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The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman, and Dara Rose Nolan without a husband or income, until Clay McKettrick comes to town.

In the heart of Big Sky Country, single mom Sophie Penazzi accepts a housekeeping job at the Silver Saddle Ranch.

Michelle LeBeau and her white-Japanese family are forever changed when a black family moves into her all-white town in 1974.

Sallis' novel tracks the fortunes of three men of vastly different ages, backgrounds, and ambitions.

Presents the author's aphorism that touch on the ideas about the hubris of modern society presented in such earlier works as "The Black Swan" and "Fooled by Randomness."

Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.

From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption

Hollywood composer Chris Lowe mourns the death of his wife by returning home to his native Yorkshire, where he buys the desolate Kilnsgate House.

Follows the growth of black bear cubs from a bear biologist's perspective, and includes facts about each stage in their lives, eating habits, playtime, and hibernation.

Describes the physical characteristics, habitats, babies, and behavior of the endangered species called manatees.

Besides being a general and the first president of the United States, George Washington was also a farmer.

In 1067 Greenland, a strange stone falls from the sky.

Presents a collection of crime and noir stories set in Haiti.

FBI art-crimes expert Emma Sharpe and deep-cover agent Colin Donovan are recuperating in Heron's Cove when they learn of a rare set of Russian jewelry that's about to be stolen.

While investigating the murder of a nun in an isolated Maine town, FBI agent Colin Donovan goes undercover as an Irish fisherman and must decide if he wants to work alone or with Emma Sharpe, an ar