Reading Recommendations:Dogs Don't Lie, A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir, Clea SimonPru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on the run from her own gift, Pru left the big city to return to her picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace. Too bad that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, her person. Now Charles is dead, and Lily looks good for it. After all Lily is a pitbull, a fighting -ring dropout, and way too traumatized to give Pru a clear picture of what she has witnessed. But Pru knows something about bad girls trying to clean up, and, with a sense of justice strong enough to overcome her dislike of human society, she takes the case.Listening to the animals, Pru picks up clues, and learns there are secrets in the pretty little town that makes murder look simple, unable to tell anybody about her psychic abilities, and uncertain at times about her own sanity, Pru comes to realize that if she clears Lily, she'll likely become the prime suspect, or the next victim. While the only creature she can totally trust is her crotchety tabby Wallis, Pru's got to uncover the real killer, and find a way to live with her gift, before the real beasts in the town savage her and those she has come to love.A New Song, The Fifth Novel in the Beloved Mit Ford Series, Jan KaronRecently retired after years of serving as the Rector of Lord's Chapel, Father Tim agrees to pastor a small parish off the Atlantic coast. There's only one problem: How can he and Cynthia leave the town, and the boy, they love?Soon, however, the charming island of Whitecap reveals its own cast of unforgettable characters; a lovelorn bachelor trying his hand at personal ads, a church organist with a past, a gifted musician who never ventures beyond his gate, and a young mother struggling with paralyzing depression.Still, Mit Ford is never far from their minds, especially when Dooley ends up on the wrong side of the law.A New Song is a book the reader will hate to leave behind.Queen Hereafter, A Novel of Margaret of Scotland, Susan Frazer KingShipwrecked on the Scottish coast, a young Saxon princess and her family, including the outlawed Edgar of England, ask sanctuary of the warrior King Malcolm Canmore, who shrewdly sees the political advantage. He promises to aid Edgar and the Saxon cause in return for the hand of Edgar's sister, Margaret, in marriage.A foreign queen in a strange land, Margaret adapts to life among the barbarian Scots, bears princes, and shapes the fierce warrior Malcolm into a sophisticated ruler. Yet even as the King and Queen build a passionate and tempestuous partnership, the Scots distrust her. When her husband brings Eva, a Celtic bard, to court as a hostage for the good behavior of the formidable Lady McBeth, Margaret expects trouble. Instead, an unlikely friendship grows between the queen and her bard, though one has a wild Celtic nature and the other follows the demanding path of obligation. Torn between old and new loyalties, Eva is bound by a vow to betray the King and his Saxon queen. Soon imprisoned and charged with witchcraft and treason, Eva learns that Queen Margaret counseled by the furious King and his powerful priests, will decide her fate and that of her kinswoman, Lady Macbeth. But can the proud queen forgive such deep treachery?An unforgettable story of shifting alliances and the tension between fear and trust as a young woman finds her way in a dangerous world.See you at Rylander.Reading Recommendations:Dogs Don't Lie, A Pru Marlowe Pet Noir, Clea SimonPru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on the run from her own gift, Pru left the big city to return to her picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace. Too bad that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, her person. Now Charles is dead, and Lily looks good for it. After all Lily is a pitbull, a fighting -ring dropout, and way too traumatized to give Pru a clear picture of what she has witnessed. But Pru knows something about bad girls trying to clean up, and, with a sense of justice strong enough to overcome her dislike of human society, she takes the case.Listening to the animals, Pru picks up clues, and learns there are secrets in the pretty little town that makes murder look simple, unable to tell anybody about her psychic abilities, and uncertain at times about her own sanity, Pru comes to realize that if she clears Lily, she'll likely become the prime suspect, or the next victim. While the only creature she can totally trust is her crotchety tabby Wallis, Pru's got to uncover the real killer, and find a way to live with her gift, before the real beasts in the town savage her and those she has come to love.A New Song, The Fifth Novel in the Beloved Mit Ford Series, Jan KaronRecently retired after years of serving as the Rector of Lord's Chapel, Father Tim agrees to pastor a small parish off the Atlantic coast. There's only one problem: How can he and Cynthia leave the town, and the boy, they love?Soon, however, the charming island of Whitecap reveals its own cast of unforgettable characters; a lovelorn bachelor trying his hand at personal ads, a church organist with a past, a gifted musician who never ventures beyond his gate, and a young mother struggling with paralyzing depression.Still, Mit Ford is never far from their minds, especially when Dooley ends up on the wrong side of the law.A New Song is a book the reader will hate to leave behind.Queen Hereafter, A Novel of Margaret of Scotland, Susan Frazer KingShipwrecked on the Scottish coast, a young Saxon princess and her family, including the outlawed Edgar of England, ask sanctuary of the warrior King Malcolm Canmore, who shrewdly sees the political advantage. He promises to aid Edgar and the Saxon cause in return for the hand of Edgar's sister, Margaret, in marriage.A foreign queen in a strange land, Margaret adapts to life among the barbarian Scots, bears princes, and shapes the fierce warrior Malcolm into a sophisticated ruler. Yet even as the King and Queen build a passionate and tempestuous partnership, the Scots distrust her. When her husband brings Eva, a Celtic bard, to court as a hostage for the good behavior of the formidable Lady McBeth, Margaret expects trouble. Instead, an unlikely friendship grows between the queen and her bard, though one has a wild Celtic nature and the other follows the demanding path of obligation. Torn between old and new loyalties, Eva is bound by a vow to betray the King and his Saxon queen. Soon imprisoned and charged with witchcraft and treason, Eva learns that Queen Margaret counseled by the furious King and his powerful priests, will decide her fate and that of her kinswoman, Lady Macbeth. But can the proud queen forgive such deep treachery?An unforgettable story of shifting alliances and the tension between fear and trust as a young woman finds her way in a dangerous world.See you at Rylander.