Accepting a teaching job at his former school in the wake of a failed writing career, Matthias guiltily reflects on his role in the disappearance of a classmate ten years earlier and becomes compelled to learn the young man's fate.

"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...

Devoted to the husband whose family took her in as an orphan, Ruth wonders about her choices and the life they will share when her husband retires as the head of a private boys' school to which the couple has given everything they have.

In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa in Mississippi, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder when the beauty contest/cook-off's top contender gets poisoned.

Continues the adventures of sixth-grader Nate Wright as he shows a detention rookie the ropes, campaigns for a student of the month, and writes movie reviews for the Weekly bugle.

The orchard: Grace Lyndon is a rising ingenue in the world of perfumes and flavors; a stiletto-wearing workaholic in Atlanta, she develops aromas and tastes to enthrall the senses. Dylan Jackson is a widowed single father whose heart and hands have grown calloused in the fields of his North Georgia apple farm. When Grace happens to taste an apple picked from Dylan's trees, her determination to track down the apple's origin changes both of their lives...

After uncovering Edward's secret, Bella, trusting him to keep her safe, becomes the target of a vampire from a rival clan with the ability to track.

"A Council of Dolls is the moving and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award-winning Sioux author Mona Susan Power, spanning four generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day"--

Each of the Baxter children experiences trouble at school, and when Principal Bond announces a new Character Awards initiative competition breaks out between the siblings until they remember what being a Baxter really means.

"Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...