When a cursed gem disappears--and dead bodies appear--Alex Winstonmust stop a killer and save his beloved inn before the next life claimed is his.

"What happens in a New England fishing village when a newborn baby boy is found in the town dump." --

Life and activity in a Maine village in the 1700"s.

Vacationing in an English village, Chick Charleston, a Montana sheriff, and his wife, decide to investigate when an unpopular guest at their inn is found murdered.

The Weir, written in 1943, takes place in a small island fishing village during the years before World War II, set against a backdrop of hard work and struggle. Ruth Moore, one of the great regional novelists of the twentieth century, brilliantly and authentically captures not only the characteristics of coastal Maine and its people, but uses them to write a story of universal human drama featuring two primary families who feud, gossip, and struggle...

"In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel's challenge--to express man's fate by writing the novel that would become his...

Suspense, danger and star-crossed love follow Miss Rachel Strand after she is saved by a valiant young amnesiac on the ruined battlefields of Waterloo.

In this novel of mounting suspense from award-winning author Herbert Lieberman, a terrifying surprise waits beneath a couple's New England home Albert and Alice Graves live a normal, if monotonous, domestic life. They've never had children; they spend their days tending to their home and enjoying their time together. One day, when the oil man, Richard, is refilling their furnace, Alice invites him to dinner, never suspecting that a casual act of charity...

The story of a young woman hovering between careers, between marriages, between lives--and of the summer that throws her off balance and onto her feet.

The raucous and randy adventures of a stateside soldier during World War II Sergeant Dan Miller wanted to be a flying ace, but the air force grounded him for poor vision. To make matters worse, when the myopic Miller travels home to Minneapolis on furlough, he finds the local "feather merchants"-aka civilians-breaking all the wartime rules. They're guzzling black-market gas, hoarding rationed food, and listening to suspiciously expensive radios. But...