It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

Police Chief Kate Burkholder is drawn by her Amish upbringing to investigate three deaths in an Amish family--the parents and uncle of the four Slabaugh children--and teams up with Agent John Tomasettito determine whether their deaths are linked to a recent string of hate crimes against Amish communities and whether something more sinister could be hiding within the seemingly idyllic community.

Linda Castillo's bestselling series has been called "gripping" [People] and "impossible to put down" [Bookpage] and the "teeth chattering suspense" [USA Today] continues with GONE MISSING—a deeply chilling novel about a rite of passage gone horribly wrong.
Rumspringa is the time when Amish teens are allowed to experience life without the rules. It's an exciting time of personal discovery and growth before committing

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"New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness."-- 1930s. In the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland was terrorized by over a dozen bodies found scattered around the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of blood. Cleveland's mayor turned to his newly appointed director of public safety: Eliot...

Originally published: New York : William Morrow, c2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]). When her fiancé and seven others are taken hostage, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean fears that the hostage negotiator brought in by police is too arrogant for the task and offers herself in exchange for her fiancé's safe

Profiles the people of a small Midwestern town in the early 1900s, revealing the consequences of human misunderstanding.

A proto-superhero's efforts to secure a marriage-worthy fortune in 1837 Ohio place him at the center of a madcap city rivalry involving elderly terrorists, steamboat races, wild pigs, and ruined weddings.

Laura Stutzman leaves her Kentucky community for Middlefield, Ohio with one purpose: to find Mark King, the man who pledged his love to her, then left.

“With impeccable research and flawless prose, Chevalier perfectly conjures the grandeur of the pristine Wild West . . . and the everyday adventurers—male and female—who were bold enough or foolish enough to be drawn to the unknown. She crafts for us an excellent experience.”
—USA Today
From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, author of A Single Thread, comes a riveting drama of...

"Homicide Detective Scarlett Bishop has seen enough bad guys slip through the cracks and innocent victims go unavenged to know that good doesn't always prevail. So far she's been able to lock away her rage and her vigilante fantasies. That lock is about to break. Former Army Ranger Marcus O'Bannion is a fierce champion of victims' rights. His secret past gives him good reason. He believes he's seen the depths of human depravity, but then his investigation...