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A member of a notorious biker gang has been set on fire--alive. Even in a culture where ritual killings are…
common, this brutal assault attracts the attention of both Irene's unit and the Organized Crimes Unit. Anticipating a counterattack, the two units team up to patrol the lavish party of a rival gang, but that doesn't stop another murder from occurring just outside the event hall. And someone has planted a bomb under Irene's husband's car. Fearing for her family's safety, Irene sends her husband and daughters into hiding and takes up residence at a colleague's apartment. Still, she can't shake the feeling that she is being stalked. Somehow, the gangs are always one step ahead of the police. Someone is leaking information. But who? Irene's life depends on discovering the answer. 2017. Uniform title: I skydd av skuggorna.
Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick,…
sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won't let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn't expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile--a crocodile who does not behave properly. Grades K-3. 2017.
Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult…
and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother. And now one of her artists has taken her own life, but not before sending Virginia a last picture: a painting that makes Virginia doubt everything about the so-called suicide--and her own past. Like Virginia, private investigator Cabot Sutter was one of the children in the cult who survived that fire, and only he can help her now. As they struggle to unravel the clues in the painting, it becomes clear that someone thinks Virginia knows more than she does and that she must be stopped. Thrown into an inferno of desire and deception, Virginia and Cabot draw ever closer to the mystery of their shared memories--and the shocking fate of the one man who still wields the power to destroy everything they hold dear. 2018.
A new volume of stories specific to the Marine Corps, dating from the very beginning (American Revolution) to modern day,…
including the 18th and 19th century, the Boxer rebellion, the two world wars, Korea and Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan. 2017.
First-grader Posey is concerned that her spring vacation will be boring compared to her friends' travels, but her mother's plan…
to take each day as it comes turns out to be full of excitement. Sequel to "Princess Posey and the first grade ballet", followed by "Princess Posey and the first grade play". Grades K-3. 2017.
Summer 1755, Acadia. Amélie Belliveau lives with her family in Grande Pré, Nova Scotia. The community believes they can remain…
on neutral political ground, but when they refuse to pledge allegiance to the British in their war against the French, the army invades Grande Pré, claims the land, and rips the people from their homes. Amélie’s entire family, alongside the other Acadians, is exiled to ports unknown aboard dilapidated ships. Fortunately, Amélie has made a powerful ally. Having survived his own harrowing experience at the hands of the English, Corporal Connor MacDonnell is a reluctant participant in the British plan to expel the Acadians from their homeland. His sympathy for Amélie gradually evolves into a profound love, and he resolves to help her and her family in any way he can - even if it means treason. Bestseller. 2017.
Valentine's Day is coming! Posey is so excited about her special ballet recital and giving cards to everyone at school.…
Then she learns that one of her classmates doesn't have any valentines to give out. Can Princess Posey and her tutu find the perfect way to help? Sequel to "Princess Posey and the first grade boys", followed by "Princess Posey and the crazy, lazy vacation". Grades K-3. 2015.
A visit with Bavia's royal family was supposed to be the stuff dreams were made of for Annie Trevarren, an…
American girl abroad. Instead it was turning into a disaster. First Annie impetuously crawled onto a castle roof and had to be rescued by Crown Prince Rafael St. James himself. Then her dearest friend, the prince's sister, Phaedra, balks at an arranged wedding. The peasants rebel. The throne totters. Worst of all, Annie is losing her heart. Alas, Prince Rafael is no knight in shining armor. His former mistress has moved into the castle, and his notorious temper is flaring. But when fate brings Annie and her prince together in a secluded cottage, she can see his stern gaze soften. And his fleeting caresses ... is Rafael seducing her? A future with him is highly improbable -- but a life without him is unthinkable. Rafael may intend to offer her a lesson in passion, but she'll teach the arrogant prince a better one: nothing is a greater ruler than love! Sequel to "Taming Charlotte". 2015.
In "Property of", author Alice Hoffman introduces a lonely outsider who wants desperately to belong. She deeply envies the tough,…
sultry girls who wear mascara and black leather and hang with the local gang known as the Orphans. As the unnamed narrator determinedly tries to become the property of the gang's brooding leader, McKay, she will discover what can and cannot be possessed--and what can happen when you hand your heart over to a man who claims to care nothing about love. 2014.
Ben Kendall returned from Vietnam a troubled man. Hiding away from the world, he filled his house with stuff until…
finally the piles collapsed and he was found dead, crushed beneath his own belongings. But what first appears to be a tragic accidental death may be something more. Sequel to "Three can keep a secret", followed by "The company she kept". 2014.
When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky, he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of…
the world's finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million, he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is killing women - seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes. Sequel to "Private down under", followed by "Private Vegas". 2014.
When Jack Morgan stops by Private's Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip filled with…
fine food and sightseeing. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after a call from his client Sherman Wilkerson, asking Jack to track down his young granddaughter who is on the run from a brutal drug dealer. Sequel to "Private Sydney", followed by "The games". 2016.
When Hollywood's biggest superstar couple disappears without a word from their ranch, private investigator Jack Morgan confronts dangerous secrets to…
expose an underworld of desperation and deception. Sequel to "Private Berlin", followed by "Private down under". 2014.
Private is the most elite detective agency in the world. But when kidnappers threaten to execute a Royal Family member…
in front of the Queen, Jack Morgan and his team have just 24 hours to stop them. Or heads will roll, literally. 2016.
Princess Twilight Sparkle is so close to finishing her Autumnal Equine-nox spell, she can feel it. But she needs one…
more book to pull it off, and it's extraordinarily rare. As the leaves in Ponyville start to fall, her search for the text takes her to the town of Bales. It's packed with libraries and bookshops, so the princess is in a reader's paradise! But how is it she's never even heard of Bales? She soon finds out that the town was cursed long ago, and now the rest of Equestria is slowly forgetting. Grades 3-6. 2016.
Renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander argued against near-death experiences until a rare illness forced him into a coma for seven…
days. When he came to, Alexander recounted his journey into new realms of existence, where he met an angelic being not of this world. 2012.
Call me Drood, Eddie Drood. Some know me as Shaman Bond and most simply don't want to know me at…
all. For centuries, my family has been keeping the things that lurk on the darker side of existence as far away as possible from humans like you, without you even knowing we're there. Unfortunately for us, not everybody appreciates what we Droods do. Recently, I personally managed to survive yet another attempt on my life, but the rest of my relatives weren't so lucky. My parents are missing in action. My grandfather has been murdered. And the future of my family lies in the iron grasp of the Lady Faire, an incredibly seductive, mysterious, and powerful being. Sequel to "Casino Infernale". 2014.
After a hard day's ranching, Wyatt Black wants to kick back with a cold beer, but when he steps onto…
his porch, he has unexpected company - his tiny abandoned niece! Against her better judgment, Wyatt's neighbor Elli Marchuk agrees to help him for a few days. Elli soon falls in love with baby Darcy, but it's the child's grouchy, gorgeous protector who's got her head over heels. 2012. (Babies and brides)
11-year-old Rosalind finds 70-year-old Tillie on her front porch--again. Wanting to die in the place where she lived for half…
a century, Tillie continues leaving her senior living complex and finding her way "home." Annoyed at first, Rosalind's mother finally lets Tillie live with them. And when danger nears, Tillie selflessly determines to protect the family she has adopted as her own. 2011.