National Network for Equitable Library Service

When an accident upends their lives, fourteen-year-old Shiloh and her mother Ruth must leave their idyllic home to make a new life in the city. They find housing through an evangelical church operating out of a strip mall that backs onto the grounds of the abandoned Pacific Hospital for the Mind. Their lives begin to intersect with their new neighbours: Raymond, a handyman whose painful past is coming to a head; Dave, the disillusioned pastor looking for a new wife; and Madeleine, a 90-year-old former nurse who continues to make pilgrimages to the graves of the patients she once cared for.

Robert lost his father before he'd even been born, and was quickly abandoned by his young mother to be raised by his grandparents in small-town Saskatchewan. In another sense, though, Robert never lost his father, whose ghostly presence lingers in the young boy's life over the years by means of spectral "advice letters" on how to be a man. When Robert finds an old pump organ in a derelict farmhouse, he discovers a deep love of and talent for performing music.

The icon of a Scottish distilling family has opened a bourbon distillery near Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Only days before his much-anticipated first release, he's found dead inside Lincoln's Birthplace National Historic Site. Because of the victim's notoriety, Doug and Jill Fletcher are asked to assist the local police with the investigation. The mystery becomes even more intriguing when a homeless man seems to know more about the victim and his business than the police.

Sage, at fourteen, grows up in turmoil in Nahant, Massachusetts—her changing body, her parents' rocky marriage. When her cousin Patrick visits for the summer, his parents' divorce has given him a reckless anger. He insists they explore the creepy mansion in the woods. Nate, Sage's younger brother, is reluctant to approach the manor where a beloved teacher was found hanged months earlier. The children's great-great-grandmother worked at Lakeluster House in a previous century and was under suspicion of shooting another servant.

In the shadows of British Columbia's Comox Valley, a tragic history refuses to rest. Based on chilling true events, Dancing Mary unearths the long-buried story of a young K’ómoks First Nation woman—named Mary by early settlers—who was betrayed and murdered by the very man she once trusted. Her spirit, said to appear as a shimmering blue orb, haunted the area for decades. The last vivid encounter occurred in 1914, when a soldier cycling down Comox Road rode through the ghostly light and described an otherworldly cold that he would never forget.

Nicknamed Hotspur for tirelessly thwarting threats to England, Sir Harry Percy should be riding easy. Deeply in love, he builds an idyllic life in Northumberland at Tower House with his sweetheart, Ciarry. Trouble brews, though, under Henry IV, who became king—over Harry's objections—by inciting a mob to make Parliament oust the venal Richard II and enthrone Henry. Now the new monarch rules as despotically as his predecessor. Moreover, the Exchequer lacks money owed Harry for national defense.

Jordan Barrister loves her grandfather, her unique candle creations, and the life she's built in present-day Chicago. Her latest hobby obsessions, however, are love locks from a section of grille purchased at auction from Paris' famed Pont des Arts pedestrian bridge. She's determined to create a lasting tribute to those who put a lock on the bridge to safeguard their love. While a lock is normally used to keep something in, one particular lock accidentally opens a time portal and Jordan finds herself in 1926 Chicago.

Despite the grieving husband's description of the event, Sergeant CJ Jensen isn't at all convinced that a farm fatality is really an accident. With the help of Pam Ryan, Floyd Swenson, and a neighbor who raises skunks, CJ's investigation uncovers multiple mysteries as she moves forward and puts down permanent roots in Pine County.

Tall, proud, and handsome male lead—no holds barred when husband is framed for murder and has no choice but to run for his life. Historical romantic suspense set in beautiful Eastern Canada. With perjuring witnesses, how can he prove his innocence? Rough and rowdy ways meet the love of his life. Strong female lead stands by her man when her husband is framed for murder.

A watch goes missing from a changeroom at a gym—an expensive watch with a loud, arrogant owner. The theft connects three yogis in a way full lotus never could. As the search for a thief unfolds, so do seemingly unrelated questions. Why does Lexie have such an intense interest in a much-younger trainer at the gym? Who is the unnamed, unknown man who keeps leaving Charlene messages? Why does no one know Woo Woo lives in a mansion?