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Josey Muller’s regular life—studying with her best friends, planning for the Hollidazzle dance, and gossiping about hot guys—is shaken like a snow globe when her parents drop an A-bomb: she has a s

"DEAD GIRL WALKING is a great teen read: suspenseful, fast-paced, and loads of fun!" –K.A.

Fifteen-year-old Aura Ambrose has been hiding a secret.

Jay Davidovich is a 6'4", 225-pound, blond-haired Jewish insurance apparatchik with Ukrainian parents and an American attitude.

The summer of 1273 is peaceful for most of England, except in the village of Tyndal where Martin the cooper has been poisoned at the local inn.

When his friend Peralta, newly sworn in as sheriff, is shot by a sniper, historian-turned-deputy-sheriff David Mapstone can’t keep a cool, academic distance.

Lyndon B. Johnson is President, Beatlemania is in overdrive and gasoline costs 30 cents a gallon when Ned Parker retires as constable in Center Springs, Texas.

Trouble is brewing in the small, bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. An American who came to Trafalgar as a Vietnam War draft dodger has left land and money to the town.

The summer of 1880: although possible investment in Leadville’s silver mines is a main reason that former president and Civil War general Ulysses S.

The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family's past.

In late summer, 1972, California’s redwood forests seem a “safe and wondrous place.” But some of Evergreen’s population is growing pot up in the trees and others are bent on stealing it.

This well imagined, carefully detailed, and cleverly plotted debut draws on actual historical events of 1811 London.

While running surveillance in an industrial section of Scottsdale, P.I. Lena Jones discovers the body of a woman connected to Second Zion, an infamous polygamy cult based in northern Arizona.

The Fisks’ weekend party, a “sleepover” for select couples, remains the talk of the town long after Reg Hopkins’ body turns up in an isolated covered bridge.

On the islands of Java and Bali in the early 1980s, Western governments are pouring millions of dollars into development schemes even as Indonesian strongman President Suharto violently stifles dis