Piety, compassion, lust, love… Feelings all the more potent when you are a Catholic priest confined to your hospital bed by an AIDS diagnosis, being comforted by the seminarian you sexually abused as an adolescent. It's Holy Week 1987. The priest is Fr. Linus Fitzgerald, the young seminarian is Orlando Rosario. Both are shocked and shaken as they reflect on their desires and dreams, secrets and sins, hopes and faith, and the paths that brought them together. In Homo Novus,...

For twenty-five years the unsolved kidnapping of two young girls has haunted Minneapolis homicide detective Lucas Davenport. Today, the bodies have been found. Today, he returns to a crime—and a nightmare—darker than any before...A block on the edge of the Minneapolis loop is being razed when a macabre discovery is made: two girls buried under a rotted old house. Lucas Davenport knows how long they’ve been there. In 1985, he was part of the manhunt to track down tw...

A SOON TO BE TV SERIES FROM BALBOA PRODUCTIONSThe first in the 4MK Thriller series comes a dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffrey Deaver called "a talented writer with a delightfully delicious mind."Two days to save her . . .For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one which proves h...

It's not like I meant for Danley to get hurt. . . .Julian Twerski isn't a bully. He's just made a big mistake. So when he returns to school after a weeklong suspension, his English teacher offers him a deal: if he keeps a journal and writes about the incident that got him and his friends suspended, he can get out of writing a report on Shakespeare. Julian jumps at the chance. And so begins his account of life in sixth grade--blowing up homemade fireworks, writing a love le...

Princesses Practice Sight Words - 7 Books in 1!These pretty princess flash cards contain seven books of Sight Words & Sight Nouns!So what are sight words? Sight words are words that children need to learn to identify "on sight" in order to become capable readers. These special words can be known by many different names including high-frequency words, Dolch words, Fry words, Star Words, Wall Words or even Instant words.This list includes over 300 of the most common s...

She's home to uncover a family secret. He's spent years protecting it. Neither counted on falling for the enemy.Rachel thought she'd left small-town complications behind for good. But after one too many toxic relationships, she knows it's time to face the decision that's haunted her for ten years. Coming home to Lantern Bay should be simple—except for Zane Black.Ex-rugby star Zane has built his post-sports life on unwavering principles, especially when it c...

The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing: a lyrically told, richly illustrated fable for grown-ups about a woman’s search for a cat who goes missing in the wake of her mother’s death.The word “orphan” might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as...

He never expected he'd get a second chance with the love of his life. Heartbroken and lonely, Billy's been breaking into his ex-lover's apartment every Friday night for a little solo sex in the bed they used to share. One night he gets caught. Now he has only seconds to decide if he should stay or run from the most meaningful encounter of his life--and maybe a chance at love again.

Prince Lucas and Clara have until midnight to solve a magic mistake in this eighteenth fantastical adventure of The Kingdom of Wrenly series!Prince Lucas and Clara meet a witch-in-training who accidentally makes the two friends switch bodies! Stuck in a magical switcheroo with dangerous consequences, the two must find a way change back before the stroke of midnight…or their lives will change forever.

From a bright new voice in African American women's fiction comes a sexy, scandalous, and scintillating novel set in steamy Atlanta.Stacie Long thinks she's God's gift to men and she keeps a list of qualities (phat ride, freak in bed...) that she's looking for in an ideal mate. But behind all her confidence she's got a secret -- one that even her best friend doesn't know about, one that may just keep her forever searching for her perfect man.Tameeka Johnson i...

Angie Swanson’s life couldn’t get more pathetic. Once a popular masseuse in Seattle, she’s now the super-pumper at her brother Drew’s gas station in Deadhorse, Oregon. When her brother’s best friend, Gary, arrives in town, she finally sees her way out of the hell she’s in. If she can convince Gary to let her live with him in Seattle, just for a couple weeks, until she lands a job, she’ll do anything for him.There’s no way in hell Gary Satchel, wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks...

Brenda and the team find themselves in Rome trying to retrieve the mystical spear Hitler once owned--the very spear that pierced Christ's side. Their search will take them from hidden chambers inside the Vatican to the catacombs of Rome to a mysterious seaside cave with unexpected powers. But what they seek is more perilous than they know.