Based on true events around the Sarajevo Haggadah, Brooks has woven a tale traced across Europe through six centuries that is fresh, rich, smart, and exciting to read. One story line of the story is told from the first person perspective of the book conservator - Hanna. A woman with mother-issues who is given the opportunity of a lifetime to work on the Sarajevo Haggadah. She is curious about it's history and the people that it has touched in all it's past wanderings. The other story line works backward chronologically through the places where the Haggadah met a crucial turning point and the people and story that followed. You will be stunned, amazed and charmed. I promise. I stayed up all night and couldn't put it down.

Shar, Abby, and Daisy [written respectively by Crusie, Stuart and Rich in a collaborative novel] find out that they are the descendants of the Mesopotamian Goddess Kammani. They work together, along with other goddess descendants, and the new men in their lives, to figure out their new-found powers, come to terms with their own family histories, and thwart Kammani's plans to take over present day Ohio and then the world. Oh, and did I mention the dogs talk. 

For more information on how the collaboration worked and to see it in action visit their website. I highly recommend the blog. I guarantee you will laugh.

Fleur spends her young life longing for the love and attention of her father only to abhor it when she actually get its it for the wrong reasons. A pawn between her parents, she has been a model and an actress and it's not until she ventures out on her own after learning of her mother's duplicity does she really begin to learn who she really is. An Epic story beginning in the days of Old Hollywood with Fleur's talentless mother trying to break into the business and being dazzled and by the stars instead. Phillips weaves a poignant tale of discovery and the tragedy that families can bring to themselves until Fleur finds out who she truly is and learns to love herself and her dream.

The third detective novel featuring Harriet Vane and Sayers' recurring character Lord Peter Wimsey. Harriet returns to her Oxford college to help with a particularly nasty problem and encounters issues of eugenics, the life of the mind vs. the life of the heart, and she realizes that she must deal with her feelings for Peter because, as she comes to learn, he will never do it for her.

Diesel is back and things get weird for Stephanie as she tracks down the bad guys because Diesel is an Unmentionable and he complicates her already difficult personal life. The bad guys want to control the weather to control the world and this is saying something considering it's Jersey!

Memoir and written form of her one-woman show, Fisher tells stories based on what she remembers of her life after having ECT to treat severe depression. Since much of her life is common knowledge her side of the story is full of laughs and wit and vintage cynicism, just as you'd expect.

A ripped from the headlines look at school shooting, bullying, teenage cliques, how parenting and community does or doesn't affect a group of kids. Both a poignant and difficult read.