Adult

Richard Manning, raised on a piece of farmland in Michigan, had a father who was a jack of many trades: farmer, carpenter, builder. His mother concealed her own troubled childhood beneath a religious faith. IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY traces Manning’s journey away from his family, through the fire-ravaged wilderness of Montana, and finally to a remote village in Panama, where he comes to pursue a past he had vowed to leave behind.

Phillip Quinn has done everything to make his life seem perfect, but one look at Seth reminds him of the boy he once was. While Phillip intended to fulfill his father’s dying request and considered Seth to be a duty, he has grown to love Seth. When a stranger arrives in town to secretly study the Quinns, Phillip is determined to uncover her motives. But the secret she holds threatens the life the brothers have made for Seth.

The stakes are raised even higher in book two of Iris Johansen’s new Eve Duncan trilogy as Eve battles the man who is holding her prisoner. Secrets about why Eve has been targeted come into the light, bringing her even closer to danger. With its cliffhanger ending, HUNTING EVE sets up perfectly for the finale, SILENCING EVE.

Two sisters set out across a remote stretch of Montana road, and it is the last time anyone hears from them again. Cody Hoyt, who has just lost his job as police investigator, begins the drive south to the girls’ last known location. Meanwhile, his former rookie partner, Cassie Dewell, discovers that Gracie and Danielle Sullivan aren’t the first girls who have disappeared in this area. This majestic landscape is the hunting ground for a killer whose viciousness is outmatched only by his intelligence.

Tsippy Silberberg is only in Tel Aviv to collect an old suitcase unexpectedly willed to her by a distant aunt. So, when an odd old woman named Bella Kugelman barges into her hotel room and starts telling her stories, Tsippy is more than a little bit annoyed. But Mrs. Kugelman's strange and wonderous tales soon win over Tsippy in spite of herself; tales of the Polish town of Bedzin before the war and its many inhabitants. As she watches the town come back to life in Mrs. Kugelman's words, Tsippy finally pieces together her aunt's strange bequest and starts to see her own place in the story unfolding before her.

The HomeSweetHome network’s Free House Sweepstakes has just announced this year’s lucky winner of a brand-new, fully-loaded dream home: Janine Brown of Cedar Falls, Iowa. Janey Brown is happiest submerging her anxiety and grief in her tiny kitchen and is in no great hurry to leave it.  On the other hand, Nean Brown from across town sees that house as an escape from a string of drunk boyfriends and crappy jobs, from being a person that others look at but don't see. Both Janine Browns head for their new hometown of Christmas Cove, Maine to claim the prize, and when their lives intersect, they discover that more than just a million-dollar dream home awaits them at water’s edge.

If you’ve watched the exceedingly popular A&E program "Duck Dynasty," you already know the famed Phil Robertson. As patriarch of the Robertson clan and creator of Duck Commander duck calls, he fearlessly leads his family in a responsible work ethic and an active faith. But what you don’t know is his life before the show. In the pages of this book, you’ll learn of Phil’s colorful past and his wild road to the “happy, happy, happy” life he leads today.

Minna Bernays, an overeducated lady’s companion with a sharp, wry wit, turns to her sister Martha, a mother struggling with six children and an absent, disinterested husband named Sigmund Freud. While Martha and the scientific community are shocked and repulsed by Freud's "pornographic" work, Minna is fascinated. She and Freud embark on what is at first simply an intellectual courtship, but hides something deeper beneath the surface, a desire that Minna cannot escape.

Flora Hansen calls herself a medium and makes a living by pretending to commune with the dead. But after a gruesome murder at a rural home for wayward girls, Hansen begins to suffer visions that are all too real. The only member of the police force who believes her is Detective Inspector Joona Linna. The case seems obvious at first, but as Linna refuses to accept easy answers, his search leads him into darker, more violent territory, and finally to a shocking confrontation with a figure from his past.

When Philadelphia narcotics detective Doyle Carrick loses his mother and step-father within weeks of each other, he gains a twenty-day suspension for unprofessional behavior and instructions to lay low at the unfamiliar house he’s inherited in rural Pennsylvania. He spends his time getting to know his beautiful neighbor Nora, an organic farm owner who's being put under increasing pressure to sell her land to a larger developer. But when Doyle starts to see high-powered drug dealers driving around on the back roads, and Nora starts getting violent threats to sell her land, he starts to realize that what's growing in the farmland around Philadelphia is more dangerous than he'd ever imagined.