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Fifteen-year-old Charlie and his twelve-year-old brother Sam are joyriding when they have a terrible crash. Sam dies but Charlie revives…
after promising Sam to never leave him. For thirteen years Charlie works at the cemetery, talking and playing catch with Sam's spirit. Then he meets Tess. Bestseller. 2004
London, 1822. Annabel Winslow must marry well to save her family from poverty. The elderly earl of Newbury, who needs…
a son, is interested, but Annabel is attracted to the earl's current heir, his nephew Sebastian Grey. Annabel is torn between desire and duty. Explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010
The disclosure of U.S. senator Richard Woodruff's illicit affair sparks changes in his family. Wife Sylvie retires to her seaside…
home. Daughters Diana, a physician, and Lizzie, a recovering addict, join Sylvie in contemplating the past and future. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter investigates sixty years of the Central Intelligence Agency. Uses archival documents and interviews to illustrate that the…
agency's mission of gathering intelligence has faltered due to blunders, structural flaws, and philosophical conflicts. Posits that national security is jeopardized by the CIA's disarray. National Book Award. Bestseller. 2007
Former CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father's private investigation company, which doesn't hesitate to use force and forensics to…
obtain results. Jack is probing a professional-football gambling scandal and the murders of L.A. school girls when his ex-lover is murdered. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller. 2010
Nottingham inspector Resnick and his team juggle two cases. A prostitute is stabbing her johns, and one dies. And an…
American crime writer in town for a convention is plagued by anonymous, threatening letters and increasingly disturbing pranks. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1995
Scotland, 1494. Sixteen-year-old Highlands heiress Ellen MacArthur is sent to King James's court to evade unworthy suitor Balgair. But after…
Balgair murders her grandfather and her betrothed, Ellen must give up her land and marry handsome border lord Duncan Armstrong. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2007
Dru, from Strange Angels (DB 70487, BR 18727), is taken to a secret training facility for djamphir and wulfen teens…
that feels like a prison. There she must discover the identity of a traitor who wants her dead. Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2009
The Good Girlz are thrilled when they learn that Camille has won Houston's Search for a Star talent show and…
has a chance to perform with rapper Sisco. But when fame changes her look and behavior, Camille reflects on what is most important to her. For senior high readers. 2010
Her boss wants her to follow a missing-fish lead, but Minneapolis investigative reporter Riley Spartz, from Stalking Susan (DB 67775),…
thinks there must be a more interesting story behind the wedding-dress ad placed by a jilted bride who can't recognize faces. Some violence and some strong language. 2009
A lecturer from Madrid--who is never named--joins the faculty at Oxford for two years. With no real duties, he pursues…
an affair with married British colleague Clare Bayes. Their romantic intrigues unfold amid the gossip, politics, and eccentricities of academia. Translated from Spanish. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1992
“Feist has a natural talent for keeping the reader turning pages.”Chicago Sun-TimesNew York Times bestselling master fantasist Raymond E. Feist…
returns to beleaguered Midkemia and its capital, Krondor, in At the Gates of Darkness, the second volume in his enthralling DemonWar Saga of magic, war, and peril. An author the Science Fiction Chronicle proclaims, “Without question one of the very best writers of fantasy adventure practicing today,” Feist graces eager readers with his most astonishing adventure yet. Feist fans, readers of Terry Goodkind, George R. R. Martin, and Terry Brooks, and everyone, in fact, who loves superior epic fantasy will not want to miss At the Gates of Darkness.
Governess Penelope Lumley exerts a civilizing influence on Alexander, Beowulf, and Cassiopeia, so they behave more like children than wolf…
pups now. But moving to London presents unique challenges and reveals clues about the children's--and Miss Penelope's--past. For grades 4-7. 2011
CBS news correspondent Barry Petersen describes his and his beloved wife Jan's experiences after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's…
disease in 2005, when she was fifty-five years old. E-mails and friends' observations help detail the changes that led to Jan's move to a long-term-care facility. 2010
As Bonaparte's army marches on the Holy Land in 1799, American Ethan Gage searches for the Book of Thoth, an…
ancient--and possibly magical--Egyptian scroll that reputedly empowers its owner to rule the world. Gage races to find the legendary document before his enemy, Emperor Napoleon, obtains it. 2008
Margaret Mayfield of Missouri marries naval officer and astronomer Andrew Early in 1905 and moves to a remote island post…
near San Francisco with him. Margaret befriends the locals while Andrew becomes obsessed with his work. But as World War II approaches, Andrew descends into mental illness. 2010
Author selects former slaves' interviews taken during the 1920s and 1930s, as well as letters, memoirs, and diaries, to illustrate…
the thoughts and experiences of freed blacks about the Civil War. Includes reactions to the Union army's invasion of the South. Some violence and some strong language. 2008
Forty-eight short stories by the award-winning author that were published between 1974 and 2006. The characters range from lusty youths…
to disillusioned adults whose relationships often are unraveling. In "Like Glass" a young mother reacts to a childhood photograph of her divorced husband. Some strong language. 2010
Adam Winters, head of the local Ghost Hunter Guild, searches for a stolen relic--and a woman who can read dreamlight.…
Adam persuades Marlowe Jones to join him on his journey, and the two fall in love. Sequel to Burning Lamp (DB 71091). Some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010
Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the New York Circulating Material Repository, which houses magical objects from…
the Grimm brothers' fairy tales. When items disappear Elizabeth and the other pages are drawn into frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods. For grades 6-9. 2010