Chris Andrew Ciulla
Author
Language
English
Description
A cantankerous talking cactus reveals the significance of colors in flowers. Each different color means something to pollinators-bees, bats, birds, and more-to help them navigate and pollinate easily! This fun nonfiction presentation of science combines beautiful colors and our favorite pollinators and flowers to present new information that may surprise even some adults!
Author
Language
English
Description
A cantankerous talking cactus reveals the significance of colors in flowers. Each different color means something to pollinators-bees, bats, birds, and more-to help them navigate and pollinate easily! This fun nonfiction presentation of science combines beautiful colors and our favorite pollinators and flowers to present new information that may surprise even some adults!
Author
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of The Marriage Lie and Three Days Missing comes a riveting new novel of suspense about a woman who, in a fight for survival, must decide just how far she'll go to escape the person she once loved
Beth Murphy is on the run…
For nearly a year, Beth has been planning for this day. A day some people might call any other Wednesday, but Beth prefers to see it as her new beginning-one with a new look, new name and new city....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A murder at a boarding school is gruesome enough, but what if the murderer is your roommate? Perfect for fans of A Study in Charlotte comes a gripping prep school novel filled with dark mystery and suspense.
What if your best friend and roommate killed a teacher at your prep school? Or, what if he didn't do it, but he's being framed, and you're the only person who can save him? What if you aren't sure which it is?
Luke Chase didn't mean to get caught...
Author
Language
English
Description
Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, Gus had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life is thrown into complete disarray. A gritty, atmospheric new series about the other side of Long Island, far from the wealth of the Hamptons, where real people live - and die.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A clever, engaging third novel in the Rocco Schiavone mystery series from bestselling Italian author, Antonio Manzini, following the dashing deputy police chief who confronts his most riveting case ever.
It's the bitterly cold spring season in alpine Aosta, and a girl has been kidnapped. Chiara Berguet, daughter of the owners of a local construction firm, was targeted thanks to the sizeable debt her parents owe. But like many a best-laid plan,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawing on such unique sources as the author's unpublished letters, business records, and obscure family recollections, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world.Meet George Marvin Brush-Don Quixote come to Main Street in the Great Depression, and one of Thornton Wilder's most memorable characters. George Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is a fervent religious convert...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The heart of Friday Night Lights meets the emotional resonance and nostalgia of My So-Called Life in this moving debut novel about tradition, family, love, and football.
As the high school football coach in his small, rural Maryland town, Dean is a hero who reorganized the athletic program and brought the state championship to the community. When he married Nicole, the beloved town sweetheart, he seemed to have it all-until his troubled wife...
11) The Man Offside
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-Dallas Cowboy Rick Bannion has been through the revolving prison door for drug trafficking and now hunts bail-jumpers. His old friend Jack Brendy has just been busted by the Feds for smuggling cocaine, and when Brendy's wife approaches him seeking a favor, Rick jumps at the chance to help. The favor?-keep the government's sleazy informer off the stand. Unfortunately, when things go wrong, Rick finds himself in the crosshairs of the Feds.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is found dead, with her husband missing, Detective Ian Bird discovers a link to a social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire who had a relationship with Lizzie that cut across class boundaries-and ultimately became deadly.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scott Blackburn's searing literary debut explores the dangerous world of secrets threatening to upend a rural Southern town, perfect for fans of David Joy and Brian Panowich.
For nearly a decade, twenty-nine-year-old Hudson Miller has made his living in the boxing ring, but a post-fight brawl threatens to derail his career. Desperate for money, Hudson takes a gig as a bouncer at a dive bar. That's when life delivers him another hook to the jaw: his...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
New Orleans: city of intrigue, supernatural secrets, and one enigmatic dragon.
A deadly curse...
For 300 years, Gabriel Blakemore has survived in New Orleans after a coup in his native realm of Paragon scattered him and his dragon siblings across the globe. Now a jealous suitor's voodoo curse threatens to end his immortal existence. His only hope is to find an antidote, one that may rest in a mortal woman.
A lifesaving gift...
After five years...
15) Wolf
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth. Jim Harrison was one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. Wolf tells the story of a man who abandons Manhattan after too many nameless women and drunken nights, to roam the wilderness of northern Michigan, hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the rare wolves...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wanted in thirteen states. Locked up for two years in a Mexican prison. Released into the wilds of the American West with a twenty-thousand-dollar bounty on his head. The outlaw Torn Slater doesn't just live outside the law, he takes it into his own hands-and makes it cry for mercy. After robbing some banks, Slater knows he should lay low. But when a beautiful widow asks for his help, he can't say no. Her reckless son has gone looking for trouble...
17) About a Vampire
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands' new Argeneau novel, a vampire accustomed to seducing every woman he meets finds the one determined to resist him . . . With immortal good looks and scorching charisma, Justin Bricker has yet to meet a woman he can't win over. His potential life mate should be no different. But instead of falling into his bed, Holly Bosley runs away and ends up mortally wounded. To save her, he has to turn her. And...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The birth of South Sudan was celebrated world-wide, a triumph acclaimed not only by its long-oppressed people, but by three presidents and millions of Americans. But just two years later, South Sudan's freedom-fighters plunged their new nation back into chaos, shattering the promise of liberation and exposing the hubris of their American backers.
This is the epic story of paradise won, then lost. Vertin's firsthand accounts-from war zones to the...
19) Pulse: A Novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston, 1976. Daniel Fitzsimmons is just sixteen years old and totally on his own-his parents are long dead, and his beloved brother, Harry, is off at Harvard, the star of the football team. When Harry is murdered, Daniel wrestles not only with inconsolable grief but with strange new powers he never knew he possessed. Powers he's not sure he can control.
Detectives William Barkley "Bark" Jones and Tommy Dillon are assigned to Harry's case. The veteran...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jake, whose philosophy is 'life is often less about making good decisions than figuring out how to live with bad ones,' takes the reader on a fast, furious, and often hilarious tour. Watching him zigzag through the twisting plot is pure pleasure." -Publishers Weekly
Vancouver, British Columbia-land of psychotically expensive real estate, high-grade cannabis, and Jake Constable. A man adrift.
After Jake quits the drug business, his realtor/ex-wife,...