Lucy Sullivan is twenty-six and living it up (and occasionally down) in London. Hers is a life of quiet, undisciplined desperation. But when she and three friends visit a psychic for a bit of fun and the woman's predictions start coming true, Lucy is horrified. For the fortune teller insisted she'd soon be married - within the year, in fact.Not only does Lucy not have a boyfriend, but the chances of getting one are looking slim. Between the bottles of wine, anti-depressants and her addicti...

Madam built her empire, Club Eden, brick by brick and body by body; some even buried beneath the foundation. And her best friend Blue was there from the beginning, taking note like an understudy training to ultimately become the world's most dangerous weapon—and Madam's.Before Eden takes you back to the humble beginnings; before Madam was known in the streets for being the most hardcore businesswoman of the hottest male strip club in Atlanta, Georgia . . . and before Blue was frien...

Delightful children's book composed of fifty-five short Catholic legends. Included are stories of St. Nicholas, St. Christopher, St. Francis, and of course, Mary, Queen of All Saints, among many more.

Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a serial killer who terrorized a midwestern town in the era of free love—by the coauthor of The French Connection.In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body—stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm—was discovered, partially buried, on a...

Ben Franklin must save the world when Isaac Newton unleashes dark magic in this "ambitious" alternate history series by a New York Times–bestselling author ( Library Journal).Greg Keyes reimagines the eighteenth-century as an era of apocalyptic sorcery in which a young printer's apprentice named Benjamin Franklin joins forces with a host of historical personages to prevent humankind's annihilation by demons and black magic inadvertently released by...

A princess and a barbarian warrior battle a god in this dark fantasy, the "impressive debut" from the author of The Briar King ( Publishers Weekly).Hezhi is a princess, daughter of a royal family whose line was founded by the god known as the River. Her blood is not only royal, it is magic, with a power that will not become known until she approaches adulthood. As she grows into her gift, she will take her place in court—or be judged unworthy and c...

"The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)"—Midwest Children's Book ReviewSammy's softball team is in contention for the Junior Slugger's Cup, and all she wants to do is hunker down behind the home plate and catch strikes. But Heather Acosta brings new meaning to the term "foul ball" as she schemes to get Sammy kicked off the team.Then Sammy is thrown a wild pitch by a frantic gir...

Don't hate the player…BOTTOM NINEGwen Scott wants to love her job with the Charleston Thrashers, the MLB team she's worshiped since she was a kid, but she can't. Hateful colleagues and mind-numbing work make her days unbearable—until her head for baseball gets her exclusive access to the Thrashers' clubhouse and she comes face-to-face with Tyler Ashe, the team's sexy shortstop and baseball's most ineligible bachelor....

**Previously published as A Foolish Heart.She wants him back. He'll have anyone but her.Mercy Marcotte doesn't deserve a second chance at love. At least, that's what she's believed since jilting Solomon Kennett, the man she loved, when his fortunes took a turn for the worse. But Solomon is back from the West Indies, rich, aloof, and about to offer for Mercy's best friend. Mercy resolves to stay out of it—until her friend runs off with another man. ...

Reese Carlisle hates her life.Three years after her father's arrest for one of the largest embezzlement schemes in history, twenty million dollars is still missing, and the world believes she knows where it is.Two years after her brother's death, they still think she killed him.One year later, she's still hiding.When the loneliness is too much, she seeks out strangers for one dark night, no questions asked. She makes up a name, puts on a disguise, and tries ...

The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes.Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple . . .Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn't want all that? Anna, it turns out.Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major life event , she switches the skyscrapers of Manhattan for...

2020 Whitney Award WinnerScotland 1794For more than twenty years, the Lowland village of Craigmuir has been untouched by smallpox, leaving the people vulnerable to a painful lesson on the price of belonging, belief, and survival.Isla Findlay belongs nowhere. The daughter of a disgraced woman and the Highlander who abandoned them both, she tries to be a dutiful niece to the uncle who has taken her in, blending into the village as bes...