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In the latest mystery set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a vengeful Grady Service sets out to find the killer responsible for the deaths of his girlfriend and son, along with conservation officers throughout the Midwest, racing against time to track the murderer through Wisconsin and Missouri to stop him before he becomes the next victim.

Gathering for their weekly knitting club at a small yarn shop on Manhattan’s upper west side, a group of friends shares such challenges as raising children, navigating the ups and downs of their education and careers, and pursuing uncertain relationships.

A thought-provoking study of what would happen to Earth if the human presence was removed from the equation examines our short-term and long-term legacy for the planet, from the objects of today’s world that would vanish without human intervention to those that would become long-lasting remnants of humankind.

Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf, deciding to tell no one, sets out to fulfill his greatest fantasies, while pondering his life’s purpose and legacy, and conversing through dreams with a spiritual guide known as “Hey-Soos.”

Living in the Lorraine region of France with her two small children and a neglectful husband, American travel writer Meg Parker receives the assignment of a lifetime when she is asked to write a guidebook on French history, but her joy is tempered when she discovers that she must deal with Jean-Jacques, the scruffy, bossy photographer who has also been assigned to the project.

The leader, and only survivor, of a team of U.S. Navy SEALs sent to northern Afghanistan to capture a well-known al Qaeda leader chronicles the events of the battle that killed his teammates and offers insight into the training of this elite group of warriors.

The organizational advisor for TLC’s Clean Sweep outlines a program for home organization and clutter elimination as a means of reducing stress, in a reference that makes step-by-step recommendations for addressing related psychological obstacles.

Jack Plank, a pirate who is no good at being a pirate, searches the town of Saltwash for another profession, but manages to find something wrong with every suggested job.

A new work by the best-selling author of The Christmas Box and Finding Noel is an uplifting tale of hope and faith that celebrates the joy of the season and follows a theme of the redemptive power of love.

Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.

Through a series of poems, Rachel expresses her feelings about her parents’ divorce, living without her mother, and her changing attitude towards her father.

In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy.

Having been the most popular guy at school with the meanest and most egotistical attitude, Kyle Kingsbury is punished by a witch and turned into a beast who now must find his true love and make her accept him as he is in order to break the curse and return him to being the man he once was.

Convinced that her beloved twenty-eight-year-old son was killed in spite of a police ruling that he committed suicide, archaeologist Louise Cantor travels throughout the world in search of answers, an endeavor marked by additional murders, dangerous secrets, and sobering truths about the African AIDS epidemic.

A successful caterer in Bascomb, North Carolina, Claire has always remained tied to the long and magical legacy of the Waverly family, until her peaceful life is transformed by Tyler Hughes, an art teacher and new next-door neighbor, and by the return of her prodigal sister, Sydney, who has arrived with her five-year-old daughter, Bay.

On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations, capturing the imaginations of thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers with the London adventures of a young orphan named Pip.

Now that the world is in a complete cultural renaissance, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but Aya knows that would propel her into celebrity — a status she’s not prepared for.

After settling in at the House of Night and becoming more comfortable with her vast powers, fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird faces a horrible crisis as human teenagers are becoming victims of a wave of murders and the House of Night becomes the prime suspect.

Concerned over the vast distances food travels before it hits the dinner plate, the authors describe their determination to eat only foods grown locally or produced within a one-hundred-mile radius of their home, sharing their reflections on the satisfaction of eating home-grown food, the benefits and pitfalls of local eating, season recipes, and more.

Although saddened at having to leave the family he loves, the immigrant is certain that moving to the new land is the right thing to do and so ventures off to a strange land to begin a life that will hopefully reap the rewards he seeks through his sacrifice, hard work, and determination.

The best-selling author of A Walk in the Woods and I’m a Stranger Here Myself describes his all-American childhood growing up as a member of the baby boom generation in the heart of Iowa, detailing his rich fantasy life as a superhero known as the Thunderbolt Kid and his his remarkably normal 1950s family life.

The founders of a bio-remediation company known as Aftermath, Inc. describe how it was formed to provide professional services to families of suicide and homicide victims after the police leave, in an account that shares the stories of some of their moreremarkable cases.

In an entertaining and inspirational memoir of living with Asperger’s Syndrome, the author describes life growing up different in an unusual family, his unusual talents, his struggle to live a “normal” life, his diagnosis at the age of forty with Asperger’s, and the dramatic changes that have occurred since that diagnosis.

Mara, appointed as judge and lawgiver by King Turlough Don O’Brien, arrives in a small independent kingdom on the west coast of Ireland, a land that lives according to the ancient Celtic laws of their ancestors, to investigate the mysterious death of her assistant during a traditional May Day festival, in a mystery set in sixteenth-century Ireland.