 | Someone Knows My Name: A Novel
Publication Date: November 17, 2008"Wonderfully written...as in the slavenarratives that inspired it, language ispower."—Nancy Kline, New York Times BookReviewKidnapped as a child from Africa, Aminata Diallois enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattanshe becomes a scribe for the British, recordingthe names of blacks who have served the King and earned freedom in Nova Scotia. But the hardshipand prejudice there prompt her to follow herheart back to Africa, then on to London, whereshe bears witness to the injustices of slaveryand its ...
 |  | Missing: The Secrets of Crittenden County, Book One
Release Date: March 20, 2012| Series: Secrets of Crittenden County (Book 1)Can two young people survive the suspicions of their friends and neighbors when tragedy strikes a close-knit Amish community? Perry Borntrager had been missing for months from the quiet Amish community of Crittenden, Kentucky, when his body is discovered at the bottom of an abandoned well. The first death from mysterious circumstances in more than two decades brings the scrutiny of the outside world: A police detective arrives to help the local sheriff with the investigation. His questioning begins with Lydia Plan...
|  | Lethal
Publication Date: July 17, 2012When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can't be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places H...
|  | Legends: Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy
Release Date: August 1, 2001Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered eleven of the finest writers in Fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series: from Stephen King's opening piece set in his popular Gunslinger universe to Robert Jordan's early look at his famed Wheel of Time saga, these stories are exceptionally well written and universally well told. The authors include King, Jordan, and Silverberg himself, as well as Terry and Lyn Pratchett, Terry Goodkind, Orson Sco...
|  | One Amazing Thing
Release Date: December 21, 2010"Ingeniously conceived and intelligently written, this novel is a fable for our time." --Ha Jin, author of A Free Life and the National Book Award-winning Waiting "[A] jewel of a story." --Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone "Hauntingly beautiful." --Houston Chronicle One catastrophic event. Nine strangers. One amazing story. The scene: Late afternoon in a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but a punky teenager, an upper-class Caucasian couple, a young Muslim-American m...
|  | The Beach House
Publication Date: April 17, 2012Known for her moving characters and emotional honesty, Mary Alice Monroe brings readers a beautifully rendered story that explores the fragile yet enduring bond between mothers and daughters.Caretta Rutledge thought she'd left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother—coming just as her own life is spinning out of control—has Cara heading back to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach hou...
|  | Tier One Wild: A Delta Force Novel
Release Date: October 16, 2012| Series: Delta Force (Book 2) New York Times bestselling author and former Delta Force commander Dalton Fury (Black Site and Kill Bin Laden) is back with an explosive new thriller Former disgraced Delta Force commander Kolt "Racer" Raynor has earned his way back into The Unit after redeeming himself during an explosive operation at a black site in Pakistan. But he is about to face his deadliest challenge yet.The most wanted man in the world, American al Qaeda commander Daoud al Amriki, and his handpicked team of terrorist operatives, have ac...
|  | Echoes at Dawn (A KGI Novel)
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Series: A KGI Novel (Book 5) Grace Peterson is desperate, in hiding, and on the run after escaping a shadowy group determined to exploit her extraordinary ability to heal others. Her only lifeline--an unerring telepathic ability she shares with her sister--has been severed, leaving her alone and vulnerable. And time is fast running out... Enlisted to bring Grace home is Rio, relentless member of the KGI. He's unprepared for his reaction to this wounded, damaged woman, and he's fiercely determined to protect her from those who nearly destroyed her. In Rio, she find...
|  | The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.: A Novel
Release Date: June 5, 2012Before there were blogs, there were journals. And in them we’d write as we really were, not as we wanted to appear. But there comes a day when journals outlive us. And with them, our secrets. Summer vacation on Great Rock Island was supposed to be a restorative time for Kate, who’d lost her close friend Elizabeth in a sudden accident. But when she inherits a trunk of Elizabeth's journals, they reveal a woman far different than the cheerful wife and mother Kate thought she knew. The complicated portrait of Eli...
|  | Dancing on Broken Glass
Release Date: March 13, 2012An unvarnished portrait of a marriage that is both ordinary and extraordinary, Dancing on Broken Glass takes readers on an unforgettable journey of the heart. Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn’t have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They’re both plagued with faulty genes—he has bipolar disorder; she, a ravaging family history of breast cancer. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy’s twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there’s no denying their chemistry. Cautious every step of the way, they are det...
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