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A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead—no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter. A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind.... (more)

Dark Rivers of the Heart (Dean Koontz)

by Dean Koontz

Dark Rivers Of The Heart Do you dare step through the red door? Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is... (more)

You Belong To Me

by Mary Higgins Clark

In this breathtaking new novel from the reigning diva of suspense, a psychopathic killer stalks lonely women aboard cruise ships -- giving grisly new significance to the lyrics of an old sweet song... When psychologist Dr. Susan Chandler uses her call-in radio show to explore the issue of lonesome women who disappear and are later found to have been victims of seductive killers, she has no way of knowing she is... (more)

Before I Say Good-Bye

by Mary Higgins Clark

A young woman probing into the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death receives a message from a medium claiming to be his channel in Mary Higgins Clark's #1 bestselling thriller, BEFORE I SAY GOOD-BYE. When Nell MacDermott learns that her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, and three of his business associates have died in an explosion of his new cabin cruiser, she is not only devastated but wracked... (more)

The House of Sand and Fog

by Andre Dubus III

"Elegant and powerful...an unusual and volatile...literary thriller." -- Washington Post Book World In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy... (more)

All I Know about Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room

All I Know about Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room

by Erma Bombeck

For nearly thirty years, America's favorite humorist, Erma Bombeck, has given us her take on the behavioral patterns of her favorite animal species -- us . Much in the same way that Jane Goodall devoted her life to living with and recording the behavioral patterns of the wild mountain chimps of Gombi, so Bombeck has recorded our mating habits, maternal instincts, reproductive cycles, how we handle trends and... (more)

Fat Tuesday

by Sandra Brown

Mardi Gras in the French Quarter is where madness rules. The perfect time for narcotics cop Burke Basile to avenge the acquittal of his partner's murderer by kidnapping the sleazy defense attorney's wife. The line between saint and sinners blurs in this seething tale of corruption and desire as a desperate man and a lonely woman find redemption--or damnation--on Fat Tuesday.

A Thin Dark Line

by Tami Hoag

Readers who devoured Tami Hoag's "Guilty As Sin" and "Night Sins" will rush to her incredible new blockbuster. In a thriller as sultry and twisty as the Louisiana bayou where it unfolds, a policewoman learns that the boundary between law and justice, and love and murder, is only a thin dark line.

An Isolated Incident

by Susan R. Sloan

A 15-year-old girl has been viciously murdered and no one in the tranquil community of Seward Island, Washington, can imagine who the killer is. As the police begin an arduous search for suspects, the murder takes the people of Seward somewhere else: into their darkest prejudices and worst fears, and to a very human evil living in their midst.

With These Hands

by Louis L'Amour

The timeless fiction of Louis L'Amour is both unforgettable and undeniably American, deftly capturing the heroic bravery and intrepid spirit that make this nation great. L’Amour ’s legacy of work remains unparalleled, setting a standard of excellence that few other writers have matched. Now With These Hands pulls together some of L’Amour's very best work—eleven newly rediscovered stories that have never before... (more)

The Feel Of Silence (Health Society And Policy)

The Feel Of Silence (Health Society And Policy)

by Bonnie P. Tucker

A memoir of the author's experience as a profoundly deaf infant who became an expert lipreader, and who never learned sign language or met another deaf person until her mid-thirties. It follows her story as she made it through college, to become a corporate litigator.

Reading Between the Lips: A Totally Deaf Man Makes It in the Mainstream

Reading Between the Lips: A Totally Deaf Man Makes It in the Mainstream

by Lew Golan

Born in Chicago in 1934, Golan became deaf at age six as the result of a meningitis attack. Since he had been talking for four years, he was in the category of the postlingually deaf, which led his parents to determine that he should be trained in speech and lip-reading, rather than in signing. He attended the University of Chicago, studied journalism at the University of Illinois and became a successful freelance... (more)

The Bog

by Michael Talbot

American archeologist David Macauley is thrilled when a 2000-year-old body is found, perfectly preserved by peaty water, in an English West Country bog; when another body turns up, David moves his family there. The villagers of Fenchurch St. Jude are a dour, clannish lot and the local lord, Marquis Grenville de L'Isle, isn't much friendlier. David's wife is vaguely worried by the local atmosphere, especially after... (more)

Olivia or the Weight of the PastJudith Rossner

Olivia or the Weight of the Past

by Judith Rossner

"A STRONG, CAPTIVATING NOVEL." --San Francisco Chronicle For Caroline the kitchen has always been her home, and Italian food her specialty. In fact, the minute she sets foot in Italy--and meets the appreciative Angelo, who loves her cooking like nobody's business--Caroline decides to stay. But even the magic spices of Italy can't make her marriage taste right. Angelo takes over the raising of their beautiful... (more)

One Door Away from Heaven

by Dean Koontz

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Pretend You Don't See Her

by Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Higgins Clark sends chills down readers' spines with the story of Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene. One day, while showing a luxurious skyline co-op, Lacey is witness to a murder -- and to the dying words of the victim.... The dying woman is convinced that the attacker was after her dead daughter's journal -- which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for... (more)

Back Roads

by Tawni O'Dell

Harley Altmyer's mother is in prison for killing his father. So Harley is bringing up his younger sisters and working two jobs to pay the bills-and that doesn't leave a lot of time for distractions. But lately, he's getting distracted by Callie Mercer, an older woman who fills him with such desire he fears he might explode. And as he struggles to keep it together while things begin to spin out of control, Harley... (more)

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Sole Survivor

by Dean Koontz

Dark Rivers of the Heart (Dean Koontz)

by Dean Koontz

You Belong To Me

by Mary Higgins Clark

Before I Say Good-Bye

by Mary Higgins Clark

The House of Sand and Fog

by Andre Dubus III

All I Know about Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room

by Erma Bombeck

Fat Tuesday

by Sandra Brown

A Thin Dark Line

by Tami Hoag

An Isolated Incident

by Susan R. Sloan

With These Hands

by Louis L'Amour

The Feel Of Silence (Health Society And Policy)

by Bonnie P. Tucker

Reading Between the Lips: A Totally Deaf Man Makes It in the Mainstream

by Lew Golan

The Bog

by Michael Talbot

Olivia or the Weight of the Past

by Judith Rossner

One Door Away from Heaven

by Dean Koontz

Pretend You Don't See Her

by Mary Higgins Clark

Back Roads

by Tawni O'Dell