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Fran Benedetto tells a spellbinding story: how at 19 she fell in love with Bobby Benedetto; how their passionate marriage became a nightmare; why she stayed and then what happened on the night she finally decided to run away with her son and start a new life under a new name.
When her delectable spread for socialite Delaine Dish's charity Candelight Concert is interrupted by the killing of ex-CEO and beloved local politician Duke Wilkes, tea shop proprietor Theodosia Browning is asked by the victim's widow to uncover the truth about the crime, but her investigation soon leads her into the middle of a case involving corruption, dirty dealings and revenge.
The children of Tom and Dorian Courtney travel the infamous "Robber's Road" en route to a claim in southern Africa, encountering along the way the area's beautiful wilderness, warring tribes and wild animals.
Emma Brown by
The author creates a complete narrative around the 20 pages of unfinished manuscript by Charlotte Brontë about a mysterious young student, the child of an apparently wealthy father, who turns a provincial Victorian school upside down.
Jane McGregor has just been laid off from her job designing pink slips for an office supply company. The irony is not lost on her. She's a 28-year-old art major whose last major career accomplishment was being propositioned by the company vice president. Desperate to maintain her freedom from her oddball parents, tyrannical older brother and slacker ex-boyfriend, Jane starts sending out resumés. So what if some of them aren't exactly, well, true.
Rear Admiral Jake Grafton is dispatched to Moscow to ensure that the 20,000 tactical nuclear weapons about to be auctioned off by the Soviet military do not fall into the hands of terrorists.
Recounts a boy's struggle to understand his grandmother's illness and his discovery of a gift with the power to heal.
In 1871, Mormons take vengeance against those who have wronged them.
Despite their misgivings about "the Cause," Willie Burke and his best friends, three young men from New Iberia, La., enlist in the Confederate Army and head off to war, in a novel drawn from the author's own family history.
When she is asked to make the wedding dress for her ex-husband's new bride-to-be, seamstress Vonnie Taylor, who has never gotten over Adam Baldwin, must deal with her feelings toward this man who broke her heart as danger, betrayal and dark secrets bring them back together.
The Ballad of Frankie Silver by
As a convicted killer awaits execution in Tennessee, Sheriff Spencer Arrowood wonders if he arrested the right man years ago. Searching for answers, he discovers shocking parallels with a case more than a century old - the controversial hanging of a 19-year-old North Carolina woman. Suddenly he finds himself in a frantic struggle to stop history from repeating itself.
Black by
Thomas Hunter narrowly survives a shooting attempt only to awaken in an alternate universe of green forests, a world to which he subsequently travels every time he goes to sleep.
The Black Angel: A Thriller by
Assisting a friend in a search for a kidnapped woman, detective Charlie Parker links the abduction to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and the myth of an object known as the Black Angel.
Dave Robicheaux, ex-New Orleans policeman whose wife was killed by drug lords, lives quietly in New Iberia, running a bait and tackle shop and taking care of Alafair, the little Central American girl he and his wife rescued from the Gulf after a plane crash. Then his friend and college roommate comes to him for help, and Dave is thrown into the violent world of professional killers and the mafia, as he follows a trail to Montana to get out of a murder rap and to save himself and those he loves.
Thirteen-year-old Angie Sullivan adores her family's new home at Black Creek Crossing, until she discovers that the house had been the scene of a double murder and the focus of a series of increasingly bizarre events.
Twenty years after Caroline Webb's five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was kidnapped and murdered, Caroline finds her life with her new husband and daughter threatened by bizarre events that lead her to believe that Hayley wants revenge.
Black Girl/White Girl: A Novel by
Remembering the talented African-American roommate who died under mysterious circumstances 15 years earlier, Genna begins an unofficial inquiry into her death, reconstructing their tumultuous freshman year in race-torn 1960s Philadelphia.
L.A.P.D. detective Harry Bosch investigates the mysterious death of a narcotics officer who was reportedly selling a new drug called black ice.
Dr. and Mrs. Marline say that they found Carmel under an azalea bush, but 10 years later, Carmel discovers that she is actually a family member.
In the wake of their adventure in China, Captain Will Laurence of His Majesty's Aerial Corps and his dragon, Temeraire, are sent on a mission to protect three valuable dragon eggs on a trip back to England from the Ottoman Empire, but the vengeful Chinese dragon Lien allies herself with Napoleon to stop them.
Freed slave Honey Boutrille and white bandit Twice Emmerson learn that Western justice is not exactly black and white when they cross the line and go on a crime spree.
Black Sunday by
Michael Lander, a disgruntled veteran with a fascination for explosives, pilots television blimps over packed sports stadiums each weekend. When a beautiful terrorist operative hands him the explosive firepower he needs, Lander sets in motion a plan that could turn Super Bowl Sunday into the darkest day in American history.
Black Water by
Detective Merci Rayborn must unravel a tangled web of murder, betrayal, and love when the attempted murder/suicide of young cop Archie Wildcraft, who is still alive with a bullet in his head, and his wife leads her in pursuit of the truth.
Antiques dealer Weezie Foley works vigorously to win a window decorating contest, an effort that is challenged when components from her display begin to disappear and her fiancé begins to act in a distant manner.
Blue Dahlia by
Centering around three courageous women, who meet for the first time at a crossroads in their lives, this first installment in a trilogy follows Stella as she casts aside her fears and finds a special love that she will do anything to protect.
Novalis, living in 18th-century Germany in a rambunctious family, decides to marry Sophie, a child of 12, because she seems to him like a blue flower, the one thing he wants to see in his life.
Blue Heron by
While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels.
In Southern California a serial killer targets beautiful young women.
Precious Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, investigate local advice columnist Aunty Emang, who may be linked to trouble at a local medical clinic and the cobra that somehow ended up in Precious' office.
Blue Smoke by
Pursuing a career as an arson investigator after a fire destroys her family's pizzeria, Reena Hale embarks on a relationship with Bo Goodnight and finds herself targeted by an arsonist who taunts her with threatening phone calls.
Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a Hillfolk king with mysterious powers.
When Conrad Valdez is hired to locate the missing Rachel Espinoza he opens the investigation with a visit to one of the last people the missing girl spoke to - Denver attorney Luis Montez - only to find that Rachel's novel-in-progress has been stolen from Montez's desk.
Attending a party at the replica site of a historic castle, New York film critic Mitch Berger and resident trooper Desiree Mitry find themselves trapped with other guests in the wake of an ice storm, a situation that turns deadly when the guests begin dying off.
Cat In A Golden Garland: A Midnight Louie Mystery by
Las Vegas' feline supersleuth and his redheaded owner go on the prowl when a Madison Avenue ad agency's chief executive forgoes his traditional Santa suit for a company party and instead hires an actor, who somehow turns up dead, and the dazzling duo must catch a killer.
Cat In A Hot Pink Pursuit: A Midnight Louie Mystery by
Investigating the appearance of bizarrely mutilated Barbie dolls throughout Las Vegas, amateur detective Temple Barr, assisted by feline companion Midnight Louie, agrees to go undercover on a reality TV show among a horde of ruthless teen blondes.
Cat In An Orange Twist: A Midnight Louie Mystery by
Planning the opening events for a trendy new furniture showroom, Temple Barr investigates a threat made on the life of a media-crowned domestic maven.
After moving into an old mansion whose previous owner committed suicide, prize-winning reporter Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats are disturbed by strange occurrences and start to investigate when Qwilleran's old girlfriend disappears.
Returning as a successful artist to the home of the family that adopted him, Seth Quinn is intrigued by independent newcomer Dru Whitcomb Banks, who is hesitant to trust Seth, while dark secrets from the past threaten the entire Quinn family.
Presents Burgess' satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence.
Jean Stevie Stevenson is 11 in 1965, and while growing up in Chicago, she becomes influenced by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
Two African-American sisters, one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, support each other through their correspondence, beginning in the 1920s.
Introduces Federal Department of Transportation inspector Owen Allison, who travels to a small mining town, intent on stopping a bus fare scam, but finds more than he bargained for when a local gadfly is murdered.
A missing collection of valuable figurines leads Travis McGee to the killer of an old friend, Sam Taggart.
When Jane Kelly is asked by the son of Lake Chinook's wealthiest family to convince its senile matriarch to give up control of the family fortune, she is faced with a murderous free-for-all as each of the family members scrambles to get their hands on the money.
Fool's Gold by
In 1905, the Skinners are traveling to California to live near O.T. Skinner's brother when they decide to pass through Goldfield, Nev., the last gold-rush boomtown to spring up. O.T. and his wife, Dola, don't plan to stay; they want to build a good life for their four children elsewhere. However, circumstances and their belief that God leads them end up keeping them in Goldfield, where they quickly shut down a water monopoly, befriend both sides of a feud, and help another poor family get back on its feet.
Nate Richardson, 18, is attracted to his preacher brother's wife, but they move away, and he spends time trying to take over the cigarette industry until they return.
When a female cadet dies during parade and an autopsy reveals that she had sex with multiple partners the night before, West Point finds its reputation on the line, and it is up to Ry Slaight to uncover the truth
Chronicles the history of a painting and the lives with which it intersects, from the artist's inspiration to its admiration by two art scholars three hundred years later.
Impoverished attorney John Sutter and his wife find their world colliding with that of their new neighbor, Frank "the Bishop" Bellarosa, when John is forced to defend Frank in a murder trial.
The Grays by
Drawing from a lifetime of research and his own experiences, Strieber, author of Communion, offers up a fictional account of the conspiracy behind the alien presence on Earth while also giving us a startling look inside the alien mind. Meet the Three Thieves, a group of Grays assigned to duty in a small Kentucky town. They have been preparing a child for generations. Innocent Conner Callaghan will face the ultimate terror as he struggles to understand who he has been bred to become, and what he must do to save humanity.
Jessy Niles Calder finds her marriage to Ty Calder threatened by the return of his ex-wife Tara, whose devious and dangerous machinations divide the Calder family and threaten to destroy their marriage as well as their lives.
The story of a convicted killer on death row and one of the prison guards assigned there.
When Dixon, a criminal who Billy Bob Holland helped send to prison, is released on a technicality, Holland finds his loved ones endangered by the vengeful killer.
Knights of the Black and White by
Shortly after his initiation into the Order of the Knights Templar, Sir Hugh de Payens is drawn into the turbulence of the First Crusade and joins with fellow members of the Order to uncover the roots of the secret society that has guided his family for generations.
Learning to depend on her faith in God and developing into a strong and reliable woman, Virginia copes with her aging parents and with the disruptive reappearance of Mindy's gypsy-like mother.
Lily White by
While working on the case of a con man accused of murdering his latest victim, criminal defense attorney Lee White is devastated when her husband Jasper asks for a divorce, demanding custody of their daughter, to marry Lee's sister, Robin.
The Masque Of The Black Tulip by
When a London War Office courier is murdered for the confidential dispatch he carried for a spy known as the Pink Carnation, Henrietta Uppington and Miles Dorrington work with the War Office to prevent the Pink Carnation's assassination.
The murder, in the executive mansion, of the secretary of state prompts an immediate and sweeping investigation of all suspects, including the president and his family, an investigation that leads to a second astonishing murder, in a new edition of the first novel in the Capital Crimes series.
Old Town In The Green Groves: The Lost Little House Years by
After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
Orange Crushed: An Ivy League Mystery by
Harvard economics instructor Nikki Chase is horrified when she discovers that the Princeton University professor who mentored her, who had written a controversial bestseller on race, has died suspiciously in a fire at the university.
An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.
Pink Jinx by
Veronica Jinkowsky is stunned when her estranged grandfather gives her his famous treasure hunting company and then manipulates her into searching for a stash of pink diamonds that went down with a ship, until she discovers his true agenda.
Thirty years ago a whore was murdered by a bunch of cops and dumped in the bayou bordering Purple Cane Road. That whore was Dave Robicheaux's mother. Dave's search for his mother's killer leads him to the darker places in his past, and what it means to be his mother's son.
Red by
Christian suspense author Dekker continues his highly successful Circle trilogy with protagonist (and failed writer) Thomas Hunter living in two alternating realities, each on the brink of mass destruction. When he falls asleep or is knocked unconscious, Thomas switches worlds.
Henry Fleming, a young Union soldier, struggles with his conflicting emotions about violence, death, and the nature of bravery in this ironic, skeptical account of the Civil War.
Red Dragon by
An introduction to Dr. Hannibal Lecter. FBI agent Will Graham has hunted Lecter down - risking his sanity and his life to the dual killer called the Red Dragon.
Best friends since high school, a tightly knit club of five southern women rallies together when one of their husbands is discovered to be having an affair.
The Red Hat Club Rides Again by
When their childhood friend, Pru, falls off the wagon, Red Hat Club members Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda rally to reinstate her sobriety, an endeavor involving a haphazard Vegas kidnapping and wayward group therapy sessions.
The Red Hat Society's Acting Their Age by
When Mia MacAfee and Leanne Chilton, the owners of a coffee shop, come to the aid of Rachel, a runaway whom the sheriff wants to send to a juvenile facility, their actions could spell doom for Mia's growing relationship with the sheriff.
Exhausted after years as an environmental lobbyist, Renâe LeDeux returns to Louisiana, only to discover that his great aunt has come up with a scheme to marry him off, and that two of his buddies have come up with a bizarre plan to save the bayou.
Red Light by
Merci Rayborn is back on the case of a young prostitute found murdered. A fellow police officer, Mike McNally, is the prime suspect. He is also Merci's boyfriend and she must struggle with where the truth leads her against where her heart tells her to go.
Red Lily by
Hayley, finally finding a place to settle down with her young daughter, revels in newfound friendships, one of which leads to romance, while investigating a centuries-old mystery.
The Red Pony by
Traces a boy's journey into manhood after his father gives him a pony to train and care for.
The Red Tent by
The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by her brother, leaving her alone and pregnant. The novel traces her life from childhood to death, in the process examining sexual and religious practices of the day, and what it meant to be a woman.
Red Unicorn by
Feeling neglected because her sorceress mother is enamored with a flamboyant magician and her sister, Empress Lizra, is infatuated with her own true love, Tanaquil is drawn into another world in which her mirror self is plotting to murder her sister
Red, White, And Blue: A Novel by
On a mission to infiltrate an armed, virulently anti-Semitic, white supremacist group, FBI agent Charlie Blair - who possesses a deeply buried Jewish heritage - meets journalist Lauren Miller, hired by the Jewish News to investigate the group, who is seeking answers to her own questions about her Jewish legacy.
Mattie Fiona Blue mourns the death of her husband, a fisherman, while she tells the story of her own chaotic, troubled life, and her relationship with her husband's colorful Greek-American family.
A brilliant criminal known only as the Mastermind orchestrates a series of bank robberies that are notable for their very precise demands - and their explosive violence when the demands are not met. Alex Cross takes on the case and as he gets close to identifying a suspect, the Mastermind pulls off the most outrageous kidnapping scheme in U.S. history - and walks away with the largest ransom ever.
The Secret History Of The Pink Carnation by
Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers information about the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.
Silver Scream: A Bed-And-Breakfast Mystery by
The arrival of a Hollywood film crew in sleepy Hillside Manor on Halloween portends trouble for B & B owner Judith McMonigle Flynn, who soon finds herself investigating the death of the producer.
After bearing six children, Hester Bateman becomes a silversmith in 18th-century London, and establishes a reputation as an artisan.
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue by
Four women arrive in Sweetwater, Texas, determined to earn the silver wings of an army pilot and the blue uniform of the WASPs.
As torrential downpours and rising floodwaters plague the town of Purple Sage, Texas, a dead body is discovered in a ditch, and Jolie Wyatt takes the case, cleverly navigating small-town politics with her renowned Texas charm.
Sweet Violet by
Malcolm Rosse has enticed missionary Edmund Sherbourne to find his runaway daughter with the promise of a permit to preach freely in India. When Edmund first catches sight of Violet Rosse in a Calcutta market, something about the girl (besides her golden braid) distracts him. Born and raised in India, Violet wants to avoid an arranged marriage in England and turns Edmund's life upside down. The third book in Christy Award winner Palmer's "Victorian" series (after English Ivy and Wild Heather).
Mitford rector Father Tim faces the new challenges of matrimony after he marries his vivacious Cynthia, from the trials and tribulations of the parish's new computer, to redecorating the rectory, to his dog's new sleeping arrangements.
Trojan Gold: A Vicky Bliss Mystery by
Set in the posh ski resorts of Southern Germany, this novel follows the adventures of art historian Vicky Bliss as she searches for the famous gold of Troy.
Drawn into the case of a murdered fellow teacher at Windemere Christian College, Rabbi David Small finds his investigation complicated when a bomb in the dean's office significantly increases the suspect list.
Turnip Blues by
As two 75-year-old friends, Mrs. Kuzo and Mrs. Lemack, drive from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia to visit the grave of blues artist Bessie Smith, Mrs. Kuzo reflects on her life and is haunted by the death of her twin sister Annie.
Alex Cross joins forces with a female San Francisco detective to investigate a pattern of murders occurring across the country that draws him into the bizarre subculture of ritual role-playing and vampirism.
Weaves together the stories of two women in two different centuries - 20th-century Ella, who dreams in blue when she moves to France, and 16th-century Isabelle, Ella's ancestor, who was persecuted as a suspected witch.
A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.
Yuri, eldest son of Anna Fedorcenko, wants a medical career badly enough to ignore the revolution brewing at the beginning of the 20th century, but his brother Andrei, with whom his foster sister is in love, is excited by the fray. (Series: The Russians, 6)
White by
Thomas tries to fight wars on two different worlds, one in which a virus threatens to wipe out all life and the other in which a forbidden love can destroy the Circle.
White Death: A Novel From The NUMA Files by
A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser forces NUMA Special Assignments Team leader Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a ship of trapped men.
White Lies by
Fearing that her psychic abilities have damaged her chances of having a healthy relationship, Clare Lancaster travels to California to assist her father's business and meets financial consultant Jake Salter, with whom she shares an unlikely chemistry.
At the age of 12, Astrid has her world blown away when her mother is sentenced to life in prison for murdering her lover. Sharpened by harsh foster home environments, Astrid remakes herself as a survivor, and ultimately, an artist.
A Yellow Raft In Blue Water by
Follows three generations of Indian women beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably bound together by the indissoluble bonds of kinship.
Nonfiction Titles
Black Like Me by call number: 301.451 G85b 2003
The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America by call number: 364.1523 L33d
Gray Ghost: The Life Of Col. John Singleton Mosby by call number: B M894R
The Red Hat Society: Fun And Friendship After Fifty by call number: 305.244 C77r
Red, White, Black & Blue: A Dual Memoir Of Race And Class In Appalachia by call number: 305.800973 D77r
Ship Of Gold In The Deep Blue Sea by call number: 910.91631 K51s
Songs Sung Red, White, And Blue: Stories Behind The Best-Loved Patriotic Songs by call number: 782.42 C71s
When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple by call number: 810.8 W56 1991
The Wild Blue: The Men And Boys Who Flew The B-24s Over Germany by call number: 940.544973 A49w
The World of Thrush Green by call number: 823.914 R28w
Black Knights: The Story Of The Tuskegee Airmen by call number: 940.544973 H76b
The Blue Day Book: A Lesson In Cheering Yourself Up by call number: 152.4 G82b
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America by call number: 917.3 H43b
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by call number: 910.92 H82b
Chicken Soup For The Golden Soul: Heartwarming Stories Of People 60 And Over by call number: 158.1 C53g (large type)
Creating Black Americans: African-American History And Its Meanings, 1619 To The Present by call number: 973.0496 P14c
Cruise Ship Blues: The Underside Of The Cruise Industry by call number: 910.2 K64c
Daily Meditations On Golden Texts Of The Bible by call number: 242.5 G23d
The Golden Girls Of MGM: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly And Others by call number: 791.43028 W35g
Green River, Running Red: The Real Story Of The Green River Killer, America's Deadliest Serial Murderer by call number: 364.1523 R93g
I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story Of Life After Triplets by call number: 649.1 S86i
In Black And White: The Life Of Sammy Davis by call number: 780.0711 D26H
In The Land Of White Death: An Epic Story Of Survival In The Siberian Arctic by call number: 919.804 A32i 2001
John Brown by call number: B B878Be
The Kennedy White House: Family Life And Pictures, 1961-1963 by call number: 973.922 A62k
Love In Black And White: A Memoir Of Race, Religion, And Romance by call number: 929.2 C673L
Lovesick Blues: The Life Of Hank Williams by call number: 780.0711 W72H
The Red Hat Society's Laughlines: Stories Of Inspiration And Hattitude by call number: 305.244 C77re
Red Scared! The Commie Menace In Propaganda And Popular Culture by call number: 973.9 qB28r
Red Sky In Mourning: A True Story Of Love, Loss, And Survival At Sea by call number: 910.91 A82r
Shades Of Blue And Gray: An Introductory Military History Of The Civil War by call number: 973.73 H36s
Stupid White Men -- And Other Sorry Excuses For The State Of The Nation! by call number: 817.54 M82s
Uncovering The Secrets Of The Red Planet: Mars by call number: 523.43 fR13u
The White Death: Tragedy And Heroism In An Avalanche Zone by call number: 363.34 J52w
White Silk & Black Tar: A Journal Of The Alaska Oil Spill by call number: 628.168 S74w
Who's Afraid Of A Large Black Man? by call number: 305.800973 B25w
Yellow: Race In America Beyond Black And White by call number: 305.895 W95y