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Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed. Her plan is... (more)

Deception Point

by Dan Brown

A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read.... When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White... (more)

Island of Lost Girls: A Novel

by Jennifer McMahon

While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having done nothing, Rhonda joins the investigation. But the closer she comes to identifying the abductor, the nearer she gets to the troubling truth about another missing... (more)

Live a Little

by Kim Green

-What do you do if you have two bratty teenage kids who don't give you the time of day? -What do you do if your husband is more interested in his remote than you? -What do you do if you're forever being compared to your perfect sister--who just happened to marry your perfect boyfriend? -And what do you do if you're told you have stage 4 breast cancer? Well, if you're Raquel Rose, you tell your family your... (more)

Whispers and Lies

by Joy Fielding

Terry Painter enjoys her quiet life in tranquil Delray, Florida, where the single, forty-year-old nurse lives alone in the house she inherited from her mother. When young, vibrant Alison Simms rents the cottage on her property, the two women strike up a fast friendship -- and Terry is swept into a fantastic new life: dinners out, shopping, makeovers, even flirting with the handsome son of one of her elderly... (more)

The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception

The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception

by Emmanuel Carrere

Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil ( Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette ) directed by Nicole Garcia ( Place Vendome ) Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, whose fiction John Updike described as “stunning” ( The New Yorker ) explores the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.

Once Upon a Wedding Night

by Sophie Jordan

An Innocent Deception . . . Lady Meredith Brookshire has every right to Oak Run. Now that she's suddenly husbandless and penniless, where else would she, her addled father, and spinster aunt reside? Yet who should appear but Nicholas Caulfield, the new Brookshire heir, claiming the estate is rightfully his by law. The brute is as arrogant as he is handsome-besides, he's supposed to be dead. And the only plan... (more)

The Visitation

by Frank Peretti

The sleepy, eastern Washington wheat town of Antioch has suddenly become a gateway for the supernatural--from sightings of angels and messianic images to a weeping crucifix. Then a self-proclaimed prophet mysteriously appears with an astounding message. The national media and the curious all flock to the little town--a great boon for local business but not for Travis Jordan. The burned-out former pastor has... (more)

The Secret Circle: The Initiation and The Captive Part I

The Secret Circle: The Initiation and The Captive Part I

by L. J. Smith

The circle's power has lured her home Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie longs for her old life. Even so, she feels a strange kinship to a terrifying group of teens who seem to rule her school. Initiated into the coven of witches that's controlled New Salem for hundreds of years, she's drawn into the Secret Circle, a thrill that's both intoxicating and deadly. But when she falls... (more)

Never Be Lied To Again: How to Get the Truth In 5 Minutes Or Less In Any Conversation Or Situation

Never Be Lied To Again: How to Get the Truth In 5 Minutes Or Less In Any Conversation Or Situation

by David J. Lieberman

How many times have you been manipulated or taken advantage of by someone's lies? Are you tired of being deceived, tricked, and fooled? Finally, renowned behaviorist David J. Lieberman shows you how to stop the lies and uncover the truth-- in any conversation or situation. In a simple, user-friendly format, Dr. Lieberman gives you the tools to determine, with uncanny accuracy, if you are being lied to. ... (more)

Garden of Lies (Signet Shakespeare)

by Eileen Goudge

Rachel and Rose grew up worlds apart. Rachel, in the lap of Manhattan luxury, an ice princess determined to be a great doctor. Rose, in the New York slums, yielding to passion too young, and fleeing heartbreak to become a star lawyer. When they both fall in love with the same fascinating man, they are brought face to face with the truth about each other and themselves.

Love, Lies and a Double Shot of Deception

Love, Lies and a Double Shot of Deception

by Lois Winston

A WHOLE LATTE LOVIN' Logan Crawford is gorgeous, charming, and his kisses make Emma feel like she's the only woman in the world. Oh, plus he's a billionaire. Not that Emma needs the money. As Philadelphia's most beloved heiress, she has it all: the grand estate, flashy sports car, high-society connections. But the haunted widow also has dark secrets, and someone out there doesn't want to let Emma... (more)

Trick of the Eye

by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

For Faith Cromwell, trompe l'oeil artist, it is the commission of a lifetime: painting the famed ballroom of an opulent Long Island estate. But her new patron has a macabre fixation on a daughter brutally murdered in the house a decade earlier—one so intense that it jeopardizes Faith's own sense of mind. And as she pieces together the details of the grisly crime scene that shadows the house, Faith slowly discovers... (more)

Love the One You're With

by Emily Giffin

How do you know if you’ve found the one ? Can you really love the one you’re with when you can’t forget the one who got away ? Emily Giffin, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Something Borrowed , Something Blue , and Baby Proof , poses these questions—and many more—with her highly anticipated, thought-provoking new novel Love the One You’re With . Ellen and Andy’s first year of marriage... (more)

Deeper Water: A Tides of Truth Novel

by Robert Whitlow

The Tides of Truth novels follow one lawyer's passionate pursuit of truth in matters of life and the law. In the murky waters of Savannah's shoreline, a young law student is under fire as she tries her first case at a prominent and established law firm. A complex mix of betrayal and deception quickly weaves its way through the case and her life, as she uncovers dark and confusing secrets about the man she's... (more)

Privilege: Book 1

Privilege

by Kate Brian

MOST GIRLS WOULD DIE FOR A LIFE OF PRIVILEGE.... SOME WOULD EVEN KILL FOR IT. Ariana Osgood ruled exclusive Easton Academy -- until she was arrested for murdering Thomas Pearson. She's spent the past two years at the Brenda T. Trumbull Correctional Facility for Women plotting her escape and is determined to get a second chance at the glamorous life she left behind. And Ariana will do anything to get her way....... (more)

Sinful

by Victor McGlothin

From acclaimed author Victor McGlothin comes an absorbing, inspirational tale about the high cost of greed--and the miracle of redemption--as a married couple find themselves caught up in a very pricey love triangle... Everybody's got a weakness and Chandelle Hutchins' is a love of material possessions--a love that is causing serious trouble in her marriage. Chandelle's latest object of desire is an... (more)

The seduction of Christianity : spiritual discernment in the last days

The seduction of Christianity : spiritual discernment in the last days

by Dave Hunt

Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon present their view that Christians are being deceived by a subtle new world view that is seducing the church and issue a call for vigilance and differentiation between the real and the counterfeit.

Mortal Friends: A Novel

by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

When the latest victim of the "Beltway Basher" is found in the woods of Montrose Park, Reven Lynch's favorite jogging spot, her crime-loving antenna goes up. The murder makes Reven and her best friend, Violet Bolton, reconsider their running route—but that's not the only change in Reven's routine. Her chic Georgetown neighborhood isn't accustomed to brutal slayings, and when the smooth, enigmatic Detective Gunner... (more)

The Luxe: Book 3

Envy

A Luxe Novel

by Anna Godbersen

Jealous whispers. Old rivalries. New betrayals. Two months after Elizabeth Holland's dramatic homecoming, Manhattan eagerly awaits her return to the pinnacle of society. When Elizabeth refuses to rejoin her sister Diana's side, however, those watching New York's favorite family begin to suspect that all is not as it seems behind the stately doors of No. 17 Gramercy Park South. Farther uptown,... (more)

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by Robert Goolrick

by Dan Brown

by Jennifer McMahon

by Kim Green

by Joy Fielding

by Emmanuel Carrere

by Sophie Jordan

by Frank Peretti

by L. J. Smith

by David J. Lieberman

by Eileen Goudge

by Lois Winston

by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

by Emily Giffin

by Robert Whitlow

by Kate Brian

by Victor McGlothin

by Dave Hunt

by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

A Luxe Novel

by Anna Godbersen