From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail"If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?"It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter and several painful secrets, she has nothing to lose.So she joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None of them are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek through the high plains, mountains, and deserts, or for the triumphs of finding strengths they did not know they possessed.
St. Martin's Press
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9781250260321
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Hardcover
The Yellow Wife
By Johnson, Sadeqa
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. But when her birthday finally comes around, instead of the idyllic life she was hoping for with her true love, she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured, and sold every day. Forced to become the mistress of the brutal man who owns the jail, Pheby faces the ultimate sacrifice to protect her heart in this powerful, thrilling story of one slave's fight for freedom.
Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
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9781797118833
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Audiobook
Mostly Sunny
By Dean, Janice
Publisher: n/a
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9781982608910
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Audiobook
Mind Game
By Johansen, Iris
With #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansens trademark adventure, intrigue, and explosive energy, Mind Game is a propulsive thriller thats impossible to put down.
Mind Game takes Jane MacGuire back to Scotland where she continues her search for the treasure shes been chasing for years. But now shes being plagued by dreams of a girl in danger. Who is this girl, and what is she trying to tell Jane? And will Jane figure it out before its too late - for her and the mysterious young woman? Things are further complicated when Seth Caleb comes back into Janes life. This time hes the one in trouble, and Jane will find herself pulled unexpectedly into his world as she fights to save him.
Read more Continue reading Read less REVIEW
"This first-rate novel of romantic suspense will please Johansens many fans and newcomers alike." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Hide Away "Eve Duncan novels by Johansen are so good that, supernatural or not, readers and fans remain completely engaged." -Suspense Magazine on Shadow Play
"Delivering gut-wrenching emotion and spine-tingling suspense is what Johansen does best, and when you add in a touch of the supernatural... you get the perfect storm of a thriller! Johansen never disappoints!" -RT Book Reviews (4 � stars) on Your Next Breath
--This text refers to the audioCD edition. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Iris Johansen is the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Night, Blood Game, Eve, and Eight Days to Live, among others. She began writing after her children left home for college, and first achieved success in the early 1980s writing category romances. In 1991, she began writing suspense historical romance novels, and in 1996 she turned to crime fiction, with which she has had great success. She lives near Atlanta, Georgia. --This text refers to the library edition. Read more Continue reading Read less
Recorded Books
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9781501960581
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Hardcover
The Killing Fog
By Jeff, Wheeler,
The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Kingfountain series conjures an epic, adventurous world of ancient myth and magic as a young woman's battle with infinite evil begins.Survivor of a combat school, the orphaned Bingmei belongs to a band of mercenaries employed by a local ruler. Now the nobleman, and collector of rare artifacts, has entrusted Bingmei and the skilled team with a treacherous assignment: brave the wilderness's dangers to retrieve the treasures of a lost palace buried in a glacier valley. But upsetting its tombs has a price.Echion, emperor of the Grave Kingdom, ruler of darkness, Dragon of Night, has long been entombed. Now Bingmei has unwittingly awakened him and is answerable to a legendary prophecy. Destroying the dark lord before he reclaims the kingdoms of the living is her inherited mission.
BRILLIANCE AUDIO
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9781799716884
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In Farm's Way
By Flower, Amanda
When the biggest catch at the annual Ice Fishing Derby is the body of brewmaster Wallace, Shiloh must reel in the killer before her farm goes belly-up. Shiloh Bellamy still expects the last few Winter months to be busy with repairs, spring planning, and networking with local businesses. She might even be able to broker a new partnership with Fields Brewery and its organic brewer's association. Well, she could if the owner, Wallace, wasn't found murdered at the county Ice Fishing Derby.Once again, Shiloh gets tangled up in the investigation when the police ignore an entire crop of suspects to blame one of her friends. She'll have to dig deep to find the truth, reel in a killer, and convince her city-slicker pug to wear his winter boots. But with Bellamy Farm still struggling, can Shiloh spare the time to look into the town's fishy characters? Or will her dream farm be the next thing floating belly up?USA Today bestselling Amanda Flower returns to the Farm to Table cozy mystery series with another exciting sleuthing adventure!Readers love the Farm to Table Mysteries:"Amanda Flower is a master at writing mysteries and keeping the reader interested the whole time.
Poisoned Pen Press
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9781492699972
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Mass Market Paperback
Loyalty
By Avi,
When his father is killed by rebel vigilantes, Noah flees with his family to Boston. Intent on avenging his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British and firsthand witness to the power of partisan rumor to distort facts, the hypocrisy of men who demand freedom while enslaving others, and the human connections that bind people together regardless of stated allegiances. Awash in contradictory information and participating in key events leading to the American Revolution, Noah must forge his own understanding of right and wrong and determine for himself where his loyalty truly lies.
Clarion Books
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9780358248071
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Hardcover
Thank You For Your Servitude
By Leibovich, Mark
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington's "swamp" into a gold-plated hot tub - and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult. In the early months of Trump's candidacy, the Republican Party's most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united - and loud - in their scorn and contempt. Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. Then, awkwardly, Trump won. Thank You for Your Servitude is Mark Leibovich's unflinching account of the moral rout of a major American political party, tracking the transformation of Rubio, Cruz, Graham, and their ilk into the administration's chief enablers, and the swamp's lesser lights into frantic chasers of the grift.
Bantam Press
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9780593296318
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Hardcover
The Mirk and Midnight Hour
By Nickerson, Jane
A Gothic thriller and captivating love story set in Civil War Mississippi Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey has been left at home in Mississippi with a laudanum-addicted stepmother and love-crazed stepsister while her father fights in the war - a war that has already claimed her twin brother. When she comes across a severely injured Union soldier lying in an abandoned lodge deep in the woods, things begin to change. Thomas is the enemy - one of the men who might have killed her own brother - and yet she's drawn to him. But Violet isn't Thomas's only visitor. Someone has been tending to his wounds - keeping him alive - and it becomes chillingly clear that this care hasn't been out of compassion. Against the dangers of war and threatening powers of voodoo, Violet fights to protect her home, her family, and the man she's begun to love. "An exciting story - juicy, romantic and at times quite chilling." - BookPage "An atmospheric story in which darkness houses mysteries, [with] rich imagery and imaginative subplots." - Kirkus Reviews "Compelling. . . . There's a languid ease to the prose that invites readers to become fully immersed." - The BulletinFrom the Hardcover edition.
Listening Library
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9780804167185
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Audio CD
The Birdcatcher
By Jones, Gayl
"Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature." - Imani PerryLegendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exileGayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari Jones recently called her favorite writer, has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, for the first time in over 20 years, Jones is publishing again. In the wake of her long-awaited fifth novel, Palmares, The Birdcatcher is another singular achievement, a return to the circles of her National Book Award finalist, The Healing.Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her.
Westering Women
By Dallas, Sandra
From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail"If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?"It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter and several painful secrets, she has nothing to lose.So she joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None of them are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek through the high plains, mountains, and deserts, or for the triumphs of finding strengths they did not know they possessed.
The Yellow Wife
By Johnson, Sadeqa
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. But when her birthday finally comes around, instead of the idyllic life she was hoping for with her true love, she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured, and sold every day. Forced to become the mistress of the brutal man who owns the jail, Pheby faces the ultimate sacrifice to protect her heart in this powerful, thrilling story of one slave's fight for freedom.
Mostly Sunny
By Dean, Janice
Mind Game
By Johansen, Iris
With #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansens trademark adventure, intrigue, and explosive energy, Mind Game is a propulsive thriller thats impossible to put down. Mind Game takes Jane MacGuire back to Scotland where she continues her search for the treasure shes been chasing for years. But now shes being plagued by dreams of a girl in danger. Who is this girl, and what is she trying to tell Jane? And will Jane figure it out before its too late - for her and the mysterious young woman? Things are further complicated when Seth Caleb comes back into Janes life. This time hes the one in trouble, and Jane will find herself pulled unexpectedly into his world as she fights to save him. Read more Continue reading Read less REVIEW "This first-rate novel of romantic suspense will please Johansens many fans and newcomers alike." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Hide Away "Eve Duncan novels by Johansen are so good that, supernatural or not, readers and fans remain completely engaged." -Suspense Magazine on Shadow Play "Delivering gut-wrenching emotion and spine-tingling suspense is what Johansen does best, and when you add in a touch of the supernatural... you get the perfect storm of a thriller! Johansen never disappoints!" -RT Book Reviews (4 � stars) on Your Next Breath --This text refers to the audioCD edition. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Iris Johansen is the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Night, Blood Game, Eve, and Eight Days to Live, among others. She began writing after her children left home for college, and first achieved success in the early 1980s writing category romances. In 1991, she began writing suspense historical romance novels, and in 1996 she turned to crime fiction, with which she has had great success. She lives near Atlanta, Georgia. --This text refers to the library edition. Read more Continue reading Read less
The Killing Fog
By Jeff, Wheeler,
The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Kingfountain series conjures an epic, adventurous world of ancient myth and magic as a young woman's battle with infinite evil begins.Survivor of a combat school, the orphaned Bingmei belongs to a band of mercenaries employed by a local ruler. Now the nobleman, and collector of rare artifacts, has entrusted Bingmei and the skilled team with a treacherous assignment: brave the wilderness's dangers to retrieve the treasures of a lost palace buried in a glacier valley. But upsetting its tombs has a price.Echion, emperor of the Grave Kingdom, ruler of darkness, Dragon of Night, has long been entombed. Now Bingmei has unwittingly awakened him and is answerable to a legendary prophecy. Destroying the dark lord before he reclaims the kingdoms of the living is her inherited mission.
In Farm's Way
By Flower, Amanda
When the biggest catch at the annual Ice Fishing Derby is the body of brewmaster Wallace, Shiloh must reel in the killer before her farm goes belly-up. Shiloh Bellamy still expects the last few Winter months to be busy with repairs, spring planning, and networking with local businesses. She might even be able to broker a new partnership with Fields Brewery and its organic brewer's association. Well, she could if the owner, Wallace, wasn't found murdered at the county Ice Fishing Derby.Once again, Shiloh gets tangled up in the investigation when the police ignore an entire crop of suspects to blame one of her friends. She'll have to dig deep to find the truth, reel in a killer, and convince her city-slicker pug to wear his winter boots. But with Bellamy Farm still struggling, can Shiloh spare the time to look into the town's fishy characters? Or will her dream farm be the next thing floating belly up?USA Today bestselling Amanda Flower returns to the Farm to Table cozy mystery series with another exciting sleuthing adventure!Readers love the Farm to Table Mysteries:"Amanda Flower is a master at writing mysteries and keeping the reader interested the whole time.
Loyalty
By Avi,
When his father is killed by rebel vigilantes, Noah flees with his family to Boston. Intent on avenging his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British and firsthand witness to the power of partisan rumor to distort facts, the hypocrisy of men who demand freedom while enslaving others, and the human connections that bind people together regardless of stated allegiances. Awash in contradictory information and participating in key events leading to the American Revolution, Noah must forge his own understanding of right and wrong and determine for himself where his loyalty truly lies.
Thank You For Your Servitude
By Leibovich, Mark
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington's "swamp" into a gold-plated hot tub - and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult. In the early months of Trump's candidacy, the Republican Party's most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united - and loud - in their scorn and contempt. Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. Then, awkwardly, Trump won. Thank You for Your Servitude is Mark Leibovich's unflinching account of the moral rout of a major American political party, tracking the transformation of Rubio, Cruz, Graham, and their ilk into the administration's chief enablers, and the swamp's lesser lights into frantic chasers of the grift.
The Mirk and Midnight Hour
By Nickerson, Jane
A Gothic thriller and captivating love story set in Civil War Mississippi Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey has been left at home in Mississippi with a laudanum-addicted stepmother and love-crazed stepsister while her father fights in the war - a war that has already claimed her twin brother. When she comes across a severely injured Union soldier lying in an abandoned lodge deep in the woods, things begin to change. Thomas is the enemy - one of the men who might have killed her own brother - and yet she's drawn to him. But Violet isn't Thomas's only visitor. Someone has been tending to his wounds - keeping him alive - and it becomes chillingly clear that this care hasn't been out of compassion. Against the dangers of war and threatening powers of voodoo, Violet fights to protect her home, her family, and the man she's begun to love. "An exciting story - juicy, romantic and at times quite chilling." - BookPage "An atmospheric story in which darkness houses mysteries, [with] rich imagery and imaginative subplots." - Kirkus Reviews "Compelling. . . . There's a languid ease to the prose that invites readers to become fully immersed." - The BulletinFrom the Hardcover edition.
The Birdcatcher
By Jones, Gayl
"Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature." - Imani PerryLegendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exileGayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari Jones recently called her favorite writer, has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, for the first time in over 20 years, Jones is publishing again. In the wake of her long-awaited fifth novel, Palmares, The Birdcatcher is another singular achievement, a return to the circles of her National Book Award finalist, The Healing.Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her.