Click on the titles below to search the catalog

Alexander, Tamera. From a distance. [HISTORICAL]
Timber Ridge reflections; bk.1. Determined to establish herself as a photojournalist, Elizabeth Westbrook travels from Washington, D.C., to Timber Ridge, Colorado. But when one of her pictures is used as evidence in a murder trial, she finds her life in peril. Meeting Confederate sharpshooter Daniel Ranslett teaches Elizabeth something surprising about herself—but what she learns about Daniel is life changing!

Armstrong, Kelley. Frostbitten. [FANTASY]
Otherworld series. Being the world’s only female werewolf has its advantages, such as having her pick of the Otherworld’s most desirable males. And Elena Michaels couldn’t have picked a more dangerously sexy and undyingly loyal mate than Clayton Danvers. Now their bond will be put to the ultimate test as they follow a bloody trail of gruesome slayings deep into Alaska’s frozen wilderness–a trail left by a werewolf more wolf than human and more unnatural than supernatural.

Austin, Lynn N. Though waters roar.
Languishing in a jail cell, Harriet Sherwood has plenty of time to sift through the memories of the three generations of women who have preceded her. As each story emerges, the strength of her family–and their deep faith in God–brings Harriet to the discovery of her own goals.

Baca, Jimmy Santiago, A glass of water.
Two Mexican-American brothers–Lorenzo, who becomes a farmer, and Vito, who gains fame as a boxer–take different paths in life after the brutal murder of their mother, only to have their journeys converge and bring them face-to-face with a common enemy.

Baldacci, David. True blue. [SUSPENSE]
First in a new series–A former Washington D.C. police cop out to prove herself and a young lawyer from a prestigious law firm meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they investigate the death, they start uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation’s capital–and what began as a fairly routine homicide takes a terrifying and unexpected turn into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal.

Barr, Nevada. 13 1/2. [SUSPENSE]
In present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand, a lifelong bachelor who spends most of his time with his brother Danny. When Polly’s two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. But then an ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader proclaims that Polly will murder her husband, and Polly senses that there could be a connection between Marchand and the infamous “Butcher Boy” multiple homicide.

Bernhardt, William, Capitol offense. [SUSPENSE]
Accused of murdering a police officer he held responsible for the tragic death of his wife, Professor Dennis Thomas implores high-profile lawyer Ben Kincaid to defend him.

Blackstock, Terri, Intervention. [SUSPENSE]
Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment–and her interventionist is found dead at the airport where she was last seen–Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all.

Bradford, Barbara Taylor, Breaking the rules. [SUSPENSE]
When a psychopath with deadly intent vows to shatter M’s world forever, the muse and star model to France’s iconic designer Jean-Louis Tremont will break the rules to protect her family and her life.

Brant, Marilyn. According to Jane.
Smart Funny Women & Jane Austen

Byatt, A. S. The children’s book.
From the author of Possession--When Olive Wellwood’s oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum–a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive’s magical tales–she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends–a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces.

Castle, Richard. Heat wave.
Tough and sexy New York police detective Nikki Heat leads the investigation into the death of a New York real estate tycoon who plunged to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. She’s hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York’s Finest. Fictitiously attributed to Richard Castle, a character on the ABC television show, Castle.

Chamberlin, Holly, One week in December.
Maine family secrets

Connelly, Michael, Nine dragons. [MYSTERY]
The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquor store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li’s family that he’ll find the killer. As he uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad–a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.–his world instantly explodes and the person he holds most dear is taken from him.

Connolly, John, The gates. [FANTASY]
Good vs Evil

Copeland, Lori. The Christmas lamp: a novella.
Missouri small town Christmas

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. The Scarpetta factor. [SUSPENSE]
Kay Scarpetta becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past. In the seventeenth installment of the Kay Scarpetta series, the police are stumped by a particularly baffling crime. After exhausting all leads, authorities implore the help of Scarpetta, now a CNN senior forensic analyst. Presented with the opportunity to have her own show, she must choose between taking the case and following her television career.

Delingpole, James, Coward on the beach.
Dick Coward; bk.1 Adventures in WWII

DuLong, Teri. Spinning forward.
Mothers & Daughters

Evans, Richard Paul. The Christmas list.
The New York Times “bestselling author of The Christmas Box” returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption as a husband is given the opportunity to confront his own legacy.

Fabry, Chris, Dogwood.
2009 Christy Award for Best Stand-Alone Novel–Will returns to Dogwood intent on pursuing Karin, the only woman he has ever loved–only to find there is far more standing in his way than lost years in prison. The secrets of Will and Karin’s past emerge through a young boy who wishes he hadn’t survived the tragedy that knit those two together and then tore them apart.

Flock, Elizabeth. Sleepwalking in daylight.
Smart Funny Women

Flynn, Vince. Pursuit of honor. [SUSPENSE]
Mitch Rapp comes up against a new and deadly enemy when he is unofficially ordered to find three terrorists by any means necessary. They’ve attacked Washington D.C., killing 185 and wounding hundreds. So far, however, his investigation has been painfully complicated and has yet to yield a single solid lead–and the last thing Rapp expected was to be in New York City to decide the fate of a man that could be his cover.

Folsom, Allan. The Hadrian memorandum. [SUSPENSE]
Oil & Big business conspiracy

Gaylord, Joshua A. Hummingbirds.
Prep school

Goudge, Eileen. Once in a blue moon.
Sisters

Greeley, Andrew M., Home for Christmas.
A war hero on his third deployment in Iraq, Peter is injured and finds himself both alive and dead on a wondrous spiritual journey where he is given a second chance at life from God Himself. With Christmas approaching, time is running out for Peter to complete the most important mission of his life: convincing himself that he and Mariana, the woman he left behind in Chicago, were meant to share a special message of love with the world.

Haeger, Diane. The queen’s mistake: in the court of Henry VIII. [HISTORICAL]
Catharine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII

Hage, Rawi. Cockroach.
Canadian thieves

Harris, Charlaine. A touch of dead: Sookie Stackhouse: the complete stories.
A collection of every short story featuring Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic waitress heroine of the best-selling Southern Vampire novels and True Blood fame.

Herman, Kathy. The last word. [MYSTERY]
Sophie Trace trilogy; bk. 2

Hornby, Nick. Juliet, naked.
Annie initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they’ve got. What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And a childless woman looks for a change?

Irving, John, Last night in Twisted River.
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that spans five decades.

James, Steven, The rook. [SUSPENSE]
The Bowers files; bk. 2. While investigating a series of baffling fires in San Diego, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers is drawn into a deadly web of intrigue where nothing is as it appears to be. With his own criminology research being turned against him and one of the worlds most deadly devices missing, Bowers is caught up in a race against time to stop a criminal mastermind’s trap before it closes around him and the people he loves. 2009 Christy for Suspense

Johansen, Iris. Blood game. [SUSPENSE]
When a Georgia senator’s daughter is found murdered, and her body drained of blood, Eve Duncan is drawn into the web of Kevin Jelak–a serial murderer who is on Eve’s short list of killers who might know something about her missing daughter Bonnie.

Jordan-Lake, Joy, Blue hole back home: a novel inspired by a true story.
2009 Christy Best First Novel–Coming-of-age in Appalachia

Judson, D. Daniel. The violet hour. [MYSTERY]
Caleb Rakowski works under the table at his friend Eric Carver’s body shop in Bridgehampton and lives in an apartment above it. He’s good at his job, makes a living. Right now he’s sheltering a pregnant friend with an abusive husband; that’s the kind of guy Cal is, a true friend. But little does he know the trouble headed their way over the course of three days–Mischief Night, Halloween, and The Day of the Dead–when he learns the truth about Eric and what he’s been hiding all these years.

Kava, Alex. Black Friday: a Maggie O’Dell novel. [MYSTERY]
Maggie O’Dell leads an investigation into the bombing of the nation’s largest shopping center, uncovering paranoia, racism and a sinister secret agenda that extends to the highest ranks of a white-collar lobby group. As retailers count down to Christmas Eve, Maggie knows that infiltration is the only option–even though the cost could be huge.

Kellerman, Jonathan. Evidence: an Alex Delaware novel. [MYSTERY]
Veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles as they investigate the gruesome death of a young couple-murdered in flagrante–the man identified as a notorious womanizer and eco-friendly architect, the woman unidentified–in this unforgettable tale spiced with eco-terrorism, arson, blackmail, conspiracy, and a vendetta that runs deep.

Lethem, Jonathan. Chronic city.
Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan’s social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star. Capitalizing on the rapturous and heartbreaking love letters he receives from his teenage sweetheart and fiancee, he lives a life of cloistered ease, that is until a pop critic with a conspiratorial countercultural savvy and a voracious paranoia force him to confront the answers to several mysteries tightly intertwined within the tragic fabric of the city itself.

Lewis, Beverly, The missing.
Seasons of grace; 2. “Englisher” Heather Lang has come to Amish country to relive fond memories of her mother and to contemplate a grave medical prognosis of her own. While in Bird-in-Hand, Heather meets Grace Byler and the two young women strike up a fast friendship, amazed by how well they click. Following the only clue they have, Grace and Heather travel together in hopes of finding Grace’s mother and bringing her home. Will they find what they’re looking for…or something much more?

Macomber, Debbie. The perfect Christmas. [ROMANCE]
Thirty-three-year-old Cassie wants a husband and kids, and she turns to Simon Dodson, a professional matchmaker for help. Dodson assigns her three tasks to complete, and despite a number of comical mishaps, Cassie completes them all. Her Christmas match turns out to be a wonderful surprise.

Magruder, James, Sugarless.
Gay coming-of-age

Manfredo, Lou. Rizzo’s war. [MYSTERY]
When NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo and his ambitious new partner Mike McQueen are given the delicate task of finding and returning the runaway daughter of a city councilman, they learn that the councilman may or may not be more interested in something his daughter has taken with her than in her safety–something that may or may not be evidence of his wrongdoing.

Mantel, Hilary, Wolf Hall. [HISTORICAL]
2009 Man Booker Winner. In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political power.

Mayle, Peter. The vintage caper.
The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and equally impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. After inviting the “Los Angeles Times” to write an extensive profile extolling the liquid treasures of his collection, Roth finds himself the victim of a world-class wine heist. Enter Sam Levitt, former corporate, cultivated crime expert, and wine connoisseur, who follows his leads as he tracks down the source of a multimillion dollar wine heist–a trail that leads him to Bordeaux and its magnificent vineyards, and to Provence to meet an eccentric billionaire
collector who might possibly have an interest in the stolen wines.

Mayor, Archer. The price of malice: a Joe Gunther novel. [MYSTERY]
Joe Gunther puts a murder investigation on hold to help his girlfriend Lyn solve her father’s mysterious death in Maine. Discovering that Lyn’s father and brother weren’t the good guys that Lyn always believed them to be and that they might have been involved with vicious smugglers who murdered them, Gunther sets out to protect Lyn from the same fate.

McFadyen, Cody. Abandoned: a thriller.
Investigating the works of a serial killer for hire who kills wives and effectively hides all evidence until the cases are closed, FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett and her team fight to crack his operation and discover that he may be targeting Smoky.

Meissner, Susan, White picket fences.
Family secrets & redemption

Moccero, Joyce Magnin. The prayers of Agnes Sparrow.
Debut about miracles in PA

Moore, Christopher, Paying back Jack. [SUSPENSE]
Disbarred American lawyer Vincent Calvino is now a private investigator in Thailand. A client’s desire for payback could cost Vinnie his life when a new assignment takes him deep into the lives of corrupt politicians and private contractors, and into Bangkok’s seamy underbelly.

Niffenegger, Audrey. Her fearful symmetry.
From the author of The Time Traveler’s Wife. When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth’s London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.

Nowak, Pamela. Choices. [ROMANCE]
Historical set in the Dakota Territory

Pamuk, Orhan, The museum of innocence.
It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city’s wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects–a museum of one man’s broken heart–that chronicle Kemal’s lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart’s reactions.

Parker, Robert B. The professional. [MYSTERY]
Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she’s developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they’ve all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower–and now he’s blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower “cease and desist,” so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser’s assignment goes from blackmail to murder.

Pawlik, Tom, Vanish. [SUSPENSE]
2009 Christy for Visionary–Three strangers each encounter the same mysterious storm and awake the next day to find that everyone else has vanished. Afraid and desperate for answers, they eventually cross paths and discover they are being watched. A mysterious little boy appears to hold clues to the mystery, but when he disappears and the “observers” become agressive, the three are forced to flee Chicago in search of answers…and more survivors.

Perry, Anne. A Christmas promise.
Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London’s East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway join together in a search for Charlie, the donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude’s Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it.

Powers, Richard, Generosity: an enhancement.
Genetic Academics

Pratchett, Terry. Unseen academicals: a novel of Discworld. [FANTASY]
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they’re in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.

Rice, Anne, Angel time. [SUSPENSE]
The songs of the seraphim; bk.1. A seraph offers contract killer Toby O’Dare a chance to save rather than destroy lives. Carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear, O’Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation.

Roberts, Sheila. Angel lane. [ROMANCE]

Roslund, Anders, Box 21. [MYSTERY]
Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. What will happen when they get an unexpected chance at freedom?

Roth, Philip. The humbling.
What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life’s performances–talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation–are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can’t persuade him to make a comeback. Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual, all
consuming, erotic desire, a consolation for the bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a darker and more shocking end.

Rubino, Jane. Lady Vernon and her daughter. [HISTORICAL]
A novel of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan.

Sandford, John, Rough country. [SUSPENSE]
While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a murder at a nearby female-only resort, where a woman has been shot while kayaking. The more he digs, the more he discovers the arrows of suspicion that point in many directions; then he finds that this is not the first murder, that there was a second, seemingly unrelated one, the year before. As he inquires about the deaths, Flowers uncovers a shocking web of jealousy and deceit. This is the third installment of the author’s Virgil Flowers novels; the first two include: Dark of the Moon, and Heat Lightning.

Saul, John. House of reckoning. [SUSPENSE]
Left in the cold care of a loveless foster family and alienated at school, Sarah Crane finds a kindred spirit in classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions. And in eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips who is eager to mentor Sarah’s artistic talent. But within the walls of Bettina’s ancestral home, Sarah finds something altogether different and disturbing–a gateway from the grave into the world of the living that she and Nick will use to take control of their lives and to exact revenge.

Schalesky, Marlo M., Beyond the night.
2009 Christy Award for Contemporary Romance

Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel. The most beautiful book in the world: eight novellas.
Original collection of short stories first published in France in 2006.

Snelling, Lauraine. A measure of mercy. [ROMANCE]
Home to blessing; bk. 1. 18-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of being a doctor. But will she have to give up love to pursue her dream?

Steel, Danielle. Southern lights.
Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband’s betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she’s made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private life thrown in turmoil by a series of threatening letters, she is forced to send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak.

Stockbridge, Sara, Grace Hammer: [a novel of the Victorian underworld].
Pickpockets in 19th C. London

Theorin, Johan, The darkest room. [Mystery]
Swedish crime novel

Thurlo, Aimee & David. Earthway. [MYSTERY]
Ella Clah series

Trofimuk, Thomas. Waiting for Columbus.
Mental illness

VanLiere, Donna, The Christmas secret.
When struggling young single mother Christine Eisley saves the life of an elderly woman working in Wilson’s department store, she sets into motion a series of events that will test her strength, loyalty, and determination, all the while setting her on the path to finding true love.

Vincenzi, Penny. Windfall.
Sensible Cassia Fallon has been married to her doctor husband for seven years when her godmother leaves her a huge fortune. For the first time in her life, she is able to do exactly as she likes, and she starts to question her marriage, her past, her present, and her future. But where did her inheritance really come from and why? Too soon the windfall has become a corrupting force, one that Cassia cannot resist.

Walls, Jeannette. Half broke horses: a true-life novel.
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author’s grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy–but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham’s West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.

Walsh, Therese. The last will of Moira Leahy.
Follows Maeve Leahy, a twin and brilliant young professor, in her pursuit for answers about her family and herself. Shifts between Maeve’s current quest and flashbacks showing her and her twin sister as children, revealing little by little the story behind Maeve’s grief. A blend of mystery, romance and the supernatural.

Walter, Jess. The financial lives of the poets.
In this humorous novel, Matt Prior is losing his job, his wife, and his house, and he’s about to lose his mind–until he discovers a way that he might possibly be able to save it all.

Westerson, Jeri. Serpent in the thorns: a medieval noir. [HISTORICAL]
Medieval Noir; bk.2–13th century

White, Karen S. The girl on Legare Street.
A ghost & a love story

Wiggs, Susan. Lakeshore Christmas. [ROMANCE]
Prim librarian Maureen Davenport lives for Christmas–and there’s nothing more magical than Christmas on Willow Lake. Finally getting her chance to direct Avalon’s annual holiday pageant, she’s determined to make it truly spectacular. But it might just require one of those Christmas miracles she’s always read about if her co-director– recovering former child star Eddie Haven–has his way. Is he trying to sabotage the performance to spite her? Or is she trying too hard to fit the show into her storybook-perfect notion of Christmas?

Winkowski, Mary Ann. The book of illumination: a novel from the ghost files.
“Anza O’Malley is in most ways a typical single mom. She lives a happy, busy life with her five-year-old son in Cambridge, Massachusetts, juggling the joys and challenges of life as a doting parent and a freelance bookbinder. But there is more to Anza than meets the ‘ungifted’ eye: she can see and speak with ghosts. Although she’s been solving cold cases for the police for years, Anza has been hoping to focus her energies on her son and her bookbinding career. But when an exquisite and priceless illuminated manuscript is stolen from the Boston Athenaeum, and when its desecration spurs the appearance of some very unhappy spirits, Anza can neither look nor walk away. With an unlikely trio of ghosts by her side–a charming butler and two medieval monks–Anza leads us on an urgent journey through Boston’s winding, cobbled streets to uncover a trail of deceit, danger, and ghoulish intrigue.”–p. [4] of cover.

Winters, Ben H. & Jane Austen. Sense and sensibility and sea monsters. [PARODY]
The Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels?

Woods, Stuart. Hothouse orchid. [SUSPENSE]
Special Agent Holly Barker returns to her hometown of Orchid Beach, Florida, and faces off against an old nemesis–the man she brought charges against for sexual harassment, attempted rape, and rape. The army officer in question was acquitted of all charges, and is now Orchid Beach’s new police chief. Will Holly return to the CIA? Or will she challenge her old nemesis for control of the Orchid Beach Police Department?

Categories: Book Buzz,Booklists,New Fiction