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Books-By-Mail Use the postcard to select books March/April 2011 Large Print Best-sellers/Best-selling Authors — Fiction Ahern, Cecelia Book of Tomorrow Born into the lap of luxury, 16-year-old Tamara Goodwin has never had to look to tomorrow, until the abrupt death of her father leaves her and her mother a mountain of debt and forces them to move in with Tamara's peculiar aunt and uncle in a tiny countryside Irish village. Lonely and bored, Tamara's only diversion is a traveling library. There she finds a large leather-bound book with a gold clasp and padlock. Intrigued, she pries the lock open, and what she finds inside takes her breath away. Tamara sees entries written in her handwriting and dated for the next day. When they happen exactly as recorded, she realizes she may have found the solution to her problems. But Tamara soon learns that some pages are better left unturned and that, try as she might, she can't interfere with fate. Bradford, Barbara Taylor Playing the Game Although London art consultant and dealer Annette Remmington has been thoroughly educated about art by her controlling, much older husband, Marius, it's the sale of a long-lost Rembrandt for the staggeringly high sum of millions of pounds that ultimately brings her fame. When other paintings in the seller's collection are found to be fakes, however, and Annette's newly minted rep is seriously threatened, she enlists gallery owner Malcolm Stevens, a protégé of her husband, for advice. When Marius persuades a reluctant Annette to be interviewed by a rising young journalist in order to create interest in her next auction, the decision reveals a tortured childhood for Annette and a serious criminal past for Marius. Buchan, Elizabeth Separate Beds Tom and Annie's kids have grown up, the mortgage is do-able, and they're about to get a gorgeous new, state-of-the-art French stove. Life is good — or so it seems. Beneath the veneer of professional success and domestic security, their marriage is crumbling, eaten away by years of resentment, loneliness, and the fall-out from the estrangement of their daughter, and they've settled into simply being two strangers living under the same roof …until the economy falls apart. Suddenly the dull but oddly comfortable predictability of their lives is upended by financial calamity: Tom loses his job, their son returns home, and Tom's mother moves in with them. As Tom and Annie‘s world shrinks, what had seemed a well-tended life becomes threadbare and crowded with shared disappointment, fear, and need. Here's a textured, layered story of love that builds on trust, founders on lies, and then finally discovers something to believe in. Cannell, Stephen The Prostitute’s Ball Detective Shane Scully responds to a call in the Hollywood hills at a once-immaculate mansion, the scene of an infamous murder 25 years prior. There, he discovers the remnants of a lavish pool party. The revelers have fled, leaving three dead bodies in their wake, all shot with the same gun. One is an acclaimed film producer; the other two, a pair of gorgeous women. With his new partner, Sumner ―Hitch‖ Hitchens, Scully begins to investigate what looks to be an open-and-shut case: The women were hired prostitutes, and there‘s security video of an angry husband firing on all three. It seems to be a simple case of brutal revenge, but nothing is ever as simple as it seems. There‘s a single spent bullet casing that doesn‘t match the rest. From that single bullet emerges a story of love, murder, suicide, and one of the biggest financial frauds in L.A. history. Someone has gone to great lengths to cover up a decades-old crime, and as Scully and Hitch get closer to the answer, they find themselves in a killer‘s crosshairs. Clark, Mary Jane To Have and To Kill Piper Donovan never imagined that decorating wedding cakes could be so dangerous. A struggling actress with no immediate prospects and a recently broken engagement, Piper moves back in with her parents to take stock of her life. She steps tentatively into the family bakery business and finds herself agreeing to create a wedding cake for the acclaimed star of a daytime television drama. But soon someone close to the bride-to-be is horribly murdered and it seems that that someone is ruthlessly determined to stop the wedding. With the help of her former neighbor, Jack, a handsome FBI agent with a soft spot for the gorgeous cake-maker, Piper moves closer to the truth. And as she narrows in on a suspect, she realizes that it's hotter in the kitchen than she may be able to handle. Deveraux, Jude Scarlet Nights Engaged to the charming and seductive Greg Anders, Sara Shaw is happily anticipating her wedding in Edilean, Virginia. The date has been set, the flowers ordered, even her heirloom dress is ready. But just three weeks before the wedding, Greg gets a telephone call during the night and leaves without explanation. Two days later, a man climbs up through a trapdoor in the floor of Sara‘s apartment, claiming that he is the brother of her best friend and that he‘s moving in. While Mike Newland is indeed telling the truth about his identity, his reason for being there reaches far deeper. He‘s an undercover detective, and his assignment is to use Sara to track down a woman who is one of the most notorious criminals in the United States and also happens to be the mother of the man Sara plans to marry. Mike thinks the job will be easy — if he can figure out how to make a ―good‖ girl like Sara trust him. But Mike has no idea what this mission has in store for him. He‘s worked hard to keep private his connections to Edilean. But as Mike and Sara get to know each other, he can‘t help but share secrets about himself that he‘s told no one else. And in return, Sara opens up to Mike about things she could never reveal to Greg. As the pair work together to solve two mysteries, a love grows between them that they never could have imagined. Dorsey, Tim Electric Barracuda Vigilante serial killer Serge Storms has been leaving the corpses of bad guys strewn across the Sunshine State for more than a decade and the authorities have begun to notice. Armed with his perpetually baked sidekick, Coleman, Serge decides to resurrect his Internet travel-advice website, and off they go blogging along a getaway route through Florida‘s most remote bayous, back roads, and bars. Soon, the number of cadavers begins stacking up like their website hits in quest of Serge's favorite new obsession: tracking Al Capone's little-known escapades in the Everglades. Gardiner, Lisa Live to Tell Boston PD Detective D.D. Warren is called to the home of a family of five — four of whom are now dead and the fifth, the dad, lying comatose in the hospital. What initially appears to be a simple, if horrifying, case of murder/suicide quickly turns into something else when a second family is found dead at home. Warren's investigations run parallel to the stories of two other women. Danielle Burton is the lone survivor of the murder of her own family by her father 25 years ago, while Victoria Oliver is living in near isolation as she cares for her severely mentally disturbed eight-year-old son. The connections among the three plot threads become increasingly clearer as both women are drawn into Warren's investigation. Higgins, Jack The Wolf at the Door On Long Island, when a trusted operative for the president nudges his boat up to a pier, a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, when General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the prime minister, approaches his car on a side street, there is a flash and the car explodes. In New York, when a former British soldier takes a short walk in Central Park to stretch his legs, a man comes up fast behind him, a pistol in his hand. And that is only the beginning. Someone is targeting the members of the elite intelligence unit known as the Prime Minister's private army and all those who work with them, and whoever is doing it has a lot of resources at his command. Special Operative Sean Dillon has an idea of who it may be, an old nemesis who has clearly gotten tired of their interference in his schemes. But proving it is going to be a difficult task. And surviving it the hardest task of all. Hoffman, Alice The Red Garden Hoffman‘s latest is a sequence of beguiling, linked stories rooted in colonial times and reaching into the present. In 1750, the first foolhardy families — the Motts, Partridges, Starrs, and Bradys —settle in the lush and haunted wildlands of Massachusetts — a land of blackflies, bears, eels, and harsh winters — only survive because Hallie Brady, the first of a line of determined and adept women in what becomes the small town of Blackwell in Berkshire County, goes out into the snowy wilderness to find sustenance. As spring allows the founding families to cultivate the strange red soil in the village‘s first garden, Johnny Appleseed stays for a spell, and, later, Emily Dickinson happens by. Generation by generation, humans and animals form profound bonds; women‘s lives change, somewhat; men go to war; people are poor and in despair; illness and violence rage; strangers find refuge; and love blossoms impossibly, extravagantly, and inevitably.