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General Fiction
LP 11698 A FAMILY DAUGHTER
AUTHOR: MELOY, MAILE
ABSTRACT: Maile Meloy rivets us with the loves, longings, and elaborate secrets
of the Santerre family and their friends, while exploring the relationship between
fiction and experience.
LP 11737 THE ACCIDENTAL
AUTHOR: SMITH, ALI
ABSTRACT: Amber appears on the doorstep of the Smart's summer cottage,
unexpected. Eve Smart, suffering writer's block, believes she is a friend of her
husband's. Michael, a womanizing professor, thinks she is a friend of Eve's.
Everyone is confused and Amber is invited to dinner. She is a liar and
manipulator who seduces everyone in the family in some significant way.
LP 11339 APRIL SHADOWS
AUTHOR: ANDREWS, V.C.
ABSTRACT: April had always felt like an outsider. Her older sister Brenda was
tall, athletic, competitive and sure of herself. But April was short, sensitive and
overweight - and she couldn't bounce back from their father's cutting criticisms
the way Brenda did. April didn't know why their once loving dad had become a
coldhearted monster, but she was sure it had something to do with her.
LP 11695 AROUND THE WICKET
AUTHOR: COLEMAN, VERNON
ABSTRACT: Around the Wicket is the story of a year in the life of the Little
Lampton Cricket Club - a club which seems to have more than its fair share
of misfits, ne'er-do-wells and disaster-prone members and supporters.
LP 11571 BUT INSIDE I'M SCREAMING
AUTHOR: FLOCK, ELIZABETH
ABSTRACT: Isabel Murphy falls apart on live television in front of millions. She
lands at a psychiatric hospital, where she begins the painful process of
recovering the life that everyone thought she had. She struggles to face the
reality that in order to mend her fractured life she must rely solely on herself.
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LP 11463 CAROLINA ISLE
AUTHOR: DEVERAUX, JUDE
ABSTRACT: Ariel and Sara, lifelong pen pals who look exactly alike, meet for the
first time in their twenties and change identities. Ariel is determined to win the
heart of a man who doesn't know she exists, while Sara yearns to leave behind
her hardscrabble existence and taste the good life that fate has denied her.
LP 11659 CHARADE
AUTHOR: MORRIS, GILBERT
ABSTRACT: Ollie Benson's computer program, Moviemaker.com, explodes onto
the market, thrusting him into glamour, fame, and fortune. But he's still obese and
miserable-until he meets a woman who loves him for himself. When the two
people Ollie trusts the most betray him, he constructs an elaborate plan for
revenge. There's just one glitch: Ollie is about to come face-to-face with the
power of true, unconditional love. It could change his life. Or end it.
LP 11612 CIRCLE OF QUILTERS
AUTHOR: CHIAVERININ, JENNIFER
ABSTRACT: When two of the founding members of the thriving artists' retreat at
Elm Creek Manor decide to leave, everyone asks, "Who will take their places?"
An Elm Creek Quilter must have a mastery of quilting technique and teaching
experience, a sense of humor, fit into the group. As the committee examines the
applicants, cherished memories resurface and visions for the future take shape.
LP 11610 THE CONJURER'S BIRD
AUTHOR: DAVIES, MARTIN
ABSTRACT: The focus is the Ulieta bird, a specimen unique to science; both
remarkable and romantic, it has a fascinating history. Two protagonists vie for the
reader's attention: Joseph Banks, the famous eighteenth-century naturalist, who is
given the elusive bird of Ulieta, captured on one of Captain Cook's voyages
in the South Seas before its extinction, and Fitz, a present-day conservationist,
who joins the competitive race to find the bird's remains.
LP 11738 THE COTTON QUEEN
AUTHOR: MORSI, PAMELA
ABSTRACT: Cotton Queen runner-up and mother of reluctant queen Laney, Babs
Hoffman is a World War II widow and a rape survivor who doesn't come fully
back to life until psychotherapy and feminism invent new possibilities for her.
Laney, on the other hand, learns the hard way that liberation isn't the be-all endall: character counts, love skews everything and there are worse things for a
woman to do than to put on a pretty dress.
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LP 11394 CRYSTAL CLEAR DREAMS
AUTHOR: PRATHER, MARILYN
ABSTRACT: Figure skaters Kayla Quinn and Ryan Maxwell are poised to
capture the pairs title in the Golden Skates competition. But their mutual
attraction is interfering with their concentration on the ice and their chance for a
medal appears in peril. Can Kayla and Ryan resolve their feelings without
compromising their goals?
LP 11421 CUTTING THROUGH
AUTHOR: HOHL, JOAN
ABSTRACT: Childhood friends Julia, Krissy and Laura have a chance meeting that
brings them back together in the fourth decade of their lives. There's nothing
like sisters-in-arms to hand you lemons and say, "Make lemonade--we'll all have a
drink!"
LP 11424 THE DARWIN CONSPIRACY
AUTHOR: DARNTON, JOHN
ABSTRACT: The mysteries behind Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and
natural selection are presented from three perspectives: Charles Darwin as a
young man enthralled by nature; Lizzie Darwin, the naturalist's youngest
daughter; and modern-day scholars Hugh Kellum and Beth Dulcimer who
compete--then collaborate--in efforts to discover the genesis of Darwin's theory.
LP 12126 DETOUR
AUTHOR: SIEGEL,JAMES
ABSTRACT: Paul and Joanna desperately want to have children, but their failure to
conceive almost ends their marriage. Instead, they decide to adopt and arrange a
trip to Colombia to bring home a baby girl. Joelle is everything they've hoped
for, and to help them ease into parenthood a nanny has been sent. But when they
return to their hotel one night, they discover to their horror that something
is terribly wrong.
LP 11653 DINNER WITH ANNA KARENINA
AUTHOR: GOLDREICH, GLORIA
ABSTRACT: Six women participate in a Manhattan book club while they discuss
great literature and enjoy wonderful meals. The group's tranquility shatters when
Cynthia, the most glamorous of the six, announces before an Anna Karenina
discussion that she's divorcing her husband, Eric, a highly successful
documentary filmmaker. For a whole year, as the other five endlessly speculate
about Cynthia and face their own personal problems, the women probe the
riches of authors like Tolstoy, Flaubert, and Plath.
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LP 11423 A DOLLAR SHORT
AUTHOR: GILLESPIE, KARIN
ABSTRACT: Chiffon Amber Butrell finds the inner strength with the help of her
friends to stand up to rather than stand by her man. Chiffon has never had much
money, but her wayward husband, Lonnie, three children, and Bottom Dollar
Emporium friends Elizabeth, Mavis and Attalee enrich her life. When Lonnie is
cast as an extra in a Janie-Lynn Lauren movie, he apparently abandons his family
for the star. A distraught Chiffon hurts her ankle, loses her waitressing job, is
accosted by paparazzi and finds her failing marriage splashed all over the
tabloids.
LP 11364 DREAMS OR REALITY
AUTHOR: SHAW, SUSAN
ABSTRACT: Laura, a teenager in the 1960s, thought she knew it all in the
permissive society. Married very young, she is soon disillusioned, has three
children in quick succession and suffers physical abuse in the marriage. She
comes to believe that material possessions are the most important thing in her life
in order for her to attain happiness. Although she achieves the possessions, her
world still collapses around her, so she must finally make the important decision
as to where her loyalties lie.
LP 11694 ENCARNITA'S JOURNEY
AUTHOR: LINGARD, JOAN
ABSTRACT: In 1920, British writer Gerald Brenan comes to the village of Yegen in
the Sierra Nevada foothills. Encarnita is born that year. Growing up with Virginia
Woolf and other Bloomsbury group friends, Encarnita learned many stories. After
the passing of 80 years, there is still one tale left to tell.
LP 11346 ENDLESS CHAIN
AUTHOR: RICHARDS, EMILIE
ABSTRACT: Rev. Sam Kinkade's plans to welcome the area's Hispanic community
to the church are met with resistance. When Elisa Martinez walks through his
door, Sam realizes he has found a woman capable of building bridges. Despite
the differences in their backgrounds, this Latina stranger makes Sam only too
aware of the intimacy missing in his life.
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LP 11453 THE EZEKIEL OPTION
AUTHOR: ROSENBERG, JOEL
ABSTRACT: A dazzling era of prosperity seems to have come to the Middle East.
The Israelis and Palestinians have signed an agreement. But a dictator is rising in
Russia and Iran is building weapons. Two senior White House advisors find
themselves asking, "Is the world rushing to the brink of an apocalypse
prophesied more than 2500 years ago?"
LP 11566 FALLEN
AUTHOR: MAINE, DAVID
ABSTRACT: A retelling of the story of Eve and Adam, who, once expelled from
the garden, have to find their way past recriminations and bitterness to construct
a new life together in a harsh land.
LP 11655 FAME: FIRSTBORN BOOK 1
AUTHOR: KINGSBURY, KAREN
ABSTRACT: As Dayne Matthews returns to Hollywood after his shocking
discovery in Reunion (LP 11502), he faces the dangerous world of fame and
paparazzi. Meanwhile, Katy Hart receives the offer of a lifetime - starring opposite
Dayne in a Hollywood film. Dayne and Katy's choices will change their hearts and
lives forever.
LP 11734 FASHIONABLY LATE
AUTHOR: KENDRICK, BETH
ABSTRACT: Becca Davis has always played it safe, denying her passions for
fashion in a dead-end job and with a pragmatic boyfriend. She's only got one
more chance to chase her dreams and no one, not her control freak fiance, not
her dramaholic sisters, not her over-protective parents, will talk her out of it.
LP 11569 THE FERRARI IN THE BEDROOM
AUTHOR: SHEPHERD, JEAN
ABSTRACT: Observations on American hangups and delusions in the 1970's, by a
writer-humorist who performs on stage, radio, and television.
LP 11420 A FISTFUL OF FIG NEWTONS
AUTHOR: SHEPHERD, JEAN
ABSTRACT: A collection of 12 zany pieces by a contemporary American
humorist. The essays include a wry view of the joys of army life, the mixed
pleasures of civilian life, aging hippies, and T.V. commercials.
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LP 11570 FRANGIPANI
AUTHOR: VAITE, CELESTINE
ABSTRACT: In Tahiti, Materena starts her new job as a professional cleaner at the
same time she becomes the mother of Leilani. Soon enough, mother and daughter
are in a tug of war that tests the bonds of their mutual love. Materena is
determined that her girl will grow up to be a smart considerate, young woman.
But when Leilani meets Hotu, a handsome boy and a heartbreaker for sure,
Materena must figure out what's best for her daughter - and for herself.
LP 11449 FULL CIRCLE
AUTHOR: FRY, CLIFFORD
ABSTRACT: This is the story of a black slave, Joshua D. He tells of his escape from
slavery on John Franklyn's estate in North Carolina and how he became a soldier
and, later, a Sergeant, in the Union Army.
LP 11650 GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS
AUTHOR: HARRIS, JOANNE
ABSTRACT: For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's
Grammar School for Boys. Roy Straitley has been a teacher there for more than
thirty years. He is joined by five new faculty members, including one with
intimate knowledge of St. Oswald's ways and secrets. This young teacher has
arrived with one terrible goal: to destroy St. Oswald's.
LP 11564 GET A LIFE
AUTHOR: GORDIMER, NADINE
ABSTRACT: Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, is diagnosed with
thyroid cancer. The treatment leaves him radioactive, and a danger to others. In
the garden of his childhood home, where he goes to recover, Paul undergoes
another kind of illumination. by the time he is cured, both his parents and his
wife and children have been changed.
LP 11419 GOING LOCO
AUTHOR: TRUSS, LYNNE
ABSTRACT: Going Loco features a critic trying to write a definitive account of the
doppelganger in gothic fiction, amidst the chaos of her own domestic life –
including paranoia that her cleaning lady is taking over her life and her suspicion
that her husband is a clone.
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LP 11699 THE GOOD LIFE
AUTHOR: MCINERNEY, JAY.
ABSTRACT: Luke McGavock is tired of a hectic life concentrated on making
money. Corrine Calloway yearns for an existence outside of mothering twins. On
September 11, 2001, both of their spouses die in the attack on the Twin Towers.
LP 11567 THE GRACE THAT KEEPS THIS WORLD
AUTHOR: BAILEY, TOM.
ABSTRACT: Vietnam vet Gary Hazen and his wife eke out a hardscrabble life off
the land in the rural Adirondacks. Gary's two grown sons, who question their
parents' values and harbor secrets, join him on the first day of a hunting season
that will bring adversity.
LP 11507 THE HIDDEN DIARY OF MARIE ANTOINETTE
AUTHOR: ERICKSON, CARLLY
ABSTRACT: Imagine that on the eve of her execution, Marie Antionette leaves in
her prison cell a diary of her life - from her privileged childhood as Austrian
Archduchess to her years as glamorous mistress of Versaille to her imprisonment
and humiliation during the French Revolution.
LP 11613 HOT FUDGE SUNDAE BLUES
AUTHOR: MARSHALL, BEV
ABSTRACT: Thirteen year old Layla Jay was only pretending when she knelt
before the preacher to seek salvation, hoping to make her grandma happy and
get noticed by the cute new boy in town. But religion truly piques her interest
when a young, handsome visiting preacher stays at her family home. When he
marries her mama, she thinks she'll have the father she always hoped for.
LP 11696 HOW LONG HAVE YOU GOT?
AUTHOR: PEARSON, KATIE
Annotation: After a seven year hiatus from work, Molly begins filming a
documentary starring a cantankerous eighty three year old actress named
Florence Bird. Despite their differences Molly and Florence forge a
remarkable friendship - one that helps them both confront their fears and
answer the all-important question, How long have you got?
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LP 11614 IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW
AUTHOR: AHERN, CECELIA.
ABSTRACT: Thirty-four-year-old Elizabeth spends all her time managing her
sister Saoirse's problems and raising Saoirse's quiet six-year-old son Luke in their
small Irish town. When Luke develops an imaginary friend named Ivan that
Elizabeth believes in, too, Luke becomes more lively and Elizabeth's life
improves in unexpected ways.
LP 11511 IN THE FOLD
AUTHOR: CUSK, RACHEL
ABSTRACT: The Hanburys of Egypt Hill are the last work in bohemian living - or
so they like to think. To Michael, arriving at his college roommate's house for a
birthday party, they represent relief from the strictures of conformity. When he's
invited to visit the Hanburys some years later, Michael's illusions about their
world quickly unravel.
LP 11657 JUBILEE: AMERICAN ANTHEM, BOOK 3
AUTHOR: HOFF, B.J.
ABSTRACT: In 1876 New York a recovering opium addict is turned out into the
rain of a Five Points slum, a Scots physician sweeps up glass from his vandalized
office, and amid the lively chaos of his Hudson Valley estate, a blind maestro
works on his masterpiece. This is a concluding tale of the American Anthem
series.
LP 11509 THE LAMENTS
AUTHOR: HAGEN, GEORGE
ABSTRACT: When Howard and Julia Lament secretly adopt Will, a baby switched
at birth in a bizarre hospital debacle, it marks the beginning of a journey that
takes them from Rhodesia to the Middle East, Britain to the New Jersey suburbs –
for no matter where the Laments set up home, the grass always seems greener on
the other side of the ocean.
LP 11731 LEAVING HOME
AUTHOR: BROOKNER, ANITA
ABSTRACT: At 26, Emma Roberts realizes that she must leave her comfortable
London flat and venture out into the wide world. Emma yearns to make friends,
attend parties, and have love affairs like other women, but to her these things
seem forever out of reach, until her college tutors find her a scholarship to study
17th century garden design in Paris.
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LP 12117 LIFE STUDIES
AUTHOR: VREELAND, SUSAN
ABSTRACT: A collection of short stories that explore art through the eyes of
ordinary people. Rather than focusing directly on great Impressionsist and PostImpressionist artist, Vreeland shifts her lens to those of the periphery--their
lovers, servants, children and neighbors--showing their personal stories as they
play out against the artists' lives.
LP 11363 LIPSTICK JUNGLE
AUTHOR: BUSHNELL, CANDACE.
ABSTRACT: New York. Three women juggle careers and relationships. Editor
Nico faces competition at work while contemplating an affair; producer Wendy
completes a new film while her husband remains unemployed; fashion designer
Victory's new line fails while a billionaire courts her.
LP 11736 LOVE WALKED IN
AUTHOR: DE LOS SANTOS, MARISA
ABSTRACT: Philadelphia cafe manager Cornelia Brown drifts effortlessly through
her unattached life, unapologetic for idealizing romance and breathlessly
recommending The Philadelphia Story-to the reader and everyone else. Elevenyear-old Clare is a child of divorce whose mother, a successful party planner, is
quickly going to pieces. In alternating chapters of Cornelia's first person and
Clare's free and direct third, poet de los Santos, tells the story of their finding
each other.
LP 11454 MAKING IT UP
AUTHOR: LIVELY, PENELOPE
ABSTRACT: Penelope Lively asks "what if?" What if she hadn't escaped from
Cairo, Egypt, her birthplace, at the outbreak of World War II? What would her life
have been like if she'd become pregnant at 18? Or if she had married someone
else? Weaving through very plausible hesitation, choices, and definitive
moments of a life, she offers a meditation the nature of fate, destiny and choice.
LP 11562 THE MAN WHO WON
AUTHOR: BELLAMY, GUY
ABSTRACT: Andy Devlin sells his home to pay his debts, and finds himself unable
to afford a new place. Calamity strikes his two closest friends and for the first
time, the three friends are split up. Brad has a dramatic change of fortune and
buys a luxurious home. He sets up a reunion, but his act of generosity will create
more problems than it solves.
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LP 11729 MAYFLOWER
AUTHOR: PHILBRICK, NATHANIEL
ABSTRACT: The true story of the Pilgrims is a fifty-five year epic. The Mayflower's
religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a period of crisis for Native
Americans as disease spread by European fishermen devastate their populations.
LP 11505 MEMORIES OF A DIRT ROAD TOWN
AUTHOR: BLY, STEPHEN
ABSTRACT: The sudden death of Develyn Worrell's ex-husband embitters her
daughter, and Develyn is on her own. Heading west to the town where she
vacationed as a child, Develyn finds not only her past, but her present and future
as well.
LP 11617 MISS JULIA STANDS HER GROUND
AUTHOR: ROSS, ANN
ABSTRACT: Miss Julia has settled down with her new husband, Sam, but has
plenty to worry about. Her brother, Vernon, comes home with what he says is
conclusive proof that Little Lloyd is not the son of Miss Julia's late husband.
LP 11735 MISSING MOM
AUTHOR: OATES, JOYCE CAROL
ABSTRACT: Nikki Eaton, single, thirty one, sexually liberated, and economically
self supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet,
following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable
transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, sorrow,
illumination, wisdom and even a nurturing love.
LP 11367 MISSOURI: A LIVING SOUL
AUTHOR: ALEXANDER, HANNAH
ABSTRACT: Dr. Serena VanBuren is called out to help a deeply troubled pregnant
teen. This situation revives a deep hurt in Serena, one she must confess to Dr.
Carson Tanner before they can explore the feelings growing between them.
The complexities of life leave Serena with nothing but the truth and nowhere to
look but her heart.
LP 11665 MISSOURI: FAITH CAME LATE
AUTHOR: CHRISMAN, FREDA
ABSTRACT: Julie Richmond, vice president of a school and caretaker for two
younger sisters, needs nothing more in her life – particularly the Bible-toting
minister whose daughter begins to attend her school. The complexities of life
leave Julie with nothing but the truth and nowhere to look but her heart.
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LP 11503 MISSOURI: TIMING IS EVERYTHING
AUTHOR: BATEMAN, TRACEY
ABSTRACT: Esther Young's comfortable life as a forty-year-old single is turned
upside-down when the charming Tom Pearson enters her office. But when their
ideas about the future land in opposite spheres, Esther wonders why God has
brought a situation into her life that seems to promise only heartache.
LP 11654 MOM OVER MIAMI
AUTHOR: JONES, ANNIE
ABSTRACT: Soccer mom, budding journalist, dutiful doctor's wife and mother of
two - Hannah Bartlett feels she's suddenly been handed a full plate from the buffet
of life. A new baby alone could overwhelm, but add a 9 year old foster son,
meddling neighbors and Hannah's nagging self-doubt, and you've got a recipe
for disaster. What else can a mom do . . .but go AWOL?
LP 11500 THE MYTH OF YOU AND ME
AUTHOR: STEWART, LEAH.
ABSTRACT: Mississippi. Thirty-year-old Cameron Wilson lives in seclusion as
research assistant to elderly historian Oliver Doucet. Cameron ignores a letter
from her estranged best friend Sonia--until Doucet dies, leaving a final request
that Cameron deliver Sonia a package. Cameron's quest retraces their complex
friendship.
LP 11362 NO KNOWN GRAVE
AUTHOR: ROBERTS, DON
ABSTRACT: This tale of Bomber command - part biographical, part history, part
fiction - is the story of Titch Wilkins, a composite of three real life characters, one
lost with no known grave. He could be any of hundreds of "tail end Charlies," and
their childhood may behave been as tragic, their youth as innocent. The material
came from lengthy talks in the ops rooms, barrack huts, bars and long country
walks with surviving crew members.
LP 11499 ON BEAUTY
AUTHOR: SMITH, ZADIE
ABSTRACT: Howard Belsey, an Englishman, teaches at a college in New England.
After a thirty year marriage, he struggles to revive his love for his African
American wife, Kiki after a disastrous affair. His son escapes to England for the
holidays and defies everything the family represents by going to work for a right
wing academic, and falls in love with their daughter. This short-lived romance has
long lasting consequences, drawing these very different families into each other's
lives.
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LP 11501 RED: THE CIRCLE BOOK TWO
AUTHOR: DEKKER, TED
ABSTRACT: Less than a month ago, Thomas Hunter was a failed writer selling
coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Now he finds himself in a desperate quest to
rescue two worlds from collapse. In one world, he's a battle-scarred general
commanding an army of primitive warriors.
LP 11452 THE REGIME
AUTHOR: LAHAYE, TIM AND JERRY JENKINS
ABSTRACT: In this second book in the countdown to the Rapture, Nicolae
Carpathia continues his quest for power, growing more ruthless. Buck Williams
begins his journalistic career and pilot Rayford Steele gains more responsibility.
Scientist Chaim Rosenwieg begins work on a secret formula that could change
the world. Around the world the stage is being set for the cataclysmic event that
will change the world forever.
LP 11380 REJOICE
AUTHOR: KINGSBURY, KAREN AND GARY SMALLEY
ABSTRACT: Brooke and Peter are struggling in their marriage when their three
year old daughter nearly drowns at a pool party. Devastated, Peter distances
himself and finds ways to ease his pain that send him spiraling into a cavernous
abyss.
LP 11502 REUNION
AUTHOR: KINGSBURY, KAREN AND GARY SMALLEY
ABSTRACT: In the fifth and final book in the Redemption series, plans are being
made for a Baxter family reunion. A deadly diagnosis sends shock waves through
the family. Amidst the threat of sorrow, the Baxters share in their most wonderful
celebration of all - a moment to remember that love always wins out, no matter
how long the struggle, a reminder that God reigns even in the darkest
night.
LP 11498 SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING
AUTHOR: TAN, AMY
ABSTRACT: Twelve American tourists join an art expedition from the foothills of
China south into the jungles of Burma. On Christmas morning, eleven of the
travelers boat across a misty lake, and disappear. How can we discern what is
real and what is fiction, in everything we see?
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LP 11601 THE SECRET SUPPER
AUTHOR: SIERRA, JAVIER
ABSTRACT: 1497: Leonarda is completing the Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is
determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a
baffling and blasphemous message that he is driven to decode. The Holy Grail
and the Eucharistic Bread are missing, there is no meat on the table, and the
apostles are portraits of well know heretics - and none of them are depicted
with halos!
LP 11365 THE SERPENT'S TOOTH
AUTHOR: PAVER, MICHELLE
ABSTRACT: Against the unfolding horror of the Great War, Bells' search for peace
takes her from the brittle gaiety of English country house society to the remote
Scottish mansions where her grandmother's tragedy was played out, and to the
battlefields of Flanders. As the men return from the trenches, Belle must discover
a way to break free of her secret - or lose her last chance of happiness.
LP 11374 SEX AND OTHER CHANGES
AUTHOR: NOBBS, DAVID
ABSTRACT: Meet the Divots. They seem a happy married couple, in their cozy
suburban home in a cozy suburban town. The, Nick drops his bombshell. He
wants to become Nicola. Alison is extremely upset, but she has a secret, too. She
wants to become Alan. What effect will this have on their children, the sexy Emma
and the hi-tech loner Graham? There are dramatic changes in store for them
too, and for Alison's father, Bernie.
LP 11366 SISTERCHICKS IN SOMBREROS!
AUTHOR: GUNN, ROBIN JONES.
ABSTRACT: Canadian sisters Joanne and Melanie travel to Mexico to claim the
beachfront house their deceased uncle left them. After experiencing many
adventures on the way, they are further dismayed by the condition of the place.
Together the sisters manage to rekindle their closeness to each other and to God.
LP 11652 THE SISTERS MORTLAND
AUTHOR: BEAUMAN, SALLY
ABSTRACT: Wyken Abby is the home of the sisters Mortland—Julia, the eldest
sister; Finn, the stubborn middle sister; and Maisie, at 13, and the opening
narrator. In the summer of 1967,the Mortland family is enjoying Finn's boyfriend
Dan, and Lucas, a visiting artist who comes to paint the sisters. Maisie weaves her
tale of her family secrets until a tragic accident occurs. Jump ahead 20 years, and
Dan takes up the narrative, filling in most of the blanks left by Maisie.
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LP 11378 SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
AUTHOR: ORCUTT, JANE
ABSTRACT: A celebrity author visits Grace Chapel Inn to finish her novel. Can the
Howard sisters give her the quiet she needs? The whole town gets involved in the
high-school genealogy project, and Aunt Ethel provides some surprise
information about their own family's history.
LP 11448 THE STARTER MARRIAGE
AUTHOR: HARRISON, KATE
ABSTRACT: Tess Leonard thought matrimony was for life, but her husband
Has decided that their marriage is the relationship equivalent of a starter home:
cramped, claustrophobic and something he's definitely outgrown. Know to her
friends as Tip Top Tess because of her pursuit of perfection, Tess is now in the
biggest mess of her life. But there's a life raft on the horizon: The
Divorce Survival Class.
LP 11611 SUMMER CROSSING
AUTHOR: CAPOTE, TRUMAN
ABSTRACT: Begun in 1943 and set aside for Other Voices, Other Rooms, this is
Truman Capote's precocious, confident first novel that displays the nearly perfect
prose and flawless narrative sense of one of the 20th century's greatest writers.
LP 11733 THE TAVERN ON MAPLE STREET
AUTHOR: OWENS, SHARON
ABSTRACT: The ramshackle old tavern at the end of Belfast's historic Maple Street
is a tranquil haven, not only for its loyal regulars, but also for proprietors Jack and
Lily Beaumont. But when a real-estate developer announces plans to raze the
pub's neighborhood and put up a shopping mall, Jack and Lily realize they have
only a few months left to make their business as profitable as they can before
their way of life is destroyed. When Lily hires four young lasses to serve as
bartenders (and magnets for eager young male customers), their life turns upside
down.
LP 11342 TENNYSON'S GIFT
AUTHOR: TRUSS, LYNNE
ABSTRACT: This is an imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and farce that
re-imagines the world of the nineteenth- century English poet laureate, placing
him in the midst of eccentric company that includes dodgy Charles Dodgson (aka
Lewis Carroll.)
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LP 11341 THERE'S ALWAYS PLAN B
AUTHOR: MALLERY, SUSAN
ABSTRACT: Carly Spencer, former perfect wife, was changing her agenda. .
.Because Plan A - be a stay-at-home mother and wife to a successful executive –
had come crashing down and left her with no money, a surly fifteen-year-old
daughter, and a burning need to start again. Which brings us to Plan B. . .home to
Chatsworth-by-the-Sea, her stately (or so she remembered) birthplace.
LP 11425 THOSE PEARLY GATES
AUTHOR: CANNON, JULIE
ABSTRACT: Imogene Lavender leaves her farm in rural Georgia to follow her new
husband, Rev. Peddigrew, into town to live in the parsonage, she feels the all-tooperfect presence of the Reverend's late wife. When her neighbors suffer a
tragedy, she learns what it really means to be a reverend's wife by helping to
restore their faith.
LP 11451 TROPHY HOUSE
AUTHOR: BERNAYS, ANNE
ABSTRACT: The story begins with the construction of a totally inappropriate and
enormous house - a "trophy house" - which unexpectedly comes to threaten the
tranquility of what appears to be one woman's perfect life and marriage.
LP 12127 TRUE COURAGE
AUTHOR: HENDERSON, DEE
ABSTRACT: FBI agent Luke Falcon has a dead woman on his hands, a fresh victim
from his old adversary, Frank Hardin. Then Luke's extended family disappears
over Labor Day weekend. Is there a harmless explanation?
LP 11450 TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
AUTHOR: LURIE, ALISON
ABSTRACT: Alan Mackenzie's bad back is ruining his life and his wife Jane's. Jane,
to her own horror, is becoming a resentful caregiver, and Alan is becoming a
resentful caregetter. Another couple arrives at the university: Delia Delany is
famous for her writing and her pre-Raphaelite beauty. Delia's husband, Henry,
appears cynical and demanding. At first, Alan and Jane do not like Henry and
Delia very much - but these two outsiders are about to totally alter their lives.
Fiction
15
Maryland LBPH
LP 11616 THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER
AUTHOR: DEW, ROBB
ABSTRACT: World War II sweeps her children away from widow Agnes Scofield.
She is a wife with no husband, and a mother whose children no longer need her.
As the war ends and the children come home, Agnes finds that accustoming
herself to their presence may prove harder than she anticipated.
LP 11651 THE UNDERSTUDY
AUTHOR: NICHOLLS, DAVID
ABSTRACT: Stephen's Stephen C. McQueen's latest gig, understudying Josh
Harper (one of London's hottest stars) in a West End play, has promise. If only
Josh would miss a performance Stephen would secure the lead, and the approval
of his critical ex-wife, and his daughter. But Josh is never sick; Stephen's asked to
waiter at Josh's birthday bash where he meets Nora, Josh's neglected bride,
and later stumbles upon Josh mid-tryst with a costar. Suddenly Stephen's able to
make a deal-his silence in exchange for the starring role.
LP 11506 UNFORGOTTEN
AUTHOR: HEITZMAN, KRISTEN
ABSTRACT: As past and present interweave in her mind, Antonia relives the
terror that cast her from her Sonoma home and carried her to New York with
Marco Michell, the man who vowed to protect her and who became the husband
she now realizes she hardly knew. Two generations after Antonia's exile, Rese
Barrett is swept into Lance Michell’s volatile family in the Little Italy of the Bronx.
LP 11658 THE VICTORY CLUB
AUTHOR: HATCHER, ROBIN LEE
ABSTRACT: In 1943, the women of America banded together to make a life for
themselves while their husbands and sons fought overseas. As the men engaged
in war, these women faced battles of their own on the homefront. Margo, Dottie,
Lucy, and Penny never expected to face the hardships they must now find a way
to conquer. But through the power of Christ and the power of friendship, perhaps
this Victory Club will achieve more than any of them could have ever imagined.
LP 11565 VITA
AUTHOR: MAZZUCCO, MELANIA
ABSTRACT: In April 1903, Diamante, age twelve and Vita, one, are among the
immigrants onto Ellis Island from southern Italy. Amid the chaos and splendor of
New York, they struggle to survive, create a new life and become American.
Fiction
16
Maryland LBPH
LP 11340 THE WARRIOR
AUTHOR: RIVERS, FRANCINE
ABSTRACT: Joshua succeeded Moses as the nations' leader, but it was another
man's zeal that pushed the people to put their faith into action. A man whose
words stirred men's hearts, whose courage saved men's lives, and whose passion
drove him to God: Caleb.
LP 11693 WEIGHT
AUTHOR: WINTERSON, JEANETTE
ABSTRACT: In this retelling and updating of the Atlas myth, Atlas leads a
rebellion against the Olympians. When Heracles, as one of his famous twelve
labors, is tasked with stealing the golden apples of life, he seeks out Atlas,
offering to shoulder the world temporarily if the Titan will bring him the fruit.
Fiction
17
Maryland LBPH
Adventure
LP 11666 ANANSI BOYS
AUTHOR: GAIMAN, NEIL.
ABSTRACT: Fat Charlie considers his father's behavior so embarrassing that even
the way he dies in a karaoke bar seems undignified. Then the arrival of a
previously unknown brother named Spider, who is so much like their father, turns
Charlie's life upside down.
LP 11375 BLACK: THE CIRCLE BOOK 1
AUTHOR: DEKKER, TED
ABSTRACT: A virulent evil has been unleashed upon the people of earth, an
unstoppable force bent on the destruction of all that is good. There is no vaccine.
There is no anti-virus. Only Thomas Hunter can stop it, and he has been killed.
Twice. enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide.
LP 11512 CONSENT TO KILL
AUTHOR: FLYNN, VINCE
ABSTRACT: Mitch Rapp has saved the lives of countless Americans. He has killed
with impunity, tortured to avert disaster, and done whatever it took to prevent
terrorists from fulfilling their bloody wishes. Now, the powerful father of a dead
terrorist demands vengeance in its simplest form - an eye for an eye - and Rapp
becomes the target of an international conspiracy.
LP 11721 DEAD WATCH
AUTHOR: SANDFORD, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Former Virginia senator Lincoln Bowe is missing. His wife believes
his bitter political rival, Governor Arlo Goodman, is behind it. She reveals a
security tape showing two men loosely affiliated with Goodman threatening her
in her home. The president, through his chief of staff, hires Jake Winter to
investigate. Bowe's body is found soon after Winter initiates his investigation.
LP 11455 THE HOSTAGE
AUTHOR: GRIFFIN, W.E.B.
ABSTRACT: Charley Castillo the man to whom the president turns when he needs
an investigation done discreetly. An American diplomat's wife is kidnapped in
Argentina, and her husband murdered before her eyes. Her children will be
next, she is warned, if she doesn't tell them where her brother is - a brother, as it
turns out, who may know quite a bit about the burgeoning UN/Iraq oil-for-food
scandal.
Fiction
18
Maryland LBPH
LP 12152 LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS
AUTHOR: HARRIS, CHARLAINE
ABSTRACT: When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills
to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the
bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed.
LP 11600 TREMOR
AUTHOR: DIRGO, CRAIG
ABSTRACT: Agent John Taft of the Natl Intel Agcy is dispatched to investigate the
unusual surges of electricity emanating from the former Yugoslavia. He uncovers
a conspiracy of terror led by a fanatical Serbian national and powered by a
machine capable of targeting any location on the globe - causing apocalyptic
earthquakes on command.
Fiction
19
Maryland LBPH
Mystery
LP 11646 ABOVE SUSPICION
AUTHOR: LAPLANTE, LYNDA
ABSTRACT: Anna Travis has been assigned her first murder case; the victims
were all drug using prostitutes, the first dating back six years. The newest victim
isn't a prostitute, and the clues lead to one man, a household name, a much-loved
actor about to become an international movie star.
LP 11357 AGATHA RAISIN AND THE WALKERS OF DEMBLEY
AUTHOR: BEATON, M. C.
ABSTRACT: Agatha spent six months doing PR work in London and is relieved to
return to her Carsley retirement. She and her enticing neighbor James Lacey join
a walking club to investigate the murder of a militant rambler. The death may be
related to the Walkers' insistence on using an ancient right-of-way through a
farmer's field.
LP 11370 AND A PUZZLE TO DIE ON: A PUZZLE LADY MYSTERY
AUTHOR: HALL, PARNELL.
ABSTRACT: Attorney Becky Baldwin asks amateur sleuth Cora Felton to
investigate the twenty-year-old case of Darryl Daigue, who is serving a life
sentence for a teenager's murder. When more deaths occur, the "Puzzle Lady"
puts together a convoluted theory.
LP 11439 THE ARCHITECT
AUTHOR: ABLOW, KEITH
ABSTRACT: West Crosse, educated at Yale, member of the ultra-elite Order of
Skull and bones, is a brilliant, handsome architect with a love of ideal beauty and
a commitment to achieving it at any cost. But his clients don't know his dark side:
Crosse can't stop at designing their dwellings. He needs to make their lives more
perfect, too...
LP 11724 ASH AND BONE
AUTHOR: HARVEY, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Retired, Frank Resnick is recovering from the breakup of his
marriage the brutal rape of his teenage daughter. In London, Det. Sgt. Maddy
Birch is torn between loyalty to her colleagues and the truth when the killing of a
much- wanted villain by her armed superior has come under scrutiny. Frank
agrees to help out, teaming up in an investigation that reopens all kinds of old
wounds.
Fiction
20
Maryland LBPH
LP 11404 BAD MONEY
AUTHOR: GORMAN, ED
ABSTRACT: Not too many counterfeiters have outwitted Secret Service Agent Dev
Mallory. President Cleveland has hand picked him to shut down an elaborate
counterfeiting scheme in Denver before it floods the West with funny money and
collapses the U.S. economy.
LP 12151 BASEBALL CAT
AUTHOR: ALLEN, GARRISON
ABSTRACT: Thirtysomething Penelope Warren owns a mystery bookstore in
Empty Creek, Arizona, and does some amateur sleuthing on the side. When the
owner of the Empty Creek Coyotes, a minor-league baseball team, is found
murdered, police chief Dutch Fowler asks Penelope to help find the killer.
Penelope, her cat Big Mike, Dutch, and two doughnut-eating detectives have a
fine time plowing through clues on their way to solving the crime.
LP 11348 BEFORE SUNRISE
AUTHOR: PALMER, DIANA
ABSTRACT: An expert in Native American culture, Phoebe had her doubts when
an anthropologist claimed to have discovered a Neanderthal skeleton on the
nearby reservation. But before she could pursue the matter, the professor turned
up dead - the FBI sent in Jeremiah Cortez, her former lover, to investigate.
LP 11416 BELLE RUIN: AN EMMA GRAHAM MYSTERY
AUTHOR: GRIMES, MARTHA.
ABSTRACT: Twelve-year-old Emma Graham waitresses at her mother's
crumbling resort. Emma discovers a burned-down hotel in the woods near town
and tries to uncover the truth about a decades-old kidnapping.
LP 11444 THE BIG OVER EASY
AUTHOR: FFORDE, JASPER
ABSTRACT: Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division,
is fresh from a spectacular failure to see three wily pigs convicted for the murder
of a certain wolf. It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can
remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty,
minor baronet, lover of women, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist,
is found shattered to death.
Fiction
21
Maryland LBPH
LP 11550 BLESSED BE THE BUSYBODY
AUTHOR: RICHARDS, EMILIE
ABSTRACT: Nothing is more shocking than the naked body of a murdered
woman turning up on Aggie Sloan-Wilcox's porch. After all, she's the minister's
wife with her own calling: helping troubled souls in need of justice. Suspicion falls
on Aggie's husband, who had been counseling the victim before her death. And
Aggie doesn't have a prayer of clearing his name unless she can uncover the truth
in a town not known for confessing its sins.
LP 11722 BLOOD HUNT
AUTHOR: RANKIN, IAN
ABSTRACT: A former soldier, Gordon Reeve knows something about killing. So
despite the fact that his journalist brother Jim's death has been ruled a suicide, he
can't shake the feeling that someone is responsible - and someone, Gordon
thinks, will pay.
LP 12119 BLOOD MEMORY
AUTHOR: ILES, GREG.
ABSTRACT: Cat Ferry, an alcoholic New Orleans forensic specialist, has panic
attacks while investigating a serial killer. Returning to her childhood home in
Natchez, Cat reexperiences long-buried memories of her father's death and of
childhood sexual abuse--while she searches for a murderer.
LP 12148 THE BLUE ROSE
AUTHOR: EGLIN, ANTHONY
ABSTRACT: Nestled in the Wiltshire countryside, the Parsonage was to be Alex
and Kate Sheppard's own little paradise. Defying the laws of nature, a blue rose
bush is flourishing in their walled garden. As word of the discovery leaks out, the
Sheppards' peaceful existence is shattered, and they are plunged into a world of
coded journals, genetic experiments, cold-blooded greed, and murder.
LP 11728 THE CAMEL CLUB
AUTHOR: BALDACCI, DAVID.
ABSTRACT: Wealthy businessmen and politicians gather at the Camel Club,
unaware that their conversations are being monitored. After homeless Harry
Stone witnesses a murder, Secret Service agent W. Frank Churchill interviews
him. Churchill's subsequent investigation yields information on a political
assassination.
Fiction
22
Maryland LBPH
LP 11409 CANDY APPLE DEAD
AUTHOR: CARTER, SAMMI
ABSTRACT: When her Aunt Grace passed away, Abby Shaw inherited the
Divinity Candy Shop, and the opportunity to leave her corporate lawyer career
and dump her cheating husband. Her new life sours when her boyfriend Brandon
dies in a fire, with all clues pointing to arson, and Abby's brother is the number
one suspect.
LP 11553 THE CAT WHO DROPPED A BOMBSHELL
AUTHOR: BRAUN, LILLIAN JACKSON
ABSTRACT: Koko the cat has developed a new hobby: he drops himself from
balconies, occasionally landing in the oddest of places. When a young man
comes to visit his wealthy relatives, Koko plummets straight onto his head! A
hurricane is brewing, and the visitor's family members soon fall deathly ill. Quill
has his work cut out for him as Pickax - as foreshadowed by Koko - is about to be
hit by a bombshell.
LP 12150 THE CAT WHO WENT BANANAS
AUTHOR: BRAUN, LILIAN JACKSON.
ABSTRACT: Pickax City eagerly awaits the theatre club's opening of a play in
which Alden Wade, a newcomer in town, is the lead actor. But when a cast
member is killed and Siamese cat Koko acts like he's lost his mind, local
columnist Jim Qwilleran investigates Wade's past.
LP 12125 CAT'S EYEWITNESS
AUTHOR: BROWN, RITA MAE
ABSTRACT: With the holidays approaching, Mary Minor "Harry" Hairsteen and
her best friend, Susan Tucker, take a much-needed time-out at the monastery of
Mount Carmel. There, under the benevolent gaze of the statue of the Virgin Mary,
their worldly worries are soon overshadowed. For in front of their very eyes, the
statue cries tears of blood. Legend has it that those tears are harbingers of crises,
and the every-practical Harry can already see one on the horizon.
LP 11723 CATCH ME WHEN I FALL
AUTHOR: FRENCH, NIKKI
ABSTRACT: Londoner Holly is starting to do crazy things and lose control of her
life. Her long-suffering husband, Charlie, seems oblivious to most of it. From
having sex with a strange man to losing thousands at poker, Holly has thrown
caution to the wind, and her world is about to come crashing down. Is she going
crazy, and if so, why? As family and friends try to save her, Holly struggles with
herself yet can't seem to stop her path of self--destruction.
Fiction
23
Maryland LBPH
LP 12140 A CATERED WEDDING
AUTHOR: CRAWFORD, ISIS
ABSTRACT: Bernadette and Libby Simmons, owners of A Taste of Heaven, are
catering Leeza Sharp's dream wedding. She has a $25,000 gown, a rich fiance,
and a four star menu from A Taste of Heaven. Never mind that she's not really in
love with her boring, bland groom-to-be. The dream wedding turns into a
nightmare when, just hours before she's scheduled to walk down the aisle, the
bride takes an arrow to the chest -- and drops dead.
LP 11667 CELL
AUTHOR: KING, STEPHEN.
ABSTRACT: Clayton Riddell is in Boston celebrating the sale of his graphic novel
when the Pulse, a phenomenon that turns cell-phone users into murderous
zombies, strikes people around him. Clayton begins the long walk back to his
family in Maine, joined by other normal humans.
LP 11412 THE CHRISTMAS THIEF: A REGAN REILLY MYSTERY
AUTHOR: CLARK, MARY HIGGINS.
ABSTRACT: During a vacation weekend in Stowe, Vermont, lottery winner Alvirah
Meehan and her friend private investigator Regan Reilly become involved in the
case of a stolen Christmas tree. The tree, designated for Rockefeller Center,
connects a scam artist, a swindled waitress, and a sparkling treasure.
LP 12141 COLD SERVICE: A SPENSER NOVEL
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Private detective Spenser's colleague, Hawk, is shot in the back while
protecting a bookie from the Ukrainian mob. While Hawk recuperates, Spenser
seeks revenge and tracks the assailants through Boston's underworld. Proper
payback may require eliminating the entire cell of organized crime.
LP 11555 THE CORONER'S LUNCH
AUTHOR: COTTERHILL, COLIN
ABSTRACT: Dr. Siri Paiboun has been appointed chief coroner in Laos, with a
barely equipped morgue and inept staff. After months of boredom there is a
sudden spate of mysteriously slain bodies, and the Party wants answers.
Fiction
24
Maryland LBPH
LP 11474 COWARD'S KISS
AUTHOR: BLOCK, LAWRENCE
ABSTRACT: New York City private investigator Ed London helps his brother-inlaw whose mistress, a woman with secrets of her own, has been shot to death in
the apartment that he pays for. When the body, moved by London to Central
Park, is finally identified, London knows he must act quickly to find her killer –
before the killer and the police find him.
LP 11649 DARK ASSASIN
AUTHOR: PERRY, ANNE
ABSTRACT: William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he
notices a young couple at the railing. The woman places her hands on the man's
shoulders. Is it a caress or a push? He grasps her. To save her or to kill her?
Seconds later, the pair plunges to death in the icy waters. Has Monk witnessed an
accident, a suicide, or a murder?
LP 11644 DARK HARBOR
AUTHOR: WOODS, STUART
ABSTRACT: The CIA brings news of the death of Stone Barrington's cousin, Dick.
Stone hadn't seen him since they spent boyhood summers at Dick's house in
Maine. With the help of his ex-partner, Dino, and his friend Holly Barker, Stone
must piece together the elusive facts of his cousin's life and death as a CIA
operative.
LP 11556 DEAD AS A SCONE
AUTHOR: BENREY, RON AND JANET
ABSTRACT: Nigel Owen takes a job as acting director of a tea museum, and he's a
coffee man! He receives word from the museum's elderly matron that a
dangerous criminal sits on the board of trustees. Before she can unveil the
criminal, she falls over dead in the midst of a board meeting, apparently from a
heart attack. But another member insists it was poison.
LP 11441 DEADLY COLLECTION
AUTHOR: FLINN, ELAINE
ABSTRACT: Carmel, California, antiques dealer Molly Doyle is hired to assess
and sell the home contents of the local heiress's late parents. Hollywood set
designers had crammed their domicile with all manner of priceless antiquities
and worthless junk, but the last thing Molly expected to find was a mummified
corpse.
Fiction
25
Maryland LBPH
LP 12143 DEATH AND THE WALKING STICK
AUTHOR: BERRY, LINDA
ABSTRACT: When Althea Boatright dies alone in her locked room, it looks like a
sickly old woman's natural death--until a friend notices a walking stick missing
and mentions it to Lulu Huckabee. Lulu's son is the Ogeechee, Georgia, Chief of
Police, and he assigns his cousin Trudy Roundtree to investigate. Trudy finds
plenty of people with grudges against Althea. . .
LP 11414 THE DEATH COLLECTORS
AUTHOR: KERLEY, JACK
ABSTRACT: Marsden Hexcamp would have been sentenced to death for a series
of murders, along with painted pictures depicting the crimes, if he hadn't been
murdered in a courtroom 30 years ago by one of his devoted acolytes. Mobile,
Alabama, police detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus infiltrate a macabre
art world to find clues for a series of contemporary murders that suggest
Marsden's handiwork, both in their details and because the killer is leaving
behind small pieces of Marsden's art.
LP 11479 DEATH IN THE SETTING SUN
AUTHOR: LAKE, DREYN
ABSTRACT: An evening out at an illustrious theatre party at Gunnersbury House,
hosted by Princess Amelia, ends in tragedy when one of the characters comes to
an untimely end. Suspicion falls upon John Rawlings when he is found crouched
over the inert figure.
LP 12145 DEATH OF A BORE
AUTHOR: BEATON, M.C.
ABSTRACT: The virus that sets off the latest fever in Lochdubh is a visiting fiction
writer who promises fame and fortune for those who enroll in his writing class.
Writer John Heppel, however, soon alienates everyone with his arrogance and
condescension. After publicly humiliating several would-be authors in his writing
circle, Heppel is found dead in his cottage, his tongue symbolically blackened.
LP 11645 DEATH OF A DREAMER
AUTHOR: BEATON, M.C.
ABSTRACT: Effie Garrard has survived the harsh Scottish winter, much to
everyone's surprise. She is also delusional, having convinced herself and
everyone in town that local artist Jock Fleming is her fiancee. Hamish MacBeth is
called in to investigate after Effie is found poisoned shortly after a quarrel with
Jock.
Fiction
26
Maryland LBPH
LP 11603 DEATH OF A RED HEROINE
AUTHOR: XIAOLONG, QIU
ABSTRACT: Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a
National Model Worker. to the Party it is a political case and must be conducted
with speed, silence, and sensitivity. Chen disagrees. To him it is a murder case,
and he will risk his own life and career to see that justice is done.
LP 12118 DEATH OF A TRICKSTER
AUTHOR: BORDEN, KATE
ABSTRACT: Mayor and single mom Peggy Jean Turner is up to her sleuthing
tricks again. At Halloween, some actual bones are found in Alsop forest in the
quaint town of Cobb's Landing. Some stray pumpkins lead to the murdered body
of the police chief's teenage son. . .with clues pointing to the most revered local
elder, Luigi Alsop.
LP 12123 DEATH TAKES A GANDER
AUTHOR: GOFF, CHRISITNE
ABSTRACT: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Special Agent Angela Dimato responds to a
report of a sick bird. . .and finds her partner dead. Officially his death is ruled a
suicide--a theory Angela finds suspicious. Especially when hundreds of dead and
dying geese are found at Elk Lake, and guests at the Drummond Hotel fall ill from
food poisoning. While investigating these "accidents," Angela soon learns that
killers of a feather flock together.
LP 11675 DEATH WITHOUT TRACE
AUTHOR: MURPHY, GERARD
ABSTRACT: Michael A. Madigan, part-time private investigator, is hired by the
wife of a professor of neurobiology to tail her husband. Before long, he is out of
his depth in the dirty underworld of serious crime. Murder is a matter of course
and Madigan is on a hit list. How far will Madigan go to expose the truth?
LP 11443 DEATH OF A TURKEY
AUTHOR: BORDEN, KATE
ABSTRACT: Mayor and single mom Peggy Jean Turner is forced to put aside all
thoughts of Thanksgiving when her antagonistic neighbor is found dead on the
village green. The murder weapon was the kind of turkey skewer Peggy sells at
her hardware store - and the pawprints in the snow could be from her cat, which
makes her a suspect.
Fiction
27
Maryland LBPH
LP 12116 DIED BLONDE
AUTHOR: COHEN, NANCY
ABSTRACT: Caroly never forgave Marla for leaving Hairstyle Heaven to open her
own place, especially since Marla's clientele grew as Carolyn's faded. Still, it's a
nasty shock when Marla stumbles over her rival's body behind the shopping
center that houses both their salons. Her quest becomes even more personal
when Caroly's trusted psychic insists that her spirit is begging Marla to solve her
murder.
LP 11480 DIED IN THE WOOL
AUTHOR: KRUGER, MARY
ABSTRACT: When Ariadne Evans enters her knitting store one day and discovers
the cast-off body of longtime customer Edith Perry strangled with homespun
yarn, she fears her life is about to come undone - again, since she's still getting
over her divorce.
LP 12138 DISORDERED MINDS
AUTHOR: WALTER, MINETTE
ABSTRACT: In 1970, Howard Stamp--a mentally retarded 20 year old -- was
charged with murdering his grandmother. The evidence was controversial, but
Stamp was convicted. Three years later, he committed suicide. After trying to
bring Stamp's case to public attention for years, George Gardener teams up with
anthropologist Dr. Jonathan Hughes, who has reexamined Stamp's case for a
book on injustice.
LP 11602 THE DYING HOUR
AUTHOR: MOFINA, RICK
ABSTRACT: Karen Harding has a fight with her boyfriend, and drives off into a
snowstorm. Jason Wade, rookie reporter, needs a big story. When Karen calls her
sister, Jason wonders about this case.
LP 11477 THE ENEMY OF GOD
AUTHOR: DALEY, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Gabe Driscoll, chief of Internal Affairs for the NYPD attends the
autopsy of Father Frank Redmond, an activist priest who had been in the swim
team with Driscoll in high school. The surviving member of the team, journalist
Andrew Troy and Driscoll find themselves reunited in a bizarre new race to figure
out why Redmond died.
Fiction
28
Maryland LBPH
LP 12144 ENTOMBED
AUTHOR: FAIRSTEIN, LINDA
ABSTRACT: Workers demolishing a 19th century brownstone where Poe once
lived discover a human skeleton standing--entombed--behind a brick wall. When
assistant DA and sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case,
it strikes her as a classic scene from Poe's fiction. . .except that forensic evidence
shows this young woman died within the last twenty-five years.
LP 11413 EVAN BLESSED
AUTHOR: BOWEN, RHYS
ABSTRACT: Two days before his wedding, Welsh Constable Evans runs into a
teenager whose girlfriend has gone missing. A search yields no trace of the girl
but does turn up a well-stocked bunker, complete with chains and handcuffs. Are
the two related? When a series of clues is uncovered, Evans and the police begin
to see that they are dealing with a clever, twisted mind.
LP 11440 FALSE TESTIMONY
AUTHOR: CONNORS, ROSE
ABSTRACT: Michelle Forrester, the young spokesperson for Senator Charles
Kendirck, has disappeared. The Senator is pressed for an interview, which his
lawyer doesn't want to grant. Three days later the district attorney informs him
that parts of his story don't checkout.
LP 11368 FIELD OF BLOOD
AUTHOR: MINA, DENISE
ABSTRACT: The murder of a three year old is the saddest story to hit the Scottish
Daily News in years. This kind of once in a generation crime changes a city's
landscape - and can make or break a journalist's career. And Paddy Meehan, the
new copygirl, could use a break. So when she discovers a personal connection to
one of the boys implicated in the killing, her prospects look bright.
LP 12139 FIRE WHEN READY
AUTHOR: KINGSBURY, KATE
ABSTRACT: For the residents of Sitting Marsh during World War II, a munitions
factory is not merely a blemish on their country village, but a target for the
Luftwaffe. Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, lady of the Manor House, manages to
quell those fears by appealing to the villagers' patriotism. The factory explodes,
killing owner Douglas McNally. The fire warden rules it an accident, but
Elizabeth knows McNally received threatening letters demanding he
close the factory. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
Fiction
29
Maryland LBPH
LP 12120 FLESHMARKET ALLEY
AUTHOR: RANKIN, IAN
ABSTRACT: On a notorious street where propriety and decadence clash, in the
basement of a newly renovated bar, the bones of woman and child are
discovered beneath a cement floor. When Inspector John Rebus is called to
investigate, every fact he finds unleashes a host of new questions.
LP 11478 THE FOOD DETECTIVE
AUTHOR: CUTLER, JUDITH
ABSTRACT: Josie Welford, widow of one of Britain's most wanted criminals,
becomes licensee of the local pub in the village of Kings Duncombe, and is
welcomed into the small community - until the arrival of Inspector Nick Thomas,
who put her husband in jail.
LP 11559 THE GHOST AND THE DEAD DEB
AUTHOR: KIMBERLY, ALICE
ABSTRACT: Don't haunt the customers...This was the only rule bookshop owner
and widow Penelope Thornton-McClure had given her resident ghost, hardboiled PI Jack Shepard. When hot young author Angel Stark arrives at the store
to promote her latest, a true crime novel, Jack can hardly contain himself.
LP 12114 GHOST OF A CHANCE
AUTHOR: GALENORN, YASMINE
ABSTRACT: It was definitely a ghost. There, at the foot of Emerald's bed. A pen
hovered above a piece of paper and scrawled these alarming words: “I was
murdered by my husband but nobody knows. Help me.” True, Emerald was
considered the town witch, but she owned a teashop, not a detective agency.
What did the spirit expect: But after a darker entity emerges, Emerald's life takes
a screeching detour onto a wild and dangerous road.
LP 11726 THE GHOST ORCHID
AUTHOR: GOODMAN, CAROL
ABSTRACT: Bosco, a nineteenth-century mansion, now serves as a creative
retreat, where artists and writers live and work under almost oppressive
seclusion. Inspired by an 1893 pamphlet, first-time novelist Ellis Brooks comes to
Bosco to write about the tragedies that befell the Latham family and the role
Corinth Blackwell, a spiritual medium, played in the family's downfall. When Ellis
uncovers the family's secrets, she and her fellow writers find themselves
imperiled by the house's sinister history.
Fiction
30
Maryland LBPH
LP 12137 THE GOOD DIE TWICE
AUTHOR: DRIVER, LEE
ABSTRACT: Five years ago Robert Tyler's young wife disappeared off the family
yacht, her body never found. Then one night Robert Tyler receives a desperate
phone call from a familiar voice. But he dismisses it. Rachel couldn't be alive. Or
could she?
LP 11408 THE GOURDMOTHER
AUTHOR: BRUCE, MAGGIE
ABSTRACT: Although some residents of Waldern Corners are wary of city
transplant, Lili Marino - and her gourd obsession - she is welcomed with open
arms by Nora Johnson. Lili is just starting to carve out a place for herself when she
finds Nora's husband dead on the first day of hunting season. And she had
thought the most dangerous thing she would have to deal with was mouldy gourd.
LP 11445 GRAVE SIGHT
AUTHOR: HARRIS, CHARLAINE
ABSTRACT: Harper Connelly finds dead people. She can sense the final location
of a person who's passed, bringing closure to the living. Most people treat her
like a leech - which is why her stepbrother, Tolliver, is her manager/ bodyguard.
Harper and Tolliver are experts at getting in, getting paid, and then getting
out of town fast; the people who hire Harper have a funny habit of not
really wanting to know what she has to tell them and the little Ozarks town of
Sarne seems to be no exception.
LP 12132 GRAVE MISTAKE
AUTHOR: ELLIS, RON
ABSTRACT: When heiress Joanna Smithson is abducted from a Liverpool
supermarket car park, her father, terrified of what the kidnappers might do if he
calls in the police, turns to DJ and Private Eye Johnny Ace for help--but things go
horribly wrong when Joanna kills one of her captors in self defense and ends up
in court.
LP 12129 HARD TRUTH: AN ANNA PIGEON MYSTERY
AUTHOR: BARR, NEVADA.
ABSTRACT: Paraplegic Heath Jarrod finds two of three missing girls battered and
wandering near her campground. Ranger Anna Pigeon, new to Rocky Mountain
National Park, continues the search for the third child. Anna trails many
kidnapping suspects including the children's fundamentalist youth group leader.
Fiction
31
Maryland LBPH
LP 11373 HEIRS AND GRACES
AUTHOR: HAMMOND, GERALD
ABSTRACT: Just after Grace and Stuart arrive home from their honeymoon,
Stuart's uncle Duncan dies. It is discovered that substantial withdrawals have
been made from his account, and it appears his death was not from natural
causes. Grace falls under suspicion, and the only key to proving her innocence
may be in a bronze urn, buried for decades in her back yard.
LP 11640 HOT WIRED
AUTHOR: ISENBERG, JANE
ABSTRACT: Bel Barrett has retired from teaching. When an angry ex-student
posts a nasty hip-hop screed about her on the website, Bel is devastated. The
situation spirals out of control when the venomous poet is discovered lying dead
on the subway tracks, and Bel becomes suspect no. 1.
LP 11669 HOW TO SEDUCE A GHOST
AUTHOR: MCINTYRE, HOPE
ABSTRACT: Ghostwriter Lee Bartholomew lives in an old house in London, alone.
an arsonist sets fire to a nearby house, and the woman who lives there is killed.
With her overactive imagination running riot, Lee convinces herself she will be
the murderer's next victim. Yet what happens next is not death - but seduction.
LP 11558 HULA DONE IT!
AUTHOR: HUNTER, MADDY
ABSTRACT: On the way to Hawaii, Prof. Dorian Smoker falls overboard. It could
have been an accident, but Emily Andrew wonders if some guest with a grudge
might have knocked off the opinionated professor. Or maybe it had something to
do with that missing journal Nana's friend lent him - the one with the mysterious
treasure map.
LP 11484 IMMORAL
AUTHOR: FREEMAN, BRIAN
ABSTRACT: When the media hound Lt. Jonathan Stride to catch a serial killer, the
search carries him from the icy stillness of the northern woods to the erotic heat
of Las Vegas - where he must decide which facts are real and which are illusions.
Stride finds his own life changed forever by the secrets he uncovers. Secrets
that are chillingly immoral.
Fiction
32
Maryland LBPH
LP 11442 INVITATION TO MURDER
AUTHOR: BRIGHT, ELIZABETH
ABSTRACT: After Jennifer Shane, of Custon Card Creations, hears a murder over
the phone, she receives a threatening note, in large block letters. It's clear
someone has designs on her life. But why? Much to the dismay of her brother, the
town sheriff, Jennifer asks her eccentric aunt Lillian to help with the investigation.
LP 11472 IRISH GILT
AUTHOR: MCINERNEY, RALPH
ABSTRACT: South Bend detective Phil Knight and his brother Roger team up to
find out who stole some valuable Father Azhm artifacts from the Notre Dame
archives. Then another man interested in Azhm turns up dead on campus-and Phil
and Roger have another baffling case to tackle.
LP 11438 A KIND OF JUSTICE
AUTHOR: DRACUP, ANGELA
ABSTRACT: Josie Parker is found drowned in the bath on her wedding night. The
circumstances indicate murder and DCI Ed Swift is forced to regard the groom as
chief suspect. He claims to have lost all recall of the time leading up to his bride's
death. When Swift investigates the dynamics of the newlyweds he uncovers a
shocking trail of deceit and treachery.
LP 11410 KNIT ONE, KILL TWO
AUTHOR: SEFTON, MAGGIE
ABSTRACT: Kelly Flynn, a DC accountant, goes to Colorado to attend her aunt's
funeral. Kelly has inherited her cottage, and something about her aunt's death
doesn't add up. With the help of the knitting regulars at House of Lambspun, Kelly
lures a killer out of hiding.
LP 11504 LAST LIGHT
AUTHOR: BLACKSTOCK, TERRI
ABSTRACT: In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to
the age before electricity, Deni Branning's career ambitions have vanished. All
Deni and her family have left is each other and their neighbors. Their little
community will either stand or fall together.
LP 11642 THE LAST RESORT
AUTHOR: POSADAS, CARMEN
ABSTRACT: Rafael Rojas finds nothing worth living for when his beloved mother
dies. Planning a dignified exit, his suicide is thwarted when his niece involves
him in a juicy scandal.
Fiction
33
Maryland LBPH
LP 11674 LETHAL INTENT
AUTHOR: JARDINE, QUINTIN
ABSTRACT: In the fifteenth "case history" of Edinburgh's toughest cop, Bob
Skinner gets embroiled in a power struggle with the First Minister, an MI5 sting
gone wrong, pursuit of Albanian terrorists, marital woes, and the abduction of
colleagues' children.
LP 11548 LIFE SENTENCE
AUTHOR: CUTLER, JUDITH
ABSTRACT: An unidentifiable woman is found on a roadside, beaten into a coma.
After two years, her condition is downgraded to "persistent vegetative state" - if
the hospital takes her off life support, her attacker will be guilty of her murder.
Chief Superintendent Fran Harman has this case stacked on top of a large load.
LP 11677 LIKE A LAMB TO SLAUGHTER
AUTHOR: BLOCK, LAWRENCE
ABSTRACT: Mystery stories featuring Matthew Scudder, Martin
Ehrengraf and Chip Harrison.
LP 11473 THE LINCOLN LAWYER
AUTHOR: CONNELLY, MICHAEL
ABSTRACT: Bookies, con artist, drunk drivers, prostitutes - they're all on Attorney
Mickey Haller's client list. But when a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for
brutally beating a woman, Haller has not only his first high-paying client in years,
but for once, he maybe defending a client who is actually innocent.
LP 11354 LONDON BRIDGES: AN ALEX CROSS MYSTERY
AUTHOR: PATTERSON, JAMES.
ABSTRACT: Terrorists led by "the Wolf" destroy a Nevada town and threaten to
blow up bridges in London, New York, Frankfurt, and Washington unless their
impossible demands are met. FBI agent Alex Cross joins the investigation when
his arch nemesis "the Weasel" aids the enemy.
LP 11599 A LONG SHADOW
AUTHOR: TODD, CHARLES
ABSTRACT: New Year's Eve, 1919. On the steps outside a fine house, Inspector
Ian Rutledge finds a brass cartridge casing, identical to those he'd seen during
the war he cannot forget. Soon he finds another - in a most unexpected place.
These cartridge casings seem to point to unfinished business about the war. Who
is hunting Rutledge?
Fiction
34
Maryland LBPH
LP 12147 LONG SPOON LANE
AUTHOR: PERRY, ANNE
ABSTRACT: After a violent gun battle between rioters and police, a chase
culminates in narrow, cobbled Long Spoon Lane, where Magnus Landsborough is
shot to death. Two anarchists are arrested and they provide conflicting evidence
about Landsborough's death: whether he was the victim of an accident or murder,
and whether he was a hostage of the anarchists or an anarchist himself. Thomas
Pitt investigates.
LP 11641 LOST
AUTHOR: ROBOTHAM, MICHAEL
ABSTRACT: On a cold London night, homicide detective Vincent Ruiz is fished out
of the Thames with a bullet in his leg and no memory of the circumstances. In his
pocket is a photograph of Mickey Carlyle, a seven year old girl kidnapped three
years before, presumed dead. It's anybody's guess what Ruiz was up to –
especially when a blood spattered boat discovered nearby makes it clear that
Ruiz was not the sole casualty.
LP 12131 MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SCREAM
AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, JILL
ABSTRACT: Jane Jeffry has a new hobby: the stage, specifically a rundown theater
that close pal Shelley and her husband have donated to a local college drama
department. Jane is soon drawn deep into the drama when a particularly
rebellious performer exits stage left--permanently--courtesy of a head-bashing
killer.
LP 11681 A MINISTER'S GHOST
AUTHOR: DEPOY, PHILLIP
ABSTRACT: Fever Devilin, a native of the Appalachian hills, is a professor of
folklore. He returns home and finds that there have been several suspicious
deaths on train tracks near his home place. Two of the dead are nieces of one of
his old friends. Fever determines to find their killer.
LP 12133 MOST WANTED
AUTHOR: MARTINEZ, MICHELE
ABSTRACT: Melanie Vargas is a federal prosecutor in NYC with a rising career
and a marriage that's on the rocks. On an evening stroll, Melanie stumbles upon a
horrifying crime scene. A wealthy former prosecutor from her office has been
tortured and murdered, his luxurious townhouse set ablaze.
Fiction
35
Maryland LBPH
LP 11358 MOZZARELLA MOST MURDEROUS
AUTHOR: FAIRBANKS, NANCY
ABSTRACT: Awaiting a passionate rendezvous with her husband in romantic Italy,
Carolyn spends the day with the beautiful Paolina, who has been stood up by her
lover. But Carolyn's siesta turns sour as when she finds her lovely companion
drowned in the hotel's pool. Is it suicide? Or Paolina's boss--with benefits?
LP 11481 MRS. JEFFRIES AND THE SILENT KNIGHT
AUTHOR: BRIGHTWELL, EMILY
ABSTRACT: Inspector Gerald Witherspoon is called in to investigate the murder
of Sir George Braxton, found lying face down in a frozen fountain with the back of
his skull bashed in. Only the help of his housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries will give the
poor Inspector any chance of sleeping in heavenly peace on this Christmas Eve.
LP 11607 MRS. JEFFRIES STALKS THE HUNTER
AUTHOR: BRIGHTWELL, EMILY
ABSTRACT: Sir Edmund Leggett has a stalker - a young lady whose attentions
have turned from puppy love to obsession. Sir Edmunds is flattered until
someone murders him in cold blood. Edmund's biggest fan then makes herself
scarce. Inspector Witherspoon is called in; but first he'll consult his housekeeper,
Mrs. Jeffries, who always gets to the heart of the matter.
LP 11411 MURDER IN THE MARAIS
AUTHOR: BLACK, CARA
ABSTRACT: Aimee Leduc, detective in Paris, is asked by a rabbi to decipher a 50
year old photograph and deliver it to an old woman in the Marais. When she
does, she finds a corpse with a swastika on her forehead. With the help of her
partner, a dwarf with super computer skills, she sets out to solve this horrendous
crime.
LP 11673 MURPHY'S REVENGE
AUTHOR: BATEMAN, COLIN
ABSTRACT: Detective Martin Murphy investigates when a support group for
relatives of murder victims, Confront, appears to be helping grease the wheels of
justice by eliminating the murderers.
Fiction
36
Maryland LBPH
LP 11606 NEEDLED TO DEATH
AUTHOR: SEFTON, MAGGIE
ABSTRACT: When knit shop owner Kelly Flynn volunteers to take a group of
tourists to visit Vickie Claymore's alpaca farm, she discovers Vickie splayed out
on her original hand woven rug, her blood seeping into the design. The police
jump on the case, but Kelly can't resist doing a little investigative work of her
own.
LP 11679 NEW YEAR'S EVE MURDER
AUTHOR: MEIER, LESLIE
ABSTRACT: Lucy and her daughter, Elizabeth, travel to New York City after
winning a mother-daughter makeover from Jolie magazine The outing turns into a
nightmare after Jolie's controversial fashion editor suddenly dies and Elizabeth
falls ill from what turns out to be exposure to anthrax. Dividing her time between
her daughter's bedside and sleuthing, Lucy discovers a host of misdeeds.
LP 11725 NIGHTLIFE
AUTHOR: PERRY, THOMAS
ABSTRACT: Serial killer Charlene Buckner-aka Tanya Starling, Rachel Sturbridge,
Nancy Mills, and several other monikers-changes her identity each time she
commits a murder. Portland police detective Sgt. Catherine Hobbes investigates
Charlene's first kill, and follows her, always too late to catch Charlene or save her
latest victim, as Charlene moves on to other locales. Hobbes has her own issues,
and by the end the two women have grown close not only in proximity but in
identity as well.
LP 11557 NO CLUE AT THE INN
AUTHOR: KINGSBURY, KATE
ABSTRACT: Cecily Baxter and her husband, Hugh, return to Badgers End to
manage the new country club. When a chief housemaid goes missing, followed
by one of London's most renowned barristers, Cecily realizes that she may be on
holiday, but death isn't.
LP 11482 NOSE FOR TROUBLE
AUTHOR: DURGIN, DORANNA
ABSTRACT: Dale Kinsall, DVM arrives in a new desert clinic populated by an
eccentric staff and a community abuzz about a recent murder. The buzz gets even
louder when Dale stumbles across a second victim: a man drowned in his own
drought-dusty backyard. Dale and the new clinic are at risk, and Dale's fledgling
relationship with a local colleague turns serious in more ways than one as trouble
closes in.
Fiction
37
Maryland LBPH
LP 11727 OH DANNY BOY
AUTHOR: BOWEN, RHYS
ABSTRACT: While Irish immigrant Molly Murphy thinks of moving West, she's
determined to avoid the handsome but deceiving NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan.
That is, until Daniel is accused of accepting bribes and lands himself in the
Tombs. Molly finds herself drawn into the case and to the case of a serial killer
who has already murdered five prostitutes.
LP 11552 THE OLD WINE SHADES
AUTHOR: GRIMES, MARTHA
ABSTRACT: A stranger sits down next to Richard Jury in a London pub. Over three
nights the stranger spins a complicated tale about a friend whose wife and son
and dog have all disappeared. When Jury investigates, all seems to be just as the
stranger described it, until they find the body.
LP 11680 AN OMINOUS DEATH
AUTHOR: MAHON, ANNETTE
ABSTRACT: Maggie Browne and the members of the St. Rose Quilting Bee make a
lap quilt for Candy Brechner, one of their members who is in a convalescent care
center after an auto accident. Candy breaks down when she sees them: she fears
an "angel of death" is at work in the facility. Dismissing her story as a side effect
of medication, the women have second thoughts when Candy dies suddenly.
LP 11476 PELICAN BAY
AUTHOR: DOUGLAS, CHARLOTTE
ABSTRACT: Maggie Skerritt is starting to wonder about spending the rest of her
life alone, especially after Pelican Bay is rocked by the deaths of two young
women. Edith, whose only reliable friend was her cat, and Sophia, the wealthy
heir to a restaurant empire, were members of a recently formed weight-loss
support group. Were they murdered by a killer with a pathological hatred of fat
people?
LP 11671 PROMISE ME
AUTHOR: COBEN, HARLAN
ABSTRACT: Concerned that Ali's teenage daughter, Erin, and Erin's friend,
Aimee, might fall in with the wrong crowd, Myron Bolitar gives them his contact
information in case either of them feels she needs help. Aimee later calls him in
the middle of the night for a lift to a friend's house, on condition that her request
remain a secret. When Aimee turns up missing in circumstances mirroring those
surrounding another vanished girl, Bolitar himself becomes a suspect in her
disappearance and must use his wits and martial arts skills to uncover the truth.
Fiction
38
Maryland LBPH
LP 11545 RIDING GAIN
AUTHOR: KRIEG, JOYCE
ABSTRACT: When Shauna Bogart's former intern is shot in the park, the suspect's
grandmother turns to Shauna for help. Enlisting her assistant, Josh, to help her,
Shauna turns up an evil and dangerous scheme.
LP 11605 ROYAL CAT
AUTHOR: ALLEN, GARRISON
ABSTRACT: At the Almost Authentic Elizabethan Spring Faire in Empty Creek,
Arizona, everyone has turned out. When Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth I is
assassinated in the dark of night, her crown passes to Penelope Warren,
bookstore owner and amateur sleuth. She and Big Mike, her cat, must not only
rule the revels, but also find a killer.
LP 11672 RULES OF ENGAGEMENT: A SIR JOHN FIELDING MYSTERY
AUTHOR: ALEXANDER, BRUCE.
ABSTRACT: London, 1775. Blind magistrate Sir John Fielding his clerk, Jeremy,
investigate the fatal leap of anticolonist politician Lord Lammermoor from
Westminster Bridge. Clues suggest foul play as Sir John uncovers a web of family
intrigue and possible connections to animal magnetism.
LP 11418 S IS FOR SILENCE: A KINSEY MILLHONE MYSTERY
AUTHOR: GRAFTON, SUE.
ABSTRACT: California PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by Daisy Sullivan to investigate
her mother's disappearance. Violet Sullivan never returned from a Fourth of July
fireworks display thirty-four years ago when Daisy was six.
LP 11676 SANCTUARY
AUTHOR: GARNER, SHARON
ABSTRACT: In the Cerrados area of Brazil, Emily Noble wants to find her missing
brother - a man who has been living a hidden life as a mercenary. She runs into
danger when the trail leads her straight to Christovao Santos, the man who
recruited her brother...All three have been targeted for death. All three have
secrets. And the killer knows them all.
LP 11547 SEA CHANGE: A JESSE STONE MYSTERY
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone investigates the
unmourned death of a Florida heiress. Ft. Lauderdale cop Kelly Cruz helps Stone
uncover the depraved world of the rich while Stone deals with sobriety and his
ex-wife.
Fiction
39
Maryland LBPH
LP 11356 SHAMAN PASS
AUTHOR: JONES, STAN
ABSTRACT: State Trooper Nathan Active is called to investigate the murder of a
tribal leader who, while fishing at an ice hole, was stabbed to death with an
antique ivory and wood harpoon. Active grapples with a native culture that is
strange to him in an effort to understand the motive for the killing and to identify
the murderer.
LP 12146 SHOULDER THE SKY
AUTHOR: PERRY, ANNE
ABSTRACT: France, 1915. Chaplain Joseph Reavley finds the body of arrogant
war correspondent Eldon Prentice. A nephew of the respected Gen. Owen
Cullingford, Prentice was despised for his attempts to elicit facts that would turn
public opinion against the war. Prentice has been killed by one of his own
compatriots, not by a German soldier. What Englishman hated Prentice enough to
kill him?
LP 12124 THE SIGN OF THE BOOK
AUTHOR: DUNNING, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Working from his store on Colfax Avenue, Denver bookman Cliff
Janeway knows things are looking up because of his new partner and friend,
lawyer Erin D'Angelo. So when Erin asks Janeway for a favor, it's hard to say no.
She wants him to go to the small town of Paradise where a former close friend is
in jail, accused of killing her husband. Janeway's not sure he wants to get
involved, even for Erin's sake. Then he discovers the books.
LP 12142 SILENCE OF THE HAMS: A JANE JEFFRY MYSTERY
AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, JILL.
ABSTRACT: Jane Jeffry and her best friend, Shelley, witness the death of
detestable attorney Robert Stonecipher when a rack of hams falls on him in a
Chicago deli. With the help of Jane's police detective boyfriend, both ladies
investigate the crime.
LP 11215 THE SIREN OF SOLACE GLEN
AUTHOR: JAMES, SUSAN
ABSTRACT: Flip Paxton's cleaning business is booming and her love life is
sparkling. Her boyfriend, Tom, has a new client. Stewart Larkin is an impossibly
beautiful blond who has moved to town to escape a stalker. She soon has the
town's men falling at her feet.
Fiction
40
Maryland LBPH
LP 11608 SIRIUS ABOUT MURDER
AUTHOR: WRIGHT, SUE
ABSTRACT: lsie MacBean (Beanie) and her Basset Hound, Cruiser, find
themselves dewlap-deep in a murder investigation when supporters of a
controversial dog park, proposed for a coveted tract of Tahoe shoreline, are
earmarked for death.
LP 11359 SLAYING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW
AUTHOR: HARWIN, PATRICIA
ABSTRACT: Catherine Penny has settled in Far Wychwood. Painful memories
arise when her ex-husband, who left her single in her sixties, arrives with his new
love to attend a family affair. Catherine can't avoid him at the awards ceremony
honoring their son-in-law, Peter, who is a shoo-in for a prestigious appointment at
Oxford's Mercy College. The shock of Peter not being chosen is matched only
by who is: pompous, womanizing scholar Edgar Stone. When Stone is found
murdered, Peter's guilt seems hardly academic.
LP 12115 SLICE AND DICE
AUTHOR: HART, ELLEN
ABSTRACT: When Connie Buckridge, the kitchen queen and her entourage hit
town on a publicity tour, so does a bestselling investigative writer who is hot on
her scandalous trail. Primed by an anonymous e-mail, Maria Damontraville is
preparing to cook Connie's goose with a major expose of her strategies for
success. When food critic Sopie Greenway finds a cooking colleague stabbed
with his own kitchen knife, a fire that's been smoldering for 40 years bursts into
flame.
LP 11682 THE SMELL OF THE NIGHT
AUTHOR: CAMILLERI, ANDREA
ABSTRACT: Emanuele Gargano, the financial wizard, has disappeared with
Vigata's savings. Inspector Montalbano must find him, but a hostile superior has
shut him out of the case, he's on the outs with his lover, and his cherished Sicily is
turning so ruthless and vulgar that Montalbano wonders if any part of it is worth
saving.
LP 11546 SOUR PUSS
AUTHOR: BROWN, RITA MAE
ABSTRACT: Love is in the air as spring comes to Crozet, Virginia. No sooner has
Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen remarried than she is rudely interrupted - by
murder. Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, the cats, along with corgi Tee Tucker, sink
their claws into the case.
Fiction
41
Maryland LBPH
LP 11583 ST. ALBANS FIRE
AUTHOR: MAYOR, ARCHER
ABSTRACT: Joe Gunter is called in to investigate when Bobby Cutts and all his
livestock perish in a barn fire. Gunther instantly recognizes arson. But by whom?
And for what possible reason? There is little insurance, the family is loving, and
there are few neighborhood animosities. Yet murder this is.
LP 11648 SUNSTROKE
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, JESSE
ABSTRACT: Gloria Mendez, 36, single, is in love with her boss. When he
disappears on vacation in Mexico, Gloria goes in search of him. Following the
trail into the desert, she is confronted with the wreckage of a hidden past. Carl
Perreira was not the man she thought she knew.
LP 12134 THE SURROGATE THIEF
AUTHOR: MAYOR, ARCHER
ABSTRACT: Thirty years ago, store owner Klaus Oberfeldt was robbed and
beaten senseless. When Klaus died six months later, the crime became firstdegree murder. Police detective Gunther, distracted by his wife's losing struggle
with cancer in the same hospital where Klaus slipped from life let the case go
cold. Now the Oberfeldt investigation--and the old wounds--have been
reopened, forcing Gunter to revisit ancient history.
LP 12121 SUSPICION
AUTHOR: PARKER, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: After a quickie marriage, Miami lawyers Gail Connor and Anthony
Quintana travel to Havana to honeymoon, staying at his sister, Marta's, house.
Marta is married to General Ramirez Vega, a rising star in Castro's government,
and someone the CIA wants Anthony to convince to defect so he can confirm
information given to them by someone else.
LP 12135 TAKING THE WRAP
AUTHOR: JOHNSON, DOLORES
ABSTRACT: After dining at a local restaurant, Mandy Dyer's friend Laura
discovers that someone has taken her coat and left another in its place. The only
clue to the owner's identity is an unfamiliar dry-cleaning mark. Mandy's casual
inquiries turn serious when a dead body is discovered dressed in Laura's missing
coat.
Fiction
42
Maryland LBPH
LP 12122 THIEVES BREAK IN
AUTHOR: SUMNERS, CRISTINA
ABSTRACT: The Reverend Kathryn Koerney is looking forward to guiding a group
of her New Jersey parishioners through historical Oxford, England. She's also
eager to visit her cousin, Rob, who works for a baronet at Datchworth Castle. But
just before she departs, Kathryn gets word that Rob has fallen to his death. The
police are calling it murder--yet they don't have a single lead.
LP 12128 TILL THE END OF TOM: AN AMANDA PEPPER MYSTERY
AUTHOR: ROBERTS, GILLIAN.
ABSTRACT: Teacher Amanda Pepper discovers a cup of poisoned tea in her
classroom and the body of wealthy Tomas Severin at the bottom of the school's
staircase. As she investigates Tomas's death she uncovers his many enemies and
several possible motives for his murder.
LP 11678 THE TROUBLE WITH MAGIC
AUTHOR: ALT, MADELYN
ABSTRACT: Maggie O'Neill jumps at the chance to work at Enchantments, Stony
Mill's finest antique shop. She's a little weirded out when owner Felicty Dow
describes herself as a witch. On Maggie's first day, police question Felicity in the
murder of her estranged sister. Maggie begins receiving messages on a spiritual
frequency guiding her to prove Felicity's innocence.
LP 11369 THE TRUDEAU VECTOR
AUTHOR: JURJEVICS, JURIS
ABSTRACT: As the international team of scientists at the spectacular Trudeau
Research Center in the Arctic circle prepares for six months of unrelenting
winter, three of their colleagues are found dead on the ice, their bodies contorted
in ghastly positions, hardened from the inside out. Cause of death: unknown. Dr.
Jessica Hanley, the American epidemiologist, is summoned to investigate
these deaths.
LP 11475 TURNING ANGEL
AUTHOR: ILES, GREG
ABSTRACT: As two of the most respected citizens of Natchez, Miss, lawyer Drew
Elliott and Dr. Penn Cage sit on the school board of their alma mater, St. Stephen's
Prep. When the nude body of a female student is discovered, the entire
community is shocked - but perhaps no one more than Penn, who discovers that
his best friend was entangled in a relationship with the girl.
Fiction
43
Maryland LBPH
LP 12149 TWO DOLLAR BILL
AUTHOR: WOODS, STUART
ABSTRACT: Stone Barrington is interrupted in his dinner with his ex-partner Dina
by Billy Bob, a filthy rich, smooth-talkin' Texan who's in town to "make money"
and is in need of an attorney--namely, Stone--though he won't say why or when.
As they leave the restaurant, however, an unknown assailant shoots at them.
Against his better judgment, Stone offers Billy Bob a safe haven for the night –
and almost immediately begins to suspect he's made a mistake.
LP 11647 TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE
AUTHOR: CLARK, MARY HIGGINS.
ABSTRACT: A kidnapper takes three-year-old identical twins Kelly and Kathy
Frawley from their Connecticut home. After a ransom payment, only one child
returns, with a note claiming the other is dead. But Kelly telepathically hears her
sister calling her and gives their parents hope that Kathy is still alive.
LP 11549 THE TWO MINUTE RULE
AUTHOR: CRAIS, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Max Holman is a career criminal. At least he was until he violated the
two-minute rule, bank robbery's inviolable maxim. When he stayed in the bank
four minutes, he was arrested by FBI agent Katherine Pollard. The day Holman is
paroled from prison he learns that his son, Richie, an LAPD officer, was gunned
down. But Holman wants Pollard to investigate.
LP 11415 TYRANNOSAUR CANYON
AUTHOR: PRESTON, DOUGLAS
ABSTRACT: A moon rock missing for thirty years...five buckets of blood-soaked
sand found in a New Mexico canyon...a scientist with ambition enough to kill...a
monk who will redeem the world...What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered
the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest US known
LP 11389 UNDEAD AND UNAPPRECIATED
AUTHOR: DAVIDSON, MARYJANICE
ABSTRACT: Betsy has found that being vampire queen has more problems than
perks - except for always being awake for Midnight Madness sales. Betsy's life
takes an interesting turn at a shower for her wicked stepmother, who lets it slip
that Betsy has a long lost half sister. Now twenty years old, this woman is the
devil's daughter, and destined to rule the world.
Fiction
44
Maryland LBPH
LP 11568 UNDEAD AND UNEMPLOYED
AUTHOR: DAVIDSON, MARYJANICE
ABSTRACT: Nothing can make Betsy Taylor give up her shoe fetish - even dying
and rising as the new Queen of the Vampires. Betsy lands a job that gives her
time to try on deliciously sinful shoes. But it seems that vampires are being
murdered in St. Paul, and they're all clamoring for Betsy to do something about it.
LP 11483 UNDEAD AND UNRETURNABLE
AUTHOR: DAVIDSON, MARYJANICE
ABSTRACT: Betsy Taylor, Queen of the Vampires isn't going to let little things like
death and blood-drinking stop her from enjoying the holidays or planning her
spring wedding to vamp Eric Sinclair. Betsy is plagued by ghosts who demand
her help in rectifying their past mistakes, and a serial killer is on the loose. His
victims are all tall blondes, and Betsy fits the profile exactly...
LP 11361 UNDEAD AND UNWED
AUTHOR: DAVIDSON, MARY JANICE
ABSTRACT: It's been a terrible week for Betsy Taylor. First, she lost her job. Then
she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites is that she can't seem to stay
dead. Every night she rises with a horrible craving for blood, and she's not taking
too well to a liquid diet. Worst of all, her new friends have the idea that Betsy is
the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most
power-hungry vampire in five centuries.
LP 11417 THE UNSEEN
AUTHOR: DRIVER, LEE
ABSTRACT: The captivating Sara is a shape-shifter whose talents go beyond the
realm of human, and into the life of chase Dagger, a detective whose past is so
dark it's pitch black. Several cases are linked by a bizarre common denominator:
none of the surveillance cameras reveal the assailant.
LP 11596 VELOCITY
AUTHOR: KOONTZ, DEAN.
ABSTRACT: A cryptic note left on bartender Bill Wile's windshield leads to
murder. It gives him a choice: tell the police and have an elderly lady die, or not
tell the police and cause a schoolteacher's death. After a teacher is murdered, Bill
finds another note.
Fiction
45
Maryland LBPH
LP 11551 THE WAVE
AUTHOR: MOSLEY, WALTER
ABSTRACT: Errol's father has been dead for years. Lately Errol has been
awakened in the middle of the night by a caller claiming to be his father. Is it a
prank, or a message from the grave? Errol sneaks into the graveyard where his
father is buried. What he finds there will change his life forever.
LP 11604 WHAT ANGELS FEAR
AUTHOR: HARRIS, C.S.
ABSTRACT: England, 1811. A young woman is found raped and murdered on the
altar steps of an ancient parish church. An ornate dueling pistol is found in her
cloak, and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man: Sebastian
St. Cyr, a young nobleman shattered by his experiences in the Napoleonic Wars.
Sebastian calls upon his experience as an agent during the war to catch a
brutal killer and prove his innocence.
LP 11554 WHEN RED IS BLACK
AUTHOR: XIAOLONG, QIU
ABSTRACT: Inspector Chen of the Shanghai police is on vacation. Actually, he is
working for a triad-connected businessman about to build a vast complex in
Central Shanghai evoking the 1930’s. When former Red Guard novelist Yin Lige
is murdered, he must return to duty to apprehend the culprit.
LP 12153 WHITE SKY, BLACK ICE: A NATHAN ACTIVE MYSTERY
AUTHOR: JONES, STAN.
ABSTRACT: Alaska state trooper Nathan Active works in his native village where
his birth mother, an Inupiat Eskimo, had given him up for adoption to his white
parents years ago. Active suspects that two recent suicides were actually
murders.
LP 11609 WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME
AUTHOR: KANE, ANDREA
ABSTRACT: What begins as a romantic weekend runs into a nightmare when Sally
Montgomery's companion, Frederick Pierson, is murdered. Instead of seeing
Sally as a victim, the police see her as their prime suspect. To evade them and a
brutal killer, Sally goes into hiding and calls her ex-husband, a former NYPD
detective, for help.
Fiction
46
Maryland LBPH
Romance
LP 11422 ADORED
AUTHOR: BAGSHAWE, TILLY
ABSTRACT: Born into a Hollywood dynasty, Siena McMahon is blessed with
beauty, brains and wealth. Yet behind the wrought iron gates of the McMahon
mansion, her life is far from idyllic. When a gold-digging English aristocrat
worms her way into their lives, the family's potent mix of jealousy and wealth
explodes.
LP 11390 AFTER MIDNIGHT
AUTHOR: MEDEIROS, TERESA
ABSTRACT: The eldest and most sensible of the three Cabot siblings, Caroline is
concerned that her sister Vivienne has lately been keeping company with the
infamous Adrian Kane, Viscount Trevelyan, the enigmatic nobleman whom most
of the ton firmly believe is ...a vampire!
LP 11376 ALASKA: IDITAROD DREAM AND CHRISTMAS DREAM
AUTHOR: PETERSON, TRACIE
ABSTRACT: Confident, independent Rita Eriksson travels to her hometown of Tok,
Alaska, to enter the dogsled race - her Iditarod Dream. Her coach, mark, hopes
and prays against all odds that he'll become part of her dreams, too.
LP 11639 ALL NIGHT LONG
AUTHOR: KRENTZ, JAYNE ANN.
ABSTRACT: An e-mail from old friend Pamela Webb summons reporter Irene
Stenson to the California town where her parents died seventeen years ago in a
murder-suicide. But she finds Pamela dead. Ex-marine Luke Danner helps Irene
discover what happened to Pamela and to Irene's parents.
LP 11398 ALL THAT I ASK
AUTHOR: CHOATE, JANE
ABSTRACT: Shannon Whitney moves to Blessing, Wyoming to raise her nephew.
Sparks fly when she meets neighbor and sheriff Gabe Lamberts. When Gabe
realizes he's in love with Shannon, he wants to take care of her. What will it take to
convince Gabe that Shannon doesn't need him to take care of her -- and Shannon
that all she needs is Gabe's love?
Fiction
47
Maryland LBPH
LP 11663 ALMOST A LADY
AUTHOR: FEATHER, JANE
ABSTRACT: Meg Barratt wants nothing to do with a society marriage, she yearns
for the kind of passion that exists only in books. Until a storm lands her on the
high seas. When a seafaring assassin accidentally kidnaps Meg on his latest
mission, he faces a far more challenging danger than he expected.
LP 11466 AND ONLY TO DECEIVE
AUTHOR: ALEXANDER, TASHA
ABSTRACT: Emily marries Philip, the Viscount Ashton, just to escape her mother.
When he dies shortly after the wedding, she felt little grief. But she reads his
journals and discovers a far different man whom she had married so cavalierly. A
man who was deeply in love with his wife.
LP 11525 ANNIE MOORE: FIRST IN LINE FOR AMERICA
AUTHOR: LOUGHREY, EITHNE
ABSTRACT: Cork-born Annie Moore was the very first immigrant of any
nationality to land at Ellis Island, New York on its opening day in 1982. She had
waited three years for her parents to send for her, but now, at last, she had
arrived. Life in a New York tenement is a far cry from Cork, but by her second
winter she has had a wealth of adventures.
LP 11711 AS EAGLES FLY
AUTHOR: CARTLAND, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: On a secret mission to Russia, Lord Athelstan escorts a prisoner, the
Countess Natasha, to Constantinople. There she must enter the sultan's harem in
exchange for her brother's freedom. Athelstan refuses and the girl escape, only
to join his entourage in disguise. They find that the fires of love burn swiftly.
LP 11527 BLAZE
AUTHOR: ROSS, JOANN
ABSTRACT: Fire cop Tess Gannon is hot on the trail of a pyromaniac who's been
setting buildings ablaze throughout Somersett, SC, when ATF Special Agent Gage
O'Halloran arrives on her fire scene. Coming out of a self-imposed exile, Gages
suspects that Tess's "Flamemaster" is connected to a serial killer he apprehended
three years ago.
Fiction
48
Maryland LBPH
LP 11656 BOO WHO
AUTHOR: GUTTERIDGE, RENE
ABSTRACT: Once known as the haunt of the world's most popular horror writer,
Wolf "Boo" Boone, Skary, Indiana started losing tourists after Boo abandoned his
career. Now the town is bankrupt. The former author is selling cars and
wondering if he will ever write again, as his fiancee is shooting for stardom as the
media's new domestic diva.
LP 11384 BOUGHT: ONE BRIDE
AUTHOR: LEE, MIRANDA
ABSTRACT: Richard Crawford, rich and successful, is thinking about his latest
acquisition. Richard wants a wife, who'll give him children - but he doesn't want to
fall in love. The Sydney millionaire spots the perfect candidate: Holly Greenaway
is a sweet, pretty florist, and her livelihood is in peril. Richard sees his chance
- he can buy Holly, possess her, without letting his emotions get involved.
LP 11383 THE BRIDAL CHASE
AUTHOR: MAGUIRE, DARCY
ABSTRACT: To help her sister's business, Roxanne Gray takes on a job which
means she has to spend a lot of time with architect Cade Watson. It's really not a
chore - he's gorgeous: tall, handsome and irresistibly attractive! But he's strictly
off-limits; she mustn't let him get close. Only Cade is more than a little bit keen on
Roxanne - and so begins a chase which, he hopes, will end at the altar.
LP 11517 CANDLESHINE
AUTHOR: REECE, COLLEEN
ABSTRACT: During World War II, Candleshine Thatcher dedicates her life to
nursing, and the her heart to a brave Marine lieutenant. Theirs was a wartime
romance, a wisp of a breeze in the sultry South Pacific, a promise made amid
threats of invasion and attack.
LP 11396 CAROUSEL OF HEARTS
AUTHOR: PUTNEY, MARY JO
ABSTRACT: Baroness Antonia Thornton is the most stunning young lady of the ton.
Judith Winslow is her perfect complement; her good sense is an ideal antidote to
Antonia' rebelliousness. When Adam Yorke appears on the scene accompanied
by Simon, Lor Launceston, Antonia and Judith find themselves divided.
Fiction
49
Maryland LBPH
LP 11387 THE CHILDREN'S HEART SURGEON
AUTHOR: WEBBER, MEREDITH
ABSTRACT: Pediatric surgeon Alex Attwood gives all his caring to his patients.
He's not interested in women, not since the blonde stranger he kissed one long
ago night, and never found again. Nurse Manager Annie Talbot has a different
name from his mystery woman. She dyes her hair brown. And she flatly denies
ever having met him. But the one thing she can't hide is her response to his kiss.
LP 11590 THE CULTURED HANDMAIDEN
AUTHOR: COOKSON, CATHERINE
ABSTRACT: At twenty-one, Jinny Brownlow is working at a dead-end typing job
and has just been dumped by her fiance for her roommate. Something needs to
change in Jinny's life and it may have be Jinny herself.
LP 11717 DAISIES ARE FOREVER
AUTHOR: VOELLER, SYDELL
ABSTRACT: April Heatherton is determined to protect the land she holds dear.
Proposed logging operations are encroaching and April heads a task force to
stop them. When April meets handsome Matt Spencer, son of the owner of
the logging Company, she must reckon with her escalating attraction to him.
LP 11637 THE DECENT THING
AUTHOR: REED, C.W.
ABSTRACT: David Herbert lies a privileged life in Edwardian society. He falls in
love with Nelly, a young maid, and falls seriously ill. He is nursed by the devoted
Nelly. David must find the courage to defy convention and breach the barriers to
their happiness.
LP 11385 THE DEFIANT MISTRESS
AUTHOR: THORNTON, CLAIRE
ABSTRACT: For eight years Gabriel Vaughan, Marquis of Halross, has believed
he was duped by a clever, money-grabbing harlot. Left at the altar, he was to
witness his betrothed in the arms of another man. Now a chance meeting in
Venice brings all the old hurts and bitterness to the surface.
LP 11635 DOCTOR IN BONDAGE
AUTHOR: LYNN, IRENE
ABSTRACT: Helen Crandall , Sister in the Foxfield Nursing Home in Surrey, was in
love with Dr. Russell Garett. Jealousy and greed mingled with other passions, and
the man she loved seemed connected almost against his will to some dreadful
mystery. Helen wondered if love was enough to see her through.
Fiction
50
Maryland LBPH
LP 11714 DOCTOR IN NEW GUINEA
AUTHOR: JAMES, DANA
ABSTRACT: Dr. Nicholas Calder fears taking Maren Harvey into the jungle when
she joins him in Papua New Guinea. She may be a woman doctor in unknown and
dangerous territory, but for once Nicholas Calder has met his match.
LP 11388 THE DOCTOR'S FIRE RESCUE
AUTHOR: DARCY, LILLIAN
ABSTRACT: After avoiding Niccolo Conti for the entire conference, Alison got on
a tour bus ; the last seat was next to the tall, dark Italian. The last time she'd been
this close to Nico she'd been in Italy, thinking he was to be her husband. The
attraction between them was still there. Alison steeled herself to keep the
atmosphere light and civil. But they would need all their medical expertise to
survive.
LP 11633 FADE THE HEAT
AUTHOR: THOMPSON, COLLEEN
ABSTRACT: Someone is setting fires in the Houston barrio, and Dr. Jack Montoya
is the first intended victim. Is there some connection between the torching of his
apartment and the gorgeous blonde from his past who appears at his clinic on the
same day?
LP 11467 FEET FIRST
AUTHOR: BANKS, LEANNE
ABSTRACT: Designing footwear is Jenny Prillaman's life, so getting the plum
assignment to create a socialite's wedding shoes is a dream come true. Dealing
with her dreamy new boss is another story. Jenny finds him too hot to deny
despite her best intentions of keeping her business away from his pleasure.
Marc's got one thing going for him - the way to a woman's heart is through a really
great pair of shoes.
Fiction
51
Maryland LBPH
LP 11664 A FINE PASSION: A BASTION CLUB NOVEL, BOOK 5
AUTHOR: LAURENS, STEPHANIE.
ABSTRACT: Baron Jack Warnefleet flees London to avoid marriage to a scheming
female. Arriving at his estate he rescues neighbor Lady Clarice Altwood from an
unmanageable horse. When Clarice's cousin is accused of espionage, Jack and
Clarice work to find the real culprit.
LP 11526 FLYING COLOURS
AUTHOR: GRAVES, HEATHER
ABSTRACT: When Corey O'Brien and Mario Antonella, a racehorse owner
and heir to a fashion house first meet, it isn't friendly. So she is surprised by the
interest he shows in her later. Then Corey discovers a shocking secret and feels
she must turn her back on him forever.
LP 11532 GHOST WALK
AUTHOR: GRAHAM, HEATHER
ABSTRACT: Mikki DuMondes, manager of a New Orleans haunted tour company,
sees her newest employee standing at the end of her bed at 4:00 a.m. begging for
help. Later that day, a police officer informs her that Andy was brutally murdered
in the night. Brent Blackhawk, a paranormal investigator, is the only one who will
listen to her story.
LP 11523 GOODBYE TO YESTERDAY
AUTHOR: FRANKLIN, SARAH
ABSTRACT: As one door closed, another opened, and Petra Marshall found
Her work recording the Witching Hour for the hospital radio rewarding. Her
husky voice drew Dr. James Ewing like a magnet, but when he tried to approach
Petra he found the trauma of her past had frozen her present, and he couldn't
seem to find the key.
LP 11460 THE HAPPY HIGHWAYS
AUTHOR: WHITMEE, JEANNE
ABSTRACT: Sally and Fiona, fast friends since their factory days in World War II,
open a catering business when the war ends. Fiona, whose fiancee died during
the war, is sure she can never love again. Cockney Sally falls for Fiona's RAF pilot
brother who she feels is socially superior. But secrets from the past will shape
their future.
Fiction
52
Maryland LBPH
LP 11345 THE HAVILAND TOUCH
AUTHOR: HOOPER, KAY
ABSTRACT: Wealthy antiquities collector Drew Haviland finds his path crossing
that of Spencer Wyatt, a woman who had once jilted him. When Spencer embarks
on a dangerous quest to find the legendary Hapsburg Cross - the lifelong goal of
her dying father - Drew has no choice but to help her. What he doesn't expect is
what happens when he truly begins to understand the woman he thought he
knew.
LP 11382 HIS WEDDING RING OF REVENGE
AUTHOR: JAMES, JULIA
ABSTRACT: Rachel Vail is haunted by Vito Farnest'e rejection of her, but tragic
circumstances mean that Rachel must contact Vito once more. She desperately
needs a marriage of convenience. Only Vito won't be blackmailed, especially not
a gold-digger like Rachel. Rachel will be wearing his ring - but it will be his
wedding ring of revenge.
LP 11338 THE HOUSE IN AMALFI
AUTHOR: ADLER, ELIZABETH
ABSTRACT: Lamour Harrington's husband died two years ago, and now she's
faced with a devastating truth about the man she had adored. Needing a place to
recharge, Lamour returns to the house on the Amalficoast where she'd lived with
her father during the happiest years of her childhood. But the house of her
memories has secrets all its own, forcing her to face new truths about another
man she once loved.
LP 11524 I'LL CARE FOR YOU
AUTHOR: WINCHESTER, KAY
ABSTRACT: Linda Fane was in her second year at Bardmore's Hospital when Alan
Torringfield was admitted as a patient. Alan was a distant relation of hers, and
also the cause of much of the trouble she wanted to forget. Linda saw the threat of
complications, as she was on the point of becoming engaged to a young journalist
named David Blake, who knew very little of her background.
LP 11730 IMMEDIATE FAMILY
AUTHOR: GOUDGE, EILEEN
ABSTRACT: Emerson is falling in love with exactly the kind of man her
pretentious mother disdains, and Los Angeles TV reporter Stevie finally tracks
down her biological father only to land in the middle of one of Hollywood's
greatest scandals.
Fiction
53
Maryland LBPH
LP 11715 THE INCOMPARABLE CASSANDRA
AUTHOR: PAQUET, LAURA
ABSTRACT: Lord Benjamin Rowalnd wants to pursue his studies of animals. Lady
Cassandra Blythe is rebounding from a family scandal. When their relative
arrange a season-long round of matchmaking, Cassandra discovers the biologist
has hidden depths, and the pleasures of popular society pale in comparison to
the unexpected passion she has found.
LP 11591 AN INVITATION TO SIN
AUTHOR: ENOCH, SUZANNE
ABSTRACT: Seven marriageable daughters. . . and Lord Zachary Griffin is just the
man to help them. Leading exquisite Caroline Witfield, the most spirited of the
sisters, to temptation would be wildly delicious. But Caroline only wants Zachary
for his beauty, so that she can catch it on canvas.
LP 11464 IT HAPPENED ONE AUTUMN
AUTHOR: KLEYPAS, LISA
ABSTRACT: Beautiful and bold Lillian Bowman learned that her independent
American ways weren't entirely "the thing." Most disapproving was insufferable
Marcus, Lord Westcliff, London's most eligible bachelor. When Marcus
shockingly swept her into his arms, Lillian was overcome with a consuming
passion for a man she didn't even like.
LP 11465 IT'S IN HIS KISS
AUTHOR: QUINN, JULIA
ABSTRACT: Too intelligent for her own good and best friends with Lady Danbury,
one of society's outspoken grande dames, Hyacinth is in her fourth season on
London's Marriage Mart and again unimpressed by the male selection. Only Lady
Danbury's handsome grandson Gareth St. Clair can hold his own in a
conversation with her and sometimes leaves her in a stomach-flipping state. Then
Hyacinth offers to translate the diary of Gareth's grandmother and puts their love
in jeopardy.
LP 11518 A KISS OF SILK
AUTHOR: CARTLAND, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: Varia thought Sir Edward's proposal was outrageous - but wildly
attractive. He wanted Varia to accompany his only son, Ian, on a business trip to
France, posing as his fiancee. The agreement was strictly business, of course, and
she'd be paid handsomely for her help.
Fiction
54
Maryland LBPH
LP 11519 KIT AND CABOODLE
AUTHOR: FORSYTHE, CATHY
ABSTRACT: Meghan Applebee has a large job of raising her younger sister and
brothers, and caring for her eccentric grandmother. When police detective Luke
Sullivan meets the family, Grams has just tried to rob a bank, using a baseball bat
for a weapon. And Luke can't resist investigating Meghan further...an
investigation that has little to do with police work.
LP 11531 A LADY AT MIDNIGHT
AUTHOR: HAMMOND, MELINDA
ABSTRACT: Amelia Langridge is a companion to Camilla Stickland before settling
down as Edmund's Crannock's wife. Camilla intends to capture a rich husband;
when she attracts the attention of Earl Rossleigh, he is intent on a much more
dangerous quarry, and it is Amelia who finds herself caught up in his tangled
affairs.
LP 11514 LEARNING CURVES
AUTHOR: MYERS, CINDI
ABSTRACT: Shelly Piper is a size twelve, therefore relegated to behind the
scenes at her news station job. Jack Halloran, too handsome to be taken seriously,
starts his own station and asks Shelly to join him. While Jack and Shelly work
together on the down-and-dirty hard news stories, all Shelly can think of is
Jack...until the ratings come in.
LP 11661 LET IT BE LOVE
AUTHOR: ALEXANDER, VICTORIA
ABSTRACT: Jonathon Effington, the Marques of Helmsley, is no stranger to
passion of the flesh, but his heart has remained untouched. Until now...at each
Christmas Ball, Jonathon selects a lady to share the evening. He is shocked to
discover that his choice is replaced by an enchanting stranger who surprises him
with a proposal of marriage.
LP 11586 THE LITTLE WIND
AUTHOR: ASH, PAULINE
ABSTRACT: Elizabeth Norton's life was full of responsibilities. Teaching school,
dealing with her flighty young brother and sister. Ambrose Ellingford wished she
would let him shoulder some of her burdens for her. But how could he, when he
was morally bound to the lovely Nadine Lacey? Would Liz just have to go on
managing alone?
Fiction
55
Maryland LBPH
LP 11508 LOST HIGHWAYS
AUTHOR: MATLOCK, CURTISS ANN
ABSTRACT: When Rainey Valentine's mother dies, she inherits a truck, an old
barrel-racing mare and a lifetime supply of Mary Kay cosmetics. Rainey heads for
Valentine, Oklahoma, and finds Harry Furneaux. Dazed after a car accident, he
joins Rainey and they find an unexpected new direction.
LP 11615 LOVE WITH NOODLES
AUTHOR: FREUND, HARRY
ABSTRACT: Two years after his wife's death, 60-year-old Upper East Side
stockbroker Dan Gelder is pursued by eligible women of a certain age, looking
for love and comfort in their golden years. Dan juggles the demands of his
numerous suitors while still preoccupied with the memory of his wife and
burdened with concern for his ne'er-do-well son. Dan is caught between two
polar-opposite women: Violet Finkel, a filthy-rich dynamo who takes over his life,
and Tatiana, a struggling Russian immigrant with a piano-prodigy son.
LP 11593 LOVERS AND PLAYERS
AUTHOR: COLLINS, JACKIE
ABSTRACT: Only one woman knows the difference between Lovers and Players.
Jackie Collins at her sassy, sinful best tells the story of three dynamic brothers
and the beautiful young heiress who steals the heart of one, and the soul of
another.
LP 11716 THE MAVERICKS
AUTHOR: GREENWOOD, LEIGH
ABSTRACT: Hawk and Zeke were two loners, outsiders, as free as the wild horses
they chased across the Arizona desert. When they joined up with two misplaced
dancehall girls on the trail, they reacted about the same way as unbroken
mustangs to the saddle. The bachelors were gentled by soft touches and warm
caresses until each found himself riding the range with a brand-new partner.
LP 11522 MEMORY IN DEATH
AUTHOR: ROBB, J.D.
ABSTRACT: In December 2059, a mysterious woman shows up in Eve's office
claiming to be her "mama." It's Trudy Lombard, the cruel foster mom who took
nine-year-old Eve in after Eve killed her abusive father. Trudy made Eve take
cold baths and locked her in closets, among other torments, and now Trudy wants
Eve to pay $2 million to keep her past a secret. Roarke, Eve's rich, deadly
husband, tosses Trudy out on her ear. When Trudy is found murdered the next
day, it's up to Eve to catch the killer.
Fiction
56
Maryland LBPH
LP 11397 MESSENGER OF LOVE
AUTHOR: CARTLAND, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: Unsophisticated young girl is summoned from her father's country
estate to serve Queen Elizabeth I at court. It also becomes her duty to be the
Queen's hidden messenger and uncover a traitor.
LP 11718 THE MOON FOR LAVINIA
AUTHOR: NEELS, BETTY
ABSTRACT: A nursing job in Holland was the only way Lavinia Hawkins could
ensure a home for herself and her sister, Peta. Within weeks of arriving, she was
married to Prof. Radmer ter Bavinck, who assured her the marriage would be on
a friendly basis only. He needed a kind stepmother for his children and a
housekeeper to run his home. Ideal for everyone, except Lavinia.
LP 11462 MY FAIR TEMPTRESS
AUTHOR: DODD, CHRISTINA
ABSTRACT: Learn how to flirt in ten lessons or less! Miss Caroline Ritter,
accomplished flirt, acknowledged beauty, and ruined gentlewoman, offers
lessons to any lord too inept to attract a wife. Please, no devastatingly attractive
men with hidden agendas - specifically not Jude Durant, the earl of Huntington,
the most handsome and dangerous aristocrat in Regency London.
LP 11744 A NECESSARY EVIL
AUTHOR: KAVA, ALEX
ABSTRACT: Maggie O'Dell (after 2003's At the Stroke of Madness), the beautiful
FBI profiler and recovering alcoholic suspects that more than one killer is
involved in a spate of nationwide murders of Catholic priests. When Father
Michael Keller, himself a serial killer, becomes a target, he tries to strike a
bargain with Maggie in order to save his life.
LP 11662 THE NEXT MRS. BLACKTHORNE
AUTHOR: JOHNSTON, JOAN
ABSTRACT: A lavish summer wedding is being planned at Bitter Creek Ranch.
Clay Blackthorne will wed Jocelyn Montrose. But when she hears stirrings of a
corporate takeover by the family's archrival, North Grayhawk, Jocelyn covertly
heads to North's ranch to offer a valuable commodity -- herself -- if North will call
off his plans. Striking a deal to spend the summer with the steely, seductive
North, Jocelyn fails to see that her sacrifice to protect the man she loves may have
dire consequences.
Fiction
57
Maryland LBPH
LP 11592 NIGHT FEVER
AUTHOR: PALMER, DIANA
ABSTRACT: Rebecca Cullen had her hands full raising her teenage brothers,
running their farm and earning a living, leaving little room for a personal life. But
when her brother was arrested, she had no choice but to appeal to D.A. Rourke
Kilpatrick. Contrary to the hardened man she expected, Rourke showed
sympathy, concern and ...interest?
LP 11668 NIGHT WHISPERS
AUTHOR: SANDLER, KAREN
ABSTRACT: Noah Simmons has haunted the Hoyo del Diablo in the Arizona desert
for almost 140 years. He watches as Lix Madison and Ethan Winslow marry so that
they can work on the BioCave Experiment. Noah appears without warning, and
Liz is confused but she knows that they must fight for the survival of their
newfound happiness.
LP 11355 NO STRINGS ATTACHED
AUTHOR: CRISWELL, MILLIE
ABSTRACT: Samantha Brady's to-do list is simple: Sell her novel, have a baby and
find the man of her dreams - not necessarily in that order. Trouble is, she has
writer's block, hasn't had a date in months, and lives platonically with her best
friend, Jack Turner, the only man who has ever met her Prince Charming criteria.
LP 11584 NOTHING TO FEAR
AUTHOR: ROSE, KAREN
ABSTRACT: As director of an inner-city women's shelter, Dana Dupinsky
safeguards many secrets. Just as a case puts her and a child in mortal danger, it
seems that love has come looking for her. Security expert Ethan Buchanan vows
to track down the ruthless woman who kidnapped his godson - and falling for
Dana is not in the plan.
LP 11461 NURSE IN NAPLES
AUTHOR: O'DONNELL, SHEILA
ABSTRACT: When Nurse Sheila O'Donnell took a post in an Italian hospital she
was dreaming only of blue skies, warm seas and the romance of Naples. The
reality was a busy hospital, where every patient was surrounded by a swarm of
relatives. Aided by kind Irish nuns, she gradually settled in and developed a
deep affection for this colorful and sunny land.
Fiction
58
Maryland LBPH
LP 11632 ONE LITTLE SIN
AUTHOR: CARLYLE, LIZ
ABSTRACT: Sir Alasdair awoke after a night of debauchery to see a young lass on
his doorstep. . .with a baby in her arms. Miss Hamilton accepted the rogue's
proposal to move in and become the baby's governess. But when one man's
wicked charms are matched by one woman's fiery spirit, one little sin can lead to
another, and another.
LP 11395 THE PATH TO LOVE
AUTHOR: PERRINE, JANE
ABSTRACT: Francie Calhoun is a twenty-four year old ex-con determined to go
straight! She has an apartment in the low rent district, she has a waitress job in a
diner, and is in school working on an associate's degree. When Francie's shows
up for her first appointment with him and claims to have found the Lord her
parole officer doesn't believe her. As their attraction grows, Brandon cannot
ignore the ethics state he must transfer her case to someone else.
LP 11636 PAYBACK
AUTHOR: MICHAELS, FERN
ABSTRACT: Meet the Sisterhood - seven very different women who found one
another in their darkest days and formed a friendship strong enough to heal their
pasts. Julia Webster's husband, a U.S. Senator, has abused her trust at every turn.
Now, on the eve of his greatest political victory, he's about to learn a serious
lesson in payback.
LP 11589 THE PERFECT WIFE
AUTHOR: SANDS, LYNSAY
ABSTRACT: Avelyn hoped her groom liked cherries, fearing that she resembled
one at their wedding. Too round, too red in the scarlet gown that was all she
could fit into...and perhaps too tart for his taste? But Paen Gerville longed for a
lively, well-rounded woman, one whose plump breast would cushion his head
after the lonely life of a fighting knight.
LP 11516 PINEAPPLE GIRL
AUTHOR: NEELS, BETTY
ABSTRACT: It was a pineapple given to her by a grateful patient that led Eloise
Bennett to meeting the Dutch doctor Timon van Zeilst. Shortly after that, Eloise
went to Holland to nurse a patient and there was Dr. van Zeilst again! Thrown into
his company, Eloise soon realized that she loved him. But Timon was going to
marry the beautiful Liske - so why would he look twice at Eloise?
Fiction
59
Maryland LBPH
LP 11585 PRISONER OF A PROMISE
AUTHOR: TILBURY, QUENNA
ABSTRACT: When Belinda Fenn's hospital had an important patient, a blind man
being treated by a top-flight surgeon, he was too ill to understand he couldn't
have the same nurse round the clock. So the ward sister used two nurses, sisters,
with identical voices. For Belinda, she found herself prisoner of a promise made
by her younger sister, Penny.
LP 11515 A PRIVATE HOTEL FOR GENTLE LADIES
AUTHOR: COONEY, ELLEN
ABSTRACT: When Charlotte Heath spies her husband in the embrace of another
woman, she flees him for "the Beechmont: A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies." That
unique Boston establishment's handsome porters make discreet, late-night visits
to its female clientele. Charlotte is soon swept up in a dizzying sexual awakening
and a journey of self-discovery.
LP 11713 THE REAL DEAL
AUTHOR: MICHAELS, FERN.
ABSTRACT: Self-sufficient FBI agent Quinn Starr left the bureau after a thwarted
affair with her boss. When the same man asks her to return and guard the first
lady, Quinn uncovers a plot to undermine the president.
LP 11381 RED LILY
AUTHOR: ROBERTS, NORA
ABSTRACT: Three women met at a crossroads in their lives, each searching for
new ways to grow - and find in each other the courage to take chances and
embrace the future. With the undying support of her friends, Hayley and her new
daughter have laid down roots in a new town. But when one of those friendships
blossoms into something more, Hayley must choose between two different kinds
of love.
LP 11743 THE ROGUE'S RETURN
AUTHOR: BEVERLEY, JO
ABSTRACT: Jancy Otterburn arrives in Canada in 1816, her Aunt Martha and
Cousin Jane having died on the crossing. Waiting for her in a small town near
Toronto is Martha's brother, Isaiah, no relation to Jancy. Unsure of her
reception, Jancy claims to be Jane. Simon St. Bride, heir to the Earl of Marlowe is
in the household, waiting for Jane.
Fiction
60
Maryland LBPH
LP 11712 SECOND CHANCES
AUTHOR: KAYE, ERIN
ABSTRACT: Roisin Shaw hasn't forgiven Donal Mullan for breaking his sister's
heart, and wants to make him pay for it. Dona's perfect marriage to Michelle isn't
all that it appears. Pauline McCormich has had enough of her philandering
husband, Noel. When she meets sculptor Padraig Flynn, sparks fly and Noel gets
a wake up call. Hearts and marriages are broken, but everyone deserves a
second chance. Who will find the happiness they've been searching for?
LP 11587 SECOND PRIZE
AUTHOR: MANBY, CHRIS
ABSTRACT: Lara Fenton is swept off her feet by Hugh Armstrong-Hamilton. Hugh
has his faults - Lara can't deny that - but who cares if he cancels dates or never
picks up the bill: Just to be seen on the arm of someone like Hugh is consolation
enough. After Hugh, any man would seem like second prize. And Lara would
never be able to settle for that. Or would she?
LP 11742 SECOND SIGHT
AUTHOR: QUICK, AMANDA
ABSTRACT: Venetia Milton supports her family while keeping secrets: her late
father's bigamy, her paranormal gift for seeing people's auras and her liaison
with Gabriel Jones. Heir to an association of alchemists, Gabriel has a few secrets
of his own. After his servants report his death to authorities to confound his
enemies, grieving Venetia begins posing as his widow, with Gabriel soon
showing up on her doorstep very much alive. Miffed, she consigns him to the
attic, but their chemistry quickly reignites.
LP 11746 THE SECRET PEARL
AUTHOR: BALOGH, MARY
ABSTRACT: To the woman known simply as Fleur, the well-dressed gentleman
with the mesmerizing eyes is an unlikely savior. She takes the stranger to her
bed, never expecting to see him again. Fleur accepts a position as governess to a
young girl stunned to discover that her midnight lover is a powerful nobleman.
As two wary hearts ignite, the question remains: will she be mistress or wife?
LP 11377 SECRETS
AUTHOR: HEITZMANN, KRISTEN
ABSTRACT: Rese Barrett was indulging her passion of restoration, and this time it
was her inn. Lance Michelli arrived at the inn, sure of his quest. Lance talked his
way into Rese's plans before she'd made them and had her telling him secrets
she'd never revealed before.
Fiction
61
Maryland LBPH
LP 11710 THE SHADOW OF POLVOSE
AUTHOR: MOORE, SHARON
ABSTRACT: Carla comes to work at Polvose, an isolated country house near
Fowey. Her relationship with her employer, Vanessa Ingram drew her into a
situation both dangerous and romantic, particularly when she met Adrian, the
solicitor. Carla gradually learned the secrets of the Ingrams, and that knowledge
finally involved her in murder.
LP 11379 A SHELTERING LOVE
AUTHOR: REED, TERRI
ABSTRACT: Who was the handsome stranger who'd saved her life - twice? That
was what Claire Wilcox wanted to know, especially after she'd impulsively
invited the man to stay at her shelter for runaways.
LP 11530 A SILENCE IN THE HEART
AUTHOR: AARSEN, CAROLYNE
ABSTRACT: Veterinarian David Braun tries to get to know Tracy Harris, his vet
tech. The more they worked together, the more she retreated. When he saw her
with a neglected neighborhood boy, Tracy was tender, caring and wonderful. He
longed for her to show that side to him. For one precious moment, she did.
LP 11343 SKINTIGHT
AUTHOR: ANDERSEN, SUSAN
ABSTRACT: Jax Gallagher lost a valuable baseball that wasn't his in a poker
game. The ball is in the possession of father's widow - flamboyant Las Vegas
showgirl Treena McCall. In Vegas there's more than one way to lose your shirt,
and both Jax and Treena know better than to bet on love. Yet sometimes rolling
the dice in a high-stakes game can lead to a prize beyond compare.
LP 11528 SOMEONE LIKE YOU
AUTHOR: BRETTON, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: A phone call from her sister, Cat, sends Joely Doyle back home to
Maine for their mother's bittersweet final days. For Joely, in love with a man of her
own, "home" means scores to settle, debts to be paid, and a family history to
unravel finally.
Fiction
62
Maryland LBPH
LP 11520 SONORAN LOVE STORY
AUTHOR: PRATHER, MARILYN
ABSTRACT: Finding love in the desert is the last thing of Callie Townsend's mind
until she meets Reece Tanner, a handsome, dark-haired stranger, whom she pegs
as a drifter and a loner. By day, Reece shows her the beauty of the desert; by
night, they dance under the stars. Then a shocking secret threatens the tenuous
bond between them.
LP 11393 SPELL OF THE HIGHLANDER
AUTHOR: MONING, KAREN MARIE
ABSTRACT: Jessi St. James has spent too many hours studying ancient artifacts.
When she finds a gorgeous man staring out at her from an ancient mirror, she
thinks she's dreaming. Heir to the arcane magic of his Druid ancestors, Cian
MacKeltar was trapped inside the Dar Glass eleven centuries ago. Can Jessi
release him?
LP 11638 SUMMER BREEZE
AUTHOR: ANDERSON, CATHERINE
ABSTRACT: 1889. Rachel Hollister hasn't left her house for five years, not since the
attack that killed everyone else in her family. Joseph Paxton offers to take up
residence at the Hollister ranch, with his duties to include bodyguard. Once he
catches a glimpse of his beautiful young ward, he'll do anything to break
through the wall around her heart.
LP 11741 SUSANNAH'S GARDEN
AUTHOR: MACOMBER, DEBBIE
ABSTRACT: At 50, Susannah Nelson has a wonderful husband, kids, and a career,
but ever since her father's death, she has been vaguely unsettled. Never on
especially good terms with him, she has always believed that he had a hand in
running off her first love. Susannah's husband encourages her to visit her aging
mother, and possibly settle her into an assisted-living facility. He has no idea
that Susannah can't stop thinking about her lost love, Jake, and intends to find out
why he left her.
LP 11529 THIS TIME AROUND
AUTHOR: SMITH, DEBRA
ABSTRACT: R.J. Butler just became Sammie Jones' boss at Romantic Living
magazine, and he want to woo her back. But, struggling with the aftermath of
abuse and betrayal, Sammie's only desire is to create a safe haven for herself and
her son, Brett. Then Sammie stumbles onto a drug smuggling operations, and her
instinct for a good story lures her into a world of murder, madness and greed.
Fiction
63
Maryland LBPH
LP 11392 TOMORROW AND ALWAYS
AUTHOR: BRETTON, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: Beautiful, wealthy Shannon Whitney has survived the heartache of a
broken marriage. Though she longs for a brave, honorable man, Shannon doubts
such a man exists...but then she meets Andrew McVie.
LP 11588 TRAIN FROM MARIETTA
AUTHOR: GARLOCK, DOROTHY
ABSTRACT: Katherine Tyler’s cross-country train trip is derailed when she is
kidnapped somewhere in the bend of south Texas. Her father calls the Texas
Rangers, but only a cowboy, Tate Castle, can find her.
LP 11719 TRUE DEVOTION
AUTHOR: PERRY, MARTA
ABSTRACT: Susannah Laine came to Lakemont to find out what her husband had
been doing before his sudden death. She takes a cottage that Nathan's wife
owned before her death. As they uncover the truth, their romance burgeons.
Could God now give Susannah the strength to overcome her past and embrace
this second chance at happiness?
LP 11510 TUCSON: SONORAN STAR
AUTHOR: FARRIER, NANCY
ABSTRACT: Kathleen is wrongly accused of a crime the moment she steps
From the stagecoach into the new town of Tucson. Will Deputy Quinn Kirby see
through a veil of distrust to glimpse the innocent woman with inner beauty?
Follow the fascinating life journey of this pioneer woman. Can she learn to love
the land, its Creator, and the men who tame the wild desert?
LP 11399 TUCSON: SONORAN SUNRISE
AUTHOR: FARRIER, NANCY
ABSTRACT: Arizona, 1870s. Glorianna comes to Camp MacDowell reeling from
the loss of her mother - and demanding that her father return her to the East. Can
Lt. Conlon Sullivan tame this wild filly? Can Glorianna learn to love the land, its
Creator, and one of the men who tame the wild desert?
LP 11697 TUCSON: SONORAN SWEETHEART
AUTHOR: FARRIER, NANCY
ABSTRACT: In 1870s Arizona, Lavette wears her bitterness like a yoke – one that
hinders a fresh start in a new place. Can Josiah, the giant blacksmith, gently
convince her to forget the past and embrace forgiveness? Can she learn to love
the land, its Creator, and the men who tame the wild desert?
Fiction
64
Maryland LBPH
LP 11344 TWILIGHT
AUTHOR: MOSBY, KATHERINE
ABSTRACT: By breaking off her engagement to an emotionally remote fiance,
Lavinia Gibbs avoids a stifling marriage but outrages her socially prominent
family. She sails for Europe, and meets Gaston Lesseur and they begin an
adulterous affair.
LP 11643 TWO LITTLE LIES
AUTHOR: CARLYLE, LIZ
ABSTRACT: The Earol of Wynwood was too reckless for Viviana Alessandri. The
beautiful opera singer was too famous to be his wife. But fate has a way of playing
with lovers' hearts - and passion has a way of setting them on fire.
LP 11513 UNMASKED
AUTHOR: HENLEY, VIRGINIA
ABSTRACT: Thirteen years ago, Robert Greysteel Montgomery, a lord and
double agent working to restore King Charles II to the throne, was betrothed to
the impetuous Velvet Cavendish. Now reunited with Greysteel, Velvet is
determined to break their bond. She has had her sights on King Charles II since
she was a young girl - and what ordinary man could compete?
LP 11745 VANISHED
AUTHOR: ROBARDS, KAREN
ABSTRACT: For seven years, South Carolina DA Sarah Mason has been trying to
forget the day her daughter, Lexie, was taken. She is caught in a convenience
store robbery. Before the thugs shoot her and a little girl, Sarah grabs her and
makes a run for it, although she is hit by a bullet. After going back to work once
Sarah receives taunting calls and messages containing information known only to
Lexie and her kidnappers. Her friend Jake tries to find out who is torturing Sarah
and why now, all while preoccupied with sorting out his feelings for her.
LP 11386 THE VISCOUNT'S SECRET
AUTHOR: ELBURY, DOROTHY
ABSTRACT: Edward Latimer, Viscount Templeton, is in search of a woman who
will love him for himself and not merely for his title and trappings. Leaving
London and the rigid rules of the Ton, he heads for the country, simply attired and
posing as plain Mr. Latimer. On meeting Miss Georgina Cunningham, he knows
he's found everything he admires in a woman; she's beautiful, kind and honest.
Fiction
65
Maryland LBPH
LP 11347 WHEN WE MEET AGAIN
AUTHOR: ALEXANDER, VICTORIA
ABSTRACT: Prince Alexei of Avalonia is a master at the art of seduction, but when
a mysterious young woman he meets at a masked ball spends the night in his
bed, he wonders if she was real or a dream spun of moonlight. Miss Pamela
Effington is no dream. She comes to her senses and is thankful their paths will
never cross again - and that he had never truly seen her face. But they're both
in for the shock of their lives.
LP 11563 YESTERDAY'S DREAMS
AUTHOR: BLAIR, JESSICA
ABSTRACT: Colette Shipley is fascinated by the new art of photography. She
shares her passion with Arthur Newton, and soon their friendship develops.
Arthur must then make the decision between Colette and his wife and child.
Fiction
66
Maryland LBPH
Westerns
LP 11490 ARM OF THE BANDIT
AUTHOR: BOGGS, JOHNNY
ABSTRACT: Outlaws Frank and Jesse James eluded capture for sixteen years and
became folk heroes. In 1882, after Jesse was killed by Bob Ford, Frank
surrendered and faced trial for murder. How could Missouri convict a man so
popular that the governor almost needed an appointment to visit him in jail?
LP 11688 BARBED WIRE
AUTHOR: KELTON, ELMER
ABSTRACT: Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew in Texas. Their operation is
opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehard of the huge R Cross spread. With his
brutal foreman, Archer Spann-who does the violent work of chasing squatters off
the range - Rinehart wages a barbed-wire war against Doug Monahan.
LP 11491 BETWEEN HELL AND TEXAS
AUTHOR: COTTON, RALPH
ABSTRACT: Cray Dawson wants to do is mosey on home to Somos Santos, Texas
and get back to chasing dogies. Trouble is, Somos Santos has changed since Cray
last walked its dusty streets. There's a new sheriff in town, and the only laws he'll
enforce are his own.
LP 11598 BLOOD GOLD
AUTHOR: CONNOR, SCOTT
ABSTRACT: When Patrick Grady and Rusty Anderton ride into Hangman's Gulch
with a stash of gold filling their saddlebags, the last person they want to see is the
notorious bandit Jack Wolf, and when Jack ambushes them their only consolation
is that he doesn't take their lives too.
LP 11488 BLOOD RIVER
AUTHOR: SHERMAN, JORY
ABSTRACT: Young Chip Morgan vowed he'd stand his ground at any cost - until
painted braves attacked, butchering his neighbors and murdering the girl he
loved. Driven from their home, Chip and his folks head west with big hopes for a
fresh start. But the canyons of Colorado are cold with peril, and soon violence and
loss force Chip to cross the line from caution to abandon.
Fiction
67
Maryland LBPH
LP 11687 CONDOR CANYON
AUTHOR: MARTIN, L.J.
ABSTRACT: Clint Ryan homesteaded in the wild San Joaquin Valley. While on his
way to buy fresh stock for his heard, a bushwhacker shot him from his saddle.
Suddenly Ryan found himself caught between the ruthless Anglos bent on driving
the Californios out of the valley and a gang of desperate vaqueros who wouldn't
give up without a fight.
LP 11485 DANGER PATROL
AUTHOR: OVERHOLSER, WAYNE
ABSTRACT: Ed Logan was sheriff in a small town where a tough judge, a powerful
banker, and a big landowner were used to running the show. But when a beautiful
woman pulled into town and told Ed about the ruthless character looking to buy
up all the land, he knew he needed help. But he didn't know she had an old score
to settle and would give him all the help she could.
LP 11496 DEAD TROUBLE
AUTHOR: DOUGLAS, JAKE
ABSTRACT: Deke Cutler served ten long, hard years in the Texas Rangers and
looked forward to his retirement. He aimed to join his old pard, Durango Spain,
on the Red River ranch they had bought, but while recovering from a near-fatal
shot in the back, Deke ran into a new kind of lawlessness. There were more than
Indians to contend with: 'dead' men from Rio kept turning up and all of them
had him in their sights.
LP 11689 DESTINY OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN
AUTHOR: JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM
ABSTRACT: Captain Richard King built a ranch in South Texas. At the end of the
Civil War, his ranch was raided by Union troops led by a sadistic killer who
burned the ranch to the ground-and slaughtered everyone on it. Thirty years
later, former Union Captain Jack Brant has gotten out of prison and is raring to
pick up his rampage where he left off. Called to Texas, mountain man Smoke
Jensen is ready and willing to help King fight fire with fire.
LP 11493 THE GENTLE GUNMAN
AUTHOR: STUART, LOGAN
ABSTRACT: The Escorts own a small ranch which has never been anything more
than a very poor concern. Nevertheless, someone covets this property and offers
are made for it by an agent, though old man Escort is stubborn and refuses to
deal. Paul Escort, only son, young and vigorous, stands by his father as
the clouds gather round and the storm bursts.
Fiction
68
Maryland LBPH
LP 11406 THE HELL BORN
AUTHOR: HOGAN, RAY
ABSTRACT: Ben Skerrit, warden of the Arizona Territorial Penitentiary, had
instituted a new rehabilitation program. Rufe Houston, a notorious outlaw,
escaped and a bloodbath of further killings follows. Skerrit vows to kill Houston
instead of returning him to justice. But more blood must be shed before warden
and killer have their final showdown.
LP 11685 THE HIDE HUNTERS
AUTHOR: PATTEN, LEWIS
ABSTRACT: Jess Burdett was a solitary buffalo hunter, enroute to Arkansas. The
killing of the buffalo was prohibited by treaty, and that meant danger enough. But
the appearance of attractive Edith Colinger, alone and badly beaten by a brutal
husband, spelled further trouble for Burdett.
LP 11400 HIRED HAND
AUTHOR: NYE, NELSON
ABSTRACT: As soon as Curly's gun hammered its sound across the rooftop,
Mark's left thigh felt torn from its socket. Bleeding and off-balance, he grabbed at
the ridgepiece. Then he heard Curly moving. "Last bullet I had," he chuckled,
"Now I'll make you acquainted with the barrel."
LP 11690 JUDGMENT DAY
AUTHOR: RODERUS, FRANK
ABSTRACT: Johnny Ackerman's dream of marrying the prettiest girl in town
becomes a nightmare when the new schoolmaster becomes the object of her
affection. But Johnny isn't about to give up without a fight.
LP 11683 LADIGAN
AUTHOR: HOWARD, LANCE
ABSTRACT: A mysterious telegram summons manhunter John Ladigan to
Colorado, where he is confronted with a situation that may leave a young woman
in the clutches of a sadistic madman. A series of murders and the disappearance
of his kin snare the manhunter in a mystery far bigger than he ever imagines.
LP 11684 THE LAST REVENGE
AUTHOR: BOWERS, TERRELL
ABSTRACT: Vance Jardeen has to go to Camp Sage to process a hundred
Indians to be transferred to a reservation. Battling smallpox, Vance becomes the
target of the settlers' anger over the protection of the Indians. Wanting only to
court a young lady, Vance soon finds himself tracking a ruthless killer.
Fiction
69
Maryland LBPH
LP 11686 LAW FOR HIRE: DEFENDING CODY
AUTHOR: BROOKS, BILL
ABSTRACT: Organizing a hunting party for himself and some investors, Buffalo
Bill needs some professional protection. Teddy Blue, a young Pinkerton agent
with dead-on aim once got Cody's pal Bill Hickok out of a jam. Once he joins
Cody and his entourage in the wild, Teddy's immediately caught in a deadly
tangle that may be too much for one hired guardian -- trapped by the cruelty of
unpredictable nature and in the gunsights of hunters determined to get one last
trophy.
LP 11401 LAW FOR HIRE: SAVING MASTERSON
AUTHOR: BROOKS, BILL
ABSTRACT: Young Bat Masterson got the job of keeping the peace in Dodge City
when Wyatt Earp and his brothers left. Pinkerton agent Teddy Blue came with a
reputation as a useful man with a gun, having already saved the famous skins of
Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok. But keeping Masterson breathing could
prove to be the most difficult assignment of all.
LP 11402 MCKEAG'S MOUNTAIN
AUTHOR: MARTIN, L.J.
ABSTRACT: Old Man Prager sends seven mercenaries to take Dan McKeag's
Land by force. His plan almost works, but Dan clings to life while plotting
revenge against the men who murdered his wife, commandeered his ranch and
ran his 14 year old nephew into the wilderness. The tables are about to turn on
Bertodus Prager.
LP 11495 MENDOSA'S GUN-RUNNERS
AUTHOR: PARNHAM, I.J.
ABSTRACT: When Quinn Mendosa's gun-runners steal fifty crates of rifles from
Fort Stirling, Sheriff Rourke Bowman reckons that plenty of trouble will be
heading his way. That trouble arrives sooner than he expects when his jailbird
brother Dave Bowman rides into town and raises hell. Rourke has enough trouble
on his hands, but when Dave offers to help him capture Mendosa by infiltrating
his gun-runners, it's an offer that's just too good to refuse.
Fiction
70
Maryland LBPH
LP 11494 NO MAN RIDES ALONE
AUTHOR: WALDO, DAVE
ABSTRACT: In Wyoming territory Johnny Ross becomes involved in a feud
between a big cattleman and the homesteaders in the neighboring hill- who are
sided by a gang of outlaws. Johnny finds himself caught in the crossfire with a
final result that is surprising even to this self-contained humorous man of the
West.
LP 11597 RAWHIDE RAND
AUTHOR: STUART, LOGAN
ABSTRACT: Lewis and Clark, the fearless and intrepid explorers, with the aid of a
Shoshone girl, found and crossed the Lemhi Pass, to open the gateway through
the Rockies to the savage and primitive north-west, on to Oregon through the
territories later known as Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
LP 11492 REVENGE OF EAGLES
AUTHOR: JOHNSTONE, WILLIAM
ABSTRACT: When Falcon MacCallister is ambushed on a stagecoach in southern
Arizona, the shotgun guard and a young Indian woman are killed. The dead
woman was the daughter of a powerful Indian chief - and a tinderbox has been
ignited. Falcon knows that the innocent will die with the guilty if the murderers
aren't caught soon.
LP 11407 RIDE A CROOKED TRAIL
AUTHOR: PATTEN, LEWIS
ABSTRACT: Three vicious killers left Jason's parents dead; their horrible deeds
marked them as three who had to be stopped. Jason tracks them across the
boundless West, through trailless land often covered with snow, across deep
rivers and deadly Indian territory, through rampaging herds of buffalo. He must
learn to kill, not only to gain revenge, but to stay alive in a savage world.
LP 11486 RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE
AUTHOR: GREY, ZANE
ABSTRACT: Jane ran her cattle business and bossed the cowboys who rode the
expanse of purple sage around her prosperous Utah ranch. Then she dared
disobey the Mormons who ordered her to marry grim, brutal Elder Tull. Now her
stock was being stampeded and her men disappearing. Then the mysterious
gunslinger called Lassiter rode into town.
Fiction
71
Maryland LBPH
LP 11405 SIX BITS A DAY
AUTHOR: KELTON, ELMER
ABSTRACT: In 1889, Hewey Calloway and his brother Walter leave the family
farm to work in West Texas. Walter falls in love and dreams of a farmer's life,
while Hewey, content to work for six bits a day, jumps at the chance to rescue him
from this fate worse than death. The brothers drive six hundred head of cattle
from San Antonio to Pecos.
LP 11691 SHOOT FIRST
AUTHOR: GORMAN, ED
ABSTRACT: Lumber baron Gerald Soames was one of the most prominent
citizens of Butte City, Colorado, until someone put a bullet between his eyes. All
fingers point to his nephew, Abner, who was found with the murder weapon, but
he was too drunk to remember what happened. Sheriff Feed Matthews doesn't
believe his prisoner is the murderer.
LP 11560 SOUTH OF DODGE
AUTHOR: BENJAMIN, NICK
ABSTRACT: Could just one man survive the challenge of Morro City, plagued as it
was with unsolved murders? Chad Brodie asked as he rode into town. The law
had been defied and good men lay in their graves. Brodie was along, pitted
against a formidable town and a bloody land haunted by outlaws.
LP 11403 SUDDEN COUNTRY
AUTHOR: ESTLEMAN, LOREN D.
ABSTRACT: It's 1890, and 13-year-old David Grayle is mighty afraid that the Wild
West has passed him by. Little does he know that Judge Constantine Blod, one of
his mother's boarders, will set off a chain of events that will lead to an adventure
beyond his wildest dreams. Blod, a writer, had arranged to interview Jotham
Flynn, an old Rebel soldier and Quantrill Raider just out of prison after serving 25
years for murder. David witnesses Flynn's murder by mysterious nightriders and
retrieves the man's map of Quantrill's gold hidden in the Black Hills.
LP 11371 SUNSET RECKONING
AUTHOR: EYNON, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Ed Blayney is recovering from bullet wounds when he is taken on as
a cowhand by the CM Ranch. Range war breaks out with a rival spread, and
Blayney falls in love with a beautiful Spanish immigrant who is coveted by ranch
owner Christian Barrett. When Barrett sends his hired killers after Blayney, he
finds himself having to face them as the sun sets on Chalmer's Hill.
Fiction
72
Maryland LBPH
LP 11720 TELEGRAPH DAYS
AUTHOR: MCMURTRY, LARRY
ABSTRACT: Nellie and her brother Jackson, orphaned by their father's suicide,
go to Rita Blanca. Jackson managed to put Rita Blanca on the map when he shoots
down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight. Nellie romances buffalo
Bill and meets Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday.
LP 11561 TENNESSEE RENEGADE
AUTHOR: KIRBY, HANK
ABSTRACT: Bucky Enderby was sixteen when he fled Tennessee for killing three
men. After going to war, he ran with outlaws. Kim Preece tried to settle down, but
the newly revived Texas Rangers beckoned and he crossed to Rio to find a kid
worth thousands in reward money. There were men who aimed to claim that
money - but first they would have to get past Enderby's guns.
LP 11372 THREE GRAVES TO FARGO
AUTHOR: WALL, ETHAN
ABSTRACT: Somewhere in the middle of Dakota Territory was a fortune in hidden
gold, the proceeds of the Beanville gold heist. Two men are headed north to
stake their claim, despite a handful of persistent lawmen who had refused to
close the file on the long-lost fortune. Not for the first time the combination of
gold and greed would bring grim death to many. Would Gentry, who had
lost everything, finally survive?
LP 11497 TOWN TAMER
AUTHOR: GRUBER, FRANK
ABSTRACT: Tom Rosser was a lawman without a town and a gunfighter with a
mission to shoot down the bushwhackers who had killed his sweetheart. Great
Plains was the last and most lawless boomtown, a town that needed a man like
Rosser. Riley Condor was the bait to get Rosser to Great Plains, for he was the
very man Rosser had sworn to kill. Before long there would be a bloody
showdown no one would ever forget.
LP 11692 THE VIGILANTE
AUTHOR: SHERMAN, JORY
ABSTRACT: Lew Zane's parents were murdered when two thieves robbed their
dry goods store. The law is dragging its heels because the thieves come from two
of the wealthiest families in the territory--but Lew knows justice cannot be bought
for any price.
Fiction
73
Maryland LBPH
LP 11660 VOICES IN THE DESERT
AUTHOR: REECE, COLLEEN
ABSTRACT: Jim Sutherland, wounded in the Indian wars of the 1880s comes home
to his family's ranch in Arizona. Mescal Ames, his foster brother, initiates a
desperate scheme to save Jim's life, calling upon the Apaches to help. A hundred
voices fill the desert air proclaiming life, death, love, hatred, friendship, revenge
and gratitude.
LP 11489 WEST OF PECOS
AUTHOR: ROBBINS, DAVID
ABSTRACT: A Ralph Compton novel. After the surrender of the Confederacy and
the death of his wife, Jed Adams strikes out west to build a new life. Tom Waldon
fought to keep the Union intact and now believes the unsettled land of the west
can be cultivation into good fortune for his kin. The only way the onetime
enemies will survive is if they can put the bloodshed of the past behind them.
LP 11487 THE WRANGLER
AUTHOR: RODERUS, FRANK
ABSTRACT: Confederate veteran John Candler works for widow Catherine
Wolbrough, wrangling cattle. Eddie Mannet needs to make money too, and sees
a potential bonanza in the widow's ranch, should she prove agreeable to his
advances. If not, Mannet has no qualms about employing deadlier means of
persuasion. Having turned a blind eye to lost causes since the Civil War, Candler
suddenly finds himself willing to fight.
Fiction
74
Maryland LBPH