interpersonal relations

Strangers in Paradise is the compelling love story of three unlikely friends who find themselves bound together by their pasts.

Stephanie Plum must retrieve a mysterious missing coin in order to pay the ransom for her co-worker who has been kidnapped.

Stephanie?s latest case involves tracking down two men involved in a massive jewelry heist: Duncan Dugan, who skipped bail post robbery, and Stephanie?s high-school friend, Nutsy Manley, now a professional clown and security guard, who was apparently involved in the heist. In her quest to find the pair, Stephanie encounters physical danger, has her apartment firebombed, and is threatened and nearly shot. As usual, though, she refuses to give up until she?s cracked the case and brought the baddies to justice.

Follows the continuing adventures of Officer Rick Grimes and other survivors as they try to find a safe place to live in a world where their fellow survivors can be as dangerous as the zombies who want to eat them.

"Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected and both they, and the other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world. This novel contains all of life, the rich and the poor, the conventional and the radical, literature and science, politics and romance, but above all it gives us a vision of what lies within the human heart"--Provided by publisher.

In a future in which a pandemic has left few survivors, actress Kirsten Raymonde, having witnessed paparazzo-turned-EMT Jeevan Chaudhary try to save the life of actor Arthur Leander after he suffered a heart attack on stage, travels with a troupe performing Shakespeare and finds herself in a community in which a prophet will not let anyone leave alive. Includes subplots about Jeevan as he watches the world change from the pandemic and Arthur before his death.

"Anna loves movies. If her life were a movie and she wrote the script, she wouldn't be living with her reserved parents in rural Pennsylvania. And she wouldn't have to face her pregnant sister who just moved back home after being gone for three years. Feeling stuck, all Anna wants to do is disappear into her TV screen. But when Anna strikes up a friendship with Aiden, a cashier at one of the last remaining video stores in the state, she finds unexpected acceptance in his virtual film club. Anna knows happy endings are for the movies, but maybe she can find her own"--Provided by publisher.