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by Rick Bragg - Biography, Nonfiction, Popular Culture

Together with Jerry Lee Lewis, Rick Bragg tells the story of this rock and roll legend, from his childhood in ferriday Louisiana to his adventures performing with everyone from Elvis Presley to Kid Rock. JERRY LEE LEWIS is the first account of Lewis's life from the source himself.

by Steve Harvey - Humor, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, Personal Growth, Relationships, Romance, Self-Help, Sex

Whether it’s why women should enforce a “90-Day Probation Period” before they give their men sexual “benefits” --- the way Ford motor company withholds medical and dental benefits until an employee has been on the job for 3 months --- or explaining to women why men would rather “fix it” than talk about it, Steve Harvey’s advice is always spot-on and laden with warmth and humor. But behind the laughter is his sincere desire to help women understand men. With liberal use of his own adventures in love and courtship, ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN is an honest, compelling, and realistic examination of how men think about love and sex and what women need to know so that they can set realistic expectations of the men in their life.

by Connie Brockway - Romance

Lucy Eastlake is a young operetta singer whose star is on the rise in Edwardian London. Profesor Ptolemy Archibald Grant is a brilliant man who is engaged to be married. The two could not be more different, but when they set off together to a small Pyrenees town in order to collect a small fortune owed to their ancestors, unwilling attraction gives way to sizzling passion.

by Hiroshi Sakurazaka - Art, Comic Books, Fiction, Graphic Novel

When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally --- the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his final death?

by Val McDermid - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

While preparing to convert a Victorian Gothic building in historic Edinburgh, builders find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn’t been touched by maintenance in years. Cold case detective Karen Pirie takes the case and attempts to find the corpse’s identity. It turns out that the bones may be from as far away as former Yugoslavia, and Karen will have to dig deeper into the tragic history of the Balkans, war crimes and their consequences, and the notion of justice itself.

by Robert Olen Butler - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

In the latest installment of the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, it is 1915, and Kit is now a full-blown spy in England, working undercover in a castle owned by a suspected British government mole, Sir Stockman. His mother, world-famous actress Isabel Cobb, is attempting to seduce Stockman as a spy, but finds herself falling in love with him. As Kit follows his mother and Stockman to Berlin, he must stay undercover under the very nose of the Kaiser.

by C. David Heymann - Biography, Nonfiction

When Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe eloped in January 1954, they became an international sensation. C. David Heymann's JOE AND MARILYN reveals the true inside story of these two iconic figures whose marital troubles were Hollywood legend. Though their marriage only lasted nine months, they remained close until Monroe’s mysterious death in 1962 at the age of 36.

by Karen Miller - Fantasy, Fiction

In the distant past, the Kingdom of Harcia was torn apart by royal brothers who could not accept a lesser inheritance.  Now, the consequences of their actions are coming to light.  Two brothers fight for the fate of Harcia, while the royals of the neighboring kingdom Clemen must face their own power struggles, all the more complicated with the birth of a boy who will grow to set the world on fire.

by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz - Biography, History, Medicine, Nonfiction

Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz chronicles the life of Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter, a Philadelphia plastic surgeon who revolutionized the face of American surgery and founded a museum of medical oddities. An eccentric innovator, Mütter pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed. DR. MUTTER'S MARVELS offers both a biography of this unconventional doctor and a revealing portrait of 19th-century medicine.

by Catherine Bybee - Fiction, Romance

When Judy Gardner moves to LA to fulfill her dream of being a famous architect, she can't help but be distracted by Rick Evans, her celebrity brother's breathtakingly handsome bodyguard.  With his hard body, green eyes, and easy smile, Rick Evans could have any woman he wants, but he only has eyes for Judy,  When a faceless villain attacks Judy, Rick will stop at nothing to protect her.