marriages, and working relationships with Newton, Jim directors and actors, evaluating his Eisenhower: The White House achievements against a backdrop Years of historical and cultural events. The political skills Dwight Eisenhower honed while Kuhn, William M. commanding a fractious WWII Reading Jackie: Her alliance made for a great Autobiography in Books presidency, according to Newton’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis clear, brisk, and insightful revealed herself in intimate ways narrative, which draws on through the nearly 100 books she declassifi ed documents of many edited during the last two decades international crises in this timely of her life as an editor at Viking study of a master of consensus and Doubleday. Kuhn’s book politics with lessons for today’s mines this signifi cant period of her polarized Washington. life to reveal both the serious and mischievous woman underneath Oates, Joyce Carol the glamorous public image. A Widow’s Story: A Memoir The author offers an intimate Larson, Erik memoir about the unexpected In the Garden of Beasts: Love, death of her husband of forty-six Terror, and An American Family years from a hospital-acquired in Hitler’s Berlin infection and its wrenching, Larson documents the efforts of surprising aftermath. the fi rst American ambassador to Hitler’s Germany, William

59 Trout, Nick Ever By My Side: A Memoir in Eight [Acts] Pets A veterinarian shares nostalgic stories about the pets who have shared his life and the many lessons they have imparted about family, friendship, and loyalty.

Wasdin, Howard E. SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of An Elite Navy Seal Sniper A Navy SEAL Team Six sniper reveals how he became an elite soldier while recounting the dramatic mission that nearly cost him his life, offering insider perspectives on his team’s extensive training process at the Marine’s Scout Sniper School.

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