October's Books

Bizarre Botanicals includes intriguing photos and facts of unusual plants--some well-know (bleeding heart, Venus flytrap, staghorn fern), some not (tarantula cactus, blackbat plant, artillery plant). Anyone interested in plants, nature, or strange and unusual facts will enjoy this entertaining and colorful book.

Tragic Toppings by Jessica Beck
Killer Cruise by Laura Levine
And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer
Gooseberry Patch Best Ever Cookies
Bizarre Botanicals by Larry Mellichamp
A Catered Thanksgiving by Isis Crawford
Busy Body by M.C. Beaton
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stoudt
Ghost Hero by S. J. Rozan
A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
Better Homes & Gardens Very Merry Cookies
Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley
The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn
Second Sitting by Stella Whitelaw
Indie Author Guide by April Hamilton
Full Mortality by Sasscer Hill
Baloney by John Scieszka
Invasion of the Road Weenies by David Lubar
Sins out of School by Jeanne Dams
The Ax by Donald Westlake
Dress Your Gingerbread by Joanna Farrow
One Tough Texan by Jan Freed
When Elves Attack by Tim Dorsey

July's books

The first in a new series, Glazed Murder by Jessica Beck, features Suzanne Hart, a newly divorced woman who buys a donut shop in April Springs, North Carolina. One morning in the early hours before dawn, when she arrives at the shop to start mixing her donuts, a body is dumped outside her store.

Now that her shop is a crime scene, is her business going to fair before it has a chance to suceed? The police investigation is heading in the wrong direction, so Suzanne feels compelled to do her own snooping.

Sizzling sixteen by Janet Evanovich
The last Sherlock Holmes story by Michael Didbin
Sherlock Holmes and the King's evil by Donald Thomas
Baker Street letters by Michael Robertson
Dust and shadow by Lindsay Faye
The patient's eyes by David Pirie
The final solution by Michael Chabon
Wild ride by Jennifer Crusie
The Cinderella deal by Jennifer Crusie
An unopened grave by L. Frank James
Sherlock Holmes for dummies by Steven Doyle
God of the hive by Laurie R. King
As husbands go by Susan Isaacs
Glazed murder by Jessica Beck
Crazy busy beautiful by Carmindy
Breakout by Richard Stark
Cozy by Parnell Hall
Nobody runs forever by Richard Stark
Abby Cooper, psychic eye by Victoria Laurie
The improbable adventures of Sherlock Holmes by various authors