| TITLE: |   Where the River Ends by Charles Martin |
| DESCRIPTION: | A powerfully emotional and beautifully written story of heartbreaking loss and undying love.... He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina's most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they each felt they'd found their true soul mate. Ten years into their marriage, when Abbie faces a life-threatening illness, Doss battles it with her every step of the way. And when she makes a list of ten things she hopes to accomplish before she loses the fight for good, Doss is there, too, supporting her and making everything possible. Together they steal away in the middle of the night to embark upon a 130-mile trip down the St. Mary's River--a voyage Doss promised Abbie in the early days of their courtship. Where the River Ends chronicles their love-filled, tragedy-tinged journey and a bond that transcends all. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $15.95 |
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| TITLE: |  Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter |
| DESCRIPTION: | Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity--like all great breakthroughs--Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies--lowest cost, differentiation, and focus--which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of competitor assessment. |
| CATEGORY: | Business |
| PRICE: | $24.99 |
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| TITLE: | Valentine's Resolve [Vampire Earth Series Book 6] by E. E. Knight |
| DESCRIPTION: | After three years of exile from humanity's war against the Kurians, David Valentine returns to battle. The Lifeweavers, Earth's allies in the conflict, have all but vanished, and without them mankind cannot possibly stand against their alien enemies. Many of the Lightweavers are held captive by a Kurian overlord. To free them, Valentine must convince the Marshal, a legendary resistance fighter with a grudge against the Kurians, to join his cause. But the Marshal is something of a dictator himself, ruling over his men with an iron fist--and giving Valentine a new enemy to fight. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $23.95 |
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| TITLE: |  Diablo Archive by Richard A. Knaak |
| DESCRIPTION: | Since the beginning of time, the angelic hosts of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in a struggle for the fate of all Creation. That war has now come to the mortal realm...and neither Man nor Demon nor Angel will be left unscathed.... LEGACY OF BLOOD: Norrec Vizharan has become a living nightmare. While on a quest for magical treasure, he discovers an artifact beyond his wildest dreams: the ancient armor of Bartuc, the legendary Warrior of Blood. But the mysterious armor is cursed, channeling a malevolent power into Norrec's tortured soul. Pursued by demons who covet the dark armor for their own purposes, Norrec must overcome a bloodlust he can scarcely control and learn the truth about his terrifying curse before he is lost to darkness forever. THE BLACK ROAD: Darrick Lang is coming home. Years ago he left the town of Bramwell to walk the wide world as a champion of the realm. But Bramwell is not as he left it. Something dark and terrifying has ensnared the townsfolk, something very old and very patient, tangling innocents in a web of malice and profaning the very earth itself. Now that same power calls to Darrick ... and his only hope may be to walk the same perilous path of damnation. THE KINGDOM OF SHADOW: Legend speaks of a long-dead city known as Ureh, thought by many to have been a gateway to the High Heavens. It is said that every two thousand years, Ureh is reborn--and all its lost riches are revealed to those brave enough to seek them out. Now the Vizjerai sorcerer Quov Tsin has come to witness Ureh's rebirth for himself with Kentril Dumon and his band of mercenaries in tow. But what awaits them is like nothing they imagined. DEMONSBANE: What was to have been a victorious last stand against a demonic invasion of Blackmarch has instead become a massacre. Only Siggard remains, a warrior unable to remember the final hours of the battle. As he hunts the demon lord who butchered everything dear to him, Siggard pieces together the truth of that terrible battle ... and finds that his nightmare is only beginning. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $11.99 |
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| TITLE: |  A Rending of Falcons [Mechwarrior: Dark Age #26] by Victor Milan |
| DESCRIPTION: | The epic science fiction action saga continues She has found her vision-and it is of doom ... Jade Falcon Galaxy Commander Malvina Hazen and her warriors are encamped on the planet Skye in their Occupation Zone, overseeing the consolidation of power on the worlds they've wrested from The Republic. When a ship appears at Skye's jump point and its commander declares a Trial of Possession for the wartime doctrine he claims Malvina stole from Clan Hell's Horses, Malvina sees her vision unfolding: she agrees to single BattleMech combat. Malvina emerges from the fray victorious-and inspired to ride her growing reputation into Clan Jade Falcon's halls of power. But her bold actions may herald the beginning of a civil war that could unmake not simply her own Clan, but the entire Clan way of life. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Warrior [The Time Hunters] by Angela Knight |
| DESCRIPTION: | The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR launches the new Time Hunters series. In the 24th century, anyone can leap through time at will. To police the time jumpers, the Temporal Enforcement Agency has established a precinct in time. Galar Arvid is a genetically altered warlord and agent who's been sent back to 2008 to save a pretty Atlanta artist from a Xeran time traveler who intends to kill her for profit. What Galar doesn't count on is the powerful desire Jessica Kelly ignites in him. But could a romance between them work? A three-hundred-year chasm separates them and, even if they dart through time, there's still a maniacal killer on their tails. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler |
| DESCRIPTION: | Mortimer Tate was a recently divorced insurance salesman when he holed up in a cave on top of a mountain in Tennessee and rode out the end of the world. Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse begins nine years later, when he emerges into a bizarre landscape filled with hollow reminders of an America that no longer exists. The highways are lined with abandoned automobiles; electricity is generated by indentured servants pedaling stationary bicycles. What little civilization remains revolves around Joey Armageddon's Sassy A-Go-Go strip clubs, where the beer is cold, the lap dancers are hot, and the bouncers are armed with M16s.Accompanied by his cowboy sidekick Buffalo Bill, the gorgeous stripper Sheila, and the mountain man Ted, Mortimer journeys to the lost city of Atlanta--and a showdown that might determine the fate of humanity. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $11.99 |
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| TITLE: | Claimed By Shadow by Karen Chance |
| DESCRIPTION: | Clairvoyant Cassie Plamer has inherited new magical powers--including the ability to travel through time. But it's a whole lot of responsibility she'd rather not have. Now she's the most popular girl in town, as an assortment of vamps, fey, and mages try to convince, force, or seduce her--and her magic--over to their side. But one particular master vampire didn't ask what Cassie wanted before putting a claim on her. He had a spell cast that binds her to him, and now she doesn't know if what she feels for him is real--or imagined... |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Lost Fleet: Valiant by Jack Campbell |
| DESCRIPTION: | "Black Jack" Geary has ordered his fleet back to the Lakota Star System where the Syndics nearly destroyed them, a desperate gamble that may give them a fighting chance of survival--or tear them apart. |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Parallel Desire [A Novel of the Midnight Warriors] by Deidre Knight |
| DESCRIPTION: | On a mission to avenge the death of his wife, time-traveler Scott Dillon finds himself marooned in the past--and at the risk of disrupting the universe itself. Refarian medic Anna has tracked Scott to Texas, and only her never-ending passion for him can lift him from despair. With Anna at his side, Scott uncovers a link between his wife's murder and a mysterious explosion known as the Texas Incident--and realizes that both events are even more devastating than they seem.... |
| CATEGORY: | Science Fiction |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Larger Than Life by Adele Parks |
| DESCRIPTION: | Georgina has gone to great lengths to transform herself into the kind of woman Hugh Williams could love. Now, at thirty-two, she's got the perfect career (in advertising), the perfect body (just say no to doughnuts), and at last, the perfect man (who finally left his overbearing wife). Life with sexy, career-driven Hugh is like a page from a magazine--what more could a woman want? She never planned on getting pregnant. Now she's the kind of woman who scavenges the office trash bin for that last doughnut ... who bursts into tears reading baby books ... and whose life is about how it feels on the inside, and not how it looks on the outside. But as George grows bigger, Hugh grows more distant. The tiny being who hasn't even entered the world is already testing theirs. And by the end of nine months, George will know what it truly means to love someone unconditionally--including herself. |
| CATEGORY: | Humor |
| PRICE: | $11.99 |
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| TITLE: | My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays that Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face by Michael Ian Black |
| DESCRIPTION: | Get ready for the read of your life. Never before has a single book combined awesome vans, unicorns, Billy Joel, and erotic fiction in such a potent combination. A writing tour de force? Perhaps. A reading experience that will sear itself into your consciousness like a red-hot branding iron? Without question. Comedian and basic cable superstar Michael Ian Black unleashes the full fury of his astonishing intellect in this collection of short comic essays. My Custom Van is a no-holds-barred assault to the funny bone that will literally beat you into submission with hilarity*.How did he do it? How did he create such a fine anthology? Answer: With love. Michael opened his heart and used the magical power of love to write more than fifty thought-provoking essays like, "Why I Used a Day-Glo Magic Marker to Color My Dick Yellow," and "An Open Letter to the Hair Stylist Who Somehow Convinced Me to Get a Perm When I Was in Sixth Grade." Maybe you think love is not a substitute for "good writing skills" and "spell check." Bull pucky! When it comes to writing books, love is the most powerful word processor of all.Sounds pretty great, right? And yet ... something is still holding you back from paying the full purchase price of this book. What is it? Perhaps you secretly believe you do not deserve a book this good. Nonsense--you deserve this book and so much more. In fact, if Michael could have written you all the stars in the sky, that's what he would have done. But he couldn't do that, due to his lack of knowledge in the area of astronomy. So he wrote this book instead. And this flap copy.Enjoy.* Michael Ian Black is not responsible for any actual injuries caused by reading this book. |
| CATEGORY: | Humor |
| PRICE: | $17.99 |
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| TITLE: | Daemons Are Forever by Simon R. Green |
| DESCRIPTION: | Second in the trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Man with the Golden Torc. Eddie Drood's clan has been watching mankind's back for ages. And now he's in charge of the whole kit and caboodle. But it's not going to be an easy gig.... During World War II, the Droods made a pact with some nasty buggers from another dimension known as the Loathly Ones, which they needed to fight the Nazis. But once the war was over, the Loathly Ones decided that they liked this world too much to leave. Now it's up to Eddie to make things very uncomfortable for them--or watch everything humanity holds dear go up in smoke. |
| CATEGORY: | Dark Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $23.95 |
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| TITLE: | Dragon Wytch by Yasmine Galenorn |
| DESCRIPTION: | The D'Artigo sisters are half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. Camille is doing her best to juggle magic, men, and the demonic war into which they've been thrust--until she discovers a secret that could change all their lives. |
| CATEGORY: | Dark Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: |  Warrior by Marie Brennan |
| DESCRIPTION: | When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For the witch to master her powers, the twin must be killed. But what happens when the doppelganger survives--Mirage, a bounty hunter, lives by her wits and lethal fighting skills. She always gets her mark. But her new mission will take her into the shadowy world of witches, where her strength may not be a match against powerful magic. Miryo is a witch who has just failed her initiation test. She now knows that there is someone in the world who looks like her, who is her: Mirage. To control her powers and become a full witch, Miryo has only one choice: to hunt the hunter and destroy her. |
| CATEGORY: | Dark Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Witch by Marie Brennan |
| DESCRIPTION: | When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For the witch to master her powers, the twin must be killed. Until now ... Created by the merging of witch and doppelganger, Mirei is a unique being. Her extraordinary magic makes her the most poweful witch alive--and a notorious social outcast. While Satomi, the leader of the witches' ruling Primes, hails Mirei as a miracle, rival Primes proclaim that Mirei is an evil abomination ... and that those who champion her must be destroyed. Now the different witch factions engage in a bloody war with magic, treachery, and murder. But both sides may be fighting for nothing. For the power that the rebel Primes fear, the magic that Mirei alone possesses, is killing her. |
| CATEGORY: | Dark Fantasy |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Monkey See, Monkey Die [A Reigning Cats and Dogs Mystery] by Cynthia Baxter |
| DESCRIPTION: | Is a certain vet detective about to become an endangered species? It's been over a decade since Jessica Popper spoke to vet-school friend Erin Walsh. So when Erin calls out of the blue, Jess agrees to meet her. When Erin doesn't show, Jessie begins to suspect that her old pal was making a monkey out of her--until she learns that Erin was murdered. Jessie can't resist getting involved, but her sleuthing quickly pulls her into a jungle of suspects. Did Erin's husband, Ben, kill her--or was it the eccentric lizard-loving coworker with whom she may have been monkeying around? Was Ben's outrageously wealthy new partner trying to cover up some monkey business? Or was it Erin's ambitious boss, a distinguished primate specialist determined to remain top banana in her field? With the killer going ape to stay hidden, even Jess's animal instincts might not save her from a fate more fatal than a barrel of monkeys.... |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Fall Guy [A Rachel Alexander Mystery] by Carol Lea Benjamin |
| DESCRIPTION: | Former detective turned noted author and dog trainer, Carol Lea Benjamin, returns with her celebrated dark and edgy suspense series featuring smart and compelling private investigator Rachel Alexander--a new addition to the Morrow/Avon list. A New York City police officer nearing retirement dies "accidentally," while cleaning his service revolver in the bathroom of his Greenwich Village apartment. Private investigator, Rachel Alexander, is stunned to learn she's been named the executor to his will--after all, they'd only met when she was doing pet therapy with her pit bull, Dashiell. A member of Rachel's 9/11 survivors group, the officer never spoke at meetings--a really hard case. But then there was the one time he took Dash for a walk around the block. When Dash returned, the fur on his head was soaked with tears.... Was this death really a suicide? And why would the deceased have chosen a near stranger to perform such an intimate task--especially when he's survived by a brother and sister? As Rachel sets about her work, she soon discovers a mystery from the deceased's childhood that may have led to this terrible tragedy.... |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Hard Way [A Rachel Alexander Mystery] by Carol Lea Benjamin |
| DESCRIPTION: | A lifelong New Yorker, Rachel Alexander has seen her city change shape through the years. But while New York has never been cleaner and crime is rapidly in decline, a vestige of grittier days remains. When wealthy business owner Eleanor Redstone approaches Rachel to ask if she can investigate her father's murder--a brutal slaying that occurred when he was pushed onto the subway tracks--Rachel takes the case, plunging herself into parts of the city only its poorest residents have ever known. Because to solve Gardner Redstone's murder, Rachel must disguise herself as a homeless woman and live on the streets, searching for the dispossessed man witnesses say made the fatal push. In one of the coldest winters New York City has seen in years, Rachel is helped by a homeless Iraq War veteran, a man whose sad circumstances leave Rachel pondering her own fortunate life. This is a once-in-a-lifetime case that, before it's over, will engulf Rachel in a dangerous new world and change the way that she sees her city forever. As her fans have come to expect, Carol Lea Benjamin once again uses deft plotting, an intimate knowledge of New York, and a considerable skill for creating believable and compelling characters to bring this captivating story to life. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Without a Word [A Rachel Alexander Mystery] by Carol Lea Benjamin |
| DESCRIPTION: | Private investigator Rachel Alexander and her pit bull Dashiell return in this stylish, dark, emotionally complex seventh mystery from former detective and noted dog trainer Carol Lea Benjamin. When a distraught father approaches private investigator Rachel Alexander in a New York City park, asking her to help find his missing wife, Rachel accepts--reluctantly. After all, the chances of finding a woman who disappeared without a trace--and without a word--five years earlier are slim. But it's the missing woman's daughter who touches her most deeply--a troubled young girl whose mother's disappearance has rendered her mute. The child is also suspected of the murder of her doctor, a rich neurologist who was brutally stabbed one night while he was alone in his office. Rachel knows the disturbed girl can't be a murderer, but her investigation reveals that against all odds, it could be someone from her past. And against a backdrop of betrayal, neglect, and a city at times as lonely and frightening as a child's worst nightmares, Rachel's involvement in the case uncovers issues more complex, and more heartbreaking, than she's ever seen--problems that someone was willing to die, or even kill, for. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Turnaround by George Pelecanos |
| DESCRIPTION: | On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it. THE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of D.C. today, from the diners and auto garages of the city to the inside of Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, where wounded men and women have returned to the world in a time of war. A novel of fathers and sons, wives and husbands, loss, victory and violent redemption, THE TURNAROUND is another compelling, highly charged novel from George Pelecanos, "the best crime novelist in America."--Oregonian |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $17.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Circle of Blood by Alane Ferguson |
| DESCRIPTION: | As the assistant to her father, the county coroner of Silverton, Colorado, Cameryn Mahoney gets to witness all aspects of death, including the autopsy room. Yet somehow that feels easy, compared to her personal life. Now that her long-lost mother has made a surprise return, Cameryn's more confused than ever. Things only get worse when she picks up a mysterious young hitch-hiker. Cameryn senses that the girl is running away from something, but before she can find out more, the girl is found dead--a gun in her hand. Is it suicide? Or something even more sinister? Mixing forensic details and ripped-from-the-headlines themes, Alane Ferguson makes her readers' hearts pound yet again with this edge-of-your seat forensic mystery! |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $15.99 |
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| TITLE: | Death by Bikini by Linda Gerber |
| DESCRIPTION: | A fun, sexy, murder-mystery romance for all teen sleuths! Aphra Behn Connolly has the type of life most teenage girls envy. She lives on a remote tropical island and spends most of her time eavesdropping on the rich and famous. The problem is that her family's resort allows few opportunities for her to make friends--much less to meet cute boys. So when a smoldering Seth Mulo arrives with his parents, she's immediately drawn to him. Sure, he's a little bit guarded, and sure his parents are rather cold, and okay he won't say a word about his past, but their chemistry is undeniable. Then a famous rock star's girlfriend turns up dead on the beach--strangled by her own bikini top--and alarm bells sound. Is it too great a coincidence that Seth's family turned up just one day before a murder? As the plot thickens, Aphra finds that danger lurks behind even the most unexpected of faces.... |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Some Like It Hot-Buttered [A Double Feature Mystery] by Jeffrey Cohen |
| DESCRIPTION: | Elliot Freed, a recovering writer and husband, socked all his savings-and the alimony from his ex-wife-into the Comedy Tonight movie theater, never suspecting it would become a crime scene... Poisoned popcorn killed the dead guy in Row S, Seat 18, and to the chagrin of the local police, Elliot starts his own investigation, one that may put the theater--and Elliot--on the cutting room floor. |
| CATEGORY: | Mystery/Crime |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | The Brutal Language of Love: Stories by Alicia Erian |
| DESCRIPTION: | Alicia Erian's characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. In "Alcatraz," we meet a middle-school spelling champion who spends her afternoons taking baths with the boy next door. In "Almonds and Cherries," a young woman turns an unexpectedly arousing bra-shopping experience into a short film, with ramifications for everyone around her. In "On the Occasion of My Ruination," a college-bound student plots to lose her virginity to a pizza parlor waiter. The Brutal Language of Love challenges traditional notions of right and wrong with what has become Erian's signature--an achingly stylish humor and a deep understanding of the brutal truth about human nature. These surprising, provocative, and deeply resonant stories marked the emergence of a major talent. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $11.99 |
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| TITLE: | Just Too Good to Be True by E. Lynn Harris |
| DESCRIPTION: | Harris serves up a treat that will capture and enchant audiences everywhere--a big, bold, and irresistible novel about football, family, and secrets. Brady Bledsoe and his mother, Carmyn, have a strong relationship. A single mother, faithful churchgoer, and the owner of several successful Atlanta beauty salons, Carmyn has devoted herself to her son and his dream of becoming a professional football player. Brady has always followed her lead, including becoming a member of the church's "Celibacy Circle." Now in his senior year at college, the smart, and very handsome, Brady is a lead contender for the Heisman Trophy and a spot in the NFL. As sports agents hover around Brady, Barrett, a beautiful and charming cheerleader, sets her mind on tempting the celibate Brady and getting a piece of his multimillion-dollar future--but is that all she wants from him, and is she acting alone? Carmyn is determined to protect her son. She's also determined to protect the secret she's kept from Brady his whole life. As things heat up on campus and Carmyn and Brady's idyllic relationship starts to crumble, mother and son begin to wonder about the other--are you just too good to be true? A sweeping novel about mothers and sons, football and beauty shops, secrets and lies, JUST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE has all the ingredients that have made E. Lynn Harris a bestselling author: family, friendship, faith, and love. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $17.95 |
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| TITLE: | Traveling Light by Katrina Kittle |
| DESCRIPTION: | "Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face" was the best advice Summer Zwolenick ever received from her father, though she didn't recognize it at the time. Three years after the accident that ended her career as a ballerina, she is back in the familiar suburbs of Dayton, Ohio, teaching at a local high school. But it wasn't nostalgia that called Summer home. It was her need to spend quality time with her brother, Todd, and his devoted partner, Jacob. Todd, the golden athlete whose strength and spirit encouraged Summer to nurture her own unique talents and follow her dream, is in the final stages of a terminal illness. In a few short months, he will be dead--leaving Summer only a handful of precious days to learn all the lessons her brother still has to teach her ... from how to love and how to live to how to let go. Traveling Light is the deeply moving debut novel from Katrina Kittle, the acclaimed author of The Kindness of Strangers--an unforgettable story of love, bonds, and promises that endure longer than life itself. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $10.95 |
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| TITLE: | The Boat of Dreams: A Christmas Story by Richard Preston |
| DESCRIPTION: | In 1967, William T. Foster, Sr., a 34-year-old Army Reserve is called to Vietnam and lost in actions. He leaves his beloved wife, Sarah Ann, daughter, Lila, and 14-year-old son, William Jr. They live in a trailer on the coast of Maine, and parked beside the trailer is William Sr.'s beautiful but unreliable lobster boat, the Sarah Ann.The December afternoons are lonely and dark for Will and Lila, who must come home from school alone while their mother works. They start to get scared when they notice evidence that someone has been visiting the trailer, and when they come home to find a hard-drinking, somewhat smelly old ghost watching TV, it takes them a while to realize he's ... Santa Claus. What Santa does with the lobster boat and how he handles Will's one and only Christmas dream ("All I want for Christmas is my Dad back") is the story of The Boat of Dreams. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $11.99 |
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| TITLE: |  Last Kiss by Luanne Rice |
| DESCRIPTION: | New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice returns to Hubbard's Point, Connecticut, and to characters from her beloved Beach Girls, to tell the haunting story of a close-knit community grappling with a heartbreaking mystery, and of a woman rebuilding her world and reclaiming a love she believed lost a lifetime ago. A face on a poster, a name in the news, an inexplicable tragedy. A promising young man goes out one warm summer evening and is found dead--murdered--less than twenty-four hours later. No motive. No clues. No answers. Most people reflect briefly on the disturbing headlines, perhaps say a silent prayer of safely removed sympathy, and go on with their lives. But what if the young man was your son? Or your true love? Nearly a year after the death of eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn't played a note of the music that was once her life's passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie's heartbroken girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, whom she regards as a daughter. Nell won't rest until she finds out what really happened to the boy she loved. Out of the past she summons a man she believes cares enough, and is tough enough, to uncover the truth--Sheridan's long-ago soul mate, Gavin Dawson. Now Gavin's boat, the Squire Toby, sits anchored in the harbor within sight of the window of the woman he once loved, still loves, and will always love. Sheridan, too, had once fervently believed in the miraculous power of love and healing, forgiveness, connection, and reconnection. But that faith died along with her son.... Unfolding among the Hubbard's Point people and places that fans have come to treasure, and replete with feeling and mystery, Last Kiss weighs the power of the past to heal as well as wound, in a captivating tale of love, loss, and redemption that no reader will ever forget. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $19.95 |
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| TITLE: | Ancient Highway by Bret Lott |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the bestselling author of Jewel and The Difference Between Women and Men comes a haunting novel of home, family, and the pursuit of lost dreams. Ancient Highway brilliantly weaves together the hopes and regrets of three characters from three generations as they reconcile who they are and who they might have been. In 1925, a fourteen-year-old boy leaves his family's farm and hops a boxcar in a dusty Texas field, heading for Hollywood and a life in the "flickers." In 1947, a ten-year-old girl aches for a real home with a real family in a wide-open space, far from the crowded Los Angeles streets where her handsome cowboy father chases stardom and her mother holds a secret. In 1980, a young man just out of the Navy visits his elderly yet colorful grandparents in Los Angeles, eager to uncover his family's silent history. For the Holmeses, a longing for something else--another place, a second chance--seems to run in the family DNA. From Earl's journey west toward Hollywood glory, to his daughter Joan's wish for a normal existence away from the bright lights, to his grandson Brad's yearning for truth, this deep-rooted desire sustains them, no matter how much the goal eludes them. But ultimately, in each generation, a family crisis forces a turning away from the horizon and the acceptance of a reality that is by turns harsh and healing. Inspired by stories of his own family, Bret Lott beautifully renders the lives of ordinary people with extraordinary faith in a mesmerizing and finely wrought tale of love and letting go. |
| CATEGORY: | Mainstream |
| PRICE: | $18.00 |
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| TITLE: | The Condition by Jennifer Haigh |
| DESCRIPTION: | The Condition tells the story of the McKotches, a proper New England family that comes apart during one fateful summer. The year is 1976, and the family, Frank McKotch, an eminent scientist; his pedigreed wife, Paulette; and their three beautiful children has embarked on its annual vacation at the Captain's House, the grand old family retreat on Cape Cod. One day on the beach, Frank is struck by an image he cannot forget: his thirteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, strangely infantile in her child-sized bikini, standing a full head shorter than her younger cousin Charlotte. At that moment he knows a truth that he can never again unknown something is terribly wrong with his only daughter. The McKotch family will never be the same. Twenty years after Gwen's diagnosis with Turner's syndrome, a genetic condition that has prevented her from maturing, trapping her forever in the body of a child, all five family members are still dealing with the fallout. Each believes himself crippled by some secret pathology; each feels responsible for the family's demise. Frank and Paulette are acrimoniously divorced. Billy, the eldest son, is dutiful but distant, a handsome Manhattan cardiologist with a life built on compromise. His brother, Scott, awakens from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job, a regrettable marriage, and a vinyl-sided tract house in the suburbs. And Gwen is silent and emotionally aloof, a bright, accomplished woman who spurns any interaction with those around her. She makes peace with the hermetic life she's constructed until, well into her thirties, she falls in love for the first time. And suddenly, once again, the family's world is tilted on its axis. Compassionate yet unflinchingly honest, witty and almost painfully astute, The Condition explores the power of family mythologies, the self-delusions, denials, and inescapable truths that forever bind fathers and mothers and siblings. |
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| PRICE: | $19.95 |
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| TITLE: | Good-bye and Amen by Beth Gutcheon |
| DESCRIPTION: | In a summer cottage on the coast of Maine, an unlikely love was nurtured, a marriage endured, and a family survived. Now it is time for the children of that marriage to make peace with the wounds and the treasures left to them. And to sort out which is which. Beth Gutcheon's critically acclaimed family saga, Leeway Cottage, was a major achievement: a vivid and moving tale of war and marriage and their consequences that enchanted readers. Good-bye and Amen is the next chapter for the family of Leeway Cottage, the story of what happens when those most powerful people in any family drama, the parents, have left the stage. The complicated marriage of the gifted Danish pianist Laurus Moss to the provincial American child of privilege Sydney Brant was a mystery to many who knew them, including their three children. Now, Eleanor, Monica, and Jimmy Moss have to decide how to divide or share what Laurus and Sydney have left them without losing one another. Secure and cheerful Eleanor, the oldest, wants little for herself but much for her children. Monica, the least-loved middle child, brings her youthful scars to the table, as well as the baggage of a difficult marriage to the charismatic Norman, who left a brilliant legal career, though not his ambition, to become an Episcopal priest. Youngest and best-loved Jimmy, who made a train wreck of his young adulthood, has returned after a long period of alienation from the family surprisingly intact, but extremely hard for his sisters to read. Having lived through childhoods both materially blessed and emotionally difficult, with a father who could seem uninvolved and a mother who loved a good family game of "let's you and him fight," the Mosses have formed strong adult bonds that none of them wants to damage. But it's difficult to divide a beloved summer house three ways and keep it too. They all know what's at stake--in a world of atomized families, a house like Leeway Cottage can be the glue that keeps generations of cousins and grandchildren deeply connected to one another. But knowing it's important doesn't make it easy. |
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| PRICE: | $19.95 |
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| TITLE: | Can I Get a Witness? by ReShonda Tate Billingsley |
| DESCRIPTION: | The irony of a divorce-court judge getting divorced herself is not lost on Vanessa Colton-Kirk. After all, she's seen everything in her notorious Houston courtroom, where she's presided over the breakup of countless unhappy and disillusioned couples. Even her own sister, Dionne, is dealing with a relationship drama of her own, a betrayal that's left Dionne hungry for revenge on the man she hoped to marry. But when career-driven Vanessa chooses to work late on the night of her fifth wedding anniversary, her husband, Thomas, decides he's had enough of her putting work before starting the family he so desperately wants--and he tells her he wants out. In a last-ditch effort to save the marriage, their own judge orders Vanessa and Thomas to attend a spiritual retreat. She goes--but not without a fight. And just when she thinks she's won, fate steps in and helps her see things in a whole new light. Now Vanessa and her sister face the toughest choices of their lives. Can Dionne untangle herself from a payback plan gone horribly wrong? Can Vanessa rebuild a bond that she had a big part in destroying? Will she learn from her own mistakes and her years of experience on the bench? Or will she need something else to keep a tide of bitterness from taking over her life? |
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| TITLE: | Grosse Pointe Girl: Tales from a Suburban Adolescence by Sarah Grace McCandless |
| DESCRIPTION: | Welcome to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where social rank is determined by the age of your money and the dryness of your martini. The new girl in town, Emma Harris, must prove herself hip to the rigid rules of adolescent conformity. The quest for cool, she discovers, is one long final exam. To pass she must be cruel to be kind (ditching her best friend for the popular crowd), dress to impress (trading her favorite Esprit shirt for three plastic bracelets), and master the art of seduction (puckering up with Mulberry Stain or Peaches 'n' Cream lip gloss). Life is all about making choices--the right ones.Will Emma's social acrobatics put her on the short list for that coveted country club membership? Will the digits of her zip code pass muster? If her parents split up, will the gossip help or hurt her in the rankings? Grosse Pointe Girl serves as an indispensable road map through the dysfunction privilege brings. So put on your Guess? jeans and your jelly shoes and come along for the ride to the adolescent days that time forgot, but you never will. |
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| TITLE: | The Hollywood Dodo by Geoff Nicholson |
| DESCRIPTION: | Henry Cadwallader, an English doctor, is accompanying his aspiring-actress daughter on a trip to Hollywood, fearing that she will be corrupted. Once there, however, he finds that he is the one being corrupted, at every turn. On the plane they have met Rick McCartney, a young American who calls himself 'an auteur of the future'. Rick is trying to make a movie called 'The Penultimate Dodo', a costume drama set in 17th century England about a man who owns what he fears is the last dodo on earth. Dorothy Cadwallader's quest for fame begins badly and goes downhill from there. Meanwhile, Henry becomes involved with a former actress turned realtor. The lives of Henry and Dorothy once again intersect with that of Rick McCartney, to dramatic effect. All find themselves drawn into a world of Hollywood glamour, obsession, pornography and dodos, where dreams die and extinction threatens. The Hollywood Dodo is a complex, many-layered novel in the tradition of Nicholson's highly acclaimed Bleeding London. |
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| TITLE: | Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead by Saralee Rosenberg |
| DESCRIPTION: | In Mindy's yoga-obsessed, thirty-is-the-new-wife neighborhood, every day is a battle between Dunkin' Donuts, her jaws-of-life jeans, and Beth Diamond, the self-absorbed sancti-mommy next door who looks sixteen from the back. So much for sharing the chores, the stores, and the occasional mischief to rival Wisteria Lane. It's another day, another dilemma until Beth's marriage becomes fodder on Facebook. Suddenly the Ivy League blonde needs to be "friended," and Mindy is the last mom standing. Together they take on hormones and hunger, family feuds and fidelity, and a harrowing journey that spills the truth about an unplanned pregnancy and a seventy-year-old miracle that altered their fates forever. Dear Neighbor, Drop Dead is a hilarious, stirring romp over fences and defenses that begs the question, what did you do to deserve living next door to a crazy woman? Sometimes it's worth finding out. |
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| TITLE: | Thin Skin by Emma Forrest |
| DESCRIPTION: | Meet Ruby: a bedraggled, stinking romance heroine. At fifteen, Ruby left home, got herself an agent and became a film star. Now twenty, she lives alone in a world of hotels and fast food. Destructive and charming, she has left the man who loves her, been fired by her agent, and is starring in a film opposite the delectable Aslan. It is quite possibly her last chance. Striking, funny and razor sharp, THIN SKIN is a novel in which you have to look over the edge in order to see your way back. |
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| PRICE: | $11.99 |
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| TITLE: | Don't You Forget About Me by Jancee Dunn |
| DESCRIPTION: | After earning rave reviews with her rock-and-roll memoir But Enough About Me, Jancee Dunn takes on fiction in this comically poignant debut, a perfect read for anyone who has ever looked back nostalgically and wondered what might have been. At thirty-eight, Lillian Curtis is content with her life. She enjoys her routine as a producer for a talk show in New York City starring showbiz veteran Vi ("short for vibrant") Barbour, a spirited senior. Lillian's relationship with her husband is pleasant if no longer exciting. Most nights she is more than happy to come home to her apartment and crawl into her pajamas. Then she's hit with a piece of shocking news: Her husband wants a divorce. Blindsided, Lillian takes a leave of absence and moves back to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey. Nestled in her childhood bedroom, where Duran Duran and Squeeze posters still cover the walls, she finds high school memories a healing salve to her troubles. She hurtles backward into her teen years, driving too fast, digging up mix tapes, and tentatively reconciling with Dawn, a childhood friend she once betrayed. Punctuating her stroll down memory lane is an invitation to the Bethel Memorial High School class of 1988 twenty-year reunion. It just might be Lillian's chance to reconnect with her long-lost boyfriend, Christian Somers, who is expected to attend. Will it be just like heaven? Lillian discovers, as we all must, the pitfalls of glorifying the glory days, the mortification of failing as a thirty-something adult, and the impossibility of fully recapturing the past. Don't You Forget About Me is for anyone who looks back and wonders: What if? |
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| PRICE: | $18.00 |
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| TITLE: | When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale |
| DESCRIPTION: | Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He carefully watches over his willful little sister, Jemima, and his mother, Hannah. When Hannah becomes convinced that their estranged father is stalking them, the family flees London and heads for Rome, where Hannah lived happily as a young woman. For Lawrence, fascinated by stories of popes and emperors, Rome is an adventure. Though they are short of money, and move from home to home, staying with his mother's old friends, little by little their new life seems to be taking shape. But the trouble that brought them to Italy will not quite leave them in peace. Narrated in Lawrence's perfectly rendered voice, When We Were Romans powerfully evokes the emotions and confusions of childhood--the triumphs, the jealousies, the fears, and the love. Even as everything he understands is turned upside down, Lawrence remains determined to keep his family together. Like the young narrators of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and To Kill a Mockingbird, Lawrence views the world from a perspective that is at once endearingly innocent and preternaturally wise. |
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| PRICE: | $19.50 |
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| TITLE: | Empress by Shan Sa |
| DESCRIPTION: | Such is the voice of Shan Sa's unforgettable heroine in her latest literary masterpiece, Empress. Empress Wu, one of China's most controversial figures, was its first and only female emperor, who emerged in the seventh century during the great Tang Dynasty and ushered in a golden age. Throughout history, her name has been defamed and her story distorted by those taking vengeance on a woman who dared to become emperor. But now, for the first time in thirteen centuries, Empress Wu (or Heavenlight, as we come to know her) flings open the gates of the Forbidden City and tells her own astonishing tale--revealing a fascinating, complex figure who in many ways remains modern to this day. Writing with epic assurance, poetry, and vivid historic detail, Shan Sa plumbs the psychological and philosophical depths of what it means to be a striving mortal in a tumultuous, power-hungry world. Empress is a great literary feat and a revelation for the ages. |
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| PRICE: | $11.95 |
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| TITLE: | Artichoke's Heart by Suzanne Supplee |
| DESCRIPTION: | Blubber meets Steel Magnolias in this funny and honest story about body image and family. Rosemary Goode is smart and funny and loyal and the best eyebrow waxer in Spring Hill, Tennessee. But only one thing seems to matter to anyone, including Rosemary: her weight. And when your mom runs the most successful (and gossipy) beauty shop in town, it can be hard to keep a low profile. Rosemary resolves to lose the weight, but her journey turns out to be about everything but the scale. Her life-changing, waist-shrinking year is captured with brutal honesty and humor, topped with an extra-large helping of Southern charm. A truly uncommon novel about an increasingly common problem. |
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| PRICE: | $16.99 |
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| TITLE: | Defining Dulcie by Paul Acampora |
| DESCRIPTION: | From a debut author comes a story of finding oneself in a place all too familiar. After Dulcie Morrigan Jones's dad dies, her mom decides they need to find a new life in California. But Dulcie doesn't understand what's wrong with her old life back in Newbury, Connecticut. So she heads across country and back home in her father's red 1968 Chevy pickup truck. When she arrives, she meets Roxanne, a girl whose home life makes Dulcie see that her own situation may not be all that bad after all. And as the summer comes to an end, Dulcie realizes that maybe it's necessary to leave a place in order to come back and find out who you really are. |
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| TITLE: | Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tashis |
| DESCRIPTION: | From a debut author comes a heart-warming novel about a unique girl and her seventh-grade experiences. Emma-Jean Lazarus is the smartest and strangest girl at William Gladstone Middle School. Her classmates don't understand her, but that's okay because Emma-Jean doesn't quite get them either. But one afternoon, all that changes when she sees Colleen Pomerantz crying in the girl's room. It is through Colleen that Emma-Jean gets a glimpse into what it is really like to be a seventh grader. And what she finds will send her tumbling out of a tree and questioning why she ever got involved in the first place. |
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| TITLE: | When It Happens by Susane Colasanti |
| DESCRIPTION: | Reminiscent of the movie Say Anything, a debut novel for all those searching for The One!Sara and Tobey couldn't be more different. She is focused on getting into her first-choice college; he wants to win Battle of the Bands. Sara's other goal is to find true love, so when Dave, a popular jock, asks her out, she's thrilled. But then there's Tobey. His amazing blue eyes and quirky wit always creep into her thoughts. It just so happens that one of Tobey's goals is also to make Sara fall in love with him. Told in alternating points of view, Sara and Tobey's real connection will have everyone rooting for them from the minute they meet! |
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| TITLE: | Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium by Robin Morgan |
| DESCRIPTION: | Thirty years after Robin Morgan's groundbreaking anthology, Sisterhood Is Powerful--named by The American Librarians' Association one of "The 100 Most Influential Books of the Twentieth Century"--comes this landmark new collection for the twenty-first century. Sisterhood Is Forever--with over 60 original essays Morgan commissioned from well-known feminist leaders plus energetic Gen X and Y activists--is a composite mural of the female experience in America: where we've been, where we are, where we're going. The stunning scope of topics ranges from reproductive, health, and environmental issues to workplace inequities and the economics of women's unpaid labor; from globalization to the politics of aging; from cyberspace, violence against women, and electoral politics to spirituality, the law, the media, and academia. The deliberately audacious mix of contributors spans different generations, races, ethnicities, and sexual preferences: CEOs, housewives, rock stars, farmers, scientists, prostituted women, politicians, women in prison, firefighters, disability activists, artists, flight attendants, an army general, an astronaut, an anchorwoman, even a pair of teens who edit a girls' magazine. Each article celebrates the writer's personal voice--her humor, passion, anger, and the integrity of her perspective--while offering the latest data on women's status, political analysis, new "how-to" tools for activism, and visionary yet practical strategies for the future--strategies needed now more than ever. Robin Morgan's own contributions are everything her readers expect: prophetic, powerfully argued, unsentimentally lyrical. From her introduction: "The book you hold in your hands is a tool for the future--a future also in your hands." Edna Acosta-Bele, Carol J. Adams, Margot Adler, Natalie Angier, Ellen Appel-Bronstein, Mary Baird, Brenda Berkman, Christine E. Bose, Kathy Boudin, Ellen Bravo, Vednita Carter, Wendy Chavkin, KimberlĂ Crenshaw, Gail Dines, Paula DiPerna, Helen Drusine, Andrea Dworkin, Eve Ensler, Barbara Findlen, Mary Foley, Patricia Friend, Theresa Funiciello, Carol Gilligan, Sara K. Gould, Ana Grossman The Guerrilla Girls, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Kathleen Hanna, Laura Hershey, Anita Hill, Florence Howe, Donna M. Hughes, Karla Jay, Mae C. Jemison, Carol Jenkins, Claudia J. Kennedy, Alice Kessler-Harris Clara Sue Kidwell, Frances Kissling, Sandy Lerner, Suzanne Braun Levine, Barbara Macdonald, Catharine A. MacKinnon Jane Roland Martin, Debra Michals, Robin Morgan Jessica Neuwirth, Judy Norsigian, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Grace Paley, Emma Peters-Axtell Cynthia Rich Amy Richards, Cecile Richards Carolyn Sachs, Marianne Schnall, Pat Schroeder, Patricia Silverthorn, Eleanor Smeal Roslyn D. Smith Gloria Steinem Mary Thom, Jasmine Victoria, Faye Wattleton, Marie Wilson, Helen Zia. |
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| TITLE: | How Dolly Parton Saved My Life [A Novel of the Jelly Jar Sisterhood] by Charlotte Connors |
| DESCRIPTION: | Dolly Parton once said, "If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." In the bustling city of Atlanta, four very different ladies take her advice to heart and open a catering business that will cater to them--successful, independent women who put their families first. But flouting the traditions and expectations of Southern society turns out to be more complicated than they ever anticipated. Even as the pressure of running a business bonds them together, the realities of managing real life threaten to tear the whole thing apart. As financial woes, personal hurts, and family troubles test the strength of their business and their friendship, they discover that sisterly support and lots of heartfelt prayer just might be the only way to survive. Full of sass, grit, and good old-fashioned faith, How Dolly Parton Saved My Life is a hilarious and poignant look at friendship with a distinctly Southern flair. |
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| TITLE: | Fleur de Leigh in Exile by Diane Leslie |
| DESCRIPTION: | Diane Leslie's first novel, Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime, chronicled young Fleur Leigh's glamorous misadventures in 1950s Hollywood. "Tres charmant indeed," Entertainment Weekly praised this Library Journal and Los Angeles Times Best Book of 1999. Fleur de Leigh in Exile finds fifteen-year-old Fleur in diminished circumstances. She transferred mid-semester to Tucson's Rancho Cambridge West--the cheapest boarding school in all the United States--where frail students convalesce in the arid clime and dine on the mess hall's "adobe melt." "Think of yourself as a conquistador," her B-movie actress mother urges, but Fleur's eyes are widened to the evils of prejudice and the burdens of combating it.After a night of dorm-room high jinks, Fleur and friends band together as the "Four-Letter Four." Sentenced to a civic-minded punishment deep in the desert, the "doomed do-gooders" encounter a grave situation far removed from Fleur's upper-class upbringing. Serious issues abound, but in Diane Leslie's world even the most painful moments are tinged with comedy.Diane Leslie's writing is "enchanting, believable, and wickedly funny" (Denver Post). Witty and fresh, Fleur de Leigh in Exile pits Heartland against Hollywood in a tale whose courageous heroine is as endearing in exile as ever before. |
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| TITLE: | A Year and a Day by Leslie Pietrzyk |
| DESCRIPTION: | Fifteen-year-old Alice dreams of her first kiss, has sleepovers, auditions for Our Town, and tries to pass high school biology. It's 1975, and at first look, her life would seem to be normal and unexceptional. But in the world that Leslie Pietrzyk paints, every moment she chronicles is revealed through the kaleidoscope of loss, stained by the fact that Alice's mother, without warning, note, or apology, deliberately parks her car on the railroad tracks, in the path of an oncoming train. In the emotional year that follows, Alice and her older brother find themselves in the care of their great aunt, forced to cope and move forward. Lonely and confused, Alice absorbs herself in her mother Annette's familiar rituals, trying to recapture their connection--only to be stunned by the sound of her mother's voice speaking to her, engaging Alice in "conversations" and offering some insight into the life that she had led, beyond her role as Alice's mother. |
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| TITLE: | Still Dirty by Vickie M. Stringer |
| DESCRIPTION: | Following the phenomenal success of Dirty Red, Essence bestselling author Vickie Stringer is back with a sizzling sequel, Still Dirty, and the notorious cast of characters--Red, Bacon, and Q--who made Dirty Red a hit. Red, the infamous expert of deception, is still up to no good, but faces challenges to baffle even the most clever hustler. Still, Red stops at nothing to outwit her adversaries and avoid being caught by either the law or the outlaws.In Still Dirty, Red is again caught in a web of murder, theft, and deceit. We find her and her boyfriend Q running for a plane to Mexico after a violent fight with her ex-boyfriend Bacon, a released convict. Bacon is on their heels and determined not to let Red get away alive. Will Q come to her rescue once again? Or will he tire of cleaning up after Red's dirty deeds? With an action-packed plot and sassy, stylish dialogue, Stringer creates a web of love and adventure that will keep you begging for more. |
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| TITLE: | The Last of the Angels: A Modern Iraqi Novel by Fadhil al-Azzawi |
| DESCRIPTION: | From a legendary writer both beloved and banished by Iraq--a fine work of Arabic literature in the vein of Naguib Mahfouz and Elias Khoury, and a magical and moving comic novel about the birth of modern Iraq.Kirkuk, Iraq, the 1950s. The day Hameed Nylon loses his job, and gains an unfortunate nickname, is the day that his life begins: dismissed as a chauffeur when rumors surface that he propositioned his British boss's posh-tart wife, Hameed finds his true calling as a revolutionary in an Iraq that is destined for a sea change. Also bent on bucking the system is Hameed's brother-in-law, the money-scheming butcher Khidir Musa, who runs off suddenly to Russia to find two brothers who have been missing since World War I. And the key to their fate is held by a seven-year-old boy, Burhan Abdallah, who stumbles upon an old chest in his attic that allows him to speak with three white-robed old men, beings who inform him that they are, in fact, angels. |
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| TITLE: | Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves. In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road. |
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| PRICE: | $14.95 |
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| TITLE: | Sagittarius (Super Horoscopes 2009) by Margarete Beim |
| DESCRIPTION: | The most comprehensive day-by-day predictions on the market. Every day, people depend on their horoscopes for a glimpse of what's to come--and Berkley's Super Horoscopes offer the predictions that they--researching for. With special sections on the history and uses of astrology, these updated books will show readers exactly what the future holds.Each sign's book includes: Detailed yearly and daily forecasts; Rising signs; Lucky numbers; Cusp born and cusp dates; Signs of the zodiac; Character analysis; Love, romance, and marriage compatibility guide; Moon tables; Planting and fishing guides; Influence of the moon and planets; November and December 2008 daily forecasts repeated. |
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| PRICE: | $9.99 |
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| TITLE: | Scorpio (Super Horoscopes 2009) by Margarete Beim |
| DESCRIPTION: | The most comprehensive day-by-day predictions on the market. Every day, people depend on their horoscopes for a glimpse of what's to come--and Berkley's Super Horoscopes offer the predictions that they--researching for. With special sections on the history and uses of astrology, these updated books will show readers exactly what the future holds.Each sign's book includes: Detailed yearly and daily forecasts; Rising signs; Lucky numbers; Cusp born and cusp dates; Signs of the zodiac; Character analysis; Love, romance, and marriage compatibility guide; Moon tables; Planting and fishing guides; Influence of the moon and planets; November and December 2008 daily forecasts repeated. |
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| PRICE: | $9.99 |
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| TITLE: | Going Down South by Bonnie Glover |
| DESCRIPTION: | From the author of The Middle Sister comes a heartwarming tale of second chances and the unparalleled love between mothers and daughters. When fifteen-year-old Olivia Jean finds herself in the "family way," her mother, Daisy, who has never been very maternal, springs into action. Daisy decides that Olivia Jean can't stay in New York and whisks her away to her grandmother's farm in Alabama to have the baby--even though Daisy and her mother, Birdie, have been estranged for years. When they arrive, Birdie lays down the law: Sure, her granddaughter can stay, but Daisy will have to stay as well. Though Daisy is furious, she has no choice. Now, under one little roof in the 1960s Deep South, three generations of spirited, proud women are forced to live together. One by one, they begin to lose their inhibitions and share their secrets. And as long-guarded truths emerge, a baby is born--a child with the power to turn these virtual strangers into a real, honest-to-goodness family. |
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| PRICE: | $10.00 |
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| TITLE: | Never Romance a Rake by Liz Carlyle |
| DESCRIPTION: | In this sizzling third book in New York Times bestselling author Liz Carlyle's compelling historical trilogy, a cynical rake joins a sinister game of cards with dangerously seductive stakes.If he wins this hand ... Shunning the glittering elite of high society Kieran, Baron Rothewell, prefers the dangerous pursuits of London's demimonde. Hardened by a tormented past, he cares little for anyone or anything. So how can he resist the wager proposed by the dissolute Comte de Valigny? A hand of cards for the possession of the comte's exquisite daughter.Will he win her heart--Abandoned by her highborn father--until he decides to use her--Mademoiselle Camille Marchand puts no trust in an aristocrat's honor, especially that of the notorious baron. She too is gambling--for her life--and Rothwell is just one more card to be used. But whatever dark desires run through his veins call to her own, and the heart plays its own |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $7.99 |
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| TITLE: | Dangerous Pleasures by Bertrice Small |
| DESCRIPTION: | "A new novel from "the reigning queen of ... erotica, romance, love, and lust."--Literary Times. New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small explores the deepest recesses of the imagination where one woman's sexual fantasies lie in wait.... Widowed with five children, stay at home mom Annie Miller has been just getting by--and growing restless because of it. Thinking Annie just needs a vacation, her sister enters her into a contest sponsored by The Channel, a network that caters to delivering women's fantasies. Annie wins the grand prize, a week at a luxurious spa--and gets a treat when she turns on the flat-screen TV. The one working channel lets Annie program--and experience--her own personal fantasy each night. Suddenly she's living out dreams she didn't even know she had. But now that she's experienced a complete sexual awakening, how will everyone in her former life handle this humble homemaker turned vivacious vixen? |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $14.00 |
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| TITLE: | My Wicked Enemy by Carolyn Jewel |
| DESCRIPTION: | Carson Phillip's life was turned upside down when she saw reclusive scholar Alvaro Magellan, an authority on ancient demon mythology and artifacts, commit a murder that was almost inhumane. Magellan raised Carson after her parents died and tried to help her through her debilitating headaches, a condition that made her just as reclusive as Magellan. Carson fears that his beliefs have caused him to lose it and she may be next, so she takes off but something is following her. Nikodemus, one of the most dangerous ancient demons, is after her. He is on a mission to kill both Magellan and Carson, who has been deemed a witch. But is she really? Carson is beginning to learn new things about herself and being classified as a witch makes sense to her. Nikodemus catches her and reveals that Magellan was only using her for her magical powers and has been killing demons to gain power and immortality and he is now after Nikodemus. Stunned, Carson doesn't know who to trust, but she knows that Magellan must be stopped. Nikodemus vows to help Carson learn and control her powers, all the while beginning a steamy romance. |
| CATEGORY: | Romance |
| PRICE: | $6.99 |
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| TITLE: | Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida by W. Hodding Carter |
| DESCRIPTION: | When the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan went into effect during the Clinton administration, Florida's great grassy wilderness garnered a host of national attention--and has since become a breeding ground for environmental dispute. What does it take to "save" a forest? How can it be preserved--Enter W. Hodding Carter. For an Outside magazine feature he's agreed to paddle the ninety-nine-mile waterway in Everglades National Park to examine the landscape from all angles--physical, political, cultural, and very personal--and get to the rock-bottom heart of the story. Stolen Water is the outgrowth of Carter's journey.Through investigative research, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with key players in the conservation controversy, Carter offers a rare portrait of a national treasure. Utterly important, and at times downright hilarious, Stolen Water is a classic American adventure tale, and an environmental parable for our time. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $11.99 |
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| TITLE: | Paula Deen Celebrates!: Best Dishes and Best Wishes for the Best Times of Your Life by Paula Deen |
| DESCRIPTION: | Beloved Food Network personality, restaurateur, and author Paula Deen loves a party, and in her latest book, Paula Deen Celebrates!, Paula shares with fans old and new how she celebrates a year's worth of holidays and special occasions. Now anyone can share in the down-home celebrations Paula, her husband, Michael, their kids, and extended family enjoy at their beautiful home in Savannah, Georgia. What better way to start off the New Year than with a New Year's Eve Brunch with friends--at midnight! This colorful celebration includes Crab and Spinach Casserole and Baked Tomatoes, and finishes with a quintessentially southern Hummingbird Cake and Irish Coffee. Welcome St. Patrick's Day, Savannah style, with Lamb Stew and Green Grits Pie. The centerpiece of an Easter dinner is a Peanut Butter-Glazed Ham, accompanied by Spinach-Swiss Casserole, Squash Boats, and flaky Butterhorns, with a bonus recipe for Ham Salad that makes eating leftovers a treat. Looking for a reason to party, south-of-the-border style? Try Paula's Cinco de Mayo Fiesta menu, with Macho Nachos and a cool and creamy Margarita Mousse. Paula honors the memory of her mother, and all the other women who have blessed her life, with a Mother's Day Tea of dainty sandwiches and irresistible cookies served on her best china, and fathers get their due with a Father's Day Boating Picnic. The Fourth of July is the perfect occasion for an Outdoor Grill Party and Low-Country Boil, and if what you want is a quiet evening at home, pop a movie in the DVD player and chow down on your choice of Paula's savory and sweet pizzas. Gather the family to watch some football and savor Jamie's Cheeseburger Pies, and give family and friends the gift of a sweet treat at the holidays with Paula's Icebox Fruitcake or Peppermint Bark. Her Christmas feast starts with Cranberry Holiday Brie and stars an impressive Standing Rib Roast, with Twice-Baked Potato Casserole. The show-stopping dessert is Paula's butter-laden Coconut Pound Cake glazed with coconut syrup and covered with icing and toasted coconut! Paula brings you into her home, her kitchen, and her heart with family stories and photographs. This time, her husband, Michael, sons Jamie and Bobby, and brother, Bubba, chime in to share their memories, too. Decorating and serving ideas will inspire you to use what you have to carry through a theme to make the most informal meal special. And Paula shares her most private thoughts in a special feature--Paula's Pearls of Wisdom--which you'll find with each menu. Paula Deen Celebrates! is Paula at her very southern best. Join her in making and sharing her best dishes for the best times of your life. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $17.99 |
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| TITLE: | Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer by Tim Stark |
| DESCRIPTION: | Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life. Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was living in Brooklyn, working days as a management consultant, and writing unpublished short stories by night. One evening, chancing upon a Dumpster full of discarded lumber, he carried the lumber home and built a germination rack for thousands of heirloom tomato seedlings. His crop soon outgrew the brownstone in which it had sprouted, forcing him to cart the seedlings to his family's farm in Pennsylvania, where they were transplanted into the ground by hand. When favorable weather brought in a bumper crop, Tim hauled his unusual tomatoes to New York City's Union Square Greenmarket, at a time when the tomato was unanimously red. The rest is history. Today, Eckerton Hill Farm does a booming trade in heirloom tomatoes and obscure chili peppers. Tim's tomatoes are featured on the menus of New York City's most demanding chefs and have even made the cover of Gourmet magazine. |
| CATEGORY: | General Nonfiction |
| PRICE: | $17.95 |
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| TITLE: | Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost |
| DESCRIPTION: | The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China--a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained. Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go big-time, taking on the world's most populous and intriguing nation. In Lost on Planet China, Troost escorts readers on a rollicking journey through the new beating heart of the modern world, from the megalopolises of Beijing and Shanghai to the Gobi Desert and the hinterlands of Tibet. Lost on Planet China finds Troost dodging deadly drivers in Shanghai; eating Yak in Tibet; deciphering restaurant menus (offering local favorites such as Cattle Penis with Garlic); visiting with Chairman Mao (still dead, very orange); and hiking (with 80,000 other people) up Tai Shan, China's most revered mountain. But in addition to his trademark gonzo adventures, the book also delivers a telling look at a vast and complex country on the brink of transformation that will soon shape the way we all work, live, and think. As Troost shows, while we may be familiar with Yao Ming or dim sum or the cheap, plastic products that line the shelves of every store, the real China remains a world--indeed, a planet--unto itself. Maarten Troost brings China to life as you've never seen it before, and his insightful, rip-roaringly funny narrative proves that once again he is one of the most entertaining and insightful armchair travel companions around. |
| CATEGORY: | Travel |
| PRICE: | $17.95 |
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| TITLE: | 8 Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island by Nick Thorpe |
| DESCRIPTION: | Even with the wind on our side and all eight of us pulling, we had never yet managed to change the complex sails.... Now we had to pull against the full force of the wind, in a storm, in the middle of the night.... So begins Nick Thorpe's unlikely journey to sail 2,500 miles from northern Chile to Easter Island on the Viracocha--a boat made of reeds. Captain Phil Buck's desire to test the waters in this pre-Incan boat was twofold: to reopen the controversial migration theories of Thor Heyerdahl, who sailed his boat the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947, and to have one heck of a time in the process. With a crew that includes a tree surgeon, a jewelry salesman, and two ducks, Thorpe embarks on an unnerving Pacific voyage that is by turns fierce and farce: from the bungled phone call that triggered a naval rescue alert to the constant race against the inexorable sinking of the soggy hull. A story of high tides and even higher stakes, 8 Men and a Duck is a tale of friendship, fate, and the unlikely distances people will travel for true adventure. |
| CATEGORY: | Travel |
| PRICE: | $17.99 |
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| TITLE: | My Mercedes is Not for Sale by Jeroen Van Bergeijk |
| DESCRIPTION: | A journalist's intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa. "Look, there's my car," I say, pointing at my Mercedes in the parking lot.
"Where?" a fellow desert traveler asks.
"There, that Mercedes," I say.
He looks at me, questioning. "You want to drive that through the Sahara?" Jeroen van Bergeijk came up with what seemed like a great scheme for making a quick profit: buy a clunker of a car in his native Amsterdam and resell it in the Third World, where a market even for jalopies still thrives. His chariot of choice is a rusted-out 1988 Mercedes 190D with 220,000 kilometers on its odometer; his route will take him from Holland through Morocco, across the Sahara, and into some of the least trodden parts of Africa. My Mercedes Is Not for Sale is a rollicking tale of an innocent abroad. The author finds himself facing a driving challenge akin to the Dakar Rally but encounters obstacles never dreamed of by race-car drivers: active minefields, occasional banditry--mostly by the border guards--and a teenage, chain-smoking desert guide with a fondness for Tupac lyrics. Food and water are scarce, sandstorms are frequent, and all he has to patch up his many car breakdowns thousands of miles from civilization is a bar of soap, some duct tape, and a pair of women's nylons. Then there's the coup he survived. My Mercedes Is Not for Sale captures more than the adventure--it vividly portrays the impact of globalization on Africa through a surprise-filled journey into its thriving car culture, while asking the question: is the white man's burden really a used car? |
| CATEGORY: | Travel |
| PRICE: | $9.95 |
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