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The Murder by the Yard book club is growing in popularity, much to librarian Megan Clark's excitement.

Ace Endicott, the Earl of Carde, needs a woman who will give him an heir, but he never expects to be engaged to three different women or to become the laughingstock of the gossip columnists.

"I am fat" begin's Moore's description of an abusive mother, ignored or teased by those around her, she has always been defined by her size.

This enveloping crime novel ventures into the dark heart of 19thcentury Russia as detective Porfiry Petrovich investigates the poisoning of a doctor's wife and their autistic son.

Growing up in the Bronx during the '80s, Korean immigrant teen Joon is forced out on her own as her family crumbles around her.

For 25 years William Noonan and John F. Kennedy, Jr. were best friends.

During his nearly three decades of service, Pope John Paul II became the most recognized person in the world.

Nuala O'Faolain branches into new territory with her biography of the infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief, Chicago May.

Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

Pelikan takes the reader through the good book's evolution from its earliest incarnation as oral tales to its modern existence in various iterations, translations, and languages.

On the day he is supposed to propose to Amelia, things go tragically wrong, and Bodie ends up in the slammer with a conviction for manslaughter.

When English Separatists flee to Holland, Dutch urban life corrupts their children and weakens their families.

Police chief Cameron McDonald has lived in idyllic Wheelock, Massachusetts for most of his life, as has his beloved wife Allie.

Ivy Ames, fortysomething mother of two, loses her high-flying job (to downsizing) and her husband (to their neighbor) in the same day.

Because Lady Lucinda Pembroke's paintings have a reputation for being prophetic, her picture of a handsome man laughing as a ship sinks causese widespread gossip.