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by Amy Sprenger
From the author of the award-winning blog Snarky Mommy comes a book that will make every woman who has ever been pregnant pee with laughter (not that that’s hard). Pregnant and confined to bed for the last four months of her pregnancy Amy Sprenger put pen to paper and wrote this hilarious memoir about the trials and travails of a difficult pregnancy.
by Boyd Morrison
In 1947, ten-year-old Fay Allen of Roswell, New Mexico, witnesses the fiery crash of an extraordinary craft unlike anything she's ever seen. More than sixty years later Fay is being pursued by competing interests all vying for an artifact she took from the crash on that fateful night in 1947.
by Anne Zoelle
After the sudden death of her twin brother, Ren Crown illegally enrolls at a magic university with the sole intention of bringing him back to life. But caught in a time of war, and as a mage with abilities that both sides want to harness and use, Ren finds herself an unwitting pawn in a larger game.
by Terry Goodkind
Bestselling author Terry Goodkind returns with this digital exclusive novel. In the time before the Confessors, when the world is a dark and dangerous place, where treason and treachery are the rule of the day, comes one heroic woman, Magda Searus, who has just lost her husband and her way in life.
The Lost Heir (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 1)
by E.G. Foley
The streets of Victorian London can be an inhospitable place, even for paranormally gifted pickpocket Jake. When he is pursued by sinister henchmen, Jake is thrust into a world of magic and intrigue. Heir to a magical aristocratic family, Jake must discover what happened to his parents, and defeat his enemies.
by Gemma Halliday & Jennifer Fischetto
Former cover model Jamie Bond has finally decided to join the family business: The Bond Agency, a high-powered P.I. firm located in Los Angeles that specializes in domestic espionage. Armed with a team of former models "the Bond Girls" Jamie is out to catch a philandering judge, but when he turns up dead, things get complicated.
by Melissa Scott & Jo Graham
In a world full of lost treasures, some are better left unfound. It's 1929 and Lake Nemi is being drained by archaeologists hoping to explore Caligula's lost ships that rest on the lake floor. What they discover is an ancient evil. Now it is up to a rag tag group of aviators to stop what has been conjured from the depths.
by Lucy Kevin
Five years ago, wedding DJ Tyce Smith kissed the girl of his dreams. Left with only her first name and dreams of a second kiss, Tyce has been unable to finish writing a new song since. After Whitney Banning comes face to face with the man she’s never forgotten and knows she never will, how is she supposed to stop herself from dreaming again? Is a second kiss in their future?
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Harlot’s Moon by Ed Gorman
When a priest is found brutally murdered in a motel room under incriminating circumstances, the pastor calls in ex-FBI profiler Robert Payne, an old friend, to aid in the investigation. It soon becomes clear to Payne that a subtle and devious killer is on the loose.
The Bride Wore Chocolate by Shirley Jump
Life couldn’t be more perfect for Candice Woodrow. Her gourmet gift basket company is thriving, and she’s set to marry steady, dependable Barry. There’s just one wrench in the fairytale. Two weeks before her wedding she wakes up in the wrong man’s bed. Candace thinks she’ll be able to run out the door and forget all about Michael Vogler, but the Boston millionaire has other plans for the jittery bride.
Summers at Blue Lake by Jill Althouse-Wood
Summers spent with her grandmothers on Blue Lake were always special for BJ. Now, years later, BJ seeks refuge in her late grandmothers' house in the wake of her husband's affair. As she relives the languid summer days of her youth and prepares the house for sale, she struggles to come to terms not only with the looming threat of divorce, but also with the Pandora's Box of family revelations she uncovers in Grandma's hidden notebooks.
Gabriella by Brenda Hiatt
After a losing wager, the Duke of Ravenham is obliged to bring a pretty little nobody from the country into fashion among London society. The girl chosen is Gabriella Gordon, and what starts as an act of common chance blossoms into unexpected romance.
I, Judas The 5th Gospel by Bob Mayer
What if Judas is still alive, hidden away in the jungles of the Amazon, waiting for the Second Coming?
As a massive object appears in space heading directly toward Earth, the Brotherhood heralds it as Wormwood, one of the signs the Rapture and it’s just three days away. They have been preparing to implement the Great Commission as designated by Jesus—where everyone on the planet must hear the word of God before the end in order to be saved. They will use advanced technology to send that message directly into the minds of every human on the planet. The question is: will the message kill everyone who gets it or save them?
Believing him to be the anti-Christ, they also send a team of assassins up the Amazon to find the Great Betrayer and kill him before Armageddon.
Opposing the Brotherhood is the Triumvirate of the Illuminati. They believe they must stop the Great Commission and the assassination team. At the same time they rush to gather nuclear weapons and launch missiles into space to divert the Intruder, as they call the object, believing it to be a natural phenomenon over which technology will prevail.
Three survivors do finally make it to Judas, and he tells them a story, the true story of what happened over two millennia ago. And what is approaching…
Better Than Before by Kathryn Shay
In a bet with his younger brother, Spence Wickham joins an online dating service to prove all people lie on these websites. After a series of disastrous relationships, Spence doesn’t believe in true love, either virtual or in real life.
Pretending to be an average guy, instead of the rich venture capitalist that he is, Spence connects with six women. He finds himself drawn to the last—Annie Hopkins. Not only is she interesting, sweet, generous and kind, but she’s looking for the type of man he’s pretending to be.
Against the rules of the bet, Spence can’t resist meeting Annie in person. After only a few weeks, he begins to care deeply for her, and she returns his feelings. But the threat of his deceit hangs over them. When the truth comes out, Spence is left to find a way to make Annie love him for the man he is.
English Heiress by Patricia Rice
An Irish rogue and a duke’s daughter should have nothing in common except trouble...
Though enchanted by the selfless beauty of a duke’s granddaughter, Michael—a man of many names but none his own—has wisely kept his distance. But two years after the disastrous fire that brought Lady Blanche Perceval into his life, he is saddled with a lost, lying Irish waif and needs a woman’s understanding aid. To his dismay, the generous lady he remembers now despises him for deserting her when she needed him most.
Blanche has inherited all the wealth and responsibility of a dukedom, even if it is her cousin who wears the title. Forced to rely on her men of business to help her make decisions since she has no experience or knowledge of her own, she is at constant odds with the new duke who wishes to marry her for the sake of the estate.
When the irresistible and unreliable Michael O’Toole materializes in her life to enlist her care for another of the abandoned orphans he’s rescued—as he once did for her—Blanche doesn’t know whether to kill him or kiss him. After terrorists blow up her carriage, it becomes apparent that running away might be the best choice of all—but can they survive the pitfalls of their impossible attraction?
Material Witness by Lisa Mondello
Crime author Cassie Alvarez had murder on her mind when she walked into Rory’s Bar under-dressed and undercover to research her latest crime novel. Researching the cool, blue-eyed and dashingly handsome man at the end of the bar stirred her senses more than she wanted to admit. But was this man of leather armor all he appeared to be?
Playing White Knight to an innocent wasn’t how Detective Jake Santos planned to spend his time under cover. But there was no way “CJ” was what she claimed to be and that nagging tightness in Jake’s chest told him he’d better take her home to safety before she got herself in trouble. Then the barroom exploded with gunfire. When the dust clears, an FBI agent is killed along with Providence’s most notorious crime boss.
Cassie is the only material witness who can identify the shooter. But when her name is leaked to the media as his only witness to the grisly murders, the FBI wants to protect their case at all cost. Cassie insists she only trusts Jake to protect her. He gives his word he’ll protect her at all cost despite the fact that guarding the beautiful novelist is a serious distraction. But can he keep from betraying her trust?
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Magic has never been a part of Reandn's life. Until the people under his care start dying. Until the threat extends to his family–and then turns on him. Someone, somewhere, is trying to draw magic back into Keland, and they don't care what—or who—is destroyed in the process. Follow the adventure in Doranna Durgin’s Touched By Magic.
A Southern Belle and a Union Soldier collide in a small Kansas town.Jack took a chance on the feisty beauty with the reddish-brown curls, and she surprised him with her ability and her courage. Samantha was upset that he had been a Northern soldier, but as their passions swirl they decide to take the biggest risk of all in ABILENE GAMBLER by Maggie Sefton.
In bestselling author Patricia Ryan’s Pure and Simple, Ally Turner is shaken by the death of her childhood friend, starlet Willow Scott—and horrified when devilishly charming Tom Proctor starts digging into Willow’s past for a tell-all bio, threatening to unearth a scandalous secret that must be kept hidden at all costs.
With a suitcase full of Jane Austen novels en español, Amy Elizabeth Smith set off on a year-long Latin American adventure: a traveling book club with Jane. In six unique, unforgettable countries, she gathered book-loving new friends— taxi drivers and teachers, poets and politicians— to read Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice. And in the end, Amy discovered that All Roads Lead to Austen.
In Amanda Brice’s Pointe of No Return, aspiring ballerina Dani Spevak’s visions of sugar plums are dashed when she’s assigned to understudy her nemesis, Hadley Taylor, in the Nutcracker. Pretty, popular, and rich, that girl has all the luck. Or so she thought.
When Hadley mysteriously disappears with opening night just around the corner, Dani can’t sit idly by, even if it means losing the part. Now she’s running all over Phoenix in a race against the clock. From reality TV trophy wives to sleazy real estate developers to a possible drug ring, the cast of suspects begins to add up. Will she find Hadley before the curtain rises?
In My Merlin Awakening , book two of the My Merlin Series, Excalibur has been pulled from the stone, but what does it mean? Arriane (aka Ryan) DuLac doesn’t really care. She's got bigger problems—as student president, she's got to organize the Prom. While the Wizard Council debates their next move, she leaves the craziness behind and heads home.
But she can’t hide at home forever. Sooner than she’d like, Merlin (aka Matt) has her chasing mermaids on the trail of the Fisher King. The wounded King, defeated by Merlin’s brother Vane in the past, holds the key to save the future. One wrong decision and the world falls apart.
From Blake Crouch—author of the runaway bestsellers Run and Serial—comes Eerie, a chilling, gothic thriller in the classic tradition of The Shining and The Sixth Sense.
On a crisp autumn night in 1980, seven-year-old Grant Moreton and his five-year-old sister Paige were nearly killed in a mysterious accident in the Cascade Mountains that left them orphans. It's been thirty years since then. Grant is a detective with the Seattle Police Department and long estranged from his sister. But now his investigation into the bloody past of a high-class prostitute has led right to her door.
What lies beyond is a horror he never could have imagined. He becomes trapped inside a house with frightening power over anyone who enters. His only hope of surviving and saving his sister is to confront the terror that inhabits its walls...and endure a brutal physical and psychological ordeal that will challenge everything he thinks he knows about himself and the world.
“Welcome to Manderley Prep – where the rich and bitchy rule the school, and good girls finish last…”
Cindy Ellis has plans for the rest of her life that start with a scholarship to Manderley Prep. When Marco, the school’s hot new transfer student and star soccer player notices her on the first day of school, she thinks all her dreams have come true. But that’s where the fairy tale ends, because inside the hallowed halls of Manderley, Cindy stands out like a generic brand among the designer labels. Her cheerleader step-sisters make her life miserable until Marco, the Prom King takes a second look at the tall, clarinet-playing Cindy and decides she should be his Prom Queen. Could the happy ending really conclude with Cindy and the Prom King together at last?
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Alexa Parker and Braden Elliott fell in love when they were twelve years old. On a summer day, while searching for sea glass on the beaches of Washington State, they discovered an unusually shaped blue bottle. The ever-imaginative Alexa declared it a Genie's bottle. Popping the cork, they were surprised by a rogue wave that sprayed them with a fine, cool mist. Closing their eyes, they each made a wish …
Before their love had a chance to grow, life, family and tragedy separated the two best friends. Now fifteen years later, Alexa returns to Sand Harbor after her grandmother is injured in a mysterious break-in at her antique store. Braden is also back, but he's not the innocent boy Alexa remembers. His military service has left him with physical and emotional scars.
Can the sweet love of youth be recaptured by two now cynical souls? Can solving the mystery of the past bring them to a new future? Or will it take a wish, maybe two …
Phoebe, the Rose Chalet’s florist, knows nothing is permanent—not the floral arrangements she creates, not the weddings she helps produce, and certainly not her parent’s marriage, which ended in a bitter divorce. Certain that all relationships come with strings attached, she has always worked to live for the moment and not to have any strings…ever.
Risking big is how Patrick left the family landscaping business, was the first Knight to go to college, and became an in demand architect. In California for a short while to work on a new home, from the very first moment he holds Phoebe in his arms, he knows he’s found his perfect match in the adventurous, alluring and intelligent florist.
But will Phoebe dare let herself risk her heart on the most fragile and precious bloom of all in Lucy Kevin’s The Wedding Dance? Especially when one dance with Patrick Knight is all it takes for her to start rethinking everything she’s ever believed to be true about love...
A secret hall of mirrors, a labyrinth of fear; Janek returns in a hypnotic thriller...this is Mirror Maze.
Nobody writes better psychological thrillers than award-winning author William Bayer. And no character in contemporary crime fiction is as compelling or complex as Lieutenant Frank Janek of the N.Y.P.D. Now Bayer and Janek are back--in a brilliant novel of terror and excitement.
A beautiful young woman meets her latest "pickup" in a Manhattan hotel bar and goes back with him to his room, where she drugs him, robs him, and humiliates him. Several hours later, the "mark" is found dead, the mysterious young woman is wanted for the murder, and Janek and his team of detectives are assigned to the case. Simultaneously, Janek becomes involved in the reopening of a grisly society-murder investigation that has plagued Internal Affairs for nine years. As he sets out to solve both puzzles, the present and past eerily dovetail, culminating with a deadly battle in a secret mirror maze hidden beneath a "ghost" amusement park.
Readers will be inspired by Joyce Anne Longfellow's compelling memoir, I Could Never Say Goodbye: A Daughter's Journey to the End of Life with Mom and Dad, about the deaths of her parents--the quick, traumatic death of her father and the lengthy illness preceding her mother’s passing. The author wrote this book after sharing her experiences with many, many people. As she advised people who struggled with the dilemma of what to do and how to cope when their loved ones were dying, Ms. Longfellow realized that her experiences provided comfort and guidance that made a difference. Eventually realized she had to write her story to motivate and inspire others to create their own rituals and learn to say goodbye in their own ways
If you had one day left to live, what would you do? What Do You Want to Do Before You Die? is an illustrated collection of your wildest dreams. Two hundred of the most moving, imaginative, amusing, and thought-provoking things to do before you die are brought to life by the founders of The Buried Life.
In her remarkable memoir American Chick in Saudi Arabia, Jean Sasson, who spent ten years at the Royal Hospital in Riyadh, relates the truth about the status of women in Saudi Arabia as observed from an outsider with unique access to a wide spectrum of the population.
A poorly matched blind date turns into a comically disastrous cross country road trip in Judith Arnold’s laugh out loud romance Trust Me . Chloe's brother has absconded to Minnesota with her most prized possession. Stuck in Boston with a fear of flying, and a car in the shop, she asks Will, her blind date, to drive her. Hilarity ensues in this open road romp.
In Amber, by Lauren Royal, Kendra Chase's family feels it is high time for her to marry and settle down. They have paraded a slew of wealthy and titled suitors in front of her and she has taken to none of them. It isn't until she is caught in a scandal with a highway robber that they decide to force her hand, and this rogue's true identity will turn out to have serious consequences.
Adding ''murder suspect'' to her resume was not part of the business plan when Ashley opened her chocolate shop. But when a dead body turns up and the sexy detective next door begins asking questions, business is anything but usual in Terry Odell’s Saving Scott.
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Galveston's best private eye, Truman Smith, hates missing person cases, they never end well. As a personal favor he takes on the case of a college kid that went missing during spring break, but when the body count starts to rise, things start to get interesting. Murder Takes a Break is the next book in Bill Crider’s inventive Truman Smith mystery series.
A long forgotten bribe produces an ill-begotten bride in the charming historical romance The Twelfth Night Bride by Kelly McClymer. Kate and Sean were childhood friends turned lovers. But before they can enjoy their happily ever after, Sean will have to prove he is more interested in Kate's heart than her dowery.
Captain Jim Vaugh has nothing left to lose, and the covert government agency called The Organization knows it. That's why Vaughn has been recruited to Section 8, a team created for its secrecy, its skill, and most of all its expendability. Follow the adventure in bestselling author Bob Mayer’s Black Ops Section 8.
Alo Nudger is not your average private detective, he's quirky, he doesn't carry a gun, and he pops antacids at the slightest hint of danger. In The Nudger Dilemmas —a collection of 13 Nudger stories by award-winning author John Lutz—you will become well acquainted with one of the genre's most interesting characters.
In Write for the Fight, authors Tess Hardwick and Tracey Hansen, inspired by the myriad voices in the world, compile a melting pot of life paths from over a dozen unique individuals, each exploring four timeless questions we’ve all pondered:• What do you miss about being 5 years old?
• What would you tell your 20-year-old self?
• What, at this point in your life, do you want, wish and dream of for your life going forward?
• What would you want said about you on your 80th birthday?
From the thoughtful to the blunt, experienced to the young – Write for the Fight is a humorous and emotional journey that will take you back to the best of times and get you energized for the future. All writer royalties will be donated to charities benefiting the fight against breast cancer.
Rosemary Wickum always finds wonderful treasures at the dump - pieces perfect for her metal sculptures. But one thing she’s never gone looking for is a man! Her ordinary life as a waitress at the local diner to support her grandfather and teenage son becomes the Talk of the Town when handsome recycling whiz Gary Albright begins pursuing her with shameless persistence – and everyone in town starts rooting for romance.
Somewhere between creating beauty from waste and developing a new way of life for the future the two of them find a common ground on which to build trust and honesty...and love.
Veteran journalist Joe Lombardo, the protagonist in Steven Savile & Keith R.A. DeCandido's -30-, thought he was done with wars and terror campaigns. After winning a Pulitzer for his articles on the ethnic cleansings in Kosovo, after years spent covering wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, after sacrificing his marriage to his globe-hopping career, he’s quit the foreign desk of the New York Times in favor of writing about local politics for the Daily News. He prefers the quieter lifestyle local coverage affords him.
Or at least that’s what he believes right up until an old CIA source gets in touch with him for the first time in years with the story of a lifetime: the Agency is subverting humanitarian immunization programs to hunt for terrorists. But even as visions of a second Pulitzer dance in Joe’s head, a CIA-hired team of assassins go after his source—and their next target is Joe…
August 1973, Delhi. René Budjinski did not hear a word of the public prosecutor's opening speech. He was reliving those last climactic hours in Varanasi, and asking himself, as he asked himself so many times, if it had all been worth it. The past year had seemed endless, waiting for this day when perhaps the sacrifice could be justified.
Was it enough that they had him in chains, and that the killing had stopped? Would any punishment be enough?
He raised his head and searched the mass of faces. Michel was slouched in his chair, his wrists manacled in his lap. He wondered what he was feeling. Confusion? Fear? His face betrayed nothing.
Michel caught Budjinski's stare and a mocking half-smile formed on his lips.
But Budjinski did not see it. He was lost once more in his reverie; a skein of smoke rose over the grey river, and he heard the sounds of his own screams. Over a year ago but the horror of it was still fresh in his memory.
He realized that the man next to him was staring. His hands had tightened into fists on the wooden bench and his body was shaking with the force of his rage.
If the Indians did not convict him he would kill this bastard himself. This is bestselling author Colin Falconer's Venom.
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Badlands Bride tells the story of Lily Highfill, who’s spent long years in Denver, exiled from her wealthy, high-society family in Boston. With a betrothal to a titled Englishman nearly in her pocket and an invitation to return home to Boston in hand, Lily thinks her future is set and decides to spend her final month out West at her grandfather’s fossil dig in the Colorado badlands. Then a famous frontier journalist enters the bone hunters’ camp and stirs up trouble—and her heart.
In Heiress Without A Cause, a disgraced son with a dark reputation, William “Ferguson” Avenel, is content to live in exile – until his father dies in the scandal of the Season. With rumors of insanity swirling around them, his sisters desperately need a chaperone. Ferguson thinks he’s found the most proper woman in England – and he won’t ruin her, even if he secretly desires the passionate woman trapped beneath a spinster’s cap.
Every stolen kiss could lead to discovery, and Ferguson’s old enemies are determined to ruin them both. But as their dangerous passion ignites their hearts and threatens their futures, how can an heiress who dreams of freedom deny the duke who demands her love?
Bestselling author Lucy Kevin is back with a new contemporary romance series. After Julie Delgado's restaurant closes, she temporarily takes over the catering position at the Rose Chalet, a full-service San Francisco wedding venue. In The Wedding Gift, Julie plans to dazzle the bride and groom so the Chalet’s owner will keep her around, but fate has other plans for her when the bride’s brother shows up to the first food tasting, instead.
Andrew Kyle is not only the Cuisine Channel’s Edgy Eats host and chef, but his recent review of Julie’s restaurant was the final nail in her restaurant's coffin. Andrew sees food as passion, and once he meets Julie he’s certain she's playing it safe...and he wants nothing more than to be the one to break her guarded passions loose.
But despite the undeniable sparks between Julie and Andrew - and the fact that he seems to believe in her when no one else does - can she afford to be taking risks with her cooking, with her career…or with her heart?
In Concert collects the collaborative short fiction of Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem, who have worked at the cutting edge of imaginative fiction for over a quarter century. In the twenty-one tales herein, the reader will find fear, joy, and mystery. In Concert showcases the wide range of their collaborative work. The title story tells of a lonely elderly woman who achieves rapport with a lost astronaut through the power of music. In “The Icy Region My Heart Encircles,” an aging Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, keeps the heart of her late husband on the mantel and is haunted by her dead children and the living incarnation of her Monster. And in “The Man on the Ceiling,” the authors take turns telling of the fears and darkness common to all families, while reminding the reader that “everything I tell you is true.”
Kali's Tale is the third full length novel in The DeChance Chronicles. When Kali, a young vampire under the protection of the High Council in San Valencez, decides she must depart on a "Blood Quest," an attempt to kill the vampire who created her, Donovan DeChance is contacted to watch over her. What starts as a simple babysitting mission grows darker as Donovan uncovers secrets about the ancient vampire, George Starkey, alchemist, plague survivor, and much more dangerous than anything the High Council, or even Kali, could imagine. Along the way Donovan and his partner and lover, Amethyst, travel through ancient portals, run afoul of the shade of a blues musician in a Memphis Juke Joint, and finally find themselves in Old Mill, North Carolina, set against an enemy more powerful and devious than any they've encountered, and an evil dark enough to drown the world.
London, 1593. Christopher Marlowe, playwright, spy, and renowned womanizer, is desperately working on what could be his greatest play. But inspiration eludes him, until a chance encounter with a dark temptress rekindles his passion and the words start to flow with that famous passion.
This new occult thriller from bestselling authors Aaron Rosenberg and Steven Savile combines Elizabethan theatre, ancient mythology, and ageless seduction to create a dark, gripping tale that is both as old as time itself and wholly original.
What happens if the husband you've loathed for years suddenly died? In A Rural Affair, Poppy Shilling’s about to find out. But that's not the only thing she'll discover: her husband Phil wasn't the man she thought he was -- and she might not be the woman she thought she was, either. A #1 bestselling author in the UK with 10 bestsellers to her credit, the woman Marian Keyes calls "possibly my favorite writer, " crafts a "what if" read that will make your heart sing as you slip into the English countryside.
From the Nez Perce Indian reservation in Idaho to New York’s Central Park is a straight line right through Bill Diehl’s last and most intriguing lead character, Micah Cody.
There are seven basic ways to die. In 1969 Dr. John C. Cavanaugh catalogued them all in his Primer of Forensic Pathology-Cast Studies for the Novice M.E.
Micah Cody is a 30-something NYPD captain of homicide, who’s founded a special unit known as TAZ with city-wide license to take over any investigation at all, with special focus on serial killers. Now its ultimate challenge is on the loose in Manhattan, with three victims already whose causes of death seem like intentional defiance of TAZ’s existence—and four to go in four deadly days leading up to Halloween. Chronicling it all with great amusement is the Capote-like award-winning crime writer Ward Hamilton who, egged on by his sexually voracious socialite bedmate, is determined to bring TAZ to its knees journalistically.
Seven Ways to Die is a non-stop thrill ride with Diehl doing to the end what he did best throughout his bestselling career.
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In Leslie Davis Guccione’s The Chick Palace, the long friendship between Johanna Lawrence and Lilly Covington is tested when Johanna’s first love, the bad boy she used years ago to defy her parents, suddenly returns, embroiling Johanna and Lilly in a triangle, stealing hearts and turning summer upside-down—just as he did long-ago.
Visit exotic places. Meet strange new creatures. Do your best to kill them before they kill you. That's the motto of Captain Memphis Stone and the HELLstalkers, the armed response unit hastily assembled to combat hideous invaders loosed by a scientific experiment gone horribly awry. Follow their adventures in The Cerberus Protocol – an epic collaboration between fan-favorite authors Joseph Nassise and Jon F. Merz.
When psychologist Shannon Hyland-Tassava transitioned from full-time working professional to full-time stay-at-home mom, she discovered that the path was far rockier than portrayed in parenting magazines and diaper commercials. In her indispensable guide—The Essential Stay-at-Home Mom Manual—she applies her expertise as a clinical psychologist to mothers’ challenges, combining expert advice with relatable anecdotes to make at-home motherhood easier and more fun.
There are emergencies in the world that defy logical explanation, events that could be defined as supernatural, extraterrestrial, or simply otherworldly. Standard laws do not allow for such instances, nor are most authorities trained to handle them. In recognition of these facts, an organization has been created that can, one whose mission is to deal with these situations using diplomacy, guile, force, and strategy. Incursion - an O.C.L.T. Novel is their story.
Shadow Bound, Erin Kellison's first book in the Shadow series, introduces readers to a world of demons, shadows, and wraiths. Talia, a seemingly normal girl with a peculiar gift teams up with Adam, the head of the a secretive supernatural institute called Segue. Together they must fight the malevolent forces and soul sucking wraiths lurking in the shadows in this suspenseful paranormal romance.
Save time and money by learning to prepare healthy, wholesome food in your own kitchen. Whether you're a cooking novice or a five-star chef, Eat In Not Out can help you achieve the healthier lifestyle you've always wanted.
Retired MI6 agent and contract killer, Rori Maitland, has decided to take on one last job, only this time things don't go as planned. Her target Ian Kinncaid, master of disguise, has just had his cover blown rescuing a small child from the seedy Czech underground. Now the two must work together to stay alive and protect the ones they love in Deadly Games.
The title of Christie Craig's Murder, Mayhem and Mama says it all.
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Read more...Last month we introduced you to our new NOOK First program— a chance for NOOK readers to be the first to get access to some hot new books! This month we have a wide range of exciting NOOK First titles—from epic fantasy, to romance, to a presidential biography—all available on NOOK First.
Much has been written about George Washington—the Father of Our Country does not suffer from underexposure. Yet New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming’s First in Their Hearts takes a fresh look at the man behind the myth. To get to the core of the man who led America to greatness, Fleming turned to the letters that Washington’s family and friends wrote to him and about him, as well as Washington’s return epistles. What emerges is a clear-eyed look at the life of an American legend.
Award-winning author Gemma Halliday is a NOOK-reader favorite, and her newest book, Fearless in High Heels, is another delight. Fashion designer Maddie Springer is content to spend her pregnancy curled up on the couch watching vampire movies. But when her friends finally drag her out of the house for a night on the town, she stumbles on a dead girl with suspicious bite marks on her neck. Soon Maddie is pulled into her very own Twilight saga, and it’s going to take a lot more than Hollywood magic to get her out.
In Marley Gibson’s sizzling contemporary romance, Can't Touch This, Vanessa Virtue is confronted with an ethical dilemma when it comes to picking the right man: violate her company’s policy and go after her hunky coworker Kyle, or risk getting wrapped up in an industry rivalry while pursuing a hot salesman at a competing firm.
Over his almost three-decade career, master of dark suspense and horror Bill Pronzini has been responsible for countless sleepless nights. His readers know where to turn when they want to be scared out of their wits. In Night Freight, 26 bone-chilling stories are collected all in one place for the first time. We dare you to read all of them without turning on the lights!
Devotions for Couples, author Cecil Murphey uses his own marriage of over five decades to demonstrate how keeping love alive is possible, maintainable, and so enriching—with God’s help. This six-week devotional will help Christian couples discover how to bring unconditional love into their relationship, and emerge with an even stronger bond.
As far as detective gigs go, SCUBA diving in tropical locales isn’t so bad. In Under Pressure - the fourth and final book in Kathy Brandt’s Underwater Mystery Series - Hannah Sampson finds herself looking for clues following a plane crash off the shore of the British Virgin Islands. Searching for evidence and survivors among sharks and other dangerous prey has its challenges, but once Hannah’s back on dry land, the investigation takes an even more sinister turn.
Romance readers cannot get enough of Barbara Freethy’s irresistible books. In her new short novel, A Secret Wish, she weaves the story of three women—strangers who share the same birthday—who each makes a personal wish for a better life. Throughout this inspiring book, the women cross paths as they strive to make their birthday wishes come true.
Bestselling author Terry Brooks calls Peter David’s Darkness Of The Light "[A] quirky, intriguing, wonderful tale, filled with adventure and unexpected plot twists." In this first book in The Hidden Earth Chronicles, David does what great fantasy writers do best: creates a rich and complex world that appears quite different from our own, but actually highlights many of the struggles that all societies face.
As a quick holiday reminder, don’t forget to check out the Read and Play Wednesday page for another great one-day deal. Today, save 50% on the irresistible Christmas book, The Elf on the Shelf .
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Read more...Today I’m excited to introduce NOOK First—a chance for NOOK readers to be the first to get access to some hot new books! This month, get a head start on four NOOK First books—from $2.99 to $5.99—by some of your favorite authors, and watch for even more in coming months.
Free sample excerpts from these books are available for download on the product pages now!
NOOK owners: go to shop and search by author name to download these NOOK First titles.
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