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  Logic - A Novel

  Olympia Vernon

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  A “profoundly raw and gripping” novel of a girl’s life of hardship in rural Mississippi (The Baltmore Sun). 
   
   
  As a child, Logic Harris survived a fall from a tree—an accident that precipitated her transformation into a young girl lost in her own world. Logic's mother has secretly wished that Logic had not survived, and she now ignores the increasingly apparent evidence of the aberrant attention Logic's father bestows upon his daughter in her adolescence.  
   
  As her mother retreats into her work as a neighborhood midwife and Logic's father collapses into paranoia, Logic is left to navigate alone what she scarcely understands. In inspired prose, stunning in its imaginative authority, Logic is a chilling allegory about the dangers of silence and a searing portrait of a girl lost in shame and fear, and a family and community too scarred by their own wounds to save her. 
   
  “Steeped in religious, surreal imagery and references to ordering principles—atoms, alphabets, life's basic materials—Vernon’s abstract language asks precise questions about the chances for survival in a lawless world.”—Booklist

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  Blood on the Trestle

  James D. Brewer

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  Railroad detective Jimmy Lee "Choctaw" Parker returns in this Gilded Age thriller when in August of 1886 he is hired by oil baron and entrepreneur Henry Morrison Flagler who is buying up railroads and building his grand new Ponce de Leon Hotel in St. Augustine, Florida. But Flagler's vision of opening the Sunshine State to settlement and tourism is not shared by everyone, so "Choctaw" Parker must investigate both the sabotage against the Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and Halifax railroad construction, and the threats on Flagler's life. The brutal murder of one of Flagler's employees drags Parker and his colleagues, Angus "Chub" Moody and Matilda Vance, into a quagmire of dangerous reactionaries and violent union organizers who oppose northern influence in their fine, old city. With the help of the city marshal of St. Augustine and a brave young medical student, Parker, Moody, and Vance battle villains who would dare to end Flagler's dream.

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  Red Death Over China

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  It is one of the greatest conflicts — and a pivotal turning point — in history... the Chinese civil war. The outcome is in the hands of one American pilot, John Hampton, a man who couldn't care less... But just as this is a critical moment in time, so, too, is it about to become a defining moment in Hampton's life. What is it that makes him see that there are things, other than money, that are worth fighting — and maybe even dying — for? The surprising answers spur him to undertake the ultimate mission in Red Death Over China. War in the air and history in the making both come alive as the audio version of Red Death Over China follows one man's flight from cynicism to sacrifice.

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  A New York Christmas

  Anne Perry

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  Anne Perry’s new Christmas novel is an irresistible tale of love, betrayal, greed, murder, and selfless devotion. For the first time, Perry’s annual yuletide offering is set in New York City—a sparkling young metropolis bursting with life, promise, and subtle menace. 
    
  The year is 1904. Twenty-three-year-old Jemima Pitt, the daughter of Thomas Pitt, head of Britain’s Special Branch, is crossing the Atlantic. She is traveling with an acquaintance, Delphinia Cardew, who is to marry the aristocratic Brent Albright in a high-society New York wedding—a grand affair that will join together two fabulously wealthy families, titans of the international financial world. 
    
  But Jemima senses a mysterious shadow darkening the occasion. Missing from the festivities is Delphinia’s mother, Maria, who is marked by disgrace. Nearly sixteen years ago, Maria abandoned young Delphinia and disappeared—and now the Albrights refuse to mention her name. But when Harley, the groom’s charismatic brother, asks Jemima to help him search for Maria and forestall the scandal that would surely follow if the prodigal parent turned up at the wedding, she agrees to assist him. 
    
  From Hell’s Kitchen to Fifth Avenue, the Lower East Side to Central Park, Jemima trudges through strange, snowy streets, asking questions but getting few answers—and never suspecting that she is walking into mortal danger, from which not even a handsome young police officer named Patrick Flannery may be able to protect her. 
    
  Once more, Anne Perry delivers a suspenseful, deeply moving novel that captures the essence of the holiday spirit.

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  Shadows of Villisca

  Hugo Swanepoel

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  Shadows of Villisca 
  Historical Mystery Novel Inspired by Real Events 
  In the quiet town of Villisca, Iowa, history never truly sleeps. 
  Over a century after the infamous 1912 axe murders shocked the nation, investigative researcher Alex Hartman and forensic scholar Dr. Samuel Graves arrive in Villisca chasing rumors of something older and darker than anyone had ever imagined. 
  When a modern family is found murdered in a chilling copy of the past, their investigation spirals into a tangled web of cryptic journals, forbidden sermons, and a long-forgotten traveling carnival that once passed through town... but did it ever leave? 
  As Alex and Graves peel back layers of buried truth, they uncover evidence of a blood covenant that links past and present, and a ritual still very much alive. Haunted by warnings left in fragile letters and ancient sermons, they must race to expose the sinister force at the heart of Villisca before they become the next chapter in its bloody legend. 
  History has teeth. And in Villisca, it's ready to bite again.

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  Far from Home

  Sheila Newberry

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  For fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Jeffries, Far From Home Home is a heart-warming winter listen from the Queen of family saga, and author of The Nursemaid's Secret, Sheila Newberry. Ipswich, 1923After  an unlucky start in her first role as a nursemaid, sixteen-year-old  Elin Odell looks forward to seeing in the New Year at home. Little does  she know, her family is changing and she has no idea what lies ahead . .  .Having been offered the role as governess for the Lamberts in  Middlesex, Elin quickly accepts, leaving her own family behind in  Ipswich. But when tragedy strikes at her new home, Elin steps up to hold  everyone together at the expense of her own happiness. As the  Lambert's troubles grow, so do her family's back home and she finds  herself struggling to support them both. But with the help of her  employer's charming brother, Mark, might she find her own happiness  after all?Previously published in print and ebook as The Little Train Home.

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