Whether we like to think of it as an addiction or not, sugar can become a dependence and ultimately an addiction for a great number of people. “Sugar Detox: Step by Step Plan to End Sugar Addiction” is a book that tackles that very topic and attempts to remedy the difficulty of giving up sugar with a helpful and easy to follow step by step guide to detoxing from sugar.“Sugar Detox: Step by Step Plan to End Sugar Addiction” isn’t your average book, namely because it doesn’t just sit...

Emerson Smith has always fancied herself something of a sleuth, but when the chance for some real sleuthing arises, her skills are put to the test!An aspiring author and full-time dog-sitter, Emerson is the kind of neighbor everyone wishes they had. She always picks up after her dogs and she never fails to welcome neighborhood newcomers with a freshly baked pie. Recently, however, Emerson has noticed that one of her elderly neighbors, the owner of an ornery English bulldog named Ca...

Emerson Smith’s aspirations of becoming a real life Sam Spade were realized when she helped local police solve the murder of the man next door. The question is, however, can Emerson really handle life as an amateur detective, or was her first cracked case no more than a fluke?When aspiring author and full-time dog-sitter Emerson, heads out to the local dog park, it doesn’t take long for her to notice a mysterious stranger hanging around the park perimeter. Ready to put her sleuthin...

It's Memorial Day, 1990, and Margaret Ryan has returned from Vermont to the Ontario cottage country where, thirty-two years before, she had vacationed with her disintegrating family at a lakeside resort. For herself and her sister Daisy, it was a time of awakening, a time of discovery.Both of the girls fall in love with two of the local boys. Daisy, on the lookout for action, cruising the dances at the resort, can't deal with what she initiates, and falls victim to her own confusio...

****A Guardian 'Best Thriller of the Year!'**The New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty brilliantly reinvents the classic crime novel once again with this clever and inventive mystery starring a fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried secrets, murder, and a trail of bloody clues.A woman crosses a London street.

A Nashville woman’s violent husband is presumed dead—until he makes a terrifying return in this thriller by the New York Times bestselling author.Leah Carson’s husband Phillip made a promise to her once—that he would kill her. Four years ago, he nearly succeeded, stabbing her twenty-three times before fleeing. Now the police are sure Phillip is dead. But that doesn’t stop Leah from checking and rechecking her locks. Especially when she can sense his attent...

In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those closest to her.Forty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man, call it meddlesome. But there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy coupl...

Four children have been chosen to compete in a national competition to find the tastiest confection in the country. Who will invent a candy more delicious than the Oozing Crunchorama or the Neon Lightning Chew?Logan, the Candymaker's son, who can detect the color of chocolate by touch alone?Miles, the boy who is allergic to merry-go-rounds and the color pink?Daisy, the cheerful girl who can lift a fifty-pound lump of taffy like it's a feather?

For 10 years Arlene has kept her promises, and God has kept His end of the bargain. Until now. When an old schoolmate from Possett turns up at Arlene's door in Chicago asking questions about Jim Beverly, former quarterback and god of Possett High, Arlene's break with her former hometown is forced to an end. At the same time, Burr, her long-time boyfriend, has raised an ultimatum: introduce him to her family or consider him gone. Arlene loves him dearly but knows her lily white (not to ment...

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they wake on the morning of the twenty-seventh of June. Everything has been prepared for the town’s annual tradition—a lottery in which every family must participate, and no one wants to win.“The Lottery” stands out as one of the most famous short stories in American literary history. Originally published in The New Yorker, the author immediately began receiving letters from reader...

"A dazzling mosaic of intersecting lives and fates . . . Comparisons to John Irving and Tennessee Williams would not be amiss in this show-stopping debut" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).The national bestseller and Today Show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect . . .When we meet septuagenarian Margaret Hughes, she is living alo...

Although it wasn't yet summer, the temperature climbed into triple digits on June 3, 1925, and Lloyd Russell could not sleep that night. He lived with his mother and his brother's family in a modest three room bungalow on Progress Avenue in a neighborhood call Prospect Hill. Despite the bountiful implications of the place names, Lloyd worried about a mortgage coming due. Despite two jobs, he couldn't keep up, and he couldn't get that off his mind. Before daylight, the temperature still in ...