Crime and Punishment meets Demon Copperhead in this psychological mystery set on a remote Maine island, from the glorious days of summer to the harsh storms of winter. Thickafog is a mystery wrapped up in a love story between two elderly characters, as well as for all the citizens of Archer Island who persevere through the challenges of addiction, teenage angst, and isolation. Narrator Jon Davis becomes the lead suspect in the murder of his father Bobby, who is found dead at the bottom of ...

A hilarious collection of essays from the #1 bestselling author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea about the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood.Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Family moments are fair game, whether it's writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or tea...

**Love can be a very dangerous thing.From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Truth About Forever comes a gripping exploration of love, loss, and the search for identity.“A cut above.”—People“Another pitch-perfect offering from Dessen.”—Booklist, starred review**After her sister left, Caitlin felt lost. Then she met Rogerson.When she’s with him, nothing seems real.But what...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake“[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”—Chicago Sun-Times*There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prosti...

What happens when the man you’d thought could be the one turns out to be your new boss?BlakelyThe moment I met Aston Cage, I knew my life had changed. A single dance later, we’re both all in. Until he ghosted me.Then my boss fires me for dancing with the enemy.Three months later, working for the Cages is my last resort. Now I’ll work beside him day by day, trying not to let my feelings take control. It’s heaven and hell. Exc...

A woman in a failing marriage discovers a new pattern for living in the quilting series from the New York Times bestselling author of Ties That Bind.Twice in her life, college counselor Gayla Oliver fell in love at first sight. The first time was with Brian—a lean, longhaired, British bass player. Marriage followed quickly, then twins, and gradually their bohemian lifestyle gave way to busy careers in New York. Gayla’s second love affair is with N...

Stevie here, reporting to you live from Ebenezer Falls, WA with my disaster of a day.Yes, that's right. I'm having a terrible day. The worst. It started off like any other day with the exception of Win's strange behavior, that is. But it's all gone downhill from there and I have questions.So many questions…For instance, why is everyone else in Eb Falls behaving as strangely as my International Man of Mystery? And who the heck is Donna? For that matter,...

The Bell Family of Bluestar Island series concludes with a charming second-chance romance!As summer winds down with the promise of a long-awaited wedding, the island’s new yoga instructor is drawn into an arrangement with the one man who wants nothing to do with her.In this summertime novella, Summer Turner has returned to Bluestar Island and opened the Beach Love Yoga studio. Anxious to expand her clientele, she is not expecting her former friend ...

Contains the Complete Smalltown Secrets SeriesWelcome to Mudville...Within these stories you’ll find nosy neighbors and runaway livestock, big Victorians and a small-town coffee shop, contentious village meetings and a muddy river that tends to flood, a vintage diner and a local bar that serves the best wings around, a resale shop run by a feisty redhead where you can get anything from chainsaws to Chanel, a family-owned farm known for its corn (and the brothers who run it), and fi...

Season’s greetings: Whodunit?Santa Claus is coming to town, but guess who’s coming first to Haines Tavern, Kentucky – Great-Aunt Kit. If Sheila and her fellow amateur detective Clara want to give her author relative what she most wants this Christmas, they’ll wrap up a murder investigation -- with a mysterious victim, intriguing suspects, and suspicious twists. Because this time, Kit wants to be involved firsthand in solving a suspenseful puzzle.Th...

In this debut novel, Peter is a simple man who lives by a simple truth--a person gains strength by leaning on his constants. To him, those constants are the factory where he works, the family he loves, and the God who sustains him. But when news of job cuts comes against the backdrop of an unexpected snowstorm, his life becomes filled with far more doubts than certainties.With humor and a gift for storytelling, Billy Coffey brings you along as he spends his snow day encountering fam...

Sometimes, it's just easier to think I'm not the freak. I'm just in an alien world. . .Being Charles James Stewart, Jr., AKA Charlie the Second, means never "fitting in." Tall, gangly and big-eared, he could be a poster boy for teenage geeks. An embarrassment to his parents (he's not too crazy about them, either), Charlie is a virtual untouchable at his high school, where humiliation is practically an extracurricular activity. Charlie has tried to fit in, but all o...