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Freak
by Marcella PixleyFor Miriam Fisher, a budding poet who reads the Oxford English Dictionary for fun, seventh grade is a year etched in her memory "clear as pain." That's the year her older sister, Deborah, once her best buddy and fellow "alien," bloomed like a beautiful flower and joined the high school in-crowd. That's the year high school senior Artie Rosenberg, the "hottest guy in the drama club" and, Miriam thinks, her soul mate, comes to live with Miriam's family. And that's the year the popular "watermelon girls" turn up the heat in their cruel harassment of Miriam--ripping her life wide open in shocking, unexpected ways. Teased and taunted in school, Miriam is pushed toward breaking, until, in a gripping climax, she finds the inner strength to prove she's a force to be reckoned with. This riveting first novel introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine, an outsider who dares to confront the rigid conformity of junior high, and in the process manages not only to save herself but to inspire and transform others.
Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
by Elizabeth D. SametElizabeth D. Samet and her students learned to romanticize the army "through the stories of their fathers and from the movies." For Samet, it was the old World War II movies she used to watch on TV, while her students grew up on Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan. Unlike their teacher, however, these students, cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, have decided to turn make-believe into real life. West Point is a world away from Yale, where Samet attended graduate school and where nothing sufficiently prepared her for teaching literature to young men and women training to fight a war. Intimate and poignant, Soldier's Heart chronicles the various tensions inherent in that life as well as the ways in which war has transformed Samet's relationship to literature. Fighting in Iraq, Samet's former students share what books and movies mean to them-the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the fiction of Virginia Woolf and M. Coetzee, the epics of Homer, or the films of Bogart and Cagney. Their letters in turn prompt Samet to wonder exactly what she owes to cadets in the classroom. Samet arrived at West Point before September 11, 2001, and has seen the academy change dramatically. In Soldier's Heart, she reads this transformation through her own experiences and those of her students. Forcefully examining what it means to be teaching literature at a military academy, the role of women in the army, the tides of religious and political zeal roiling the country, the uses of the call to patriotism, and the cult of sacrifice she believes is currently paralyzing national debate. Ultimately, Samet offers an honest and original reflection on the relationship between art and life.
Girl's Guide to Witchcraft
by Mindy KlaskyWhich is more unlikely? Meeting a single, straight, reasonably attractive, willing-to-commit man? Or discovering a secret cache of magic books? For good girl Jane Madison, neither has a shot in hell of coming true-until the day she finds a hidden room.... Now she's done a bit of experimenting and found a spell that makes her irresistible to men-even those who have previously ignored her. And another that turns a cat into her witch's familiar (a snarky, critical, self-absorbed man-pretty much a typical male). Though her impulsive acts of magic have brought a warder (sexy, grouchy, elusive, and determined to stop her from using magic) down on her, Jane's not willing to let go of this fantastic new life. Though she wonders about having things that aren't "real," she's having too much fun to stop. After all, no one ever said being a witch was easy....
Single Dad Sheriff
by Lisa ChildsWhen little Tommy Phillips walks into the Forest Glen sheriff's office and asks Chance Drayton to find his dad, the lawman's heart goes out to him. As a single father, he knows what it's like to be far away from your family. Then he meets Tommy's attractive mother and knows he's really in trouble! Jessie knows how badly Tommy wants a father. And he thinks he's found one in the sheriff. Jessie has to admit, the sexy, six-two ex-Marine is irresistible. He's also involved in a custody battle that could see him moving to Chicago to be closer to his son. Now, with the whole town playing matchmaker, Jessie and Chance know they have to do what's best for their boys. Which could end up surprising them all!
Firefighter Daddy
by Lee MckenzieWidowed firefighter Mitch Donovan isn't looking for a replacement wife. He's concentrating on working hard. Making a stable home for his little girl. Then along comes Rory Borland. His daughter's teacher is an unpredictable free spirit who challenges his ideas about fatherhood and makes him think about things he didn't even know he wanted. Like her. Rory loves kids--that's why the job teaching at an inner-city San Francisco school is her dream come true. But the last thing on her mind is a family of her own when she meets her young student's hunky dad. She's his daughter's teacher, not a stand-in mother. So what are they to do about the smoldering attraction between them?Will they both realize that what they want is within their grasp. . . before it bursts into flames?
The Firefighter's Secret Baby
by Anna DestefanoOne night has big consequences. She's a captivating woman who catches his eye immediately. They spend one steamy night together. But in the morning, she's gone. Nine months later, firefighter Randy Montgomery is the first emergency responder on the scene of an accident. And as he pulls a very pregnant woman from the wreck, he recognizes her--Sam Gianfranco. What a twisted sense of humor fate has. Because not only is Sam about to give birth, but she's also in a pile of trouble. Police protection and bad-guy chases kind of trouble. Another man would walk away. Not Randy. A single glance at Sam and his baby, and he's in this for the long haul. And he'll do whatever it takes to keep all of them safe.
O'Hurley's Return: Skin Deep, and Without a Trace
by Nora RobertsThe O'Hurley family saga concludes with a combination of passion, danger and heartfelt emotion that only #1 New York Times&USA TODAY bestselling author Nora Roberts can provide. Skin Deep: Regrets. Even movie stars have them. Chantel O'Hurley's family was far away, her mansion was empty, and when she was threatened, there was no one to turn to. There was certainly no comfort in Quinn Doran. He looked like he'd been carved out of stone and he was just as intractable. But in that hardness was a promise: "I will keep you safe. I will bring you home." But could she get him to stay? Without a Trace: Redemption. With everything he'd seen and done, Trace O'Hurley was way past that. And nothing the flame-haired Irish beauty Gillian Fitzpatrick said could change the fact that he was just a disillusioned man with nothing left to lose. But somehow Gillian made him believe that he could do the impossible--rescue her family, take down a terrorist organization. Ask for forgiveness. Be one of the O'Hurleys again. At last.
Worth the Risk
by Nora RobertsA #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers two classic tales of the risks taken for love in this single volume. Includes "Partners" and "The Art of Deception." Reissue.
Western Skies: Song of the West, and Boundary Lines
by Nora RobertsSong of the West: The towering mountains and windswept plains of Wyoming are truly beautiful. But Samantha Evans has absolutely no intention of staying--until she meets devastatingly handsome Jake Tanner. Suddenly the idea of leaving isn't quite so appealing. Samantha is torn between a lifelong dream and her feelings for this intriguing man when a blizzard strikes and she's stranded with him. Is Mother Nature trying to tell her something? Maybe she should listen! But when threatened by a common enemy, feisty JillianBoundary Lines: A feud has been simmering for years between two Montana families, and Jillian Baron and Aaron Murdock seem determined to carry it into another generation. and irresistible Aaron become uneasy allies. Soon the battle waged within their own hearts pits their historical mistrust against a clear and present passion. Might the Barons and the Murdocks finally find common ground and form a very special union? Just take a step over the line....
Restored To Death (A Judge Jackson Crain Mystery #1)
by Nancy BellTORN Between raising his precocious teenage daughter and dodging the matchmaking of the local busybodies, Jackson Crain devotes himself to the curious peccadilloes of being a judge in tiny Post Oak, Texas. Aside from the occasional brawl or beating, hard crime here is rare. That changes when Dora Hughes, Jackson's shrewish sister-in-law, is bludgeoned and strangled to death while sunbathing on her patio. Dora's henpecked husband, Ron, is accused of the crime. The man had been carrying on with .a perky local waitress, and had demanded a divorce just before Dora died. But the case evolves into something decidedly sinister when a second body, a teenage girl, is found in a cornfield. And when Jackson connects both victims to a beautiful, exotic newcomer to Post Oak- a woman to whom he is dangerously attracted- the hunt for a clever killer exposes shattering secrets guaranteed to leave even the local gossips speechless.
Just the Fax, Ma'am (Molly Masters #2)
by Leslie O'KaneMolly Masters gets her kids and husband off to school and work, pours herself a cup of coffee, and the doorbell rings. At the door is the father of her kids' favourite babysitter, bringing her a thousand-dollar check as payment for a cartoon of hers that he sold to a pornography magazine. After she throws him out of her house, a package is delivered containing dog doo and a nasty note from a womens' group against pornography. Less than five minutes later, the phone rings and Molly is summoned by a woman she doesn't like, because her husband has been murdered, the same man who sold her cartoon to the porn magazine begging for Molly's help. Thus begins Molly's search to find a killer.
Genealogy of Murder: A Deb Ralston Mystery
by Lee MartinWhen it comes to murder, mothering, and missing persons, Detective Deb Ralston is the woman for the job. In this, her twelfth case, Deb is called in to untangle a case of mistaken identity - or is it? First, an extra body is discovered among other cadavers that make up an ongoing forensics experiment. Then, Marvin Tutwiler, a local genealogist, turns up missing. Is the body his? If not, then whose is it? And where is the genealogist? Before Deb can figure out this mess, Matilda Greenwood, her close friend and researcher for the missing Marvin Tutwiler, disappears herself. Tracing Matilda and Marvin's work only confuses the issue: it seems that Marvin has racked up quite a number of unhappy ex-wives, ex-fiancees, and ex-girlfriends. Could one of them have been involved? It promises to take all of Deb's famous courage in the face of a crisis, her detecting instincts, and the help of her husband, Harry, to find her friend before it's too late. FROM THE CRITICS Kirkus Reviews Hours after finding a freshly embalmed John Doe smuggled in among the other participants in an experiment on cadaveric decomposition, Fort Worth Det. Deb Ralston (Bird in a Cage, 1995, etc.) hears her friend Matilda Greenwood complain that Marvin Tutwiler, the genealogist who hired her to help him write his latest book, has disappeared. But there's no evidence that John Doe ever lived in Tutwiler's apartment. Before Deb can establish just who John Doe is, though, Tutwiler's place is burgled; so is his fiancée's; so is Matilda's. Then the fiancée is killed and Matilda kidnapped, obviously by somebody who's really interested in all that genealogical research. So far, so good; but Martin's 12th novel supplies only the pettiest motive for the villain's enterprising crime spree. Below average for the series.
Hacker
by Lee MartinIn this eighth outing for Fort Worth policewoman Deb Ralston, 2 murder victims seem to be connected by a computer virus, a virus that also appears on Deb's home computer. Is the young man living with them a clueless kid or an ax murderer? Meanwhile, Deb's son's girlfriend lies in the hospital, the victim of a hit and run driver. Can Deb solve the crimes, help Lorie, and keep her baby from eating from their dog's food dish without losing her mind?
Crossing the Line
by Lauren Baratz-LogstedThe only way to come clean with everyone you've lied to- and if you've lied to nearly everyone in your life--is to come clean all at once. So what did I do? I threw a party, a New Year's Day party to launch my new life. And so Jane Taylor comes clean. In fact, the new, wiser and gentler Jane tries to legally adopt the baby she found abandoned in a basket on Christmas Eve, Emma-who happens to be black. Amid rigorous interviews with the well-packaged caseworker from Social Services, and trying to explain to the rest of the world (namely her mother) how Emma came about, Jane decides that giving Emma a strong cultural heritage is first up on her list of mommy duties. She manages to befriend a woman who invites Jane and Emma to her all-black play group. Never one to walk the straight path, Jane navigates motherhood (and racial identity) with aplomb- much to the surprise of her friends and family. Satirical, sassy and sometimes serious, Crossing the Line dares to delve into the unconventional world of familial and found relationships. In The Thin Pink Line, Jane draws a line that changes her life forever; here, she crosses the line--between singlehood and motherhood,between black and white, between what's expected and what's due.
Sheriff Needs a Nanny (Baby on Board Series)
by Teresa CarpenterWanted: Levelheaded nanny to look after tiny baby. Smart, efficient, ordered. Experience of working with stubborn single dads an asset! Found! Fun-loving, sweet, pretty former kindergarten teacher Nikki Rhodes. Excellent with babies (so good she'd make the perfect mother)!Hired?Not likely! Sheriff Trace Oliver is a man of order and military precision--parenting is no different from policing! Is it?
And Babies Make Ten
by Lisa BinghamCasey moves from Manhattan to a small town to be the part-time assistant to the local pastor when she discovers that she is pregnant with twins and needs a quieter lifestyle than her city life would afford. On her first evening in town, the pastor receives a special postal delivery of quintuplets. When Casey realizes that she has fallen in love with Stephen, she is afraid to reveal her pregnancy. She is afraid that two more children will turn their prospective relationship into a nonrelationship. But Stephen surprises her and himself.
Capitol Offense (Ben Kincaid Series #17)
by William BernhardtIn his thrilling novels of suspense, William Bernhardt takes us into the fault lines of the criminal system, where one mistake, a twist of fate, or an explosive secret can mean the difference between justice and its cataclysmic undoing. In Capitol Offense, attorney Ben Kincaid stands amid the chaos of a violent collision between vengeance and death--and it's up to him to discover where the truth lies. Professor Dennis Thomas arrives at the law office of Ben Kincaid with a bizarre request: Thomas wants to know if Kincaid can help him beat a murder charge--of a killing yet to happen. The professor's intended victim: a Tulsa cop who had refused to authorize a search for Thomas's missing wife. For seven days, Joslyn Thomas had lain in the twisted wreckage of her car, dying a horrifically slow death in an isolated ravine. Now, insane with grief, Thomas wants to kill Detective Christopher Sentz. Kincaid warns him not to, but that very same day someone fires seven bullets into the police officer. Suddenly Kincaid's conversation with Thomas is privileged and Thomas is begging Kincaid to defend him. Thomas claims he didn't shoot Sentz--even though he'd wanted to. Something about the bookish, addled Dennis Thomas tugs on Kincaid's conscience, and against all advice he decides to represent this troubled man in the center of a media and political firestorm. But the trial doesn't go Kincaid's way, and a verdict of capital murder is bearing down on Dennis Thomas?' That's when Kincaid's personal private detective) Loving,. starts prying loose pieces of a shocking secret. Working shadows of the law, using every trick that Loving risks his life to construct an entirely narrative about Detective Sentz, Joslyn Thomas, and madness in another guise: the kind that every citizen should fear, and no one will recognize--until it is too late." There are over fifteen more novels in the Ben Kincaid series in the Bookshare collection. Kincaid is an Oklahoman lawyer with a mission to prove to his father that in pursuing his career as a defense lawyer, he can make the world a better place, one case at a time.
The Alpine Christmas (Emma Lord Series #3)
by Mary DaheimChristmas in the town of Alpine means fresh snow, carolers, even a sleigh. But then the discovery of a woman's leg in the lake, along with that of another young woman's nude, half-frozen body, deflates everyone's high spirits. But as Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, follows up on the story, the bits and pieces of the young women who keep turning up start adding up to a murder scheme so sinister it may well land Emma on her own obituary page ...
With Friends Like These (Amanda Pepper Mystery #4)
by Gillian Roberts[From the book jacket:] "This time around, Broadway has come to Philadelphia in the form of Lyle Zacharias, a well-known playwright, TV producer, and millionaire. Lyle is throwing himself a lavish birthday party in the city where he was born, complete with current wife, ex-wives, former partners, former friends, and Amanda Pepper's own irrepressible parents. Unfortunately for Amanda, Mr. Pepper is sidelined with an injury, and Amanda is drafted to accompany her mother. Once in the party spirit, it only takes a bit of chitchat for Amanda to discover that few of the guests have a nice word for the man of the hour. But when, in the middle of his speech, Lyle drops dead, it appears the likely perpetrator is Bea Pepper, whose birthday gift was fifty delicious, but apparently poisoned, tarts! It's up to Amanda to disprove the obvious to the police. In the meantime, there's a jealous wife who thinks Amanda's up to no good, a student placing threatening notes in her mailbox, and a black pickup truck chasing her around the streets of Philadelphia. Who says teaching isn't exciting? With any more excitement, Amanda will have to retire before she hits thirty-one..." Check Bookshare for more books in this series including: #1 Caught Dead in Philadelphia, and #2 Philly Stakes.
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War
by Al SantoliHere is an oral history of the Vietnam War by thirty-three American soldiers who fought it. A 1983 American Book Award nominee.
Duncton Wood
by William HorwoodDUNCTON WOOD is the story of a society that has lost its spirit and of the remarkable struggle to restore it. It is a novel with a magnificent message for all humankind. The moles who inhabit Duncton Wood once celebrated life in the lush colorful countryside, deeply in touch with their spiritual roots. But now they've succumbed to evil. They must fear their leaders. They no longer worship at the sacred stone. Bracken and Rebecca have the courage to fight for their dream--to lead those of Duncton Wood out of the darkness of tyranny and suffering and into the healing light of touching, of love, of spiritual rebirth. A marvelous mystical adventure, an extraordinary story of devotion and rebellion, DUNCTON WOOD will inspire people everywhere who still believe that goodness and love can triumph over evil.
The Girl in the Box
by Ouida SebestyenKidnapped and left in an underground room, Jackie explores her psychological strengths and limitations as she tries to make contact with the outside world by writing messages and sending them through a slit in the door.
Write On, Rosy! A Young Author in Crisis
by Sheila GreenwaldRosy doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up. That is, until Dr. Gormley, the headmistress at Read School, announces a Young Writers Program, and Rosy is sure she's found her lifelong ambition. After all, her family says she has a talent for telling the truth: why not put it to use? When Rosy's teacher suggests that Rosy write about someone important in her life it suddenly becomes clear--she'll write about the most important person at Read: the headmistress herself! Determined to find out everything there is to know about Dr. Gormley, Rosy pursues her subject with typical zeal, uncovering evidence that the headmistress may be leading a secret life. Does Dr. Gormley have something to hide? Watch out, here comes R. Cole, Investigative Reporter, on the case!
The Kayla Chronicles
by Sherri WinstonTHIS JUST IN... Kayla Dean, budding feminist and future journalist, is about to break the story of a lifetime. Egged on by her best friend, Kayla has decided to try out for her high school's notorious dance team, the Lady Lions, in order to expose their unfair selection process. But when she actually makes the team, the true investigation begins! Overnight, Kayla is transformed from bushy-haired fashion victim to glammed-up dance diva. But does looking good and having fun mean turning her back on the cause? Can you be a strong woman and still wear really cute shoes? Soon Kayla is forced to challenge her views, coming to terms with who she is and what girl power really means.
What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It
by Trish Wood"A visceral account of the war ... honest, agenda-free, and chilling." New York Review of Books. The Iraq war officially began on March 20, 2003, and since then more than one million young Americans have rotated through the country's insurgent-infested hot spots. But although stories of dramatic ambushes and attacks dominate the front pages of newspapers, most of us do not truly know what the war is like for the Americans who fight it. What Was Asked of Us helps us bridge that gap. The in-depth and intensely probing interviews this book brings together document the soldiers' experiences and darkest secrets, offering a multitude of authentic, unfiltered voices--at times raw and emotional, at other times eloquent and lyrical. These voices walk us through the war, from the successful push to Baghdad, through the erroneous "Mission Accomplished" moment, and into the dangerous, murky present. "Monumental. ... Amid the glut of policy debates, and amid the flurry of news reports that add names each day to the lists of the dead, Trish Wood has produced what is perhaps, to date, the only text about Iraq that matter."--San Francisco Chronicle. "An illuminating glimpse of American fighters' experiences in Iraq ... There are moments of strange beauty in the soldiers' recollections."--Chicago Tribune. "Stunning ... chillingly eloquent. ... Powerful and unflinchingly honest, Wood's book deserves to be a bestseller."--People