Washington Post Bestsellers at Howard County Library

12th of never /

Author: Patterson, James,
ISBN: 9780316210829
Year: 2013
Date added: 04/22/2013
Summary: A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real, in this new addition to the best-selling series.
Subjects: Women detectives - California - San Francisco - Fiction. - Murder - Investigation - San Francisco (Calif.) - Suspense fiction.
Call number: F PAT

Best kept secret /

Author: Archer, Jeffrey,
ISBN: 9781250000989
Date added: 04/18/2013
Subjects: Families - England - History - 20th century - Fiction. - Family secrets - Political fiction. - Suspense fiction
Call number: F ARC

Bunker Hill : a city, a siege, a revolution /

Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel.
ISBN: 9780670025442
Date added: 04/23/2013
Subjects: Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775. - Boston (Mass.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Call number: 973.33P

Cooked : a natural history of transformation /

Author: Pollan, Michael.
ISBN: 9781594204210
Date added: 04/11/2013
Summary: "In Cooked, Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements--fire, water, air, and earth--to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink.
Subjects: Cooking. - Cooks.
Call number: 641.5P

Daddy's gone a hunting /

Author: Clark, Mary Higgins.
ISBN: 9781451668940
Date added: 04/03/2013
Summary: When her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family's priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past.
Subjects: Family-owned business enterprises - Fiction. - Antique dealers - Family secrets - Sisters - Arson investigation - Murder - Investigation - Suspense fiction.
Call number: F CLA

Fly away /

Author: Hannah, Kristin.
ISBN: 9780312577216
Date added: 04/12/2013
Summary: A follow-up to "Firefly Lane" returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives.
Subjects: Female friendship - Fiction. - Life change events
Call number: F HAN

Gone girl : a novel /

Author: Flynn, Gillian,
ISBN: 9780307588364
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/01/2012
Summary: On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of hi
Subjects: Husbands - Fiction. - Married people - Wives - Crimes against
Call number: F FLY

The hit /

Author: Baldacci, David,
ISBN: 9781455521210
Date added: 04/15/2013
Summary: Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole worl
Subjects: Assassins - Fiction. - Betrayal - Intelligence officers - United States - Conspiracies - Suspense fiction.
Call number: F BAL

It's all good : delicious, easy recipes that will make you look good and feel great /

Author: Paltrow, Gwyneth,
ISBN: 1455522716;9781455522712
Date added: 04/18/2013
Summary: Together with Julia Turshen, Paltrow compiled a collection of 185 delicious, easy recipes--free of gluten and sugar, and low in fat--that will help you stay healthy, feel more energetic and look great. Recipes include: huevos rancheros, Korean chicken tac
Subjects: Gluten-free diet - Recipes. - Sugar-free diet - Diet therapy. - Wheat-free diet - Cooking, American. - Cookbooks.
Call number: 641.563P

Jumpstart to skinny : the simple 3-week plan for supercharged weight loss /

Author: Harper, Bob.
ISBN: 9780345545107
Date added: 04/19/2013
Summary: "STOP PROCRASTINATING. IT'S TIME TO JUMPSTART YOUR WEIGHT LOSS! In his instant #1 New York Times bestseller The Skinny Rules, celebrity trainer and coach of NBC's The Biggest Loser Bob Harper delivers the ultimate strategy for healthy, long-term weig
Subjects: Reducing exercises. - Weight loss. - Special collections - Health. - Reducing diets - Recipes.
Call number: 613.25H

Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead /

Author: Sandberg, Sheryl.
ISBN: 9780385349949
Date added: 03/07/2013
Subjects: Leadership in women. - Sandberg, Sheryl. - Women executives.
Call number: 658.4092S

Let's explore diabetes with owls /

Author: Sedaris, David.
ISBN: 9780316154697;0316154695
Date added: 01/19/2013
Summary: From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experi
Subjects: Humorists, American - 20th century - American wit and humor. - United States - Social life and customs - Anecdotes. - Humorous stories, American. - Biography. - Humor.
Call number: 814.54S

The new digital age : reshaping the future of people, nations and business /

Author: Schmidt, Eric,
ISBN: 0307957136;9780307957139
Date added: 04/19/2013
Subjects: Technology and civilization - Forecasting. - Digital electronics - Political aspects - Digital media - Information technology - Social aspects - Computers and civilization
Call number: 303.4833S

NOS4A2 : a novel /

Author: Hill, Joe.
ISBN: 9780062200570
Year: 2013
Date added: 04/29/2013
Summary: Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever
Subjects: Children - Crimes against - Fiction. - Missing children - Good and evil - Psychic ability - Horror fiction. - Suspense fiction.
Call number: F HIL

Paris : the novel /

Author: Rutherfurd, Edward.
ISBN: 9780385535304
Date added: 04/20/2013
Summary: The story of a Parisian family that starts in Roman times, then sweeps along from the building of Notre Dame to the Hundred Years' War, the glories of Versailles, the Revolution, the Belle Epoque, the remarkable Twenties, and, finally, World War II.
Subjects: Families - Fiction. - Paris (France) - History - Epic fiction. - Historical fiction.
Call number: F RUT

Soldier dogs : the untold story of America's canine heroes /

Author: Goodavage, Maria,
ISBN: 9780525952787
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/27/2012
Subjects: Dogs - Training. - War use - United States. - History.
Call number: 355.424G

Strengths finder 2.0 /

Author: Rath, Tom,
ISBN: 9781595620156
Year: 2007
Date added: 08/22/2008
Subjects: Conduct of life. - Success in business. - Performance. - Ability. - Executive ability.
Call number: 658.4R

Vb6 : the flexible diet you can really stick to, with more than 60 easy, delicious recipes /

Author: Bittman, Mark.
ISBN: 9780385344746
Date added: 05/10/2013
Summary: "The best-selling author and popular NYT columnist gives us his innovative and easy diet plan, complete with recipes--by eating vegan every day before 6:00pm, you can lose weight and dramatically improve your health. Every day we learn new benefits of the
Subjects: Luncheons. - Vegan cooking. - Cookbooks. - Breakfasts.
Call number: 641.5636B

Waiting to be heard : a memoir /

Author: Knox, Amanda,
ISBN: 9780062217202;0062217208
Date added: 04/29/2013
Summary: This is the author's account of her hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved after spending four years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. She spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime s
Subjects: Kercher, Meredith - Death and burial. - Knox, Amanda - Trials, litigation, etc. - Sollecito, Raffaele - Trials (Murder) - Italy. - Homicide investigation - Murder - Italy - Perugia. - Investigation
Call number: 364.1523K

Wedding night : a novel /

Author: Kinsella, Sophie.
ISBN: 9780812993844
Date added: 04/19/2013
Summary: When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, Lottie jumps at the chance. But not everyone is thrilled with Lottie and Ben's rushed marriage, and family and friends are determin
Subjects: Single women - Fiction. - Marriage - Love stories.
Call number: F KIN

Whiskey Beach /

Author: Roberts, Nora.
ISBN: 9780399159893;0399159894
Date added: 04/04/2013
Summary: Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiance's murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is
Subjects: Murder - Investigation - Fiction. - Women household employees - Boston (Mass.) - Romantic suspense fiction. - Legal stories. - Love stories.
Call number: F ROB