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At her mother Evelyn's house, agent Faith Mitchell finds splattered blood, a man holding another at gunpoint, her baby locked…
in the shed--but no Evelyn. Faith's partner Will Trent and Dr. Sara Linton help with her desperate hunt for her ex-cop mother. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 2011
Gullahs Betty Mayfield and her biracial granddaughter Eudora leave their island after emancipation and struggle to make a life in…
Charleston. In time Eudora's daughter Lizzie moves to Harlem to begin a singing career, and women of succeeding generations also join the music industry. Strong language and some violence. 2010
Empty-nesters Carissa Lathrop and her husband, overworked psychologist Richard, have stopped communicating. When Carissa is laid off, her former boss…
offers her the use of his cottage on Maui, Hawaii. Carissa leaves Richard behind and, with God's help, contemplates the choices open to her. 2010
The United States in the Real, one of many alternate universes, uses Turing gate technology to travel to and manipulate…
other versions of America. When an agent begins to kill different versions of a noted mathematician without authorization, Adam Stone is sent to track down the rogue. Strong language. 2011
After barely escaping from a sexual predator, sixteen-year-old Jack goes to London with his best friend Conner. There a stranger…
gives Jack a pair of glasses that send him to an alternate universe. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. For senior high and older readers. 2010
Los Angeles. Lieutenant Frank Duffy rehires his best detective, Ash Levine, a veteran of the Israeli Defense Force, to find…
the killer of ex-cop Pete Relovich. Levine, who quit after failing to protect witness Latisha Patton, agrees to return--intending to investigate Latisha's murder. Violence and strong language. 2010
1938. At the Yaddo artists' community, writer Ira Stigman--from the series Mercy of a Rude Stream--falls in love with M,…
a musician. Ira informs Edith, his older and controlling lover, and departs for the West Coast to escape the ensuing romantic crisis. Some strong language. 2010
Istanbul, 2027. After a woman's head explodes on a tram, Necdet sees swarm bots arrive to question the passengers. Necdet…
avoids the bots because he lives in a dervish house that will become home to a secret Islamic order. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2010
A blind peddler's warning for their father and their own discovery of a glass eye on a speedboat put Frank…
and Joe on the trail of the Goggler Gang. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 1937
Four years after the Rand scientific expedition disappeared in the Amazon, one team member emerges, only to die hours later.…
The U.S. government sends Nathan Rand--son of the missing mission's leader--into the rain forest to investigate. Descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence. 2002
Kansas, 1868. Army scout Matt Talbot and his company are surrounded by thousands of renegade Cheyenne warriors on a spitbar…
on the Arikaree River. After days of starvation, Matt escapes. But he feels guilty even after he learns the others were rescued. 2010
Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, searches for a killer in a notorious London slum but needs help from widow Temperance Dews,…
who cares for children in a foundling home. Lazarus and Temperance strike a deal of mutual benefit, only to fall prey to uncontrollable passion. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2010
Two short western novels by Lewis B. Patten (1915-1981). In The White Cheyenne Julien Tremeau, part Indian, goes East to…
attend school and learn about the white man but returns and embraces his Cheyenne heritage. When his tribe is attacked, he vows revenge. Violence and descriptions of sex. 2010
Meteorology doctoral candidate and star of Discovery Channel's reality TV series Storm Chasers discusses his love of dangerous weather--especially tornadoes;…
his career as a storm chaser; and the science behind severe conditions. Describes his adventures during such hurricanes as Katrina, Floyd, Ike, and others. 2010
After a series of mysterious race-car accidents, Frank and Joe uncover a clue: each driver saw a "danger" sign just…
before crashing. But when the boys investigate, only filled-in postholes remain. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 1936
Framed by an account of housewife and mother Greta Kuckhoff, this chronicle of resistance to the Nazis by a group…
of artists, intellectuals, and German government workers in Berlin details the actions and risks these ordinary citizens took to protest anti-Semitism--and relates the consequences. 2009
Writings by English-born freelance journalist and social critic Henry Fairlie (1924-1990), known for coining the term "the Establishment." Selections highlight…
Fairlie's observations on British politics, American manners and morals, and the nature of the press. Edited with an introduction by Jeremy McCarter. 2009
Two western stories. In the title piece saloon owner Race Dunphy questions the cause of a gunfight that took place…
outside his drinking establishment. In Border Dawn greedy cattle rancher Grant Mitchell plugs up other peoples' access to the water from the Blue River. 2010
Sam and Remi Fargo, from Lost Empire (DB 71951), agree to help an oil baron locate both his missing father…
and investigator Frank Alton--the Fargos' friend--who disappeared while conducting the initial search. Their journey takes them across the world, where they make an extraordinary discovery. 2011
After exacting revenge on government agents who murdered his father, Los Alamos scientist Gideon Crew is assigned by a shadow…
agency to intercept plans for a Chinese super weapon. Gideon is also informed that he only has a year to live. Violence and strong language. 2011