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The Good Children by Kate Wilhelm

It started with a promise, a pact.  It became a secret that no one must tell-that parents were dead and gone, including the one they’d buried in the backyard.  Now the McNair children are growing older, discovering love, college, and careers.  but their lie haunts them.  Their home holds them captive,  Only the horrifying truth of their mother’s death can set the children free.  And only the truth can destroy them all.

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Underground by Kat Richardson

It’s winter in Seattle, and the homeless of Pioneer Square are being found dead and mutilated.  Rumors abound that they’re rising as zombies to stalk the Underground-the city buried beneath modern-day Seattle.  When Harper’s friend Quinton suspects he might be blamed for the killings, Haper agrees to help him locate the real source.  Using the city’s past as a guide, they soon trace a path back to an ancient killer-a horror even Seattle’s dangerous vampires rightly fear.

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

On a world at the farthest limits of the imagination, those who attain glory return as gods.  And those who can master the essence known as breath can perform the wondrous miracles-or unleash the most devastating havoc.  Caught up in deadly intrigue, two princess sister face the consequences of one of the sister’s impending marriage to a God King. And further complicating the sister’ fate is the troubling-and destiny-changing-presence of Vasher, also known as the Warbreaker.

Renegade’s Magic byRobin Hobb

Nevare Burvelle stands accused of a host of heinous crimes, including murder and rape. After untold punishment, he excapes the hangman’s noose and attempts to forge a new life.  But the Speck magic that courses through his veins, twisting his psyche into a vicious alter-ego, will forever dictate his life’s path. His only hope lies in asserting control over this other self. And so begins a harrowing journey of atonement, redemption, and peace for a man whose destiny has always been in the service of others.

The Case for God by Karen Armstrong

Moving from the paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that is called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao.  Focusing on especially Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time.

Fire and Ice by J.A. Jance

Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire.  Their charred remains have been creating a grisly pattern of death across western Washington. At the same time in the Arizona desert, Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady is looking into a homicide in which the elderly caretaker of an ATV park was run over and left to die.  Was he a victim of some kind of turf warfare-or possibly something more sinister?

The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith

When Isabel bumps into former adversary Minty Auchterlonie for the first time in years, she is unconvinced (again) of Minty’s integrity.  Isabel always saw the cutthroat Minty as fiercely ambitious. Son now that the bank where Minty works is having internal troubles, Isabel must determine, once and for all, if her old foe can be trusted. If the answer is no, then Minty might be perpetrating a massive fraud.

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