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Summer of My Amazing Luck: A Novel

by Miriam Toews

Published: 2006-07-05

Paperback: 240 pages

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Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alicia's twins, and the two welfare mothers and their five children set off on a journey to find him, facing along the way the complications of living in poverty and raising fatherless children.

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Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm - from Scratch

by Lucie B. Amundsen

Published: 2017-02-28

Paperback: 336 pages

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How a Midwestern family with no agriculture experience went from a few backyard chickens to a full-fledged farm—and discovered why local chicks are better.When Lucie Amundsen had a rare night out with her husband, she never imagined what he’d tell her over dinner—that his dream was t...

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The Ogallala Road: A Story of Love, Family, and the Fight to Keep the Great Plains from Running Dry

by Julene Bair

Published: 2015-08-04

Paperback: 288 pages

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“A moving story of love and loss, denial and reckoning, and the emergence of a new kind of hope.” —Ruth OzekiWhen Julene Bair inherits part of a large farm on the High Plains of Kansas, she intends to honor her father’s commandment, “Hang on to your land!” But she learns some t...

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Day of the Dead: A Frieda Klein Novel (8)

by Nicci French

Published: 2018-07-12

Hardcover: 384 pages

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At long last, a final reckoning is coming for Frieda Klein... On a north London high street, a runaway vehicle crashes to a halt. The man in the driving seat was murdered a week earlier. On Hampstead Heath, a bonfire blazes: in the flames lies the next victim. As autumn leaves fall, a serial killer runs...

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The Moving Toyshop: A Detective Story

by Edmund Crispin

Published: 1981-03-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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An Oxford don leads an unusual criminal investigation following a murder at the university

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The Santa Klaus Murder (British Library Crime Classics)

by Mavis Hay

Published: 2015-10-06

Paperback: 252 pages

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Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Despite its title, this British Library Crime Classics reissue of a 1936 novel isn't just an entertaining Christmas read. It's a fine example of the old-time country-house murder mystery, with loads of suspects, lots of period atmos...

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The Librarians and The Lost Lamp

by Greg Cox

Published: 2016-10-11

Paperback: 288 pages

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The first book in a new trilogy based on the hit television show, The Librarians, by Greg Cox. For millennia, the Librarians have secretly protected the world by keeping watch over dangerous magical relics. Cataloging and safeguarding everything from Excalibur to Pandora’s Box, they stan...

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Murder for Christmas

by Agatha Christie

Published: 1987-09-04

Hardcover: 1 pages

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The Yuletide season becomes a time for mystery and murder in a collection of twenty-six tales by such writers as Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, O. Henry, Ngaio Marsh, Thomas Hardy, and Rex Stout

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Sadie When She Died (An 87th Precinct Novel)

by Ed McBain

Published: 2013-11-19

Paperback: 190 pages

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Christmas is coming. But erudite attorney Gerry Fletcher got his present early: his wife’s body with a knife buried in it. Though he shamelessly cops to being happy she’s dead, his alibi is airtight and all signs point to a burglary gone bad. But even when detectives Steve Carella and ...

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The White Priory Murders

by Carter Dickson

Published: 1982-03

Paperback: 0 pages

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Too many murderers. White Priory was a beautiful old mansion outside London. Its owner, a playwright, had invited some people down to discuss his new play, among other things...But someone had come not to talk, but to kill. When Scotland Yard joined the houseparty, everyone started to talk, but all they...