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Carl continues her “Chocoholic” (Crime de Cocoa ) series this time in hardcover with a holiday treat. Lee McKinney Woodyard, who runs an upscale chocolate store in a Michigan tourist town, finds herself coordinating the local holiday art festival. When the guest juror ends up dead, Lee and her husband do some amateur sleuthing.

“Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows” illuminates how cooking shows have both reflected and shaped significant changes in American culture and will explore why it is that just about everybody still finds them irresistible.

Discusses the school shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, reflecting on the killers’ histories and and the portrayal of the event by the media.

The actress describes her life after she moved with her husband, Josiah, and her two young sons from New York City to Oberlin, Ohio, where her husband got a teaching job, and how he left her and the children a few months later.

Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author’s own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett’s final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle.

Vividly imagines forty stories, one for each time the river Thames has frozen solid and based on actual events that occurred each time, from Queen Matilda trying to escape her besieged castle in a snowstorm, to King Henry VIII riding across the ice highway while plotting to rid himself of Anne Boleyn.

When he suffers a near fatal accident, Jack Perdu, a shy, ninth-grade Classics prodigy, is sent to New York City where he meets a young girl who, showing him the secrets of Grand Central Station, leads him to a ghostly underworld where he gets a chance to see his late mother one last time.

Precious Ramotswe tries to recover her trusty white van after her husband sells it and replaces it with a characterless modern vehicle, while The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency tries to discover if a local football team’s games are fixed.

Robert Rodi is a self-proclaimed Blue-stater who prefers fine wine and Italian literature (in Italian) to SUVs and suburban sprawl. His dog Dusty’s scrawny build and skittish personality make him an unnatural competitor. Nevertheless, Rodi recounts a year filled with victories, failures, and hysterical personalities, and the loving bond between one man and his bug-eyed dog.

Recounts the author’s semester investigating Liberty University, the late Jerry Falwell’s fundamentalist evangelical training college, describing how he and his classmates were instructed in the ways of strict biblical literalism.

Offered a career-making writing deal from an enigmatic publisher in turbulent 1960s Barcelona, David Martin wonders about his capacity for writing a book for which the publisher claims others will live and die, an assignment throughout which David struggles with a forbidden love. By the author of The Shadow of the Wind.

After she is given a reprieve from her death sentence, Yelena faces mounting disasters as rebels plot to seize Ixia, her life is once again threatened, and the chief of security is attempting to poison her.

Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.

Leaving her home in post-World War II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey discovers a new romance in America with a charming blond Italian man before devastating news threatens her happiness.