Great Christmas Reads!

This is my favorite time of year!  I absolutely love it when cold weather starts rolling in, snow starts falling and the smell of cookies baking in the oven fills the air.  I can't help it, I love all things Christmas!  So with that in mind here are some great Christmas feel good stories.   

So sit down by the fire on a comfy chair and snuggle in for a great story. Remember children love to have a grown up read them a story so I have also included some of my favorite holiday classics.

Great Holiday Reads

The Immortal Nicholas by Glen Beck
The Christmas Joy Ride by Melody Carlson
Christmas Bells: A Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem by Lori Copeland
The Mistletoe Inn by Richard Paul Evans
The Gift of a Charm by Melissa Hill
Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand
Falling Like Snowflakes by Denise Hunter
Marry Me At Christmas by Susan Mallery
A Knight's Bridge Christmas by Carla Neggers
A Christmas Escape by Anne Perry
All He Wants for Christmas by Lisa Plumley
The Last Chance Christmas Ball by Mary Jo Putney
A Christmas Prayer by Kimberly Lawson Roby
Grace by Shelley Shepard Gray
Cape Light Together for Christmas by Katherine Spencer
An Island Christmas by Nancy Thayer

Classics

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Twas the Night Before Christmas
The Pine Tree Parable by Liz Curtis
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Elves and the Shoemaker by Brothers Grimm
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

Native American Heritage Month 2015--Mystery Series Part 1

November was Native American Heritage month and to help honor Native American literature, we are highlighting mystery series.  The following contain a Native American protagonist and/or are written by a Native American author.  These books are as unique as the many tribes and nations in North America plus some of the best mysteries around.  So if you like history, action, and interesting and quirky characters, try these great series!

Sandi Ault--Wild Indigo--Jamaica Wild is a Pueblo Indian and Bureau of Land Management agent in New Mexico.

Peter Bowen--Coyote Wind--Gabriel Du Pre' is a Metis' cattle inspector in Montana.

Lu Clifton--Scalp Dance--Lt. Sam Chitto works for the Choctaw Nation Tribal Police in Oklahoma.  This is a new series.

Margaret Coel--The Eagle Catcher--Vicky Holden is an Arapaho attorney on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.

Priscilla Cogan--Winona's Web--Winona Pathfinder is a Lakota medicine woman--she lives on the Leelanau Pennisula along Lake Michigan.

James D. Doss--The Shaman Sings--Charlie Moon is a Ute Tribal Police investigator in Granite Creek, Colorado.

Kathleen O'Neal Gear--The Visitant--Browser is a 13th century Anasazi war chief in the Chaco Canyon area of New Mexico.

Hartley GoodWeather (aka Thomas King)--Dreadful Water Shows Up--Thumps DreadfulWater is a Cherokee photographer in Chinook, Montana.

Tony Hillerman--The Blessing Way--Lt. Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee are Navajo Tribal Police in Arizona and New Mexico.

Anne Hillerman--Spider Women's Daughter--she is continuing her father Tony's series.

Micah S. Hackler--Legend of the Dead--Part Navajo Gabe Hanna is a deputy in the Sheriff Cliff Lansing mysteries.

Jean Hager--The Grandfather Medicine--Mitch Bushyhead is a Cherokee police chief of Buckskin, Oklahoma.

Jean Hager--Ravenmocker--Molly Bearpaw is a half Cherokee Civil Rights investigator in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Sara Sue Hoklotubbe--Deception On All Accounts--Sadie Walela is a Cherokee banker in North East Oklahoma.

The rest of this list will continue in a couple of weeks.

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December's In the Queue

This month's In the Queue has fantastic thrillers, hilarious reads and even books that will make you think. There's sure to be a great book just waiting for you once you get in the queue.

Fiction

The Relic Master: A Novel by Christopher Buckley
A compelling and hilarious adventure which features a sixteenth-century relic hunter and his best friend, who conspire to forge the Shroud of Turin.

The Hunting Trip by W. E. Butterworth
From the best selling author of the W.E.B. Griffin novels comes a rollicking story of love, war and adventure.

Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves
This gripping new novel explores what happens when a community closes ranks to protect their own, and at what point silent witnesses become complicit.

Warriors of the Storm by Bernard Cornwell
The epic saga of the making of England, magnificently brought to life by the reigning king of historical fiction.

Dictator by Robert Harris
In Robert Harris's indelible portrait, Cicero becomes a hero-brilliant, flawed, frequently fearful yet ultimately brave-both for his own time and for ours.

Time of Departure by Douglas Schofield
Full of spellbinding twists, Time of Departure will appeal not only to thriller aficionados, but to readers who appreciate a strong female lead and a compelling love story.

Forty Thieves by Thomas Perry
Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins for hire. The two couples meet on opposing sides of a murder investigation. The Abel's lives become at risk the closer they get to the truth. 

New Books by Best Selling Authors

The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster
The Bitter Season by Tami Hoag
Orphan X by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Breakdown: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman
Ashley Bell: A Novel by Dean Koontz
Feverborn by Karen Marie Moning
Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin
The Bone Labyrinth by James Rollins
The First Hostage by Joel C. Rosenberg
Blue: a Novel by Danielle Steel
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
The Forgotten Soldier by Brad Taylor


Non Fiction 
Maggie Smith: A Biography  by Michael Coveney
No one does glamour, severity or tight-lipped charm better than Dame Maggie Smith. This biography, written with Maggie's consent, spans six decades and paints a portrait of an amazing actress.

Power Words: What You Say Can Change Your Life by Joyce Meyer
Learn to wield God's powerful word with positive speaking to help you overcome everyday problems and change your life.

Fresh Start: God's Invitation by Joel Osteen
Osteen provides practical insight and encouragement to help readers form a new beginning with God. Learn m ore about yourself, God and fulfill your own destiny after reading this book.

The Girl Who Slept with God

Relationships can be difficult to navigate. Whether we are talking about the relationships we choose or the ones we are born into, each carries a unique set of problems and issues. Val Brelinski’s debut novel, The Girl Who Slept with God, tells the story of Jory Quanbeck as she struggles to grow up in Idaho in 1970 and the events that lead to the creation and dissolution of some of her most important relationships.

Jory is the middle of three sisters in a strict, evangelical family. She is outspoken and strong-willed compared to her sisters. However, it isn’t Jory who causes the biggest uproar in her family. Her very devout older sister Grace goes on a mission trip to Mexico only to return home early… and pregnant. Grace insists the child is God’s baby—an angel baby. Not wanting to risk public embarrassment, the girls’ father purchases a remote farmhouse and shuttles Jory and Grace off to live alone out of the public eye.

In the midst of all this family mayhem, an ice cream man named Grip enters Jory’s life. Grip is an older man who befriends Jory when Grace is in Mexico, then continues to be her lifeline after the move to the farm. Grip shields his personal life from Jory, but manages to insinuate himself into the lives of the girls in very personal ways. In addition to Grip, Jory befriends Mrs. Kleinfelter, the only neighbor and the sister of the previous inhabitant of the home Jory’s father purchases for the girls. Without meaning to, Mrs. Kleinfelter becomes a very strong influence in Jory’s life. She cares for the girls who have practically been abandoned and helps Jory acclimate to the public school she is suddenly dumped in after only attending Christian school.

In a time in Jory’s life when survival seems questionable, the relationships she creates will ultimately be what save her and help her to understand the needs of others and her deeper family relationship. 

Lovey: A Very Special Child

I found an unexpected reading treasure this week in Lovey: A Very Special Child. This is a true story written in 1976 about Mary MacCracken, a special education teacher, and her students.  Lovey tells the story of Hannah, a child who is fat, dirty and behavior-ridden.  No school wants to keep her. No child wants to play with her, and Hannah seems unable to speak. She yells, cries and acts out, but she does not speak.

Mary is not excited about having Hannah in her class. She has three other students who are on their way to being well adjusted. Hannah is another matter altogether. Mary isn't sure where to begin to help Hannah. Mary is a teacher who has no official certification, but she has worked as a teacher for six years. Her experience allows her to find Lovey, the child who is hidden under Hannah’s anger, loneliness and fear. Once Mary finds Lovey, she works to help her reach her full potential.

I firmly believe every teacher needs to read this beautiful story.  Hannah's new life begins when she tells her teacher: "Call me Lovey... nobody say that before." Mary MacCracken reaches Lovey with her unconditional love, her determination to make a difference and her inability to take "no" for an answer.

Mary, although an unofficial teacher, finds a way to reach Lovey and gives his child the possibility to reach her full potential and offers her something she never had before, hope. 


I wish that all teachers had Mary's wonderful ability and compassion.  For those of you who possess this talent, my hat is off to you.  Thanks for helping our children become the people they are meant to be.

If you are a teacher or know a teacher, please make time to read this book. 

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickson

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickson

Any summary I try to write cannot do justice the layered intricacy that is Baru Cormorant. It is a story of individuals struggling against the might of nations, done in a refreshing way. It is a fantasy novel without dragons, magic, or even anything more odd that a foreign currency. There is but one large battle and eventually, you realize even that was just secondary to other movements that were going on.

The story follows the titular Bar Cormorant as a young girl on the island of Taranoke who loves to tally the birds and the stars. But with the trade winds comes the Empire of Masks from Falcrest. The Masquerade conquers using economy and rules, progress and lies. They rename things and outlaw local customs and turn the people into good servants of the empire. Baru watches as her islands way of life is destroyed, as one of her fathers is murdered and he people devastated by plague. She realizes that she hates the Empire of Masks and that it cannot be destroyed from the outside. Once she is identified as a prodigy and a savant with numbers and is groomed to be integrated into the highest rungs of the Masquerade’s power, she sees her chance to end the Masquerade from within. In order to help her people, she must cover her hate and tackle the Empire’s test, bringing order to the rebellious Aurdwynn nation. It is a land full of shifting loyalties, sedition, rebels, and treachery. Baru must find a way to rule this unrulable country in the name of an empire she hates.

Baru Cormorant is an amazing, layered story, well-crafted and well plotted out. Despite the fantasy setting, her struggles generate empathy and she develops from a simple, very smart girl into a richly complex character that, despite her flaws, you find tourself rooting for, to the very end.

On a side note, I am perfectly willing to trust anything that is blurbed by Kameron Hurley as being “Smart. Brutal”, and I have to say, I was not disappointed. 

November's In the Queue

November's In the Queue is filled with thrillers, magic, and a touch of the dramatic! Sit back and relax with these great novels.  

Fiction
The Japanese Lover: A Novel by Isabelle Allende
This is the impossible romance which bloomed between a Polish World War II survivor and a Japanese gardener's son. Theirs is a forbidden love after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Decades later, Alma's caregiver discovers love letters which span seventy years. Then she investigates this forbidden love. 

Bohemian Gospel by Dana Chamblee Carpenter
Thirteenth century Bohemia is a dangerous place for a young woman. Especially if you are as odd as Mouse.  This gripping and remarkable debut novel is the story of Mouse's quest to uncover her past and find her destiny with the help of King Ottakar.


New Books by Best-Selling Authors

The Guest Room: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
House of the Rising Son: a Novel by James Lee Burke
The Promise: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel by Craig Crais
The Pharaoh's Secret: A Novel by Clive Cussler
The Mistletoe Inn: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans
Commander-in-Chief by Mark Greaney
Avenue of Mysteries: A Novel by John Irving
Born of Betrayal by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Secret Sisters by Jayne Anne Krentz
After She's Gone by Lisa Jackson
Private Paris by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
A Christmas Escape by Anne Perry
See Me by Nicholas Sparks
Scandalous Behavior by Stuart Woods

Non-Fiction

Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship by Daniel de Vise
Features extensive unpublished interviews with those closest to these two men and a powerful biography that celebrates the real-life friendship between Andy Griffiths and Don Knotts.

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade
This pop-history narrative tells of a lesser known confrontation between the third president of the United States and Pasha, the Tripoli pirate who challenged his authority by attacking American ships.

But Enough About Me by Burt Reynolds
A no-holds-barred memoir that traces one of America's favorite actors from adolescence and the accident that led to his acting career.

Spy Thrillers Part Two

Last month we celebrated spy novelist John le Carre's 84th birthday by highlighting some classic novels and intriguing female spies.  This week we will be focusing on some historical novels and some more modern and tech-savvy spies.

Adam Brookes--Night Heron introduces us to journalist Philip Mangan who becomes entangled in a British Secret Intelligence Service operation--the latest is Spy Games.

Richard A. Clarke--the author is a notable counter-terrorism expert and brings this experience to his novels.  His newest is Pinnacle Event. Also, try The Sting of the Drone.

Jeremy Duns--Free Agent is the first in the historical Paul Dark series.  Paul Dark is a MI-6 double agent.

Alan Furst--Midnight in Europe is the latest in the Night Soldiers series--he writes some of the best historical novels out there with just a touch a romance.

Terry Hayes--a former journalist and a longtime screenwriter, the author thrills us with I Am Pilgrim--in which a retired CIA spy connects a murder mystery with a possible biological nightmare in the U. S.

Mischa Hiller--Shake Off--romance, action, where Middle East meets West--his latest is Disengaged--a small software company is caught between Israeli and Iranian intelligence.

Joseph Kanon--from war-torn Europe to McCarthy-era America, his historical novels will keep you on the edge of your seat.  Leaving Berlin is his latest.

Charles McCarry--considered by many to be the best modern spy author--try his two latest Shanghai Factor and The Mulberry Bush--or start with The Miernik Dossier, the first in his Paul Christopher series.

James McGee--The Blooding is the latest in the Matthew Hawkwood series--start with Ratcatcher--Hawkwood is a British spy in 1812 Albany, NY trying to get to Canada.

Do you have a favorite spy?

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The Sparrow Sisters: An Amazing Debut Novel

Prepare to fall in love with the Sparrow sisters and the town that loves them. The Sparrow family is as much a part of Granite Point, Cape Cod as the sand that fills the beach.  The Sparrow sisters each possess a special gift that has benefited the entire town. Patience's gift is especially beneficial. She knows how to heal people just by looking at them. She knows what plants to use to make them better.  Henry Carlyle is the new doctor in town and does not believe in these 'folk remedies' and is determined to make Patience stop. When the townspeople tell him in no uncertain terms to leave the Sparrow sisters alone, especially Patience. He knows he should listen, but he does not seem able to stop himself from confronting her.  When he learns she is aiding an autistic child when the father forgets to give his son his medication he gets angry.  He talks with Patience and realizes she has not been causing the child harm. At least he believes this until Matty dies unexpectedly. 

As the boy's drunken father's rantings turn the town against the Sparrow's. The town becomes besieged by terrible weather and Granite Point begins to fall apart. Can the Nettie and Sorrel do anything to save the town and their beloved sister?  Is there a chance for Patience and her sister's to find love and happiness?  Well you'll just have to read this mesmerizing tale to find out.  A fantastic debut novel you won't want to miss. It's filled with hints of magic, love, loss and sacrifice. A beautifully written story that if you are like me and like a bit of romance with a mixture of the unexplained and magical you will love this book. I cannot wait for Ellen Herrick to write another novel with a focus perhaps on Nettie or Sorrel. Either one or better yet both!  

Fates and Furies: A National Book Award Finalist

Lauren Groff’s third novel, Fates and Furies, is making headlines. Just released in September, this book has caught the attention of several reviewers and was recently announced as a finalist for the National Book Awards.

Groff’s novel tells the epic love and marriage of Mathilde and Lotto. The story is very much their own and doesn’t claim to be the typical marriage. Lotto, from the time of birth, has been gifted with money, charisma, and passion—an artist’s fuel. Mathilde is more mysterious. Her life seems to be a void as we see her through Lotto’s eyes in the first half of the book. She is good and Lotto is unworthy, as he perceives it. The second half of the book is the same story, but from Mathilde’s perspective and not at all the same story in the end. Mathilde is much more complex than Lotto ever knew.

The book is compulsively readable. Groff’s writing is beautiful, just as the reviews state. However, I struggled with the story for the entire first part of the book. It felt contrived and predictable. I had that “this has all been done before” feeling, but when I moved over to Mathilde’s perspective things changed drastically. Perhaps it was just Lotto who was predictable, but Mathilde was the grease that allowed his predictability to stay in motion through sacrifice and strong will. After initially feeling deceived by reviewers, I started to feel like I needed to read the book again. And take notes. Lots of notes. There’s more to the book than you initially expect. 

The National Book Awards will be announced on November 18th. 

Happy Birthday John Le Carre'--The Espionage Thriller Master

Monday was spy master novelist John le Carre's 84th birthday.  In the exact opposite of Ian Fleming's James Bond character, le Carre's spies are world-weary, grizzled veterans.  Even though the spy thriller has changed from mostly English, male authors writing about the Cold War, John le Carre' is still popular and still relevant to today's readers. His The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is considered by many to be the greatest spy novel ever written.  He has reinvented his novels over the last 40 plus years and brought them into the 21st century, most recently with A Delicate Truth, featuring jihadist terrorists.  So, to honor this fantastic author, we will be highlighting spy thrillers for the next few weeks.  This week we will be focusing on the classics and female authors and spies.

The Classics

Len Deighton--The Ipcress File--number one in the Harry Palmer series--cool sixties spy.

Ian Fleming--Casino Royale--First in the James Bond series--dashing British agent.

Frederick Forsyth--The Kill List--latest stand-alone features an American agent.

Graham Greene--Our Man in Havana--MI6 operative in Cuba.

John le Carre'--The Spy Who Came in from the Cold--Alec Leamas is a British agent in early Cold War Berlin.

The Ladies

Charles Cumming--A Foreign Country--number one in the Amelia Levene series--head of British Intelligence--latest is A Colder War.

Gayle Lynds--Masquerade--number one in the Liz Sansborough series--CIA operative--latest is a stand-alone The Assassins.

Jason Matthews--Red Sparrow--number one in the Dominika Egorova series--Russian agent--latest is Palace of Treason.

Charlie Newton--Traitor's Gate--a pre-WWII historical thriller featuring Saba, an idealistic Palestinian woman and Eddie, an American chemical engineer.

Stella Rimington--At Risk--number one in the Liz Carlyle series--British MI5 operative--latest is Close Call.  The author is a former head of MI5.

Olen Steinhauer--The Cairo Affair--a stand-alone featuring Sophie, a murdered diplomat's wife in Egypt--latest is All the Old Knives--a stand-alone featuring Celia, a former CIA agent.

Elizabeth Wein--Code Name Verity--a British POW is forced by the Gestapo to write about her plane crash and her country's war plans. A fantastic young adult book that also appeals to adults.

Who is your favorite espionage author?

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Finders Keepers

When we last left retired detective Bill Hodges and his friends Jerome Robinson and Holly Gibney in Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes, they’d just put the wraps on murderous nutjob Brady Hartsfield (a.k.a., the Mercedes Killer), preventing him from detonating a bomb (and himself in the process) at a music concert. Despite suffering a heart attack during the final pages of Mr. Mercedes, Hodges recovers with a new outlook on life and opens his own private detective agency, which brings us to the second book in the Bill Hodges Trilogy, appropriately titled Finders Keepers. This one involves the thirty-year-old unsolved murder of famed (and reclusive) writer John Rothstein, author of the famous Runner trilogy, at the hands of his number-one fan, Morris Bellamy. That’s not a spoiler, by the way, as this crime takes place in the first chapter. No, it’s the long-reaching consequences of this crime that drive the plot of Finder Keepers.

See, Mr. Bellamy not only got away with murder (he was incarcerated for something else, mind you), he also got away with some very extremely valuable items filched from Rothstein’s house, items a collector would pay a fortune for. Unfortunately, decades after Bellamy stashed them near the house he grew up in, a good kid named Pete Saubers (now living in that same house) stumbles upon their hiding place and seizes an opportunity to help his struggling family out of a rough spot. But with Bellamy recently released from prison, it’s only a matter a time before the rabid old wolf comes sniffing around his hidey hole, and when he discovers his ill-gotten gains missing, he won’t stop until he finds them, no matter who he has to kill to reclaim them.

Unless Hodges can stop him first.

Just like Mr. Mercedes before it, Finders Keepers is the kind of wild ride only Stephen King can give you. I enjoyed this book immensely, and I loved the slapstick chemistry between Hodges, Jerome, and Holly as they worked together to stop Bellamy. My only criticism would be that it was sometimes frustrating waiting for Hodges and the gang to catch up with what’s already been revealed to the reader, but that aside, the story—particularly Bellamy’s backstory—makes for some serious page turning. And, King lays out a few unsettling hints (of the supernatural variety) about what to expect in book 3 of the Bill Hodges Trilogy. Next summer can’t get here soon enough. 

2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist

Among the many prestigious literary awards is the Man Book Prize for Fiction. The Man Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, began in 1968. The prize recognizes the best novel of the year, written in English, and published in the U.K. When it began, only Commonwealth, Irish, and Zimbabwean citizens were eligible to win the prize. In 2013, the eligibility changed to any book in the English language. Winners of the prize, even nominees, tend to rocket toward literary stardom. For this reason, it is a highly sought after literary prize. Some even think it is the most important for an authorial career.

On October 13^th, the new Man Book Prize winner will be announced. This year’s nominees are powerhouses of literary ambition and talent, per usual. One of the best places to look for additions to your to-be-read pile is on the long and short lists of nominees for virtually any literary prize. For your reading pleasure, here is the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 Short List:

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Marlon created a fictionalized account of an assassination attempt on Bob Marley in the midst of political turmoil in Jamaica. Described as “delightfully profane” and “a wild ride.”

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life is a depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. 

Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

An unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world--modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in.

The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

Through the story of a family, Obioma creates a personal story that mirrors the larger social and political tensions in Africa

The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota

An unlikely family created from a group of 13 men in flight from India.

For more information about the Man Book Prize for Fiction, including the announcement of the winner on October 13th, please visit http://themanbookerprize.com/. Happy reading!

October's In The Queue

Great titles from October's In the Queue!

Fiction
Christmas Bells: A Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
This wondrous novel was inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poem,
"Christmas Bells." This is a resonant and heartfelt novel that reminds readers to have faith and look for the good especially during times of hardship. 

Host by Robin Cook
This is an explosive medical thriller. When Lynn Peirce's boyfriend dies after routine surgery, she investigates. She discovers the truth is far worse than medical malpractice.

City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Hallberg's  debut novel is an unforgettable about love, betrayal and forgiveness and reminds us what makes life worth living in the first place. This is  a compelling mystery and a literary masterpiece.

The Theory of Death by Faye Kellerman
Peter Decker's quiet new job in upstate New York takes a dangerous turn when a man's naked body is found in the woods. Peter joins forces with his former colleague turned law student, Tyler McAdams, to uncover the truth.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin
Readers learn more about a poor knight named Duncan and a gallant squire called Egg, who will one day be known as King Aegon V the Unlikely, in three novellas that take place 90 years before Game of Thrones.

Fancy Dancer by Fern Michaels
A powerful and poignant story of love, redemption and family secrets.

The Lake House by Kate Morton
Alice Edevane's baby sister vanishes without a trace. Decades later, Detective Sadie Sparrow happens upon the crumbling estate. what she finds sets off a series of events and reveals shocking truths about the past.

Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
A spectacular psychological thriller, a story of obsession, instability, blackmail, murder and one man's life unraveling as his choices lead to his demise.

New Books by Best Selling Authors
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
The Guilty by David Baldacci
The Crossing by Michael Connelly
Depraved Heart by  Patricia cornwell
Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
The Golem of Paris by Jonathan Kellerman
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
Dashing Through the Snow by Debbie Macomber
Cross Justice by James Patterson
Crimson Shore by Douglas Preston & Lincoln child
See Me by Nicholas Sparks
Precious Gifts by  Danielle Steel

Nonfiction
Whoopi's Big Book of Relationships by Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi speaks openly about why marriage isn't for everyone, and how what's most important is understanding who you are and what makes you happy.

Choosing Hope by Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis
A former first-grade teacher's heartfelt account of how she survived the Sand Hook Elementary School massacre and its aftermath.

The Witches-Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
The Witches is Pulitzer Prize winning author, Stacy Schiff's account of the first great American mystery fully unveiled for the first time. This well documented narrative is extensive and looks at many new sides of the Salem witchcraft trials.