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Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first time. The Namesake is a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama that illuminates this acclaimed author's signature themes: the immigrant experience, the clash of... (more)

Speak Softly, She Can Hear: A Novel

by Pam Lewis

New York City, 1965: Two Manhattan prep school students, Carole and Naomi, make a pact to lose their virginity before graduation. Eddie, a slick Upper East Side dropout, is handsome, fatally charming, and more than willing to help the girls accomplish their goal. But on one bitterly cold holiday weekend in an isolated cabin deep in the Vermont woods, a horrifying twist develops in the plan. Before the night is... (more)

$Thunderstruck: Imminent Thunder\Thunder Mountain (Mira)$

Thunderstruck: Imminent Thunder\Thunder Mountain (Mira)

by Rachel Lee

The Quickie

by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiraling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour. In a further twist of fate, Lauren must take on a job that threatens everything she stands for. Now,... (more)

Nighthawk

by Rachel Lee

Esther Jackson needed Craig Nighthawk's protection. The father she'd helped put away for murder was now seeking her out, so she welcomed Nighthawk into her home. But Craig knew about fear and isolation, and he wanted to be left alone. Until he met Esther, and discovered in her arms a peace he would safeguard at any cost.

Blood Red Roses

by Margaret Lawrence

As a young widow, midwife Hannah Trevor is regarded by the law as unable to support her daughter, Jennet, and at any minute, the eight-year-old may be taken away from her and sold as an indentured servant. When she becomes the suspect in a murder, Hannah must save not only her own life, but that of her daughter's as well.

By a Spider's Thread

by Laura Lippman

Mark Rubin claims he and his beautiful wife had a flawless, happy marriage. Yet one day, without warning, Natalie gathered up their children and vanished. The police can't do anything because all the evidence indicates she left willingly. So the successful Baltimore furrier turns to private investigator Tess Monaghan. Tess doesn't know quite what to make of her client, a wealthy Orthodox Jew who refuses to shake... (more)

Baltimore Blues: A Tess Monaghan Novel (Tess Monaghan Mysteries (Hardcover))

Baltimore Blues: A Tess Monaghan Novel (Tess Monaghan Mysteries (Hardcover))

by Laura Lippman

"Courier New" Until her paper, the BALTIMORE STAR, crashed and burned, Tess Monaghan was a damn good reporter who knew her hometown intimately--from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill. Now gainfully unemployed at twenty-nine, she's willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent--including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where... (more)

The Sugar House : A Tess Monaghan Investigation

The Sugar House : A Tess Monaghan Investigation

by Laura Lippman

A client named Ruthie -- who seems to know Tess's father a little too well -- asks the newspaperwoman-turned-p.i. to investigate a year-old "Jane Doe" murder and its grim aftermath. Ruthie's low-life brother, Henry, confessed to killing a teenager runaway over a bottle of glue -- and, a month into his prison term, he met the same fate as his victim. Following a precious few tantalizing clues, Tess sets off on a... (more)

Shadows Of Destiny

by Rachel Lee

A battle is won . . . a blood feud continues . . . They have liberated Anahar, but for Tess Birdsong and Archer Blackcloak the war has only begun. Anari slaves are rebelling in Bozandar, and the streets of that sparkling city are wet with blood. Tess and Archer must forge a peace between the warring races, for only together will their combined armies have the strength to move against the dark forces gathering... (more)

Shadows Of Myth

by Rachel Lee

No memory, no future, and only a white rose to identify her. . . The Ilduin Bane are myth and legend: assassin mages whose blades drip poison and whose minds share a common purpose-one of death or control. All who have gone against them have been lost, unable to penetrate their powerful protections. And so Archer Blackcloak gathers a small band to bring about the downfall of the Bane. From Archer comes... (more)

The Jericho Pact (STP - Mira)

by Rachel Lee

After the assassination of the German chancellor, the security of Office 119 is torn by the multitude of threats facing Europe and its people. Now time is running out. Agent Renate Bachle must do everything and anything to stop a conspirator willing to push nations to war and scapegoat an entire race in a bid for deadly power. In the shadows, a renegade priest and his bodyguard attempt to protect a sacred codex... (more)

A Brace of Bloodhounds (Bloodhound)

by Virginia Lanier

The Sins Of The Past Must Be Paid For Again And Again And Again When Gilly Ainsley shows up on Jo Beth sidden's doorstep, the smart and feisty bloodhound trainer and tracker is stunned by the woman's bizarre tale of deception and manslaughter. Gilly's mother wrote a letter before she died, a letter claiming that she would be murdered by the man for whom she kept house -- a superior court judge -- and Gilly want... (more)

The House on Bloodhound Lane (Bloodhound)

The House on Bloodhound Lane (Bloodhound)

by Virginia Lanier

Lanier does for bloodhounds what Dick Francis does for racehorses in her atmospheric, and critically applauded, novels set in rural Georgia. Jo Beth Sidden is a fiercely independent woman who raises and trains bloodhounds for search-and-rescue missions and to track down escaped prisoners in South Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. Jo Beth's got her hands full when the local police chief hires her to sniff out a local... (more)

The Hunted

by Rachel Lee

Her story sets off a violent spark. His investigation puts them in the line of fire. Journalist Erin McKenna is not only investigating a major defense contractor suspected of complicity in the international sex-slave trade but testifying against them in court. Her world collapses when that same firm buys her newspaper and she's fired without explanation. Her home is ransacked, her computer stolen and she is... (more)

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The Namesake: A Novel

by Jhumpa Lahiri, Mira Nair

Speak Softly, She Can Hear: A Novel

by Pam Lewis

Thunderstruck: Imminent Thunder\Thunder Mountain (Mira)

by Rachel Lee

The Quickie

by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

Nighthawk

by Rachel Lee

Blood Red Roses

by Margaret Lawrence

By a Spider's Thread

by Laura Lippman

Baltimore Blues: A Tess Monaghan Novel (Tess Monaghan Mysteries (Hardcover))

by Laura Lippman

The Sugar House : A Tess Monaghan Investigation

by Laura Lippman

Shadows Of Destiny

by Rachel Lee

Shadows Of Myth

by Rachel Lee

The Jericho Pact (STP - Mira)

by Rachel Lee

A Brace of Bloodhounds (Bloodhound)

by Virginia Lanier

The House on Bloodhound Lane (Bloodhound)

by Virginia Lanier

The Hunted

by Rachel Lee