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April 2012

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General Fiction

Absolution
By Patrick Flanery
In modern-day South Africa, Clare Walde tells the story of her sister’s death and disappearance of her daughter twenty years earlier during apartheid.

Afterwards
By Rosamund Lupton
After a house fire leaves Grace and her daughter, Jenny, in the hospital, Grace must find the true culprit before Jenny’s life is once again placed in danger, and before her mute son is convicted for an arson he didn’t commit.

Alt-Country
By Tom Drury
Alternating in location between Iowa and Los Angeles, Drury continues to explore the fates of the diverse characters introduced in his “Grouse County” series, including Joan Gower, a mother who deserted her family but wants a second chance with her son, Micah, who moves with her to L.A. and has trouble adjusting to its fast and furious life of excess.

Ashes to Dust
By Yrsa Sigurdardottir
A U.S. release of a book that has received much acclaim in the United Kingdom follows the adventures of attorney and sometime sleuth Thora Gudmundsdottir, who, while defending a man wrongly accused of murder investigates the sensational discovery of two bodies at a volcanic tourist attraction.

Assassin’s Code (Joe Ledger)
By Jonathan Maberry
Rescuing a group of teen hostages only to be asked by the Iranian government to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields, Joe Ledger and the Echo Team tackle an ancient order of killers who would plunge the entire world into a Holy War.

The Beginner’s Goodbye
By Anne Tyler
Sharing a happy marriage with the plain and outspoken Dorothy, Aaron, a physically disabled man who spent his youth avoiding his controlling sister, is devastated by his wife’s sudden death, and moves through the grieving process with the help of her apparition.

Birds of a Lesser Paradise
By Megan Mayhew Bergman
A debut collection by a prize-winning writer whose stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories evaluates the surprising moments when bonds with nature become evident, and includes the story of a single mom and her son’s effort to reclaim an African Gray parrot, and a population control activist who longs to have a baby.

Blue Asylum
By Kathy Hepinstall
Arrested and declared insane for seeking justice for her plantation owner husband’s slaves at the height of the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy endures a lengthy institutional “rehabilitation” under the eye of a pompous superintendent and bonds with fellow patients, from a woman who compulsively swallows objects to a traumatized Confederate soldier.

The Book of Madness and Cures
By Regina O’Melveny
Sixteenth-century renaissance woman and renowned physician Gabriella Mondini searches across Europe for her missing father, without whom she can no longer continue to treat her Venetian patients.

Border Run
By Simon Lewis
Naively following a Burmese jungle tour guide who has lured them with stories about seductive tribal women, backpackers Will and Jake discover they have been set up to provide cover for the guide’s deadly smuggling operation.

Calico Joe
By John Grisham
The divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher are explored in this latest novel by the best-selling author of The Litigators and Bleachers.

Capitol Murder
By Philip Margolin
Dana and Brad are brought together once again when the convicted serial killer they put away in Executive Privilege escapes from death row and a new terrorist threat emerges.

Come Home
By Lisa Scottoline
Rebalancing her life and career after a painful divorce, pediatrician Jill learns that her ex has died from an alleged overdose that her former stepdaughter believes was actually murder, a situation that forces Jill to choose between her duty to past circumstances and future happiness.

The Cove
By Ron Rash
Living deep within a cove in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton, a lonely young woman branded as a witch, finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who is mute, but their love might not be enough to protect them from a devastating secret.

The Deep Zone
By James Tabor
Leading a top secret team into the world’s deepest cave to seek a cure for a near-pandemic disease, scientist Hallie Leland encounters regional violence before a mole sabotages the team’s efforts.

The Dropper
By Ron McLarty
After the death of his mother, teen plumber and part-time boxer Albert “Shoe” Horn must deal with his abusive, alcoholic father and care for a younger brother with special needs.

The Fiddler (Home to Hickory Hollow)
By Beverly Lewis
When thoroughly modern but disillusioned, 24-year-old Amelia “Amy” DeVries sets out on a road trip through the Pennsylvania mountains, she unexpectedly meets an Amish man – and community – that changes her life forever.

Fifteen Digits
By Nick Santora
A fifteen-digit bank account number holds the key to a plot involving five behind-the-scenes employees at a prestigious law firm who use discarded documents full of sensitive legal information to get rich.

Games Traitors Play
By Jon Stock
Possessing unique knowledge about how to track down the world’s most wanted terrorist, who has just attempted to assassinate the President, renegade MI6 officer Daniel Marchant allows himself to be recruited by Moscow to investigate suspicions about corruptions within the CIA.

Hand Me Down
By Melanie Thorne
Separated from the sister she has been protecting from their irresponsible parents, 14-year-old Liz is forced to rely on distant relatives and forges a pact with a deceitful adult who compels her to keep a painful secret.

Harbor Nocturne
By Joseph Wambaugh
A young longshoreman’s delivery of a Mexican dancer from the busy harbor of San Pedro to a Hollywood night club changes both of their lives when they encounter individuals on opposing sides of the law, including surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, aspiring actor Hollywood Nate and young Britney Small.

The Hope Vendetta
By Scott Mariani
Longing to return to his theology studies after a devastating personal loss, former SAS operative Ben Hope reluctantly joins the search for a friend’s missing archaeologist daughter on the Greek island of Corfu, where he learns that the missing woman had just made a discovery with links to the Book of Revelation.

House of the Hunted
By Mark Mills
Having retired to the French Riviera, former intelligence operative Tom Nash finds his respite broken when someone tries to kill him in his sleep, and must pretend to live the normal life of a retiree as he tries to flush out who wants him dead.

I Am an Executioner: Love Stories
By Rajesh Parameswaran
A debut collection by a McSweeney’s National Magazine Award-winning writer includes the story of a misunderstood tiger, a suddenly-widowed woman’s Thanksgiving celebration and a railroad manager from turn-of-the-century India.

The Innocent
By David Baldacci
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the U.S. government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents’ disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.

Kings of Midnight
By Wallace Stroby
Hoping for a final big score that will reunite her with her loved ones and allow her to live an honest life, Crissa Stone is forced to flee when her partners in crime kill each other, a situation that is complicated by an ex-mobster’s efforts to claim a former associate’s hidden millions.

The Last Good Man
By A. J. Kazinski
A story based on the Jewish legend about how the world is always protected by 36 people follows the sudden deaths of dozens of humanitarians who each bear a bizarre tattoo and whose untimely ends are investigated by Copenhagen detective Niels Bentzon, who works to save the remaining protectors.

Last Will (Annika Bengtzon)
By Liza Marklund
A shooting at the glamorous Nobel prize dinner in Stockholm enmeshes investigative reporter and witness Annika Bengtzon in a web of international terrorism and global pharmaceutical interests that forces her to track down a professional assassin.

The Lifeboat
By Charlotte Rogan
Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat after a mysterious explosion on their trans-Atlantic ocean liner, newly-widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her other survivors and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace’s.

The Lilac House
By Anita Nair
When her contented life as a corporate wife and cookbook author is shattered by her husband’s abandonment, Meera assumes responsibility for her extended family and home in Bangalore.  Meanwhile, her employer struggles to care for his gravely injured daughter and solve the mystery of who brutally attacked her.

The Lives of Things
By José Saramago
This collection of the late author’s early short stories includes works that are infused with satire and fantastical elements, and showcases his efforts to expose the tyranny of the Salazar regime in his native Portugal.

The Lost Years
By Mary Higgins Clark
When an aging biblical scholar is fatally shot after revealing his possession of a unique parchment believed to have been written by  Jesus, Father Aiden O’Brien investigates the victim’s suspicions that a close friend was responsible, a case that is complicated by circumstances implicating the man’s wife, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.

Midnight Alley (Ash Levine)
By Miles Corwin
After two black men, one of them the son of a councilman critical of the Los Angeles police, are found dead in Venice, California, Ash Levine, a former paratrooper in the Israeli Defense Forces who is now a top detective in the LAPD, must investigate the Russian Mafia, war veterans and Middle Eastern archeologists to find the killer.

Missing Child
By Patricia MacDonald
Caitlin Eckhart finds her past coming back to haunt her when her 6-year-old stepson is kidnapped from school, jeopardizing her relationship with her husband and everything she loves.

More Than You Know
By Penny Vincenzi
A tale set against a backdrop of the glossy magazine and advertising worlds of London in the swinging 1960s follows a harrowing courtroom custody battle between Eliza, who gave up her writing job to marry, and her ex-husband, Matt, an edgy working-class man.

Narcopolis
By Jeet Thayil
A tale of vice and passion set against a backdrop of late 1970s Bombay finds a New Yorker becoming entranced by the underworld culture of an opium den and brothel where he encounters a pipe-making eunuch, a violent businessman, a contradictory artist and a Chinese refugee.

The New Republic
By Lionel Shriver
Sent to a Portuguese backwater town where a homegrown terrorist movement has recently emerged, foreign correspondent Edgar Kellogg thinks this is the perfect opportunity to make a name for himself, but soon discovers that things are not what they seem.

Prague Fatale (Bernie Gunther)
By Philip Kerr
In 1941 Prague, private detective Bernie Gunther must sort through a roomful of murderous high-ranking Nazi Party members to discover who killed a young member of Reinhard Heydrich’s staff.

The Professionals
By Owen Laukkanen
When a joke about making illicit money in the poor economy escalates to a kidnapping scheme, four friends enjoy the proceeds of a low-risk operation until they abduct the wrong target and capture the attentions of state investigator Kirk Stevens, hotshot FBI agent Carla Windermere and a vengeful organized crime ring.

The Red Book
By Deborah Copaken Kogan
Centering around Harvard’s Red Book, a collection of personal triumphs and failures from graduates, this tongue-in-cheek novel follows a group of roommates from the class of 1989 as they prepare for their 20th reunion weekend.

Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d’Art
By Christopher Moore
Baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to discover the truth behind the untimely death of their friend Vincent van Gogh, which leads them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late 19th-century Paris.

A Searing Wind (Contact: The Battle for America)
By W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear
A latest entry in the series that began with Coming of the Storm and Fire the Sky finds a returned Black Shell preparing to lead a small band of warriors to kill the Kristianos, while explorer Hernando de Soto tricks the ancient Nations into slavery through his lies and ambition for gold.

Sidney Sheldon’s Angel of the Dark
By Sidney Sheldon and Tilly Bagshawe
When three killings, nearly identical to his father’s, take place across the globe, Matt Daley discovers that the evidence points to a woman the police call the Angel of Death who targets elderly millionaires and seems always to be one step ahead of the law, until Matt, along with a former L.A. investigator, joins the hunt.

The Song Remains the Same
By Alison Winn Scotch
Waking up in the hospital as one of two survivors of a horrifying plane crash, Nell struggles to recover from her ensuing amnesia with the help of family, friends and memory-jogging music before realizing that the stories she is being told do not feel accurate.

The Spoiler
By Annalena McAfee
In the 1990s, during the waning days of print media, a gossip reporter tries to get all the dirt on an aging female war correspondent, in an encounter that will change both their lives.

Three A.M.
By Steven John
Surviving an apocalyptic event after embarking on what he believed would be a promising military career, Thomas Vale struggles to protect survivors, follow orders and endure life in a chaotic world of limited supplies and constant danger.

Thunder and Rain
By Charles Martin
Modern cowboy Tyler Steele must raise his son, Brodie, save his ranch and rebuild his life after his wife leaves him for being emotionally distant, and ultimately learns that being a man means confronting your true weaknesses.

Truth Like the Sun
By Jim Lynch
Roger Morgan, the promoter responsible for bringing the World’s Fair to Seattle in 1962, runs for mayor in 2001, right after the tech bubble bursts, while budding reporter Helen Gulanos probes his secretive past.

An Unexpected Guest
By Anne Korkeakivi
While planning a dinner party in Paris, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat becomes unnerved by the unexpected arrival of her son, a random encounter with a Turkish terrorist and the recurring appearance of someone who has been dead for 20 years.

A Wandering Heart
By Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer
While filming a movie on Angel Island, actress Charlie Miller falls for local fisherman Colin Doyle after he rescues her from drowning.

What Doesn’t Kill You
By Iris Johansen
Trading information on the streets in order to survive after being abandoned at the age of four, Catherine Ling is instructed by assassin and master poisoner Hu Chang before being recruited by the CIA and pitted against a rogue operative in a race to obtain a brutal deadly poison.

When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man
By Nick Dybek
A first novel by an award-winning author follows the experiences of a youth whose family and island community entirely depend on the king crab trade that constantly risks his father’s life, a situation that is further threatened by his parents’ disagreement about his future, a possible affair and a new fleet owner’s intentions of selling away the island’s livelihood.

Wish You Were Here
By Graham Swift
Learning that his long-absent brother has been killed in combat in Iraq, Jack Luxton, a proprietor of a seaside caravan park, shares a poignant journey with his wife to reclaim his brother’s remains and confront painful memories.

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Angels of Vengeance
By John Birmingham
A conclusion to the trilogy that began with Without Warning and After America traces the efforts of U.S. President James Kipper to rebuild an alternate-world America in the face of a brutal disaster, pirates and a rogue governor who has proclaimed himself as a sovereign power in Texas.

Apocalypse (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi)
By Troy Denning
A conclusion to the best-selling series follows Luke Skywalker’s effort to lead an assault against the Lost Tribe of the Sith in order to protect Coruscant and the Galactic Alliance, a confrontation that poses unprecedented tests to his Jedi Order.

A Crown Imperiled
By Raymond Feist
As the dark clouds of war gather again and the final battle for Midkemia begins, the Kesh’s invading hordes descend upon the Kingdom, and Pug, a powerful magician, must harness his fearsome magic and wisdom to save them all from a malevolent new threat that could destroy the alliance from within.

Glamour in Glass
By Mary Robinette Kowal
A follow-up to the Nebula Award-nominated Shades of Milk and Honey finds Jane using the glamour at her disposal when her honeymoon is disrupted by Napoleon’s escape and Vincent’s capture for his spy activities.

Immobility
By Brian Evenson
A post-apocalyptic thriller by the O. Henry Prize-winning author of the “Dead Space” series follows the experiences of a man who wakes up paralyzed and with no memory of his life, and who is urged by people who say they know him to reclaim a critical object and return to a frozen state before time runs out.

Joe Golem and the Drowning City: An Illustrated Novel
By Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
Half a century after a series of natural disasters submerges Lower Manhattan, 14-year-old Molly resolves to rescue her friend and employer, aging magician Felix, who has been abducted by rubber-suit-clad men in the wake of a séance gone wrong.

Nocturnal
By Scott Sigler
Experiencing vivid dreams about serial murders taking place throughout San Francisco, homicide detective Bryan Clauser fears he is losing his sanity and discovers a link between the victims and a seemingly ordinary young boy who is gripped by the same nightmares, a case that is complicated by the work of a shadowy vigilante with seemingly supernatural powers.

Rage of the Dragon (Dragonships)
By Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
When Vindrasi powers are drained by a war between the gods, Chief Skylan Ivorson is forced to ally his people with former enemies and sail to the Forbidden Empire of the Cyclops, where he encounters a dire new enemy under the sea.

The Road of Danger
By David Drake
Dispatched to a quiet sector to halt a imminent coup, Captain Daniel Leary and Officer Adele Mundy find themselves distracted by a jealous admiral who sends them to a commerce region where business is conducted through violence and a rogue intelligence officer is plotting a brutal war.

The Shape of Desire
By Sharon Shinn
A series of vicious attacks in a local park forces Maria Devane to reconsider her long-standing, passionate love affair with the shape-shifter whose secret she has been guarding for fifteen years.

Triggers
By Robert J. Sawyer
When an experimental memory-modification device goes awry and affects the president of the United States, the race is on to determine if someone has obtained the president’s memories, including secret military plans.

Unholy Night
By Seth Grahame-Smith
The author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies depicts the lives of the Three Kings of the Nativity, casting them as a set of infamous thieves who accidentally happen upon Joseph, Mary and the newborn Jesus.

Wide Open
By Deborah Coates
Taking leave from the military to grieve her sister’s alleged suicide, Sergeant Hallie Michaels encounters her sister’s ghost and is unable to convince others that her sister was actually murdered, a situation that is complicated when she meets more ghosts and is targeted by a determined killer.

The Wind Through the Keyhole
By Stephen King
King returns to the “Dark Tower” series and the rich landscape of Mid-World in a story within a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain who, while investigating a murderous shape-shifter, interviews a terrified teen who has witnessed the creature’s most recent killing, and then tells the teen a story from the Book of Eid.

Mystery & Detective

Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch
By Nancy Atherton
When a famous artist relocates to Finch in the hopes of concealing her identity from a rabid fan base, Lori Shepherd investigates a riddle in a family diary suggesting that one of the artist’s ancestors might have been a local witch.

Beastly Things (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery)
By Donna Leon
Commissario Brunetti investigates the death of an animal lover whose decomposed body was found in a Venice canal.

The Big Cat Nap (Mrs. Murphy Mystery)
By Rita Mae Brown
A 20th-anniversary release of the latest entry in the best-selling “Mrs. Murphy” series finds Mary Minor “Harry” Harristeen and her intrepid team of feline, canine and equine helpers investigating a series of inexplicable car accidents that are attributed to freak driver errors.

Blackstone and the Great War (Inspector Sam Blackstone Mystery)
By Sally Spencer
Surrounded by young men less than half his age, Inspector Blackstone must face the horror of modern warfare and the prejudices of the officer class if he is to gain justice for the murdered grandson of a British general.

Buried in Buttercream (Savannah Reid)
By G. A. McKevett
When she discovers the body of her opinionated wedding planner face down in the pool, plus-sized P.I. and bride-to-be Savannah Reid must put her impending nuptials on hold to discover who else wanted this diva to make an ill-timed swan dive.

Cloudland
By Joseph Olshan
Discovering the body of a serial killer’s latest victim near her home in Vermont’s Upper Valley, Catherine Winslow, a former reporter for a national newspaper, teams up with a forensic psychologist to investigate the killings at the same time her ex tries to re-kindle their relationship.

Death at the Jesus Hospital (Lord Francis Powerscourt Investigation)
By David Dickinson
In the wake of the murders of three victims with shadowy links to an ancient City of London livery company, Lord Francis Powerscourt investigates strange markings on the bodies and discovers that each victim had been recently visited by the company’s leader.

Death Comes Silently
By Carolyn G. Hart
Unable to volunteer at a book signing by a popular local writer, Annie Darling arrives after the event and discovers her fellow volunteer, Gretchen Burkholt, murdered after having left numerous voicemails about some scandalous news she wanted to share.

Dolled Up for Murder (Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery)
By Jane K. Cleland
Showing a recently acquired doll collection to a local investor who is subsequently shot and killed before her eyes, antiques dealer Josie Prescott is further horrified when one of her employees is kidnapped by an abductor who demands the doll collection as ransom.

Dorchester Terrace (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt)
By Anne Perry
Investigating his own men when evidence of a mole within the Special Branch is discovered, newly promoted Thomas Pitt realizes that he cannot trust anyone; while his boss, Victor Narraway, learns that Charlotte’s aunt’s friend might have unearthed war-provoking secrets.

Elegy for Eddie (Maisie Dobbs)
By Jacqueline Winspear
When Eddie Petit’s death is ruled an accident by the police, friends and neighbors believe that this gentle soul who had a special way with horses was murdered and Maisie Dobbs, determined to do right by Eddie, searches for the truth amid the working-class of Lambeth.

The Fallen (Jade de Jong Investigation)
By Jassy Mackenzie
Devastated by a huge setback in her relationship with Superintendent David Patel, P.I. Jade de Jong turns for solace to environmentalist Craig Niewoudt only to be embroiled in the murder investigation of a scuba diving instructor who had recently received a cryptic postcard.

Gypped (Regan Reilly)
By Carol Higgins Clark
Vacationing in California while her new husband, Jack, attends a business conference, private investigator Regan Reilly checks out a vegan family friend’s concerns about an unscrupulous investment manager and uncovers a vast scam extending through the California coast.

A Killing Winter
By Wayne Arthurson
A sequel to Fall from Grace finds Leo struggling to reconnect with his estranged son and fighting his gambling addiction while becoming increasingly consumed by an undercover case involving a missing Native street kid who is found brutally murdered by gang members.

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
By Alexander McCall Smith
The formidable talents of Precious Ramotswe are put to the test in the face of a mysterious disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter’s school, assistant Grace Makutsi’s early marital adjustments and the appearance of the No. 1 Ladies’ hero detective.

Magic Line (Sarah Burke Mystery)
By Elizabeth Gunn
Detective Sarah Burke is called to a mass shooting in a quiet residential street that looks like a home invasion gone wrong, but when one of the “dead” victims suddenly escapes, Sarah is charged with finding out what went down and why.

Miss Julia to the Rescue (Miss Julia)
By Ann B. Ross
When Hazel Marie’s hotheaded private investigator husband, J.D., goes missing from his latest job, Miss Julia and Etta Mae struggle to free a man matching his description from a West Virginia jail.  Meanwhile, Agnes Whitman returns to town with a following of misfits who might be members of a zealous cult.

The Mysterium (Hugh Corbett Medieval Mystery)
By P. C. Doherty
Investigating the February 1304 murder of the king’s disgraced former Chief’s Justice, Sir Hugh Corbett sifts through clues to determine if the culprit is a vengeance-seeking former adversary of the victim or a copycat killer who has been using brutal methods in a series of crimes.

Plunder: A Faye Longchamp Mystery
By Mary Anna Evans
While researching archaeological sites that may soon succumb to the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill, Faye Longchamp helps a young teenager who has lost everything but a dilapidated old houseboat left to her by her murdered grandmother and uncle.

Redemption (Joe Burgess)
By Kate Flora
When a long-lost friend’s body is found by two boys fishing, Detective Joe Burgess of Portland, Maine, must put his hopes for a normal life on hold to investigate the death.

The Stolen Bride (Arthurian Mystery)
By Tony Hays
Traveling with King Arthur to broker a deal between warring tribes in the West, Malgwyn ap Cuneglas encounters scenes of particular brutality and is charged with tracking down the culprit responsible for murdering the king of a small region where rich veins of gold have been discovered.

Trouble at High Tide
By Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain
After a friend’s niece is found dead on the beach in Bermuda, Jessica Fletcher and Scotland Yard Inspector George Sutherland delve into a series of murders that have an eerie resemblance to the late 19th-century Jack the Ripper killings.

Wildcat Play
By Helen Knode
Having nearly lost her life pursuing a Hollywood murder case, hipster movie critic Ann Whitehead takes a job in the San Joaquin Valley and investigates a fatal industrial accident that her friend on the LAPD believes was a murder.

A Woman of Consequence (Dido Kent Mystery)
By Anna Dean
Refusing to believe that Penelope Lambe suffered a dangerous fall at an abbey ruin because of a ghost sighting, Miss Dido Kent uncovers a human skeleton at the scene and investigates clues linking the remains to Miss Lambe’s accident.

Romance

An Accidental Affair
By Eric Jerome Dickey
When allegations about his actress wife’s infidelity are posted online, James, a screenwriter with a violent past, attacks his wife’s lover, sparking a media frenzy that compels him to go into hiding and resort to extreme measures to protect his wife from Hollywood politics.

Letter from a Stranger
By Barbara Taylor Bradford
After Justine Nolan discovers that her mother has been pretending that Justine’s favorite grandmother has been dead for 10 years, she embarks on a search that takes her to Istanbul, where she discovers family secrets that go all the way back to World War II, and a chance to follow the true desires in her heart.

Lover Reborn (Black Dagger Brotherhood)
By J. R. Ward
Torment, a Black Dagger Brother, is given a second chance at love and life after losing everything.

The Unseen
By Heather Graham
When San Antonio becomes a dumping ground for the battered bodies of young women, Texas Ranger Logan Raintree must use his powerful ability to communicate with the dead and lead a brand-new group of elite paranormal investigators to solve this disturbing case.

The Witness
By Nora Roberts
Having had a traumatic experience 12 years prior, Abigail Lowery lives in a remote area, holed up in a house with high-tech security measures, a fierce guard dog and a cache of weapons, but this only serves to further intrigue police chief Brooks Gleason, who aims to protect Abigail from what she fears.

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