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1944. Someone is killing the young men of Barnard, Texas. Sheriff Tom Rabbit investigates the grisly crime scenes, where certain…
clues--pro-Nazi notes written in German--point to a quiet man who is gay. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Lambda Literary Award. 2011
South African detective Benny Griessel takes over the puzzling murder investigation of attorney Hanneke Sloet after someone threatens to continue…
shooting policemen until the case is solved. This puts Griessel's relationship with newly sober singer Alexa on hold. Originally published in Afrikaans in 2011. Strong language and some violence. 2012
Shy South's world is rocked when her brother and sister are kidnapped from their farm while Shy and her stepfather…
Lamb are in town bartering for goods. Shy and Lamb's pasts come to haunt them as they take to the trail to find the children. Violence and strong language. 2012
O'Connell, a history professor and lieutenant colonel in the Marine Reserve, examines the changes in the Marine Corps from World…
War II to the start of the Vietnam War. Investigates alterations in public perception and relationships with other military service units. Some violence. 2012
Tennessee college sweethearts Molly and Ryan eventually go their respective ways. But seven years later, bookstore owner Charlie Barton, who…
is facing financial ruin, has a near-fatal car accident. Molly and Ryan join the effort to save the shop and, with God's help, witness a miracle. 2012
Educator and wife of Vice President Joe Biden based this children's story on her own granddaughter's experience. Young Natalie misses…
her father, who is away fighting a war, and keeps him in her heart and prayers as she tries to be brave. Includes resources for support. For grades K-3. 2012
Author of The Noonday Demon (DB 53027) explores the ways families with children who are profoundly different from their parents…
redefine themselves. Uses anecdotal evidence to illustrate their responsibilities and struggles dealing with such issues as deafness, autism, schizophrenia, transsexualism, criminality, and more. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2012
1814; Spindle Cove, England. To keep her sister Diana from marrying the rake Colin Sandhurst, Minerva Highwood makes a scandalous…
offer to Colin--a week-long trip to a symposium in Scotland. Minerva plans to win the Royal Geological Society's prize--but ends up winning Colin's heart. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2012
Jake Tiptree finds a mysterious book in the basement of her 1823 house that has her name in it and…
takes it to rare-book expert Horace Robotham for answers. But someone murders Horace, the book vanishes, and a friend of Horace's arrives to investigate. 2007
Caro Warrick, acquitted in the murder of her best friend, hires PI Sharon McCone to reinvestigate the crime and clear…
Caro's name with family and friends. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2012
Teens share accounts about stress caused by family, friends, school, and increasing responsibilities. They describe what they are doing to…
help them relax and enjoy the moment and offer suggestions such as physical activities, writing, yoga, and meditation to release negative energy. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2012
Teens share their experiences with challenges in dealing with anger. Highlights the effects an abusive past can have on one's…
emotions and describes the ongoing struggle with negative feelings. Suggests options for getting help. Some violence. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2012
After the events of Time Dancers (DB 65717), Zianno "Z" Zezen and his fellow Meq are even closer to the…
Remembering--the time when the history of the Meq will be revealed. But first, they must survive the Cold War. 2011
U.S. Poet Laureate Trethewey, who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her collection Native Guard (DB 65666), continues exploring her…
racial identity in this publication--concentrating this time on her relationship with her white father. In the poem "Enlightenment" Trethewey visits Monticello with her dad. 2012
Just after Mary Russell finishes working on a pirate movie in Pirate King (DB 74237), she vanishes in Morocco. As…
her husband Sherlock Holmes searches for her, Mary awakens in a strange house with amnesia caused by a blow to her head. 2012
American heiress Virginia Praeger meets and falls in love with Alexander Caterham, a British earl, in the late 1950s. Questions…
of paternity and inheritance trouble their marriage and cause their children to struggle. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1992
The severed head of Josué Nadal relates his life story as it washes away in the Pacific Ocean. Josué and…
his friend Jericó enter commerce and politics in contemporary Mexico City and share an unexpected bond. Translated from Spanish. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2011
Biography of Irène Némirovksy, whose novel Suite Française (DB 62505) was published posthumously. Chronicles her upper-class Russian upbringing, flight to…
France during the revolution, career and family life as an émigré in Paris before the Nazi invasion, and death at Auschwitz. Originally published in French in 2007. 2010
Norwich, author of A Short History of Byzantium (DB 47025) and The Middle Sea (DB 64875), pens a political history…
of the papacy from Saint Peter to Benedict XVI. Discusses the early church, the East-West schism, the Crusades, World Wars I and II, and the Second Vatican Council. 2011
When Washington Post reporter Terry Finley mysteriously drowns, his father, a retired congressman, asks a favor of House Speaker Mahoney.…
Mahoney contacts fix-it guy Joe DeMarco, who discovers that Finley was investigating a Democratic senator running for president. Strong language and some violence. 2009