Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Description
She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the case remained unsolved. That was eighteen years ago....
Author
Formats
Description
Thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton gives up the struggle to be a gracious widow after driving her car through the garage door and succumbs to crying in the produce aisle, eating buckets of ice cream, and showing up for work in her bathrobe, but she starts back on the path to life again after moving to Oregon to live with a friend and becoming involved with a troubled teen, and an alarmingly handsome actor.
Author
Formats
Description
This collection brings together 12 short stories, many never before published. The title short, 'The Guy Not Taken', was featured in Glamour and soon after was optioned by DreamWorks SKG. Other titles include: 'Good Men', a prequel to 'Good in Bed'; and 'Just Desserts', a tale of siblings coming to terms with their father's sudden departure, as well as nine others.
Author
Series
Description
Spenser, a Boston PI, is once again hired by April Kyle who was a teenage runaway that turned to prostitution. Now she is a madam of an up-scale, all-female operation that some men are trying to take away from her. April claims she doesn't know who is after her business, but Spenser finds ties to organized crime. Spenser without much surprise also finds that April, the thugs and everyone else involved is lying to him.
Author
Series
Description
Stone Barrington is forced to take con man Herbie Fisher as a client, with the goal of taking down the notorious Mafia boss Carmine Datilla. With the help of his ex-partner Dino, Stone investigates the boss called 'Datilla the Hun' and his crime family, encountering danger and intrigue at every turn. It's a ticklish situation that could lead to his ending up at the bottom of Sheepshead Bay if he's not careful.
7) High noon
Author
Formats
Description
Savannah's chief hostage negotiator Phoebe MacNamara struggles to deal with the threats of an unknown assailant, who is intent on striking fear in her heart, her agoraphobic mother and precocious seven-year-old daughter, and a local businessman who wants to pursue a romantic relationship with her.
Author
Description
With the warmth, humor and compassion we've come to expect, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland. Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic, and agrees to take it on for a year. Before long it is an essential part of the community, and Clara must decide whether or not to leave this place...
10) Santa Fe dead
Author
Series
Formats
Description
A Hollywood producer awakens the morning before Thanksgiving in his Santa Fe home with no memory of the previous night. On the flight back to Los Angeles, the plane breaks down in a small town. During the layover he reads in the newspaper that the bodies of his wife, a business partner and a third man--assumed to be him--have been found in the guest room of the Santa Fe residence.
Author
Formats
Description
Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.
12) The help
Author
Appears on these lists
Description
"With more than 3 million copies sold, the #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in a special gift edition. A modern classic, The Help has been a cultural touchstone for the millions of readers who have cheered on Skeeter, laughed with Minny, and hissed at Hilly. The noble and strong Aibileen has become a heroine for countless fans whose letters have poured in from all over the world. Now the bestselling and beloved book is available in a...
Author
Description
Emily, one of three friends inseparable since childhood, becomes a pawn in a plan to save one life at the expense of another.
Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor and heart-transplant recipient, is given a plum assignment--the murder trial of theatrical agent Gregg Aldrich, accused of murdering his wife. During the trial, Emily experiences sentiments that defy all reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich's fate is...
14) Little Bee
Author
Appears on list
Description
A confrontation between a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan, called Little Bee, and a wealthy British couple on vacation, has life-changing consequences for everyone involved.
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 16
Thorndike Press large print basic
A Stone Barrington novel volume 16
Sone Barrington volume 16
Thorndike Press large print basic
A Stone Barrington novel volume 16
Sone Barrington volume 16
Description
Former New York police officer Stone Barrington is hired to search for a man in Key West whose father needs his signature to sell the family business, but when he finally tracks him down, Stone learns the man believes his father poisoned his brother and hired a hit man to kill him and has ulterior motives for wanting to sell, prompting Stone to do some further investigating.
16) Paths of glory
Author
Description
This real-life mountaineering mystery recounts the story of Britain's George Mallory and his attempt to scale Mt. Everest.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Sheriff's deputy Charlie Hood is transferred to the supposedly quiet desert community of Antelope Valley, only the quietness is shattered one night during a routine call: someone guns down his partner, Terry Laws, in their patrol car. Hood is out to find the killer Wild West style.
Author
Series
Description
Kinsey Millhone's newest client, Michael Sutton, claims he has recently remembered a long-repressed event in his childhood that could unlock a twenty-year-old mystery; but as Kinsey tries to help Michael find the scene of a crime he witnessed, she begins to wonder if her client is telling her the whole truth.
Author
Series
Description
Henry VIII, anxious about the consequences of dying without a male heir, is denied permission to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn, but the power struggle between the Church and the Crown is mediated by astute politician Thomas Cromwell, who manages to get the king what he wants while keeping his eye on the prize of a free England.
In Inter-Library Loan System
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by VOKAL can be requested from other Inter-Library Loan System libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Make a purchase suggestion
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request