A member of Rabbi Small's congregation dies a mysterious death during a hurricane. When the suspect turns out to be a troubled but likable young man, Rabbi Small comes to his aid.
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- Author:Kemelman, HarrySummary:
- Author:Moore, Stephanie PerrySummary:
Even the best Christians sometimes wear their halos tilted--especially when dealing with troubled marriages. For Shari and Dillon, fissures have appeared in the bedrock of their union. So when Shari jumps on the chance to get away when...
- Author:Clark, Mary HigginsSummary:
This is a novel of suspense about two friends, Molly and Fran, who are caught up in the aftermath of a vicious crime. Molly was convicted of murder. Years later, when she is released from prison, she involves Fran in a plan to clear...
- Author:Han, JennySummary:
The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still...
- Author:Greenidge, KaitlynSummary:
The Freemans are to take part in an experiment: they've been hired by a private research institute to teach sign language to a chimpanzee. Told primarily from the point of view of Laurel's elder daughter, Charlotte, the novel...
- Author:Nielsen-Fernlund, SusinSummary:
Thirteen-year-old brilliant but socially-challenged Stewart and mean-girl Ashley must find common ground when, two years after Stewart's mother died, his father moves in with his new girlfriend -- Ashley's mother, whose gay ex...
- Author:Blackwood, ScottSummary:
A young lifeguard, a doctor sick with cancer, and two children have disappeared, leaving no trace. It's only when they start to resurface, in small moments and sudden flashes of consciousness, that the true gravity of their...
- Author:Nicholls, SallySummary:
Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
- Author:Mda, ZakesSummary:
In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit,...
- Author:Fullerton, AlexanderSummary:
Gripping adventure set in the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
- Author:TODD, PenelopeSummary:
Eighteen-year-old city girl, Zillah, abandons her safe summer holiday plans and takes the train to the wild West Coast in response to a mysterious letter. Her destination is an empty shack on a dangerous tidal river where she meets the...
- Author:Murkoff, BruceSummary:
During the Great Depression, three lost souls meet one another at Boulder Dam, a massive engineering project in the midst of the Nevada desert. The story begins with Filius Poe, an engineer coping with a grave personal loss. Lew Beck is...
- Author:Burstyn, VardaSummary:
Megawealthy William Greele has put together a consortium of CEOs to build a gargantuan pipeline to pump Quebec water to the U.S. Contemptuous of the concerns of environmentalists and confident that his minions have muzzled the press,...
- Author:Parrish, ChristaSummary:
After Deputy Ben Patil finds an abandoned newborn in rural South Dakota, he and his wife Abbi seem the perfect foster parents. But the infant's arrival opens old wounds for Abbi and reveals how much Ben has changed since his...
- Author:Benjamin, J. M.Summary:
In Las Vegas, Nevada, also known as Sin City, anything goes. This is why the Double G's have chosen to set up shop here. Starrshima Fields, aka Starr, is a young, bodacious, and bold beauty. She is also the leader of the Double G...
- Author:James, HenrySummary:
Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the century, Washington Square is the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations.
- Author:Edugyan, Esi.Summary:
"When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black -- an eleven year-old field slave -- is horrified to find himself chosen to...
- Author:Iggulden, ConnSummary:
The brilliant retelling of the Wars of the Roses continues with Bloodline, the gripping third novel in the new series from historical fiction master Conn Iggulden. Winter 1461: Richard, duke of York, is dead-his ambitions in ruins, his...
- Author:Lucas, WalterSummary:
Raised by Kiowa tribesmen, Boytale is now 17 years old and filled with an insatiable thirst for the blood of his people's enemies. Across the prairie at Fort Levenworth, Kansas, 20-year-old army private James Rambling gears up for...
- Author:Mallinson, AllanSummary:
The stability of the Cape Colony has been threatened by Xhosa tribesman who have been making incursions across the borders. And when Hervey is told by his old friend, Sir Eyre Somervile, that the Zulu warrior king Shaka is about to make...