New Arrivals: General Adult Fiction at the Library
New Arrivals: General Adult Fiction at the Library
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Adair, Cherry, 1951- Black magic 1st Pocket Star Books pbk ed. New York : Pocket Star Books, c2010. Call Number: F ADAIR-C Owned by: MAIN Summary: "She hates using magic. Ever since the death of her parents, Sara Temple has rejected her magical gifts. Then, in a moment of extreme danger, she unknowingly sends out a telepathic cry for help --to the one man she is convinced she never wants to see again. He's a powerful wizard. Jackson Slater thought he was done forever with his ex-fiance, but when he hears her desperate plea, he teleports halfway around the world to aid her in a situation where magic has gone suddenly, brutally wrong. But while Sara and Jack remain convinced they are completely mismatched, the Wizard Council feels otherwise. A dark force is killing some of the world's most influential wizards, and the ex-lovers have just proved their abilities are mysteriously amplified when they work together. But with the fate of the world at stake, will the violent emotions still simmering between them drive them farther apart, or bring them back into each other's arms?"--P.[4] of cover. Magic Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Alexander, Tamera. Within my heart Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, 2010. Call Number: F ALEXA-T Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL MOORE S_TACOMA SWASEY Summary: Widow Rachel Boyd, struggling to keep her ranch afloat and raise her two young sons, squelches any feelings she might have for Rand Brookston, Timber Ridge's physician and reluctant veterinarian. But when she's courted by a wealthy client of the local resort, she faces a choice: self-sufficiency and security or the risk inherent in the deepest of loves. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Fiction.Colorado History 19th century Fiction. Date added: Aug 23
Baker, Frank, 1908-1983. Miss Hargreaves : a novel Paperback ed. New York, NY : Bloomsbury USA, 2010, c1940. Call Number: F BAKER-F Owned by: MAIN Summary: When Norman Huntley, and his friend, Henry, invent an 83 year old woman, called Mrs. Hargreaves, they are inspired to write to their fictional friend. The silly, harmless, game turns out not to be such, when she arrives on their doorstep, in Buckinghamshire, exactly as he imagined her. Older people Fiction.Buckinghamshire (England) Fiction. Date added: Aug 23
Baldacci, David. Hell's corner 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010. Call Number: F BALDA-D Owned by: MAIN Summary: "The mysterious attackers in a seeming terrorist plot in Washington, D.C., might have another target in their sights, and if the Camel Club is unable to stop them, the results would be nothing less than catastrophic"--Provided by publisher. Date added: Aug 17
Bantwal, Shobhan. The unexpected son New York, NY : Kensington Books, c2010. Call Number: F BANTW-S Owned by: MAIN SWANCREEK Summary: "It is a morning like any other in suburban New Jersey when Vinita Patil opens the battered envelope postmarked 'Mumbai.' But the letter inside turns her comfortable world upside down. It tells Vinita an impossible story: she has a grown son in India whose life may depend on her... Once upon a time, a naive young college girl fell for a wealthy boy whose primary interests were cricket and womanizing. Vinita knew, even then, that a secret affair with a man whose language and values were different from her own was a mistake. He finished with her soon enough--leaving her to birth a baby that was stillborn. Or so Vinita was told... Now, that child is a grown man in desperate need. To help her son, to know him, Vinita must revisit her darkest hours by returning to her battle-scarred homeland--and pray for the faith of the family she leaves behind..."--P. [4] of cover. Families Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Bardsley, Michele. Cross your heart New York : Signet Eclipse, 2010. Call Number: F BARDS-M Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: After the death of her husband, vampire Elizabeth Bretton returned to the family estate in Broken Heart, Oklahoma. Little did she know she would also give up her life as the Silverstone heiress. But escaping the past isn't that easy -- especially with a vengeful ghost trying to kill her, a 150-year-old mystery to solve, and an outrageously hot were-jaguar named "Tez" trying to get into her boudoir. Vampires Fiction.Oklahoma Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Bell, Alden. The reapers are the angels : a novel 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010. Call Number: F BELL-A Owned by: MAIN Young women Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Bi, Feiyu. Three sisters Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. Call Number: F BI-F Owned by: WHEELOCK Sisters Fiction.China Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Binchy, Chris. Five days apart : a novel 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2010. Call Number: F BINCH-C Owned by: KOBETICH WHEELOCK Summary: David loses the girl of his dreams to his charming best friend and leaves home only to find that neither time nor distance can erase her from his memory. Young men Fiction.Ireland Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Bolano, Roberto, 1953-2003. The return New York : New Directions Pub., c2010. Call Number: F BOLAN-R Owned by: MAIN Short stories. Date added: Aug 18
Bowen, Michele Andrea. More church folk 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010. Call Number: F BOWEN-M Owned by: MAIN Summary: The Reverend Theophilus Simmons, now married with three children and ministering to a congregation in Memphis, must face off against a sleazy den of corrupt clergy, who are illegally tapping church funds and trying to buy enough power to run a mega-church. African American churches Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Brady, Joan. Venom : a novel of suspense 1st Touchstone hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call Number: F BRADY-J Owned by: MAIN Summary: In the aftermath of a man's flight from a secret organization that wants him dead, a physicist discovers a colony of bees with unique venom and is alarmed by a series of murders targeting her colleagues as she gets nearer to finding a cure for radiation poisoning. Ex-convicts Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Brundage, Elizabeth. A stranger like you New York : Viking, 2010. Call Number: F BRUND-E Owned by: MAIN Summary: After film exec Hedda Chase pulls the the plug on a film project initiated by one of her predecessors, the screenwriter decides to stage his script's ending and casts Hedda as the victim. Women executives Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Burning up Berkley Sensation mass-market ed. New York : Berkley Sensation, 2010. Call Number: F BURNI Owned by: MAIN MOORE WHEELOCK Paranormal romance stories. Date added: Aug 23
Byers, Michael. Percival's planet : a novel 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010. Call Number: F BYERS-M Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL WHEELOCK Summary: A tale inspired by the true story of Pluto's discoverer follows the interlinked stories of a wealthy heir seeking dinosaurs in the 1920s West, a beautiful girl gradually succumbing to mental illness, and Kansas farm boy Clyde Tombaugh. Discoveries in science Fiction.Pluto (Dwarf planet) Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Caine, Rachel. Total eclipse New York : Roc, c2010. Call Number: F CAINE-R Owned by: MAIN Summary: Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin and Djinn David, who have been stripped of their powers, must stop a poisonous substance from destabilizing the entire balance of power and destroying the magic that keeps the world alive. Jinn Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Cameron, Stella. Out of mind Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA, 2010. Call Number: F CAMER-S Owned by: MAIN SWASEY Summary: Willow Millet owns and runs a we-can-do-anything concierge service. When her business is hit by a series of strange and fatal accidents, Willow learns that her mysterious family heritage as a gifted psychic may have something to do with the killings. Thrown into the unfamiliar where she must protect her innocent clients, Willow meets and falls for Benedict Fortune, another mysterious psychic. Personal concierges Fiction. Date added: Aug 09
Camm, Meisha. Hidden intentions 2 Deer Park, NY : Urban Books, c2010. Call Number: F CAMM-M Owned by: KOBETICH SWANCREEK Summary: Upon the sudden and tragic death of his father, Tory's marital bliss comes to a halt. His wife, Nya tries to help him cope with the pain, but Tory turns to alcohol instead. Then Tory vanishes. Although Nya looks for him with the help of law enforcement and a hired private investigator, no one turns up anything and eventually Nya gives up hope of ever finding Tory. Nya meets another man and finds happiness again. After years missing in action, Tory shows back up on her doorstep and wants to restore their crumbled marriage. Nya has some tough decisions to make as her past confronts her future--P. [4] of cover. Nurses Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Campion, Emma. The king's mistress : a novel 1st American ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2009. Call Number: F CAMPI-E Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH Summary: "From childhood Alice Salisbury learned obedience in all things, so at the age of fourteen, she dutifully marries the man her father has chosen for her - at the cost of losing the love of her mother forever, as well as the family she holds dear. But merchant Janyn Perrers is a good and loving husband and Alice soon learns to enjoy her marriage. Her happiness is short-lived, however, ending when a messenger brings news of Janyn's sudden disappearance. Alice discovers that her husband had many dangerous secrets, secrets which have now put a price on her own head and that of her beloved daughter. Brought under the protection of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, she must dutifully embrace her fate once more - as a virtual prisoner at Court. When the king singles her out for more than just royal patronage, she knows she has little choice but to accept his advances. But obeying the king brings with it many burdens as well as pleasures, as she forfeits her good name to keep her daughter free from harm. St Great Britain History Edward III, 1327-1377 Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Carroll, Lee, 1951- Black swan rising 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2010. Call Number: F CARRO-L Owned by: MAIN SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: When New York City jewelry designer, Garet James, stumbles into a strange antiques shop in her neighborhood, her life is turned upside down. John Dee, the shopkeeper, offers her a large sum of money, to open a silver box. When she does so, otherworldly things start to happen. Garet learns that she has been pulled in a prophecy that is hundreds of years old, and opening the box unleashes an evil force onto the streets of Manhattan. Women jewelers New York (State) New York Fiction.Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Carter, Ernessa T. 32 candles : a novel 1st ed. New York, NY : Amistad, c2010. Call Number: F CARTE-E Owned by: WHEELOCK Summary: "The deftly wry, deeply romantic story of Davie Jones -- an "ugly duckling" from small-town Mississippi with a voice like Tina Turner, who escapes to Los Angeles to try to make it big, and risks losing her soul along the way to finding her fairy tale ending"--Provided by publisher. Women singers Fiction.Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Castle, Jayne. Midnight crystal New York : Jove Books, c2010. Call Number: F CASTL-J Owned by: KING SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: Sylvester Jones and Nicholas Winters, founders of the Arcane Society, each sought to enhance their individual psychic talents. Winters' efforts led to the creation of a device called the Burning Lamp. Each generation the Winters man who inherits it is destined to develop multiple talents and the curse of madness. Now, plagued by hallucinations and nightmares, notorious crime lord Griffin Winters is convinced he has been struck with the Winters Curse and sets out to find a cure. Arcane Society (Imaginary organization) Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Clark, Wahida. The golden hustla 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010. Call Number: F CLARK-W Owned by: MAIN Summary: "Nina Coles makes a home in Atlanta hoping to turn her life around. But she'll learn that you can't run from trouble"--Provided by publisher. African American women Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Cornwell, Bernard. The fort : a novel of the Revolutionary War 1st American ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2010. Call Number: F CORNW-B Owned by: MAIN Summary: After the British establish a fort on the Penobscot River, the Massachusetts patriots--among them General Peleg Wadsworth and Colonel Paul Revere--mount an expedition to oust the redcoats. Penobscot Expedition, 1779 Fiction.United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Campaigns Fiction. Date added: Aug 17
Coyle, Harold, 1952- No warriors, no glory 1st mass market ed. New York : Forge, 2010. Call Number: F COYLE-H Owned by: MAIN Summary: "In the ever-challenging deserts of Iraq, U.S. Army officer Nathan Dixon comes face-to-face with the future of warfare. Assigned to investigate a friendly-fire incident involving a rogue unmanned ground combat vehicle, Dixon finds that behind every action lies a chain of hidden decisions. And this one placed hundreds, maybe thousands, of troops in harm's way. Journalist Alex Hughes is out to expose the truth. As the insurgencies heat up around them, Dixon must weed through self-serving paramilitary contractors, fledgling commanding officers, and soldiers willing to hide the facts at any cost, to discover who defines the rules of war without the soldier. And where does patriotism end and national security begin?" -- P. [4] of cover. Friendly fire (Military science) Iraq Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Crusie, Jennifer. Maybe this time 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010. Call Number: F CRUSI-J Owned by: MAIN Summary: North Archer, Andie Miller's ex-husband, asks her to become the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already--and live in a haunted house! What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fiance. And just when Andie thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows up on the doorstep making her wonder if "maybe this time" things could be different between them. Nannies Fiction. Date added: Aug 09
Cussler, Clive. Lost empire New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2010. Call Number: F CUSSL-C Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of the 1883 Krakatoa explosion, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo and their ruthless opponents pursue the hunt for a relic--but only one can win. And the penalty for failure is death. Relics Fiction. Date added: Aug 10
Daniel, Susanna. Stiltsville : a novel 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2010. Call Number: F DANIE-S Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH SWASEY Summary: Miami,1969. Frances is captivated by the community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. On the dock of one stilt house, she meets Dennis, and turns away from her predictable life. Stiltsville becomes their island oasis-- until suddenly it's gone, and Francis is forced to figure out how to make her family work on dry land. Man-woman relationships Fiction.Miami (Fla.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Dawson, Maddie. The stuff that never happened : a novel 1st ed. New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2010. Call Number: F DAWSO-M Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Married people Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Demas, Corinne. The writing circle 1st ed. New York : Voice/Hyperion, c2010. Call Number: F DEMAS-C Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH Summary: In a tale of love, betrayal, and literature, six members of an elite writing circle share much more than their works-in-progress. Authorship Societies, etc. Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Dickey, Eric Jerome. Tempted by trouble New York : Dutton, c2010. Call Number: F DICKE-E Owned by: MAIN KING MOORE SWANCREEK African Americans Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Dicks, Matthew. Unexpectedly, Milo : a novel 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, c2010. Call Number: F DICKS-M Owned by: MAIN Summary: Milo is a Connecticut home nurse and closet OCD sufferer, recently separated from his uptight wife. He stumbles onto a cache of videotapes that form a mysterious woman's video diary, in which she confesses her secrets and talks about the guilt she carries around about a childhood friend named Tess who disappeared and is, the woman believes, dead. The story prompts Milo to take a road trip to North Carolina to find Tess. Married people Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Dilloway, Margaret. How to be an American housewife New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010. Call Number: F DILLO-M Owned by: MAIN Summary: The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways. Mothers and daughters Fiction.Japan Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Dorst, Doug. The surf guru : stories New York : Riverhead Books, 2010. Call Number: F DORST-D Owned by: MAIN Summary: A collections of twelve short works features tales about an aging surfing champion who meditates on the sport's new generation, an acerbic botanist who draws uproarious biographical sketches, and two drifters who share misadventures from their dilapidated car. Short stories. Date added: Aug 18
Dryden, Alex. Moscow sting : a novel 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2010. Call Number: F DRYDE-A Owned by: KOBETICH SWASEY Summary: Ex-KGB colonel Anna heads to America, where she is sought out by Adrian, the former boss of her deceased, ex-spy husband, who wants answers and information that only she possesses. Secret service Great Britain Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Estleman, Loren D. Roy & Lillie : a love story 1st ed. New York : Forge, 2010. Call Number: F ESTLE-L Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: For many years Judge Roy Bean, the cantankerous self-styled arbiter of rough frontier justice, wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress Lillie Langtry across the sea; occasionally, she wrote back. He even renamed the town in which he lived Langtry in her honor. And they would have met, if Bean had not died shortly before Lillie. After years of this strange but poignant correspondence, Lillie finally kept her promise to visit her distant admirer. Date added: Aug 26
Fabiano, Laurie. Elizabeth Street : a novel based on true events Las Vegas, Nev. : Amazon Encore ; New York : produced by Melcher Media, 2010. Call Number: F FABIA-L Owned by: MAIN Summary: Giovanna Costa, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life for herself at the turn of the twentieth century in New York City's Little Italy. Italian American families New York (State) New York Fiction.Little Italy (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Feehan, Christine. Water bound New York : Jove Books, 2010. Call Number: F FEEHA-C Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Summary: When he is rescued from a freezing black eddy by a beautiful woman named Rikki, Lev Prakenskii, who has no memory of who he is or why he possesses the instincts of a trained killer, fears for his life and the life of his savior. Women divers Fiction. Date added: Aug 14
Feehan, Christine. Dark peril : a Carpathian novel 1st ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2010. Call Number: F FEEHA-C Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL S_TACOMA Summary: Dominic of the Dragonseeker Carpathians is on a desperate mission in the heart of enemy territory when he crosses paths with Solange Sangria, the last of the jaguar people, who is trying to save shape-shifting women from her murderous father. Vampires Fiction.South America Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Fesperman, Dan, 1955- Layover in Dubai 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: F FESPE-D Owned by: MAIN Summary: Corporate auditor Sam Keller finds himself surrounded by Dubai's underworld violence in the wake of a colleague's murder and turns for help to unlikely detective Anwar Sharaf, a partnership that tests the dark regions of each man's heart. Auditors Fiction.Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Foden, Giles, 1967- Turbulence 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: F FODEN-G Owned by: MAIN SWASEY Operation Overlord Fiction.Scotland Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Forsyth, Frederick, 1938- The cobra New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010. Call Number: F FORSY-F Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KOBETICH S_TACOMA SWASEY WHEELOCK Drug control Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Frankel, Laurie. The atlas of love 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010. Call Number: F FRANK-L Owned by: MAIN Summary: When Jill becomes both pregnant and single at the end of one spring semester, she and her two closest friends plunge into an experiment in tri-parenting, tri-schooling, and trihabitating as grad students in Seattle. Naturally, everything goes wrong, but in ways no one sees coming. Graduate students Fiction.Seattle (Wash.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Call Number: F FRANZ-J Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KOBETICH S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Dysfunctional families Fiction. Date added: Aug 14
Frost, Jeaniene. Eternal kiss of darkness New York : Avon, c2010. Call Number: F FROST-J Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Vampires Fiction. Date added: Aug 03
Furnivall, Kate. The jewel of St. Petersburg 1st ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2010. Call Number: F FURNI-K Owned by: MAIN MOTTET Summary: Russia, 1910. Valentina Ivanova is the darling of St. Petersburg's elite aristocracy--until her romance with a Danish engineer creates a terrible scandal and her parents push her into a loveless engagement with a Russian count. Meanwhile, Russia itself is bound for rebellion. With the Tsar and the Duma at each other's throats, and the Bolsheviks drawing their battle lines, the elegance and opulence of Tsarist rule are in their last days. And Valentina will be forced to make a choice that will change not only her own life, but the lives of those around her forever. Young women Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg Fiction.Saint Petersburg (Russia) Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Gabhart, Ann H., 1947- The seeker : a novel Grand Rapids, MI : Revell, 2010. Call Number: F GABHA-A Owned by: MAIN Summary: With the country--and her own household--on the brink of civil war, pampered gentlewoman Charlotte Vance hatches a plan to avoid her new stepmother and win back her man by joining the Shaker community at Harmony Hill. Little does she know that this decision will lead her down a road toward unforeseen peace--and a very unexpected love. Kentucky History 1792-1865 Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Gilley, Ted. Bliss and other short stories Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010. Call Number: F GILLE-T Owned by: MAIN Happiness Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Glass, Julia, 1956- The widower's tale 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 2010. Call Number: F GLASS-J Owned by: MAIN Widows Fiction.New England Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Goldberg, Myla. The false friend 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2010. Call Number: F GOLDB-M Owned by: MAIN Summary: Celia and Djuna ruled their clique of friends with dual iron fists. But when Djuna disappeared while the duo was walking home together, Celia buried the terrible truth of that day deep down inside. Now, twenty years later, Celia is unable to consciously keep her secret any longer. Despite her success, her personal life has fallen stagnant, and, buried under the weight of her awful past, Celia returns to her hometown to confess her sins. Schoolgirls Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Gomez-Jurado, Juan. The Moses expedition : a novel 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2010. Call Number: F GOMEZ-J Owned by: MAIN Ark of the Covenant Fiction.Jordan Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Graff, Keir, 1969- The price of liberty 1st World ed. Sutton : Severn House Paperbacks, 2010. Call Number: F GRAFF-K Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL S_TACOMA Construction workers Fiction.Wyoming Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Grant, Helen, 1964- The vanishing of Katharina Linden : a novel 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2009. Call Number: F GRANT-H Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH MOORE Missing children Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Gregory, Philippa. The red queen 1st Touchstone hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call Number: F GREGO-P Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING MOORE S_TACOMA SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster. Nobility Great Britain Fiction.Great Britain History Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Griffin, Lynne Reeves. Sea escape 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call Number: F GRIFF-L Owned by: KOBETICH SWASEY Summary: Balancing her roles as a wife and mother with the responsibility of caring for a parent who is recovering from a stroke, Laura reads love letters exchanged by her parents during the 1950s and tumultuous Vietnam War period, a correspondence that reveals unexpected truths. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Griffin, W. E. B. The outlaws New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010. Call Number: F GRIFF-W Owned by: MAIN Undercover operations Fiction. Date added: Aug 17
Grisham, John. The confession New York : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. Call Number: F GRISH-J Owned by: MAIN Summary: When Travis Boyette is paroled because of inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life, he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed and another man is about to be executed for. Judicial error Fiction. Date added: Aug 17
Haig, Brian. The capitol game 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2010. Call Number: F HAIG-B Owned by: KOBETICH WHEELOCK Summary: After Jack Wiley rallies corporate giant Capitol Group in an attempt to take over a small company that has developed an armor-reinforcing polymer that could change the course of modern warfare, he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal ever seen. Corporations Fiction.Washington (D.C.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Hallaway, Tate. Almost to die for : a vampire princess novel New York : New American Library, c2010. Call Number: F HALLA-T Owned by: MAIN KING SWASEY Teenage girls Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Hallinan, Timothy. The queen of Patpong 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2010. Call Number: F HALLI-T Owned by: MAIN MOORE WHEELOCK Summary: The quiet Bangkok family life of American travel-writer Poke Rafferty, wife Rose, and daughter Miaow is threatened when a man from Rose's past forces Poke to uncover the whole truth about his wife's former life in a red-light district. Bangkok (Thailand) Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Hampton, Brenda (Brenda M.) Full figured Deer Park, N.Y. : Urban Renaissance, c2010. Call Number: F HAMPT-B Owned by: MAIN KING SWANCREEK African American women Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Hatcher, Robin Lee. A matter of character : a novel Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2010. Call Number: F HATCH-R Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Women authors Fiction.Idaho History 20th century Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Hernandez, Treasure. The finale Deer Park, N.Y. : Urban Books, 2010. Call Number: F HERNA-T Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL MOORE S_TACOMA African Americans Fiction.Flint (Mich.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Howard, Linda, 1950- Veil of night : a novel 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2010. Call Number: F HOWAR-L Owned by: MAIN KING MOORE MOTTET SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: "Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job -- usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. But the unpleasant task at hand turns serously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed." -- Dust jacket. Weddings Fiction. Date added: Aug 10
Hoyt, Elizabeth, 1970- Wicked intentions New York : Grand Central Pub., c2010. Call Number: F HOYT-E Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL S_TACOMA Summary: "Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows the area like the back of her hand--she cares for its children at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk. Caire makes a simple offer--in return for Temperance's help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, and what begins as a cold bargain soon falls prey to a passion neither can control--a passion that may well destroy them both."--P. [4] of cover. Murder Investigation Fiction.London (England) History Fiction. Date added: Aug 09
Huso, Anthony. The last page 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2010. Call Number: F HUSO-A Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH WHEELOCK Kings and rulers Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
James, Rebecca, 1970- Beautiful malice : a novel 1st ed. New York : Bantam Books, c2010. Call Number: F JAMES-R Owned by: MAIN Summary: To escape the media attention generated by her sister's murder, a grieving seventeen-year-old Australian girl moves away and meets a vibrant new friend who harbors a dangerous secret. Grief Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
JaQuavis. The dopefiend Deer Park, NY : Urban Books ; East Rutherford, NJ : Distributed by Kensington Pub. Corp., c2010. Call Number: F JAQUA Owned by: MAIN Summary: Hazel Brown is alone in the world, and the only thing she has to her name is a strong addiction to heroin. Drug addicts Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Johansen, Iris. Chasing the night 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010. Call Number: F JOHAN-I Owned by: MAIN Duncan, Eve (Fictitious character) Fiction. Date added: Aug 06
Johnson, Brandi. In my girls I trust Deer Park, N. Y. : Urban Books, c2010. Call Number: F JOHNS-B Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING S_TACOMA African Americans Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Kalogridis, Jeanne. The scarlet contessa : a novel of the Italian Renaissance 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010. Call Number: F KALOG-J Owned by: KOBETICH Summary: Daughter of the Duke of Milan and wife of the conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, and openly took lovers whenever she pleased. Her remarkable tale is told by her lady-in-waiting, Dea. Dea reviews Caterina's scandalous past and struggles to understand their joint destiny, while Caterina valiantly tries to fight off Cesare Borgia's unconquerable army. Nobility Italy Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Kenyon, Sherrilyn, 1965- No mercy 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, c2010. Call Number: F KENYO-S Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Summary: Shape-shifter Dev Peltier and Dark-Hunter Samia fall in love in spite of Samia's painful history as a betrayed Amazon warrior and the presence of old and new enemies in New Orleans. Vampires Fiction.New Orleans (La.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Kiernan, Caitlin R. The ammonite violin & others 1st ed. Burton, Mich. : Subterranean Press, c2010. Call Number: F KIERN-C Owned by: MAIN MOORE Short stories. Date added: Aug 16
King, Deja. Trife life to lavish. Part 2, Genesis & Genevieve-- am I my brother's keeper : a novel Collierville, Tenn. : A King Production, c2010. Call Number: F KING-D Owned by: MAIN KING SWASEY African Americans Fiction. Date added: Aug 03
King, Deja. Last bitch standing. Part 5 : a novel Collierville, TN: A King Production, c2009. Call Number: F KING-D Owned by: MAIN Summary: In the final installment of the bitch series, Precious Cummings only has one agenda and that is to destroy her most conniving enemy yet, Maya. There is no doubt in Precious' mind that she can shut it down. The only problem is locating her nemesis, who has disappeared with her husband, Supreme and daughter, Aaliyah. As Precious fights to not only win the battles but the war, she is determined to be the last bitch standing--P. [4] of cover. African American women Fiction. Date added: Aug 23
King, James, 1955- Bill Warrington's last chance New York : Viking, 2010. Call Number: F KING-J Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH SWASEY WHEELOCK Alzheimer's disease Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
King, Stephen, 1947- Full dark, no stars New York : Scribner, 2010. Call Number: F KING-S Owned by: MAIN Summary: Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side while he is away on a business trip. Short stories, American. Date added: Aug 17
Kittle, Katrina. The blessings of the animals 1st ed. New York : Harper Perennial, c2010. Call Number: F KITTL-K Owned by: MAIN S_TACOMA Women veterinarians Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Klein, David (David Matthew) Stash 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, c2010. Call Number: F KLEIN-D Owned by: MAIN Rich people Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Kleypas, Lisa. Love in the afternoon St. Martin's Paperbacks ed. New York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2010. Call Number: F KLEYP-L Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Summary: "As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she has participated in the London season in the past, the classic beauty and free-spirited Beatrix has never been swept away or seriously courted...and she has resigned herself to the fate of never finding love. Has the time come for the most unconventional of the Hathaway sisters to settle for an ordinary man--just to avoid spinsterhood?..."--p. [4] of cover. Soldiers Fiction.London (England) Fiction. Date added: Aug 03
Lamb, Cathy. Such a pretty face New York : Kensington Books, 2010. Call Number: F LAMB-C Owned by: MAIN MOORE WHEELOCK Obesity Surgery Psychological aspects Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Lamplighter, L. Jagi. Prospero in hell 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2010. Call Number: F LAMPL-L Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: Miranda, daughter of the great Prospero, has been running the family business, quietly protecting the Earth from diverse magical threats for more than five hundred years. Her world is turned upside down when her father is kidnapped by the Three Shadowed Ones, and spirited away to Hell. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Low, Gennita. Virtually hers Macon, GA : Samhain Pub., c2010. Call Number: F LOW-G Owned by: MAIN Summary: "In Helen 'Hell' Roston's elite black ops world, failure isn't listed as an option in the rule book. As the leading guinea pig in a dangerous combination of virtual reality training and a mind-altering serum, though, every day offers a thousand ways to blow it. And the very real sexual chemistry that sizzles between Hell and her trainer is messing with her head even more. COS Commando Jed McNeil is an expert in mind-manipulation games. He's been chosen to be Hell's monitor and anchor in the Super Soldier Spy program. Trained to compartmentalize his needs and feelings in an assignment, he's unprepared by how much Hell affects him. When the experimental serum gives Helen incapacitating headaches, her pain throws Jed into protect-at-all-costs mode. A position the fiercely independent Hell would rather die than be in. But with a rogue CIA faction out to sabotage the program, Hell has no choice--even if it makes her head explode. It's trust Jed, or die."--P. [4] of cover. Intelligence service Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
MacKenna, John, 1952- The space between us Dublin : New Island ; [Chester Springs, Pa.] : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, 2009. Call Number: F MACKE-J Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Widowers Ireland Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Margolis, Sue. Perfect blend : a novel New York [N.Y.] : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2010. Call Number: F MARGO-S Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Single mothers Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Marley, Louise, 1952- Mozart's blood New York, NY : Kensington Books, c2010. Call Number: F MARLE-L Owned by: MAIN Vampires Fiction. Date added: Aug 23
McCarthy, Erin. Hot finish Berkley Sensation mass-market ed. New York : Berkley Sensation, 2010. Call Number: F MCCAR-E Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Automobile racing drivers Fiction. Date added: Aug 23
McCloy, Kristin, 1962- Hollywood savage : a novel 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed. New York : Washington Square Press, 2010. Call Number: F MCCLO-K Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Authors Fiction.Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
McDonnell, Adrienne. The doctor and the diva New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2010. Call Number: F MCDON-A Owned by: S_TACOMA Summary: Building a successful career by helping couples to conceive, an early twentieth-century obstetrician makes a risky decision after meeting a talented opera singer whose infertility issues prompt her to leave her husband and pursue a career abroad. Women singers Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
McElhatton, Heather, 1970- Million little mistakes 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2010. Call Number: F MCELH-H Owned by: SWASEY Lottery tickets Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
McPhee, Martha. Dear money Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. Call Number: F MCPHE-M Owned by: MAIN Summary: Cash-strapped writer India Palmer is visiting wealthy friends in Maine when she meets Win Johns, a swaggering and intellectually bored trader of mortgage-backed securities. Charmed by India's intelligence, humor, and inquisitive nature and aware of her near-desperate financial situation, Win proposes to make her a world-class bond trader in eighteen months. India embarks on a raucous ride to the top of the income chain, leveraging herself with crumbling real estate, never once looking back..or does she? Floor traders (Finance) Fiction.Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 04
Moody, Rick. The four fingers of death : a novel 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010. Call Number: F MOODY-R Owned by: WHEELOCK Summary: Montese Crandall, a down-on-his-luck writer with a wife who is gravely ill, pens a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror movie, wherein an animated dismembered arm, missing its middle finger, is the only remnant that returns to Earth from a mission to Mars. Authors Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Moser, Nancy. Masquerade Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, 2010. Call Number: F MOSER-N Owned by: FERNHILL WHEELOCK Summary: 1886, New York City: Charlotte Gleason, a rich heiress from England, escapes a family crisis by traveling to America in order to marry the even wealthier Conrad Tremaine. She soon decides that an arranged marriage is not for her and persuades her maid, Dora, to take her place. What begins as the whim of a spoiled rich girl wanting adventure becomes a test of survival amid poverty beyond Charlotte's blackest nightmares. As for Dora, she lives a fairy tale complete with gowns, jewels, and lavish mansions--yet is tormented by guilt and the presence of another love that will not die. Will their masquerade be discovered? Will one of them have second thoughts? There is no guarantee the switch will work. It's a risk. It's the chance of a lifetime. Heiresses Fiction.New York (N.Y.) 19th century Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Murkoff, Bruce, 1953- Red rain 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: F MURKO-B Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL Summary: Returning to his Civil War-era home in the Hudson Valley after a decade-long absence, Will Harp is disconsolate over the violence he has seen between the states and against Native Americans, while others in his community experience prosperity, loss, and new opportunities. City and town life Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Fiction.Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Noble, Diane, 1945- The sister wife 1st ed. New York, NY : Avon Inspire, c2010. Call Number: F NOBLE-D Owned by: MAIN S_TACOMA Summary: Wealthy Mormon convert Mary Rose and shipbuilder Gabriel make their way to a new Mormon settlement, where Prophet Joseph Smith's edicts about polygamy lead Gabriel to take additional wives and Mary Rose to question her faith. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
O'Brien, Dan, 1947- Stolen horses Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010. Call Number: F OBRIE-D Owned by: SWANCREEK Date added: Aug 26
O'Connor, Stephen. Here comes another lesson : stories 1st Free Press trade pbk. ed. New York : Free Press, 2010. Call Number: F OCONN-S Owned by: MAIN Short stories. Date added: Aug 12
O'Flynn, Catherine. The news where you are : a novel 1st U.S. ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010. Call Number: F OFLYN-C Owned by: MAIN Summary: Frank, a television newsanchor in Birmingham, England, is on the verge of a midlife crisis. The demolition of buildings designed by his late father, the somewhat mysterious death of his on-screen partner and mentor, Phil, and Frank's obsession with people who die alone lead him down a path of self-discovery. Television news anchors Fiction.England Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Page, Jean Reynolds. Leaving before it's over New York : Avon A, 2010. Call Number: F PAGE-J Owned by: MAIN MOORE Summary: "Roy and Rosalind Vines discover the true meaning of family for themselves and their two daughters when a young man in Roy's hometown claims that his real father is either Roy or Roy's twin brother"--Provided by publisher. Married people Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Patterson, James, 1947- Tick tock 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2011. Call Number: F PATTE-J Owned by: MAIN Detectives New York (State) New York Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
Petterson, Per, 1952- I curse the river of time Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2010. Call Number: F PETTE-P Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH Summary: Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother's diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest for understanding and balance. Communists Fiction.Europe Politics and government 1989- Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Poole, Sara, 1951- Poison : a novel of the Renaissance 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010. Call Number: F POOLE-S Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Women poisoners Fiction.Rome (Italy) Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Porter, Jane, 1964- She's gone country 1st ed. New York : 5 Spot, 2010. Call Number: F PORTE-J Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: After her husband announces he's fallen in love with someone else, 39-year-old former model Shey Darcy moves back home to Texas with her three teenage sons. Life on the family ranch, however, brings with it a whole new host of dramas. Self-realization in women Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Priest, Cherie. Clementine 1st ed. Burton, Mich. : Subterranean Press, c2010. Call Number: F PRIES-C Owned by: WHEELOCK Summary: Maria Isabella Boyd's success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago. Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn't pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials--essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay. Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who's been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea. And now Steampunk fiction.United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Quinn, Julia, 1970- Ten things I love about you New York : Avon Books, c2010. Call Number: F QUINN-J Owned by: MAIN MOORE S_TACOMA Summary: Sebastian Grey is a devilishly handsome rogue with a secret. Annabel Winslow's family voted her the Winslow most likely to speak her mind and the Winslow most likely to fall asleep in church. Sebastian's uncle is the Earl of Newbury, and if he dies without siring an heir, Sebastian inherits everything. Lord Newbury has decided that Annabel is the answer to all of his problems. Annabel does not want to marry Lord Newbury, especially when she finds out he once romanced her grandmother. Love stories.Great Britain History George III, 1760-1820 Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Rathbone, Emma. The patterns of paper monsters : a novel 1st ed. New York : Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2010. Call Number: F RATHB-E Owned by: MAIN Teenage boys Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Rave, Robert. Waxed 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, c2010. Call Number: F RAVE-R Owned by: MAIN Sisters Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Rector, John. The cold kiss 1st ed. New York : Forge, 2010. Call Number: F RECTO-J Owned by: SWASEY Summary: Giving a ride to a snowbound stranger who offers them a lucrative sum in exchange, a recently engaged couple is thrown into a nightmarish situation when the stranger dies in their back seat with more than two million dollars in his possession. Newlyweds Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Richardson, Kat. Labyrinth : a Greywalker novel New York, NY, USA : Roc, c2010. Call Number: F RICHA-K Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Summary: After dying for two minutes, private Investigator Harper Blaine becomes a Greywalker, straddling the line between the living world and the paranormal realm, and must search for the ghost of the man who killed her. Blaine, Harper (Fictitious character) Fiction.Seattle (Wash.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 14
Roberts, Nora. Secrets & sunsets New York, NY : Silhouette Books, c2010. Call Number: F ROBER-N Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY Summary: In Risky business, after one of her employees is found dead, dive business owner Liz Palmer finds herself embroiled in the criminal underworld of the Caribbean. In Mind over matter, when documentary film maker David Brady asks her client to appear in a film on paranormal phenomena, theatrical agent Aurora Fields stays on the set to protect the woman, but David is sure Aurora is trying to hide something, and he finds himself attracted to her and her secret. Man-woman relationships Fiction.Caribbean Area Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Ross, JoAnn. The homecoming : a Shelter Bay novel New York : Signet, c2010. Call Number: F ROSS-J Owned by: MAIN SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: "Former Navy SEAL Sax Douchett returns to his home town and is hailed as a local hero. But starting over is difficult when he unearths a long-buried secret that reunites him with a past he's never forgotten. She's Sheriff Kara Conway, a girl who's always held a special place in his heart. But as he cautiously reconnects with Kara and bonds with her young son, another long-held secret in Shelter Bar threatens their second chance at a life together..." -- from publisher's web site. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Samson, Lisa, 1964- Resurrection in May Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2010. Call Number: F SAMSO-L Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: "May Seymour graduated from college with the world at her feet and no idea what to do with it. A mission trip to Rwanda brought her a sense of purpose in loving others. So when the genocide began she chose to remain in the village, which was subsequently slaughtered. Only May survived. May journeyed to heal on the farm of Claudius Borne, a sweet, innocent old man who understood plants and animals far better than people. Years later, having not stepped a foot off Claudius' farm, May learns an old college flame, now a death-row inmate, is refusing to appeal his sentence. Can she convince him to grab hold of life once again? Their surprising friendship turns the tables, for the prisoner, Eli Campbell, has a deeper faith from which to draw than she. Eli slowly begins to pull May from her cloistered existence. With the help of Eli, their tiny town, and ultimately a renewal of faith, May comes to life once again." - Taken from cover p.4. Young women Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
The secret history of fantasy 1st ed. San Francisco, CA : Tachyon, 2010. Call Number: F SECRE Owned by: MAIN Fantasy fiction, American. Date added: Aug 26
Shapiro, Susan. Overexposed 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010. Call Number: F SHAPI-S Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Women photographers Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Shaw, Sophia. Tempted to touch New York : Dafina, 2010. Call Number: F SHAW-S Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Women interior decorators Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Shoneyin, Titilola Alexandrah. The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives 1st ed. New York : William Morrow, c2010. Call Number: F SHONE-T Owned by: MAIN SWASEY Summary: Baba Segi's fourth wife, the young, college-educated Bolanle, sends his household into turmoil, causing his other three wives to become jealous and resentful and to plot her downfall. Wives Nigeria Fiction.Nigeria Fiction. Date added: Aug 09
Showalter, Gena. The darkest passion Don Mills, Ontario : HQN, 2010. Call Number: F SHOWA-G Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL Summary: For weeks, the immortal warrior Aeron has sensed an invisible female presence. An angel--demon-assassin--has been sent to kill him. Or has she? Olivia claims she fell from the heavens, giving up immortality because she couldn't bear to harm him. But trusting--and falling for--Olivia will endanger them all. So how has this mortal with the huge blue eyes already unleashed Aeron's darkest passion?--P. [4] of cover. Gods Fiction. Date added: Aug 09
Shpancer, Noam. The good psychologist : a novel 1st U.S. ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010. Call Number: F SHPAN-N Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH Psychologists Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
Singh, Nalini, 1977- Bonds of justice New York : Berkley Sensation 2010. Call Number: F SINGH-N Owned by: MAIN SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: "Max Shannon is a good cop, one of the best in New York Enforcement. Born with a natural shield that protects him against Psy mental invasions, he knows he has little chance of advancement within the Psy- dominated power structure. The last case he expects to be assigned to is that of a murderer targeting a Psy Councilor's closest advisors. And the last woman he expects to compel him in the most sensual of ways is a Psy on the verge of catastrophic mental fracture."--P. [4] of cover. Telepathy Fiction. Date added: Aug 23
Small, Bertrice. Passionate pleasures New York : New American Library, 2010. Call Number: F SMALL-B Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL S_TACOMA SWASEY Women librarians Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Spear, Terry. To tempt the wolf Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Casablanca, c2009. Call Number: F SPEAR-T Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Werewolves Fiction. Date added: Aug 03
Spear, Terry. Seduced by the wolf Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Casablanca, c2010. Call Number: F SPEAR-T Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Werewolves Fiction. Date added: Aug 10
Stross, Charles. The Fuller memorandum 1st ed. New York : Ace Books, 2010. Call Number: F STROS-C Owned by: MAIN MOORE WHEELOCK Summary: While recovering a missing top secret dossier that his boss is accused of stealing, British super spy Bob Howard must safely navigate Russian agents, ancient demons, and an undead entity called the Eater of Souls. Howard, Bob (Fictitious character) Fiction.Great Britain Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Stuart, Julia. The tower, the zoo, and the tortoise 1st American ed. New York : Doubleday, c2010. Call Number: F STUAR-J Owned by: MAIN Summary: When Balthazar Jones is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower of London's walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly running smoothly. Then his wife Hebe decides to leave him and his beloved tortoise "runs" away. Zoo keepers Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Styles. Invincible : a novel New York : One World Trade Paperbacks-Ballantine Books, c2010. Call Number: F STYLE Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL S_TACOMA Prisoners Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Swann, S. Andrew. Wolf's cross New York : Spectra/Ballantine Books, c2010. Call Number: F SWANN-S Owned by: MAIN MOORE Werewolves Fiction.Poland Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Sympathy for the Devil San Francisco : Night Shade, 2010. Call Number: F SYMPA Owned by: MAIN Devil Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Teicher, Craig Morgan, 1979- Cradle book : stories & fables 1st ed. Rochester, N.Y. : Boa Editions, 2010. Call Number: F TEICH-C Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH Date added: Aug 11
Tem, Steve Rasnic, 1950- In concert : the collected speculative fiction of Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem. Lakewood, Colo. : Centipede Press, 2010. Call Number: F TEM-S Owned by: MAIN Date added: Aug 25
Thomas, Jodi. Welcome to Harmony Berkley mass-market ed. New York : Berkley Books, 2010. Call Number: F THOMA-J Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL MOORE S_TACOMA SWASEY Summary: "Sixteen-year-old runaway Reagan has always wanted a place to belong. She's never had a real home of her own, but perhaps she could borrow someone else's. Under an assumed name and identity, she moves to Harmony, Texas, but keeps her distance from the welcoming townsfolk. Until prairie fires threaten Harmony--and Reagan learns the true meaning of family, friends, and home" -- from publisher's web site. Runaway teenagers Fiction.Texas Fiction. Date added: Aug 09
Tranter, Kirsten. The legacy : a novel 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed. New York, NY : Washington Square Press, 2010. Call Number: F TRANT-K Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH WHEELOCK Australians New York (State) New York Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Turtledove, Harry. West and east : the war that came early 1st ed. New York : Del Rey, c2010. Call Number: F TURTL-H Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING KOBETICH MOORE S_TACOMA WHEELOCK Summary: An alternate history of World War II continues to explore what would have happened in the lives of leaders, soldiers, and civilians had Great Britain's Neville Chamberlain not appeased Hitler. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Vance, Lee. The garden of betrayal 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: F VANCE-L Owned by: MAIN Summary: Manhattan, 2002. Mark has it all: Claire, the love of his life; two beautiful children; a high-powered Wall Street job. Until one night while on a neighborhood errand by himself, his twelve-year-old son, Kyle, vanishes: brutally snatched off the streets of New York. Nine years later, on the same day that a natural gas pipeline in Russia is blown up be terrorists, a new lead opens up in Kyle's case. There can't possibly be a connection... can there? Kidnapping Fiction. Date added: Aug 16
Vanderbes, Jennifer. Strangers at the feast : a novel 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2010. Call Number: F VANDE-J Owned by: MAIN KING Summary: A riveting second novel that unfolds over the course of Thanksgiving Day as two families are connected by a horrific crime. Thanksgiving Day Fiction. Date added: Aug 12
VanderMeer, Jeff. The third bear 1st ed. San Francisco, Calif. : Tachyon, 2010. Call Number: F VANDE-J Owned by: MAIN Summary: A collection of Jeff VanderMeer's surreal and absurdist short fiction. Fantasy fiction, American. Date added: Aug 16
Vaughn, Carrie. Kitty goes to war 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2010. Call Number: F VAUGH-C Owned by: MAIN MOORE Summary: "Kitty Norville, alpha werewolf and host of The Midnight Hour, a radio call-in show, is contacted by a friend at the NIH's Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology. Three army soldiers recently returned from the war in Afghanistan are being held at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs,. They're killer werewolves--and post-traumatic stress has left them unable to control their shape-shifting and unable to interact with people. Kitty agrees to see them, hoping to help by bringing them into her pack. Meanwhile, Kitty gets sued for libel by CEO Harold Franklin after featuring Speedy Mart--his nationwide chain of twenty-four-hour convenience stores with a reputation for attracting supernatural unpleasantness--on her show. Very bad weather is on the horizon."--P. [4] of cover. Norville, Kitty (Fictitious character) Fiction. Date added: Aug 03
Waldman, Ayelet. Red Hook Road : a novel 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2010. Call Number: F WALDM-A Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KOBETICH MOORE Summary: After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families are left to bridge stark class and cultural divides, and eventually forge deep-rooted bonds thanks to the twin deities of love and music. Becca's family is well off, from New York, and summers in Red Hook, Maine, a small coastal town where John's blue-collar single mother, Jane, cleans houses for a living. They interact, awkwardly, over how to bury the couple, the staging of an anniversary party, and over Jane's adopted niece, whose amazing musical talent makes a connection to Becca's ailing grandfather, a virtuoso violinist, who agrees to give her lessons. Becca's younger sister, Ruthie, a Fulbright scholar, meanwhile, falls in love with John's younger brother, Matt, the first Tetherly to go to college, before he drops out to work at a boatyard and finish restoring his brother's sailboat, which he plans on sailing to the Caribbean. Weddings Fiction. Date added: Aug 10
Walsh, Sheila, 1956- Angel song : a novel Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2010. Call Number: F WALSH-S Owned by: MOORE Date added: Aug 26
Washburn, Frances. The sacred white turkey Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010. Call Number: F WASHB-F Owned by: MAIN Women Fiction. Date added: Aug 26
Weisberger, Lauren, 1977- Last night at Chateau Marmont : a novel 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, c2010. Call Number: F WEISB-L Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York -- she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success -- and their life changes for ever. Julian's new-found fame means that Brooke must face the savage attentions of the ruthless paparazzi. And when a scandalous picture hits the front pages, Brooke's world is turned upside down. Musicians Fiction.Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 03
Weisgarber, Ann. The personal history of Rachel DuPree 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2010, c2008. Call Number: F WEISG-A Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands and the summer has been hard. Rachel and Isaac DuPree had left Chicago fourteen years ago to stake their claim. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle are bellowing with thirst, and supplies have dwindled. Struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She is determined to give her surviving children the life they deserve, but Isaac will never leave his ranch: land means a measure of equality with the white man. Rachel must find the strength to do what is right--for her children, for her husband, and for herself. African American women Fiction.Badlands (S.D. and Neb.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
White, Karen (Karen S.) On Folly Beach New York : New American Library, c2010. Call Number: F WHITE-K Owned by: MAIN Summary: Folly Beach, South Carolina, has survived despite hurricanes and war. But it's the personal battles of Folly Beach's residents that have left the most scars, and why a young widow has been beckoned there to heal her own. To most people, Folly Beach is simply the last barrier island before reaching the great Atlantic. To some, it's a sanctuary for lost souls, which is why Janie Hamilton's mother encourages her to buy the local bookstore, Folly's Finds, hoping it will distract Janie from the loss of her husband. Janie is at first resistant. So much has already changed. But after finding love letters and an image of a beautiful bottle tree in a box of used books from Folly's Finds, she decides to take the plunge. But the seller insists on one condition: Janie must allow Lulu, the late owner's sister, to continue selling her bottle trees from the store's backyard. For the most part Janie ignores Lul, and sifts through the love letters. But the more she discovers about the letters, the more she understand Bookstores South Carolina Folly Beach Fiction.Folly Beach (S.C.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 30
White, Kiersten. Paranormalcy 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2010. Call Number: F WHITE-K Owned by: MAIN Summary: When a dark prophecy begins to come true, sixteen-year-old Evie of the International Paranormal Containment Agency must not only try to stop it, she must also uncover its connection to herself and the alluring shapeshifter, Lend. Supernatural Fiction. Date added: Aug 28
Wiesel, Elie, 1928- The Sonderberg case : a novel 1st American ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: F WIESE-E Owned by: MAIN Summary: Ruminating on his past relationships with the men in his family, New York city theater critic Yedidyah is assigned to cover the murder trial of a German expatriate whose enigmatic plea triggers Yedidyah's own revelations. Theater critics New York (State) New York Fiction. Date added: Aug 25
Williams, Brittani. Black Diamond 2 : Nicety Deer Park, NY : Urban Books ; East Rutherford, NJ : Distributed by Kensington Pub. Corp., c2010. Call Number: F WILLI-B Owned by: MAIN SWANCREEK Summary: When a fast-talking corner hustler named Money swoops in and becomes Black's partner, his soldiers become jealous, Black gets locked behind bars, and Money sets his plan in motion to seduce Diamond and take Black's place. African Americans Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Williams, Karen, 1959- Dirty to the grave New York : Urban, 2010. Call Number: F WILLI-K Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH SWANCREEK Female friendship Fiction. Date added: Aug 19
Winslow, Don, 1953- Savages 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call Number: F WINSL-D Owned by: MAIN MOORE WHEELOCK Drug dealers Fiction.Laguna Beach (Calif.) Fiction. Date added: Aug 04
Zane. The hot box : a novel 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2010. Call Number: F ZANE Owned by: MAIN SWANCREEK Summary: Best friends Milena and Lydia are playing their own game of "Hot box" with Jacour, Yosef, Glenn, and Phil. The only problem: the men do not realize that they are playing. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
Zeltserman, Dave, 1959- The caretaker of Lorne Field 1st ed. New York : Overlook Press, 2010. Call Number: F ZELTS-D Owned by: MAIN KOBETICH SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: Jack Durkin is the ninth generation of Durkins who have for nearly 300 years weeded Lorne Field. It's an important job, though no one else seems to realize it. For, if the field is left untended, a horrific monster called an Aukowie will grow---a monster capable of taking over the entirety of America in just two weeks. Or so it is said .... Carnivorous plants Fiction. Date added: Aug 18
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