Burlington Public Library

"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series is moving to the fall! In the latest book in the beloved best-selling series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, on the home front,...

"In June 1972, John Creighton determines to build his wife Joan a kitchen table. His largest project to date had been picture frames but he promises to have the table ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Inspired to put something delicious on the table, Joan turns to her mother's recipes she had given to Joan when she and John married. In June 2012, Lauren Mabrey discovers she's pregnant. Gloria, Miriam, and the rest of her friends at Glory's Place begin...

When her husband, Ben, drags her to the States for a gourmet cooking competition, the nervous and pregnant Ellie Haskell encounters mystery and murder in the American Midwest.

Sharing an intimate, decades-long friendship, Jess and Ren, who are each other's person, must adjust to the unexpected when a one-night stand with a tourist leaves Ren pregnant —and leaves both women wondering if this is one more thing they'll do together or if this will in fact change everything.

"Our people are survivors," Calliope's great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots-could Bisabuela's ancient myths be true? Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared-or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape...

Even the prickliest cactus has its flower...For Susan Green, messy emotions dont fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal for one, a job that suits her passion for logic and an "interpersonal arrangement" that provides cultural and other, more intimate, benefits. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the news that she is about to become a mother herself, Susans greatest fear is realized. She...

chaos erupts in the crowded household of expectant parents-to-be Meg Langslow and her husband, Caerphilly College associate professor Michael Waterston. Not only are they hosting numerous students made temporarily homeless due to a broken college heating plant but their library becomes a crime scene after the murder of English department diva Jean Wright. At first, it appears Wright received a fatal blow from an Egyptian fertility goddess statue,...

Following a date gone horribly wrong in which EJ (Eva Jean) was secretly given a date rape drug by her business partner's son, EJ has come home seeking an abortion, because she knows she would forever be haunted by memories of the rapist though a child created from rape. Facing one of the hardest decisions of her life, EJ heads home to Cullen's Corner to sort things out. As time passes and EJ spends time with old friends, will her belief in God return...

A new resident moves to town to take over his late grandfather's veterinary business. Dawson and Julie find out some disturbing news about their son. Janine and William anxiously wait for a birthmother to choose them. Tabatha is almost finished with her pregnancy, but she still hasn't decided whether to keep her baby or pursue adoption. Celeste gets an amazing surprise from Ben as he tries to woo her.

"True-to-life look at the exhilarating stories of a midwife in poverty-stricken East London in the 1950s"--Container.