Amanda just wanted to find a stinking dress for a wedding she didn't want to attend. She wanted to get back on her motorcycle, go home, and get back to welding on the sculpture that had been tormenting her mind for months. A dress was scary territory for a baby dyke who didn't scare easily.Her life was constant. Her computer geek side was taken care of by working for the big 'I'. Her motorcycle, leather pants, boots with knives in them, and the steel sculptures adorned her large wa...

As the salt begins to win the battle over pepper, Marsha finds herself, once again, sitting in a hospital with her father. This time is the last.The walls are the same white, but now they begin to reflect on her life.Always the dutiful daughter, and then the supportive wife, she was there. Mother, wife, daughter—but now she is facing a crisis of identity. As the daughterhood is closing, the wife was thrown aside long ago, and motherhood…Marsha examines what is and w...

As the salt begins to win the battle over pepper, Marsha finds herself, once again, sitting in a hospital with her father. This time is the last.The walls are the same white, but now they begin to reflect on her life.Always the dutiful daughter, and then the supportive wife, she was there.Mother, wife, daughter—but now she is facing a crisis of identity. As the daughterhood is closing, the wife was thrown aside long ago, and motherhood…Marsha examines what i...

The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, and A Complicated Kindness returns with a funny, smart, headlong rush of a novel full of wit, flawless writing, and a tribute to perseverance and love in an unusual family.Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordin...

“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review)“Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)A Newbery Honor BookA Coretta Scott King Honor BookA Printz Honor BookA Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)A Los Angeles Times Book Prize W...

"Pamela Burford just keeps getting better and better!" — The Romance Reader◊When four high school friends promise to find husbands for one another if any of them are still single at age thirty, they have no idea how complicated the pact will make their lives twelve years later! Book 3 of the Wedding Ring matchmaker series is One Eager Bride to Go.◊The Prospective Bride: Sunny Bleecker, who's been waiting tables at W...

Win a Date with a Billionaire!Everyone wanted me to enter. The reason I shouldn’t? I was a walking, talking, dating disaster.I’m Marika. I run a coffee shop in this small mountain town. Things were fine until that expensive resort moved in down the road. More and more of my customers go there for their morning coffee.How can I compete with the rich and powerful? If I enter the Win a Date with a Billionaire contest,...

The moving story of the author's adopted Rottweiler mix, Lou, a free-thinking heroic dog who changed his life forever."Lou's story is an emotional and deeply delt tribute to the powerful bond between dogs and humans. Last Dog on the Hill will make you long for that one special superdog that can truly change your life. We should all be so lucky to have a dog like Lou in our world." —Garth Stein, author of...

David Morrells Creepers was a publishing event in 2005, a powerful, edgy, dark thriller by a master of the genre. A New York Times best-seller, it won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award and earned numerous critical raves.Scavenger takes us in a harrowing new direction: a desperate high-tech scavenger hunt for a 100-year-old time capsule. Frank Balenger, the resolute but damaged hero of Creepers, now finds himself trapped in a nightmarish game of fear and death. To save himself and the woman...

Book 2 of the Amory series. A sensual romance. When Lacey Malone goes on vacation to prove a point to the Dean of the all girl's school, she doesn't expect to meet the charismatic Sam McKay.LIkewise, Sam has his own problems, his father died telling him he was not his son. Sam is totally lost and feels he must find his long lost family.Yet as Sam and Lacey team up for the summer vacation, they get much more than they bargained for. The sparks begin to fly between them as th...

From bestselling author Nancy Rue comes a YA contemporary novel that combines coming-of-age drama with a rom-com series of adventures as one girl deals with her complicated family and first love.Jesse Hatcher is used to keeping everything together—from trying to manage her thoughts amidst her ADHD to helping her mom through bipolar “phases” and keeping the reality of the highs and lows—and their living situation—a secret. But when her supposedly dead father, Lou, a...

What if an unborn baby could talk? Well, this one does! Listen in and hear this sweet baby’s charming, thoughtful, humorous musings during its nine-month adventure! If baby seems to have a little attitude as gets more crowded in there, well… The baby tries to figure out the meaning of the words it hears at home, visits to the doctors office, in the garden, going to the hospital and more! There is original colorful artwork throughout the book. Prepare to laugh and weep ...