Dark Rooms
Publishers Weekly ★ 01/26/2015 The bullet that snuffs out the life of 16-year-old wild child Nica Baker hits her family like a hollow-point, especially psychologically enmeshed big sister Grace, in this suspenseful, sad, and shattering first novel from Vanity Fair contributing editor Anolik. Only a year older, and the yang to Nica’s yin, good girl […]
Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule
“History—and its colorful characters—come alive.†–USA Today
The Bookseller
Library Journal ★ 02/15/2015 With her freshly painted sunny yellow bedroom in 1962 Denver, Kitty Miller leads a content if solitary life. Running a bookshop with her best friend, Frieda, is a welcome break from teaching school. Everything about Kitty's life seems benignly commonplace until she begins waking up in another bedroom, in another life: […]
The Dragon of Handale
Clark's outstanding fifth mystery set in 14th-century England (after 2012's A Parliament of Spies) finds series heroine Hildegard in transition. Having returned from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the former abbess is considering rejoining her religious order after a year. Her prioress suggests that Hildegard instead spend time at Handale Priory, "somewhere near Northumberland's […]
Nancy Clancy : Secret of the Silver Key
Donated to the library by Little City Thrift.
Mightier Than the Sword
"A storyteller in the class of Alexander Dumas…Unsurpassed skill…making the reader wonder intensely what will happen next."—The Washington Post
The Phantom Killer : Unlocking the Mystery of the Texarkana Serial Murders
The Dallas Morning News “Fascinating. The series of attacks are so ruthless they still raise the hair on the back of your neck almost 70 years later. Presley's book is a triumph, that leaves no real doubt to the identity of the killer who left Texarkana and parts of two states frozen in fear.â€
Endure
Summary Zara is at the center of an all-out war, and an impending apocalypse. True, she's successfully rescued Nick from Valhalla, but it simply isn't enough. Bedford is being ravaged by evil pixies and they need much more than one great warrior; they need an army. Zara isn't sure what her role is anymore. She's […]
Soul of the Fire
Booklist Review : Taken abruptly from inspecting ditches, Shan Tao Yun a former Beijing investigator who had served five years in Tibet's harshest labor camp expects to be imprisoned again. Instead he's assigned as the reformed criminal on an international commission convened to investigate the problem of Tibetans' self-immolations. It's soon apparent that the commission […]
Hush Hush
Library Journal Review Starred Review. In the 12th title in Lippman's best-selling series featuring Baltimore investigator Tess Monaghan (The Girl in the Green Raincoat), Tess is tasked with investigating a complex and disturbing woman. Melisandre Harris Dawes left her infant daughter unattended in a stifling hot car 12 years ago. After a lengthy murder trial […]