The Incumbent
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| Author | DiAnn Mills |
| ISBN | 1414320477 |
2010 Christy Award winner! 2010 Inspirational Readers Choice Award winner!
Paige Rogers is a former CIA agent who lost all she treasured seven years ago when her entire team was killed in a covert mission. She blames their leader—Daniel Keary—whom Paige believes betrayed them. Disillusioned...
| Author | Brandilyn Collins |
| ISBN | 0310276438 |
When your worst fear comes true. Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? Everyone knows she’s a little crazy. Kaycee’s popular syndicated newspaper column pokes fun at her own paranoia and multiple fears. The police in her small town are well aware she makes money writing of her...
| Author | Nancy N. Rue |
| ISBN | 0310707579 |
About this book:
“Sophie and her friends launch an “archaeological expedition” and make a disturbing discovery. Sophie keeps digging to uncover a shocking family secret. In light of this new revelation, will she ever be able to trust her parents again?”
Series: Book...
| Author | Deborah Vogts |
| ISBN | 0310292751 |
She loves the land. Mattie Evans grew up in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Although her family has lost their ranch, she still calls this land home. A skilled young veterinarian, she struggles to gain the confidence of the local ranchers. Fortunately, her best friend and staunchest supporter is John McCray,...
| Author | Meredith Efken |
| ISBN | 0373785518 |
I am going to start with the things I liked about this book before I get into what I did not.
#1- It was fast and laid out in e-mail format throughout which made it fun to read (albeit confusing at times).
#2- A couple of the characters were realistic in their SAHM lifestyles.
However,...
| Author | Marilynn Griffith |
| ISBN | 0373785542 |
plot summary: what happens, when & where, central characters, major conflicts[return]dana has been a bridesmaid 10 times, and at this latest wedding she doesn't duck fast enough when the bouquet comes zingng her way. sporting a scratch from the thorns, she just wants to go home to her pint of chunky...
| Author | Camy Tang |
| ISBN | 0310273986 |
Lex Sakai’s family is big, nosy, and marriage-minded. When her cousin Mariko gets married, Lex will become the oldest single cousin in the clan. Lex has used her Bible study class on Ephesians to compile a huge list of traits for the perfect man. But the one man she keeps running into doesn’t seem to...
| Author | Andrew Rosenheim |
| ISBN | 0091796040 |
Are all books set in Chicago crap or is it just my bad luck?
Robert Danziger, a middle aged publisher, moves back to Chicago, after having lived in the UK for many years. There he needs to confront his past when his black childhood friend seeks him out after having been released from prison after...
| Author | Don Hoesel |
| ISBN | 0764205617 |
After a long absence, novelist CJ Baxter returns to his hometown of Adelia in Upstate New York for his grandfather's funeral. Facing a messy divorce and doubting his talent as a writer, CJ is forced to confront secrets that have tormented him since childhood. To complicate matters, his brother Graham...
| Author | Rita Lakin |
| ISBN | 0440243874 |
Gladdy Gold may have gone from dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to South Florida retiree, but she’s loving every minute of it. Between poolside gossip, a hot-to-trot boyfriend, and a booming detective business, life couldn’t be sunnier—until a trip back north with her sister Evvie leads to murder...
| Author | Gilbert Morris |
| ISBN | 0310252326 |
Lanie took out her journal and dated it April 12, 1928. She started the habit of writing down everything that happened to her when she was no more than eight years old, and now she had six journals completely full. She thought about the prize at school, almost prayed to win, but somehow she could not. “God,”...
The Sweetgum Ladies Knit for Love
| Author | Beth Pattillo |
| ISBN | 1400073952 |
On the third Friday of each month, six women meet at the Sweetgum Christian Church to enjoy the two things that connect them: a love of knitting and a passion for books. The Sweetgum ladies face the challenges of love in all its forms as the Knit Lit Society begins a new year and a new reading list. Eugenie's...
| Author | Michael Walsh |
| ISBN | 0786020423 |
It starts with the most horrific act of terrorism ever committed on American soil. Only one man can stop them. Code named Devlin, he exists only in the blackest shadows of the United States government -- operating off the grid as the NSA's top agent. He's their most lethal weapon . . . and their most secret....
| Author | Jason Pinter |
| ISBN | 1426845367 |
A Henry Parker novella that is about 40 to 50 pages long. It takes place one night between The Fury and The Darkness.After one of the most harrowing weeks of Henry Parker’s life, night has finally come. Settled in with Amanda Davies, he sleeps before preparing to chase a story alongside his mentor, Jack...
| Author | S.J. Rozan |
| ISBN | 0385339232 |
The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures a time and place unlike any other, as it winds through the wounded streets of New York and...
| Author | Jodi Compton |
| ISBN | 0385337140 |
Jodi Compton’s debut, The 37th Hour, was hailed as “compelling” (San Francisco Chronicle), “intelligent” (New York Times Book Review), and “the debut of a world-class mystery writer” (Denver Post). Now Compton delivers a new novel featuring Detective Sarah Pribek, one of the most...
| Author | Ace Collins |
| ISBN | 0310279526 |
A quiet evening ends in murder on a muddy mountain road. Local attorney Lije Evans and his beautiful wife, Kaitlyn, are gunned down. But the killers don t expect one of their victims to live. After burying Kaitlyn, Lije is on a mission to find her killer and solve a mystery that has more twists and turns than...
| Author | Kathy Herman |
| ISBN | 1434767868 |
This book was hard to put down – why are all these people disappearing? However that said I really did not like this book – the person who committed the crimes was not a character in the book rather someone who only showed up as a suspect. So you could not figure out who committed the crimes because you...
| Author | Allie Boniface |
| ISBN | 1599987929 |
Can anything really change in 24 hours? Can everything? Maggie Doyle is about to lose her home, her business, and her last grip on sanity unless she comes up with fifteen thousand dollars to pay off the bank. Her only option? Forget the pain of one life-altering night, find the stepbrother she hasn't spoken...
Saving Sailor: A Quirky Girl, A Faithful Dog, and One Unforgettable Summer
| Author | Renee Riva |
| ISBN | 1589190912 |
The year is 1968. After spending the first half of summer vacation driving her Italian family crazy with her fake southern accent, 10-year old A.J. finds a soul mate on the other side of the island to divert her attention.
She is intrigued to learn that Danny shares her same burning desire to know...
| Author | R.J. Ellory |
| ISBN | 0752880896 |
John Harper has just made a discovery: the father he believed to be dead for more than thirty years is alive, though lying in a coma in a Manhattan hospital. Returning home to New York brings with it memories of childhood, many of them painful, and yet Harper could never have prepared himself for the truth.
Confronted...
| Author | Colleen Thompson |
| ISBN | 0843961430 |
So I'm having a hard time trying to decide what to say about this book. It wasn't awful...I didn't have any urges to throw it across the room, but I didn't particularly like it either. It didn't have any zing to it, anything to make it stand-out, and at times, it seemed to plod along. Plus there were some plot...
