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We disappear : a novel
Scott Heim.
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"The body of a teenage boy is discovered in a Kansas field. The murder haunts Donna - a recent widow battling cancer - calling forth troubling details from long-suppressed memories of her past. Hoping to discover more about "disappeared" people, she turns to her son, Scott, who is fighting demons of his own. Addicted to methamphetamines and sleeping ...
2008; 293 p.; isbn:0061468975 More Information |
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What never happens
Anne Holt ; [translated by Kari Dickson].
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Investigating a series of murders that has targeted Oslo's most high-profile citizens, police commissioner Adam Stubo and former FBI profiler Johanna Vik reluctantly join the case, only to discover that Johanna is a likely victim.
2008; 385 p.; isbn:0446578037 More Information |
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The girl who stopped swimming
Joshilyn Jackson.
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"Laurel Gray Hawthorne hasn't seen a ghost in the thirteen years she and her husband have lived in the beautiful gated neighborhood of Victorianna. Keeping her head down, she's managed to make a good life for her beloved daughter and husband while working on her nationally acclaimed art quilts. But in the dog days of a Florida August, she wakes to find ...
2008; 311 p.; isbn:0446579653 More Information |
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And sometimes why
Rebecca Johnson.
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"When Sophia and Darius say good-bye to their teenage daughters one unremarkable morning, they have no idea how permanently their family will be affected by a casual decision made around the breakfast table. One of the daughters will meet a boy, the other will have an accident. Both events will change their lives forever." "Weaving together a chain ...
2008; 303 p.; isbn:0399154523 More Information |
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Mudbound : a novel
by Hillary Jordan.
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"When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening. Laura does not share Henry's love of rural life, and she struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack with no indoor plumbing or electricity, all the while under ...
2008; 328 p.; isbn:156512569X More Information |
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The night following
Morag Joss.
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Moments after discovering that her husband has been having an affair, a woman driving along a winding country lane strikes and kills a woman on a bicycle and then drives away, in a psychological portrait of the repercussions of deception.
2008; 354 p.; isbn:0385341180 More Information |
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In a time of treason
David Keck.
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"Fighting under the banner of Lord Lamoric, Durand Col and his companions might have thwarted a mad duke's ambition and saved the crown, but it has brought them little but scars and empty purses. And now, with the fierce glory of their autumn campaign behind them, they have spent the winter counting their last pennies in their master's gloomy hall and ...
2008; 352 p.; isbn:0765313219 More Information |
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A push and a shove
Christopher Kelly.
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"Tortured by memories of being bullied at school, Ben Reilly sets out to put his demons to rest. Terrence O'Connell, the beautiful boy who tormented him, is now a successful writer in Manhattan, but he is also a man seeking out his own identity. As Ben and Terrence form an unlikely friendship, hidden motives and long-kept secrets bubble to the surface. ...
2007; 312 p.; isbn:1593500483 More Information |
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A world too near
Kay Kenyon.
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2008; 425 p.; isbn:1591026423 More Information |
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The learners : a novel
Chip Kidd
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"Fresh out of college in the summer of 1961, Happy lands his first job as a graphic designer (okay, art assistant) at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. Life for Happy seems to be - well, happy. But when he's assigned to design a newspaper ad recruiting participants for an experiment in the Yale Psychology ...
2008; 258 p.; isbn:9780743255240 More Information |
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Lady Macbeth : a novel
Susan Fraser King.
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2008; 340 p.; isbn:0307341747 More Information |
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Remember me?
Sophie Kinsella.
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2008; 389 p.; isbn:0385338724 More Information |
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