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Cooper's Charm

Lori Foster · HQN
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

One summer, two sisters and a chance to start over ... Before the burglary that shattered her confidence, Phoenix Rose had a fiancé, a successful store and a busy, happy existence. After months spent adrift, she takes a job at the lakeside resort of Cooper's Charm. Surrounded by beautiful...
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Man on Fire

Stephen Kelman · Bloomsbury
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

John Lock has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England--decades wasted in a meaningless job, a marriage foundering in the wake of loss, and a terrible secret he cannot bear to share with his wife--and has come to India to meet his destiny.A destiny dressed in a white karate suit...
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If You Give a Rake a Ruby

Shana Galen · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: Paperback

Her Mysterious Past is the Best Revenge... Only He Can Offer Her a Dazzling FutureFallon, the Marchioness of Mystery, is a celebrated courtesan with her finger on the pulse of high society. She's adored by men, hated by their wives. No one knows anything about her past, and she plans...
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Mannequin Girl: A Novel

Ellen Litman · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A heartfelt and deftly told coming-of-age story, Mannequin Girl captures the bleakness of Soviet Russia and the hopeful turmoil of adolescence."A perfect little figure," he says. "Our mannequin girl." She knows who mannequin girls are. They are in her grandmother's...
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Girls on Fire: A Novel

Robin Wasserman · Harpercollins
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

On Halloween, 1991, a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, and disappears. Three days later, he's found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand - a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved...
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Nothing in Her Way / River Girl

Charles Williams · Stark House Press, 2014.
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

Nothing in Her Way presents a convoluted story of two con artists, while River Girl is a classic backwoods thriller about a man who falls for the wrong woman. Both of these novels were originally published in the early 1950's by Gold Medal Books.
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The Waking Engine

David Edison · Tor Books
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die.Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die again,...
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Temptation's Darling

Johanna Lindsey · Gallery Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey blends passion and humor in a dazzling Regency-era novel in which a disastrous debutante becomes the toast of the town with a little help from a friend of the Prince Regent's.Threatened by powerful enemies, William Blackburn, Earl of Ketterham,...
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The Tragedy of Brady Sims

Ernest J Gaines · Vintage
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order. After Brady...
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Vanishing Games: A novel

Roger Hobbs · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

The gritty, riveting, highly anticipated sequel to the national (and international) best seller Ghostman, by the critically acclaimed and award-winning Roger Hobbs It's just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. Their...
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The Survivors: A Cal Henderson Novel

Robert Palmer · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 319
Format: Paperback

"Do you think you know what your own mother might do? The Survivors is an up-close-and-personal mystery - the best suspense I've read this year. It will haunt you." - DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Outlander seriesPsychologist Cal Henderson has a successful...
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Heat and Light: A Novel

Jennifer Haigh · Ecco
Pages: 430
Format: Print book

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPRAcclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America...
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Amber Brown Is on the Move

Bruce Coville · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Fun and not-so-fun changes are keeping Amber Brown, the most colorful chapter-book character, hopping!Now that Amber’s mom and Max are married, the three of them are moving to a new house and Amber is worried about more than just packing. How can she leave the home her dad used to live...
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The Satanic Mechanic: A Tannie Maria Mystery

Sally Andrew · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Meet Tannie Maria - recipe writer turned crime fighter - and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In this wonderful sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder, Slimkat the bushman finds his life...
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The Fireman: A Novel

Joe Hill · William Morrow
Pages: 752
Format: Audiobook

Click Here For the Autographed Copy From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle...
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