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Book Jacket   Anna Finch and the Hired Gun
Kathleen Y'Barbo

Despite her fathers attempts to marry her off, Anna Finch dreams of becoming a reporter. A chance encounter with legendary gunslinger Doc Holliday gives her the opportunity of a lifetime, but Pinkerto...read more »

Book Jacket   Beautiful malice : a novel
Rebecca James

To escape the media attention generated by her sister's murder, a grieving seventeen-year-old Australian girl moves away and meets a vibrant new friend who harbors a dangerous secret.

Book Jacket   Becoming Kate
Dixie Owens
Book Jacket   Big Nate : in a class by himself
Lincoln Peirce

Supremely confident middle-school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.

Book Jacket   Colorado Lace : The Long Road Home
Rachel Druten

What will it take for three strong and determined women to see that love is close to home? Will the female medical student be dazzled by new city friends or find true love back home? Will the abused w...read more »

Book Jacket   Courting Morrow Little : a novel
Laura Frantz

Even though several men vie for her attentions, Morrow Little, whose family was torn apart by raiding Shawnee warriors years earlier, finds herself inexplicably drawn to a forbidden love that both ter...read more »

Book Jacket   Damaged : a Maggie O'Dell novel
Alex Kava

When the Coast Guard finds a murdered body in the Gulf of Mexico while preparing for a Category 5 hurricane, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell places herself in the path of the deadly storm to track dow...read more »

Book Jacket   The devil amongst the lawyers : a ballad novel
Sharyn McCrumb

In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determin...read more »

Book Jacket   Doctor in Petticoats
Mary Connealy

Beloved author of humorous western romances, Mary Connealy begins a new series with a bang when an idealistic nurse locks horns with an embittered doctor.

Book Jacket   Fly away home : a novel
Jennifer Weiner
Book Jacket   Hero at large
Janet Evanovich

Sexy Ken Callahan meets single mother and former world-class ice skater Chris Nelson when he helps her after her car breaks down, and although countless disasters follow, he keeps trying to win her he...read more »

Book Jacket   Hurricanes in paradise
Denise Hildreth
Book Jacket   The island : a novel
Elin Hilderbrand

After her daughter, Chess, breaks off an engagement and her fianc� subsequently dies in a rock-climbing accident, divorc�e Birdie Cousins encourages her younger daughter, Tate, and her sister, India,...read more »

Book Jacket   The lion : a novel
Nelson DeMille

In a sequel to the best-selling thriller The Lion's Game, Libyan terrorist Asad Khalil, known as "The Lion," returns to the U.S. to take care of unfinished business, and the only man who...read more »

Book Jacket   Minnesota Moonlight : Walk With Me
Becky Melby

How will three modern Minnesota women cope when asked to concede their doubts and learn to trust? Can the man April blames for her sisters death help her fulfill a dream list? When Saras ex-husband re...read more »

Book Jacket   Morning for Dove
Martha Rogers
Book Jacket   The narrow path
Gail Sattler

Miranda, a modern woman who reads the Bible on her cell phone, begins to work with an Old Order Mennonite community and meets a man who will change her life.

Book Jacket   The Overton Window
Glenn Beck

After a terrorist attack shakes the country to its core, public relations executive Noah Gardner and mailroom worker Molly Ross must expose a conspiracy by the powers that be to radically transform Am...read more »

Book Jacket   The passage : a novel
Justin Cronin

A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.

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Book Jacket   The absent author
Ron Roy

Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace.

Book Jacket   Abyss
Troy Denning

Han and Leia endeavor to keep an increasingly unstable Jedi Order out of the control of government security; while Luke and his son, Ben, search a mysterious region of space for clues about Jacen'...read more »

Book Jacket   The blind side : evolution of a game
Michael (Michael M Lewis

Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid player...read more »

Back story -- The market for football players -- Crossing the line -- The blank slate -- Death of a lineman -- Inventing Michael -- The pasta coach -- Character courses -- Birth of a star -- The egg b...read more »

Book Jacket   Burn : a novel
Linda Howard

Newly wealthy after winning the lottery, Jenner Redwine is taken hostage by a menacing stranger during a charity cruise on a luxury liner, endangering both Jenner's life and the life of her ally a...read more »

Book Jacket   Catching fire
Suzanne Collins

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying...read more »

Book Jacket   Clear Springs : a family story
Bobbie Ann Mason

The author of In Country chronicles three generations of women in her family who lived near Clear Springs, Kentucky, and her own journey as a woman who grew up ensconced in the country culture, strugg...read more »

Book Jacket   Dying for mercy
Mary Jane Behrends Clark

TV host Eliza Blake and her colleagues are touring a historic New York estate when a body is discovered along with a clue in a stone fountain, but someone is determined to keep one last secret and thr...read more »

Book Jacket   The empty envelope
Ron Roy

Dink and his friends unearth the mysterious truth behind the envelopes incorrectly delivered to his house.

Book Jacket   Fablehaven
Brandon Mull

Kendra and Seth discover that their grandparents' estate is a sanctuary for magical creatures as they try to protect it from the Society of the Evening Star and halt a plague that is turning Fable...read more »

Fablehaven -- Rise of the evening star -- Grip of the shadow plague.

Book Jacket   Guinness world records

A best-selling annual incorporates into a latest edition a "steampunk" graphic-novel design, lists the decade's Top 50 Records, and provides access to free downloadable content.

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Book Jacket   Best friends forever : a novel
Jennifer Weiner

Addie Downs and Valerie Adler were close until a betrayal during their teen years drove them apart; but twenty years later, a terrified Val shows up at Addie's doorstep wearing a bloody coat, push...read more »

Book Jacket   A change in altitude : a novel
Anita Shreve

Struggling to maintain her sense of self and her understanding of the world while spending the first year of her marriage in Kenya, Geraldine participates in a climbing expedition to Mt. Kenya and is...read more »

Book Jacket   A cousin's prayer
Wanda E Brunstetter

Traumatized after surviving an automobile accident in which her boyfriend was killed, Katie Miler struggles to find her way out of depression, while Freeman Bontrager tries to gain Katie's trust i...read more »

Book Jacket   Curious George : Christmas countdown
Tish Rabe

Curious George is excited about the upcoming Christmas celebration, and prepares himself by buying a Christmas tree, wrapping presents, and waiting for Santa Claus. On board pages.

Book Jacket   Doesn't She Look Natural?
Angela Elwell Hunt

When Jennifer Graham learns she has inherited real estate in Florida, she never imagines it is a funeral home, especially one in need of so much repair. Thomas, Jennifer's husband, recently left h...read more »

Book Jacket   Dying for mercy
Mary Jane Behrends Clark

TV host Eliza Blake and her colleagues are touring a historic New York estate when a body is discovered along with a clue in a stone fountain, but someone is determined to keep one last secret and thr...read more »

Book Jacket   Grumpy Badger's Christmas
Paul Bright

The forest animals' Christmas celebrations keep interrupting Grumpy Badger's winter hibernation, until he decides to join them.

Book Jacket   Her fearful symmetry : a novel
Audrey Niffenegger

After they inherit a London flat near Highgate Cemetery from their aunt Elspeth Noblin, two American twin teenagers move in, but they soon discover that much is still alive at Highgate, including, per...read more »

Book Jacket   Hush, Baby Ghostling
Andrea Beaty

At bedtime, a mother ghost reassures her child that there is nothing to fear in their haunted home, especially not humans, since they are make-believe.

Book Jacket   The likeness
Tana French

Traumatized detective Cassie Maddox struggles in her career and relationship with Sam O'Neill while investigating the unsettling murder of a young woman whose name matches an alias Cassie had used...read more »