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Four Victorian romance novels and three novellas written between 2012 and 2014. Includes The Governess Affair, The Duchess War, A…
Kiss for Midwinter, The Heiress Effect, The Countess Conspiracy, The Suffragette Scandal, and Talk Sweetly To Me. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2014
Resident of the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in Surprise, Nebraska, eleven-year-old Perry grew up inside the facility with his…
mom, who is serving a fifteen-year sentence. When the new district attorney discovers their unusual situation, he causes problems for the family and residents. For grades 5-8. 2016
Journalist looks at twelve famous historical figures and uses modern psychiatric tools to proffer diagnoses of their common mental-health conditions.…
Those profiled include Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Abraham Lincoln, and Charles Darwin. 2016
Single mother Shira Greene gets a telegram from Nobel Prize-winning Italian poet Romei asking her to translate his latest work.…
She has no idea why she was selected, and then the work starts arriving by fax, each page more confusing than the last. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2016
Home for the holidays, English schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong suspect foul play when someone falls seriously and…
mysteriously ill at Daisy's family estate. The duo use their sleuthing skills to uncover the truth. Sequel to Murder Is Bad Manners (DB 84334). For grades 5-8. 2015
Sociologist Clarice Watkins has moved to Littlefield, Massachusetts, to study the residents of a town considered one of the best…
places in America to live. She discovers the townspeople are discontented, and someone is poisoning the local dogs. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2013
An account of Soviet intelligence services from the October Revolution to the end of the Cold War. The author examines…
Nikita Khrushchev and his successors' use of codes and ciphers, as well as the reasons they discarded ideological recruitment in favor of blackmail and bribery. 2015
Four adult siblings and their families reunite when they have to decide what to do with the house they have…
inherited from their deceased grandparents. Tensions old and new bubble up as they gather in the English countryside. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2016
Two Regency romances. In The Temporary Wife, Lord Anthony Earheart offers Charity Duncan a marriage of convenience to enrage his…
father. In A Promise of Spring, Sir Peregrine Lampman saves Grace Howard from a life of poverty, but she is keeping a secret. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1997
Retired Arizona detective Brandon Walker joins forces with homicide detective J. P. Beaumont when he is asked to revisit the…
four-decades-old murder of a prospector. His investigation leads him to a possibly connected cold case in Seattle. Some strong language. 2015
Foster child Annie Nobody discovers a new world of magic, power, and scary creatures in a hidden, magical town, Aurora.…
It is up to Annie and her new friend Jamie to protect their new home from those who want to misuse the great power. For grades 4-7. 2016
Five police procedurals, written between 1984 and 1993, in the series featuring an unnamed detective sergeant in the London Metropolitan…
Police's Department of Unexplained Deaths. Includes He Died with His Eyes Open, The Devil's Home on Leave, How the Dead Live, I Was Dora Suarez, and Dead Man Upright. Violence, some strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1993
Journalist examines work culture in America in the twenty-first century. Discusses the state of employment, understanding personal goals when it…
comes to determining the ideal work/life balance, ways to deal with disappointments and setbacks like layoffs, and planning for life after work. 2016
Documentary filmmaker looks at ninety of the more unusual games enjoyed throughout history. Includes campus pranks such as phone-booth stuffing,…
bizarre variant versions of more common sports like ice tennis and boxing on horseback, and many unkind activities involving animals such as monkey-fighting and bear-baiting. 2015
In this southwestern version of "The Gingerbread Man," a tortilla comes to life and runs away from the woman who…
is about to cook him. As he races away, he encounters horned toads, burros, cowboys, and, something truly dangerous, a coyote. For grades K-3. 2015
A German Nigerian woman recounts learning that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Thomas Keneally's…
Schindler's List (DB 20835). Teege details how she grappled with her family's past. Journalist Sellmair supplies historical context in an interwoven narrative. Originally published in German. Bestseller. 2013
Blogger and former missionary chronicles the year he and his family chose to avoid buying things for a year. Discusses…
what brought his family to that point, the negotiations he and his wife made about the rules for acceptable purchases, and the impact on his family's relationship with God. 2015
First two books, written in 2015 and 2016, in a series featuring four orphans with extraordinary abilities. In The Shrunken…
Head, the kids must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders. Includes The Screaming Statue. For grades 4-7. 2016
Six mysteries, written between 1996 and 2012, solved by sleuthing troubleshooter Robert Amiss and his friend Baroness Jack Troutbeck. Includes…
Murder in a Cathedral, Publish and Be Murdered, The Anglo-Irish Murders, Carnage on the Committee, Murdering Americans, and Killing the Emperors. Some strong language. 2012
Mia Saunders needs a million dollars to pay off loan sharks who are after her father. She becomes a high-priced…
escort, spending each month of the year with a different rich man. Collects four anthologies, written in 2015 and 2016, each containing three novellas named for a month of the year. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 2016