Sometime in the 1820s, two men become friends--a man who cooks for a party of trappers and the fugitive he finds hiding out in the camp. The two band together to make money selling beaver musk to the Chinese, but their scheme goes bad and they perish in a deadly bog. A hundred and fifty years later, a pair of alienated teenage girls in a commune find the skeletons of the men and become embroiled in a dispute with local Native Americans. The two narratives, separated by time, have subtle similarities in what they have to say about friendship, hardship, and the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

In the 13th Anna Pigeon mystery, she and a wheelchair-bound woman confront a fundamentalist religious sect. Anna Pigeon's promotion to district park ranger takes her many miles away from her new husband into Colorado's Rocky Mountain Park, where she must deal with the reappearance of two girls who vanished from a religious retreat several weeks ago, and will not say where they've been or what happened to the third girl who disappeared along with them. Anna receives unexpected aid in solving the mystery from Heath Jarrod, a former ice climber struggling to recover emotionally from the accident that rendered her a paraplegic, who encountered the girls at her campsite.

Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was an important figure in the Arts and Crafts movement who was also an artistic influence on, among others, Georgia O'Keeffe. As a photographer, he documented not only his native Massachusetts but the American West as well as sites in Europe and Asia. This volume surveys his work, his world, and his influence.

When four seasonal employees at Yosemite National Park mysteriously disappear, park ranger Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a hotel waitress to solve the crime. Her investigation eventually leads her on a perilous solo journey into the Sierra Nevada mountains, where she must contend with predators both animal and human. This suspenseful mystery is the 12th in a series.

Archaeologists Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, their son Ramses, and ward Nefret are preparing to excavate a possible tombsite along the river Nile. The undertaking was prefaced by a strange encounter with a mysterious stranger who died of poisoning before their meeting was over. The Emersons attribute all of this to Signor Ricetti, kingpin of illicit antiquities trading. Then Ramses is kidnapped and Nefret is also put at risk--will Amelia and Radcliffe be able to protect their family and the ancient tomb?

Leo Gursky is sure he doesn't have long to live. He's 80-something, has a heart problem, and lives alone and lonely in New York. But years ago, in Poland, he wrote an autobiographical novel (called THE HISTORY OF LOVE) that had a heroine named Alma, who was based on the woman Leo was in love with. Now a young New York woman named after Leo's character is looking for the man who wrote the book. That's Leo. Or is it someone else entirely, a man named Zvi Litvinoff? And what about Bruno, Leo's upstairs neighbor? And Alma's widowed mother, Charlotte, who is translating the novel into English? Narrated by several characters in turn, Nicole Krauss's novel about lonely people trying to connect is based in part on the history of her own grandparents, whose photographs appear at the beginning of the book.

A scholar of Jewish history examines the Holocaust and its contexts: European history and antisemitism; the rise of Hitler and his plans for genocide; the role of the German citizenry; the Holocaust and other genocides of the 20th century; the lessons to be drawn from the Holocaust.

This second novel by Andre Dubus 3rd (son of acclaimed writer Andre Dubus) is about an Iranian immigrant who stumbles into a complex struggle over the possession of a California house with the down-on-her-luck woman who used to own it and the sheriff who is in love with her.