Gail Bowen continues to enthrall with her masterfully compelling storytelling in Book 17 of her nationally bestselling Joanne Kilbourn series, combining a modern urban family with a gripping, satisfying mystery. As Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve, her husband, Zack, and their soon-to-be seventeen-year-old daughter, Taylor, rush through the rain from their cottage to their car, the Thanksgiving weekend they just spent at the lake with Zack's law partners is already slipping away, burnished into memory as pleasantly as the hundreds of other weekends the Falconer-Shreve families have shared at Lawyers' Bay. Thoughts of the weekend past will now focus on the future and be prefaced by the words "next time." Within weeks, a triple homicide will rip apart the lives of those related to the lawyers who, at the end of their first year in law school, only half-jokingly styled themselves "The Winners' Circle." Dazed by grief, Joanne will seek answers to an impossible question: "Why did they die?" The facts behind the suicide of Christopher Altieri, known by his law partners as "the conscience of The Winners' Circle," appear to provide insights, but for Joanne those insights raise new, unsettling questions. Knitting this powerful narrative together is Joanne's unshakeable belief that the only thing worse than knowing is not knowing.

Born in the stables of the Sultan of Morocco, an Arabian stallion named Sham is taken to England, along with the loyal yet mute Arab stable boy who tends to him, and becomes one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed.

Faith, Family, Frenzy!Three longtime friends explode apart and find their way back to each other in The Winner's Circle, a literary-commercial crossover novel in a genre entitled Boomer Chick Lit that is written to appeal to book clubs.Life in a rural small town can dull the senses. A trio of gal pals-mired in middle age, middle America, and other people's problems-long to escape. When, one of the friends, Bonnie Voss, wins the Boffo Lotto, her circle of friends urge her to lawyer up, invest, and sequester herself. But secrets are inconceivable in small towns, and the clamor for cash withers Bonnie's wallflower soul. It doesn't help that her former boss, the local pastor, is first to beseech funds for his church expansion plans.And so, Bonnie and her beau, Carl Edwards, invite close friends, Jackie and Steve Breeden, to witness their Vegas wedding and honeymoon in Hawaii with endless vagabond beyond. The sky's the limit!Meanwhile, the other gal pal, Fran Blackstone Rankin, the recently retired former high school administrator who married the local pastor, Paul Rankin, have agreed to supervise immature thirty-something son, Brandon Breeden's management of the Breeden Dairy in his dad's stead. The allure of travel is fun for a while-hilarious, in fact. A California trip segment, where Carl introduces Bonnie to his ex-wife and adult kids, proceeds fluidly. However, the Hawaiian honeymoon goes over overboard when a mai-tai-fueled hula performance brings unwanted tabloid and YouTube fame. The ex-wife reads 'The Enquirer' and immediately desires a piece of lottery pie.Bonnie's instant wealth didn't gain immediate status and respect, so her relationship with her travel partners is strained, and-back in Michigan-Fran finds that Brandon doesn't require her reins and her husband, the pastor, can not be dissuaded from his schemes.When the husbands are jailed on the travel foursome's first day in Australia, wanderlust is no longer a romp, and things get complicated when you're halfway round the world, untethered from all you know and love. Life has its consequences¿ and there's no place like home.With your circle of friends.

Uncover and invest in the best funds for today and tomorrow The number of mutual funds investors must choose from is now greater than the number of stocks listed on the NYSE. Selecting the right fund-and, just as important, the best manager-in a turbulent investment arena is more difficult than ever before. Revealing money-management secrets typically reserved for elite investors, top fund managers share their investment approaches, and provide in-depth explanations of their philosophies, disciplines, and backgrounds that can be applied by both individual and professional investors. R. J. Shook (Boca Raton, FL) is the popular and influential author of the Winner's Circle book series. He has authored six Wall Street-related titles, and writes a monthly column as well as a popular annual cover story-"The Winner's Circle Top Advisors"-for Research Magazine.

And you think beauty pageants are scary? Persephone Alcmedi has been persuaded to compete for the position of High Priestess of the Cleveland, Ohio, coven -- now that the former priestess, Vivian Diamond, has strangely gone missing. Unfortunately, there are a few small problems with the idea. Not only does Seph know rather more about Vivian's disappearance than the other witches realize, but the epic struggle she's just survived has left her with some highly unusual powers -- ones that could be dangerous to reveal. Despite her reluctance, she agrees to participate, if only to prevent snooty Hunter Hopewell, an obnoxious but talented witch, from ending up in the winner's circle. Can Seph hide her secrets -- including her connection to the master vampire-wizard Menessos -- from the terrifyingly wise judges? Plus, there's her rock 'n' roll werewolf boyfriend, Johnny, and some angry fairies to deal with.... Once the competition begins, a finalist turns up dead. It looks as if one of the contestants is willing to do anything -- including murder -- to win. Suddenly Seph has even more on her plate than she thought: from solving a murder to working out what her new powers really are...and exactly why they're creating so much havoc in her love life.

Traveling through the southwest, Hood stumbles upon a small town with a monster problem! The locals refuse to discuss the mysterious force that keeps them inside at night, and advise him to leave before the sun sets. Hood soon discovers a killer big rig with a serious case of road rage! Who is behind the wheel of this deadly truck? Plus –the story behind Kip’s lost love and a Fox co-feature.