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September 12, 2009

Book cover of The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles

The Devil's Punchbowl
by Greg Iles

If former prosecutor Penn Cage thought that he was entering pristine waters when he became the mayor of Natchez, he was sorely mistaken. One of the five gambling steamboats on the Mississippi River has an exclusive clientele and a high-stakes agenda all its own. When Cage learns that the dangerous games aboard this sinful ship sometimes include murder, he has no choice but to launch a campaign against them.

Bookcover for The Unraveling Thread by Priscilla Cogan

The Unraveling Thread
by Priscilla Cogan

This story is about a family exploding in crisis. A divorced but successful career woman, arrives home to discover that yet another Agency person has fled, leaving behind her sweet but demented mother, her adolescent twin girls, one psychotic with an undiagnosed genetic disorder, the other rebellious and resentful of her disabled sibling, a little five year old boy yearning for the return of his father, and a hyperactive dog who drives everyone crazy.

Bookcover of A Daring Return by Kathleen Fuller

A Daring Return
by Kathleen Fuller

Eight years ago, Gavin Parringer left London after the woman he loved, Diana Dymoke, rejected him and married someone else. Suffering from amnesia, he has returned to England, unable to recall anything of his former life. He doesn't even recognize Diana, who is now a widow with regrets