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Murder on Montana's Hi-Line
by Clem C. Pellett
During an intense spring blizzard in 1951, affable Clarence Pellett picked up a teenaged hitchhiker along Montana's Hi-Line. Soon, blood from seven bullet holes in Pellett's back stained the snow-covered prairie. Following a brief manhunt and confession, a heated debate ensued over capital punishment as Communist attorneys swooped in "to save this poor friendless boy." Frank Dryman, twice sentenced to hang, escaped the noose when a sympathetic Montana Supreme Court stayed each execution. The "permanently insane and mentally deficient" killer was paroled into the custody of his brother in California after serving thirteen years of a life sentence. Eighteen months later, he vanished. Using a series of aliases, Dryman hid in plain sight for forty years despite state and federal warrants. Clem Pellett recounts the enthralling twists and turns of his hunt for his grandfather's absconded murderer-the longest in state history.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paris, 1844-45), by French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas, is one of the most popular novels ever written. Set in Marseilles, Rome and Paris in the nineteenth century, it tells the story of Edmond Dantáes, a young sailor who is falsely accused of treason and imprisoned in a dungeon for fourteen years. A fellow prisoner tells him where to find treasure buried on a Mediterranean island called Monte Cristo. On Dantáes's escape, he acquires the treasure, gives himself the name Count of Monte Cristo, and ruthlessly goes about the slow destruction of his enemies
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City of the lost
by Kelley Armstrong
Escaping to an off-the-grid domestic violence shelter community with her best friend, whose ex-husband has targeted them both with violence, homicide detective Casey Duncan investigates a first murder in the community and realizes that she may be in greater danger than before.
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Little Beach Street Bakery
by Jenny Colgan
Moving to a lonely flat in a sleepy seaside resort community, heartbroken Polly finds healing through an increasingly creative bread-making hobby in a tale complemented by recipes. By the best-selling author of Christmas at the Cupcake Café. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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Vicious
by Victoria Schwab
Ten years after an experiment designed to tap a human's supernatural abilities goes terribly wrong, Victor breaks out of prison and resolves to track down his former roommate, Eli, who is on a mission to eliminate the world's superpowered people
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
Italy, 1347. While Brother William of Baskerville is investigating accusations of heresy at a wealthy abbey, his inquiries are disrupted by a series of bizarre deaths. Turning his practiced detective skills to finding the killer, he relies on logic (Aristotle), theology (Thomas Aquinas), empirical insights (Roger Bacon), and his own wry humor and ferocious curiosity. With the aid of his young apprentice, William scours the abbey, from its stables to the labyrinthine library, piecing together evidence, and deciphering cryptic symbols and coded manuscripts to uncover the truth about this place where the most interesting things happen at night.--
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Alice's adventures in wonderland ; : Through the looking glass and what Alice found there
by Lewis Carroll
" A stunningly illustrated back-to-back edition of this one-of-a-kind classic of children's literature Alice's adventures in the dreamlike worlds of Wonderland and the Looking Glass Kingdom are some of the most original and best-loved children's storiesever written. These joyous, thrilling and utterly nonsensical tales are filled with vivid, unforgettable images and characters"
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Crowns : portraits of Black women in church hats
by Michael Cunningham
A remarkable series of fifty black-and-white photographs, complemented by incisive interviews with the subjects, provide an intimate look at African-American women and their unique head ornaments, discussing the role of the church hat as a reflection of both personal style and a cherished African-American tradition.
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