National Network for Equitable Library Service

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

In the heart of Big Sky Country, single mom Sophie Penazzi accepts a housekeeping job at the Silver Saddle Ranch. The ranch's owner, handsome Jeb Worthington, is gruff, hard to get along with, and certainly used to a different type of woman sharing his living space. But Sophie has a hard time denying her attraction to her boss, and she begins to wonder if she can ever be more than just a maid to him.

As head of the Rule 34 Squad, Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh keeps a close eye on Internet activity, monitoring whether people are participating in harmless fantasies or engaging in illegal activities. When three criminal spammers are murdered, it's up to Liz to determine how the victims were connected. If she can't figure it out, more people will surely die.

Repentant ex-convict Levi Grant comes to Spencer, Texas, in 1887--hoping to put his past behind him and start out fresh as the town's new blacksmith. To promote civility, Eden Spencer runs her own lending library, where she discovers Levi's love of literature. But just as romance begins to bloom, Eden learns of Levi's prodigal past.

Tori Henderson's marketing career in Houston is on the fast track. But when her aunt falls ill, Tori returns to her tiny hometown to provide care--and ends up reconnecting with an old crush.

While enjoying autumn weather and activities, Mr. Putter, realizing how much he misses going to school, takes his cat Tabby, their adventurous neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, and her cake-loving dog Zeke to "Show and Tell."

Occasionally hapless British agent Bob Howard tackles a case involving an American televangelist and a supernatural threat of global proportions.

The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.

Working in the ER, Dr. Marie Lavant sees the darkest side of New Orleans. But the bloody wounds of patients are not the only things that haunt her. As the descendent of a legendary voodoo queen, Marie is cursed with the ability to communicate with spirits of the dead.

Damian Mackenzie is an incorrigible gambler just honorable enough to save Lady Kiri Lawford from dangerous smugglers. That does not, however, mean he has any desire to return her romantic interest--until he learns Kiri's not exactly the prim and proper lady society expects her to be.