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Hardback. Condición: 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.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Nicholas Colt?s life is on the right track. Gone for good are the dangerous days of being a private investigator ? until a double homicide and an ex-girlfriend?s missing brother come calling. It seems the Harvest Angels, the white supremacist militia that Colt shut down three years ago, are back in business. Or are they? Colt travels to Tennessee and soon thinks he has the answer: typical copycat case. But when he walks into a bloodbath back home, Colt realizes nothing is typical and nothing is solved. And now it?s personal. While relentlessly hunting down those responsible, Colt finds the truth ? but before he can alert the authorities, he is abducted, drugged, and brainwashed. Now, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Colt must fight to remember who he is.…

Hardback. Condición: 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. Condición: 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. Condición: Good. An Audie Award winner, Paranormal Fiction. A RITA Award finalist, Paranormal Romance. All Aubrey Ellis wants is a normal life, one that doesn?t include desperate pleas from the dead. Her remarkable gift may help others rest in peace, but it also made for an unsettling childhood and destroyed her marriage. Finally content as the real estate writer for a local newspaper, Aubrey keeps her extraordinary ability hidden?until she is unexpectedly assigned the story of a decades-old murder. Rocked by the discovery of a young woman?s skeletal remains, the New England town of Surrey wants answers. Hard-nosed investigative reporter Levi St John is determined to get them. Aubrey has no choice but to get involved, even at the terrifying risk of stirring spirits connected to a dead woman?s demise and piquing her new reporting partner?s suspicions. As Aubrey and Levi delve further into the mystery, secrets are revealed and passion ignites. It seems that Aubrey?s ghost gifts are poised to deliver everything but a normal life.…

Paperback. Condición: 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. Condición: 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.…

Hardback. Condición: 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. Condición: 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. Condición: 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.…

Paperback. Condición: 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. Condición: 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. Condición: Good. If only Lola Dunne had the time?and the courage?she?d write her novel, and maybe even start dating again. When her friend offers the use of her summer home overlooking Lake Haven, Lola sees the chance to focus on herself for a change, and she eagerly accepts.Engineer Harry Westbrook is waiting for his ship to come in. But it?s not happening soon enough for his girlfriend, who?s left him for good?again. To nurse Harry?s heartache, his pal extends an invite to his lake house in East Beach.When it turns out that Harry?s and Lola?s friends are a divorcing, not-on-speaking-terms couple sparring over the same house, the strangers find themselves accidental (and reluctant) roommates for the summer. They agree to make the best of it, even posing as a couple to mingle among East Beach?s well-heeled crowd. But the ruse is starting to feel real?and romantic. Are they brave enough to reveal their feelings before the summer nights turn cold.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. Readers first met the irrepressible Waverly Bryson in Perfect on Paper, and now the woman dubbed by fans ?the American Bridget Jones? is back in a sequel packed with friendship, heartache, and romance. The formerly heartbroken singleton is now happily enmeshed in a new relationship, a new job, and a new decade. Her career as an advice columnist is taking off, and the future of her fledgling greeting-card line is bright. Of course, where Waverly goes, drama is sure to follow, and this time is no exception. Her broken engagement has left her gun-shy when it comes to love, putting strain on her long-distance relationship with handsome Jake McIntyre. And when her best friends both make life-changing announcements, Waverly fears she is being left behind by the ones she loves most. In true Waverly fashion, things must get comically worse before they can get better. But in the end, she discovers that though life (before and after thirty) may be messy and unpredictable, friendship and love make it all worthwhile.…

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Paperback. Condición: 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.…

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Hardback. Condición: Good. Frankie Stein looks nothing like his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stein, or the spooky-looking kids at Miss Wart's Academy for Ghouls & Goblins. His clean-cut looks make it hard for him to make friends. But Frankie knows a thing or two about being scary. He can make grotesque faces, paint bone-chilling pictures, and yelp as loud as a coyote. When he experiments with potions in the classroom and grows two fangs, he wins over the other kids, showing that popularity depends on more than how you look. Once again, Frankie Stein proves that he's happiest when he's true to himself. Kevan Atteberry's digital illustrations lend a hand to this back-to-school spook-tacular story. Atteberry, Kevan J. (ilustrador).…

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Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Two moms as opposite as a Happy Meal and a quinoa bowl. What a difference a week makes in a heartfelt, laugh-out-loud novel by the Washington Post bestselling author of The Overdue Life of Amy Byler. Celeste Mason is the Pinterest stay-at-home supermom of other mothers? nightmares. Despite her all-organic, SunButter-loving, free-range kids, her immaculate home, and her volunteering awards, she still has time to relax with a nice glass of pinot at the end of the day. The only thing that ruins it all is her workaholic, career-obsessed neighbor, who makes no secret of what she thinks of Celeste?s life choices every chance she gets. Wendy Charles is a celebrated productivity consultant, columnist, and speaker. On a minute-by-minute schedule, she makes the working-mom hustle look easy. She even spends at least one waking hour a day with her kids. She?s not apologizing for a thing. Especially to Celeste, who plays her superior parenting against Wendy whenever she can. Who do Celeste and Wendy think they are? They?re about to find out thanks to one freaky week. After a neighborhood potluck and too much sangria, they wake up?um, what??in each other?s bodies. Everything Celeste and Wendy thought they knew about the ?other kind of mom? is flipped upside down?along with their messy, complicated, maybe not so different lives.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. From the award-winning author of The Friendship comes a shattering, brilliantly inventive novel based on the volatile true love story of literary icons Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In 1963 Sylvia Plath took her own life in her London flat. Her death was the culmination of a brief, brilliant life lived in the shadow of clinical depression?a condition exacerbated by her tempestuous relationship with mercurial poet Ted Hughes. The ensuing years saw Plath rise to martyr status while Hughes was cast as the cause of her suicide, his infidelity at the heart of her demise. For decades, Hughes never bore witness to the truth of their marriage?one buried beneath a mudslide of apocryphal stories, gossip, sensationalism, and myth. Until now. In this mesmerizing fictional work, Connie Palmen tells his side of the story, previously untold, delivered in Ted Hughes?s own uncompromising voice. A brutal and lyrical confessional, Your Story, My Story paints an indelible picture of their seven-year relationship?the soaring highs and profound lows of star-crossed soul mates bedeviled by their personal demons. It will forever change the way we think about these two literary icons.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. Lucy and Henry are brother and sister. They may be twins, but that doesn?t mean they do everything the same way. From time on the swings to crawling through tunnels, a day at the park is double the fun when they?re together. Delightful illustrations and simple, rhythmic text combine to make a wonderful first book about twins. Massey, Jane (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: Good. Faith Simpson is born at the dawn of the twentieth century into a dynasty that gives her everything she will ever need?except her parents? love and attention. Often misunderstood, she trusts few as she grows up on the family?s manicured Long Island estate. Just twenty-nine miles away, on lower Manhattan?s dirty, crowded streets, Hope Lee?s world is one of poverty and desperation. The scrappy child of hard-working Irish and Chinese immigrants has learned to fend for herself, until a terrible disaster thrusts her into a strange, new world of privilege.When she meets Faith, Hope has faced enough loss to last a lifetime, and, like Faith, she has built an emotional wall to survive. Compelled by the tragic bonds of very different childhoods, they soon forge a strong alliance. But when Faith?s father chooses Hope as his protégé, and, worse yet, both Faith and Hope fall in love with the same man, resentment and betrayal threaten their bond. Caught in the tumult of World War I, Wall Street, union fights, and changing women?s roles, these two extraordinary women find that true fortune can?t be bought or sold.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. Racism, class, and betrayal collide in this poignant debut novel about restoring the broken bonds of family and friendship. Every morning, seventeen-year-old Maria Anís Rosario takes the subway an hour from her boisterous and close-knit family in Queens to her private high school on the Upper East Side, where she struggles to fit in as one of the only Latina students?until Rocky welcomes her into this new life. White, rebellious, and ignored by her wealthy parents, Rocky uses her money toward one goal: to get away with anything. To Maria, it?s a dazzling privilege. As a bond develops between these unlikely friends, neither can see what they share most?jealousy and the desire for each other?s lives. But crackling under the surface of their seemingly supportive alliance, the girls begin to commit little betrayals as they strive to get closer to their ideals regardless of the consequences. Told from the perspectives of Maria, Rocky, and their fathers, They Could Have Named Her Anything explores the heartfelt expectation of what it means to live up to the name you?ve been given and the more rewarding discovery of what really matters.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. For urban-legend hunter and television host Gabe Powers, it?s business?investigate the most notorious haunted places in Savannah. Then he meets his new sound engineer, a dewy Georgia peach who may just turn this gig into (im)pure pleasure. All it takes is one night for them to conjure floor-rattling, wall-banging moans?but they?re not from the ghosts.Blame the rippling abs, the cocky swagger, the granite jawline, the whole muscle-bulging package, but Gabe is bringing out good-girl Lily Jameson?s dirty side. Damn her code-of-conduct contract?this isn?t just a molten-hot fling.There?s just one kink in the relationship they?ve been avoiding: soon they?ll be going their separate ways. Lily?s home is in Savannah, and Gabe is a globe-trotter at heart. For them to be together, they?ll both have to upend their so-very-different worlds and face their fears in the process. And suddenly things don?t feel so Georgia peachy keen at all.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. ?Somewhere between Tom Perrotta and Erica Jong lies The Swing of Things, a charming, sexy, and surprisingly tender romp through the dark side of wish fulfillment. I?ll never look at the other playground parents the same way again.? ?Marcus SakeyTold from the dual perspective of a husband and a wife, The Swing of Things is a sexy, provocative, page-turning novel about a suburban couple who wants out of their routine?but will they take things too far?Attorney Jayne Larsen loves her stay-at-home husband. Eric is attentive and a great father to their daughter. He?s also unfailingly committed to their Wednesday date nights?but things have gotten too predictable.Enter Theo and Mia Winters, the effortlessly cool, attractive couple who are the center of everyone?s attention. They are blissfully happy and ready to share their secret for keeping things spicy. But there are rules. And breaking them has consequences. As Jayne and Eric explore a more modern definition of marriage, they are forced to confront whether they?ve given up too much in the pursuit of trying to have it all.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. He?s trying to keep things professional?but will passion make it personal? Prepare for more Red Hot Love from New York Times bestseller Elle Casey.Rose Lancaster has watched her two sisters find new lives and loves in the New York rock scene, but she?s too busy running her animal clinic in rural Maine to join them. If only she could get the town council off her back, things would be perfect. Unfortunately, the council has just served up papers for a lawsuit, and she?s at her wits? end.When straitlaced lawyer Greg Lister drops by on band business and gets wind of her predicament, he offers to help, and although Rose suspects it may come with complications she doesn?t need, she accepts. For a New York hotshot, he sure seems more than happy to spend time at Rose?s Maine retreat ensuring the service is completely personal.Rose tries to resist the urge to connect but the attraction between them is undeniable?until Greg makes a shocking revelation that threatens Rose?s future in more ways than she could have imagined.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. In New York Times bestselling author Ruth Cardello?s sexy and emotional romance, a billionaire dares to invest in the riskiest proposition of his life: a second chance at love.Single mom Heather Ellis would do anything for her adopted daughter, Ava. Even post an online reward for anyone who found the girl?s lost stuffed animal. Who?d have guessed it?d be returned by a drop-dead-sexy man with such sadness in his eyes that she had to reach out to him? To Ava, he?s a hero. To Heather, he?s a fantasy that puts at risk the happy life she?s made for herself.It?s been five years since billionaire developer Sebastian Romano lost his wife and unborn child in a tragic accident. Now he?s all business. No room for emotion. Until he stumbles across that damn stuffed wolf and the beautiful single mother looking for it. Is he ready to give love a second chance?But there?s more to Sebastian, his family, and his past than Heather knows. More than even Sebastian knows. Will the life they?re building together be challenged when the truth is finally revealed.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. There?s nothing that single mom Liv Preston won?t do if it means making her six-year-old son smile again. After a heartbreaking two years, her little family is due for some fun in the sun. She just didn?t expect to find it in the big, rugged, Search and Rescue hero next door?who shows her just how exciting, and sexy, life?s adventures can be.As head of Reno?s K-9 search division, Ford Jamison knows what it takes to make life-and-death decisions on the fly. He doesn?t hesitate, doesn?t do regrets, and has never doubted his instincts?until he makes a promise that turns his world upside down. Desperate for redemption, he returns to Sequoia Lake, only to find himself face-to-face with his past?and the one woman he can?t have. Not when his secret would destroy her?and everything she holds dear.For Liv, finding love once was a gift. Finding it twice seems impossible, until the moment Ford?s lips meet hers. Love doesn?t always come easy, but when it?s right, it?s worth fighting for.…