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Soul enchilada : the devil is in the details
David Macinnis Gill
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Eunice "Bug" Smoot was thirteen years old when her grandfather put her soul up as collateral on his dream car. Now, five years later, her grandfather is dead and buried, and Bug is trying to make it on her own by delivering pizzas and staying one step ahead of her landlord. And then the repo man arrives. Only Mr. Beals, stinking to high heaven ...
2009; ; isbn:9781423382256 More Information |
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The lost city of Z : [a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon]
by David Grann
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Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author's own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett's final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle
2009; ; isbn:9780739376980 More Information |
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Marine One : [a novel]
by James W. Huston
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After the president is killed when his official helicopter crashes on its way to a mysterious meeting in Camp David, Marine Corps reserve pilot and trial attorney Mike Nolan begins an investigation to discover the cause of the crash
2009; ; isbn:9781433227424 More Information |
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Smooth talking stranger
Lisa Kleypas
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Ella Varner shows up at the office of Jack Travis, a rich, tough Houston businessman, with a baby in her arms, claiming he is the father. Apparently, her sister gave birth to the baby and left it with Ella to take care of. After doing some investigating, Ella found Jack and wants him to take a paternity test to see if the baby is his
2009; ; isbn:9781597378727 More Information |
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Last lion : the fall and rise of Ted Kennedy
by the team at the Boston Globe, Bella English ... [et al.] ; edited by Peter S. Canellos
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Dismissed as a spent force in politics by the time he reached middle age, Ted Kennedy became the most powerful senator of the last half century and the nation's keeper of traditional liberalism. Perceptive and carefully reported, drawing heavily from candid interviews with the Kennedy family and inner circle, "Last Lion" captures magnificently ...
2009; ; isbn:9780743596527 More Information |
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Tea time for the traditionally built
by Alexander McCall Smith
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The 10th entry in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series finds Precious Ramotswe investigating a mystery that hits close to home. When she asks her dependable husband Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni to fix her tiny, white van, Precious fears he might just sell the vehicle and buy her something more modern. And so he does. But this will not do. So Precious tries ...
2009; ; isbn:9781440717178 More Information |
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Mr. and Miss Anonymous
Fern Michaels
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Lily Madison is on her own and desperate to pay for her last semester of college. As a last hope, she makes the decision to donate her eggs to a fertility clinic. Sam Parker is also a penniless student who supplements his tuition money by visiting a sperm bank. One day, Lily and Sam meet at the clinic and talk about their secret. Despite their attraction, ...
2009; ; isbn:9781423344698 More Information |
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The long fall : the first Leonid McGill mystery
Walter Mosley
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Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades mostly in cash and favors, Leonid McGill is an old-school P.I. working a city that's gotten fancy all around him. And like New York City itself, McGill is turning over a new leaf, "decided to go from crooked to slightly bent." But when he calls in old markers and greases a few NYPD palms to unearth ...
2009; ; isbn:9780143144205 More Information |
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1984
by George Orwell
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1986; ; isbn:1402522835 More Information |
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Heartless
Diana Palmer
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As a teenager, Gracie worshipped her stepbrother, Jason, a strong, silent young cowboy who left home early to seek his fortune. Though Gracie hadn't seen him in years, when her mother passed away, Jason ensured that Gracie would be cared for. Now the wealthy owner of Comanche Wells ranch, Jason has finally come back home, and discovered that the little ...
2009; ; isbn:1423382579 More Information |
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Brimstone
by Robert B. Parker
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In the third novel of Robert B. Parker's Appaloosa series, Virgil Cole, unable to get over the adulterous Allie French, travels with his gun-for-hire partner and good pal, Everett Hitch, to find her, scouring the unforgiving southwest. Finally, at a small-town brothel, the men find her, and the three head north to start anew in Brimstone. There, Virgil ...
2009; ; isbn:9780739382950 More Information |
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Cemetery dance
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
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In the wake of a brutal attack on a prominent Manhattan journalist and his wife, clues identify the assailant as a man who had been believed dead, in a case that prompts Captain Hayward, Pendergast, and D'Agosta to infiltrate a deadly cult
2009; ; isbn:9781600242656 More Information |
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