Ben Potter, successful lawyer and possible U. S. Supreme Court nominee, is found dead in his office--suicide or murder? All of the police evidence points to foul play, and his beautiful young wife, Talia, stands trial for a crime she claims she didn't commit--or did she? Paul Madriani defends Talia, but, in doing so, exposes a part of his own life that he would like to forget. This gripping, fast-paced novel will hold YAs' attention from beginning...

Intrigued by a fragment of the anicent fairytale, "The doomed prince," and hoping to put a little romance back in their marriage, Amelia Peabody, the eminent Egyptologist, and her dashing husband Emerson head for Egypt. However, instead of rejuvenation, they discover a deadly plot when that are forced to confront their deadliest enemy. And so cunning is his scheme that Amelia might overlook-until it is too late-the truth about the mysterious cat called...

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces...

In the sequel to "Westward", Jeff Holt seeks out his wife Melissa, who remained in Marietta, Ohio, when Jeff and his brother Clay were forced to go west. At the shocking news that Melissa has left the area with her family, Jeff follows the one clue he has to her whereabouts. Meanwhile, Clay and his Sioux wife encounter danger in the wilds.