Product Description: Four women share a determination to stop a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco. Each of the four friends holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant DA, and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the "San Francisco Chronicle...read more

Product Description: All the Light There Was is the story of an Armenian family's struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Paris in the 1940s―a lyrical, finely wrought tale of loyalty, love, and the many faces of resistance. On the day the Nazis march down the rue de Belleville, 14-year-old Maral Pegorian is living with her family in Paris; like many other Armenians who survived the genocide in their homeland, they have come to Paris to build a new life...read more

Presents four stories about the misadventures of literal-minded housemaid Amelia Bedelia, in which she runs for mayor, makes a drum roll, takes care of Mrs. Lane's baby, and shows her niece Effie Lou how to dust the potato bugs and sew seeds. Books available.

Product Description: 'tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are.¿ This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein's erudite and witty audiobook about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honore de Balzac's The Human Comedy...read more

Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years — and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son’s broken marriage. Ira is infuriatingly practical, a man “who should have married Ann Landers.” What begins as a day trip to a funeral becomes an adventure in the unexpected. As Maggie and Ira navigate the riotous twists and turns, they intersect with an assorted cast of eccentrics — and rediscover the magic of the road called life and the joy of having somebody to share the ride . . . bumps and all.

Product Description: Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years ― and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son’s broken marriage...read more

Product Description: [Read by Suzanne Toren]It's the summer of 1944 in Wisconsin and the Christiansen family struggles to hold on. Charlotte barters what she can to make ends meet while her husband, Thomas, strives to keep their orchard going. With the upcoming harvest threatened by the labor shortage, strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade local authorities to allow German POWs to pick the fruit...read more

Product Description: A powerfully sensuous and gripping debut laced with suspense, The Cherry Harvest reveals a hidden side of World War II's home front, when German POWs are put to work in a Wisconsin farm community ... with dark and unexpected consequences...read more

Product Description: It happens to all of us. You've prepared for days, weeks, even years for the big day when you will finally show your stuff in academics, in your career, in sports but when the big moment arrives, nothing seems to work. You hit the wrong note, drop the ball, get stumped by a simple question...read more

Product Description: From the recipe novel to the celebrity chef, renowned scholar Sandra M. Gilbert explores the poetics and politics of food. In this stunning and important work, the prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship with food and eating through discussions of literature, art, and popular culture...read more

Product Description: Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and—fixed deeply in the collective consciousness—hell and eternal damnation...read more

Product Description: They’re the shadowy defenders of humanity―modern-day knights committing the darkest of deeds for all the right reasons. In this all-star collection, nine of today’s hottest urban fantasy authors bring us thrilling, all-new stories of the supernatural brimming with magic, mystery, and mayhem...read more

Product Description: Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory.It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore’s Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the older son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet, clumsy Ezra, Pearl’s favorite, who never stops yearning for the perfect family that could never be his own...read more

Product Description: Against the seething political intrigues of 12th-century Europe, two royal heirs will surrender to passion as they vie for the most glittering, treacherous prize of all: the English throne At nine, Maud, an English princess, was sent to Germany to become the bride of the Holy Roman Emperor―a political alliance with a man her father’s age...read more

Product Description: Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of floating down the Mississippi River and venturing off to see the world. Years later, at home in France, a French friend teases her about her Americanness: “Indifference to history...read more