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Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more- Joe's eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway- alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma. It is April, and the doctors aren't sure if she'll recover. Cates denies having anything to do with it- says she ran away from him, too- and there's evidence that points to another man. But Joe knows in his gut who's responsible.

When she learns that her husband is missing in action during World War II, a desperate young wife decides to give up their baby daughter for adoption. By the time she learns that her husband is still alive, the infant belongs to a wealthy couple.

After Edwy is smuggled off to Refuge City to stay with his brother and sister, Rosi, Bobo, and Cana are stuck alone-and in danger-in Cursed Town in the thrilling follow-up to Children of Exile from New York Times bestselling author, Margaret Peterson Haddix. It's been barely a day since Edwy left Fredtown to be with his parents and, already, he is being sent away. He's smuggled off to boarding school in Refuge City, where he will be with his brother and sister, who don't even like him very much.

Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it captured on the killers' cell phones and sent to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run them down.

Reluctant witch Diana Bishop and geneticist vampire Matthew Clairmont are surrounded by spies and secrecy in Elizabethan London. As Diana seeks a tutor to help her master magic, Matthew must face a troubled past he thought he'd left behind. Meanwhile, the mystery surrounding the enchanted text Ashmole 782 continues to deepen.

Irrepressible bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds herself on the trail of a killer who happens to have a distant relative who's a vice cop with questionable ethics, a libido in permanent overdrive, and a habit of horning in on Stephanie's investigations.

Cursed with a disastrous new hair color and unable to shake Lula--a 230-pound former prostitute and bounty hunter wannabe--Stephanie must find Trenton's most beloved citizen before it's too late.

The year is 1771. Claire Randall is still an outlander, out of place and out of time. But now she is linked by love to her only anchor--Jamie Fraser. They have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in North Carolina. But tensions, both ancient and recent, threaten members of their clan. Knowing that his wife has the gift of prophecy, James must beleve Claire, though he would prefer not to. Claire has shared a dreadful truth--there will, without a doubt, be a war.

After an unwanted past, Claire strives to create something that will last as an artist among Nashville's elite society in the 1860s.

Lucas Davenport goes on a city-to-city search for a bizarre ritualistic killer.