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Shadowy operative Shaw and Reggie Campion, a woman working for a secret vigilante group, must work together in a deadly duel of nerve and wits against a surprising enemy, in a struggle that leads them around the world at a breakneck pace.

A young boy living in China at the outbreak of World War II is separated from his wealthy parents, forced to forage for survival in Shanghai’s foreign quarter, interned in a Japanese prison camp, and, eventually, reunited with his family, in a new edition of the award-winning autobiographical novel.

The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States’s entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter.

Befriending a nursing home resident who shares her sense of humor and teaches her to play cards, 15-year-old candy striper Grace is shocked when he asks her to help him die, a wrenching request that compels her to overeat in order to escape her feelings.

Inheriting genes from multi-racial parents that render one sister white and the other black, twins Minerva and Keira find their close relationship tested by a visit to their biased grandmother’s house in the south, where they compete against each other in a pre-teen pageant.

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone has always dreamed of being a great trial lawyer someday, but a sensational murder trial forces him into the arena sooner than expected, and he is determined to see that justice prevails.

Convinced that her brother-in-law was responsible for her sister’s murder, Nora returns to Minnesota when her brother-in-law prepares to marry again; while her sometime partner, Cormac, confronts the return of his estranged father. By the Agatha Award-nominated author of Haunted Ground.

Provides advice to readers with curly hair, including products to use, shampooing and conditioning, and how to style.

The New York Times bestselling author of Pretty in Plaid chronicles her efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment by reading canonical literature, viewing classic films, attending the opera, and researching artisan cheeses.

In 1861, after centuries of isolation, Japan finally has opened its doors to the West, and Lord Genji, a young nobleman with a gift for prophecy, joins forces with a group of Christian missionaries, a mysterious geisha, and a legendary swordsman to embark on a harrowing odyssey toward an ultimate battle.

A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.

Learning of a plot to attack a major peace conference in Scotland, MI5 officer Liz Carlyle follows a series of elusive clues only to realize that the threat is much greater than anticipated and has a potential to permanently destabilize the Middle East.

After high school student Elizabeth, working as a page, gains access to the Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.

Eighty-four-year-old Lily Davis Woodward looks back at a turning point in her life, when she had to choose between her World War II soldier husband and the poor Italian immigrant planning the fireworks display to celebrate the soldiers’ return.

As Grace hides her deep love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel’s heart, but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack.

A New York Times science editor draws on new research to examine the brain’s peak capacity in middle age, explaining how a growth of white matter and brain connectors enables improved judgment, cognitive function and problem solving.

Recently retired after a prestigious career with the NYPD, homicide detective Dave Gurney is pulled back into service when an old college friend receives threatening letters from a murderous sender who has an uncanny ability to read a person’s thoughts.