Audrey J. Cole

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

To save their marriage, Sloane must forgive her husband's affair. Instead, she tries a more tempting option-settling the score. But will it prove to be a deadly mistake? ER doctor Sloane Marks is shattered when she learns her husband Ethan slept with his partner at Seattle Homicide. She considers leaving him and joining The One, having gone to college with the popular dating app's billionaire founder, Brody Carr. But at forty-two, Sloane feels she has no choice but to forgive Ethan if she wants a chance at creating the family she never had. Months later, Sloane bumps into Brody, who's recently returned to Seattle. In due time, Ethan worries she's cheating. His suspicions are confirmed when he learns the rich app founder took Sloane on a freediving excursion in the San Juan Islands. Soon after, Brody's famous wife dies in an accident. Ethan becomes the lead investigator in her death, which he suspects wasn't at accident at all. Caught between a distrusting husband and a powerful billionaire who protects his secrets at all costs, Sloane is in a fight for her life. And the only way out is to take matters into her own hands.

The One

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Sheila Athens

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

When a travel writer goes to Cumberland Island, GA, to write an article commemorating the twenty-five-year anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette, she meets the ghost of JFK, Jr., who asks for her help in finding his wife.

Neena Lee Is Seeing Things

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Jill Santopolo

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost comes a sweeping story of two star-crossed lovers in post-World War II Italy, and a blossoming relationship generations later that will reveal a long-buried family secret. Genoa, Italy, 1946. Vincenzo and Giovanna fall in love at twenty-one the moment they set eyes on each other. The son of a count and the daughter of a tailor, they belong to opposing worlds. Despite this, the undeniable spark between them quickly burns into a deep and passionate relationship spent exploring each other’s minds, bodies and their city, as well as Vincenzo’s family’s sprawling vineyard, Villa Della Rosa—until shifts in political power force them each to choose a side and commit what the other believes is a betrayal, shattering the bright future they dreamed of together. New York, 2017. Cassandra and Luca are in love. Although neither quite fits with the other's family, Cass and Luca have always felt like a perfect match for each other. But when Luca, an artist, convinces his grandfather and Cass’s grandmother to pose for a painting, past and present collide and reveal a secret that changes everything.

Stars in an Italian Sky

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Alex Aster

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

#BookTok phenomenon and award-winning author Alex Aster delivers readers a masterfully written, utterly gripping YA fantasy novel Welcome to the Centennial. Every 100 years, the island of Lightlark appears to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The invitation is a summons--a call to embrace victory and ruin, baubles and blood. The Centennial offers the six rulers one final chance to break the curses that have plagued their realms for centuries. Each ruler has something to hide. Each realm's curse is uniquely wicked. To destroy the curses, one ruler must die. Isla Crown is the young ruler of Wildling--a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with. They are feared and despised, and are counting on Isla to end their suffering by succeeding at the Centennial. To survive, Isla must lie, cheat, and betray...even as love complicates everything. Filled with secrets, deception, romance, and twists worthy of the darkest thrillers, Lightlark is a must-read for fans of legendary fantasy writers Marie Lu, Marissa Meyer, and Leigh Bardugo.

Lightlark (Book 1)

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Deborah Goodrich Royce

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A Novel

A Publishers Weekly Bestseller When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women—a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother’s best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children—collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020. “Reef Road is magnificent. It feels utterly real, a novel of deeply personal context. It swerves between truth and lies—the lies that lead to an even deeper—and more devastating—truth. Though pure fiction, it reads as compellingly as a mixture of memoir and exposé. It has left me shaken to the core. Deborah Goodrich Royce writes with brilliant understanding of the mystery and occasional grace of trauma.” —Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author A young woman’s life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics. What each of them stands to lose as they sneak around the do-not-enter tape blocking Reef Road beach is exposed by the steady tightening of the cincture encircling them. In a nod to the true crime that inspired it, Deborah Goodrich Royce’s Reef Road probes unhealed generational scars in a wrenching and original work of fiction. It is both stunning and sexy and, like a bystander surprised by a curtain left open, you won’t be able to look away.

Reef Road

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G. T. London

Dasia is haunted by the shadows of her past mistakes. Burdened by the shame of what she's done, she works tirelessly to create an ordinary life in London and be another face in the crowd. Her plan works . . . until it doesn't.

Second Chances and Then Some

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Lee Matthew Goldberg

The Great Gimmelmans

Middle child Aaron Gimmelman watches as his family goes from a mild-mannered reform Jewish clan to having over a million dollars of stolen money stuffed in their RV's cabinets while being pursued by the FBI and loan sharks. But it wasn't always like that. His father Barry made a killing as a stockbroker, his mother Judith loved her collection of expensive hats, his older sister Steph was obsessed with pop stars, and little sister Jenny loved her stuffed possum, Seymour. After losing all their money in the Crash of 1987, the family starts stealing from convenience stores, but when they hit a bank, they realize the talent they possess. The money starts rolling in and brings the family closer together, whereas back at home, no one had any time for bonding due to their busy schedules. But Barry's desire for more, more, more will take its toll on the Gimmelmans, and Aaron is forced into an impossible choice: turn against his father, or let his family fall apart. From Jersey, down to an Orthodox Jewish community in Florida where they hide out, and up to California, The Great Gimmelmans goes on a madcap ride through the 1980s. Filled with greed and love and the meaning of religion and tradition until the walls of the RV and the feds start closing in on the family, this thrilling literary tale mixes Michael Chabon and the Coen Brothers with equal parts humor and pathos. BUCKLE UP!

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J. S. Latshaw

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The highly anticipated sequel to The Threat Below. Unearth Ourselves Mountaintop, the last known refuge of humanity, faces a new cataclysm, and only exiled Icelyn Brathius can stop it. But to do so, she must give up all she loves and journey to an accursed, legendary tower in the middle of an unforgiving desert. Can she endure the nightmares and secrets she confronts-and accept what they teach her about herself? Excavate Our Past The end of the world happened in slow motion, and should have been avoided a hundred times. Learn the truth about the aftermath of Sean Brathius' doomed experiment, and how those tragedies and betrayals forged the foundation of today's volatile and dangerous world. Fear Our Future An unprecedented horror arises Down Below-a movement, a fervent faith, and a deadly vision for the world. Can the Anaghwin and what's left of humanity survive the terrors that will be unleashed? Will they even want to if they can?

A Gallery of Mothers

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Jason Latshaw

Three hundred years ago, something terrifying arose and pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. Now, a small remnant - the ancestors of the survivors who were able to escape the massacre below - lives above the clouds, on the top of a Mountain. When they discover that their water supply is being poisoned Down Below, an expedition, including seventeen year-old girl Icelyn Brathius, must descend and face the monsters, the Threat Below, that wiped out civilization centuries ago. Icelyn quickly learns that all is not what it seems as she uncovers secrets hundreds of years old and struggles to stay alive in a world where no human is fit to survive.

The Threat Below

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Delphine Ross

A Muses of Scandal Novel

A secret identity means secret desires . . . and not-so-secret scandals. London 1870: Musa Bartham has a secret. To support her destitute family after her father's disappearance, she's been publishing erotic poetry under the pen name of Felicity Vita. As Felicity Vita, Musa's scandalous books has won legions of devoted fans-including an anonymous gentleman pen pal whose letters spark unruly desires she would never ever succumb to in her orderly daily life. But when Musa's cherished younger sister, Angela, is offered sponsorship by their aristocratic great-aunt for an advantageous marriage, Musa realizes her dangerous double life as Felicity must come to an end. Instead, she'll write children's books.Sebastian Atkinson is a passionate artist reduced to working nights as a printer. Though Seb is infuriated by the prim yet alluring young woman who corners him into illustrating her insipid children's book, he can't turn Musa away: he suspects she may be Felicity Vita, the seductive poetess with whom he's been exchanging love letters for the past year. Egged on by his best friend, an ambitious journalist desperate for a break, Seb seeks to unmask Musa's secret identity. But the closer Seb comes to the truth, the more Musa entices him-and the more Musa finds Seb curiously attractive and even more curiously familiar. Could he have anything to do with her gentleman pen pal? Unable to resist each other, the two shift from enemies to lovers just as their love letters are stolen, setting Angela's future at stake. As Seb and Musa frantically come together to contain the damage before it's too late, it's uncertain whose hearts and lives will be broken amid the most sensational scandal of all.

The Poetics of Passion

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Joan Meyerson

Who needs Paris? Certainly not Kate Miller. Ever since she was a student at the Sorbonne in the '60s, she's avoided Paris like the plague. But now it's 1977, and her life as a documentary filmmaker in Los Angeles is going nowhere. She's smart and clever, but dark memories of that youthful past have shut her down. When a French TV director offers her a job in Paris, she knows this is a chance to free herself of those memories. Kate reluctantly returns. What she finds is a Paris of promise, opportunity, and a delicious sexual reawakening. In her job at a film festival, a famous actor inspires her to play a character of her own ... and Kate begins to reinvent herself. Yet the past still haunts: In 1964, Kate was in Paris, in love ... and in trouble. After confronting the unthinkable, she has continued to live with a silent pain she kept secret for all these years. Will the darkness remain, or can Paris finally help bring Kate closure? Who Needs Paris? is a story with humor, romance, and drama. But above all, it's a story about finding and fighting for the freedom to be our true selves.

Who Needs Paris?

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Amanda Prowse

In this captivating story from the bestselling author of Picking up the Pieces, Daisy has always envied the perfect family next door. But will a weekend of unexpected drama prove that the grass isn't always greener? Daisy Harrop has always felt like she exists in the background, and since her mother stopped getting out of bed, her life has come to a complete standstill. Daisy would give anything to leave the shabbiest house on the street and be more like the golden Kelleways next door, with their perfectly raked driveway and flourishing rose garden... Winnie Kelleway is proud of the beautiful family she's built. They've had their ups and downs--hasn't everyone? But this weekend, celebrating her golden wedding anniversary is truly proof of their happiness, a joyful gathering for all the neighbours to see. But as the festivities get underway, are the cracks in the 'perfect' Kelleway life beginning to show? As one bombshell revelation leads to another and events start to spiral out of control, Daisy and Winnie are about to discover that things aren't always what they seem.

All Good Things

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Mia McDaniel

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A piercing memoir of the real-life consequences born of living in a toxic household with a horrible secret... Life is beautiful for young Mia McDaniel, living with her two loving parents and her younger brother in their Long Island home. All of this is thrown into chaos, however, when she learns just before her fifth birthday that her older cousin, Anna, will be leaving Israel following the tragic death of her father and coming to live with Mia's family. Little did either girl know that what would happen next in that idyllic suburban home would irrevocably mark all of those involved. McDaniel takes readers along with her as she reexamines her own life in an effort to understand her fragile past and shape a brighter future for herself and her children. A piercing memoir of the real-life consequences born of living in a toxic household with a horrible secret, My Father's Burning in Hell examines the lies and terrors that can destroy a home and the resolute strength inside all of us to find our own happiness in the wreckage.

My Father's Burning in Hell

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Alretha Thomas

The Girl in the Blue Blazer

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Patricia Friedrich

Jen Jensen

Arizona, 2019. When Nurse Pia Norwak spots Rikke Taylor, burn survivor and local heroine, at an emergency room in Sedona, Pia experiences an intensifying attraction, only matched by the puzzling visions that come to her with increasing frequency and clarity. Rikke, however reluctantly, cannot deny something mysterious is unfolding. Yorkshire, 1840. As Rory Allen travels back to her cottage at the Moorsgrange estate, she realizes she is also returning to Jules Ermsworth, piano virtuoso, heir to the Victorian estate, and her soulmate. But he's sickly and fragile, so his mother and doctor oppose the union. What connects these two love stories across time and space, and what will it take for Pia and Rikke to right the wrongs of that distant past?

All the Parts of Your Soul

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A Cape May Christmas Story

Eugene M. Helveston

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Transformative History of Botox

In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott developed a method to stabilize the bacteria that causes botulism, culminating in a drug that eventually became known as Botox. In Death to Beauty, Eugene M. Helveston, MD, follows the unlikely story of botulism's 1817 discovery in contaminated German sausages, to its use in military and research facilities, to Scott, an ophthalmologist who aimed to safely use the drug in humans. Scott struggled alone as an unknown in the pharmaceutical industry, searching for clinical trial financing and FDA approval, which he achieved at a fraction of the billions big pharma usually spends to bring a drug to market. Eventually, the company Allergan bought him out, capitalizing on the possibilities for cosmetic uses. Scott's formula was renamed "Botox" and reached annual sales in the billions. After the sale, Scott received no further compensation from Botox sales and remained the same unassuming man. A fascinating walk through the intricate history of how the world's deadliest toxin starting as a treatment for crossed eyes became a routine tool for the cosmetic industry, Death to Beauty will make you rethink success, beauty, and deadly bacteria.

Death to Beauty

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Harper Kincaid

All the world's a stage, but it may be curtains for bookbinder Quinn Caine’s brother if she can't bring the lights down on an actor's killer, in this mystery perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Kate Carlisle. Just when everything is returning to the calm that Quinn Caine and her sidekicks, Ruff Barker Ginsburg and Sister Daria, are used to in their beloved town of Vienna, a Broadway star crash-lands into their peace and quiet. Former ‘player’, Chad Frivole, is Vienna’s prodigal son—the once notorious lothario has returned a Broadway star, ready to make a different kind of mark on his hometown. Not everyone is celebrating the Tony-award-winner’s return. Chad’s a triple threat—with a cast of characters lining up to seek their revenge on him. So, when he turns up dead in his car, trapped with a sack full of snakes, Quinn can’t say she’s surprised—but promises handsome detective Aiden Harrington that she’s staying out of this local mystery. That is, until someone starts threatening her brother’s life. It’s true, Sebastian ‘Bash’ Caine used to be a womanizer, just like Chad. And the killer doesn’t seem to care that he’s not that man anymore. Bash Caine is in the killer’s sights, and unless Quinn and her crew can find the killer in time, whoever it is will drag her brother into his final act on this mortal coil.

A Midsummer Night's Scheme

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Love Hudson-Maggio

In Karma Under Fire, two societies collide: the trendy, upscale ultra-hip universe of Atlanta and the alluring, bound-by-tradition world of old India. Pressured by her "challenging" mother, Harlow Kennedy, an ambitious and unattached woman, agrees to marry politically ambitious pretty boy Addison Whitmore. The match will elevate Harlow's non-existent social standing and guarantee financial security for life. The wedding will take place as soon as Harlow returns from her BFF's wedding in India.On the other side of the world, the parents of Tej Mayur, the hottest restauranteur in the hottest city in the South, are fretting about their son's unmarried status. They summon him home.When Harlow and Tej find themselves seated together on the long flight to New Delhi, sparks fly. When they touch down at Indira Gandhi International and flee one another's company - or so they think.Karma Under Fire is the first novel by promising new writer Love Hudson-Maggio.

Karma under Fire

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Alice Hanov

A terrible choice tears two lovers apart. Now battlefields separate them. Warren lost its princess once before, and now, in exchange for the lives of those she loves, Princess Alex has surrendered her freedom again. As long as Alex remains at her uncle Moorloc's castle, Aaron will be safe-but the same can't be said of her. Desperately trying to learn control of the magic coursing through her, she is now a prisoner trapped by cruel men who despise her for being both powerful and a woman. Determined to rescue Alex, Aaron takes up his mantle as Datten's prince and declares war on Moorloc, leading a cavalry of the best knights from both kingdoms into the Ogre Mountains. But the location of Moorloc's castle is a mystery, and he is forced to seek an audience with the King of Betruger, an old enemy more likely to imprison or kill Aaron than help him. As Alex and Aaron fight their way back to each other, they discover new allies and confront new foes. To be reunited, they must push beyond their limits and step into their destinies. But will they survive their own battles? And if they do, will they ever be the same again? Note: This book deals with mature content and is recommended for upper YA (15 +)

Broken Sons

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One woman must learn to love again with the help of her supper club friends and the man next door in this delightful enemies-to-lovers small-town contemporary romance that's perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis and Jenny Hale!



The best meals. The perfect company. And just enough sparks to make it complicated . . .

 

Serenity Wheeler's Supper Club is all about getting together with great friends, incredible food, and a whole lot of dishing--not for hooking up. Still, Serenity knows inviting her friend's brother to one of her dinners is just good manners, but the ultra-fine, hazel-eyed Gabriel Cunningham has a gift for saying the wrong thing at the really wrong time.



Gabriel isn't quite sure how they got off on the wrong foot, but something about Serenity makes him nervous. Maybe it's because he's new to the small-town vibe. Maybe it's because the woman is so gorgeous that he can't think straight around her.



Before long, everyone in the Supper Club knows there's more heating up between Serenity and Gabriel than the delicious meals they share. But Serenity can't let herself fall for Gabriel. Because while cooking with love is one thing, trusting it is quite another . . .

A Table for Two

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For readers of Waitress, Jill Shalvis, and Jenny Hale―love blossoms in the most unlikely of places in a charming novel about family, first impressions, and finding the courage to belong!



Harper Anderson has a to-do list longer than the Colorado River and fields of tulips to tend at her family's flower farm in California. What she doesn't have is time for the arrogant tech mogul who makes her an offer to use their farm as his sister's wedding venue. No amount of money could make up for the destruction it would wreak on next season's crop. The sooner Luke Martin is on his way, the better.



But Luke will do whatever it takes to make his sister happy. So when Harper's newest farmhand leaves her in the lurch, he strikes a deal: He'll work on the farm for free if she'll give him the chance to change her mind.



Harper and Luke each expect the other to crack first. What they don't expect is the chemistry that sparks between them as they work side by side. But just as Harper is starting to let her guard down, Luke stumbles upon a secret that could spell disaster for the entire Anderson clan. With her family's happiness at stake, can Harper put her trust in a man who is worlds apart from everything she knows?

The Magnolia Sisters

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In 1923, Jamison Jones Davenport an overgrown tomboy, budding writer and part-time suffragette leaves her family's Kentucky stud farm, run by her misogynistic and controlling father, the Colonel to gain independence and freedom assisting a feminist writer in Switzerland. Shortly after arriving, she learns that her job offer has been mysteriously withdrawn. But when the Colonel arrives at her Swiss hotel with a suitor in tow, Jamison realizes that she is now a pawn in another of his usurious schemes. This is the story of Jamison, of Carrington her childhood companion and of J.D. Roe, the man who believes his redemption is in her hands.The Weight Of Flowers is Upmarket Women's Fiction with a high heat level.

The Weight of Flowers

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#paperback read once. Small amount of cracked spine, but not noticeable 

**Easier to read! Now with larger print!**

Charlotte Browne could just kick herself. What on earth possessed her to tell the Duke of Rockford that she is a lady? But something about the duke's handsomeness and kind intelligence makes Charlotte blurt out the teeniest, tiniest falsehood. Now it's too late to admit she's just plain Charlotte of no particular importance--with cinder-stained hands, a wretched stepfather, and no prospects for marriage...

Rafe Dorchester, Duke of Rockford, has done what every self-respecting duke must do--avoid marriage at all costs. But the only thing stronger than the duke is his mother. When she lays down the highest ultimatum, he'll need to find a duchess. Immediately. Only, when he calls on a potential bride, he instead finds the pert, fresh-faced Lady Charlotte. Rafe was warned to never mix the business of marriage with pleasure, but when it comes to her...oh, business would be a splendid pleasure.

One passionate, illicit kiss sends Charlotte fleeing, leaving only a delicate blue ribbon behind. For Rafe can never discover her secret, or it will ruin her beloved sister's chance at marriage. But the duke knows that when you've found the one person that ignites you, body and soul, nothing can keep you away.

Each book in the Never a Wallflower series is STANDALONE:
* The Spinster and the Rake
* Much Ado About Dukes
* The Duke's Secret Cinderella

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