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by Daniel Defoe

Abandoned at birth and threatened with a life in service, Defoe's young rebel sets her heart on independence. One fatal seduction and five husbands later, she resorts to a life of self-supporting crime.

by Glenn A. Bruce

Are you tired of the yelling, the anger, the confusion in America's political system today? Are you angry at the anger? If you are, you need to read this book today! It's short and to the point; but more important, it is just as the title says: a Practical Guide to Being a Good American. This book should become the Anthem for the 80% of Americans who are "in the middle." As the author says, "If you take away the 10% on the extreme left, and the 10% on the extreme right, you are left with 80% of Americans who want a quieter, saner dialogue about our many problems, so that we can actually begin fixing them now."This book is easy reading, written in an everyday speaking style that makes it accessible to everyone. No concepts in the book are "over anyone's head." These are, as the title implies, practical ways of looking at our nation's issues. The author doesn't attempt to offer solutions. He's not an expert. He is one of us, just another American citizen who is frustrated by the shouting, red faces that lead us farther and farther away from each other, rather than uniting us to solve our many problems.If you are a rabid right-winger, or extreme lefty, don't read this book; but if you consider yourself to be a calmer person who is looking for direction, “Anthem” is your doorway! The author encourages you to read it, think and seek out answers for yourself. If you don't agree with everything, that's fine! That's America! We aren't supposed to agree on every point that comes up. W

by T E. Kinsey

Emily, Lady Hardcastle, is a widow with a mysterious and unconventional past. When she moves from London to rural Gloucestershire in 1908, she has her heart set on a quiet life in the country. But when she and her maid come upon a body in the woods, they become entangled in a murder mystery that sets them on an entertaining new path as amateur sleuths. In these, the first of Lady Hardcastle's adventures, she and Florence Armstrong, her faithful lady's maid, fumble their way through four mysteries. The Body in the Woods sets them on their new path when a supposed suicide turns out to be more than it appears. When The Circus Comes to Town, the amateur sleuths meet an old friend and must track down a multiple murderer who has turned the lives of the travelling entertainers upside down. The Case of the Missing Case sees a musician murdered at a country house party, but once again all is not as it seems and our heroines work with the Bristol police to solve the murder before the trail goes cold. In The Half Death of Gunther Ehrlichmann, Emily finally uncovers the truth of her husband's death and seals her own fate when an assassin tracks her down."

by Quintin Jardine

Quintin Jardine's recent Bob Skinner mystery, DEATH'S DOOR, spent six consecutive weeks at number one in the Scottish bestseller list

by Harper Lin

The Pink Cupcake Truck is here! From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin In the middle of a messy custody battle with her ex-husband, Amelia volunteers to organize a high school bake sale to raise money for Meg's art club. After a frightening police lockdown at the school, which turned out to be due to the death of a student, Amelia wants to help. She also has ulterior motives to be inside the school: to get to the bottom of why a popular football player was found dead in the school gym. Read the 7th cozy mystery (30,000 words) in the popular Pink Cupcake series.

by E. H. Reinhard

A wanted serial killer and his girlfriend are on a bloody killing spree across the United States. Agents Hank Rawlings and Beth Harper, along with the rest of their team, are on a nationwide manhunt to bring them to justice.Scene after scene and body after body only add to the media coverage. The wanted couple's faces are splashed across every television and cover the front pages of every newspaper, yet Hank's team remains a step behind-leaving them searching through the wreckage and bodies left in the couple's wake.As the pair takes a turn for the border, Hank must pull out all the stops to capture the murderous lovers before they take more lives, cross the border, and slip through the FBI's grasp.The hunt is on.

by B. K. Stubblefield

The best part of Emily's childhood may have been the time she spent with her quirky aunt. When her favorite relative passes away, she drops everything to attend the funeral in the small town of Oak Creek. Just as she starts to get the hang of small-town life, an unknown driver runs her off the road and sends her to the hospital. But, why?

by Arnaldur Indridason

18 million copies sold worldwide! An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city pond unexpectedly captures everyone's attention. A brilliant, chilling tale of broken dreams and children who have nowhere to turn.

by Andrew Wender Cohen

The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. It explains how carpenters, teamsters, barbers, musicians and others organised to thwart ambitious national corporations. Unions and associations governed commerce through pickets, assaults and bombings. Scholars often ignore this defiance, painting modernisation as a consensual process and presenting craftsmen as reactionary, corrupt and criminal. This is ironic, for the tradesmen's reputation derives from their successful struggle to control modernisation and the emerging consumer economy. Their resistance redirected American law. Progressive-era courts rebuked the craftsmen for attempting to govern trade. In the 1920s, the tradesmen inspired new criminal concepts, such as 'racketeering'. But the Great Depression reversed harsh laws. The craftsmen became a model for New Deal recovery statutes and a focus for constitutional debates. Meanwhile, the state began protecting unions against gangsters like Al Capone.

by Siri Hustvedt

"When Professor Hess stumbles across an unusual letter to the editor in an art journal, he is surprised to have known so little about the brilliant and mysterious artist it describes, the late Harriet Burden. Intrigued by her story, and by the explosive scandal surrounding her legacy, he begins to interview those who knew her, hoping to separate fact from fiction, only to find himself tumbling down a rabbit's hole of personal and psychological intrigue"--

by Louise Penny

The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, How the Light Gets In

by Robert M. Utley

Written by a respected Western historian, here is the definitive account of the Texas Rangers, a vivid portrait of these legendary peace officers and their role in a changing West.

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

.0000000000Crime and Punishment is the story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. Raskolnikov, a poor student, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, and then has to face up to the moral consequences of his actions. The novel is compelling and rewarding, full of meaning and symbolism, and raises profound questions about the individual and society, and the nature of free will.Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Afterword by Oliver Francis.