Diane: 2892 books

From Reviewers: "Edgar-finalist Fanning skillfully illuminates the heartbreaking challenges facing Alzheimer's victims and their families in her fourth mystery featuring Virginia homicide detective Lucinda Pierce (after 2010's Mistaken Identity). Lucinda's investigation leads to a strange...

An act of terrorism or a case of murder at the high school? Local cop Lucinda Pierce battles the FBI and Homeland Security for her right to figure it out. One quiet Sunday morning, homicide investigator Lucinda Pierce is called to the scene after a bomb blast rocks a high school, killing a...

In this “fast-paced mystery” from an Edgar Award finalist, detective Lucinda Pierce must confront the possibility that she put the wrong person in prison (Booklist). Homicide investigator Lucinda Pierce’s confidence in her own judgment is deeply shaken when she learns that a woman she...

Before Iowa called, Polly had to survive Boston… Polly couldn’t ignore the call of the big city. When she left her small hometown in Iowa for college in Boston, she thought she’d never look back. Now 14 years later, she's “living the dream,” but she can’t help feeling like something...

Love hits the jackpot in these six seductive tales, each set in a different decade in the hottest, wildest, most sinful of cities - Las Vegas.  In Elizabeth Spaur’s Miss Atomic Bomb, a beauty pageant brings a cowboy and city girl together.  A desperate singer finds new hope with a not-so-jaded...

This is a 10,000 word short story, approximately 1/5 the length of a novel) Luke is a single widower with a pet cat. He is just shy of retirement and about to take the ride of a lifetime on a train headed west. He is prepared for two weeks of adventure. When a pause to take leak during a run...

Felicity Pennington, still unwed after five Seasons in London, is simply not the sort of woman that men fall in love with. She thinks her sister Lulu may succeed where she has failed, and encourages wealthy Aunt Agnes to sponsor Lulu's debut. Aunt Agnes reluctantly agrees to try, but despite everyone's...

10 Dating Lessons from Sex and the City is the essential guide to dating, based on the cult hit Sex and the City. By studying the dating drama and disasters in Sex and the City, women can discover what to do, and what not to do when it comes to dating and relationships. The book provides humorous...

Barry’s the Golden Boy with a killer corporate style and a former running back build. Sam’s the techno-nerd with soft brown eyes and a smile that melts glass. Sanji’s the world class soccer star, model, man-about-the-continent, and the face of Raji Enterprises. In a tropical...

Isobel Graham has always been different. As a Scottish lassie living high on the forbidding cliffs of the medieval Dunnottar Castle and training fierce predatory birds to do her bidding, Isobel has never had time for romantic notions...until she meets Derek Sinclair.Although he was raised in...

Shakespeare Shorties are for teachers who are long on ambition but short on time. These short, fifteen-minute scripts are a great way to expose middle grades to William Shakespeare's legendary stories, characters, and language in a format that is quick and easy to grasp.Shakespeare Shorties...

The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England. Its premise is that language and the perception of nature vitally affect each other and that...

Book # 2 in the international multi-award winning children's fantasy adventure series with book club recommendations for children's fantasy. Sir Princess Petra has already proven she is a kind and noble knight. This, however, does not please the king and queen--they want her to behave like...

Dark humour spices these twisted tales of love, betrayal and revenge; where the innocent have the pleasure of watching Karma deliver the coup de grace to the unsuspecting guilty. There is an executor of deceased estates, or ‘the CSI of the lives of the recently interred and the crisply cremated’...