Butterfly Tattoo
Tyler Mackenzie returns to rural Vermont in a quest to find Woody Foster’s long lost sweetheart who disappeared from a small Mexican village twenty-five years earlier. At the same time that Woody is diagnosed with cancer, a mysterious package is mailed to him from another Vermont town, which begins the ensuing search for Suzanne, who […]
The Paris Librarian
Publishers Weekly 06/27/2016 Early in Pryor’s solid sixth Hugo Marston novel (after 2015’s The Reluctant Matador), Hugo, the security officer at the American embassy in Paris, visits the American Library in Paris, where his friend Paul Rogers is the director. When Hugo, a sympathetic lead with a strong moral compass, knocks on Paul’s office door, […]
Random Acts
From New York Times bestselling author J. A. JANCE comes an all- new novella, in which Sheriff Joanna Brady and investigator Ali Reynolds join forces to solve a crime thathas hit dangerously close to home. Sheriff Joanna Brady has a lot on her plate—she is up for re-election as sheriff, pregnant with her third child, […]
Sweet Tomorrows
Library Journal 08/01/2016 Mark Taylor made Jo Marie Rose promise to move on if he did not come back from his personal mission of righting a past wrong, and she is making that happen. She meets Greg and begins a relationship that quickly deepens. Thinking she can finally move forward, Jo Marie is shocked to […]
To the Bright Edge of the World
Publishers Weekly š 06/13/2016 An 1885 wilderness expedition, a female pioneer of photography, and Native American myths come to life make Iveyfs second novel (after The Snow Child) an entrancing, occasionally chilling, depiction of turn-of-the-century Alaska. Through diaries, letters, reports, newspaper clippings, drawings, and photographs, Ivey evokes an Indian Wars veteranfs expedition up the Wolverine […]
The Underground Railroad
Publishers Weekly š 04/11/2016 "Each thing had a value… In America the quirk was that people were things." So observes Ajarry, taken from Africa as a girl in the mid-18th century to be sold and resold and sold again. She finally arrives at the vicious Georgia plantation where she dies at the bookfs outset. After […]
Another Brooklyn
Library Journal ¡ï 06/15/2016 With spare yet poetic writing, this long-awaited adult novel by National Book Award winner Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming) is a series of vignettes narrated by August, shortly after her dad's funeral and a chance encounter with an old friend. Reminiscing about the 1970s leads August to rediscover the nervousness she felt […]
The Bones of Paradise
New York Journal of Books “The finest western novel since Lonesome Dove, Jonis Agee’s The Bones of Paradise is an epic saga with elements of a Greek tragedy.”
The Book That Matters Most
Publishers Weekly 06/06/2016 Hood’s (The Obituary Writer) latest novel is a moving, intricate story about loss, healing, and the value of critical thinking. A year after being left by her husband, Ava is still reeling from the grief of separation, which brought back the pain of losing her sister and mother early in life. In […]
The City Baker's Guide to Country Living
Publishers Weekly 06/20/2016 At the outset of Miller’s endearing debut, 32-year-old pastry chef Olivia Rawlings loses her job after she drops a tray of baked Alaska and starts a fire at the prestigious Boston club where she works. In need of comfort, she heads to Guthrie, Vt., to visit her best friend, Hannah Doyle, who […]