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The Witches of New York: A Novel

Ami McKay · Harper Perennial
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"Wonderfully wicked and deliciously dark, The Witches of New York had me totally spellbound. Reminiscent of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Ami McKay has written a book brimming with atmosphere, intrigue, and a cast of mesmerising characters. I loved it."...
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Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell · Atria Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

After her grandmother Arlette’s death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs—all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age—in order to care for Arlette in their dilapidated, albeit charming home on the English...
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Worthy Brown's Daughter

Phillip Margolin · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Known for his critically acclaimed contemporary thrillers, New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin explores intriguing new territory in Worthy Brown's Daughter, a compelling historical drama, set in nineteenth-century Oregon, that combines a heartbreaking story of slavery...
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Nine Lessons: A Josephine Tey Mystery

NICOLA UPSON. · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John's-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The body of the church's organist is found in an opened grave, together with a photograph of a manor house and a cryptic...
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Fatal Enquiry: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

Will Thomas · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover

Brimming with wit, atmosphere, and unforgettable characters, FATAL ENQUIRY reintroduces private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewellyn, and their unforgettable world of Victorian London. Some years ago, Cyrus Barker matched wits with Sebastian Nightwine, an aristocrat...
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The Ninth Hour: A Novel

ALICE MCDERMOTT · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover

A magnificent new novel from one of America's finest writers -- a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn.On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps...
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The Story of Arthur Truluv

ELIZABETH BERG · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"I dare you to read this novel and not fall in love with Arthur Truluv. His story will make you laugh and cry, and will show you a love that never ends, and what it means to be truly human." - Fannie FlaggAn emotionally powerful novel about three people who each lose the one they...
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James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner—A Graphic Biography

Alfonso Zapico · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 231
Format: Print book

A dazzling, prize-winning graphic biography of one of the world's most revered writers.Winner of Spain's National Comic Prize and published to acclaim in Ireland, here is an extraordinary graphic biography of James Joyce that offers a fresh take on his tumultuous life. With evocative anecdotes...
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House of Blazes

Dietrich Kalteis · ECW Press
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

In the days before the great earthquake and fire of 1906, officials and politicians deemed San Francisco s Barbary Coast a moral cancer on their Paris of the Pacific, and back-alley vice and corruption were giving way to cable cars and European opera. Levi Hayes returns from San Quentin...
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The Scot Beds His Wife

KERRIGAN BYRNE · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 416
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The Scot Beds His Wife is the next lush, captivating Victorian romance in the Victorian Rebels series by Kerrigan Byrne.They're rebels, scoundrels, and blackguards -- dark, dashing men on the wrong side of the law. But for the women who love them, a hint of danger only makes the heart beat...
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Mr. Miracle: A Christmas Novel

Debbie Macomber · Ballantine
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBeloved author Debbie Macomber celebrates the most wonderful time of the year in this heartwarming Christmas novel of romance, hope, and the comforts of home - coming soon as a Hallmark Channel original movie! Harry Mills is a guardian angel on a mission: help...
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The Hanging Judge: A Novel

Michael Ponsor · Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Format: Book

Based on the experience of the author, a federal judge who in 2000 presided over the first capital case in Massachusetts in more than fifty years, this extraordinary debut thriller offers an unprecedented inside view of a federal death penalty trialWhen a drive-by shooting in Holyoke, Massachusetts,...
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A Snow Country Christmas

Linda Lael Miller · HQN Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

It's a Christmas affair to remember as a Hollywood mogul discovers his inner cowboy - and the woman of his dreams - amid the rugged beauty of Wyoming. Raine McCall would take snow-covered mountains over a star-studded premiere any day. But when hotshot movie executive Mick Branson arranges...
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Trajectory: Stories

Richard Russo · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar...
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New Leaf: A Mystic Creek Novel

Catherine Anderson · Signet Book
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author of Silver Thaw returns to Mystic Creek for a new novel about a love that inspires the courage to start over ... and the strength to reclaim a dream. When Taffeta Brown was viciously betrayed by her wealthy husband, she lost everything - including...
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