Joyce Bean

Recovering from the emotional scars of recent traumas, National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon goes to stay with her friend, Geneva, in New Orleans, only to become the target of a dark curse, prompting her to investigate what is has to do with Geneva's creepy tenant and a fugitive mother accused of having killed her family.

"In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barr's bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna's past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes...

"From New York Times contributing opinion writer and author of Late Migrations Margaret Renkl, a selection of her beloved weekly essays presenting a multifaceted view of the contemporary American South"-- For the last four years Renkl's writing has offered readers of the New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. This collection of her essays provide a patchwork quilt of the complexities...

This sixth Jane Whitefield novel finds Jane, a Native American guide who helps people assume new identities, living quietly in upstate New York, married to a local doctor. Shortly after pregnant Christine Monahan arrives at the hospital where Jane's husband works looking desperately for Jane, a bomb explodes at a hospital fundraiser, and the two women flee cross-country with a team of hired hunters on their trail. After years of a happy, quiet life...

Looking over a crime scene in her neighborhood, Samantha Owen discovers that the scene has been staged: what seems to be a clear case of murder/suicide is anything but. The discovery of toxic substances in hidden vials leads to a threat of bioterrorism-- and her boyfriend, Xander Whitfield, may be in the line of fire.

Protecting a man wrongly charged with the murder of his wife, Jane Whitefield is shot and abducted by the real culprits, who threaten to kill her if she does not reveal her client's whereabouts.

In this gorgeous, moving memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open herself to the power and healing of sharing her life with a best friend.

When she agrees to help a woman escape a crazed ex-boyfriend who is friends with members of a Russian organized crime brotherhood, rescue artist Jane Whitefield leads a deadly crime syndicate on a wild chase through the Northeast from which only one party -- Jane or her pursuers -- will emerge alive. After Sara Daughton cheated on her boyfriend, he dragged her to the home of the offending man and made her watch as he killed him. She testified against...