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After years of driving cattle and wearing a ranger's badge, disaffected Texan Ed Wright retires--intent on drowning his sorrows with whiskey. But widowed rancher Unita Nance has one last job for him, and she won't take no for an answer.

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. Londoners are sure it must be Sir Trevelyan Rochester, gloating as his wealthy cousin drowns. Lucinda hides from the gossip at a remote cottage--only to encounter Rochester there. She begins another painting, hoping to repair his reputation. But as her brush strokes the canvas, Rochester's nearness creates colorful waves of desire.

Ivy Ames, fortysomething mother of two, loses her high-flying job (to downsizing) and her husband (to their neighbor) in the same day. To pay for her daughter's private schooling, she starts a new business helping wealthy Manhattanites get their r�esum�e-toting youngsters into the best kindergartens. Soon media moguls, mob bosses, and others call on Ivy. But nothing beats the lesbian couple that believes their adopted African-American disabled son is the "triple crown of diversity."

Police chief Cameron McDonald has lived in idyllic Wheelock, Massachusetts for most of his life, as has his beloved wife Allie. Their comfortable lives are thrown into tumult, however, when Cam's distant cousin Jamie arrives in town along with his wife's dead body. Jamie admits to the murder--a mercy killing to end the pain caused by a ravaging cancer. And now Cam is torn by his oath to uphold justice and his family obligations as chief of the Scottish McDonald clan.

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. Amelia can't believe Bodie is guilty, but she knows she's got to move on and find herself a better man. And just when she thinks she's found that man, Amelia finds out her new lover has more in common with Bodie than smooth moves.

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

Growing up in the Bronx during the '80s, Korean immigrant teen Joon is forced out on her own as her family crumbles around her. From there Joon comes of age on the streets of New York, balancing on a tightrope between living and surviving while displaying equal measures of street smarts and naivete. Over time, Joon comes to understand herself and her place in the world.

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.

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. Escaping this London nightmare, he takes a chance and comes up with a winning hand in the game of love.

The Murder by the Yard book club is growing in popularity, much to librarian Megan Clark's excitement. To celebrate its success, Megan and the other members decide to tour famous Amarillo murder sites. But when they tour the Gorman Estate, they find themselves wrapped up in a real-life murder mystery.