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Baker, Tiffany. The little giant of Aberdeen County.
“A spellbindingly woven tale about a girl who grows physically and emotionally beyond her small town’s wildest expectations”–Provided by publisher.

Barzak, Christopher. The love we share without knowing.
Psychological Fiction/Japan

Bazell, Josh. Beat the reaper. [Suspense]
When Dr. Peter Brown is mugged and it’s the mugger who needs medical treatment, it comes as no big surprise that Brown is a former mob hit man now in the witness protection program. Between flashbacks that explain just how he got into killing for the mob (and why he left) and fascinating facts about medicine, among other topics.

Benedict, Laura, Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts. [Horror]
After summoning a lover through a ritual part witchcraft, part Santeria, three 13-year-old Lolitas–Roxanne, Del and Alice–believe that their new teacher at Cincinnati’s Our Lady of the Hills school is the angel sent to deflower them.

Bergren, Lisa Tawn. The begotten: a novel of the Gifted. [Historical]
At the height of the Inquisition in 1399, the Gifted, a group of men and women possessing mysterious spiritual gifts, prepares to gather and decipher an ancient prophecy in a letter by St. Paul that has been hidden by the Church.

Bernhardt, William, Nemesis: the final case of Eliot Ness. [Suspense]

Bolano, Roberto, 2666.
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds
of oung factory workers have disappeared.

Boling, Dave. Guernica. [Historical]
Best known for being firebombed by the Luftwaffe in 1937, the Basque town of Guernica is the setting of this absorbing family saga.

Box, C. J. Three weeks to say goodbye. [Suspense]
Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.

Brendan, Maggie, No place for a lady. [Romance]
Heart of the West; bk. 1/Inspirational

Burke, Jan. The messenger.
Two centuries ago, Tyler Hawthorne bargained for his life. In exchange, he became a Messenger, one who hears the final thoughts of the dying, and conveys their last messages to their loved ones. Since that time, his life has been nomadic and solitary until he meets Amanda Clark in the foothills above Los Angeles and grows closer to her, unaware that he is being pursued by an old enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy him, or that he can only leave his role of the Messenger behind at a dreadful cost.

Cabot, Meg. Ransom my heart. [Historical Romance]
Finnula needs money for her sister’s dowry, and fast. Hugo Fitzstephen, returning home to England from the Crusades with saddlebags of jewels, has money, and lots of it. What could be simpler than to kidnap him and hold him for ransom? Well, for starters, Finnula could make the terrible mistake of falling in love with her hostage.

Cannell, Stephen J. On the grind. [Suspense]
Shane Scully series; #8

Chase, Ella March. The Virgin Queen’s daughter. [Historical]
Five-year-old Elinor (Nell) de Lacey is the apple of her scholarly father’s eye, and while the two are visiting the Tower of London, Nell makes a childish attempt to rescue Princess Elizabeth. By the time Nell turns 16, Elizabeth is queen, Nell’s father is dead and Nell, over her mother’s objections, heads to court. In short order, she’s exposed to the court’s conspiring and cajoling, seducing and betraying, plotting and protecting.

Cornwell, Bernard. Agincourt. [Historical]
As one of the most famous military victories in English history, the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 saw Henry V’s outnumbered soldiers rout French forces and change the course of the Hundred Years War. Outlaw longbowman Nicholas Hook joins the army to escape the hangman’s noose and soon finds himself in France. While fighting for his country, he rescues and falls in love with a French woman–a potentially treasonous situation whose outcome could mean death for the brave archer.

Dorsey, Tim. Nuclear jellyfish. [Mystery]
Serge A. Storms, Florida’s resident madman and serial killer, continues to dispense his own variety of justice against society’s evildoers–this time he and his pal Coleman are out to get an assortment of skinheads and shysters as well as a particularly nasty thug called Jellyfish.

Downie, Leonard. The rules of the game. [Suspense]
Contemporary Political Intrigue from Washington Post editor

Dunlap, Susanne Emily. Liszt’s kiss. [Historical]
Love among the composers.

Elyot, Amanda. All for love: the scandalous life and times of royal mistress Mary Robinson. [Historical]
George IV’s mistress

Evanovich, Janet. Plum spooky: a Stephanie Plum between-the-numbers novel.
Hilarious

Fishburne, Rodes. Going to see the elephant.
Twenty-five-year-old Slater Brown has come to San Francisco to stake his claim to fame and become the greatest writer ever. But out of money and prospects, he applies for a job at a moribund weekly newspaper called the Morning Trumpet–and, as if by fate, is given a very special parting gift from a moonlighting mystic. Debut.

Fountain, Richard. Wellwishers. [Suspense]
CIA

Garafalo, Louis. The Sassamon circle. [Historical]
King Philip’s War, 1675-1676

Gemmell, David. Lord of the silver bow. [Historical]
Troy Trilogy; bk.1

Griffin, W. E. B. Black ops. [Suspense]
The Russian bear is stirring–and it’s hungry–in the thrilling fifth novel of the Presidential Agent series. Could sabers be rattling for a new Cold War–or worse? Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo is about to find out as the Delta Force operative investigates the disappearances and deaths of covert U.S.
intelligence assets working for a variety of agencies.

Grisham, John. The associate. [Suspense]
Legal thriller

Gunning, Sally. The widow’s war. [Historical]
Colonial Cape Cod

Harding, Paul, Tinkers.
Old age is not for sissies.

Higgins, Jack, A darker place. [Suspense]
Alexander Kurbsky, a famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper, fakes his escape from Russia and infiltrates British and American intelligence at the highest levels. He has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible, which entails murdering anyone in his way–including Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the “Prime Minister’s private army.”

Holton, Hugh. Revenge. [Mystery]
Larry Cole series

Hooper, Kay. Blood sins. [Suspense]
Noah Bishop series

Johansen, Iris. Dark summer. [Suspense]
Devon Brady is a devoted veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital at an island search-and-rescue site. When Jude Marrok arrives with his wounded black lab Ned, Devon has no idea that she is about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror, destruction, and unstoppable passion.

Kincaid, Nanci. Eat, drink, and be from Mississippi.
Truely Noonan is the quintessential Southern boy made good. Like his older sister, Courtney, Truely left behind the slow, sweet life of Mississippi
for jet-set San Francisco, where he earned a fortune as an Internet entrepreneur. Courtney and Truely each find happy marriages–until, as if cursed by success, those marriages start to crumble. Then their lives are interrupted by an unexpected stranger–a troubled teenager named Arnold turns their lives upside down.

Kluge, P. F. Gone tomorrow.
When an acclaimed writer and college professor is killed in a hit-and-run accident, speculations about his unwritten final novel run rampant in the
intellectual community, prompting his literary executor to begin a search
through the professor’s personal records.

Kohler, Sheila. Bluebird, or, The invention of happiness. [Historical]
French Revolution

Lee, Wendy. Happy family.
“Happy family” is not just the name of a dish on a Chinese menu–it also refers ironically to the relationships that Hua Wu discovers in her new home,
New York City.

Malarkey, Tucker. Resurrection. [Romantic Suspense]
Archaeologists in Cairo

Mantel, Hilary. A place of greater safety. [Historical]
French Revolution

Markoe, Merrill. Nose down, eyes up.
Jimmy, the canine star of Merrill’s second fun-loving doggie novel is the Tony Robbins of the dog world and holds informal seminars with the neighborhood
dogs to instruct them in the art of manipulating their human masters (the key,
he intones, is nose down, eyes up).

Markovits, Benjamin. A quiet adjustment. [Historical]
When 19-year-old Annabella Milbanke marries Lord Byron in 1815 after a passionate two-year correspondence, she has a rude awakening.

Maxwell, Robin, Signora da Vinci. [Historical]
Leonardo & mom

McCullough, Colleen, The independence of Miss Mary Bennet. [Historical]
The best-selling author of The Thorn Birds presents a sequel to Pride and Prejudice that finds the willful third Bennet sister setting out in her late thirties in pursuit of adventure while her sisters worry about her at home.

Merullo, Roland. Fidel’s last days. [Suspense]
An ex-CIA agent is involved in a clandestine plot to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

Michaels, Fern. Under the radar. [Suspense]
Sisterhood series.

Mun, Nami. Miles from nowhere.
Teenage girl runaway & NYC

Nesbo, Jo, Nemesis. [Mystery]
Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to a cashier’s head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn’t get his
money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case.

O’Connell, Carol, Bone by bone. [Mystery]
In the northern California town of Coventry, two teenage brothers go into the woods one day, but only one comes back. No one knows what happened to the younger brother, Josh, until twenty years later, when the older brother, Oren, now an ex-investigator for the Army CID, returns to Coventry for the first time in many years and sets out to solve the mystery of his brother’s murder.

Patterson, James & Michael Ledwidge. Run for your life. [Suspense]

Patterson, Richard North. Eclipse. [Suspense]
Oil thriller

Perry, Thomas, Runner. [Suspense]
Native American guide Jane Whitefield returns from retirement to the world of the runner determined to hide a young pregnant girl who has been
tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters.

Phillips, Jayne Anne, Lark and Termite.
Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this is the story of two children–Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child
unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance.

Powers, Martha. Conspiracy of silence. [Mystery]
Minnesota

Reynolds, Sheri. The sweet in-between.
Desperate for a place to belong with her father in prison and her mother dead, teenager Kenny Lugo finds a less-than-idyllic home with her Aunt Glo, her father’s struggling girlfriend, and her children, until she finds redemption from an unexpected source following the killing of a college girl in the house
next door.

Richardson, Kat. Greywalker. [Fantasy]
Harper Blaine was slogging along as a small-time P.I. when a two-bit perp’s savage assault left her dead. For two minutes, to be precise. When Harper comes to in the hospital, she begins to feel a bit …strange and she sees things that can only be described as weird-shapes emerging from a foggy grey mist. But Harper’s not crazy. Her “death” has made her a Greywalker-able to move between our world and the mysterious, cross-over zone where things that go bump in the night exist.–Publisher’s description.

Scibona, Salvatore. The end. [Historical]
It is August 15, 1953, the day of a street carnival in the Italian enclave of Elephant Park, Ohio, when Rocco LaGrassa receives an excruciating
piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea.

Scott, Susan Holloway. Royal harlot: a novel of the Countess of Castlemaine and King Charles II. [Historical]

Semple, Maria. This one is mine.
Adultery in LA

Shaara, Lila. The fortune teller’s daughter. [Mystery]
Murder in FL

Sharratt, Mary, The vanishing point. [Romantic Suspense]
Colonial Maryland

Sigler, Scott. Contagious. [Suspense]
The planet is on the brink of succumbing to a deadly invasion of alien parasites in this mind-blowing stand-alone sequel to “Infected.”

Snow, Carol, Here today, gone to Maui. [Mystery]
Missing persons in Hawaii

Vachss, Andrew H. Another life: a Burke novel.
When the two-year-old son of a Saudi prince is kidnapped, Burke, the ultimate man-for-hire, is forced into a journey that will change the lives of the urban survivalist and his outlaw family forever.

Willett, Marcia. Second time around.
Cornwall England family

Woods, Stuart. Mounting fears. [Suspense]
Will Lee political thriller

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