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The Berry Pickers
by Amanda Peters
Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma is troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. She searches for the truth, which leads her to the blueberry fields of Maine where a family secret is finally revealed.
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
by Aoyama, Michiko
2024. Follows Tokyo's most mysterious librarian, Sayuri Komachi, as she gives her visitors one unexpected book, which has life-altering consequences, giving the borrower the motivation they didn't realize they need to change their life.
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The Collected Regrets of Clover
by Mikki Brammer
2024. Feeling a stronger connection with the dying than to the living, Clover, a death doula in NYC, has no life of her own until the final wishes of a feisty old woman sends her across the country to uncover a forgotten love story—and perhaps, her own happy ending.
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Nora Goes Off Script
by Annabel Monaghan
2023. A romance channel screenwriter, after turning her disastrous marriage into the best script of her life, is shocked when the leading man asks to stay with her for seven days, at $1,000 per day—just enough time to fall in love or have her heart broken.
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The Last Chance Library
by Freya Sampson
2023. When her library is threatened with closure, June Hones, to save the place and the books that mean so much to her, must make some changes to her solitary life by opening her heart to the world around her and fighting for what she believes in.
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A Peculiar Combination
by Ashley Weaver
2022. Set in England during World War II, this mystery follows thief Electra McDonnell as she, after being
caught red-handed, is forced to help a government official break into a safe and retrieve blueprints that
will be critical to the British war effort before they fall
into the wrong hands.
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The Last Flight
by Julie Clark
2022. Claire has worked for months on a plan to get out of her abusive marriage. A chance meeting in an airport bar brings her together with a stranger equally as desperate. Together they hatch a plan to switch tickets - Claire taking Eva's flight to Oakland, and Eva traveling to Puerto Rico as Claire. But then one plane crashes, and it's clear that one of them wasn't telling the truth.
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The Finders
by Jeffrey B. Burton
2021. After losing his beloved springer spaniel, Mace Reid, who specializes in human remains detection, adopts a new cadaver dog trainee, a rescue dog named Vira with a mysterious past, who helps him find a
serial killer.
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The Woman in the White Kimono
by Ana Johns
2021. The intertwined stories of a young woman from 1950s Japan who must choose between her heart and home, and a journalist in modern America who discovers her father's long-buried secrets.
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An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
by Helene Tursten
2020. Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and no qualms about a little murder. When a dead body found in Maud's apartment, will she finally become a suspect?
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A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder
by Dianne Freeman
2019. Enjoying unusual freedoms as a widow, the American-born Countess of Harleigh emerges from mourning to host her sister's first London season while navigating a chivalrous inspector's investigation into the scandalous circumstances of her husband's death.
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The Lost Letter
by Jillian Cantor
2019. A young apprentice stamp engraver works secretly for the Austrian resistance in World War II and resolves to save the fiery daughter of his Jewish mentor, a story that is found decades later by a descendant who investigates an unusual stamp on an old love letter.
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The Indigo Girl
by Natasha Boyd
2018. The story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who ran her father's plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina in the 1700s and struck a bargain with the plantation's slaves--teach her how to make indigo and she would teach them to read.
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Not a Sound
by Heather Gudenkauf
2018. Losing her hearing in a tragic accident, nurse Amelia Winn suffers through two years of depression before rebuilding her life with the help of an assistance dog, only to find herself enmeshed in a fellow nurse's suspicious death.
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The Dry
by Jane Harper
2017. Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a 20-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century.
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Nine Women, One Dress
by Jane L. Rosen
2017. Nine unrelated women whose circumstances are shaped by unrequited love, infidelity and fame find their lives touched by the same little black dress and its seemingly magical properties.
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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
by Kelli Estes
2016. A college student investigates the sad story of a displaced Chinese American in 1886 before making a discovery in a scrap of silk that forces her to choose between her family's honor and the truth.
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Girl Underwater
by Claire Kells
2016. After her plane crashes into a mountain lake, 19-year-old college swimmer Avery Delacorte must rely on her teammate to survive sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies and the dangerous wilderness.
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A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
2015. A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.
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Delicious!
by Ruth Reichl
2015. Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky 12-year-old and
James Beard.
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The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs
by Nick Trout
2014. Reluctantly returning home to Vermont to revive his late father's veterinary practice and then sell it as quickly as possible, Dr. Cyrus Mills finds his plans changing when he gets more and more entrenched in the community and in his relationships with a cast of colorful characters.
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Blackberry Winter
by Sarah Jio
2014. On a cold spring night in 1933, Vera Ray tucks her young son into his bed and hurries away to her job at a local hotel. When she returns the next morning her son has vanished, leaving only a lost teddy bear behind in the May snow. Seventy-seven years later, reporter Claire Aldridge learns of the sad tale of the lost child and resolves to discover what really happened that night so long ago.
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The Story of Beautiful Girl
by Rachel Simon
2013. Describes the love story between a developmentally disabled young white woman and an deaf African American after they are institutionalized in 1968.
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Angelina's Bachelors
by Brian O'Reilly
2012. Managing sudden widowhood and joblessness by cooking sumptuous feasts that she shares with her neighbors, Angelina D'Angelo is offered a job as cook for a retiree and his elderly sister and finds her culinary talents winning her a circle of friends and protectors.
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The Language of Flowers
by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
2012. Discovering the symbolic meanings of flowers while languishing in the foster-care system, 18-year-old Victoria is hired by a florist when her talent for helping others is discovered, a situation that leads to a romantic prospect and the confrontation of a painful secret from her past.
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The Pioneer Woman
by Ree Drummond
2012. The popular blogger and best-selling author traces the story of her marriage to a quintessential Marlboro Man and her transition from a giddy 20-something to a ranch wife and mother.
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Girl in Translation
by Jean Kwok
2011. Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by a first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty.
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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
by Beth Hoffman
2011. Relegated to the care of an eccentric great-aunt after her mentally unbalanced mother's accidental death, 12-year-old CeeCee is quickly surrounded by the strong women and cultural elements of her new Savannah community.
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The Bricklayer
by Noah Boyd
2010. The FBI recruits Steve Vail, an agent it has just fired, to solve an extortion plot by a group that is killing human targets one by one unless the bureau gives them cash, with the dollar amount and body count escalating each time the agency does not pay up.
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Dog on It
by Spencer Quinn
2010. Canine detective Chet accompanies his human police officer partner, Bernie, on a first assignment involving the disappearance of a teenage girl who ran with a bad crowd, a case complicated by Bernie's dysfunctional personal life.
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The Shape of Mercy
by Susan Meissner
2009. Lauren breaks from family tradition and accepts a job from Abigail Boyles to transcribe a diary written by Marcy Boyles, allegedly killed during the Salem witch trials, but finds herself affected by the diary more than she expected.
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State of the Onion
by Julie A. Hyzy
2009. While going up against her nemesis for the executive chef position, White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras finds her goose cooked when she becomes the target of a world-class assassin after witnessing a murder.
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Garden Spells
by Sarah Addison Allen
2008. A successful caterer in Bascomb, North Carolina, Claire has always remained tied to the long and magical legacy of the Waverly family, until her peaceful life is transformed by Tyler Hughes, an art teacher and new next-door neighbor, and by the return of her prodigal sister, Sydney, who has arrived with her five-year-old daughter, Bay.
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Austenland
by Shannon Hale
2008. Because her obsession with Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy is ruining her love life, Jane Hayes is delighted when she gets the chance to take a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, where she hopes to meet a perfect Regency-era gentleman of her own.
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The Saddlemaker's Wife
by Earlene Fowler
2007. Inheriting shares in a cattle ranch in Tokopah County from her late husband, Ruby McGavin is stunned to discover that her late husband's family is very much alive and heads for California to find out the truth, encountering handsome saddlemaker Lucas McGavin and a host of secrets along the way.
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His Majesty's Dragon
by Naomi Novik
2007. When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temaraire, in which role he must match wits with the powerful dragon-borne forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Poison Study
by Maria V. Snyder
2006. After she is given a reprieve from her death sentence, Yelena faces mounting disasters as rebels plot to seize Ixia, her life is once again threatened, and the chief of security is attempting to poison her.
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The Dead Don't Dance
by Charles Martin
2006. Dylan, a South Carolina farmer, struggles to cope with his wife's lapse into a coma following a stillbirth until his friend Amos convinces him to accept a teaching job at a community college.
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Run No More
by Catherine Mulvany
2005. Fleeing a nightmare marriage, Tasya Flynn is desperate enough for food to break into the mansion of Ian MacPherson, a legendary millionaire and reclusive cat burglar, who offers to transform her into a world-class jewel thief in exchange for helping him retrieve a priceless gem stolen by his former partner.
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All That Matters
by Jan Goldstein
2005. Jennifer Stempler thinks she has nothing left to lose--her boyfriend dumped her, her mother is dead, her father has a new family that does not include her--but when she tries to end it all with a lethal combination of tequila and Xanax, she realizes there is a force out there not yet willing to let Jennifer self destruct--her Nana,
Gabby Zuckerman.
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Three Wishes
by Liane Moriarty
2005. Approaching their thirty-third birthdays, triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle remember their tumultuous prior year, which has been marked by pregnancy, a devastating love affair, a mid-life crisis, and the possible reconciliation of their divorced parents.
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Monkeewrench
by P. J. Tracy
2004. Grace McBride and the team at her software company are horrified when events in their murder mystery computer game are replicated in the real world by a ruthless killer, a situation that prompts them to analyze the game in order to anticipate his next move.
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Good Hope Road
by Lisa Wingate
2004. Twenty-one-year-old Jenilee Lane and her elderly neighbor Eudora Gibson are brought together by a tornado that tears across their Missouri homes, leaving tragedy and hope in its wake.
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The Wedding Dress
by Virginia Ellis
2003. Desperately struggling to make ends meet in the post-Civil War South, Julia and Victoria Atwater, left alone and widowed by the war, come up with a scheme to cheer up their younger sister, Claire, who has always dreamed of being married, by sewing her a special wedding gown, but all their lives are changed forever by the arrival of Sergeant Monroe Tacy.
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Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford
by J. Belinda Yandell
2003. Penny Burford, a housewife, secretly saves all her husband Roy's loose change for charity, and it is only after she dies that Roy realizes the extent of his wife's generosity.
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
2002. After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters
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French Impressions
by John S. Littell
2002. In a hilarious, insightful memoir, a man obsessed with Hemingway heads for the southern France with his accomodating and optimistic wife and their two young sons.
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Letters for Emily
by Camron Steve Wright
2001. The victim of Alzheimer's, Harry Whitney knows that he is dying and that he is gradually losing his mind and sets out to compile a collection of original poems as final gift and legacy for Emily, his favorite granddaughter, hoping that it will lead to a cache of letters that contain Harry's lessons about life and hold the promise of reconciliation for members of his estranged family.
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Daughter of the Forest
by Juliet Marillier
2001. Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum, faces the difficult task of having to save her family from its enemies, who have bewitched her father and six older brothers while forcing her to choose between the life she has always known and a
special love.
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Thunderhead
by Douglas Preston
2000. Sixteen years after her father's mysterious disappearance, archaeologist Nora Kelly follows in his footsteps, guided by an enigmatic letter, as she embarks on an expedition into the remote canyon country of southeastern Utah to search for Quivira, the fabled Lost City of Gold.
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Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
by Ann B. Ross
2000. Recently widowed and newly wealthy, Miss Julia is visited one day by Hazel Marie who claims that her nine-year-old son is the bastard child of Julia's late husband, and when Julia is left to care for the child, she reveals the scandal that precipitated her husband's death.
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On Mystic Lake
by Kristin Hannah
1999. Devastated by her divorce, Anne Colwater retreats to her childhood home in Washington, where she encounters her old friend Nick, a widower with an emotionally scarred young daughter.
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Firebird
by Janice Graham
1999. Schooled in the Ivy League and engaged to the daughter of the wealthiest landowner in Flint Hills, Kansas, rancher Ethan Brown's life seems secure, until he falls in love with an isolated violinist.
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The Starlite Drive-in
by Marjorie Reynolds
1998. The discovery of human bones at the site of an old drive-in leads Callie Anne Benton to recall the eventful summer of 1956 when her agoraphobic mother developed a strong bond with a drifter named Charlie Memphis.
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The Maze
by Catherine Coulter
1998. After her sister is killed by the String Killer, FBI agent Lacey Sherlock becomes obsessed with the murderer and is determined to find him and bring him to justice, but her dangerous search soon puts her own life at risk.
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The Bone Collector
by Jeffery Deaver
1997. Once the nation's foremost criminologist and the ex-head of NYPD forensics, quadriplegic Lincoln Rhyme abandons his forced retirement and joins forces with rookie cop Amelia Sachs to track down a vicious
serial killer.
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My Real Name is Lisa
by David M. Alexander
1997. After Peter saves Lisa from her violent kidnappers, he intends to take her right home, but when it becomes clear the child is not sure where home is and that they are still being followed, he grows more determined to protect her.
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Where the Heart Is
by Billie Letts
1996. An award-winning novel features a pregnant teenaged mother who is stranded in a small town in Oklahoma, where a quirky cast of characters, from a blue-haired Baptist to an eccentric librarian, changes her life.
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Pandora's Clock
by John J. Nance
1995. Former U.S. fighter pilot James Holland is now reluctantly flying Quantum Flight 66, an aircraft contaminated by a Level 4 pathogen that could destroy everyone on board, only to discover that he is on a collision course with individuals out to save the world by blasting his flight out of the sky.
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Natural Causes
by Michael Palmer
1995. Struggling to save a mother and baby when something goes horribly wrong during the birth, Dr. Sarah Baldwin is unaware that two identical circumstances have already occurred and that she is the only factor they had in common.
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Blue Rodeo
by Jo-Ann Mapson
1995. The past catches up with Margaret Yearwood after she abandons her orderly life in California for rural New Mexico, falls in love with her neighbor, and begins a tentative communication with her newly deaf son.
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Montana 1948
by Larry Watson
1994. A series of events in a small western town changes the lives of David Hayden, his sheriff father, his mother, and their Sioux housekeeper, as they discover the truth about family loyalty.
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Dying for Chocolate
by Diane Mott Davidson
1994. Fleeing an abusive ex, caterer Goldy Bear moves herself, her son, and her business to the Aspen Meadow Country Club area, where she becomes enmeshed in a murder mystery involving a handsome local shrink.
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Tell Me No Secrets
by Joy Fielding
1993. Haunted by the disappearance of her mother eight years before, no-nonsense prosecutor Jess Koster is shattered when the client she is defending from a brutal rapist also vanishes into thin air.
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The Forever King
by Molly Cochran
1993. Determined to possess the Holy Grail, Saladin, a dark sorcerer, kidnaps ten-year-old Arthur Blessing, King Arthur reborn, and it is up to former FBI agent Hal Woczniak to rescue the young king and save Camelot.
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Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
1993. Stranded in the fourteenth century--a time of superstition and fear--time traveler Kivrin becomes an unlikely angel of hope during history's darkest hour and awaits rescue by her comrades.
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Loves Music, Loves to Dance
by Mary Higgins Clark
1992. Pursuing a career in jewelry design in the Big Apple, Erin Kelley and her friend, Darcy, agree to help a TV producer friend research a story of the kinds of people who place personal ads, an act that leads to Erin's bizarre death and leaves Darcy on the killer's
hit list.
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