Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to w...
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In this debut novel by Alice Hunter, Beth and Tom Hardcastle are the envy of their neighbourhood - they have the perfect marriage, with a beautiful baby girl and another one on the way. When the police knock on their door one evening, Beth panics and she fears the worst. But the ...
"In this sequel to Taylor's lyrical series debut, Agony Hill, Detective Frank Warren and his formerly CIA-connected neighbor Alice Bellows return to investigate the death of a diplomat. It's November of 1965 and the second weekend of Vermont's regular deer season when Vermont Sta...
Dr. Eleanor Spencer is a respected forensic psychologist with a seemingly perfect life. But when a series of women start to vanish, she's haunted by the memory of her sister's disappearance and she finds herself drawn into the chilling investigation. As the body count rises and h...
"Is murder in the blood? In a sleepy Devon village, a woman is taken from the streets. Local vet Jenny is horrified. This kind of thing doesn't happen here. But it's not the first time she's been so close to a crime scene. The daughter of a prolific serial killer, she's spent her...
"She thought she'd left her past behind. She was wrong ... After a childhood in the care system, Anna Price has beaten the odds and built the perfect life for herself, complete with beautiful seaside home, devoted husband and a job she loves. Then a detective appears at Anna's do...
Trusted officer. Family man. Monster? Becky Lawson's life has been shattered. When she discovered her husband, John -- a trusted policeman -- was a monster, she reported him. But her faith in the system was crushed when it didn't lead to any charges or consequences. Now, John liv...
Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son Peter...
"A collection of 28 excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders that reflect the wisdom of Indigenous worldview precepts, accompanied by analysis"-- Provided by publisher.
"The day after Burning Lake's notorious, debauched Halloween celebration, Detective Natalie Lockhart uncovers a heartbreaking scene--a young woman, dead and lying in a dumpster. There's no clue to who she is, save for a mystifying tattoo on her arm, and a callus underneath her ch...
Matrix: The day-in, day world is the real world is merely perception. In reality it is a hoax perpetrated by an all-powerful artificial intelligence that control us. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct, and is now fighting for the future of the human race...
For nearly two hundred years, women in Ashley Tolliver's family have practiced the art of midwifery in their mountain community. Now she wants to take her skills a step further, but attending medical school means abandoning those women to whom she has dedicated her life, the moun...
Photographs of famous writers and their feline companions-- Provided by publisher.
"The women in Ashley's family have helped mothers usher new life into this world for generations. But what if it's Ashley's turn to have a new life? Ashley Tolliver has tended to the women of her small Appalachian community for years. As their midwife, she has seen it all. Until ...
While helping her latest client, Alice, sort through a fortune in antiques, bargain hunter extraordinaire Sarah Winston must call in the big guns--a former F.B.I. negotiator--when her landlady gets kidnapped.
Wherever Max goes, mischief is sure to follow! He spends his days teasing, playing hide-and-seek, and prowling the barnyard. He's also keenly intelligent and independent, with his own private life that begins at night. An affectionate portrait of a pet who's both friend and hunte...
While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex Carter is run off the road and threatened by locals determined to force her off the land. Undeterred in her mission to help save this threatened species, Alex tracks wolverines on foot and by cameras pos...