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Title: Accidents Waiting to Happen |
| Author: Simon Wood | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 0843958308 | |
Josh Michaels is worth more dead than alive. He just doesn't know it yet. He
has no idea why someone would try to kill him, clearly that's exactly what
happened. When an SUV forced Josh's car off the road and into a river, it might
have been an accident. But when Josh looked up at the road, expecting to see
the SUV's driver rushing to help him, all he saw was the driver watching him
calmly, then giving him a "thumbs down" sign. That was merely the
first attempt on Josh's life, all of them designed to look like accidents,
and all of them very nearly fatal. With his time and maybe his luck running
out and no one willing to believe him, Josh had better figure out who wants
him dead and why before it's too late.
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Title: Working Stiffs |
| Author: Simon Wood | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 0974590045 | |
The workplace is a dangerous place. The unscrupulous are primed and ready to
take advantage of the innocent and naïve. A slight indiscretion can cost
the employee everything. A new position can turn a person into someone they
are not. Those at the top can be toppled and those at the bottom can be crushed.
Until now, Vincent's father has kept one side of the business a secret from his son. Vincent is about to learn the family business. On the most important day of his career, Sam's world will unravel when he helps a woman in distress. Todd has failed in every job he's undertaken, but that changes when he backs into a drug dealer's car. Now he's in hock with organized crime and can only get himself out from under if he works for them to pay off his debt. Kenneth Casper is ailing and so is his business empire. His shareholders circle like vultures. Casper pins all his hopes on a Peruvian shaman with a miracle cure.
Working Stiffs...Some jobs are worth killing for.
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Title: The Scot, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| Author: Annette Blair | |
| Genre: Single Title Contemporary Comedy | |
| ISBN: 0425213463 | |
Talk about meeting the man of your dreams ... A Highland Scot with a hidden
agenda and a hereditary Pictish Witch in denial discover shared dreams and
a century-old spell that could change them forever.
Salem, Massachusetts:
Like her female ancestors before her, Victoria Cartwright inherits the key to the bewitched contents of her family's mysterious attic wardrobe ... except that no one has ever succeeded in opening it. Only the daughter who inherits her ancestor's magic will be able to turn the key ... meet her destiny ... and complete her ancestor's spell.
Caperglen, Scotland:
A pariah in his own village, like his ancestors before him, Rory MacKenzie is searching for the carousel unicorn that his many-great grandfather carved and was bewitched into giving away. Bringing the family treasure back to Scotland and reuniting it with the other eleven zodiac figures will satisfy the locals who were raised with the daft notion that the unicorn will restore village prosperity. It died the day the unicorn was shipped to America a century before. But all Rory wants is to restore the MacKenzie name to dignity.
When a carousel unicorn with the sign of Aquarius beneath its forelock shows up on the Antiques Roadshow, Rory heads to Salem, Massachusetts to see if Miss Victoria Cartwright's unicorn has the hidden compartment that his ancestor carved beneath the saddle.
After they meet, their shared dreams escalate and become more explicit. Something witchy or downright magical is happening in Salem.
Read an excerpt on Annette Blair's website.
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Title: Amazing Disgrace |
| Author: Catherine DiMercurio Dominic | |
| Genre: Contemporary women's fiction | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-466-4 | |
Aida Benedetto is a successful thirty-year-old food writer with an on-again,
off-again boyfriend and an Italian American family with endless expectations,
relentless traditions, and little patience with Aida when she expresses her
reluctance to become her nephew's godmother. Birch McFarland, who is pushing
for on-again status, was also raised by a strict Catholic father and understands
Aida's sense of guilt as well as her duty to a faith she's silently questioned
for years. When mutual domestic conflicts dissolve the lingering web between
the couple and their families, Aida and Birch attempt to fashion new versions
of faith and family. Before these embryonic ideas can begin to mature, the
force of personal tragedy destroys all that Aida and Birch have worked toward.
Abandoned by Birch and alienated from her family members, Aida is forced
to free herself from the filters through which she previously viewed herself.
The novel explores the personal evolution of a woman, her faith, and her
family.
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Title: Lost Among the Angels |
| Author: Alice Duncan | |
| Genre: Mystery (cozy) | |
| ISBN: 1594143633 | |
Mercy Allcutt, Boston Brahmin, wants to experience life in all its grittiness.
How better than by working for a down-on-his luck PI in 1926 Hollywood? Once
she discovers what PI actually stands for, she knows Mr. Ernest Templeton is
the boss for her.
Raised in the ivory tower of proper Boston, when well-bred Mercy gets a job with Ernest Templeton, Private Investigator, she's ecstatic. Ernie, a jaded ex-cop, is incredulous. Together, they must cope with a stray child, kidnapping, blackmail, murder, a toy poodle, a vamp, a stalker, Mercy's overactive imagination and Ernie's strong protective streak. Throw in a speakeasy, Chinatown, and a couple of down-and-dirty criminals, and Mercy and Ernie are in for a drama that will put the motion picture industry to shame. If they can survive long enough to tell the story.
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Title: Iron Ties |
| Author: Ann Parker | |
| Genre: Historical mystery/thriller | |
| ISBN: 1590582624 | |
High in the Colorado Rockies, the road of the iron horse is coming to the silver
boom town of Leadville. Saloon owner Inez Stannert, along with the rest of
the town, is preparing for the arrival of General William Palmer's railroad
the Denver & Rio Grande and its first passenger, former President and Union
General Ulysses S. Grant. But not all are happy to see the train or the generals
arrive. Some folks have wicked memories of the Civil War, others a stake in
the competing railroad lines. And Inez's friend, photographer Susan Carothers,
gets caught in the crossfire....
"Outstanding....Plenty of convincing action bodes well for a long and successful series." Publishers Weekly starred review
"The characters have depth, their motivations are subtle, and their pain very human...a well-crafted novel that will appeal to readers of mysteries, historical fiction, and genre westerns." Booklist
"... full of sharply etched characters set firmly in history and pulled
along by a narrative engine as powerful as any of the locomotives getting ready
in 1880 to connect Leadville to the outside world."
Chicago Tribune
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Title: Imprint |
| Author: Paul L. Bates | |
| Genre: Science Fiction | |
| ISBN: 1410402576 | |
Welcome to the post apocalyptic world of Wyatt Weston, where most of the population
lives within a single sprawling city in a perpetual state of psychosis, poverty,
denial. It is a place without mass media, private transportation, where police
hover above the streets keeping order, where knowledge is limited to one's
immediate surroundings, the collective amnesia of the population. Wyatt rises
from the bottom of the foodchain searching for his sanity, his memory, his
missing lover, and the solution to why parts of his body dissolve while he
sleeps. Wyatt's only marketable skill is his ability to kill, kill fast,
kill often-a skill prized by those who rule and live within the Heartland,
a protective dome beyond the city. He is recruited by Victor Crist, a bizarre
father figure, who needs Wyatt to help him upend the existing world order
by unleashing an ancient weapon upon the unsuspecting city-the weapon that
brought the world we know to an end.
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Title: Cactus Flower |
| Author: Alice Duncan | |
| Genre: Historical (Western) Romance | |
| ISBN: 1594144567 | |
When a desperate Eulalie Gibb comes to Rio Penasco to escape a murderous maniac,
no one, least of all Eulalie herself, believes she'll find the love of her
life there. Eulalie, who grew up with her sister Patsy in her family's traveling
theatrical company in New York City, is almost prepared for life in the Wild
West--until she meets Nick Taggart. Then she's pretty sure she's come to the
wrong place entirely.
As for Nick--who barely escaped a family full of managing females with his hide intact--even if he believed in true love, which he doesn't, he can't imagine his personal love being the prickly Eulalie Gibb. He likes his life the way it is: living with his jolly old uncle Junius and being a blacksmith in the uncivilized and blessedly remote town of Rio Penasco.
They both have a lot to learn.
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Title: Love Made of Heart |
| Author: Teresa LeYung Ryan | |
| Genre: Fiction (Women's) | |
| ISBN: 0-7582-0217-2 | |
Love Made of Heart (a mother-daughter story) is:
archived at the San Francisco History Center;
recommended by the California School Library Association;
recommended by the California Reading Association;
used in Sociology classes;
used in Advanced English-as-a-Second-Language classes.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE on Love Made of Heart:
The Chinese word for 'love' is made up of many brush strokes. In the center of the word 'love' is the word 'heart.' Love is made of heart.
In Love Made of Heart, protagonist Ruby Lin is forced to look into her past when her mother shuts down her own painful world. The story explores the complex bonds between mothers and daughters, the choices we make when our hearts are broken, and the choices we make when our hearts are healed.
PRAISE and REVIEWS for Love Made of Heart:
"Love Made of Heart is a book made of wisdom. Teresa LeYung Ryan writes
of mothers and daughters, but the truth of her fiction strikes much deeper;
beyond family, beyond gender, all the way to the fragile, universal heart."
Frank Baldwin, author of Jake & Mimi and Balling the Jack
"Love Made of Heart, a semi-autobiographical story of a young Chinese
immigrant and her mother . . . For those seeking inspiration during difficult
times, this courageous book is half hot tub, half massage. But only after some
painful, albeit unpredictable plot twists."
Lori Hope, film maker and author of Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer
Want You to Know
"With raw, engaging dialogue as its narrative essence, Love
Made of Heart dismantles the easy clichés of unconscious loyalties and entices us
with searing honesty to journey through complex psychological realms with its
female protagonist until we are left with a quiet appreciation of the truthfully
tender."
Lydia Kwa, author of This Place Called Absence
"In the novel Love Made of Heart, Ruby's struggles to make peace with her life etch themselves deeply into the reader's own heart, so that you find yourself caring and wondering about how she is doing long after you've read the last page of her story." Carol Schaefer, author of The Other Mother
"First-time Bay Area author Teresa LeYung Ryan has written a fascinating
novel with a lot of heart . . . delicately tiptoes the fine line between fiction
and creative non-fiction, making believers of us all."
Victor Turks for The San Francisco Nob Hill Gazette
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Title: Cruel Music |
| Author: Beverle Graves Myers | |
| Genre: Historical Mystery | |
| ISBN: 1-59058-230-6 | |
Cruel Music is the third book in the Baroque Mystery series set in 18th-century
Italy. The impending death of Pope Clement XII has turned Rome into a seething
cauldron of ambition, intrigue, greed, and murder. Tito Amato, the opera singer
with a stellar talent for sleuthing, is forced to leave his beloved Venice
to sing for the influential Cardinal Fabiani who will control the coming papal
election. To snare the ungodly killer who haunts the cardinal's villa, Tito
must learn to spy as well as he sings.
In Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, reviewer Robert C. Hahn says, "Myers sets the stage beautifully, and her Tito Amato is an endearingly sympathetic character whose company should be enjoyed for many more performances."
More information on Cruel Music and the previous books in the series can be found on Beverle Graves Myers's website.
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Title: The Ragtime Kid |
| Author: Larry Karp | |
| Genre: Mystery/Crime Fiction | |
| ISBN: 1-59058-326-4 | |
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old boy named Brun Campbell ran away from home to take
piano lessons from Scott Joplin in Sedalia, Missouri. Joplin nicknamed him
The Ragtime Kid. That same year, John Stark, a White music store owner, published
Joplin's breakthrough composition, Maple Leaf Rag, under a contract providing
royalties to the composer. That was extraordinary. Those days, a young, largely-unknown
Black composer was lucky to receive a small lump-sum payment for his work,
along with a warning to not let the door hit him in a sensitive place on his
way out.
No history of ragtime even begins to explain how this remarkable arrangement between Joplin and Stark came to pass, and that struck me as odd. Was there a reason why this story couldn't be told? Over many years of reading about the ragtime pioneers and listening to their music, I wondered. Finally, I decided to explore the situation by moving young Brun Campbell into the picture - he was, after all, there at the time - and plugging the historical holes with fiction. And as I worked, I was pleased to see my crime novel develop into the story of two strong-willed men who could not be divided by their skin color because they both spoke the universal language of the heart. I hope you'll enjoy it.
Larry Karp found a worthy, though neglected segment of American music history
to set a cleverly devised story of fact and fiction. By filling some of the
undocumented gaps with a plausible tale, he retells the early history of ragtime,
with its undercurrent of racism and business dealings. Along the way he provides
deserving recognition for several creators of the art form, aside from Scott
Joplin and "The Ragtime Kid," Brun Campbell.
---David Reffkin, Director, The American Ragtime Ensemble; Producer and Host,
The Ragtime Machine, KUSF-FM, San Francisco
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Title: Burden of Memory |
| Author: Vicki Delany | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 1590582667 | |
Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who let love in the person of an unreliable
screenwriter jettison her career, is now divorced, broke, and come to a "primitive,
untamed northern forest" on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly
Miss Moira Madison of the fabulously rich Canadian family wishes to write her
memoirs.
Miss Madison isn't interested in a bestseller. She wants to leave
a record of her life and most specifically of her years with the Canadian Army
Nursing Sisters of World War II. Her service in the British and then European
theater was filled with triumphs and bitter losses and forever shaped her life.
Can Elaine tell her story working with decades of old documents?
Settling into the family "cottage" and what remains of a lifestyle
long gone, Elaine reconnects with her love of researching the past. But somehow
her project--she soon discovers the first writer hired oddly drowned in the
Lake--stirs someone to murder. . . .
"Vicki Delany's second novel effectively uses the Muskoka setting for
a very fine novel about memory and class and caste in old Ontario."
The Globe and Mail
"The striking setting, the picture of the Canadian social elite and several
deftly handled subplots make for a richly textured and highly satisfying read."
Publishers Weekly
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Title: Shoot From the Lip |
| Author: Leann Sweeney | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 978-0-451-22017-2 | |
This fourth installment in the Yellow Rose Mystery Series follows adoption
PI Abby Rose as she hunts for the missing sister of a reality makeover
show candidate. The thought of working with a hotshot producer and the
TV crew is about as appealing to Abby as sticking her hand in a bucket
of leeches but she is determined to help makeover candidate Emma Lopez
find her sister--even when it becomes clear that someone out there doesn't
believe in happy endings.
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Title: Calling the Dead |
| Author: Marilyn Meredith | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 1-59426-452-3 | |
Tempe Crabtree is the resident deputy of Bear Creek, a small mountain community.
Her growing interest in the spiritual side of her heritage often caused
unrest in her marriage to her minister husband. In Calling the Dead, Tempe
investigates a murder that looks like death from natural causes and a suicide
that looks like murder, putting her job and her marriage in jeopardy.
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Title: Wishing Makes It So |
| Author: Marilyn Meredith | |
| Genre: Psychological horror | |
| ISBN: 0-7599-3760-5 | |
In an effort to make a change in a child's life, the Chrestmans take in four-year-old
Belinda. The little girl proves to be a greater challenge then they expected
and becomes a threat to their own three children, their very lives, and their
love.
"...This is one of the most bone-chilling novels I've ever read." Amanda Killgore, Huntress, Reviews
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Title: The Harrowing |
| Author: Alexandra Sokoloff | |
| Genre: Supernatural suspense | |
| ISBN: 0-312-35748-6 | |
A massive storm dumps icy rain on isolated Baird College as the last home-bound
students leave for the long Thanksgiving break. In hundred-year-old Mendenhall,
five troubled students remain.
They are not alone.
"THE HARROWING is a real page-turner. Sokoloff raises a fine crop of
goose-bumps and shivers. A first novel of unusual promise."
- Ira Levin, author of ROSEMARY'S BABY
Read the first chapter online.
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Title: Missing Member |
| Author: Jo-Ann Power | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 0-312-357990-0 | |
Few Americans remember these days that politics can be funny. But Texas
Congresswoman Carly Wagner knows this first-hand. Funny thing is, she's
not laughing when she walks into her office in the Rayburn Building one
morning and finds her party's second most powerful man dead in her chair.
Because circumstances say she must have killed him, her party sends in
a mysterious bodyguard. He's young, yummy--and lethal, with toys like Mr.
Bond, an attitude like Mr. Corleone and a suspicious name like Mr. Jones!
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Title: The Grasshopper's Secret |
| Author: Renate Stendhal | |
| Genre: Young Adult Fiction | |
| ISBN: 1-931223-05-X | |
Illustrated by the author, The Grasshopper's Secret is a magical tale - a
book for the child in every adult and the adult in every child.
How will a
fierce, angry adolescent girl learn compassion for a young boy whom she despises
because he is delicate and wants to please everybody?
Zelda lives in Los Angeles; Kidcou is an orphan who has come from Europe
to live with her family, bringing with him his one treasure---a grasshopper
in a cage. Kidcou insists it's a magical grasshopper, but Zelda mocks him.
However, on a full moon night, as Zelda sets the grasshopper free, she happens
upon the secret formula: The grasshopper turns into a strangely beautiful
woman who invites Zelda on a journey.
In leaps and bounds, the Grasshopper takes Zelda through time and space -- and lands her in Kidcou's past. From Austria and Germany to England and Italy, Zelda and the Grasshopper follow the dramatic events that cause Kidcou, a gifted singer in the Vienna Boys Choir, to lose his voice.
The journey reaches Venice, Italy, where Kidcou is taken in by his uncle Carlo, a scientist and kind teacher. Here, in the mysterious city of ancient palaces and canals, Zelda begins to notice that there is a connection between the Grasshopper and Uncle Carlo. The two of them seem to be plotting something... The more Zelda figures things out, the more she comes to feel that she may be needed---especially when the adults are failing, when Uncle Carlo falls ill and might die, when Zelda s mother makes a surprise appearance in Venice, and when the Grasshopper disappears into her cage just when Zelda needs her because Kidcou is in danger...
If Zelda solves the Grasshopper's secret in time to impact the events, and if she manages to enter Kidcou's story in the past - what will happen in the present?
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Title: Deadline: Stiff |
| Author: JM Burns | |
| Genre: Mystery/Thriller | |
| ISBN: 1-58385-091-0 | |
Freshly returned from military police duty in Iraq, young David Endicott
stumbles into his first case by rescuing a corpse from an eccentric billionaire's
guesthouse. With eyebrows raised, Baulden Grey asks Endicott to discover
three things in seven frenetic days: Who the man was; how he gained entry
to the heavily protected grounds; and what he wanted once inside. It all
sounded so simple, so deliciously straightforward, and it might have been,
except for the powdered wings of a rare Chinese butterfly. For the Golden
Yellow possesses a secret powerful enough to change the face of gang crime
in Southern California. And beyond. Based on little-known facts about the
U.S. Human Betterment Foundation that fueled the German Nazi Party's racial
cleansing movement, Deadline: Stiff weaves an historic past into a frightening
future wherein the lay lines of change posit a credible, terrifying reality.
Look out, Darwin, this deadline gives "survival of the fittest" an
entirely new meaning for David Endicott - and a world in which violence
is a curable disease.
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Title: The Rhoberts Brothers |
| Author: Kevin P. Ellis | |
| Genre: Thriller | |
| ISBN: 1-4241-4421-3 | |
Two brothers have caught a radical group in an attempted government overthrow.
The Rhobertses aren't just any brothers-they were born and raised in the
United States military and trained by their father, an ex-Special Forces
member.The Rhoberts Brothers go after the group that are desperately trying
to end the freedoms provided by the United States Constitution. The two
brothers are not without assistance as they made a lot of friends in the
U.S. Military. Caught in the middle of a war between their family and the
radical group known as "Armageddon," the brothers are tested
to their limits. The war has begun and they might just take out a few criminals
in the process.
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