Contents

Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two of the Fifty Shades Trilogy .............................. 1

Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy .............................. 1

Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy .............................. 2

Gone Girl: A Novel .................................................................................................. 3

Where We Belong ..................................................................................................... 4

Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel ............................................................................ 5

After Life (Book Lust Rediscoveries) ..................................................................... 5

Slammed .................................................................................................................... 6

The Marriage Bargain (Marriage to a Billionaire) ............................................... 7

Our Husband ............................................................................................................ 7

Black List .................................................................................................................... 8

The Fallen Angel: A Novel ...................................................................................... 9

Point of Retreat (Slammed Series) ......................................................................... 10

Don’t Know Jack (The Hunt For Reacher Series #1) ........................................... 11

The Trinity Game ..................................................................................................... 12

Criminal: A Novel .................................................................................................... 12

A Sweethaven Summer ........................................................................................... 13

Backfire ...................................................................................................................... 14

Broken Harbor: A Novel ......................................................................................... 15

Thre Gingerbread House: Volume 1 (Hammarby) ............................................. 16

A Deadly Blessing (LAPD Detective Maddie Divine) ........................................ 16

Children of the Fog .................................................................................................. 17

A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) ........................................ 18

Gabriel’s Inferno (Gabriel’s Inferno Series) .......................................................... 18

A Scattered Life ........................................................................................................ 19

Cloud Atlas: A Novel .............................................................................................. 20

They’re Watching ..................................................................................................... 21

Nerves of Steel (Hart and Drake #1) ..................................................................... 21

Defending Jacob: A Novel ....................................................................................... 22

The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and Hight Adventure ................................................................................................................. 23

Easy ........................................................................................................................ 23

The Look of Love: The Sullivans, Book 1 .............................................................. 24

A Clash Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two .............................................. 25

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Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

Author: E. L James

Genre: Romance, Erotic

Book Description:

Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the

beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey,

Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new

career with a Seattle publishing house.

But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he

proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing

sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged,

driven and demanding Fifty Shades.

While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the

anger and envy of the women who came before her, and make the most important

decision of her life.

This book is intended for mature audiences.

Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

Author: E. L. James

Genre: Romance, Erotic

Book Description:

When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered

the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it

sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives

irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by

Christian’s singular erotic tastes, Ana demands a deeper

commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agrees.

Now, Ana and Christian have it all—love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world

of possibilities for their future. But Ana knows that loving her Fifty Shades will not

be easy, and that being together will pose challenges that neither of them would

anticipate.

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Ana must somehow learn to share Christian’s opulent lifestyle without

sacrificing her own identity. And Christian must overcome his compulsion to control

as he wrestles with the demons of a tormented past.

Just when it seems that their strength together will eclipse any obstacle,

misfortune, malice, and fate conspire to make Ana’s deepest fears turn to reality.

This book is intended for mature audiences.

Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

Author: E. L. James

Genre: Romance, Erotic

Book Description:

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview

young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who

is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly,

innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and,

despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close

to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits

he wants her, too—but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the

trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving

family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control.

When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers

Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will

obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.

This book is intended for mature audiences.

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Gone Girl: A Novel

Author: Gillian Flynn

Genre: Mystery

Book Description:

Marriage can be a real killer.

One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of

our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that

statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable

masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong.

The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her work “draws you in and keeps you reading

with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.

” Gone Girl’s toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a

nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn.

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy

Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are

being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented

McMansion on the Mississippi River.

Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy

daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's

diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge.

Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s

fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies,

deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely

bitter—but is he really a killer?

As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know

the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his

innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what

was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?

With her razor-sharp writing and trademark psychological insight, Gillian Flynn

delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark, and ingeniously plotted thriller that confirms

her status as one of the hottest writers around.

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Where We Belong

Author: Emily Giffin

Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary

Book Description:

The author of five blockbuster novels, Emily Giffin,

delivers an unforgettable story of two women, the families that

make them who they are, and the longing, loyalty and love

that binds them together.

Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in

New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced

everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be.

But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose,

an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off

forever.

From the moment Kirby appears on her doorstep, Marian’s perfectly constructed

world—and her very identity—will be shaken to its core, resurrecting ghosts and

memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten everything that has come to

define her.

For the precocious and determined Kirby, the encounter will spur a process of

discovery that ushers her across the threshold of adulthood, forcing her to re-

evaluate her family and future in a wise and bittersweet light. As the two women

embark on a journey to find the one thing missing in their lives, each will come to

recognize that where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a

place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers

forever.

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Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel

Author: Sylvia Day

Genre: Romance, Contemporary

Book Description:

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the

darkness...

He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd

never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even

knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those

cracks in me so easily...

Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors

that reflected each other's most private worlds...and desires.

The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our

pasts didn't tear us apart...

After Life (Book Lust Rediscoveries)

Author: Rhian Ellis, Nancy Pearl

Genre: Mystery

Book Description:

Naomi Ash was born in New Orleans and raised by her

mother, Patsy, a medium who schooled her young daughter

in the parlor-trick chicanery of the trade. From Naomi

recreating presences with table cloths to providing the voice

of the dead by talking through a fan, their act is part theater,

part magic, and a little too much playing with the letter of the law. Eventually they

must beat a hasty—and forced—retreat from New Orleans, relocating to Train Line,

New York.

A sleepy village founded and inhabited by others with a spiritualist bent, Train

Line is populated with card readers, table levitators, and crystal-shop owners. Low-

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rent “Psychic Faires” are held at the local Holiday Inn, and Patsy’s newest creation,

“The Mother Galina Psychic Hour,” is on the local radio station.

The town is a curious mix between old school “table rappers” and the New Age,

and it is here that Naomi comes of age, learns the trade, and falls in love. But love is

not only a many splendored thing—it can be dangerous as well. And for a young

woman caught between fraud and truth, between the world of the living and the

world of the dead, and between the secrets and lies of her youth, the past and present

will come together in a rush of truth and consequence.

Hailed as “a study of eccentricities, which rises above the merely quirky to

address those issues of life, death, memory, and love that preoccupy us all,” After Life

is a stunning first novel of extraordinary suspense and evocative imagery.

Slammed

Author: Colleen Hoover

Genre: Drama, Romance

Book Description:

SLAMMED is Colleen Hoover's New York Times best-

selling debut novel.

Amazon's #1 United States Drama and a Top Rated e-

book in Romance.

Following the unexpected death of her father, 18-year-old Layken is forced to be

the rock for both her mother and younger brother. Outwardly, she appears resilient

and tenacious, but inwardly, she's losing hope.

Enter Will Cooper: The attractive, 21-year-old new neighbor with an intriguing

passion for slams. Within days of their introduction, Will and Layken form an

intense emotional connection, leaving Layken with a renewed sense of hope.

Not long after a heart-stopping first date, they are slammed to the core when

a shocking revelation forces their new relationship to a sudden halt. Daily

interactions become impossibly painful as they struggle to find a balance between the

feelings that pull them together and the forces that tear them apart.

"There is no description that could do this book justice. Slammed is a heart-wrenching,

emotional, yet somehow humorous journey of two souls that are destined to be together,

despite the factors that stand in their way. So much more than a romance, Slammed teaches

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lessons about love, life and the soul-deep moments in between. Not to mention the

forbidden...it's oh, so good." ~Katie's Book Blog.

The Marriage Bargain (Marriage to a Billionaire)

Author: Jennifer Probst

Genre: Romance, Series, Anthologies

Book Description:

A marriage in name only...

To save her family home, impulsive bookstore owner,

Alexa Maria McKenzie, casts a love spell. But she never

planned on conjuring up her best friend's older brother—the

powerful man who once shattered her heart.

Billionaire Nicholas Ryan doesn’t believe in marriage, but in order to inherit his

father’s corporation, he needs a wife and needs one fast. When he discovers his

sister’s childhood friend is in dire financial straits, he offers Alexa a bold proposition.

A marriage in name only with certain rules: Avoid entanglement. Keep things

all business. Do not fall in love. The arrangement is only for a year so the rules

shouldn’t be that hard to follow, right?

Except fate has a way of upsetting the best-laid plans…

Our Husband

Author: Stephanie Bond

Genre: Humorous, Romance, Mystery

Book Description:

A laugh-out-loud romantic mystery!

"This is one of the best books I've read in months." -

Academic Planet

Hell hath no fury like three women

scorned... Three women from different walks of life--a

doctor, a socialite, and a stripper--find out they have one thing in common: a

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husband! When the magnanimous hubby winds up dead, the unlikely trio band

together to track down a killer, and along the way, discover a lot more than they

bargained for.

More praise for OUR HUSBAND:

"Bond's fun and frothy story keeps the plot twists coming." -Publishers Weekly

"Only another woman could understand and write a novel that brings these

three together in the worst of circumstances and make it a witty and sexy plot about

women and friendship." –Beachlife

"The story is well-written and paced, with unforgettable characters, snappy

dialogue, and plenty of plot twists and turns." -AOL Romance Fiction Forum

"Bond's memorable and heart-warming romance is funny, irreverent, and

thoroughly enjoyable." –Booklist

If you love the humor of Janet Evanovich or Mary Kay Andrews, check

out OUR HUSBAND!

Black List

Author: Brad Thor

Genre: Political, Contemporary

Book Description:

A stunning masterwork of action, intrigue, and

ingenious plot twists.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns

with his most explosive thriller ever. Somewhere deep inside

the United States government is a closely guarded list.

Members of Congress never get to see it—only the President and a secret team of

advisers. Once your name is on the list, it doesn’t come off . . . until you’re dead.

Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath’s name.

Somehow Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to

untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way.

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Somewhere, someone, somehow can put all the pieces together. The only

question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most

withering terrorist attack ever conceived?

An intense, page-turning novel that is action-packed and frighteningly real, Black

List blurs the line between fiction and reality and once again reaffirms why Brad

Thor “is arguably the best thriller writer of our time” (Suspense Magazine) and

“America’s favorite author” (KTTX).

The Fallen Angel: A Novel

Author: Daniel Silva

Genre: Thrillers, Contemporary

Book Description:

After narrowly surviving his last operation, Gabriel

Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, has taken

refuge behind the walls of the Vatican, where he is

restoring one of Caravaggio's greatest masterpieces. But

early one morning he is summoned to St. Peter's Basilica

by Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private

secretary to His Holiness Pope Paul VII.

The body of a beautiful woman lies broken beneath Michelangelo's magnificent

dome. The Vatican police suspect suicide, though Gabriel believes otherwise. So, it

seems, does Donati. But the monsignor is fearful that a public inquiry might inflict

another scandal on the Church, and so he calls upon Gabriel to quietly pursue the

truth—with one caveat.

"Rule number one at the Vatican," Donati said. "Don't ask too many questions."

Gabriel learns that the dead woman had uncovered a dangerous secret—a

secret that threatens a global criminal enterprise that is looting timeless treasures of

antiquity and selling them to the highest bidder. But there is more to this network

than just greed. A mysterious operative is plotting an act of sabotage that will plunge

the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. . . .

An intoxicating blend of art, intrigue, and history, The Fallen Angel moves swiftly

from the cloistered chambers of the Vatican to the glamorous ski slopes of St. Moritz

to the graceful avenues of Berlin and Vienna—and, finally, to a shocking climax

beneath the world's most sacred and contested parcel of land. Each setting in this

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extraordinary novel is rendered with the care of an Old Master, as are the spies,

lovers, priests, and thieves who inhabit its pages. It is a story of faith and of the

destructive power of secrets—and an all too timely reminder that those who cannot

remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Point of Retreat (Slammed Series)

Author: Colleen Hoover

Genre: Drama, Romance, Contemporary

Book Description:

The second part to the two-book New York Times

bestselling SLAMMED series, POINT OF RETREAT

delivers just as much emotional punch, if not more.

Layken and Will's relationship persevered through

hardships, heartache and a cruel twist of fate, further

solidifying that they belong together. What they don't

expect is that the very hardships which brought them together could ultimately be

what tears them apart.

Layken is left questioning the foundation on which their relationship was built.

Will is left questioning how to further prove his love for the girl he's given up so

much of his life for.

As if doubt isn't enough, the couple find themselves facing an even

greater challenge. One that could change not only their lives, but the lives of

everyone who depend on them.

"This is a truly stellar follow-up novel. I didn't think the story could get any

more amazing than it already was, but that's definitely untrue. The characters, new

and old, are quirky and full of heart. I adore them all to pieces! The story of Will

and Lake is precious and beautiful." ~Bookish Sarah

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Don't Know Jack (The Hunt For Reacher Series #1)

Author: Diane Capri

Genre: Thrillers, Legal, Suspense

Book Description:

"Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too.

Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." Lee Child,

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher

Thrillers

"Diane writes like the maestro of the jigsaw puzzle. Sit

back in your favorite easy chair, pour a glass of crisp white wine, and enter her

devilishly clever world of high skullduggery." David Hagberg, New York Times

Bestselling Author of Kirk McGarvey Thrillers

"Expertise shines on every page!" Margaret Maron, #1 New York Times

Bestselling Author of Judge Deborah Knott Mysteries

Jack Reacher: Friend or Enemy?

It's been a while since we first met Lee Child's Jack Reacher in Killing Floor.

Fifteen years and sixteen novels later, Reacher still lives off the grid, until trouble

finds him, and then he does whatever it takes, much to the delight of readers and the

dismay of villains. Now someone big is looking for him. Who? And why? Hunting

Jack Reacher is a dangerous business, as FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos

Gaspar are about to find out. Otto and Gaspar are by-the-book hunters who know

when it's necessary to break the rules, but they Don't Know Jack. Reacher is a stone

cold killer. Is he their friend or their enemy? Only the secrets hidden in Margrave,

Georgia will tell them. Is Reacher a wanted man?

Readers love Don't Know Jack!

"I "stumbled" on this title and was attracted to it as I am a Jack Reacher fan.

Loved the story and the author's writing style. Couldn't wait for more so I purchased

Annabelle's Attack and want more Jennifer Lane - please?!Fatal Distraction is also on

my Kindle to read list!"

"I have been a Reacher fan for years and was excited when I heard of Diane

Capri's take on "Finding Reacher". "Don't Know Jack" is a good companion to Child's

Reacher books and recaptures the flavor of the Reacher mystique. I am waiting

anxiously for the next book in the series and the next and the next, and so on."

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"All Child fans should give it a try!"

Grab your copy today!

The Trinity Game

Author: Sean Chercover

Genre: Thrillers, Suspense

Book Description:

Daniel Byrne is an investigator for the Vatican’s secretive

Office of the Devil’s Advocate—the department that

scrutinizes miracle claims. Over ten years and 721 cases, not

one miracle he tested has proved true. But case #722 is

different; Daniel’s estranged uncle, a crooked TV evangelist,

has started speaking in tongues—and accurately predicting the future. Daniel knows

Reverend Tim Trinity is a con man. Could Trinity also be something more?

The evangelist himself is baffled by his newfound power—and the violent

reaction it provokes. After years of scams, he suddenly has the ability to predict

everything from natural disasters to sports scores. Now the mob wants him dead for

ruining their gambling business, and the Vatican wants him debunked as a false

messiah. On the run from assassins, Trinity flees with Daniel’s help through the back

roads of the Bible Belt to New Orleans, where Trinity plans to deliver a final

prophecy so shattering his enemies will do anything to keep him silent.

Criminal: A Novel

Author: Karin Slaughter

Genre: Mystery, Suspense

Book Description:

Karin Slaughter’s new novel is an epic tale of love,

loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two

chillingly similar murder cases, and a good man’s deepest

secrets.

Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau

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of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him.

Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case

by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom

Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned

orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before—

when Will’s father was imprisoned for murder—this was his home. . . .

Flash back nearly forty years. In the summer Will Trent was born, Amanda

Wagner is going to college, making Sunday dinners for her father, taking her first

steps in the boys’ club that is the Atlanta Police Department. One of her first cases is

to investigate a brutal crime in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods. Amanda and

her partner, Evelyn, are the only ones who seem to care if an arrest is ever made.

Now the case that launched Amanda’s career has suddenly come back to life,

intertwined with the long-held mystery of Will’s birth and parentage. And these two

dauntless investigators will each need to face down demons from the past if they are

to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed.

A masterpiece of character, atmosphere, and riveting suspense, Criminal is the

most powerful and moving novel yet from one of our most gifted storytellers at work

today.

Advance praise for Criminal

“Karin Slaughter’s best yet by far: All her signature strengths are amplified a

hundredfold by the past explaining the present. Reading this book was like watching

a great athlete having a career year.”—Lee Child

“Fascinating . . . Slaughter delivers another riveting, pulse-pounding crime

novel.”—Booklist (starred review)

A Sweethaven Summer

Author: Courtney Walsh

Genre: Religious, Spiritually

Book Description:

A faded scrapbook reveals secrets that reconnect old

friends in a place called Sweethaven. Campbell Carter has

come to Sweethaven in search of answers about her mother's

history. Just before losing a battle with cancer, Suzanne Carter

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sent letters to childhood friends from her hometown of Sweethaven, Michigan.

Suzanne's three friends -- Lila, Jane, and Meghan -- haven't spoken in years, yet each

has pieces of a scrapbook they made together as girls.

Suzanne's letters have lured them all back to the idyllic lakeside town, where

they meet Campbell and begin to remember what was so special about their long

Sweethaven summers. As the scrapbook reveals secrets from the past, old wounds

are mended, lives are changed, and friendships are restored -- just as Suzanne

intended.

A Sweethaven Summer is the first book in the Sweethaven series, followed by A

Sweethaven Homecoming and A Sweethaven Christmas.

Backfire

Author: Catherine Coulter

Genre: Mystery & Thrillers

Book Description:

San Francisco Judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to

FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, is presiding

over the trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill – accused in a string

of murders – when the proceedings take a radical turn.

Federal prosecutor Mickey O'Rourke, known for his

relentless style, becomes suddenly tentative in his opening

statement, leading Hunt to suspect he’s been threatened – suspicions that are all but

confirmed when Hunt is shot in the back.

Savich and Sherlock receive news of the attack as an ominous note is delivered to

Savich at the Hoover Building: YOU DESERVE THIS FOR WHAT YOU

DID. Security tapes fail to reveal who delivered the tapes. Who is behind the

shooting of Judge Ramsey Hunt? Who sent the note to Savich? And what does it all

mean? Savich and Sherlock race to San Francisco to find out…watching their backs

all the while.

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Broken Harbor: A Novel

Author: Tana French

Genre: Mystery & Thrillers

Book Description:

The mesmerizing fourth novel of the Dublin murder

squad by New York Times bestselling author Tana French

Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy, the brash cop from Tana

French’s bestselling Faithful Place, plays by the book and plays

hard. That’s what’s made him the Murder squad’s top detective—and that’s what

puts the biggest case of the year into his hands.

On one of the half-built, half-abandoned "luxury" developments that litter

Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children are dead. His wife, Jenny, is in

intensive care.

At first, Scorcher and his rookie partner, Richie, think it’s going to be an easy

solve. But too many small things can’t be explained. The half dozen baby monitors,

their cameras pointing at holes smashed in the Spains’ walls. The files erased from

the Spains’ computer. The story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder who

was slipping past all the locks.

And Broken Harbor holds memories for Scorcher. Seeing the case on the news

sends his sister Dina off the rails again, and she’s resurrecting something that

Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family one

summer at Broken Harbor, back when they were children.

With her signature blend of police procedural and psychological thriller, French’s

new novel goes full throttle with a heinous crime, creating her most complicated

detective character and her best book yet.

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The Gingerbread House: Volume 1 (Hammarby)

Author: Carin Gerhardsen

Genre: Mystery & Thrillers

Book Description:

In a short space of time, several bestial murders occur

in central Stockholm. When criminal investigator Conny

Sjöberg and the Hammarby police begin to suspect that

there’s a link between the murders, Sjöberg goes completely

cold. There is a killer out there whose motives are very

personal, and who will not be deterred.

The Gingerbread House by Carin Gerhardsen is the first in the Hammarby

series, thrillers with taut, suspenseful plots and unexpected twists and turns. This

haunting novel explores schoolyard bullying among young children and the effect it

has on them when people look the other way.

Many of the scenes in this book are self-experienced and based on Gerhardsen’s

own childhood. Urban settings and strong portraits of authentic characters are

crafted in depth and detail, insuring the books will linger in the reader’s mind long

after the finish.

The Gingerbread House is written in the same tradition as the Sjöwall / Wahlöö

crime novels, and has been described as a book version of the tv series The Wire. It is

not only published by the same publisher as Stieg Larsson’s The Millennium Trilogy,

but by the same editorial team.

A Deadly Blessing (LAPD Detective Maddie Divine)

Author: Kathy Bennett

Genre: Mystery, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths

Book Description:

The critically ill daughter of the governor of California

has been kidnapped. LAPD Detective Maddie Divine is

assigned to find her before it’s too late. But this high-

profile case comes with secrets on every side: cops,

politicians, even the innocent.

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Maddie Divine: Her marriage hangs by a thread, her SWAT-officer husband has

lost it, and almost as bad, she can’t trust her detective partner.

Travis Divine: After the death of a SWAT teammate, he’s a shell of the man he

used to be. He’s lost touch with his work, his wife and occasionally even reality. Can

he regain the warrior mentality needed to support Maddie and do his job?

Preston Truesdale: The California governor’s daughter has gone missing, and so

has her only bone marrow donor. Is it coincidence or something more sinister?

Pilar Luna: The mayor of Los Angeles is a media favorite, and she plays Preston

like a Vegas pro would play a Midwestern farmboy…all in hopes of reaching the

White House. Will she hit the jackpot?

Tiffany Truesdale: The brainiac teenager evaded her security team to spend a

night on the town with her girlfriends, but can she outwit the man who kidnapped

her before time runs out?

A Deadly Blessing is a lightning-paced story of suspense that will keep readers on

edge from beginning to end.

Author's Note: This book contains commonly used street language.

Children of the Fog

Author: Chery Kaye Tardif

Genre: Horror, Occult, Suspense

Book Description:

YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO MAKE A DECISION:

Let A Kidnapper Take Your Child, Or Watch Your Son

Die.

Choose!

Sadie O'Connell is a bestselling author and a proud mother. But her life is about

to spiral out of control. After her six-year-old son Sam is kidnapped by a serial

abductor, she nearly goes insane. But it isn't just the fear and grief that is ripping her

apart. It's the guilt. Sadie is the only person who knows what the kidnapper looks

like. And she can't tell a soul. For if she does, her son will be sent back to her in "little

bloody pieces".

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When Sadie's unfaithful husband stumbles across her drawing of the

kidnapper, he sets into play a series of horrific events that sends her hurtling over the

edge. Sadie's descent into alcoholism leads to strange apparitions and a face-to-face

encounter with the monster who abducted her son--a man known only as...The Fog.

A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy)

Author: Deborah Harkness

Genre: Fantasy, Epic, Romance, Vampire

Book Description:

"A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with

all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight."

-People

In a sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches became the

"it" book of early 2011, bringing Deborah Harkness into the

spotlight and galvanizing fans around the world.

In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and the

descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript

deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical

underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew

Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana

Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting

story of magic and suspense.

Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno Series)

Author: Sylvain Reynard

Genre: Romance, Contemporary

Book Description:

USA TODAY BEST-SELLER!

“Gabriel’s Inferno” -- semi-finalist for Best Romance in the

2011 Goodreads Choice Awards

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“This is not only one of the best debut books this year, but Reynard is one of the

best new authors this year. 5 stars.” – Donna of Offbeat Vagabond

"It’s not very often that I am left so affected by a book, but this one took me on a

roller coaster ride of emotions … This novel is thought provoking, entertaining and

beautiful. 5 stars.” - Nix of Scorching Book Reviews

“This is one of the most romantic and sensual stories I have read ...the words he

writes will sing to you. 5 stars.” - JJ of JJ iReads

“I was seduced, entranced, and completely satisfied ...The narrator, and its

characters were equally charming and sinful. 5 stars.” - Tigris Eden’s Garden of

Books

Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante

specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure.

He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim,

but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he

is beyond all hope of redemption.

When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his

attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends

him on a journey in which his past and his present collide.

An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love and

redemption, “Gabriel's Inferno” is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one

man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the

impossible...forgiveness and love.

A Scattered Life

Author: Karen McQuestion

Genre: Women’s Fiction, Domestic Life, Friendship

Book Description:

“Most people have everything they need to be happy.” The words

latched onto some part of Skyla’s brain. She repeated the phrase to

herself while she rang up books and stocked shelves. It had a certain

resonance to it, but she doubted it was true.

Free-spirit Skyla Plinka has found the love and stability she always wanted in

her reliable husband Thomas. Settling into her new family and roles as wife and

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mother, life in rural Wisconsin is satisfying, but can’t seem to quell Skyla’s growing

sense of restlessness. Her only reprieve is her growing friendship with neighbor

Roxanne, who has five kids (and counting) and a life in constant disarray – but also a

life filled with laughter and love.

Much to the dismay of her intrusive mother-in-law, Audrey, Skyla takes a part-

time job at the local bookstore and slowly begins to rediscover her voice,

independence and confidence. Throughout one pivotal year in the life of Skyla,

Audrey and Roxanne, all three very different women will learn what it means to love

unconditionally.

With the storytelling ingenuity of Anne Tyler, the writing talent of Jodi Picoult,

and the subtlty of Alice Munro, McQuestion offers a satisfying debut that proves she

is a gifted portraitist, a natural storyteller and an author to watch.

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

Author: David Mitchell

Genre: Fantasy, Epic, Historical

Book Description:

From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-

winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s

“Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly

anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination

and scope.

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging

a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in

Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a

genetically modified “dinery server” on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific

Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud

Atlas hear each other’s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are

changed in ways great and small.

In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language,

genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity’ s dangerous will to power, and

where it may lead us.

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They're Watching

Author: Gregg Hurwitz

Genre: Mystery & Thrillers

Book Description:

“Riveting, emotionally rich, original, and beautifully

written, this book kept me up too late reading, had me

sneaking in pages the next day. They’re Watching reminded

me what it’s like to be in the thrall of a great story: helpless

until the end, loving every minute of it.”—Lisa Unger, New

York Times bestselling author of Die for You

Patrick Davis is a man with troubles. First his Hollywood dreams crumble and

then his storybook marriage hits a snag. Now, DVDs start being delivered to his

house—DVDs which show that someone is watching him and his wife, that the two

of them are being stalked and recorded by cameras hidden in their house. Then the e-

mails start, and someone offers to fix everything, to take the mess his life has become

and make it all right. Patrick figures it’s the offer of a lifetime.

But Patrick couldn’t be more wrong. With every step he falls deeper into a web of

intrigue that threatens everything he values in this world. Before he knows it, he’s in

and in deep—and his only escape is to outwit and outplay his unseen opponents at

their own game.

Nerves of Steel (Hart and Drake #1)

Author: CJ Lyons

Genre: Romance, Medical

Book Description:

"A perfect blend of romance and suspense. My kind of

read." -#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra

Brown

Dr. Cassandra Hart is fighting a war. And losing. A

deadly drug epidemic, a killer stalking her hospital...meet

the ER doctor who never gives up.

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Cassie's Pittsburgh ER has been deluged by young patients who have overdosed

on a new drug, FX. After Cassie discovers that the source of the FX on the streets is

her own hospital, her best friend is killed, and Cassie's life is threatened. She is forced

to place her trust in Detective Mickey Drake.

Drake's irascible charm eventually penetrates the barriers Cassie has built around

herself, and their relationship progresses from professional to passionate. After

Cassie discovers the truth behind the thefts, she and Drake must confront a killer. In

the end, their only weapons are their new-found love and the courage it gives them.

Written by a pediatric ER physician, NERVES OF STEEL combines gritty realism

with the adrenalin rush of the ER. New York Times Bestseller CJ Lyons uses her

insider's knowledge of life behind the scenes to reveal the hidden truth of the

medical world: No one is immune to danger.

Defending Jacob: A Novel

Author: William Landay

Genre: Psychological Thrillers

Book Description:

Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in

his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty

years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the

courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and

son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New

England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son

is charged with the murder of a fellow student.

Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is

innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He’s his father. But as damning facts

and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial

intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will

face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation,

between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.

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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

Author: William Goldman

Genre: Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Romance, Historical

Book Description:

William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple,

exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge,

power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and

timeless.

Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it

impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess

Bride with anything other than the sweet, celluloid romance of Westley and

Buttercup, but the film is only a fraction of the ingenious storytelling you'll find in

these pages.

Rich in character and satire, the novel is set in 1941 and framed cleverly as an

“abridged” retelling of a centuries-old tale set in the fabled country of Florin that's

home to “Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward

men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions.”

Easy

Author: Tammara Webber

Genre: Love & Romance

Book Description:

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A girl who believes trust can be misplaced, promises are made

to be broken, and loyalty is an illusion. A boy who believes truth

is relative, lies can mask unbearable pain, and guilt is eternal.

Will what they find in each other validate their conclusions, or

disprove them all?

When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the

last thing she expects is a breakup two months into sophomore year. After two

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weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she's single, attending a state

university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends,

and failing a class for the first time in her life.

Leaving a party alone, Jacqueline is assaulted by her ex's frat brother. Rescued by

a stranger who seems to be in the right place at the right time, she wants nothing

more than to forget the attack and that night--but her savior, Lucas, sits on the back

row of her econ class, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. Her friends

nominate him to be the perfect rebound.

When her attacker turns stalker, Jacqueline has a choice: crumple in defeat or

learn to fight back. Lucas remains protective, but he's hiding secrets of his own.

Suddenly appearances are everything, and knowing who to trust is anything but

easy.

(Mature Young Adult/ New Adult)

The Look of Love: The Sullivans, Book 1

Author: Bella Andre

Genre: Women’s Fiction, Romance, Contemporary

Book Description:

Chloe Peterson is having a bad night. A really

bad night. The large bruise on her cheek can attest

to that. And when her car skids off the side of a wet

country road straight into a ditch, she’s convinced

even the gorgeous guy who rescues her in the

middle of the rain storm must be too good to be

true. Or is he?

As a successful photographer who frequently travels around the world, Chase

Sullivan has his pick of beautiful women, and whenever he’s home in San Francisco,

one of his seven siblings is usually up for causing a little fun trouble. Chase thinks

his life is great just as it is—until the night he finds Chloe and her totaled car on the

side of the road in Napa Valley. Not only has he never met anyone so lovely, both

inside and out, but he quickly realizes she has much bigger problems than her

damaged car. Soon, he is willing to move mountains to love—and protect—her, but

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will she let him?

Chloe vows never to make the mistake of trusting a man again. Only, with every

loving look Chase gives her—and every sinfully sweet caress—as the attraction

between them sparks and sizzles, she can’t help but wonder if she’s met the only

exception. And although Chase didn’t realize his life was going to change forever in

an instant, amazingly, he isn’t the least bit interested in fighting that change. Instead,

he’s gearing up for a different fight altogether…for Chloe’s heart.

(CAUTION: Explicit language, very steamy love scenes...and lots of emotion!)

A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two

Author: George R. R. Martin

Genre: Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Book Description:

In this thrilling sequel to A Game of Thrones, George

R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision,

power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us

to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and

warfare unlike any we have ever experienced.

A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across

the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to

the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a

divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their

claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against

brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an

orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and

wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside.

Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to

the men and women possessed of the coldest steel . . . and the coldest hearts. For

when kings clash, the whole land trembles.