In Karen Bergreen's hilarious "who-dun-it", FOLLOWING
POLLY, she tells the story of the hapless Alice and her
adventures dodging the police and doing her best to find
out who really killed the golden actress with the tarnished
secrets. Part cozy mystery, part romance, and all parts
outrageously Read more...
Beattie Blaxton is distraught when she finds herself with
child in 1930's Ireland, being neither married nor even
engaged to the child's married father. After being kicked
out of her parent's home and an unsuccessful attempt to give
her unborn child up for adoption, her lover Henry Read more...
Author Neal Stephenson is quite the multi-faceted man. From
his college studies in geography and physics, to his work
on a manned sub-orbital launch system with Amazon founder
Jeff Bezos, Stephenson's true calling can be found among
his writings. His many novels range in subject from cyber Read more...
As a prince of the fey Winter Court, Ash cannot be with his
true love, Meghan Chase, the queen of the Iron Court. To
enter her world would result in his death. So, determined
to dp anything it requires to be with his beloved Queen, the
Iron Knight sets out Read more...
The gypsy woman said the dress was special, that it had the
power to change the future of the one who wore it. All Anna
knew was that she had to have it, but that sparkling,
dazzling little black dress would ultimately change Anna's
life, and the lives of Read more...
An Illinois Senator has been criminally convicted and is
forced to resign. It's up to the Governor to appoint an
interim Senator. His choices are Chicago Judge Reese
McKelvie, or an evangelistic preacher, Eric Snow.
McKelvie engages in some shady dealings with the noted
Mafia-connected Bugatti family, and Read more...
Sayre Bellavia has struggled her entire life with the
knowledge that she was unwanted. But even with this
information always buzzing in her subconscious, when she
learns that her mother has been admitted to the hospital
once again, Sayre trudges miles in the ice and snow to
visit her.
In Read more...
The quiet Amish town of Painter's Mill, Ohio is turned
upside-down when a newly arrived family is brutally
murdered. The tragedy is magnified by the discovery that
one of the children, teenaged Mary, was involved with an
outsider. Could that association be what has led to her
death Read more...
Imagine bumping your head, and not being able to remember
the last ten years of your life. Especially some crucial
events within those last ten years like the birth of all
three of your children, or the fact that your beloved soul-
mate and husband is no longer living with Read more...
When Rory McCain returns her neighbor's dog, Hobo, who
wandered into her yard, she doesn't expect to find the
wandering canine's owner, Brenda Hartley, lying dead in the
middle of the kitchen floor. Not wanting Hobo to go to a
shelter, Rory decides to take him home Read more...
Tatiana fell in love with her Red Army officer, Alexander
Belov, in wartime Leningrad in 1941. Despite the horrifying
events which surrounded their lives, the two managed to
keep their love alive.
Now that the war is over, Alexander has joined Tatiana and
their son, Anthony, in the United States Read more...
Remember all the angst of high school society? Ahhh, good
times ... well, maybe not. For the girls of the secret Pink
Locker Society, helping their fellow classmates swim
through the muddy waters of popularity is not always an
easy job. And when one of them has a pressing problem of Read more...
Elderberry Bay, Pennsylvania is well known for its quaint
village feel, and for the shops that cater to every type of
sewing or crafting need -- so much so that it has been
nicknamed "Threadville." It seems like the perfect place
for machine embroidery enthusiast Willow Vanderling realize
her dream of Read more...
Everyone knows that the best way to stay healthy is to eat
healthy, but it isn't that easy of a thing to do all the
time.
Author and food blogger Tina Haupert shares her solution to
the dilemma of how to stay healthy and still enjoy food in
her Read more...
Needing to get away from her stressful life in Tinker's
Cove, Lucy Stone and her three best friends go to England
on holiday with a group of college students and their
parents. But while on the flight there, their tour guide
and college professor dies for what people assume Read more...
The bright lights and glamor of Nashville can be a heady
experience, and this holds especially true for Cindy
Blaskowitz, an aspiring singer/songwriter from Cabot Cove,
Maine. The young girl has been sent to Music City through a
scholarship program by the good people of Cabot Cove to
explore Read more...
Combining the past with the present, author William
Dietrich takes his readers on a chilling thrill ride in his
latest novel, BLOOD OF THE REICH.
There is a legend that hidden in the mountains of Tibet
there lies an amazing energy source, and the ones who have
it are guaranteed Read more...
When Cate Cooper's life implodes around her, the one place
that she knows she can go to regroup and restart her life
is Folly Beach - the place of her youth, the place she
feels safest, and most loved. The Lowcountry has always
been a place of healing, and with Read more...
What does the owner of a busy bed-and-breakfast do when she
gets fed up with all the chaos that seems to reign at her
abode? Well, if you're Judith Flynn, owner of the
beautiful Hillside Manor B&B, you take a vacation for
yourself! But when trouble Read more...
With all the plants withering away around us this hot, hot
summer, what a treat to sit back and relax with a
delightful debut mystery series featuring gardening.
Dorothy St. James' first novel, FLOWERBED OF STATE: A White
House Gardener Mystery, is just the ticket for all us
flustered and Read more...
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