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Paperback. Condition: Good. A woman vanishes from a Texas town. Did she simply run off, or is something darker at play?When Patrick Dielman shows up at Detective Jo Larsen?s desk insisting that his wife, Jenny, is missing, Jo wonders if it?s a case of a bored housewife running away.But as she digs deeper into Jenny?s life, Jo learns that Dielman keeps a stranglehold on the family finances, down to the last nickel, and that Jenny?s first marriage dissolved following the death of her young son. By all accounts?including her doctor?s?she never recovered from the loss. Between a controlling husband, a tragic past, and a callous ex-husband, Jo can?t be sure if she should suspect foul play or accept that the woman may have wanted to disappear.For Jo, whose own demons are shadowing her every step, finding Jenny becomes more than the typical protect-and-serve.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reporter Kate Kilroy accepts an assignment to travel on the Valkyrie, a German ship veiled in secrecy for decades after it was discovered adrift in 1939 with only one passenger aboard, a baby boy named Isaac Feldman. Obsessed with understanding his origins, Feldman has spent a small fortune restoring the Valkyrie to try to solve the mystery. Assembling a team of experts and sparing no expense, he aims to precisely recreate the circumstances of the Valkyrie?s doomed final voyage. Little does Feldman or his team know that the ship has an agenda of its own. As the Valkyrie begins to weave its deadly web, Kate realizes that she must not only save herself, but the world as she knows it.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A woman challenges the constraints of life in Prohibition-era Appalachia in this sweeping and richly rewarding novel about endurance, survival, and redemption. The McKenzie women, empowered with a formidable history rooted in the foothills of Appalachia, have passed down their folk-healing wisdom through generations. Rosalee, the last living headstrong daughter in Granny McKenzie?s line, soaked up everything she could about the secrets of the forest before a series of tragedies left her alone, without the protection of the women who came before her. The close-knit ties of Rosalee?s childhood are long gone. Now, at her eastern Kentucky farm, she bears a marriage with a volatile bootlegger. She struggles with the demands of motherhood. And her independence is relegated to its ?proper place?: under the thumb of men. Her optimism dimming, Rosalee finds solace in the Kentucky woods, a space that holds secret powers of protection from a life Rosalee can no longer control. To the graves of her female ancestors, beside the waters of an enchanting spring, Rosalee returns time and again to consider her future?and discovers a mysterious connection to her past. As Rosalee wrestles with her isolation, with being a wife in an increasingly dangerous marriage, and with being a woman of her time, she must draw on her strength and resilience to survive?and to protect?on her own terms.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Freedom Jane McKenzie isn?t good at following the rules. She?s good at getting into trouble?and playing marbles. All she wants is to enter the marble competition at the Autumn Jubilee and show the boys in the neighborhood that she?s the best player. First, Freedom has to convince her mother to let her enter. But there?s a new baby on the way, Freedom?s daddy is drinking too much, her little brother is a handful, and her mother is even more difficult than usual. Freedom learns that when it comes to love, friendship, and family, sometimes there are no rules. Set in 1959, The Marble Queen is a timeless story about growing up. ?I wanted to stay with Freedom and her oh-so-real family forever. I wanted to keep watching her play marbles with the boys. And I wanted just one more visit with the kind but eccentric next-door neighbor. Blake has combined the fascinating world of childhood marble-playing with the ups and downs of perfectly realistic characters. A winner!? ?Barbara O?Connor, author of How to Steal a Dog and Greetings from Nowhere ?Rich with historical details, The Marble Queen will pull you back to 1959, but Freedom Jane McKenzie is a protagonist for all time. Whether she?s knee-deep in family struggles or proving to the world she has what it takes to play marbles with the boys, Freedom?s voice rings out with determination, humor, and warmth.? ?Nan Marino, author of Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. It?s time everyone knew the truth, and what better way to announce you?re getting married (and gay) than on your family WhatsApp group?Amar can?t wait to tell everyone his wonderful news: he?s found The One, and he?s getting married. But it turns out announcing his engagement on a group chat might not have been the best way to let his strict Muslim Bangladeshi family know that his happy-ever-after partner is a man?and a white man at that.Amar expected a reaction from his four siblings, but his bombshell sends shockwaves throughout the community and begins to fracture their family unit, already fragile from the death of their mother. Suddenly Amar is questioning everything he once believed in: his faith, his culture, his family, his mother?s love?and even his relationship with Joshua. Amar was sure he knew what love meant, but was he just plain wrong?He?s never thought of his relationship with Joshua as a love story?they just fit together, like two halves of a whole. But if they can reconcile their differences with Amar?s culture, could there be hope for his relationship with his family too? And could this whole disaster turn into a love story after all.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Opposites attract in a sexy tale of unexpected love When the Dempsey patriarch suffers a heart attack, Lucas Dempsey steps up to keep the doors of the family restaurant open. The proverbial prodigal son returns home to Anchor Island?putting family first and his quest to make partner at his high-powered law firm on hold. Sporting a bruised ego after losing his fiancée to his older brother, Lucas would rather walk on glass than spend six weeks within spitting distance of the happy couple. But family duty calls. And that duty includes working side-by-side with a tantalizing spitfire intent on driving him mad. Tough-as-nails boat mechanic Sid Navarro is happy to trade her tools for an apron to help the Dempseys in their time of need. That is, until she realizes she?ll be working alongside Lucas, the man she?s loved from afar since she first laid eyes on him in high school. Lucas could charm the paint off a schooner, but Sid knows she doesn?t fit his girl-next-door type. To show her true feelings would mean certain heartbreak, but the temptation of Lucas in her bed might be more than she can resist. After a rocky start punctuated by verbal barbs and exasperating arguments, things heat up between them?big-time?but their steamy affair turns more than casual in a matter of weeks. Sid?s life has become the dream she?s always wanted, and Lucas has fallen hard for the last woman he ever expected to love. But this affair has an end-date, as Lucas must return to his life and career in the big city, a place where Sid would never fit in. When the end comes earlier than expected, walking away turns out to be a challenge neither of them wants to win. Up to the Challenge is a sexy, fast-paced, romantic story of family, island life, and finding love in unexpected places.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. A death, a lie, a secret. For twenty-six summers he didn?t have the courage to face the past. Lee Hanjo is an artist at the peak of his fame, envied and celebrated. Then, on his forty-third birthday, he awakens to find that his devoted wife has disappeared, leaving behind a soon-to-be-published novel she?d secretly written about the sordid past and questionable morality of an artist with a trajectory similar to Hanjo?s. It?s clear to him that his life is about to shatter and the demons from his past will come out. But why did his wife do it? Why now? The book forces Hanjo to reflect on a summer from his youth when a deadly lie irreversibly and tragically determined the fates of two families. From master storyteller J. M. Lee, one of Korea?s most renowned authors, comes an unforgettable novel of hidden truths, denials, and their inevitable repercussions. Everyone still left standing from that terrible summer so long ago must finally reckon with the deceptions that started it all and, twist after shocking twist, reap both the suffering and the vindication that comes with revenge.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. She's small-town business. He's Manhattan high finance. Together they ignite in a novel about unexpected love and danger by Nancy Herkness, award-winning author of the Wager of Hearts series.New Jersey bookkeeper Alice Thurber has a carefully constructed risk-free life. Everything in perfect balance. Until little discrepancies show up in her clients' accounts. Most would ignore it. Not the impeccably precise Alice. In desperation she reaches out to a high-powered consulting firm for help. New York City's movie-star handsome financial wizard Derek Killion reaches back. All he has to do is smile and Alice's fantasies stir. A girl can dream, can't she?A cofounder of KRG, Derek's promise is to advise small-business owners in trouble. He never guessed that assisting the diffident but sexy Alice would be so captivating and make it so hard to keep his desires in check. But just as intriguing is the alarming puzzle behind the computer glitch that's unsettled his client. As the investigation unfolds, they must also confront an attraction too palpable to ignore. Every new dark twist they follow is only bringing them closer together--in passion and in danger. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Minna, an appealing rabbit character, comes up with a great Valentine's Day project which involves enlisting her little brother to do kind things for their neighbors.

Paperback. Condition: Good. For Holly Marshall, there?s no such thing as a perfect match. That?s reflected in the unpredictable, fun clothing combos the aspiring artist wears around her hometown of Sugar Springs?and in her inability to fit in anywhere else. But when she sets out to prove to her family that she?s ready to grow up by settling down, could she have found her perfect mismatch in a play-by-the-book guy wearing a business suit? High-powered attorney Zack Winston is a man who always gets what he wants. While Holly wouldn?t mind sampling what Zack so deliciously has to offer, she needs someone who plans to stick around?and Zack?s disdain of small towns suggests he won?t. But as the camaraderie of Sugar Springs begins to charm, and Zack?s brothers show what family is all about, he and Holly may just get the chance to have it all?if they?re brave enough to reach out and take it.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A family, broken by the shattering turns of a single day, will do anything to find their way back to one another.Lena Sharma is a successful San Francisco restaurateur. An immigrant, she?s cultivated an image of conservatism and tradition in her close-knit Indian community. But when Lena?s carefully constructed world begins to crumble, her ties to her daughter, Maya, and son, Sameer?both raised in thoroughly modern California?slip further away.Maya, divorced once, becomes engaged to a man twelve years her junior: Veer Kapoor, the son of Lena?s longtime friend. Immediately Maya feels her mother?s disgrace and the judgment of an insular society she was born into but never chose, while Lena?s cherished friendship frays. Meanwhile, Maya?s younger brother, Sameer, struggles with an addiction that reaches a devastating and very public turning point, upending his already tenuous future.As the mother, daughter, and son are compromised by tragedy, secrets, and misconceptions, they each must determine what it will take to rebuild their bonds and salvage what?s left of their family.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. What if your mind became your worst enemy?Struggling with evolving psychic abilities, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan and her equally exceptional friends are on the run from the ruthless Graham Cregg, leader of a covert operation known as the Delphi Project. Cregg has already killed repeatedly to test Anna?s ability. Now, he and his father, a presidential contender, will stop at nothing to recapture the Delphi adepts, whom they see as weapons to be controlled?or destroyed.Navigating an increasingly hostile landscape, Anna and her friends form a resistance to rescue those still in the Creggs? fatal grip. As more gifted kids vanish and public awareness of the Delphi Project grows, so does the opinion that getting rid of the adepts may be a necessary evil.Yet even as they face off against cold-blooded killers, government operatives, and a public intensely afraid of their psychic powers, the greatest threat to Anna and the resistance may come from within themselves?and their own mysterious abilities could spell their ultimate downfall.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. A stirring and romantic historical novel about nineteenth-century Vienna and the tragedy and dynamic passion that inspired Ludwig van Beethoven?s Moonlight Sonata. Vienna, 1800. Countess Julie Guicciardi?s life is about to change forever. The spirited eighteen-year-old is taking piano lessons with Ludwig van Beethoven, the most talented piano virtuoso in the musical capital of Europe. She is captivated by his volatile genius, while he is drawn to her curiosity and disarming candor. Between them, a unique romance. But Beethoven has a secret he?s yet to share, and Julie is harboring a secret of her own, one so scandalous it could destroy their perfect love story. When Beethoven discovers the truth, he sets his emotions to music, composing a mournful opus that will become the Moonlight Sonata. The haunting refrain will follow Julie for the rest of her life. Set against the rich backdrop of nineteenth-century Vienna, The Woman in the Moonlight is an exhilarating ode to eternal passion. An epic tale of love, loss, rivalry, and political intrigue. A stirring portrait of a titan who wrestled with the gods and a woman who defied convention to inspire him.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Sofia is trained in secret as a painter in her father?s workshop during a time when women did not paint openly. She loves her work, but her restless spirit leads her to betray her extraordinary gifts to marry a man who comes to despise her for not producing a son.After Sofia?s father is crushed by his own fresco during an attack motivated by a vendetta, Sofia realizes she must escape her loveless marriage. She flees to Siena, where, disguised as a boy, she paints again. When her work attracts the notice of a nobleman who discovers the woman under the dirty smock, Sofia is faced with a choice that nearly destroys her.Meticulously researched settings and compelling characters are united with a strong heroine in this rich portrait of medieval Italy.Revised edition: This edition of The Towers of Tuscany includes editorial revisions.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A moving reflection on motherhood, friendship, and women making their mark on the world of food from the author of Feast.Food writer Hannah Howard is at a pivotal moment in her life when she begins searching out her fellow food people?women who?ve carved a place for themselves in a punishing, male-dominated industry. Women whose journeys have inspired and informed Hannah?s own foodie quests. On trips that take her from Milan to Bordeaux to Oslo and then always back again to her home in New York City, Hannah spends time with these influential women, learning about the intimate paths that led them each toward fulfilling careers. Each chef, entrepreneur, barista, cheesemaker, barge captain, and culinary instructor expands our long-held beliefs about how the worldwide network of food professionals and enthusiasts works.But amid her travels, Hannah finds herself on a heart-wrenching private path. Her plans to embark on motherhood bring her through devastating lows and unimaginable highs. Hannah grapples with personal joy, loss, and a lifelong obsession with food that is laced with insecurity and darker compulsions. Looking to her food heroes for solace, companionship, and inspiration, she discovers new ways to appreciate her body and nourish her life.At its heart, this lovely and candid memoir explores food as a point of passion and connection and as a powerful way to create community, forge friendships, and make a family.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A warm and witty love story about making the most of life?s not-so-little curveballs by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of Life and Other Near-Death Experiences. Aly Jackson has waited her whole life to become editor in chief of All Good magazine. But six months into the job, she overhears her coworkers belittling her. Aly?s clapback? A very public, career-jeopardizing meltdown. To undo the mess, she agrees to a monthlong unpaid leave. Reluctant but determined to turn misfortune into opportunity, Aly retreats to the Lake Michigan beach house her brother, Luke, left to her when he died nearly a year earlier. Except when Aly arrives, she discovers Luke?s slacker best friend, Wyatt, inherited the place, too. Wyatt is unkempt, unmotivated, and totally uninterested in Aly?s desire to sell. Yet as battle lines are drawn, Aly wonders whether she and this wild card have more than Luke in common. But is she willing to swap her lifelong dreams for a shot at healing her broken heart.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Chasing a cybercriminal into the pitch-black heart of the Dark Web.Special Agent Lisa Tanchik is the best at taking down cybercriminals. So when the FBI discovers a multibillion-dollar black market online, she?s tasked with finding the creator and bringing him to justice. Donning one of her many digital disguises, Tanchik goes undercover into the network.Brilliant college student Nate Fallon started his site as an idealistic experiment. But his platform has made illegal trade not only more efficient?but also more dangerous. Now the FBI aren?t the only ones out to get him. As profits soar, a criminal organization casts its monstrous gaze on Fallon, and danger leaps from cyberspace into reality.Feeling pressure from both sides of the law, Fallon is forced to make a decision with shattering consequences. Can Agent Tanchik find Fallon before his dangerous infrastructure falls into the wrong hands.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Laura Spinella?s Ghost Gifts trilogy continues as Aubrey?s otherworldly talents?and a visit from a former lover?threaten to tear apart her family.A mysterious death in a muddy swamp, missing children in different states?psychic Aubrey Ellis and her partner, investigative reporter Levi St John, have their hands full. The added strain of raising their son, who struggles with his own psychic gift, pushes life to the brink of collapse.Enter Zeke Dublin?Aubrey?s first love from her carnival past. Tensions escalate when it?s clear that the attraction between them is alive and well. But as Levi discovers disturbing clues about the body pulled from the swamp, he begins to suspect Zeke?s sudden presence is more than coincidence.As Aubrey?s uncanny abilities take an unsettling turn, she fears that this time her own child is in danger. Who can Aubrey trust to help solve the unknowns surrounding her life?the father of her son, or a man who?s always understood the deepest secrets of her psychic gift. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. From morning till night, a dog's life is very busy. He wakes people up. Ruff Ruff He welcomes visitors. Woof Woof He washes dishes. Slurp Slurp He keeps humans warm. Zzzz . . . and always in doggy style. Without a dog around, how would a family get through the day. Wu, Donald (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Good. A vanished mother, the grip of darkness, a lifelong mystery. Forty years later, a prosecutor faces them all again, this time as a murder suspect in a pulse-pounding legal thriller of psychological suspense.On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois. Forty years to the day after this unforgivable moment, Joe is a hard-drinking ADA and Lois has resurfaced: Joe wakes from another alcoholic fog to learn she?s been found murdered on a Coney Island beach.Joe throws himself into his work, struggling to reconcile his memories of Lois with the relative stranger found by the NYPD. And when another murder hits close to home and DNA links Joe to both crimes, he sinks deeper into the abyss. Joe can?t remember a thing. His last hope as the evidence mounts against him is Aideen Bradigan, a brilliant and dogged lawyer from his past.It will take Aideen?s drive and Joe?s own shrewd legal mind to uncover a potentially terrifying truth?and to shatter the devastating secrets that claw back to that fateful night in the dark.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. An emotional exploration of the frayed bond between a father and daughter?and what it takes to mend it.After Sara?s father, famous sculptor Thomas ?TR? Harlow, is badly injured in a fire, she?s suddenly forced to care for a man who is more of a stranger than a parent. Once known as his muse, Sara long ago lost her father to his desire to live the celebrity life.Now TR?s abrasive and unpredictable presence in her home is reopening old wounds?and causing the rift in her already-strained marriage to deepen. As her young son begins bonding with the grandfather he never knew, Sara must decide if she can find it within herself to forgive the man who broke her heart all those years ago. Will she walk away from a chance to rebuild what was lost, or will she find, by bringing her father back to health, that healing can come in many forms. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. In a city as corrupt as it was luxurious, those who dared to dream were bound to pay the price.Havana, Cuba, 1947. Young Patricio flees impoverished Spain and steps into the sultry island paradise of Havana with only the clothes on his back and half-baked dreams of a better life. Blessed with good looks and natural charm, he lands a job as a runner at El Encanto?one of the most luxurious department stores in the world.Famous for its exquisite offerings from French haute couture to Arabian silks, El Encanto indulges the senses in opulent extravagance. It caters to visiting Hollywood stars, rising politicos, and prerevolutionary Cuba?s wealthiest power players, including the notorious mobster César Valdés.Falling in love with the mobster?s young wife, Gloria, is suicide. But Patricio is irresistibly drawn to the beautiful girl with sad eyes, a razor-sharp intellect, and a penchant for both Christian Dior?s clothes and Einstein?s theories. Within the walls of El Encanto, anything seems possible, even a love that promises to heal them and a desire that thrums with the mambo beat of the city itself.In a reckless love affair that spans half a century, Patricio?s and Gloria?s lives entwine time and again, challenged by every twist of fate?for in a world of murder, betrayal, and revolution, those who dare to reach for paradise seldom survive unscathed.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. If you think you know your friends, think again. A page-turner of a thriller for fans of The Couple Next Door.When Shea Walker, a sunny, easygoing mom, is found dead in a bathtub with a stomach full of booze and pills, the shocking discovery shatters the complacency of her comfortable suburban community.Kat Burrows, Shea?s longtime friend and former neighbor, is hit hardest. How could a woman she thought she knew so well come to such a sordid end? What could lead happy, well-adjusted, responsible Shea to accidentally overdose on alcohol and narcotics? Or, worse, drive her to suicide?Compelled to uncover the truth of Shea?s final months, Kat delves beneath the orderly surface of her familiar world to discover a web of thwarted desire, shameful secrets, and shocking betrayal that suggests a scarier explanation for what happened to Shea. As her carefully constructed reality begins to crumble, Kat must question every reassuring assumption her life is built upon to solve the mystery?and summon the courage and resourcefulness to survive it.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. In a stratified society where contact with the sun is a luxury reserved for the elite, those kept prisoner in the darkness will do anything to find the light. Arden?beautiful, street-smart, and cynical?is one of the citizens of the lowest Level, known as Undercity, of an off-world colony. A blackout band traps Arden in her district, but as sister to the leader of the most powerful gang in Undercity, she has access to Above.There she meets Dade, one of the few lucky enough to be born into the sun-kissed families who reside in the Towers soaring above the rest of the city. But life isn?t perfect in the sky. Dade, desperate to escape his upcoming arranged marriage, has a secret of his own, and he?s willing to risk everything for it.An unlikely romance develops between the two teens?but their love faces opposition from above and below. When her gang pressures Arden to help break the grip of the elite and end Dade?s interference with their drug trade, she is forced to make a deadly choice between love and family loyalty. But will the brewing class war destroy the world around them first.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. It takes one little spark for enemies to ignite into lovers in a searing-hot novel by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Blackwood.Sloane Garcia has butted heads with Reece Jenkins ever since he was a colossal jerk of epic proportions on a night she?d rather forget. So what if he?s overconfident, ultramasculine, and hard muscled? When she finds out he?s on the auction block at the annual firefighter?s charity event, she decides to give this cocky firefighter a dose of his own medicine. Now that she?s won the hunk, he?s on call?to do whatever Sloane wants.Sure, Reece and Sloane had a rocky start, but he had his reasons. None of that matters now that he?s the bachelor at her beck and call, tasked with granting her four wishes in four weeks. He runs into burning buildings for a living, but nothing will be as tough as dousing the flames Sloane ignites in him. What started out as just a game might end up with Reece losing the one thing he swore he?d never give up: his heart.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor and stand-up comedian, posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan, asking people to call him if they wanted to talk. He thought he?d get a dozen calls; instead, he got hundreds, then thousands once pictures of the flyer went viral on the net. They came from all over the country and from as far away as Spain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Taiwan, and Australia. Jeff spoke to as many people as he could, answering his phone all day long. Here are the conversations, texts, and voicemails of a particular moment in time?a hilarious, dark, intimate portrait of the way we live now.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. When young Josiah Penn Stockbridge accepts the position as aide-de-camp to George Washington at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he thinks only of the glory and romance of battle. He is unprepared for the reality of America?s bloody fight for independence. The Continental Army is starving, underpaid, and dangerously close to mutiny, and Washington fights not just to defeat the British but to maintain order and morale among his own men.As anonymous letters by officers calling for revolt circulate through camp in Newburgh, New York, Washington must make a choice: preserve the young republic by keeping civilian control of the military, or reshape the new government by standing in solidarity with his troops and assuming greater power for himself.During one fateful week in American history, Josiah will watch a conflicted general become a legend and will discover for himself that the greatest struggles of war are those within the hearts and minds of fallible men.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Revenge is anything but sweet in this twisty thriller about two women with very different lives locked in the same deadly game.Imagining the best way to destroy a person?s happiness is Crystal Love?s favorite game. Devious and unpolished, the loan analyst couldn?t be more out of place in her new town of Santa Barbara, where the beautifully manicured women never age and the ocean views stretch farther than the million-dollar lawns. And yet her eye for the power dynamics at play in this tony community is dead accurate.Kathi Wright, on the other hand, has made it her life?s work to fit in with the plastic people who surround her. But when her husband?a wealthy bank president?dies suddenly, she?s left with nothing. Then the FBI shows up, asking questions she can?t answer and freezing assets she once took for granted.While Kathi struggles to outrun the mess caused by her husband?s mysterious death, Crystal seems focused on her game. But why? And who are her targets?Spanning two years and told in Crystal?s and Kathi?s alternating voices, this tautly plotted novel reveals the power of choice and the price of revenge.…

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