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by Brian Kenney

Cordelia West lives a pretty simple life. A devoted young Dallas Public librarian, she likes to keep her past just that: in the past. …

by Danise Hoover

While this is the 11th in a long-running series, readers can ignore all the threads of the ongoing story and only attend to the …

by Willy Williams

Opening shortly after the traumatic events of The Mountain King, the second entry in de la Motte’s Asker series finds Leo Asker settling back …

by Chris Kahn

The death of a drug dealer and his girlfriend leads immediately to a suspect, a young man named Michael Westbrook. Michael worked at the …

by Henrietta Thornton

The darkness of this novel—which was published in 1997 in Britian but is now seeing its first U.S. publication—is paired with an urgency: things …

by Dodie Ownes

Maybe Hannah’s best friend Tess is right—a restorative yoga retreat in Joshua Tree might be what Hannah needs to let go of the images …