Story of a black lady born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, freed at the end of the Civil War, who lives for one hundred more years.

To save Moonshyne Manor from demolition, five octogenarian witches, having only nine days save their home, make a bargain with an evil far more powerful than anything they've ever faced, fracturing their sisterhood and leading to a fiery confrontation with their enemies

While running the hardware store she owned with her husband, a recently widowed sexagenarian discovers the body of a land developer in her shop's bathroom and works with her adult daughter and a neighboring shop owner to uncover the murderer.

"There's nothing safe about a locked room. Judith, Suzie, and Becks, the members of the Marlow Murder Club, have been enjoying a quiet murder-free few months in their riverside village. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee Sir Peter Bailey to his nurse, Jenny Page. Sir Peter is having a party at his grand mansion on the river Thames the day before the wedding, and the three ladies are looking forward to...

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"Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been." — Booklist (starred review)

Suspenseful, comic, and profoundly moving, The Days of Anna Madrigal, the ninth installment in Armistead Maupin's bestselling "Tales of the City" series, follows one of modern literature's most beloved and indelible characters—Anna

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Escaping an abusive situation, 11-year-old Rosalind Anthony and her family move to Mills River, Illinois, but only days after settling into their new home, they are surprised to find the previous owner, Tillie Monroe, on their front porch reading the newspaper, determined to die in the place she lived her life

Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways--in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart--the renters struggle to navigate daily existence, and soon come to realize that Edith's deteriorating mind, and the menacing presence of her estranged, unscrupulous son, Owen, is the greatest challenge they must confront together.

When Maud, an aging grandmother who is slowly losing her memory, is convinced that her best friend Elizabeth is missing and in terrible danger, she becomes obsessed with saving her beloved friend despite the fact that no one believes her.

At loose ends after the devastating death of her mother, Una Richardson responds to an advertisement for a ladies' companion, a position that leads her into the wealthy, secluded world of Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie. But Elspeth's home isn't the comforting haven it seems. Kathryn, her cold and bitter daughter, resents Una's presence. More disturbing is evidence suggesting two girls lived here before her. What happened to the young women? Why won't the McKenzie's...

Strange things begin to happen when an eighty-year-old woman falls out of a fig tree in her own front yard, in a novel about one woman's offbeat experiences in the hereafter