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26 Fairmount Avenue: Books 1-4
by Tomie Depaola
Tomie dePaola brings his childhood memories to life. Includes: 26 Fairmount Avenue, Here We all Are, On My Way, and What a Year!
The Almost Moon
A Novel
by Alice Sebold
A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of THE LOVELY BONES and LUCKY.
American Creation
Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic
by Joseph J. Ellis
From the prize-winning author of the bestselling FOUNDING BROTHERS and AMERICAN SPHINX, a masterly and highly ironic examination of the founding years of our country.
Balzac and the Little chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening.
Beyond the Body Farm
A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murder, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
by Bill Bass
The Dead Do Tell Tales…
A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world’s first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition.
Blackwood Farm
The Vampire Chronicles, Book 9
by Anne Rice
From bestselling author Anne Rice comes this first-in-a-series novel. BLACKWOOD FARM introduces a sexy, eccentric young gentleman, haunted by his doppelgänger—a goblin from the spirit world.
Bleachers
by John Grisham
High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.
Blood Canticle
The Vampire Chronicles, Book 10
by Anne Rice
The now-doppelgänger-free Quinn Blackwood and Lestat save the witch Mona Mayfair—Quinn’s true love—from certain death by making her an immortal.
The Bone Garden
A novel
by Tess Gerritsen
Recent divorcee Julia Hamill has sunk her dwindling life savings into a 200-year-old farmhouse and a twenty-acre plot of woods, fields, and stony soil in rural Massachusetts, where she hopes to recover from her failed marriage. Gardening one afternoon, her spade strikes something hard and unyielding?not a rock, but a human skull. Boston medical examiner Maura Isles quickly determines that this is no recent burial. The skeleton?that of a woman?dates back to the early 1800’s, and the forensic evidence indicates foul play. “But too much time has passed,” Maura warns Julia. “We’ll never know the whole story.”
Chainfire
by Terry Goodkind
“How much of this blood is his?”
“Most of it, I’m afraid,” a second woman said as they both rushed along beside him.
The Choice
by Nicholas Sparks
#1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we’ll never have to make.
Devil May Cry
A Dark-Hunter Novel
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sin was born a Sumerian god, until he was tricked into Artemis’ service as a Dark-Hunter. This immortal has dreamed only of regaining his godhood and seeking revenge on the goddess who betrayed him….
Don’t Know Much About American History
by Kenneth C. Davis
As bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis knows, history can be fun, fascinating, and memorable. Davis now does for young people what his earlier book did for adults
God Is Not Great
How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion.
Greenwitch
The Dark is Rising Sequence, Book 3
by Susan Cooper
Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil—Dark.
The Highlander’s Touch
by Karen Marie Moning
A Warrior of Immortal Powers
He was a mighty Scottish warrior who lived in a world bound by ancient laws and timeless magic. But no immortal powers could prepare the laird of Castle Brodie for the lovely accursed lass who stood before him. A terrible trick of fate had sent her 700 years back in time and into his private chamber to tempt him with her beauty – and seduce him with a desire he could never fulfill. For this woman he burned to possess was also the woman he had foresworn to destroy.
Hot Flash Club Chills Out
Hot Flash Club Series, Book 4
by Nancy Thayer
Since opening up their day spa, The Haven, the wonderful women of the Hot Flash Club have been busy indulging the beleaguered, nerve-frazzled throngs. Now, in Nancy Thayer’s hilarious new Hot Flash novel, it’s the friends’ turn to grab some soothing, and much-deserved R&R.
Hot Flash Holidays
Hot Flash Club Series, Book 3
by Nancy Thayer
When the Hot Flash friends gather at the spa to trim the Christmas tree, they share steaming mugs of hot chocolate, a few laughs, and a vow to make this holiday one to remember.
“I” Is For Innocent
by Sue Grafton
When David Barney was acquitted in the shooting death of his wife, Isabelle, a good many thought that justice had not been served—including Kenneth Voight, Isabelle’s former husband.
Life’s a Campaign
What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success
by Chris Matthews
LIFE’S A CAMPAIGN is a noisy, inside peek at people with power and what you can learn from them. This is a how-to book of ways to get people to do what you want them to.
The Martian Child
by David Gerrold
Gerrold, a science fiction writer from California, adopts a son who has a slight behavioral problem. He believes himself to be a Martian. Gerrold begins the long, involving work of trying to earn the acceptance of Dennis, a hyperactive eight-year-old who desperately wants a father’s love, but is so insecure he feels he must be an alien.
A Painted House
by John Grisham
Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers—and two very dangerous men—came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.
The Patron Saint of Liars
by Ann Patchett
St. Elizabeth’s is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed.
The Secret on Ararat
Babylon Rising, Book 2
by Tim Lahaye
Biblical scholar, archeologist, professor, and hero-for-our-times Michael Murphy is in pursuit of one of the most mysterious and sought-after of all Biblical artifacts: Noah’s Ark.
Size 12 is Not Fat
Heather Wells Mysteries, Book 1
by Meg Cabot
The first installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot’s hilarious Heather Wells mystery series.Heather Wells left the pop-idol life behind, and she’s perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape and her job as an assistant dorm director at a New York college. But when the dead body of a female student from Heather’s residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft, and then more students start turning up dead in subtly sinister ways, Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective!
Skipping Christmas
by John Grisham
Luther and Nora Krank are fed up with the chaos of Christmas. The endless shopping lists, the frenzied dashes through the mall, the hassle of decorating the tree… where has all the joy gone?
