LITTLE
JOE by Michael E. Glasscock III
When Little Joe Stout survives the car accident that took his parents’ lives,
he is sent to live with his maternal grandparents in the small town of Round
Rock, Tennessee. Orphaned and missing his Texas home, Little Joe is reluctant to
adapt. But his grandparents, especially his grandmother, are up to the challenge
of raising him despite their own struggles. Soon, childhood friendships are
forged in the oddball duo of Sugar and Bobby, and—with the help of a new canine
companion—Little Joe begins to see that his new home offers the comfort and love
he thought was lost forever.
Set against the drama of World War II and the first sparks of the civil
rights movement, Little Joe’s new home is a microcosm of America in the 1940s. A
frightening incident with a Chinese motorist traveling on the wrong side of
town, the migration of troops across the countryside, and a frank discussion of
Jim Crow laws are just a few of the local events mirroring the radio broadcasts
that bring the news of the day into his grandmother’s kitchen.
Little Joe begins a four-part series from Michael E. Glasscock
III that explores the intricate social cloth of Round Rock, Tennessee.
THE
TRIAL OF DR. KATE by Michael E. Glasscock III
In the summer of 1952, Lillian Johnson was found dead in her home, slumped in
the wheelchair that had become her cage due to multiple sclerosis. An overdose
of barbiturate had triggered a heart attack, but the scene was not quite right.
It looked as though someone other than Lillian herself had injected the fatal
dose.
Dr. Kate Marlow, Lillian’s physician and best friend, now sits in the
Round Rock city jail. The only country doctor for miles, Kate cannot remember
her whereabouts at the time of Lillian’s death--and the small Tennessee town
buzzes with judgment.
As Dr. Kate’s trial approaches, another woman is determined to uncover
the truth about the night of Lillian’s death. Memphis reporter Shenandoah
Coleman grew up in Round Rock on the wrong side of the tracks, but unlike the
rest of her unsavory clan, escaped her destiny. Now, back in the town she grew
up in, she’ll have to turn every stone to keep Kate from a guilty verdict.
The Trial of Dr. Kate is the second novel in a four-part
series from Michael E. Glasscock III that explores the intricate social cloth of
Round Rock, Tennessee. Though each story stands alone, readers who enjoyed
Glasscock’s first Round Rock tale, Little Joe, will delight in the
cameo appearances in this one.
THE
LIFE AND TIMES OF JAMIE LEE COLEMAN by Michael E. Glasscock
III
An act of violence compelled him to leave all he’d ever known. A
promise to the woman he adored brought him home again.
When the elderly widow Miss Frances Washington rescued the
ten-year-old Jamie Lee Coleman from his tarpaper shack in Beulah Land after the
boy’s father slapped him one time too many, people told her that she was too old
to raise another child—especially a Coleman. But under her tutelage, young Jamie
Lee realizes that he has a prodigious talent for performing, and he takes his
first steps on a journey that will lead him to perform his unique blend of
Southern music in the jazz clubs of New Orleans, in the honky-tonks and bars of
Nashville, and on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry—and countless venues
beyond.
A remarkable guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Jamie Lee is determined
to become a star. But can he escape his Coleman dependency on the
bottle—especially when his climb to reach fortune, fame, and love keeps tossing
him back on the ground?
The Life and Times of Jamie Lee Coleman is the third novel
in Michael Glasscock’s four-part series that vividly portrays the people and
traditions of Round Rock, Tennessee. Though each story stands alone, readers who
liked Little Joe and The Trial of Dr. Kate will be pleased to
see some of their favorite characters in this tale.
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UTOPIA,
TEXAS by Michael E. Glasscock
III
In the quiet town of Utopia, Texas, life is simple. Monty Kilpatrick does his
duty as a local game warden, catching poachers, smoking too many cigarettes, and
trying to keep his marriage afloat. Most days he thinks about the loss of his
young son and how to not be tempted to stray from his vows by one of the local
girls.
But just across the border in Mexico, drug cartel kingpin Juan Diaz is
running his empire with an iron fist. Utopia is part of the cartel's main
trafficking routes, and when Monty arrests Diaz’s brother during what he thought
was a routine traffic stop, the men’s paths cross. In a moment, the formerly
peaceful Utopia becomes a war zone.
Set in cartel haciendas and the rugged Texas landscape and featuring
plenty of guns, explosions, and helicopters, Utopia, Texas pits Monty and Juan
against each other, both bound by the opposing set of laws they’ve chosen to
follow. In order to save his town, his wife, and his pride, Monty must be ready
to lose everything he holds true.
MICHAEL
E. GLASSCOCK III
For the first eight years of his life Michael E. Glasscock III lived on his
grandfather's cattle ranch a few miles south of the small community of Utopia,
Texas. At the beginning of World War II, he moved to a small town in Tennessee
not unlike the mythical Round Rock portrayed in his fiction series. Michael
decided to study medicine, and he graduated from the University of Tennessee
Medical School at age twenty-four.
Nashville, Tennessee, was the site of his otology/neurotology practice, where
he was associated with Vanderbilt University as a clinical professor, and where
he continues to be part of the faculty as an adjunct professor. He retired from
full-time clinical practice in 1997 and moved back to Texas where he continues
to work as a consultant for three major medical device companies. He currently
resides in Austin, Texas.
THE SANDCASTLE GIRLS by Chris
Bohjalian
Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist
Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys.
Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter’s
night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. The Double Bind perfectly
conjured the Roaring Twenties on Long Island—and a young social worker’s descent
into madness. And Skeletons at the Feast chronicled the last six months
of World War Two in Poland and Germany with nail-biting authenticity. As The
Washington Post Book World has noted, Bohjalian writes “the sorts of books
people stay awake all night to finish.”
In his fifteenth book, The Sandcastle Girls, he brings us on a very
different kind of journey. This spellbinding tale travels between Aleppo, Syria,
in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012—a sweeping historical love story
steeped in the author’s Armenian heritage, making it his most personal novel to
date.
When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from Mount
Holyoke College, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the
Armenian language. The First World War is spreading across Europe, and she has
volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and
medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide. There, Elizabeth becomes
friendly with Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and
infant daughter. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt, he
begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he has fallen in
love with the wealthy, young American woman who is so different from the wife he
lost. Flash forward to the present, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist
living in suburban New York. Although her grandparents’ ornate Pelham home was
affectionately nicknamed the “Ottoman Annex,” Laura has never really given her
Armenian heritage much thought. But when an old friend calls, claiming to have
seen a newspaper photo of Laura’s grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston
museum, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family’s history that
reveals love, loss—and a wrenching secret that has been buried for
generations
MY REVIEW: I love history, and that is one
of the reasons that I have been a lifelong reader of historical romance. I know
that some readers state that they want a romance, not a history lesson, but I
think the two go hand-in-hand. The setting of the book, the era, culture, social
mores, religious beliefs, fashion, art and literature of the times all affect
the way the characters would develop as people. Therefore, they are very
important elements of the story line details. I appreciate the amount of
research and love of subject an author invests into a well-written historical
romance. However, sometimes historical fiction which is touched with romance
goes far beyond a personal love story. It brings into focus profound true events
which reveal the ugliest, most vile aspects of human nature. Such a book is
author Chris Bohjalian's "Sandcastle Girls", a devastating, ultimately rewarding
tale told with great skill by a distinctive storytelling voice. Depicting the
massive horror of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the story focuses on Elizabeth
Endicott, a young Bostonian volunteer who travels to Syria seeking to provide
aid to refugees who survived the slaughter. She meets Armen, a young Armenian
man who lost his family in the genocide. Not expecting to fall in love, their
surprising relationship eventually leads to marriage and a family of their own.
Decades later, their granddaughter, Laura Petrosian is a novelist determined to
uncover family secrets and to discover her true familial roots. "The Sandcastle
Girls" will leave no reader untouched. The author tears us apart and then
patches us back together with the power of his prose. He illuminates the reality
of his own heritage with unforgettable characters and a soul-searing, shattering
story line that will be impossible to remove from your thoughts.
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THE LIGHT IN THE RUINS BY Chris
Bohjalian
From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and
The Sandcastle Girls comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and
revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany.
1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an
Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa
will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. Eighteen-year-old
Cristina spends her days swimming in the pool, playing with her young niece and
nephew, and wandering aimlessly amid the estate’s gardens and olive groves. But
when two soldiers, a German and an Italian, arrive at the villa asking to see an
ancient Etruscan burial site, the Rosatis’ bucolic tranquility is shattered. A
young German lieutenant begins to court Cristina, the Nazis descend upon the
estate demanding hospitality, and what was once their sanctuary becomes their
prison.
1955: Serafina Bettini, an investigator with the Florence police department,
has her own demons. A beautiful woman, Serafina carefully hides her scars along
with her haunting memories of the war. But when she is assigned to a gruesome
new case—a serial killer targeting the Rosatis, murdering the remnants of the
family one-by-one in cold blood—Serafina finds herself digging into a past that
involves both the victims and her own tragic history.
Set against an exquisitely rendered Italian countryside, The Light in the
Ruins unveils a breathtaking story of moral paradox, human frailty, and the
mysterious ways of the heart.
The Flight Attendant
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A NATIONAL INDIEBOUND BESTSELLER
From the author of The Guest Room,
a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night:
A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a
dead man - and no idea what happened.
Cassandra Bowden is no
stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the
airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts
seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying
self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece
the previous night back together, already counting the minutes until
she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She quietly slides out
of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks
at the man she spent the night with. She sees his dark hair. His utter
stillness. And blood, a slick, still wet pool on the crisp white sheets.
Afraid to call the police—she's a single woman alone in a hotel room
far from home—Cassie begins to lie. She lies as she joins the other
flight attendants and pilots in the van. She lies on the way to Paris as
she works the first class cabin. She lies to the FBI agents in New York
who meet her at the gate. Soon it's too late to come clean—or face the
truth about what really happened back in Dubai. Could she have killed
him? If not, who did?
CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS by Chris
Bohjalian
A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a
teenage runaway, from the bestselling author of Midwives and The
Sandcastle Girls.
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a
homeless girl living in an igloo made of garbage bags in Burlington. Nearly a
year ago, a power plant in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont had a meltdown, and
both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of
the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault—was he drunk when it
happened? Thousands of people are forced to leave their homes in the Kingdom;
rivers and forests are destroyed; and Emily feels certain that as the daughter
of the most hated man in America, she is in danger. So instead of following the
social workers and her classmates after the meltdown, Emily takes off on her own
for Burlington, where she survives by stealing, sleeping on the floor of a drug
dealer's house, inventing a new identity for herself, and befriending a young
homeless kid named Cameron. But Emily can't outrun her past, can't escape her
grief, can't hide forever-and so she comes up with the only plan that she
can.
MY REVIEW: Author Chris Bohjalian's unique talents as a
storyteller propel readers through the harrowing adventure of a teen girl's
journey of survival after a devastating nuclear incident decimates the life she
has known. Emily Shepard's parents both worked for a nuclear power plant in
Vermont. Her father was in charge of the plant, and when a nuclear meltdown
occurs, both of her parents were killed, and her father was blamed for the
disaster. Knowing that she must flee to escape the hatred directed toward her
dead parents, Emily goes on the run, inventing a new identity for herself and
living each day as best she can. The everyday realities of her new life are
rough, raw, and dangerous. Seeking something to cling to in her hellish
existence, she remembers the poems of Emily Dickinson. She finds herself in the
role of protector of Cameron, a nine-year old boy also without a home. Real
friendships are rare, and trust is an even more precious commodity. Physical
health and mental well-being are often frequently threatened. Is there such a
thing as a safe haven? Is there anyone left who really cares? This story is told
in first-person, and Emily's voice will haunt you long after you read the last
page.
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CHRIS
BOHJALIAN
Chris Bohjalian's novel, The Light in the Ruins, is the tale of two young women in war-ravaged Tuscany in 1943 and 1944, one a partisan and one a noblewoman in love with a German lieutenant.
His novel, The Sandcastle Girls, was published in July 2012 to great acclaim. A love story set in the midst of the Armenian Genocide, it debuted at #7 on the New York Times bestseller list, and appeared as well on the Publishers' Weekly, USA Today, and national Independent Bookstore bestseller lists.
USA Today called it "stirring. . .a deeply moving story of survival and enduring love." Entertainment Weekly observed, "Bohjalian - the grandson of Armenian survivors - pours passion, pride, and sadness into his tale of ethnic destruction and endurance." And the Washington Post concluded that the novel was "intense. . .staggering. . .and utterly riveting." The Sandcastle Girls was also an Oprah.com Book of the Week. It was also a Washington Post, Library Journal, a Kirkus Reviews, and a BookPage "Best Book" of 2012.
Chris is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 20 books. Chris's work has been translated into over 30 languages and three times become movies ("Midwives," "Secrets of Eden," and "Past the Bleachers.")
"The Flight Attendant" paperback lands January 8, 2019, wherever books are sold. It debuted as a hardcover in March 2019 as a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Indiebound, Wall Street Journal, and iBooks Bestseller. It has been optioned by Kaley Kuoco and Warner Brothers Television for a limited series.
Chris's books have been chosen as Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Hartford Courant, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Bookpage, and Salon.
Awards include the ANCA Freedom Award for educating Americans about the Armenian Genocide; the ANCA Arts and Letters Award for The Sandcastle Girls, as well as the Saint Mesrob Mashdots Medal; the New England Society Book Award for The Night Strangers; the New England Book Award; Russia's Soglasie (Concord) Award for The Sandcastle Girls; a Boston Public Library Literary Light; a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Trans-Sister Radio; and the Anahid Literary Award. "Midwives" was a number one New York Times bestseller, a selection of Oprah's Book Club, and a New England Booksellers Association Discovery pick.
Chris is a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude of Amherst College, and has written for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine.
THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt
WINNER OF THE 2014 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker,
miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by
his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend.
Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by
schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all
by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that
reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that
ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich
and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is
alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more
dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a novel of shocking
narrative energy and power. It combines unforgettably vivid characters,
mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a
philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It
is a beautiful, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph,
an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and
self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.
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"Dazzling....[A] glorious, Dickensian novel, a novel that pulls
together all Ms. Tartt's remarkable storytelling talents into a
rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive,
stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a
dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects
with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an
extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review
"The Goldfinch is a book about art in all its forms, and
right from the start we remember why we enjoy Donna Tartt so much: the
humming plot and elegant prose; the living, breathing characters; the
perfectly captured settings....Joy and sorrow exist in the same breath,
and by the end The Goldfinch hangs in our stolen heart."--Vanity Fair
"A long-awaited, elegant meditation on love, memory, and the haunting
power of art....Eloquent and assured, with memorable characters....A
standout-and well-worth the wait."--Kirkus (Starred Review)
DONNA TARTT
Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and is a graduate of
Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History
and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty
languages.
THE KILL SWITCH by James Rollins and Grant
Blackwood
Who does the U.S. government call upon when a mission requires perfect
stealth, execution, and discretion?
From the two bestselling masters of action and political intrigue, James
Rollins and Grant Blackwood, comes the first in a groundbreaking new series,
featuring Captain Tucker Wayne and his stalwart military dog, Kane, both ripped
from the pages of Sigma Force for their first solo adventure. It will take this
uniquely talented pairing of man and beast to discover the earth-shattering
truth behind . . .
The Kill Switch
The mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical magnate from
Russian soil, a volatile man who holds the secret to a deadly bio-weapon. But
nothing is as it appears to be. A desperate call from Painter Crowe, director of
Sigma Force, thrusts Tucker and Kane into a frantic race to rescue the
brilliant-but-deluded Abram Bukolov from a cadre of skilled assassins, a deadly
team backed by a shadowy Russian general, a figure bent on revenge and
power.
Hunted and betrayed at every turn, Tucker and Kane must discover the truth
behind a biological threat, a horror out of the ancient past that can be
weaponized to terrorize the modern world. The journey of discovery will take the
pair across the frozen steppes of Russia to the sun-blasted savannahs of South
Africa, from the war-torn mountains of Namibia to the snowy Great Lakes of the
United States.
As time rapidly runs out, the deep and intimate bond between dog and soldier
will be tested to the extreme. It will take all of their skill, talent, and,
most of all, trust in each other to piece together a mystery going back to the
origins of life on Earth, to discover the key to an ancient peril that can
destroy the heartland of America, and, with it, the world.
TRACKER by James Rollins
From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a
stirring story of a soldier and his military war dog who are drawn into a dark
mystery tracing back to World War II and a lost treasure tied to the bones of
the dead.
Off the blustery streets in the medieval heart of Budapest, Captain Tucker
Wayne and his war dog, Kane, rescue a mysterious woman fleeing three armed men.
The secret she holds will unlock a terrible treasure, one steeped in blood and
treachery, tied to a crime going back to the fall of Nazi Germany and a heritage
of suffering and pain that reaches out from the past to wreak havoc today. In a
final showdown in the depths of a lost cemetery, truths will be unearthed,
treasures exposed, and the fate of all will rest upon the shoulders of one man
and a dog whose courage is beyond measure.
Included within this thrilling story is a sneak peek at the opening chapters
of Bloodline, in which the further exploits of Tucker and Kane will be
revealed.
MAN OF HIS OWN by Susan Wilson
Rick Stanton was a promising professional baseball player with dreams of
playing in the major leagues and starting a family with his young wife,
Francesca, when World War II changed everything. Rick returns from the war with
his body broken and his dreams shattered. But it was not just body and spirit
he sacrificed for the war. He and Francesca volunteered their beloved dog, Pax,
for the Army’s K-9 Corp, not knowing if they’d ever see him again.
Keller Nicholson is the soldier who fought the war with Pax by his side, and
the two have the kind of profound bond that can only be forged in war. Pax is
the closest Keller has to a sense of family, and he can’t bear the thought of
returning him to the Stantons. But Rick and Francesca refuse to give him up. Instead, an arrangement is made: Keller will work as Rick’s live-in aide. And
thus an unlikely family is formed, with steadfast Pax at the center. As they
try to build a new life out of the ashes, Keller and Francesca struggle to
ignore their growing attraction to each other, and Rick, believing that he can
no longer give Francesca what she needs and wants, quietly plans a way out.
All three of them need healing. All three of them are lost. Pax, with his
unconditional love and unwavering loyalty, may be the only one who can guide
them home.
THE CHASE by DiAnn Mills
To the FBI it's a cold case. To Kariss Walker it's a hot idea that could
either reshape or ruin her writing career. And it's a burning mission to revisit
an event she can never forget. Five years ago, an unidentified little girl was
found starved to death in the woods behind a Houston apartment complex. A TV
news anchor at the time, Kariss reported on the terrifying case. Today, as a New
York Times bestselling author, Kariss intends to turn the unsolved mystery into
a suspense novel. Enlisting the help of FBI Special Agent Tigo Harris, Kariss
succeeds in getting the case reopened. But the search for the dead girl's
missing mother yields a discovery that plunges the partners into a witch's brew
of danger. The old crime lives on in more ways than either of them could ever
imagine. Will Kariss's pursuit of her dream as a writer carry a deadly price
tag? Drawing from a real-life cold case, bestselling novelist DiAnn Mills
presents a taut collage of suspense, faith, and romance in The Chase.
THE SURVIVOR by DiAnn Mills
Kariss meets Dr. Amy Garrett, who survived a brutal childhood attack in which
the assailant was never found. Now Dr. Garrett wants her story written in a
novel. Kariss wishes she could seek the advice of Special Agent Tigo Harris, but
she broke off the relationship a few months prior and seeing him again would be
too painful. She interviews Amy and conducts her own research, stepping unaware
into a viper’s pit of danger.
Tigo misses Kariss and wants her back, but he understands why she broke off
their relationship. Instead, he concentrates on solving a car bombing and
bringing the killer to justice. As Kariss’s new story attracts an onslaught of
danger that she never expected, can Tigo save the woman he loves and find who
wants her dead for writing about an unsolved cold-case?
DUKE by Kirby Larson
A poignant World War II story about a boy and his dog and his dad, and the
many meanings of bravery, from Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson.
With World War II raging and his father fighting overseas in Europe,
eleven-year-old Hobie Hanson is determined to do his part to help his family and
his country, even if it means giving up his beloved German shepherd, Duke.
Hoping to help end the war and bring his dad home faster, Hobie decides to
donate Duke to Dogs for Defense, an organization that urges Americans to "loan"
their pets to the military to act as sentries, mine sniffers, and patrol dogs.
Hobie immediately regrets his decision and tries everything he can to get Duke
back, even jeopardizing his friendship with the new boy at school. But when his
father is taken prisoner by the Germans, Hobie realizes he must let Duke go and
reach deep within himself to be brave. Will Hobie ever see Duke, or his father,
again?
With powerful storytelling and gripping emotion, critically acclaimed author
Kirby Larson explores the many ways bravery and love help us to weather the most
difficult times.
CRITICAL PURSUIT by Janice Cantore
Officer Brinna Caruso has built a reputation at the precinct as the cop to
call when a child goes missing. For Brinna, it's personal because she was once
one of them. Brinna and her K-9 search and rescue dog, Hero, will stop at
nothing to find a missing child, no matter the stakes.
Detective Jack O'Reilly isn't ready to return to his homicide duties after
losing his wife to a drunk driver. He's on the downside of his career, and bent
on revenge, when he's assigned as Brinna's partner. While on patrol, Jack
struggles between his quest for personal justice and his responsibility to those
around him, especially his partner.
Skeptical of Jack's motives, Brinna isn't sure she can rely on her new
partner, whose reckless abandon endangers the safety of those around him. But
when a man surfaces with an MO similar to the criminal who abducted Brinna
twenty years earlier, Brinna and Jack must cast aside previous judgments and
combine efforts to catch the kidnapper and finally allow Brinna the peace stolen
from her as a child.
THE DOG WHO COULD FLY by Damien Lewis
An instant hit in the UK, this is the true account of a German shepherd who
was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight
missions, and survived everything from crash-landings to parachute
bailouts—ultimately saving the life of his owner and dearest friend.
In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man’s-land, two loners met and
began an extraordinary journey that would turn them into lifelong friends. One
was an orphaned puppy, abandoned by his owners as they fled Nazi forces. The
other was a different kind of lost soul—a Czech airman bound for the Royal Air
Force and the country that he would come to call home.
Airman Robert Bozdech stumbled across the tiny German shepherd—whom he named
Ant—after being shot down on a daring mission over enemy lines. Unable to desert
his charge, Robert hid Ant inside his jacket as he escaped. In the months that
followed the pair would save each other’s lives countless times as they flew
together with Bomber Command. And though Ant was eventually grounded due to
injury, he refused to abandon his duty, waiting patiently beside the runway for
his master’s return from every sortie, and refusing food and sleep until they
were reunited. By the end of the war Robert and Ant had become British war
heroes, and Ant was justly awarded the Dickin Medal, the “Animal VC.”
With beautiful vintage black-and-white photos of Robert and Ant, The Dog
Who Could Fly is a deeply moving story of loyalty in the face of adversity
and the unshakable bond between a man and his best friend.
SUSPECT by Robert Crais
The explosive masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times' bestselling
author.
LAPD cop Scott James is not doing so well. Eight months ago, a shocking
nighttime assault by unidentified men killed his partner Stephanie, nearly
killed him, and left him enraged, ashamed, and ready to explode. He is unfit for
duty...until he meets his new partner.
Maggie is not doing so well, either. A German shepherd who survived three
tours in Iraq and Afghanistan sniffing explosives before losing her handler to
an IED, her PTSD is as bad as Scott's.
They are each other's last chance. Shunned and shunted to the side, they set
out to investigate the one case that no one wants them to touch: the identity of
the men who murdered Stephanie. What they begin to find is nothing like what
Scott has been told, and the journey will take them both through the darkest
moments of their own personal hells. Whether they will make it out again, no one
can say.
