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Alive and well as a vampire in the modern world, literary master Jane Austen anonymously runs a bookshop in sleepy upstate New York but despairs of publishing a centuries-old manuscript that has been rejected dozens of times, a situation that is further compromised when she falls in love.

Sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to travel to Texas, where horrible childhood memories resurface and Harper discovers what happened to her missing sister.

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.

Relegated to the care of an eccentric great-aunt after her mentally unbalanced mother’s accidental death, 12-year-old CeeCee is quickly surrounded by the strong women and cultural elements of her new Savannah community.

Living with her father in a nature preserve in Portland, Oregon, thirteen-year-old Caroline only merges with the civilized world once a week when they go into the city, but an encounter with a backcountry jogger derails their entire existence.

Describes the author’s early adulthood divorce, which paralleled the experiences of many of her peers and reflected her generation’s predilection toward “starter marriages” influenced by childhood examples, the dating scene and adolescent experimentation.

Capturing the harsh realities of life in modern-day Afghanistan and plight of Afghan women, the Norwegian journalist provides a portrait of a committed Muslim man, a bookseller, and his family living in post-Taliban Kabul, Afghanistan.

After his wife is diagnosed with cancer, Shep Knacker sees his dream of retiring to a developing country slip away, along with all the money in his once-plentiful bank account, as he tries to navigate America’s labyrinthine health-care system. By the best-selling author of The Post-Birthday World.

An artist and musician recounts her romance, lifetime friendship and shared love of art with Robert Mapplethorpe, in an illustrated memoir that includes a colorful cast of characters, including Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, William Burroughs and more

Discovering that his apartment has been blown up by would-be killers who subsequently target him with guns, gambler Charlie Clark figures out that his Alzheimer’s patient father was once a legendary spy for the CIA and was part of an operation that sold faulty nuclear technology to terrorists.

When Valentine Roncalli discovers a long lost shoe design, a family secret unravels that helps her take control of the company from a conniving relative, but first she seeks the counsel, and more, of her ex-fiancee, Bret Fitzpatrick, to help re-boot the business while she pursues a hot romance with a handsome Italian from her past. By the best-selling author of Very Valentine.