With Trouble in Queenstown, Delia Pitts introduces private investigator Vandy Myrick in a powerful mystery that blends grief, class, race, and family with thrilling results.Evander "Vandy" Myrick became a cop to fulfill her father's expectations. After her world cratered, she became a private eye to satisfy her own. Now she's back in Queenstown, New Jersey, her childhood home, in search of solace and recovery. It's a small community of nine thousand souls crammed into twelve square miles, fenced by cornfields, warehouses, pharma labs, and tract housing. As a Black woman, privacy is hard to come by in "Q-Town," and worth guarding.For Vandy, that means working plenty of divorce cases. They're nasty, lucrative, and fun in an unwholesome way. To keep the cash flowing and expand her local contacts, Vandy agrees to take on a new client, the mayor's nephew, Leo Hannah. Leo wants Vandy to tail his wife to uncover evidence for a divorce suit.At first the...

"The Mighty Barbarian Swordsman set out to destroy his most deadly adversary--a beautiful sorceress with all the Powers of Darkness at her command."Kothar the Cumberian. With a name like that you might suspect that this character is a Conan knockoff. Well, in this case, if you thought that, you would pretty much suspect-o correct-o. He leads a defensive force against an invading wizard and narrowly loses. One difference is that he has a magic sword. A lich offers it to him to use to save the queen whose army has just been destroyed. He'd rather keep the sword than have the princedom she offers him for rescuing her wizard. He also gets paid to go treasure hunting, and finds a minotaur, and deals with a witch woman in a wood, and actually gets to go sword to sword with a sorcerous baron.

Our Hiroshima-based spirit hunting team faces a ghostly grudge more vicious than ever before... When the Abnormal Disaster Unit receives a call for backup from a neighboring town, they send Misato, Ryouji, and Hirose as a party of three to respond. The overview of the case is simple: A haunted kagura mask has disappeared. To deduce the mystery, they turn to Yukiko—a college student researching Hiroshima-style kagura dance. However, when a suspicious man wearing the missing mask attacks Yukiko’s father, the police get involved. Thus begins a chaotic whirlwind of incidents, all leading back to the kagura mask’s influence. The mask slowly sneaks up on them, whispering sweet promises… “Then, why should thou not hope to become a demon?” This volume also includes “The Flower Thief’s Favor,” a prequel set amid the fluttering sakura petals of spring.

Pre-order the next emotional read in the Seabreeze Farm series, from best-selling author Jo Bartlett...but have your tissues ready!.A summer to remember...Georgia Banks knows she's living on borrowed time. So, when doctors tell her she's got one last summer to make all her dreams come true, she's determined to make every day count.The one thing that's never in doubt, is that she wants her best friend, Gabe, to be with her every step of the way. And so, Georgia draws up her not-a-bucket list with all the things she's determined to tick off before she goes – number one of which is to spend one last summer by the sea.Seabreeze Farm perched high on the cliffs above the English Channel is the perfect spot, and surrounded by the antics of its menagerie of rescued animals and the warmth of the friendship she's offered there, Georgia starts to believe she can live out all her dreams before it's too late. And just when she thinks there's nothing left to wish...

Delrita likes being invisible. If no one notices her, then no one willnotice her uncle Punky either. Punky is a grown man with a child's mind. Delrita loves him dearly and can't stand people making fun of his Down Syndrome. But when tragedy strikes, Delrita's quiet life— and Punky's— are disrupted forever. Can she finally learn to trust others, for her own sake and Punky's? This story captures the joy and sorrow that come when we open our hearts to love. Author Biography: June Rae Wood lives near Windsor, Missouri.

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel *We Were the Mulvaneys* Joyce Carol Oates has taken a shocking story that has become an American myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. Kelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old “good girl” when she meets the Senator at a Fourth of July party. In a brilliantly woven narrative, we enter her past and her present, her mind and her body as she is fatally attracted to this older man, this hero, this soon-to-be-lover. Kelly becomes the very embodiment of the vulnerable, romantic dreams of bright and brave women, drawn to the power that certain men command—at a party that takes on the quality of a surreal nightmare; in a tragic car ride that we hope against hope will not end as we know it must end. One of the acknowledged masters of American fiction, Joyce Carol Oates has written a bold tour de force that parts the black water to reveal the profoundest depths of human truth.

<p>Before the Ebola epidemic, before the Starve, Ava Panic is a lonely teen.Ava is caught inside the barricades as the U.S. descends into martial law. Food prices skyrocket, and riots fill the streets.But Ava meets handsome Cade at her karate dojo, and her life changes overnight.Cade is popular, wealthy, a top student. Heady days follow of friendship and freedom, and budding romance. Ava finally belongs. The mean streets are their playground.But there's a dark side to Cade. And maybe being with others isn't safer.Maybe it's a trap.Ebola Day is a prequel to Feral Recruit, in Ginger Booth's kick-butt urban survival Feral America series.</p>

"This is seriously good. I mean—seriously. Both author Jack Carr and main character James Reece are the real deal, the action is razor sharp, the suspense is unrelenting, and the tradecraft is so authentic the government will probably ban it—so read it while you can!" —Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Past Tense "A powerful, thoughtful, realistic, at times terrifying thriller that I could not put down. A terrific addition to the genre, Jack Carr and his alter-ego protagonist, James Reece, continue to blow me away."—Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mission Critical "True Believer, the highly anticipated new thriller from Jack Carr, is one of this year's hottest thrillers, and a perfect fit for fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Daniel Silva." —The Real Book Spy In acclaimed author Jack Carr's follow-up to The Terminal...

The plan to save the Elizabethan stately home Vormer House by selling part of its deer park for a golf and hotel complex has a mixed reception from local politicians, and others. Merchant banker Mark Treasure is financial advisor to the property group behind the development. He and his wife Molly drive up to attend the Thatchford town meeting called to air the project. Scandalous accusations are made, but worse is to come when a party in the house where the Treasures are staying is interrupted by the police, come to question the local MP after finding his glamorous secretary ghoulishly murdered. While the probable suicide of the likeliest suspect promises a swift and easy solution to the case, it's too much so for the conscientious DCI Furlong, especially when another less explicable death occurs. But when Treasure discovers that Furlong is about to arrest someone who the banker is positive is blameless, he sets up his own investigation.

Compassion, redemption, and love—don't miss this classic story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson! When Chandra Hill is awakened by a cry in the night, she is shocked to discover an abandoned newborn in her barn. She rushes him to the hospital, but as a former pediatrician her instincts have already kicked in. Before she knows it, she's discussing options for the baby with the emergency room doctor, Dallas O'Rourke. Dallas finds himself bonding instantly with the baby—and with the intriguing woman who brought him in. Though Chandra and Dallas try not to get attached, as days pass without a blood relative coming to claim the baby, it becomes difficult to imagine their lives without the little boy. And when the baby's story becomes national news, the two could realize that all they want is the family they've found. Previously published.

Kristy's stepfather has invited the whole family and the baby-sitters for a vacation at his family's cabin on beautiful Shadow Lake. Campfires, ghost stories, romance--the baby-sitters will never forget their adventures this summer.

A family reunited after a twenty-year estrangement, will discover secrets that change their lives forever...The brand new escapist summer read from international bestseller Jennifer Bohnet! Gabriella Jacques, is happy to be back in her childhood home, Villa Espoir in the South of France ready to embrace fresh experiences with friends new and old and to heal some deep family scars. Recently widowed Harriet Rogers, hopes to rebuild her family life and reconnect with Elodie, the daughter she abandoned into her mother Gabby's care to follow her heart. But when an acquaintance from the past seeks her out, Harriet fears a secret from her past will ruin her plans. Elodie Jacques, adores her new life in her Grandmothers old home as a freelance journalist. Her relationship with her mother is tense as she struggles to understand why her mother won't talk to her about the past, as until their past is resolved, there can be no future. Will these three women,...