"The Woods: A Year on Protection Island is a book of non-fiction stories that probes and witnesses the unique and sometimes unsettling atmosphere of small town-island life in the Georgia Strait. The measure of one's success here doesn't rely on status or income, but on the skillful handling of neighbours, the resourcefulness for survival, and the adaptation to both the rigorous outdoors of the Pacific Northwest and equally challenging human community...

"A journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith"--Publisher.

"From #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline comes a pulse-pounding new novel. Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same. Now you have to choose between law...and justice"--Publisher.

Washington, D.C. police detective Ryan Kessler is targeted by a "lifter", a hired criminal who uses any edge he can to get information his mysterious boss desperately needs, including torture, murder, and kidnapping. The job of keeping Kesller and his family alive long enough to find the ultimate perp falls to a seasoned federal protection officer known only as Corte. Corte and the lifter engage in a deadlyt contest as the story races a surpirse conclusion...

After witnessing a murder, a young teen is hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled kids while the killers embark on a methodical quest to reach him.