Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio
The Devil in the White City draws the reader into the enchantment of the Guilded Age, with a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of a master builder, a […]
Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to […]
Ella finds herself acting to save her town from the encroaching totalitarianism of the Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is a love […]
The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot. She was young, stylish, and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.
Curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde is the foremost expert on faeries. When she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik for research, she has no intention of befriending the townsfolk or the other new arrival; her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby. As Emily gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones […]
ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem, terror, and other Dark Things in General. Discretion a must. Excellent benefits. With a family to support, Evie Sage's employment status isn't just important, it's vital. No job is perfect, of course, but even less so when […]
A humorous and engaging novel that follows a struggling single mother and novelist who is mistakenly identified as a contract killer, leading her into a chaotic and comedic adventure.
A historical fiction novel about four sisters in an Italian Catholic family in Chicago; two sisters fall in love with the same man, causing the family to split apart for 25 years.
Tisaanah, a former slave fighting for justice and the reclusive warrior, Maxantarius Farlione, who no longer believes it exists, are under the dark magic of the Orders, the most powerful organization of magic Wielders in the world. The bloody past Maxantarius wants to forget just may be the key to Tisaanah’s future... or the downfall […]
The novel is a re-imagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain but told from the perspective of Huckleberry's friend on his travels, Jim, who is an escaped slave.
Murder links past and present once again in this mind-boggling metafictional mystery from Anthony Horowitz featuring detective Atticus Pünd and editor Susan Ryeland, stars of the Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders.
Freya, a shield maiden blessed by the gods, battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while also fighting her growing desire for his fiery son—in this Norse-inspired fantasy romance.