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Flesh and Blood: A Scarpetta Novel

Patricia Daniels Cornwell · HarperCollins
Pages: 369
Format: Print book

It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny...
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Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be

Marshall Goldsmith · Crown Business
Format: Hardcover

In his powerful new book, bestselling author and world-renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith examines the environmental and psychological triggers that can derail us at work and in life.Do you ever find that you are not the patient, compassionate problem solver you believe yourself...
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The Mistletoe Inn: A Novel

Richard Paul Evans · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

The second holiday love story in New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans's Mistletoe Collection.At thirty-two Kimberly Rossi, a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership, has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two failed engagements, a divorce...
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The Mother's Promise

Sally Hepworth · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Sally Hepworth novels are "sure to appeal to fans of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, and Lisa Genova; book clubs will be lining up." -- Library Journal (starred review) All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter, Zoe, have been a family of two, living quietly in Northern California....
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Golden Age: A novel

Jane Smiley · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 443
Format: Print book

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final volume, following Some Luck and Early Warning, of her acclaimed American trilogy - a richly absorbing new novel that brings the remarkable Langdon family into our present times and beyond A lot can happen in one hundred...
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Host

Robin Cook · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook. Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina's Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters...
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Allie and Bea

Catherine Ryan Hyde · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback

An Amazon Charts bestseller.Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After falling for a telephone scam, she loses everything and is forced to abandon her trailer. With only two-thirds of a tank in her old van, she heads toward the Pacific Ocean with her cat - on a mission...
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Sausage Making: The Definitive Guide with Recipes

Ryan Farr · Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

By the author of Whole Beast ButcheryWith the rise of the handcrafted food movement, food lovers are going crazy for the all-natural, uniquely flavored, handmade sausages theyre finding in butcher cases everywhere. At San Franciscos 4505 Meats, butcher Ryan Farr takes the craft of sausage...
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The innovators : how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution

Walter Isaacson · Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Pages: 542
Format: Print book

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a "riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving" (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.What...
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Caroline: Little House, Revisited

SARAH MILLER · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In this novel authorized by Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before--Caroline...
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A curious mind : the secret to a bigger life

Brian Grazer · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

"From Academy Award-nominated producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes a brilliantly entertaining peek into the weekly "curiosity conversations" that have inspired Grazer to create some of America's favorite and iconic movies and television...
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan · Crown
Pages: 371
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir unfolds the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of a village choir during World War II As England becomes enmeshed in the early days of World War II and the men are away fighting, the women...
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Grant Writing For Dummies, 5th Edition

Beverly A. Browning · For Dummies; 5 edition
Format: Book

Learn to: Navigate federal grant databases and apply online for grants Find the most current public and private sector grant opportunities Create strong statements of need Submit applications that meet funders' expectations Your comprehensive guide to finding and winning grant monies...
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The Odds of Getting Even

Sheila Turnage · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 342
Format: Print book

Humor and action abound in this second follow-up to the Newbery honor winner and New York Times bestseller, Three Times LuckyThe trial of the century has come to Tupelo Landing, NC. Mo and Dale, aka Desperado Detectives, head to court as star witnesses against Dale's daddy--confessed kidnapper...
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Jeff Hobbs · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young African-American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets - and of one's own nature - when he returns home.When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University,...
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