Open Road: 9207 books

After a near-fatal accident, the Pine Hollow girls are on the road to recovery It’s been several weeks since the car accident that almost killed Callie Forester. Carole Hanson and Stevie Lake escaped with a few scratches, but Callie wasn’t so lucky. Stevie and Carole feel responsible—especially...

Ten chapter books in the beloved series that has sold more than a quarter-billion copies and been cherished by children for more than fifty years!   The Bear family lives in a big tree house down a dirt road in Bear Country. Together Mama Bear, Papa Bear, Brother Bear, and Sister Bear learn about...

Few authors have achieved such renown as World Fantasy Life Achievement honoree and Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Andre Norton. With the love of readers and the praise of critics, Norton’s books have sold millions of copies worldwide. In Scarface, Andre Norton tells the...

A lonely young nanny boards a bus and disappears—and the “marvelous” Miss Silver must investigate (Daily Mail). Anna Ball has disappeared. For a year she has moved from one job as a nanny to another, unable to settle or make friends. After just a month with her last family, she walks...

A plane carrying a supervirus searches for a place to land in this “combination of The Hot Zone and Speed” by a New York Times–bestselling author (USA Today).   On a snowy road in a German forest, Ernest Helms sees a man trying to break into his car. After a scuffle, Helms escapes with only...

John Locke has always prided himself on keeping his clients safe from dangerous situations. His latest case involves historian Amy Roger, seeking protection from a Corsican mobster named Orsini. Orsini is hot for revenge after having been scorned by the lovely Amy, and only Locke stands between him...

When danger rolls into town I have one eye open--my most private eye--while the other is focusing on a fiery fury of a lady. Surrounded by more underworld celebrities than San Quentin and Sing Sing combined, can you believe that I was the King of Clowns? That's right, but I thought my role was to...

In this classic country noir, featuring a new introduction by Daniel Woodrell, a small town farmer takes a job at a roadhouse, where unbridled greed leads to a brutal murder Jack McDonald is barely a farmer. Boll weevils have devoured his cotton crop, his chickens have stopped laying eggs,...

A drive-by killing puts Drum on the scent of a Washington sex scandal When Chester Drum first took a crack at detective work, PI Gil Sprayregan offered to split a case with him, giving the rookie half the fee and more credit than he deserved. Years later, Drum is established and Gil is at the...

A Detroit mob war draws Peter Macklin back into his old life as a Mafia assassin in award-winning author Loren D. Estleman’s riveting hard-boiled thriller   The Reverend Thomas Aquinas Sunsmith is halfway through his sermon when killers open fire. He is preaching against the evils of gambling,...

Crossing the Atlantic on NATO’s behalf, Drum tangles with mobsters, blackmail, and murder As the H.M.S. Queen Victoria pulls out of New York Harbor, danger encircles Chester Drum. He’s sailing for Europe on the largest luxury liner ever built, but it’s not big enough to hold the secrets...

A monk embarks on a dangerous quest to find a trio of missing travelers in this medieval mystery by an Edgar Award–winning author. The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturbing of events. Raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing...

**A crime of passion, a jealous admirer, a woman who would kill before she would be spurned—it might all fit if only the primary suspect would talk in CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird’s Dead Liberty ** Lucy Durmast waits patiently in front of the judge at her own murder trial,...

In 1945 Nuremberg, an American intelligence officer tracks a killer: “Powerful . . . Fans of WWII mystery fiction should consider this one mandatory reading” (Booklist). Nuremberg is a dead city. In the aftermath of World War II, two-thirds of its population has fled or is deceased, with...