Destroyer Angel by Nevada Barr:
Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services,
sets off on vacation—an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate
Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath’s fifteen-year-old
daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her
daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown
cruise to test a new cutting edge line of camping equipment. The equipment,
designed by Leah, will make camping and canoeing more accessible to disabled
outdoorsmen.
On their second night out, Anna goes off on her
own for a solo evening float on the Fox River.
When she comes back, she finds that four thugs, armed with rifles,
pistols, and knives, have taken the two women and their teenaged daughters
captive. With limited resources and no access to the outside world, Anna has
only two days to rescue them before her friends are either killed or flown out
of the country. Check Availabilty
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue: Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a
record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a
railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor,
her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three
days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he
doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is
one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers and arrogant millionaires; of
jealous men, icy women and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny
herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting
dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. Check Availabilty
High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread by Joyce Carol Oates: In the title story “High Crime Area,” a
white, aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic,
she has a handgun stowed away in her purse—just in case. But when she turns to
confront her black, male shadow, the situation isn’t what she expects. In “The
Rescuer,” a promising graduate student detours to inner city Trenton, New
Jersey to save her brother from a downward spiral. But she soon finds out there
may be more to his world than to hers. And in “The Last Man of Letters,” the
world-renowned author X embarks on a final grand tour of Europe. He has money,
fame, but not a whole lot of manners. A little thing like etiquette couldn’t
bring a man like X down, could it?In these biting and beautiful stories, Oates confronts, one by one, the demons within us. Sometimes it’s the human who wins, and sometimes it’s the demon. Check Availability
I've Got You Under My Skin by Mary Higgins Clark: Five years after her husband's murder,
Laurie Moran, an award-winning TV producer and single mother, starts filming a
new "cold case" series in which four women involved in the unsolved murder
of a wealthy Westchester matron reunite to recreate the scene of the crime --
along with the real killer. Check Availability
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (DVD): Ron and Veronica's romance falls apart as the duo anchors a weekend broadcast at a New York-based
network in 1980. Ron is fired for being the worst anchor anyone has ever seen
and so he leaves Veronica rather than live in her shadow. So he re-creates
himself at a CNN-type network in the eighties and accidentally invents the
soul-sucking brand of non-news that now rules cable as he tries to win back
Veronica's love. Check Availability
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