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Eight short stories focusing on Jewish life. In the title piece two couples--one a Hasidic pair from Israel, the other…
a secular husband and wife from south Florida--reveal their inner souls while discussing Holocaust victim Anne Frank. In "Camp Sundown" a bucolic Berkshires retreat turns violent. Bestseller. 2012
A mother and her nine-year-old son Connor go to the pound and adopt Buddy, a golden retriever. When Connor disappears,…
Buddy uses his keen sense of smell and powers of deduction to help the mother find her lost boy. For grades K-3. Edgar Award. 2010
Poppy Wyatt is frantic. First she loses the heirloom engagement ring her fiancé gave her. Then her cell phone is…
stolen. When Poppy finds a discarded cell phone that belonged to businessman Sam Roxton's personal assistant, more complications follow. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2012
Maryland teenager Alice McKinley spends the last semester of her senior year performing in a play, editing the school paper,…
worrying about being away from her boyfriend while he is studying in Spain, and anticipating her future in college. Some descriptions of sex. For senior high and older readers. 2011
Black Dow, ruler of the North, clashes with the Union Empire, which is desperate for any decisive battle. Their forces…
fight for three bloody days over an insignificant hill, while old warrior Curnden Craw struggles to do what is right. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 2011
London. When pregnant art student Tess is found dead, police conclude she committed suicide. Her sister Beatrice refuses to believe…
that and takes a hard look at the married man who fathered Tess's baby, a classmate who was stalking Tess, and a medical study Tess was participating in. Some strong language. 2010
TV investigative reporter Riley Spartz recognizes a homicide victim as the sister of her college roommate. Although Riley's boss wants…
her off the story, she perseveres, learning that this is one of a string of murders in which the victims' bodies are outlined in chalk--with wings added. Some violence. 2011
In Twilight, Texas, women in the knitting club marry their high-school sweethearts. Flynn becomes engaged to her longtime boyfriend Beau,…
the town's sheriff, but then Flynn's true love Jesse is released from prison and wants Flynn back. Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2009
Journalist chronicles the Cold War tensions that led to the 1961 building of the Berlin Wall. Highlights the roles Soviet…
premier Nikita Khrushchev, new U.S. president John F. Kennedy, East German ruler Walter Ulbricht, and West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer played during the crisis. 2011
Art professor and government assassin Jonathan Hemlock, who kills to pay for his black-market art collection, takes on a final…
assignment that involves scaling the Eiger in the Swiss Alps. Basis for 1975 Clint Eastwood movie. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 1972
Newspaper reporter Reuben Golding falls for Marchent Nideck while researching a story about her long-lost uncle's Northern California estate. But…
their tryst ends in tragedy and Reuben barely survives, saved by a mysterious creature whose bite leaves Reuben a changed man. Violence and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2012
Desperate for a way out of the slum rats' guild, young Azoth pursues an apprenticeship with the city's most accomplished…
assassin, Durzo Blint. As a test, Durzo orders Azoth to kill his guild leader--within a week. Violence, descriptions of sex, and some strong language. 2008
Account of the eleven-day evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied troops from near the French port of Dunkirk in 1940.…
Describes the efforts of a hastily assembled fleet to transport trapped British and French soldiers safely across the English Channel as the German army approached. 1982
When Kate Moore's husband Dexter is offered high-paying employment in Luxembourg, she leaves the CIA job Dexter knows nothing about.…
But her plan to recreate herself as a quiet stay-at-home mom is challenged by the double lives of her new expat friends--and of her husband. Violence and strong language. 2012
1837. Anaïs de Rohan was raised as a mystic but cannot join London's sexist St. James Society. To gain admittance…
to the club, Anaïs agrees to masquerade as Lord Bessett's wife during a mission to rescue a child. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011
When sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she--not her well-prepared cousin Charlotte--carries the time-travel gene, Gwyneth demands answers from the secret society…
of Guardians. Soon, Gwyneth and fellow traveler Gideon embark on a grand adventure. Translated from German. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2011
Recounts the events leading up to the night of April 15, 1912, when the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic sank after striking…
an iceberg during her maiden voyage. Uses letters, newspaper articles, and survivor accounts to describe the disaster, which claimed 1,496 lives. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2012
Aleut PI Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell meet when Liam turns to fellow trooper Jim Chopin--Kate's lover--for…
assistance. To help clear Liam's wife of suspicion in a businessman's death, Kate works undercover at a bar. Some violence and some strong language. 2012
Detroit, 1966-1967. On Devil's Night someone scrawls an anti-Semitic slur on Harry Levine's wholesale shoe business, located in a rundown…
neighborhood. Harry's family and the city's Jewish community confront a changing society, as does Harry's black tenant, the single father of a teenage son. And then the riots begin. 2009