All the Truth
Nine years ago, English Professor Emma Greene was at her rural home with her five-year-old daughter while her husband was away. That night, she encounters a group of college students trespassing on...
View ArticleThe Pigeon Pie Mystery
There is a clever mystery in this delightful historical novel, but the real pleasure is in watching Princess Alexandrina, or Mink, adapt to her new home and neighbors. When her father, the Maharaja of...
View ArticleThe Plum Tree
It is 1938, in a quiet, beautiful German village and the country is on the brink of another World War. Seventeen year-old Christine and Isaac are in love and afraid of their families’ reaction....
View ArticleDora: A Headcase
Dora: A Headcase is a proudly screwy response to Sigmund Freud’s 1905 case study that riled up author Lidia Yuknavitch in a college course some years back. Protagonist Ida is sent to therapy by her...
View ArticleHell or High Water
Times-Picayune reporter Nola Céspedes is assigned to take on a story about registered sexual offenders living off the grid in post-Katrina New Orleans. Readers follow Nola on her interviews, piecing...
View ArticleThe Anatomist’s Wife
When Kiera, Lady Darby’s, husband died suddenly, her role in his work on an anatomy text was discovered. She is vilified as unnatural and shunned from polite society. She returns to Scotland to live...
View ArticleShadow on the Crown
Life in Dark Age Britain 1002 A.D. – Viking raids every summer and cold and hunger every winter. Not exactly a Disney movie! 15-year old Emma is thrust into the center of this violent world with her...
View ArticleMadame Tussaud
It is France in the year 1788 and the Revolution is about to begin. Young sculptress Marie Grosholtz works with her family in the wax salon, the Salon de Cire in Paris. She has become an accomplished...
View ArticleRules of Civility
It’s New Year’s Eve 1937 in New York City. Katey, the witty narrator, and her roommate, Eve, both in their twenties, find themselves enraptured by a smartly-dressed man who enters the bar. The three...
View ArticleStray Souls
Stray Souls is the first novel in the new Magicals Anonymous paranormal series. The novel takes place in the same world as the author’s previous Matthew Swift tales, but the reader does not have to...
View ArticleTroublemaker
Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker meet again in Janet Evanovich’s debut graphic novel, Troublemaker. Alex and Sam just seem to attract trouble – not to mention a crew of voodoo worshipers, kidnappers, and...
View ArticleThe Age of Miracles
Julia’s world is changing and not in the typical way an 11-year-old’s does as she learns to navigate the trials of middle school. The story opens on the day that shocking news broke. The earth’s...
View ArticleThe Uninvited
This chilling novel is a cross of dystopian, horror and science fiction genres. Children are viciously attacking their families, loyal employees are sabotaging their work places, is there a...
View ArticleThe Family Fang
Imagine your father attaching homemade flares to his back and holding six month old you as he walks through a crowded mall, smoke and flames shooting out from his clothes. Your mother is on the second...
View ArticleThe Driftless Area
What is the role of destiny in a directionless life? Are chance meetings – moments that define lifetimes – as random as they appear? For Pierre Hunter, protagonist of Tom Drury’s Driftless Area, these...
View ArticleA Conspiracy of Friends
You may be familiar with Alexander McCall Smith as the bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. This title is the third in his series, A Corduroy Mansions Novel. Corduroy Mansions is...
View ArticleJuggernaut
A runaway train, called a juggernaut, is racing through the vast and empty Iraqi desert. When it is boarded by American soldiers, they find two American mercenaries barely alive. The mercenaries were...
View ArticleTelegraph Avenue
Archy Stallings, funk bassist, vinyl expert, and unwilling heir to his father’s kung-fu blaxploitation film legacy, is in crisis. Brokeland Records, his Oakland record store and livelihood, is truly...
View ArticleThe Language of Flowers
Victoria Jones is a young woman who, abandoned at birth, has grown up in California’s foster care system. She is angry and lonely but gets a final chance of a good home with Elizabeth, a single woman...
View ArticleThis Is Where I Leave You
Judd Foxman walked in on his own surprise on his wife’s birthday – she was cheating on him with his boss. As if this wasn’t upsetting enough, his father passed away and he and his family have been...
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