Lone Cone Library

"Three Blue Pigeons fly away. Then they come back home to roost. Learn basic subtraction and addition in this Sing-along Song, while counting backwards and forwards"--Page 4 of cover.

After Sheriff Bree Taggert's takedown of cold-blooded murderer Travis Ekin, his family vows revenge. Travis's mother and brothers are every bit as violent, and Bree is in their crosshairs. To complicate matters, Bree's best friend, Dana Romano, walks into her date's home and finds him shot in the chest. Dana tangles with an unidentified intruder, but he escapes through the back door. The crime scene is in another police department's jurisdiction,...

Ruminating on his past relationships with the men in his family, New York city theater critic Yedidyah is assigned to cover the murder trial of a German expatriate whose enigmatic plea triggers Yedidyah's own revelations.

Recollections taken from interviews compiled by the Behind the Veil Project at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

A toxic presidential election is underway in an America already badly weakened by internal divisions. While politicians focus entirely on maintaining their own power and privilege, ISIS kidnaps a brilliant French microbiologist and forces him to begin manufacturing anthrax. Slickly-produced videos chronicling his progress and threatening an imminent attack are posted to the Internet, intensifying the hysteria gripping the U.S. ISIS recruits a Mexican...

Sheriff Joanna Brady has a lot on her plate--she is up for re-election as sheriff, pregnant with her third child, and her eldest is packing up to leave for college. Then Joanna is woken in the middle of the night by a call reporting a motor vehicle accident. Her mother and stepfathers RV ran off the road at high speed and hit the pillar of an overpass. Something about the accident seems suspicious, though, and when Joanna gets a call from Ali Reynolds,...

It is predicted to be a harsh winter in Miradero, and as the town gears up to keep the people and animals safe in the harsh conditions, Lucky worries that her dad is ready for a new wife just when she is settling in to her new life in the West.

A vivid fictional portrait of the tumultuous early life of Queen Elizabeth I describes her perilous path to the throne of England and the scandal, political intrigues, and religious turmoil she confronted along the way, from the deaths of her parents, Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, to the fanaticism of her sister, Mary I.

In From the Ground Up, Schultz looks for answers in two interwoven narratives. One story shows how his conflicted boyhood motivated Schultz to become the first in his family to graduate from college, then to build the kind of company his father, a working-class laborer, never had a chance to work for: a business that tries to balance profit and human dignity. A parallel story offers a behind-the-scenes look at Schultz's unconventional efforts to challenge...

In this explosive sequel to The Chopin Manuscript, former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton returns. This time, Middleton is drawn into an international terror plot that threatens to send India and Pakistan into full-scale nuclear war. Careening from Europe to Asia in order to prevent nuclear catastrophe, Middleton is unaware that his prey has changed and that the act of terror is much more diabolical than he can imagine.