Adult

When the head of the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice announces that the winner of a cricket tournament will travel to Pakistan to train and play at an international level, Rukhsana develops a plan to win. After all, the tournament is the only escape for her brother and young cousins, facing the corrupting influences of the Taliban, and Rukhsana herself, who the terrifying minister seeks to marry.

Cave diver Erik Hall finds a dead body wearing an ancient ankh, buried deep in an abandoned mine. Religious symbol expert Don Titelman seeks out Erik to study the ankh—but finds Erik dead. Don is the prime suspect, and soon he’s being chased across Europe to escape a secret society that will do anything to get their hands on the ankh.

In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed. To Lucas Davenport, the scene looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he has seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesn’t seem to fit. Until it does.

From starting pitcher to closer, and miraculously back to the starting rotation, John Smoltz shares the story of his twenty-two year career in professional baseball, including his struggles and triumphs over the kind of “career-ending” injuries that have sidelined many other players.

Harris, the presumed patriarch of his large extended family in both England and Pakistan, has unexpectedly received a “small fortune” from his divorce settlement with an English woman: £53,000. As a devout Muslim, Harris views this sum as a “burden of riches” that he must unload on someone else as quickly as possible, but deciding which relative to give it to proves to be a burden of its own.

Forced to lead a double life when her father and boyfriend become Nazi collaborators, 14-year-old Sophie reserves her dreams of becoming an actress for her beloved elderly neighbor and his friends, most of whom are Jews working against the government in a secret group called the Ring. When a member is sent to Dachau, she realizes there must be a Nazi traitor in the group. But who?

The night before her flight, Hazel’s boyfriend gave her a free pass if she ever met rock star Finn Schiller, her idol. She never would have thought the very next day the rock god would be sitting next to her on the plane. Now, when fantasy becomes real attraction, Hazel must decide what she wants.

When 14-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's death, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the original investigation was botched. But her need for closure and her determination to make things right hit Spenser where he lives: they're the very characteristics he abides by.

Acclaimed author Lisa Norato offers a rich and suspenseful romance set on the high seas during New England’s Federal Period in 1815. Torn between the woman he loves and the son he just discovered, which prize will Captain Brogan Talvis have to sacrifice and what deception must he overcome? 

Three women on the lam from their lives and relationships hit the road, only to have their spirits rescued by unexpected love --- and a retired circus lion.