Category Archives: New Adult Books

The Flame Bearer

By Bernard Cornwell

Britain is in a state of uneasy peace.  Northumbria’s Viking ruler and Mercia’s Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed to a truce.  And so England’s greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago.  But fate is inexorable and the enemies Uhtred has made and the oaths he has sworn combine to distract him from his dream of recapturing Bebbanburg.  New enemies enter into the fight for England’s kingdoms.  Britains precarious peace threatens to turn into a war of annihilation.  But Uhtred is determined that nothing will keep him from his birth right.

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Glow of Death

By Jane K. Cleland

As a warm ocean breeze ruffles the tall grass along Rocky Point’s sandy dunes, Josie Prescott visits the house of a wealthy local couple, Edwin and Ava Belcher.  She’s been called in to appraise their Tiffany lamp.  Josie’s good friend, Police chief Hunter gets a call that Ava has been murdered.  He asks Josie to identify the body.  Josie is stunned to discover that the dead woman lying on the Belcher kitchen floor is not the woman she knew as Ava.  Shock turns to perplexity when Josie discovers that everything she thought she knew about the Tiffany lamp and the Belchers is built on lies.

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When All The Girls Have Gone

By Jayne Ann Krentz

When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contact her step-sister, Jocelyn, to tell her that one of her closest friends was found dead, she discovers that Jocelyn has vanished.  Beautiful, brilliant–and reckless–Jocelyn has gone off the grid before, but never like this.  In a desperate effort to find her, Charlotte joins forces with Max Cutler, a struggling PI.  After surviving a near-fatal attack, Charlotte and Max turn to Jocelyn’s closest friends.  But what they find in chilling…

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Talking As Fast As I Can

By Lauren Graham

In her first work of nonfiction, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood recounts her experiences on Gilmore Girls– the first and second time–and shares stories about life, love, and working in Hollywood.

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The Whole Town’s Talking

By Fannie Flagg

Still Meadows is a cemetary in the small town of Elmwood Springs, Missouri.  But unlike other cemetaries, some of the townspeople wake up once they’re buried and some of them vanish forever.  What is happening under Still Meadows?  It’s up to the living residents of Elmwood Springs to find out.

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Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

By Anne Rice

From Anne Rice, conjurer of the beloved best sellers Interview with a Vampire and Prince Lestat, an ambitious and exhilarating new novel of utopian vision and power, uniting the ancient worlds and the legends of the Vampire Chronicles.

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No Man’s Land

By David Baldacci

In his fourth outing (after The Escape), military investigator John Puller must revisit his mother’s disappearance 30 years ago because someone has alleged that his father, now suffering from dementia in a VA hospital, may have done away with his wife.

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Turbo Twenty-Three

By Janet Evanovich

Speed is the name of the game as Stephanie Plum returns in Turbo Twenty-Three – the thrilling, fast-paced new adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.

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Chaos

By Patricia Cornwell

Odd that 26-year old Elisa Vandersteel seems to have been killed by lightning while riding her bike along the Charles River one starlit night.  Soon thereafter, medical examiner Dr. Kay Scapetta starts receiving creepy poems about the case from an anonymous cyberbully, and the media go berserk when lab results confirm Scarpetta’s implausible lightning hypothesis.

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