One September, the writer and explorer Peter Matthiessen set out with field biologist George Schaller to journey 250 miles through the Himalayas to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetan plateau. They wanted to study the wild blue sheep, the bharal, but also hoped to see the snow leopard, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical. The Snow Leopard is not only an exquisite book of natural history but an extraordinary account of an inner journey ; a 'true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart.'

Product Description: A provocative novel about the fallout from the truth by the author of the national bestseller The Lifeboat.For Maggie Rayburn, wife, mother, and secretary at a munitions plant, life is pleasant, predictable, and secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes it, turning her world upside down...read more

Product Description: A provocative novel about the fallout from a search for truth by the author of the national bestseller The Lifeboat. For Maggie Rayburn--wife, mother, and secretary at a munitions plant--life is pleasant, predictable, and secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss' desk, she impulsively takes it, turning her world upside down...read more

Ellen is a Midwestern literature professor whose legal ward, Michael, enlists as a Marine. Lacey is a proud Army wife struggling to pay bills and raise her son while her husband is deployed. Both cope with the fear and stress of having a loved one at war in a society that often ignores what war means at home. When Michael and Eddie are injured in Iraq, Ellen and Lacey’s lives become intertwined in the dislocated world of an army hospital.

Product Description: Award-winning author of The Motel Life, Northline and Lean on Pete, Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for confronting issues facing modern America, illuminated through the lives of three memorable characters who are looking for a way out of their financial, familial, and existential crises in The Free...read more

Product Description: What do you do when the man you’re married to is no longer the man you married?Elise Sabato is proud of her husband, Brad, for serving his country…and grateful when he returns home to her. But the traumatic brain injury he suffered in Iraq has turned him from a thoughtful, brilliant, and patient man into someone quite different―someone who requires more care and attention than Elise can give while working at a demanding law firm...read more

Product Description: Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent in his heartbreaking yet hopeful new novel, a tale that illuminates the disquiet of modern American life through three memorable charactersSeverely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy Kervin has lived in a group home for eight years...read more

Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq—his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield. The carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes his future is as bleak as his mirror image. But can the passion and commitment of a young woman who has never given up on him mend his broken body and shattered heart?As the people of Virgin River rally around Rick, another recent arrival tests the tightly knit mountain town's famous welcoming spirit. Dan Brady has a questionable past, and he's looking for a place to start over. He'd like it to be Virgin River…if he can find a way in. But he never expects to find it in the arms of a woman who was as much an outcast as himself.For a favorite son returned from war and an outsider looking for a home, Virgin River offers them a chance to make peace with the men they once were…and to find the dreams they thought they'd lost.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Newly-widowed Marcie Sullivan tracks down Ian Buchanan, the man responsible for saving her husband's life years ago, and finds an emotionally scarred man who needs her help in healing his wounded soul during a season of miracles.

Product Description: A returning war hero and the woman who once loved him are brought together again―but will they be able to heal the wounds of their past?Kari Winslow is a Palm Beach news reporter, fighting not only to keep her job, but take over the nightly anchor spot...read more

What do you do when the man you’re married to is no longer the man you married?Elise Sabato is proud of her husband, Brad, for serving his country…and grateful when he returns home to her. But the traumatic brain injury he suffered in Iraq has turned him from a thoughtful, brilliant, and patient man into someone quite different―someone who requires more care and attention than Elise can give while working at a demanding law firm. And when Brad ends up on his family’s farm, hundreds of miles away, she wonders where their marriage is headed.Elise feels she must decide between the life she always wanted and the life she seems to be living…until she finds inspiration in the most unlikely of places: a lovable dog named Jones, who teaches her that when the best-laid plans take unexpected turns, sometimes you end up right where you were meant to be.“A timely novel, but also a novel that speaks to the tides of any marriage, in peacetime or at war.” ―Joseph Monninger, Author of Margaret from Maine“Riveting and tender…the emotional battle a wife must wage to bring her husband back to her.” ―Erika Marks, Author of The Mermaid Collector

Product Description: What do you do when the man you’re married to is no longer the man you married? Elise Sabato is proud of her husband, Brad, for serving his country...and grateful when he returns home to her. But the traumatic brain injury he suffered in Iraq has turned him from a thoughtful, brilliant, and patient man into someone quite different — someone who requires more care and attention than Elise can give while working at a demanding law firm...read more

Product Description: What do you do when the man you’re married to is no longer the man you married?Elise Sabato is proud of her husband, Brad, for serving his country…and grateful when he returns home to her. But the traumatic brain injury he suffered in Iraq has turned him from a thoughtful, brilliant, and patient man into someone quite different―someone who requires more care and attention than Elise can give while working at a demanding law firm...read more

Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.] ''Sparta made young boys into warriors; it was left to the warriors to restore themselves to men . . .'' Conrad Farrell's family has no military heritage, but as a classics major at Williams, he saw the sturdy appeal of the Marine ethic: Semper fidelis came straight from the ancient world, from Sparta, where every citizen doubled as a full-time soldier...read more

Product Description: “From page one, this debut stands out as refreshingly different…an absolute triumph.” —Booklist, starred reviewThere isn't much fun in the sun when a billionaire real estate tycoon is found murdered on the Tilt-A-Whirl at a seedy seaside amusement park in the otherwise quiet tourist town of Sea Haven, New Jersey...read more

Product Description: Escape to the picturesque, tiny town of Perfect, Indiana. . . Paige Langford has it all: wealth, beauty, and ambition. Yet when her boyfriend’s betrayal costs her both her dream job and her reputation, she retreats to her brother’s rural home in Indiana to heal and figure out the rest of her life...read more