 | Sea Glass Winter: A Shelter Bay Novel
Release Date: December 31, 2012| Series: Shelter Bay He was used to getting what he wanted. And what he wanted was her. As an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist, Dillon Slater had one of the most dangerous jobs in the military. Now, he’s enjoying the pace of life in Shelter Bay, where he teaches high school physics. He still gets to blow things up, but as the school basketball coach he also gets to impart leadership skills. His latest minefield: fifteen-year-old Matt Templeton—and Matt’s irresistible mother… Claire Templeton moved her troubled teenage son to the ...
 |  | The Lacuna: A Novel
Release Date: November 3, 2009 In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico—from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City—Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns...
|  | American Dervish: A Novel
Publication Date: September 4, 2012Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes.Mina is Hayat's mother's oldest friend from Pakistan. She is independent, beautiful and intelligent, and arrives on the Shah's doorstep when her disastrous marriage in Pakistan disintegrates. Even Hayat's skeptical father can't deny the livelin...
|  | Unsaid: A Novel
Publication Date: June 5, 2012In this explosive debut novel, Neil Abramson explores the beauty and redemptive power of human-animal relationships and the true meaning of communication in all of its diverse forms.As a veterinarian, Helena was required to choose when to end the lives of the terminally ill animals in her care.Now that she has died, she is afraid to face them and finally admit to herself that her thirty-seven years of life were meaningless, error-ridden, and forgettable. So Helena lingers, a silent observer haunted by the life she left behind-her shattered attorney husband, Davi...
|  | Ubik
Release Date: April 17, 2012“From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins adeeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you’ll never besure you’ve woken up from.”—Lev Grossman, Time Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business—deploying his teams ofanti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security frompsychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, heis gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state ofsuspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the teambegin experiencing some ...
|  | A Reliable Wife
Release Date: January 5, 2010He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved.What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was that they would fall so completely in love. ...
|  | Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel
Release Date: April 24, 2012| Series: Odd Thomas NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontz’s dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroads of life and death who offers up his heart in these pages and will forever capture yours. Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips hel...
|  | Devil's Gate (The Numa Files)
Release Date: November 14, 2011| Series: The Numa Files A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantageof the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in thispart of the world?As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA SpecialAssignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn intothe extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of aweapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan toextort the world's major nations. The penalty for r...
|  | The Weird Sisters
Release Date: February 7, 2012This is the "delightful" (People) New York Timesbestseller that's earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, andreviewers everywhere-the story of three sisters who love each other,but just don't happen to like each other very much... Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting theeccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is noproblem a library card can't solve) and TV is something otherpeople watch. Their father-a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almostexclusively in verse-named them after the Bard's heroines....
|  | Dead And Gone (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 9)
Release Date: April 6, 2010| Series: Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood (Book 9) Visit our Sookie Stackhouse series feature page.When the weres and shifters finally come out, the residents of Bon Temps, Louisiana, must deal with the violent aftermath. But a far greater danger threatens. A race of unhuman beings-older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves-is preparing for war. And Sookie will find herself an all-too human pawn in their battle... ...
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