Dance to the Piper

Dance to the Piper Author: Roberts, Nora Caliendo, Marie ISBN: 1-4418-3019-7

Category: American Light Romantic Fiction

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EditThey both knew what would happen... She moved in perfect harmony to the music that ruled her life both onstage and off. He dealt with the world with ruthless expertise. Music was his business and he was all business. That is until she lit up the stage. The attraction was instant...and impossible. Because he ruled his empire from glass towers high above the vibrancy of her world, and coming too close to hers was risky business. But she was a woman who dared to dream, and she had dreams big enough for them both.

Hot Rocks

Hot Rocks Author: Roberts, Nora Ericksen, Susan ISBN: 1-4418-4265-9

Category: American Light Romantic Fiction

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 Laine Tavish surrounds herself with antiques in her store. As for her own past, she'd rather avoid it. And when that doesn't work, she has to rely on an enigmatic stranger to figure out who is chasing her and why. The answer lies in a hidden fortune that will change her life forever… “The queen of romantic suspense.”

The Eyes of Darkness

The Eyes of Darkness Author: Koontz, Dean Eby, Tanya ISBN: 1-4418-1716-6

Category: American Mystery & Suspense Fiction

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 A year had passed since little Danny's death - a year since his mother began the painful process of acceptance. But Tina Evans could have sworn she just saw her Danny in a stranger's car…then she dreamed that Danny was alive. And when she awoke, she found a message waiting for her in Danny's bedroom – two disturbing words scrawled on his chalkboard: NOT DEAD Was this someone's grim joke? Her mind playing tricks on her? Or something…more? For Tina Evans, it was a mystery she couldn't escape. An obsession that would lead her from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the cold shadows of the High Sierras. A terrible secret seen only by…

Blood Ties

Blood Ties Author: Hooper, Kay Bean, Joyce ISBN: 1-4233-3313-6

Category: American Mystery & Suspense Fiction

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Too many interchangeable doll-like victims and a by-the-numbers plot mar bestseller Hooper's conclusion to her paranormal thriller trilogy that began with Blood Dreams and Blood Sins. When a serial killer tortures, dismembers, and dumps eight women in eight weeks in Tennessee and adjacent states, Noah Bishop, head of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit, gets on the case, along with Noah's touch-telepath and seer wife, Miranda, and special agent Hollis Templeton, a profiler-in-training and medium who can self-heal and see auras. Hollis and special investigator Diana Brisco, also a medium and healer, travel to the gray time, a corridor between life and death where a young spirit, Brooke, helps them connect the killings to a past threat. Series fans and newcomers alike will appreciate the appendixes, which include bios of Special Crime Unit agents and definitions of their various paranormal abilities.

The Lock Artist

The Lock Artist Author: Hamilton, Steve Andrews, MacLeod ISBN: 1-4418-1544-9

Category: American Mystery & Suspense Fiction

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Mike Smith is a "boxman." He can open any safe, padlock, or locked door without a combination or a key--a talent that lands him in prison at the age of eighteen. He spends his time writing down the story of his life because that's the only way he can share it. He hasn't spoken in ten years. Not a single word since the tragic day he became known as the "Miracle Boy." Mike is one of those unreliable narrators you can't help rooting for--a traumatized soul fighting his way back from the brink--and the mystery of his silence will have you blazing through pages. A smart, inventive thriller, The Lock Artist is packed with a standout cast of characters, plus enough safe-cracking trade secrets to tempt you to dig up that old combination lock and test your newfound knowledge.

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Page, Michael ISBN: 1-4418-3919-4

Category: English Mystery & Suspense Fiction

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 Arthur Conan Doyle's Study in Scarlet is the first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world's best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes's Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War. Watson needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins. Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road. Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result."

Almost Like Being in Love

Almost Like Being in Love Author: Dodd, Christina Ross, Natalie ISBN: 1-4418-2481-2

Category: American Light Romantic Fiction

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 Readers who were wooed by the first installment in Dodd's contemporary Prescott sisters trilogy, Just the Way You Are, may be disappointed by this unlikely, terrorism-based tale. Orphaned, separated from her siblings and shuttled through foster care, landscaper Pepper Prescott relies on her inborn wiliness and the militaristic self-help strategies of author Jennifer Napier, an active U.S. General, to overcome life's challenges. But when she witnesses her idol shooting an aide who threatens to expose her sale of government secrets, Pepper flees to the Idaho ranch that once provided her only stable home. Her ex-boyfriend Dan Graham, now an undercover Special Forces agent, is keeping up the ranch in an attempt to draw out an international terrorist intent on killing him. Despite mutual deceptions, the two rediscover both trust and passion before the General, Dan's terrorist prey, two of Pepper's long-lost siblings and a passel of U.S. forces converge at the ranch for the melodramatic denouement.

Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction

Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction Author: Bloom, Amy Ericksen, Susan ISBN: 1-4418-3118-5

Category: American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +

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 Bloom's latest collection (after novel Away) looks at love in many forms through a keenly perceptive lens. Two sets of stories that read much like novellas form the book's soul; the first of which revolves around two couples--William and Isabel, Clare and Charles--and begins with Clare and William falling into an affair that endures divorces, remarriage and illness. Bloom has an unsettling insight into her character's minds: Clare's self-disgust is often reflected in her thoughts about William, demonstrating the complexity of their attraction as their comfort with each other grows, until she finally accepts the beauty of what they have--albeit too late. The second set of stories, featuring Lionel and Julia, is more complicated; the death of Lionel's father propels Lionel and Julia together in a night of grief, remarkable (and icky) mostly because Julia is Lionel's stepmother and his father's widow.