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A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son.

In a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of

His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14.

America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence.

White picks the site of a subway station, on his birthday, to end his life. Black, an ex-con with newfound faith, ends up saving White and bringing him back to his apartment.

In the fourth book in the saga of those left behind, the Tribulation Force, comprised of pilot Rayford Steele, his daughter Chloe, and reporter Buck Williams, continues its adventures after the Rap

Ray Steele knows he is absolutely sure of one thing--he does not want to take over the family business. Instead, he dreams of becoming a pilot.

In this, the third and final book in Kerry Greenwood’s Delphic Woman Mystery series, Greenwood takes us into Troy as it struggles to rise from the ashes of the Trojan War.

From Mount Olympus, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, yawned. Even perfection can be tedious. “My Lord,” she called to Apollo, “Sun God and brother.

Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things: dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne’s premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone’s Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance.

Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is summer festival.

The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia’s Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger.

St. Kilda's streets hang with fairy lights. Tea dances, tango competitions, lifesaving demonstrations, lantern shows, and picnics on the beach are all part of the towns first Flower Parade.

This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure.

It’s Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden Twins: Isabella and Gerald Templar.