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Out of Range (Joe Pickett Novels (Hardcover))

Out of Range (Joe Pickett Novels (Hardcover))

by C. J. Box

A good friend and fellow game warden has killed himself, and Joe Pickett's been chosen to temporarily run his district. Compelled to investigate his friend's suicide, he watches his own life spiral out of control the closer he comes to the truth-and soon realizes that he could be the next victim.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Book 9

The Miracle at Speedy Motors

by Alexander McCall Smith

In the latest installment of this infinitely enjoyable and best-selling series, Precious Ramotswe is doing what she does best--helping people with their problems and enjoying the simple pleasures of life. Mma Ramotswe is busy investigating her latest case: a woman who is looking for her family. The problem is, the woman doesn't know her real name of whether any members of her family are now living. Meanwhile,... (more)

Foul Play

by Janet Evanovich

When Amy Klasse loses her TV job to a dancing chicken, handsome veterinarian Jake Elliott rescues her with an offer to be his receptionist. Jake just can't resist a damsel in distress, and Amy certainly doesn't mind Jake's charming sincerity. Then suddenly the job-stealing chicken disappears and Amy is suspected of foul play. Amy and Jake search for clues to prove her innocence. But will Jake be able to prove... (more)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

by John Boyne

Is a ficitional story told throught the eyes of an eight year old boy shielded from reality of World War II. This unforgettable tale follows a forbidden friendship that forms between Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant, and Shmuel, a Jewish boy held captive in a concentarion camp. Through the two seperate physically by barbed wire fence, their friendhsip grows and their lives become inescapably intertwined.

The Sunday Philosophy Club (aka Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries): Book 5

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday

by Alexander McCall Smith

In the fabulous new installment in the best-selling adventures of Isabel Dalhousie, Isabel is asked to help a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug. Our ever-curious moral philosopher finds her interest piqued. Would a doctor with a stellar reputation make such a simple but grave mistake? If not, what explains the tragic accident that resulted in the... (more)

Cleaning Up

by Tania Glyde

"Illuminating about the inner emotional damage that leads to wildly self-destructive behaviour; unputdownable."- Evening Standard "Insightful. . . . Cleaning Up is timely."- Guardian "Depicts with bravery and a blazingly defiant wit an ongoing struggle."- Metro At the end of a twenty-three-year love affair with alcohol, Tania Glyde remembers her inner white wine witch. Cleaning Up examines why women drink,... (more)

A Christmas Star: A Cape Light Novel

by Thomas Kinkade, Katherine Spencer

A brand new novel in which Christmas brightens a bleak Cape Light winter. In a town like Cape Light, there’s always room in the inn. But when hardships bring people together under one roof, things don’t always go smoothly… Sam and Jessica Morgan’s holiday joy screeches to a halt when they lose their house to a fire. The heartbreaking loss weighs heavily on their relationship. As tensions flare between them,... (more)

The Legal Limit

by Martin Clark

Martin Clark’s most remarkable novel yet is the gripping, complex story of a murder cover-up that wreaks widespread havoc even as it redefines the concept of justice—a relentlessly entertaining saga that delves deeply into matters at once ambiguous and essential. While Gates Hunt chose to fight his abusive father head-on, his younger brother, Mason, eventually escaped their bitter, impoverished circumstances by... (more)

Against Medical Advice: A True Story

by James Patterson

Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were side effects of the... (more)

The Private Patient

by P. D. James

Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation and a pleasant week recuperating. Two days later she was dead, the... (more)

Cost: A Novel

by Roxana Robinson

THE LUMINOUS AND GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM “ONE OF OUR BEST WRITERS” (JONATHAN YARDLEY, THE WASHINGTON POST ) When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationships with her father, a repressive neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending into Alzheimer’s. But a shattering revelation intrudes: Julia’s son... (more)

NUMA Files: Book 8

Medusa

by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos

For seven books, Clive Cussler has dazzled readers with the “spine-tingling adventures” ( Chicago Tribune ) of Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA® Special Assignments Team, but in Medusa the NUMA® team faces what may be its most perilous mission of all. In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government– sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known... (more)

How We Decide

by Jonah Lehrer

The first book to use the unexpected discoveries of neuroscience to help us make the best decisions. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate, or we blink and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind's black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they re discovering that this is not how the mind works. Our best... (more)

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino

Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was... (more)

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka’s classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug. Kuper’s electric drawings—which merge American cartooning with German expressionism—bring Kafka’s prose to vivid life, reviving the original story’s humor and poignancy in a way that will surprise and delight readers of Kafka and graphic novels alike. “A brilliant... (more)

The Namesake : A NovelJhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake : A Novel

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Light on Snow

by Anita Shreve

From Publishers Weekly:An after-school stroll leads to a life-altering event for widower Robert Dillon and his 12-year-old daughter, Nicky, in this delicate new novel by acclaimed author Shreve (All He Ever Wanted,etc.). In the woods surrounding their secluded home in Shepherd, N.H., Robert and Nicky make a startling discoverya baby abandoned and left to die in the snow. The infant survives, but the... (more)

Out Of The Deep I CryJulia Spencer-Fleming