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A Welcome Murder
A Welcome Murder

Robin Yocum · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

After his unspectacular professional baseball career ends with a knee injury in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny Earl gets busted for selling cocaine. After serving seven years in prison, all he wants to do is return to his hometown of Steubenville, retrieve the drug money he stashed before he went...
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Not on Fire, but Burning: A Novel
Not on Fire, but Burning: A Novel

Greg Hrbek · Melville House Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-year-old Skyler saw the incident out her window: Some sort of metallic object hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge just before it collapsed and a mushroom cloud lifted above the city. Like everyone, she ran, but she couldn't outrun the radiation, with her last thoughts being...
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Meek and Mild:
Meek and Mild:

Olivia Newport · SHILOH RUN PRESS; Gld edition
Format: Print book

The leadership in an Old Order Amish community requires shunning friends and family whose only offense is to embrace the new Protestant practice of Sunday school among the Mennonites, but teaching Bible stories to children is one of Clara Kuhns great joys. Claras on the verge of saying...
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Robert Ludlum's
Robert Ludlum's

Douglas Corleone · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

To prevent a war in Asia--one that could quickly spread to the rest of the world--Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid must learn the truth behind a young woman's murder...Prominent U.S. Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agents-turned-private security consultants Janson and Kincaid...
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Silver Surfer Vol. 2: Worlds Apart
Silver Surfer Vol. 2: Worlds Apart

Dan Slott · Marvel
Format: Print book

Everything up until now was chance and fate, but now it's decided. Dawn has earned her spot on the board, and she and the Surfer are going to explore the universe together. And the universe holds many wonders - including Planet Prime, the most perfect planet in the universe; a lone...
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I Was a Revolutionary: Stories
I Was a Revolutionary: Stories

Andrew Malan Milward · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A richly textured, diverse collection of stories that illuminate the heartland and America itself, exploring questions of history, race, and identity.Grounded in place, spanning the Civil War to the present day, the stories in I Was a Revolutionary capture the roil of history through the eyes...
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The Trial: A BookShot: A Women's Murder Club Story
The Trial: A BookShot: A Women's Murder Club Story

James Patterson · Bookshots
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

"I'm not on trial. San Francisco is."An accused murderer called Kingfisher is about to go on trial for his life. Or is he? By unleashing unexpected violence on the lawyers, jurors, and police involved in the case, he has paralyzed the city. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's...
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Superfluous Women: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
Superfluous Women: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

Carola Dunn · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of superfluous womenbrought...
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Cross Kill: A BookShot: An Alex Cross Story
Cross Kill: A BookShot: An Alex Cross Story

James Patterson · Bookshots
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Alex Cross, I'm coming for you--even from the grave if I have to. Along Came a Spider killer Gary Soneji has been dead for over ten years. Alex Cross watched him die. But today, Cross saw him gun down his partner. Is Soneji alive? A ghost? Or something even more sinister?Nothing will prepare...
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Day Four: A Novel
Day Four: A Novel

Sarah Lotz · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The chilling follow-up to The Three, Sarah Lotz's "hard to put down and vastly entertaining" debut (Stephen King) . Hundreds of pleasure-seekers stream aboard The Beautiful Dreamer cruise ship for five days of cut-price fun in the Caribbean sun. On the fourth day, disaster...
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The Assassination Option
The Assassination Option

W.E.B. Griffin · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times- and Wall Street Journal-bestselling author comes the dramatic second adventure in the brand-new Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency - and a new breed of warrior.In Top Secret, W.E.B. Griffin introduced a remarkable...
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The Wall of Storms
The Wall of Storms

Ken Liu · Saga Press
Pages: 858
Format: Print book

In the much-anticipated sequel to the "magnificent fantasy epic" (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni Garu is faced with the invasion of an invincible army in his kingdom and must quickly find a way to defeat the intruders.Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, runs the archipelago...
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Necessity.
Necessity.

Jo Walton · Tor
Pages: 334
Format: Print book

Necessity: the sequel to the acclaimed The Just City and The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton's tales of gods, humans, and what they have to learn from one another.More than sixty-five years ago, Pallas Athena founded the Just City on an island in the eastern Mediterranean, placing it centuries...
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