Spellbinding and provocative, The Last Nude is a novel about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstanceParis, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter...

Brain Strong After 50 is a practical, evidence-informed guide for adults who want to support memory, focus, learning, and long-term cognitive resilience through everyday habits. Written for readers 50 and older, it explains how thinking can change with age, what healthy aging often looks like in daily life, and which warning signs deserve professional medical evaluation. Instead of fear, hype, or miracle claims, the book offers a reassuring, realistic approach grounded in current research....

'When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate...What I asked for? Any life but this one.'When Aurelia flees the fire that kills her missionary uncle and leaves her orphaned and alone in nineteenth-century Japan, she has no idea how quickly her wish will be answered. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house and is adopted by the family who own it: gradually falling in love with both the tea ceremony and with her youn...

Are you ready to fully immerse yourself in a Christmas story full of hope, acceptance, love, and magic? Hannah’s Christmas Wish is a one-of-a-kind Christmas story that we know you’ll love!Hannah is a little girl that uses a wheelchair. This Christmas, after spending her days watching other children run and play outside her window, she decides to write Santa with a very special wish.Come along and join Hannah on her special Christmas journey through hardship, acceptance, and...

Paris, 1927, a day in July. A destitute young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist. The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires Tamara’s most accomplished and prized works of art, including Beautiful Rafaela, “one of the most important nudes of the twentieth century” (New York Times).The relations...

He’s not damaged. He’s beautifully broken.Bravo Team; a whole new series of Protector Romances showcasing the Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists. Rescuing Angie is the first book in the exhilarating new BRAVO TEAM series, and it’s a scorcher! These former Navy SEALs, DELTA Operatives, and Special Ops soldiers turned Guardians & Protectors are guaranteed to capture your heart and leave you breathless.Brady, Bravo One: After a brut...

"Jesse Blackadder has all the hallmarks of a great historical fiction writer, achieving a fine balance of thoroughly researched atmospheric detail and suspenseful story. . . . In The Raven's Heart she doesn't hit one wrong note."—The Sunday TelegraphScotland, 1561, and a ship comes across the North Sea carrying home Mary, the young, charismatic Queen of Scots, returning after thirteen years in the French court to wrest back control of her throne.The Blackadder family has lo...

Japan, 1865, the women's palace in the great city of Edo.Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine.But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she finds unknown feelings stirring within her; but this is a world in which private passions have no pl...

Life is what happens when you make other plans, and Nic and Claire have just found out that life and the Marine Corps have other plans for their lives.Nic Caldwell has served her country, met the woman of her dreams, and has reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. She's studying at one of the nation's most prestigious military universities, setting her sights on a research position after graduation. Things couldn't be better and then it happens; a sudden assignment to Afghanistan d...

Irrepressible Annie Heaphy, a cab driver from the bars, meets Victoria Locke, a feminist Yale student, and the love story of the eraand for the agesensues. A classic romance introducing many of Lynchs iconic characters who captured the hearts of generations of lesbians and remain among the most popular today.

It is fall in the steamy underworld of New Orleans, the seasons are changing, and so is tough detective Micky Knight’s life. Micky takes on the case of the daughter of a friend, who is believed to be sexually abused, not knowing that the investigation will lead her on a dangerous sexual odyssey. In Cissy’s sleepless nights, Micky sees echoes of her own past, and she becomes caught up in a world where young girls are treated as commodities. While doing battle with seedy thugs and struggling...

Winner of the Pendleton May First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award, The World Unseen is a captivating human drama and love story.In 1950's South Africa, apartheid is just beginning. Free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community, and the new apartheid-led government, by running a café with Jacob her "coloured" business partner. When she meets Miriam, a young traditional wife and mother, their unexpected attraction pushes Miriam to question ...