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Strong enough to die
Jon Land.
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351 p. ; 25 cm.
Caitlin Strong is a fifth-generation Texas Ranger--until a deadly shoot-out along the Mexican border causes her to question her calling. Caitlin's renewed investigation into the truth behind the bloody firefight uncovers a terrifying plot that threatens the very core of the country.
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Summer in Tuscany
Elizabeth Adler.
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356 p. ; 21 cm.
An American woman discovers the magic of Tuscany in this delightful novel from the acclaimed author of "The Last Time I Saw Paris."
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Summer on Blossom Street
Debbie Macomber.
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361 p. ; 25 cm.
Knitting and life. They're both about beginnings - and endings. That's why it makes sense for Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle's Blossom Street, to offer a class called Knit to Quit. It's for people who want to quit something - or someone! - and start a new phase of their lives.First to join is Phoebe Rylander. She recently ended her engagement to a man who doesn't know the meaning of faithful, and she's trying to get over him. Then there's Alix Turner. She and her husband, Jordan, want a baby, which means she has to quit smoking. And Bryan Hutchinson joins the class because he needs a way to deal with the stress of running his family's business - not to mention the lawsuit brought against him by an unscrupulous lawyer. Life can be as complicated as a knitting pattern. Just ask Anne Marie Roche. She and her adopted daughter, Ellen, finally have the happiness they wished for. And then a stranger comes to her bookstore asking questions. Or ask Lydia herself. Not only is she coping with her increasingly frail mother, but she and Brad have unexpectedly become foster parents to an angry, defiant twelve-year-old. But as Lydia already knows, when life gets difficult and your stitches are snarled, your friends can always help!
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Sunnyside
Glen David Gold.
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559 p. ; 25 cm.
Glen David Gold, author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil, now gives us a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, heartrending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity. Sunnyside opens on a winter day in 1916 during which Charlie Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places simultaneously, an extraordinary delusion that forever binds the overlapping fortunes of three men: Leland Wheeler, son of the world's last (and worst) Wild West star, as he finds unexpected love on the battlefields of France; Hugo Black, drafted to fight under the towering General Edmund Ironside in America's doomed expedition against the Bolsheviks; and Chaplin himself, as he faces a tightening vise of complications - studio moguls, questions about his patriotism, his unchecked heart, and, most menacing of all, his mother. The narrative is as rich and expansive as the ground it covers, and it is cast with a dazzling roster of both real and fictional characters: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Adolph Zukor, Chaplin's (first) child bride, a thieving Girl Scout, the secretary of the treasury, a lovesick film theorist, three Russian princesses (gracious, nervous, and nihilist), a crew of fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants moviemakers, legions of starstruck fans, and Rin Tin Tin. By turns lighthearted and profound, Sunnyside is an altogether spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition, and the dawn of the modern age.
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Sylvester
Georgette Heyer ; with a foreword by Joan Wolf.
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v, 348 p. ; 21 cm.
"Sylvester" is one of the best of Georgette Heyer's books. It showcases all her dazzling talent and contains some of her most memorable and delightful characters."--"USA Today"-bestselling author Joan Wolf. Reissue.
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Talisman ring
Georgette Heyer.
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303 p. ; 21 cm.
Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor Eustacie, his young French cousin, share the slightest inclination to marry one another. Yet it is Lord Lavenham's dying wish. For there is no one else to provide for the old man's granddaughter while Ludovic, his heir, remains a fugitive from justice.
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A trace of smoke
Rebecca Cantrell.
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300 p. ; 25 cm.
Starred Review. Cantrell's debut offers up a grittily realistic portrayal of 1930s Berlin as the Nazis come to power. While covering her usual crime beat, newspaper reporter Hannah Vogel unexpectedly spots a photo of her brother Ernst in the Alexanderplatz Police Station on a wall displaying pictures of the unclaimed dead. Ernst had been living a high-profile life as a gay man, performing in a cabaret and exposing himself to danger by associating with known Nazis. Though barely getting by in a time when money and resources are scarce, Hannah risks it all by launching a solo investigation to find her brother's murderer. She is unable to confide in even her closest friends lest they be targeted by corrupt police or Nazis. Keeping the suspense high, Cantrell does an excellent job of projecting the fear of the time through her characters. Sure to appeal to fans of Alan Furst and other noir historical thrillers; strongly recommended.Caroline Mann, Univ. of Portland Lib., OR Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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The true love Messiah : an adventure of biblical proportions
David Isbell.
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256 p. ; 24 cm.
Whisked away on an around-the-world, non-stop adventure, readers are ultimately invited to make a pilgrimage of their own. Join in the magic of The True Love Messiah and journey to far-away lands, holy places, and undergo a spiritual metamorphosis that will change life forever and have readers jumping up and down, shouting for joy, screaming at the top of their lungs, "Hallelujah!"
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Twilight of Avalon : a novel of Trystan & Isolde
by Anna Elliott.
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x, 430 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Hardly a generation after King Arthur's court has had its downfall, Queen Isolde grieves for her slain husband, the High King Constantine, Arthur's heir. Only Isolde knows that Constantine was murdered, and that Marche, his murderer and the scheming frontrunner for the High King's throne, has betrayed his people to an alliance with the Saxon invaders. Isolde must fight for her very life as Marche plots to have her tried and executed for witchcraft in order to protect his secrets. One of her few allies is Trystan, a prisoner who is neither Saxon nor Briton, a young man with as lonely and troubled a past, and as strong a will to survive, as her own. Together they escape, and must find a way to prove what they know to be true - that Marche's deceptions will not only cost them their lives, but will jeopardize the future of British rule...
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Under her skin
Susan Mallery.
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328 p. ; 17 cm.
Lexi Titan can just see the headlines. All of Titanville will be buzzing. Not that she has any other choice. Faced with exactly thirty days to come up with two million dollars, she is out of options. Marry Cruz Rodriguez or lose everything--the successful day spa she built herself, her tyrant of a father's respect. And the long-standing competition with her sisters for the family business. Cruz has money, success, smoldering good looks--everything but the blue blood needed to become a true member of Texas society. If Lexi agrees to be his fiancée for six months, lending him her famous father's influence and connections, he'll hand her a check on the spot. And in six months they'll go their separate ways. But neither one is prepared for their long-ago shared passion to throw a wrench into what would seem to be the perfect deal--Publisher's description.
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The unfinished clue
Georgette Heyer.
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321 p. ; 18 cm.
When Sir Arthur Billington-Smith, an abusive wretch hated by everyone from his disinherited son to his wife's stoic would-be lover, is found stabbed to death, no one is particularly grieved and no one has an alibi. The unhappy guests find themselves under the scrutiny of Scotland Yard's coll-headed Inspector Harding, who has solved tough cases before but this time, the talented inspector discovers much more than he has bargained for.
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Unseen
Nancy Bush.
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376 p. ; 18 cm.
Gemma La Porte wakes up in a hospital room, bruised and confused, remembering only her name. Deputy Will Tanninger is waiting for answers, and wants to know if she's responsible for a fatal hit-and-run. Gemma has no choice but to put her trust in Will, but if it turns out she's guilty of murder, he has no choice but to arrest her. Torn by her growing feelings for Will and haunted by her shadowy past, Gemma is determined to learn the truth.
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