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Painted Horses

Malcolm Brooks · Grove Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape, in a tale of the modern and the ancient,...
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The Kingdom on the Edge of Reality

Gahan Hanmer · Two Harbors Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Albert Keane's beautifully designed medieval kingdom nestled in a completely isolated river valley in the Canadian wilderness. Peaceful, happy, and prosperous, it takes nothing from the modern world, not so much as a single clock. There is a castle, of course, and a monastery....
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The Golden House: A Novel

SALMAN RUSHDIE · Random House
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover

A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture - a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence...
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Pharaoh: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

Wilbur Smith · William Morrow
Pages: 408
Format: Print book

Worldwide #1 bestselling author Wilbur Smith returns to Ancient Egypt in a captivating new novel that will transport you to extraordinary times.EGYPT IS UNDER ATTACK.Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient city of Luxor is surrounded, All seems lost.Taita, advisor to the Pharaoh,...
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Snap

BELINDA BAUER · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning crime writer Belinda Bauer, "the true heir to the great Ruth Rendell" [Mail on Sunday (UK) ], Snap is a gripping novel about a teenage boy's hunt for his mother's killer. Jack's in charge, said his mother as she disappeared up the road to get help. I won't...
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Lady Claire Is All That: Keeping Up with the Cavendishes

Maya Rodale · Avon Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In the third installment of Maya Rodale's captivating, witty series, a marquess finds his fair lady - but must figure out how to keep herHER BRAINS ... Claire Cavendish is in search of a duke, but not for the usual reasons. The man she seeks is a mathematician; the man she unwittingly...
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California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas

Pnlope Bagieu · First Second
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover

It's Mama Cass as you've never known her, in this poignant graphic novel about the remarkable vocalist who rocketed The Mamas & the Papas to stardom. Before she was the legendary Mama Cass of the folk group The Mamas and the Papas, Ellen Cohen was a teen girl from Baltimore with an incredible...
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Don't Blink

Howard Roughan · Vision; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

A TOUGH REPORTER WHO LOVES HIS WORK . . . AND THE WOMAN HE WORKS FORAfter a dangerous assignment, magazine reporter Nick Daniels deserves to rest. But his editor, Courtney, asks him to conduct an exclusive interview with an infamous bad boy. It's an offer Nick can't refuse, and he will...
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One Heart to Win

Johanna Lindsey · Pocket Books
Pages: 433
Format: Paperback

In her fiftieth novel, New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey takes her readers on a sensual, romantic adventure through the American West.Some young ladies marry for money and social standing, a few lucky ones marry for love - but Tiffany Warren is marrying to end a feud. Honoring...
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Haunted

Randy Wayne White · G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Hannah Smith returns in the stunning new adventure in the New York Timesbestselling series from the author of the Doc Ford novels. The house is historic, some say haunted. It is also slated to be razed and replaced by condos, unless Hannah Smith can do something about it. Shes been hired...
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The Artisan's Wife

Judith Miller · Bethany House
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Delightful Blend of History and RomanceAinslee McKay's world is shaken when she discovers her twin sister has not only eloped with a man she barely knows but now Ainslee must fulfill their obligation at a tile works in Weston, West Virginia. Ainslee must learn the ropes and, if she can keep...
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Outlaw: A Robin Monarch Novel

Mark Sullivan · Minotaur Books
Format: Book

"Action-packed...Comparisons to Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series are justified." -Associated Press In Outlaw, the U.S. Secretary of State and the foreign ministers of China and India have been kidnapped. The "Sons of Prophecy" take responsibility and issue an ultimatum:...
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All I Have in This World: A Novel

Michael Parker · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 311
Format: Print book

"Part empathetic portrait of troubled souls and part Springsteenian ode to the promise and heartbreak of the highway . . . Told with . . . emotional complexity and subtlety." -- The New York TimesTwo strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing...
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Magefall

Stephen Aryan · Orbit
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

When magic is feared, the mages must learn to fight for themselves in this powerful sequel to the standout epic fantasy Mageborn by Stephen Aryan. The land is in turmoil. Mages are hunted by men and gods alike. Even their own kind betray each other in the name of safety and protection....
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The Lost Woman

Sara Blædel · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Following the incredible success of Sara Blaedel's #1 international bestsellers The Forgotten Girls and The Killing Forest, Louise Rick-head of the police department's elite Special Search Agency charged with missing persons cases-returns in Sara's latest twist-filled suspense novel...THE...
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