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Work hits too close to home for crime scene photographer Avery Tate when her best friend disappears. The only lead…
is a chilling photo of her--apparently dead. As Avery, her ex-boss Parker, and his friends in law enforcement dig into the case, she's forced to confront her feelings for Parker. Sequel to "Cold shot", followed by "Blind spot". 2017.
Margaret Stokes is bitter. And not in the robust fine wine or tangy dark chocolate kind of way. She just…
got dumped, is fed up with her job as a glorified party-planner for the rich, and can't possibly listen to one more veiled insult from her impossible-to-please mother. So she retreats to the comfort of her grandmother's ramshackle bed and breakfast, where the wide open vineyards are filled with surprises, from the shockingly delicious wine to the aggravating yet oh-so-tempting man who makes it. Ryan Camden's easy approach to life encourages Margaret to loosen up and have a little fun, despite her better judgment. She resists the urge to micromanage every detail, embracing the welcome distractions of her surroundings and letting their relationship unfold at a natural rhythm. But when a health scare forces Grammy J to give up the B&B, Margaret begins to wonder if Ryan really is the man he promises--and whether the problems she tried so hard to escape ever really went away. 2017.
1975: When Oberleutnant Karin Muller is called to investigate a teenage girl's body at the foot of the Berlin Wall,…
she imagines she's seen it all before. But she soon realizes that this is a death like no other before it--the girl was evidently trying to escape from West Berlin. As a member of the People's Police, Muller's power in East Germany only stretches so far. The Ministry for State Security, the Stasi, assures her the case is closed, all they need to know is the girl's name. Yet they strongly discourage her from asking questions. The evidence doesn't add up, and it soon becomes clear the crime scene has been staged. But this regime does not tolerate curious minds, and it takes Müller too long to realize that the trail she's been following may lead her dangerously close to home. Followed by "Stasi wolf". 2016.
At the age of fifteen, Dieter's blind devotion gets him promoted from Hitler Youth into the German army, where he…
is determined to prove his allegiance and bravery at all costs. Spence, sixteen, drops out of his Utah high school to begin training as a paratrooper. He's seen how boys who weren't much in high school can come home heroes, and Spence wants to prove to his friends and family that he really can be something. Their worst fear was that the war would end too soon -- that they wouldn't get the chance to prove themselves. But when they finally see the action they were hoping for, it's like nothing they could have ever imagined. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.
Life is complicated for five inner city friends as Tammy deals with being a single mom, Lamar and Falisha find…
their friendship complicated after they have sex, Kim is too job-focused, and Lisa's boyfriend returns from prison. Followed by "Single ladies 2". 2016.
Cameron Boxer is very happy to spend his life avoiding homework, hanging out with his friends, and gaming for hours…
in his basement, until he gets so caught up in one game that he almost lets his house burn down. It's time for some serious damage control, so Cameron and his friends invent a fake school club that will make it seem like they're doing good deeds instead of slacking off. But some kids think the club is real--and Cameron is stuck being president. Soon Cameron is part of a mission to save a beaver named Elvis from certain extinction. Along the way, he makes some new friends--and some powerful new enemies. The guy who never cared about anything is now at the centre of everything, and it's going to take all his slacker skills to win this round. Grades 4-7. 2016.
Two of Karen White's classic novels in one volume. "In the shadow of the moon": When Laura Truitt first sees…
the dilapidated plantation house, she's overcome by a sense of familiarity. Inside, the owner claims to have been waiting for her for years and offers an old photograph of a woman with Laura's face. Soon afterward, when a lunar eclipse inexplicably thrusts Laura back in time to Civil War Georgia, she finds herself fighting not just for her heart, but for her very survival. "Whispers of Goodbye": Alone and with nothing left to fear, Catherine deClaire Reed answers her sister's desperate plea and travels to the cold comfort of her home in Reconstruction Louisiana. But Elizabeth is nowhere to be found. No one--including her husband--has seen her for days. Now Catherine must search for her sister in a place where secrets wait behind every closed door. 2016.
There was a time when no one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated "its own kind of…
moral laws," spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and '70s. But there was one man who proved elusive, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. She also pulled off a remarkable sleight of hand: Slow Days, Fast Company far exceeds its mash-note premise. It is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California. In ten sun-baked, Santa Ana wind-swept sketches, Babitz re-creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success; socialites on three-day drug binges, evading their East Coast banking husbands; soap-opera actors worried that tomorrow's script will kill them off; Italian femme fatales even more fatal than she is. And she even leaves L.A. sometimes, spending an afternoon at the house of flawless Orange County suburbanites, a day among the grape pickers of the Central Valley, a weekend in Palm Springs where her dreams of romance fizzle and her only solace is Virginia Woolf. In the end it doesn't matter if Babitz ever gets the guy--she seduces us. 2016.
Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year's Eve at the party of the year, a…
smashing Winter White Garden party at the newly renovated King Cotton Boutique Hotel. It's a dazzling success--until Frangelica "Sister" McFee walks through the door. Sarah Booth knew Sister in college, before Sister became a bestselling author and moved to New York, and fame and fortune don't seem to have tempered her arrogance and cruelty. Sister's latest book is a memoir about the death of her mother and brother many years ago. Now, a film about the book is in the works, and a film crew has descended upon Zinnia, Mississippi, to tell the complete story. The film crew soon realizes there may be more to the story than meets the eye--or is told in Sister's memoir--and they hire Sarah Booth to discover the absolute truth about those deaths so many years ago. But Sarah Booth quickly realizes that someone is desperate to keep the truth hidden and will go to any lengths necessary to protect a long-held secret. Sequel to "Rock-a-bye bones". 2017.
An inspiring memoir about an unruly Labrador who taught a woman and her father to overcome their grief and find…
peace with each other. When Mel Miskimen's mother dies, her tough, retired-cop father withdraws into his sadness, and his broken grief is more than Mel can handle on her own. Enter Seamus: a rowdy, hapless Labrador devoted to chaos. In a spark of inspiration, Mel ropes her father into training the wayward hound for a local contest. As the seasons change, Mel finds herself connecting with her last surviving parent more than she'd ever dreamed. 2016.
As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was…
placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey's unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf - the greatest naval battle in history. Prados gives readers an unprecedented look at both sides of this titanic naval clash, demonstrating that, despite the Americans' overwhelming superiority in firepower and supplies, the Japanese achieved their goal, inflicting grave damage on U.S. forces. And for the first time, readers will have access to the naval intelligence reports that influenced key strategic decisions on both sides. Drawing upon a wealth of untapped sources--U.S. and Japanese military records, diaries, declassified intelligence reports and postwar interrogation transcripts--Prados offers up a masterful narrative of naval conflict on an epic scale. 2016.
Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles. "Today is Wednesday the…
thirteenth of April 2016, it is twelve minutes to eleven, and I have just finished writing this book for you. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over. Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for." Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. A day filled with everyday routine, the beginnings of life and its light, but also its deep struggles and its darkness. 2018. Uniform title: Om va.
Anna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath, knowing nothing of the family she came from. Now she discovers…
that the late Earl of Riverdale was her father and that she has inherited his fortune. She is also overjoyed to learn she has siblings. However, they want nothing to do with her or her attempts to share her new wealth. But the new earl's guardian is interested in Anna. Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby, keeps others at a distance. Yet something prompts him to aid Anna in her transition from orphan to lady. As London society and Anna's newfound relatives threaten to overwhelm her, Avery steps in to rescue her and finds himself vulnerable to feelings and desires he has hidden so well for so long. Followed by "Someone to hold". Bestseller. 2016.
Camille Westcott, who has been declared illegitimate and without a title, moves to Bath to teach at an orphanage, where…
she meets artist Joel Cunningham, for whom she feels a mutual contempt until things take a passionate turn. Sequel to "Someone to love", followed by "Someone to wed". 2017.
Beard explores ancient Rome and how its citizens adapted the notion of imperial rule, invented the concepts of citizenship and…
nation, and made laws about those traditionally overlooked in history, including women, slaves, and criminals. Bestseller. 2015.
Hochschild presents a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen American characters, including Ernest Hemingway: a…
tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed. Bestseller. 2016.
A literary travelogue that ventures deep into the heart of classic Southern literature. From Mississippi (William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard…
Wright, Barry Hannah) to Alabama (Harper Lee, Truman Capote) to Georgia (Flannery O'Connor, Harry Crews) and beyond, Eby--herself a Southerner--travels through the Deep South to the places that famous Southern authors lived in and wrote about, reveals how they took these places and the lives of their inhabitants and transmuted them into lasting literature. 2015.
While her sister fights to hold on to the family legacy, Louisa Highwood works tirelessly to save the lives of…
wounded soldiers. Putting her own safety on the line, she covertly ventures behind enemy lines to procure desperately needed supplies for the army hospital in Richmond, Virginia. Meanwhile, Jesselynn Highwood and her ragtag band of freed slaves and Thoroughbred horses seek refuge along the Oregon Trail, unable to imagine what awaits them. Sequel to "Daughter of Twin Oaks", followed by "The long way home". For senior high readers. 2015.
As a baby, Jake Cutler was separated from his family and left on the planet Remota, deep in the seventh…
solar system. Eleven years later, Jake carries a secret within himself that could change the entire universe. Jake must discover the truth about his past before he is hunted down and caught by ruthless space pirates. Grades 4-7. 2014.
In 1897, seventeen-year-olds Dacia and Lou, New York socialites and cousins, visit their maternal homeland of Romania and learn the…
family secret--that they are shapeshifters, expected to take their rightful places and marry proper husbands. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.