Catherine Steadman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

A Novel

Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water.

Something in the Water

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Ralph Lazar

Lisa Swerling

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Looking for the perfect way to say I love you to a special someone? From famed cartoonists Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar, Me Without You features countless cute color illustrations of scenarios that are simply incomplete without two. A uniquely charming gift for Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just because, readers will find themselves dipping into this beguiling book again and again.

Me Without You (Anniversary Gifts for Her and Him, Long Distance Relationship Gifts, I Miss You Gifts)

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Minnesota

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR * TIME * BUSTLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION “A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review “Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable.” —USA Today “A tense and timely love story . . . Packed with brave questions about race and class.” —People “Compelling.” —The Washington Post “Epic . . . Transcendent . . . Triumphant.” —Elle Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward—with hope and pain—into the future.

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)

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Nicole Seitz

"It was about four years ago, the last trip we ever took together--my mother, sister, grandparents and me. Course, we didn't know it at the time. You never know something like that, like it's the last one you'll ever get, till it's just a memory, hanging like mist. This is what happened that summer, true as I can tell it. Not a one of us was ever the same."

Part road trip, part mystery, and completely unexpected, Saving Cicadas picks you up in one place and puts you down someplace else entirely. It's an eloquent reminder that life is a miracle--and even the smallest soul is a gift.

"...a surprisingly creative tale that will leave readers guessing until the end."

-River Jordan, author of Saints in Limbo



"It was about four years ago, the last trip we ever took together--my mother, sister, grandparents and me. Course, we didn't know it at the time. You never know something like that, like it's the last one you'll ever get, till it's just a memory, hanging like mist. This is what happened that summer, true as I can tell it. Not a one of us was ever the same." Part road trip, part mystery, and completely unexpected, Saving Cicadas picks you up in one place and puts you down someplace else entirely. It's an eloquent reminder that life is a miracle--and even the smallest soul is a gift. "...a surprisingly creative tale that will leave readers guessing until the end." -River Jordan, author of Saints in Limbo

Saving Cicadas

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Andrew Clements

Damage on cover (front and back). Small tear on inner pages. All is pictured 

A day spent with a young child at the beach is filled with many minor dramasa lost shoe, a ball that floats too far out into the water, a drippy ice-cream cone. These can be frustrating events for both child and parent, but the daddy in this book finds a way to fix each problem, lovingly and patiently. Why? Because he loves his little girl, of course This spot-on pairing of words and images is a warm, reassuring, and humorous tribute to dads everywhere."

Because Your Daddy Loves You

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Siobhan Vivian

High school senior and student body president, Natalie likes to have everything under control, but when she becomes attracted to one of the senior boys and her best friend starts keeping secrets from her, Natalie does not know how to act.

Not That Kind of Girl

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Meg Wolitzer

Louisiana

Now a major motion picture starring Glenn Close in her Golden Globe–winning role! One of bestselling author Meg Wolitzer’s most beloved books—an “acerbically funny” (Entertainment Weekly) and “intelligent…portrait of deception” (The New York Times). The Wife is the story of the long and stormy marriage between a world-famous novelist, Joe Castleman, and his wife Joan, and the secret they’ve kept for decades. The novel opens just as Joe is about to receive a prestigious international award, The Helsinki Prize, to honor his career as one of America’s preeminent novelists. Joan, who has spent forty years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, finally decides to stop. Important and ambitious, The Wife is a sharp-eyed and compulsively readable story about a woman forced to confront the sacrifices she’s made in order to achieve the life she thought she wanted. “A rollicking, perfectly pitched triumph…Wolitzer’s talent for comedy of manners reaches a heady high” (Los Angeles Times), in this wise and candid look at the choices all men and women make—in marriage, work, and life.

The Wife

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#fiction #paperback #romance #relationship #commitmentissues #moveintogether #bestfriends 

Michigan

Not sure if she is ready to go from "me" to "we" when her almost perfect boyfriend Max asks her to move in with him, commitment-phobic Maggie Hunter wishes Max could be more like her best friend Eliose's boyfriend, who is allergic to forward planning, and wonders if people really can change. Original. 40,000 first printing.

The Romancipation of Maggie Hunter

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#paperback #selfhelp #relationship #therapy #love #psychology #marriage #success

Florida

Simple Secrets to Strengthen Your Relationship and Make Love Last

We Love Each Other, But...offers simple, practical tips that will help you restore and strengthen a relationship that has gone off track. It lays out the nuts and bolts of building relationships so they continue to be gratifying over the long haul. Dr. Ellen Wachtel shows how, even when you feel like giving up on a relationship or marriage, you can recapture why you fell in love in the first place. Dr. Wachtel promises that there is more and suggests simple ways to keep vitality in relationships. In fact, she shows you and your partner how you can stay interested in each other for the rest of your lives.

We Love Each Other, But ...

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#paperback #nonfiction #china #memoir #asian #biography #family #relationship 

Colorado

The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother

Falling Leaves

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Carol Lynn Pearson

Utah

A Fable for Couples

What Love Is tenderly unfolds the beauty of a marriage, from love’s first kiss to growing old together. This lyrical book will be treasured by couples of all ages.

What Love Is

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Kim Karr

California

The Connections Series

Music has the power to heal, but not all broken hearts can be mended.

Always in control, Xander Wilde considered life on the road to be a perfect fit for him. But when disaster strikes on the band's latest tour, fate intervenes...and a newly single Ivy Taylor, the only girl he has ever loved, steps back into his life.

After moving past her painful breakup with Xander years ago, Ivy was poised to become the next big name in music...when suddenly she withdrew from the limelight--the same day she announced her engagement to her controlling agent, Damon Wolf.

Xander knows he should keep his distance. But once they're on the road, he can't resist pursuing her for a second chance. Yet a jealous Damon can't let her go--and he's keeping dangerous secrets that could destroy them all. 

When the three of them come together, everything falls apart.  But if Xander and Ivy can hold tight to the bond that connects them, they just might have a chance to reclaim the powerful love they thought they had lost forever....

Mended

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H. Norman Wright

Healing Conflicts in Marriage

Wright suggests that transformed attitudes can bring hope to the most hopeless of marriages. He invites readers to risk changing their negative attitudes toward their spouses so that happiness can flourish.

Making Peace with Your Partner

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Mary B. Morrison

The unforgettable Crystal women,  a family battling to stay together as desire,  deception,  and ever-elusive happiness threatens to tear them apart. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison delivers an explosive second novel about the unforgettable Crystal women, following on from Baby You're the Best (Dafina, June 2016). Too much is never, ever enough for Alexis Crystal. With a ring on her finger from James Wilcox and the woman she loves firmly between her sheets, no one can match her when it comes to scheming. And her duplicity just makes her better at helping her siblings get revenge on the lovers who are doing them wrong...

Just Can't Let Go

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Charlotte Mendelson

South Carolina

THE TIMES (UK) NOVEL OF THE YEAR Named A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by the Guardian, the Telegraph, and the Sunday Times (UK) Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist is a "furiously funny" novel (Sunday Express, UK) about a marriage between two artists, Lucia and Ray, which begins to unravel over the course of one weekend. Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for a momentous weekend as famous artist and notorious egoist Ray Hanrahan prepares for a new exhibition of his art–the first in many decades–and one he is sure will burnish his reputation for good. His three children will be there: eldest daughter Leah, always her father’s biggest champion; son Patrick, who has finally decided to strike out on his own; and daughter Jess, the youngest, who has her own momentous decision to make. And what of Lucia, Ray’s steadfast and selfless wife? She is an artist, too, but has always had to put her roles as wife and mother first. What will happen if she decides to change? For Lucia is hiding secrets of her own, and as the weekend unfolds and the exhibition approaches, she must finally make a choice about which desires to follow. The Exhibitionist is the latest, extraordinary novel from Charlotte Mendelson, a dazzling exploration of art, sacrifice, toxic family politics, queer desire, and personal freedom.

The Exhibitionist

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Moira Butterfield

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

Muddypaws is a heart-warming tale of a boy and his sidekick.

Muddypaws

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Wisconsin

Given the difficult task of building an underfunded clinic in an Irish community caught between the past and present, Dr. Clara Casey finds her task complicated by her problematic personal life, her colorful and diverse staff, and the difficult patients t

Heart and Soul

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#paperback #fiction #booktok #college #family #goodread #juvenilefiction #relationship 

Washington

When teenaged sisters Daisy, Violet, and Calla spend their last summer together at Camp Callanwolde, the decisions they make--both good and bad--bring challenges to their relationship as well as opportunities to demonstrate their devotion to one another.

The Summer of Firsts and Lasts

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William Pollack

Mary Pipher

Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood

Based on William Pollack's groundbreaking research at Harvard Medical School over two decades, Real Boys explores this generation's "silent crisis": why many boys are sad, lonely, and confused although they may appear tough, cheerful, and confident. Pollack challenges conventional expectations about manhood and masculinity that encourage parents to treat boys as little men, raising them through a toughening process that drives their true emotions underground. Only when we understand what boys are really like, says Pollack, can we help them develop more self-confidence and the emotional savvy they need to deal with issues such as depression, love and sexuality, drugs and alcohol, divorce, and violence. “Just as Reviving Ophelia opened our eyes to the challenges faced by adolescent girls, Real Boys helps us hear and respond to the needs of growing boys.” —Judith Jordan, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School Featuring a new preface by the author on how parents can make a difference.

Real Boys

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#paperback #relationship #nonfiction #adolescence 

Pennsylvania

Wendy Speake

Exchange Your Online Distractions for Real-Life Devotion

Are you addicted to your phone? Do you find yourself engaging online but unengaged at home with the people right in front of you? Do you spend hours scrolling through Facebook, Instagram, newsfeeds, and YouTube videos? Have your devices become divisive--dividing you from family and friends and, most importantly, God? What would happen if you took some time to fast from social media in order to get social with God and others once more?In the pattern of her popular 40-Day Sugar Fast, Wendy Speake offers you The 40-Day Social Media Fast. This "screen sabbatical" is designed to help you become fully conscious of your dependence on social media so you can purposefully unplug from screens and plug into real life with the help of a very real God. Take a break from everyone and everything you follow online. Disconnect in order to reconnect with the only One who said "follow me."

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Catherine Steadman

Something in the Water

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Me Without You (Anniversary Gifts for Her and Him, Long Distance Relationship Gifts, I Miss You Gifts)

Tayari Jones

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)

Nicole Seitz

Saving Cicadas

Andrew Clements

Because Your Daddy Loves You

Siobhan Vivian

Not That Kind of Girl

Meg Wolitzer

The Wife

Jane Sigaloff

The Romancipation of Maggie Hunter

Ellen Wachtel

We Love Each Other, But ...

Adeline Yen Mah

Falling Leaves

Carol Lynn Pearson

What Love Is

Kim Karr

Mended

H. Norman Wright

Making Peace with Your Partner

Mary B. Morrison

Just Can't Let Go

Charlotte Mendelson

The Exhibitionist

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Moira Butterfield

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Falling Leaves

Wendy Speake

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