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  Cover Art: Midnight Brunch Acosta, Marta
Midnight Brunch
Having her illusions shattered throughout his year-long residence at Casa Dracula, Milagro hopes for a proposal from her vampire boyfriend, is targeted by a Neo-Vamp cousin, and joins the film crew for a new independent monster movie.
2007
Adult Fiction Book ACOSTA
  Cover Art: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Adams, Douglas
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
For Dirk Gently, private detective, a simple search for a missing cat uncovers a bewildered ghost, a secret time traveller, and a devastating secret that threatens the future of humanity
1987
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Field of Fire Born, James O.
Field of Fire
Since returning from Bosnia, ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) agent Alex Duarte has been re-acclimating to life in South Florida. But when a gunrunner's car explodes, Duarte's life kicks into overdrive in a high-profile hunt for a suspected serial bomber.
2007
Adult Fiction Book BORN
  Cover Art: Boomsday Buckley, Christopher
Boomsday
Inciting a culture war when she suggests that baby boomers should be given government incentives to commit suicide, twenty-nine-year-old blogger and political malcontent Cassandra Devine catches the attention of an ambitious senator seeking the presidency, with whom she launches a campaign during which euthanasia is a forefront issue.
2007
Adult Fiction Large Print BUCKLEY
  Cover Art: Every Boy's Got One Cabot, Meg
Every Boy's Got One
When Jane Harris and Cal Langdon accompany their best friends, Holly and Mark, on a planned elopement to Italy, they are forced to come to the rescue when the Italian government refuses to marry the pair without a special form.
2005
Adult Fiction Book CABOT
  Cover Art: Gentlemen of the Road Chabon, Michael
Gentlemen of the Road
In the Kingdom of Aran, in the Caucasus Mountains, in 950 A.D., two adventurers wander the region, plying their trade as swords for hire, until they become embroiled in a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars as bodyguards for a fugitive prince with a mysterious secret.
2007
Adult Fiction Book CHABON
  Cover Art: Best Staged Plans Cook, Claire
Best Staged Plans
A professional home stager in the Boston suburbs, Sandy Sullivan, after reading her family the riot act, takes a job staging a boutique hotel in Atlanta where she becomes immersed in other people's lives while trying to fix up her own.
2011
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Agnes the Hitman Crusie, Jennifer
Agnes the Hitman
Rescued during a break-in by an unlikely hit man who has been directed by the mob to protect her, food writer Cranky Agnes finds her situation further complicated by a missing cache of money that becomes a key factor in a Southern mafia wedding.
2007
Adult Fiction Book CRUSIE
  Cover Art: Kissing Babies at the Piggly Wiggly Dalby, Rob
Kissing Babies at the Piggly Wiggly
A sequel to Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly finds newlyweds Laurie Lepanto and Powell Hampton organizing the mayoral campaign of Hale Dunbar, in which they are assisted by the eccentric Nitwitt widows and hampered by Dunbar's long-lost girlfriend, Gaylie Girl.
2007
Adult Fiction Book DALBY
  Cover Art: Hurricane Punch Dorsey, Tim
Hurricane Punch
Returning to his home in Florida only to find himself facing the state's worst hurricane season and a pair of serial killers vying for "most wanted" status, Serge A. Storms and his perpetually stoned companion, Coleman, tackle the most challenging case of their careers.
2007
Adult Fiction Book DORSEY
  Cover Art: Snobs Fellowes, Julian
Snobs
Preparing to marry heir Charles Broughton, attractive accountant's daughter Edith Lavery makes humorous and astute observations about contemporary England's class system.
2005
Adult Fiction Book FELLOWE
  Cover Art: Jane Goes Batty : a Novel Ford, Michael Thomas
Jane Goes Batty : a Novel
In this fang-tastic follow-up to "Jane Bites Back," Hollywood VIPs have descended upon Jane's sleepy town in upstate New York to film the movie version of her novel "Constance." Meanwhile, Byron insists on teaching Jane some new vampire tricks.
2011
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Fear and Yoga in New Jersey Galant, Debra
Fear and Yoga in New Jersey
Stressed-out yoga teacher Nina Gettleman-Summer and her family--husband Michael, suspicious mother and father, and teenage son Adam--sample a range of spiritual options in a comic search for meaning.
2008
Adult Fiction Book GALANT
  Cover Art: Sammy's House Gore, Kristin
Sammy's House
Struggling to overcome her own personality foibles in her work as an advisor to the vice president, Samantha Joyce finds herself torn by his request to fleece pharmaceutical supplies during a trip to India, an assignment that is further complicated by her boyfriend's relocation and an embarrassing publicity photo. By the author of Sammy's Hill.
2007
Adult Fiction Book GORE
  Cover Art: Our Man in Havana Greene, Graham
Our Man in Havana
Follows the plight of Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, who becomes a slave to the expensive whims of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Milly, and takes on a job as Secret Agent 5920015 to pay for them.
2007
Adult Fiction Book GREENE
  Cover Art: The Labrador Pact Haig, Matt
The Labrador Pact
Struggling with the typical throes of human life, from work and money to love and the trials of adolescence with the help of their loyal black Labrador, Prince, the Hunter family is aided in unusual ways by their canine friend when he perceives that they are becoming their own worst enemies.
2008
Adult Fiction Book HAIG
  Cover Art: An Ex to Grind Heller, Jane
An Ex to Grind
Divorcing her unmotivated, non-working spouse only to find herself stuck with paying alimony, Manhattan financial planner Melanie Banks secretly hires a matchmaker who will end the alimony by getting her ex into another relationship.
2005
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: How I Became a Famous Novelist Hely, Steve
How I Became a Famous Novelist
Pete Tarslaw has a very specific dream of fame and when he achieves it by writing a bestseller, he tears across the American landscape, finally realizing that fame comes with a cost, in a horrifying, hilarious tale about celebrity culture and literary notoriety.
2009
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a Sixtieth Year Ironside, Virginia
No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a Sixtieth Year
Approaching what she believes will be the most interesting period of her life, nearly sixty-year-old curmudgeon Marie Sharp eschews the trend-oriented activities of her peers in order to enjoy her relationship with a new grandchild and a new gentleman friend.
2007
Adult Fiction Book IRONSID
  Cover Art: Bowl of Cherries Kaufman, Millard
Bowl of Cherries
Falling in with a distracted Egyptologist after being kicked out of Yale, fourteen-year-old Judd Breslau is coerced by a reckless young woman whose misadventures eventually lead to his death sentence and incarceration in a southern Iraqi jail.
2007
Adult Fiction Book KAUFMAN
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