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Texas bride: A Bitter Creek Novel (Bitter Creek #9)
By Joan Johnston. 2012
Bitter Creek, Texas. Miranda leaves a Chicago orphanage for a mail-order marriage to rancher Jake Creed. Miranda surprises Jake by…
arriving with her two young brothers--and more siblings to follow. But Jake has family surprises of his own. Some descriptions of sex. 2012
Rescue my heart (An Animal Magnetism Novel #3)
By Jill Shalvis. 2012
Adam Connelly returns from active duty to Sunshine, Idaho, to work at his brothers' animal clinic. Meanwhile, his high school…
sweetheart Holly Reid lives nearby and operates her family's horse ranch. When Holly's dad goes missing, she enlists Adam's help. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2012
Shadow Creek: a novel
By Joy Fielding. 2012
New Yorker Val goes to the Adirondacks on vacation, accompanied by two friends, her daughter Brianne, and Val's estranged husband's…
fiancée. Shortly after they arrive, Brianne goes missing--and they learn a pair of teenaged killers are on the loose nearby. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2012
The general's mistress
By Jo Graham. 2012
1796. Madame Elzelina Ringeling leaves her cold, ambitious husband, a Dutch politician, for the French general Moreau--exchanging her respectable life…
for a liberated Parisian lifestyle. Elzelina later changes her name and her clothes, travels through war-torn France, and becomes a sought-after courtesan. Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2012
My beloved world
By Sonia Sotomayor. 2013
Memoir of United States Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954). Recalls growing up with her Puerto Rican family in…
the Bronx and being diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Discusses her family life, education at Princeton and Yale, and becoming a district court judge in 1992. Bestseller. 2013
What in God's name: a novel
By Simon Rich. 2012
Craig and Eliza work in the Miracles Department of Heaven, Inc., where God is CEO. When God grows bored with…
being a deity, he decides to open an Asian fusion restaurant and annihilate Earth. Craig and Eliza must convince him to give Earth one more chance. Some strong language. 2012
Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse (A Cole and Hitch Novel)
By Robert Knott. 2013
New territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have just escorted a train carrying two prisoners to the Mexican border.…
On the return trip through Texas the governor's family comes onboard with a lot of money, attracting outlaws who kidnap the governor's daughters. Some violence and some strong language. 2013
A mutiny in time: Infinity Ring (Infinity Ring #1)
By James Dashner. 2012
In an area controlled by a shadowy group called the SQ, best friends Dak and Sera stumble onto a time-travel…
device--the Infinity Ring. The Hystorians, a secret society, recruit the pair to right some wrongs, known as "breaks," throughout history. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2012
Just down the road (Harmony Ser. #4)
By Jodi Thomas. 2012
Widowed rancher Tinch Turner raises his orphaned nephew and finds himself attracted to Addison Spencer, a doctor fleeing from her…
past. Meanwhile, Reagan runs her dying uncle's orchard and waits for her on-and-off boyfriend Noah to return from the rodeo. Sequel to The Comforts of Home (DB 75870). Contains violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 2012
Lois Lane tells all
By Karen Hawkins. 2010
Susan Collins has realized her childhood dream of becoming a reporter--like Lois Lane--at her hometown newspaper in Glory, North Carolina.…
But when Mark Treymayne arrives to make the business profitable, the two butt heads. Sequel to Talk of the Town (DB 68598). Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2010
After Eli
By Rebecca Rupp. 2012
When his older brother was killed in Iraq, eleven-year-old Daniel became obsessed with recording details about people's deaths and whether…
their lives and deaths mattered. Now three years later, friends and a summer crush coax Danny back into interacting with the living. Some strong language. For grades 6-9. 2012
The bridegroom wore plaid (MacGregor #1)
By Grace Burrowes. 2012
Scottish earl Ian MacGregor must marry an heiress to support his clan. Queen Victoria's residence at nearby Balmoral allows Ian…
to rent his castle to well-to-do English nobility, including wealthy Willard Daniels and his daughters. But Ian is intrigued by Willard's poor, orphaned niece Augusta. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2012
The apothecary's daughter
By Julie Klassen. 2008
Wiltshire, England; 1813. Lilly Haswell's mother disappeared three years ago, so Lilly helps out in her father's apothecary shop and…
takes care of her slow-witted brother. While staying with wealthy relatives in London, Lilly uncovers family secrets and entertains suitors before she is suddenly summoned back home. 2008
America's great debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union
By Fergus M. Bordewich. 2012
Chronicles the Compromise of 1850, which defused regional conflicts over slavery and delayed the Civil War for a decade. Discusses…
the effects that the Mexican-American War and the discovery of gold in California had on the debate over whether new states and territories should be slave or free. 2012
Unspoken
By Lisa Jackson. 2012
Shelby Cole returns to Bad Luck, Texas, with proof that the daughter she thought had died at birth ten years…
ago is actually alive. She teams up with the child's father to investigate the connection between that and a local murder. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1999
The Bible and the believer: how to read the Bible critically and religiously
By Peter Enns, Marc Zvi Brettler, Daniel J. Harrington. 2012
Religious scholars provide an overview of the Old Testament--the Hebrew Bible--from a Jewish, a Catholic, and a Protestant perspective. They…
explain similarities and differences in the way biblical texts are read and interpreted and discuss archeological evidence that places the writings in context. 2012
The big bang: a novel
By Linda Joffe Hull. 2012
After several unsuccessful fertility treatments Hope Jordan is finally pregnant. The problem is she's not sure who the prospective father…
is--she ate spiked brownies at a community party while her husband was out of town. Meanwhile, controversies are brewing in the Jordans' subdivision. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2012
Theoretical physicist and author of From Eternity to Here (DB 71474) explains the research involved in and the potential impact…
of the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, also known as the God particle, that gives particles their mass. Details the role of engineers, theorists, and experimentalists. 2012
Cover of snow: a novel
By Jenny Milchman. 2013
Happily married Nora Hamilton is shocked to find that her husband, a policeman, has hanged himself in their Adirondacks farmhouse.…
Determined to find out why, Nora suspects his secretive, forbidding mother and his close-mouthed coworkers are hiding something. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2013
22 accessible road trips: driving vacations for wheelers and slow walkers
By Candy Harrington, Candy B. Harrington. 2012
Advocate for accessible travel presents twenty-two itineraries designed for wheelchair users and/or slow walkers. Trips cover the continental United States,…
including one featuring Utah's five national parks and another showcasing "Land of Lincoln" in Illinois and the Iowa filming location of the movie Field of Dreams. 2012