Penelope Ward

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: You're not supposed to want the one who torments you. When my stepbrother, Elec, came to live with us my senior year, I wasn't prepared for how much of a jerk he'd be. I hated that he took it out on me because he didn't want to be here. I hated that he brought girls from our high school back to his room. But what I hated the most was the unwanted way my body reacted to him. At first, I thought all he had going for him were his rock-hard tattooed abs and chiseled face. But things started changing between us, and it all came to a head one night. Then, just as quickly as he'd come into my life, he was gone back to California. It had been years since I'd seen Elec. When tragedy struck our family, I'd have to face him again. And holy hell, the teenager who made me crazy was now a man that drove me insane. I had a feeling my heart was about to get broken again. Stepbrother Dearest is a standalone novel.

Stepbrother Dearest

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Dan Kois

A Novel

"Vintage Contemporaries is about being young and becoming less young, exploring friendship (sometimes magical, sometimes messy), parenthood (ditto), and how to reconcile youthful ambition and ideals with real life. It's a warm and big-hearted coming of age story that made me wistful for my own twenties, set in a vividly rendered and long-vanished New York City."--Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind

Slate editor Dan Kois makes his fiction debut with this stunning coming-of-age novel set in New York City, about the joys of unexpected life-altering friendships, the power of finding ourselves in the moment, and the importance of forgiving ourselves when we inevitably mess everything up.

It's 1991. Em moved to New York City for excitement and possibility, but the big city isn't quite what she thought it would be. Working as a literary agent's assistant, she's down to her last nineteen dollars but has made two close friends: Emily, a firebrand theater director living in a Lower East Side squat, and Lucy, a middle-aged novelist and single mom. Em's life revolves around these two wildly different women and their vividly disparate yet equally assured views of art and the world. But who is Em, and what does she want to become?

It's 2004. Em is now Emily, a successful book editor, happily married and barely coping with the challenges of a new baby. And suddenly Lucy and Emily return to her life: Her old friend Lucy's posthumous book needs a publisher, and her ex-friend Emily wants to rekindle their relationship. As they did once before, these two women--one dead, one very alive--force Emily to reckon with her decisions, her failures, and what kind of creative life she wants to lead.

A sharp, reflective, and funny story of a young woman coming into herself and struggling to find her place, Vintage Contemporaries is a novel about art, parenthood, loyalty, and fighting for a cause--the times we do the right thing, and the times we fail--set in New York City on both sides of the millennium.

Vintage Contemporaries

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Krihstin Zink

Signed by author. Personalized for Amanda

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

An Addictive Novella

3 Grams

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Maya Hughes

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A deliciously steamy enemies with benefits romance.

Declan McAvoy. Voted Biggest Flirt. Highest goal scorer in Kings of Rittenhouse Prep history. 
Everyone's impressed, well except one person...

After a blow out in high school, Makenna Halstead and I were happy to never have to cross paths again. Except life has a way of knocking you straight in the teeth with a puck when you least expect it. She hasn't just returned to my life, she crashed into it like a wrecking ball...into my college kingdom, into my class, and smack dab into the seat next to mine. My new lab partner to be exact. 

For years we hated each other... I may be King on the ice, but she is the Ice Queen. She has no problem calling me out, doesn't back down, and her piercing blue eyes have me picturing more than than just my arms wrapped around her. 

Now we're stuck with each other and there's no getting around that fact that we have to work together. My hockey career hangs in the balance. Problem? Oh, yeah.

I can't deny it. I want her. More than I ever thought I could want a woman. I've got one semester-only four months-to convince her everything she thought about me was wrong. 

Will my queen let me prove to her I'm the King she can't live without? 

Only one way to find out...

Shameless King - KDP

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Regina Bartley

It's time for Sawyer to start living her life. Since she was fifteen she has taken care of everyone but herself, including her older brother Dane. She has been lying to herself to keep from feeling the pain of her parent's death. Now she is twenty and she's ready to start a life of her own. Moving into her parent's lake house would be the perfect escape. Wouldn't it? That's what she thought. Only, it led her right into the emotional place she's been hiding from all this time. All of those years of running from her feelings, she now has to face them. It's too much. She can't deal with it alone. Someone has to help. She'll do anything to escape the heartbreak, but you can only run so far. Travis can't believe his eyes; his half-opened, blood shot eyes. Sawyer Evans was in the flesh and standing over him. He hadn't seen this girl since he was ten years old. Travis only saw the Evan's during the summer when they moved into the lake house. He and Dane were best friends. When Dane invited him and the old gang to a welcome back party at the Lake House, he couldn't wait to go. It turns out getting wasted was only half the fun. Seeing Sawyer was the other half. She was the sexiest girl he'd ever seen and he was going to make sure that she knew it. Only she shot him down time and time again. He's determined to break down those walls and get inside her head, but he'll have to be sober to do it, and no matter how hard he tries, she'll always run. He can't keep chasing her. He has to figure out a way to make her stay. It's time to stop running, stop hiding, and start learning where the true escape lies. Everyone will face heartbreak, but not everyone will find love. Stand Alone Novel for ages 18+ due to graphic language, and sexual content.

Escaping Heartbreak

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In the Moment

Cambria Hebert

Signed by author. Has some coloring sheets in it

Watch out, girls. Here she comes. There's always that girl. She's popular, beautiful, and has everything together. The one with the perfectly teased hair, arms full of colorful (but coordinated) bangles, and expertly painted bright-pink lips. A teacher's pet. Daddy's girl. Everyone loves her. Because everyone is afraid to challenge her. Kelly Ross is that girl. She uses her powers of popularity for good... her own good. She doesn't care who she hurts. She always gets what she wants. Including your man. When she walks down the hallway in her hot-pink heels and ruffled denim miniskirt, all the boys' heads turn. And all the girls start whispering. Man-eater. There hasn't been a single guy Kelly hasn't been able to chew up and spit out. Until now. Kelly has finally met her match. He's been there all along, and he's the exact opposite of everything you'd expect. *Paperback not only includes a standalone novella, but also TEN 80's themed coloring pages + colorable chapter headings

Maneater

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Cat Sebastian

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

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Kristin Mayer

Nothing is as it seems. Our love. Our life. Our future. Were the lies to protect me? Or was it something else?There has to be a reason behind all of this. Finding out he doesn't love me would devastate me beyond belief. They say white lies are harmless, but I don't believe it. There has to be more to our story.

White Lies

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Monica Murphy

The second novel in this darkly sexy contemporary series from bestselling author Monica Murphy wraps up an emotionally powerful two-part tale of forbidden love.
 
The truth hurts, they say--and my pain cuts deep. While I was falling for Ethan, he was deceiving me the entire time. He held a huge secret, protected by his lies. When I discovered what he was hiding, the truth shook my world, threatening to ruin us forever. Ruin me. But I soon realized that what we share can't be destroyed.
 
The connection between us is too strong. It always has been. I can't deny him any longer. And I can't deny my truth: I'm in love with Ethan.
 
I don't want to let him go.
 
While we're trying our best to make this relationship work, other forces are fighting against us. My family, who wants to keep me safe. The media obsessed with my tragic past. The public that feeds off of it. Even Ethan's father--the man who nearly destroyed me all those years ago. He's doing his best to finish the job.
 
Despite my love for Ethan, the doubts creep in, clouding my mind. Is he worth the pain? Will our love survive, or will we have no choice but to end it--end us--once and for all?

Praise for Never Let You Go
 
"As a reader, this relationship shouldn't work even though it has to work. It's only because of Ms. Murphy's skill in delicately addressing survival from sexual assault and abuse that we find the capacity to heal through touch and love."--Heroes and Heartbreakers
 
"Much like the first book, this story was an emotional roller-coaster ride that never really let up. But that's what made the story so fantastic and engaging."--Emilie's Book World
 
"A story that will grip you, pull you in, and keep you immersed til the end . . . an emotional and sweet story that will stay with me for years to come."--Read-Love-Blog
 
"A dramatic and beautiful and frightening story."--Fictional Candy
 
"Murphy nailed it with this one for sure. . . . Katherine and Ethan. Katie and Will. They are such a dynamic couple. Everything they have been through makes their bond tight."--Mommy's a Book Whore
 
Praise for Monica Murphy's Never Tear Us Apart
 
"All the best parts of romance and betrayal . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."--New York Times bestselling author Jay Crownover
 
"A powerful story that left me raw yet hopeful."--USA Today bestselling author K. A. Tucker

"A powerful story of friendship, trauma, coping and betrayal. The characters jump off the page into real life and will have readers gasping and feeling every emotion that they go through. Another amazing book to add to Murphy's already stellar library!"--RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars)
 
"Murphy has written a compelling and emotional love story of two severely broken people, each of whom can be healed only by the other."--Booklist
 
"Murphy imbues these characters with genuineness and plausibility. . . . [Readers] will look forward to the promised sequel."--Publishers Weekly

Never Let You Go

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Willow Winters

Heartless. Ruthless. Stone Cold Killer. That's me. I destroy anything in my path to get what I want.Then she showed up. Olivia Bell. She's sweet and innocent, and in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Now she's mine. My property. I own her. Given to me as a bargaining chip.She's not a part of my plans, but plans change. Her pouty lips and gorgeous curves beg me to break her. Taking her lush curvy body, and ravaging it for all its worth would be easy, but I want to earn her submission. It's addictive. I want it. I want her.They wanted me to break her. I am. And I'm enjoying it. Now they want to take her from me. Over my dead body.Let them come for us. I'll kill them all.By the time I'm done, everyone will know. She belongs to me.**This is a DARK romance. A full-length standalone novel with HEA and no cheating**

Broken: a Dark Romance

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Z. Willett

Book One in the Red Carpet Series

A.P. Moore's provocative romance throws her onto the Best Sellers list, but Alexandria's life was far from the steamy pages of her romance. Andrew Hughes, the most desired man in Hollywood was at the height of his career. Nothing could be better, until a chance meeting with Alexandria Moore that went horribly wrong. The man who had everything soon realized what Hollywood couldn't give him. Or could it? An invitation that leads to a premier, offers a second chance, and a Hollywood romance straight out of the pages of a magazine. Yet, this story will not be filled with butterfly kisses and midnight strolls, but with tangled webs filled with lust, desire, jealousy and deceit. It is Hollywood after all.

The Trouble with Dating a Movie Star

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Wendy Owens

Do Anything

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J. R. Rain

The thrilling first novel in Amazon's #1 bestselling supernatural mystery series. For fans of Sookie Stackhouse, Harry Dresden and Anita Blake, Moon Dance heralds the arrival of America's favorite new vampire detective.

Six years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire.

Now working the night shift as a private investigator, Samantha is hired by Kingsley Fulcrum to investigate the murder attempt on his life, a horrific scene captured on TV and seen around the country. But as the case unfolds, Samantha discovers Kingsley isn't exactly what he appears to be; after all, there is a reason why he survived five shots to the head.

Moon Dance

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Nicky Fox

My Hookup Girl

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Sylvia Day

Bared to You

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Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

Philip Boehm

André Aciman

Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman who fought for Germany in the Great War, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another . . . until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany, as he searches first for information, then for help, and finally for escape. His travels bring him face-to-face with waiters and conductors, officials and fellow outcasts, seductive women and vicious thieves, a few of whom disapprove of the regime while the rest embrace it wholeheartedly. Clinging to his existence as it was just days before, Silbermann refuses to believe what is happening even as he is beset by opportunists, betrayed by associates, and bereft of family, friends, and fortune. As his world collapses around him, he is forced to concede that his nightmare is all too real. Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor, The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control.

The Passenger

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Pamela Aares

(Book #5 the Tavonesi Series)

Not since Nora Roberts and Barbara Freethy has an author written such engaging character and unusual, heart-wrenching challenges to love! EarthLoving Lens Amazon Reviews In AIM FOR LOVE, the fifth book in the Tavonesi Series, best selling author Pamela Aares delivers a captivating, sensual romance as well as a heartwarming story of the power of love. BOOK DESCRIPTION: In AIM FOR LOVE, rising movie star Sabrina Tavonesi has only three weeks to heal her shoulder before shooting her next film. Sexy baseball pitching phenom Kaz Tokugawa has a solution-a mysterious Japanese healing method she's too desperate to turn down. Soon, they're not just working on her shoulder; they're falling in love. But Kaz has made a promise he's not sure he can keep, and Sabrina faces inner demons that threaten to overwhelm her. When violence strikes, their secrets may destroy their dreams, their love...and their lives. The TAVONESI series: AIM FOR LOVE is the fifth book in Pamela Aares acclaimed TAVONESI series. See why readers have fallen in love with this Amazon bestseller! (Author's Note: While AIM FOR LOVE can easily be read as a stand-alone story, you'll likely enjoy the other books in The Tavonesi Series, too) Love Bats Last (Book 1, Jackie and Alex) Thrown By Love (Book 2, Chloe and Scotty) Fielder's Choice (Book 3, Matt and Alana) Love On The Line (Book 4, Cara and Ryan) Aim for Love (Book 5, Sabrina and Kaz) The heart for he Game (Book 6, Cody and Zoe) PRAISE for The Tavonesi Series: "Pamela Aares takes you on a wonderful roller coaster ride that you will want to keep repeating!" Read Your Writes Book Reviews "Pamela Aares has done it again... another great sweet read with just enough drama and hotness. The perfect balance is what you will find with this read." The Color of Ink Reviews "Sure to thrill fans of modern romantic fiction. If you love Bella Andre and Susan Elizabeth Phillips, you'll love Pamela Aares' Tavonesi Series" EarthLoving Lens "A new star in the romance world!" New York Times bestselling author E. Alexander "My favorite reads are spin-off series by authors like Nora Roberts and I'm happy to find another author I love reading as much." Julie Martin Wallace, Geode Press "Another awesome book in the Tavonesi Series! The characters and the story were fantastic. Just as with the first book, I was immediately drawn into the story and couldn't put it down." There's This Book Reviews "This story has so many levels that all weave together beautifully. From the moment readers start tuning the pages, there will be no putting this story down! InD'tale Magazine on book one, Love Bats Last AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: Pamela Aares is a USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. Her contemporary series, The Tavonesi Series, explores the lives, loves, friendships and sizzling romances of the Tavonesi family. Her popularity as a romance writer continues to grow with each new book release, so much so, that the Bay area author has drawn comparisons by reviewers to Nora Roberts. Pamela Aares writes romance books that she loves reading, particularly those that entertain, transport and inspire dreams while captivating and tugging at the heart. She takes her readers on a journey with complex characters in both contemporary and historical settings who are thrown in situations that tempt love, adventure and self-discovery. Before becoming a romance author, Aares wrote and produced award-winning films including Your Water, Your Life, featuring actress Susan Sarandon and NPR series New Voices, The Powers of the Universe and The Earth's Imagination. Pamela loves to hear from readers! Write to her via her website www.PamelaAaares.com. Contemporary Romance Categories: (Alpha males, strong women, sensual romance, new adult romance, wealthy heroes, baseball, sports heroes, heiresses, love story, contemporary romance, alpha heroes, beach reads, sexy romance, bad boys, falling in love, new k

Aim for Love

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Helen Hardt

Lady Alexandra MacIntyre has made up her mind. Having grown up in near poverty, she's marrying for money—a lot of money—and she’ll do anything to achieve her goal...even get herself caught in a compromising situation by her overprotective and smugly conventional—although achingly handsome—new stepbrother, Lord Evan Xavier. Evan, the second son of the Earl of Brighton, considers Alexandra a genuine pain in his arse. She's beautiful, yes, but also headstrong and lacking in social graces and respect for authority. Unfortunately, while his father and her mother are away on their wedding trip, she is his responsibility. When she announces her plan to travel to London, he has no choice but to go along as her protector. When the two are stranded after a carriage accident, circumstances spiral out of control, and the heat between them can’t be denied. Rescue is on its way, but Alexandra still has her own agenda…

Lady Alexandra's Lover

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E. L. Irwin

Long Live the Rebel

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Nora Roberts

Song of the West The towering mountains and windswept plains of Wyoming are truly beautiful. But Samantha Evans has absolutely no intention of staying—until she meets devastatingly handsome Jake Tanner. Suddenly the idea of leaving isn't quite so appealing. Samantha is torn between a lifelong dream and her feelings for this intriguing man when a blizzard strikes and she's stranded with him. Is Mother Nature trying to tell her something? Maybe she should listen! Boundary Lines A feud has been warring for years between two Montana families, and the feisty Jillian Baron and irresistible Aaron Murdock seem determined to carry it into another generation. But when threatened by a common enemy, Jillian and Aaron become uneasy allies. Soon the battle waged within their own hearts pits their historical mistrust against a clear and present passion. Might the Barons and the Murdocks finally find common ground and form a very special union? Just take a step over the line….

Western Skies

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Kate Scelsa

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A witchy, atmospheric lesbian contemporary romance set in Salem--from the acclaimed author of Fans of the Impossible Life. Perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Becky Albertalli.

Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is the last person in Salem to believe in witchcraft--or think that her life could be transformed by mysterious forces. After losing her best friend and first love, Chloe, Eleanor has spent the past year in a haze, vowing to stay away from anything resembling romance.

But when a handwritten guide to tarot arrives in the mail at the witchy souvenir store where Eleanor works, it seems to bring with it the message that magic is about to enter her life. Cynical Eleanor is quick to dismiss this promise, until real-life witch Pix shows up with an unusual invitation. Inspired by the magic and mystery of the tarot, Eleanor decides to open herself up to Pix and her coven of witches, and even to the possibility of a new romance.

But Eleanor's complicated history continues to haunt her. She will have to reckon with the old ghosts that threaten to destroy everything, even her chance at new love.

Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches is a romantic coming-of-age about learning to make peace with the past in order to accept the beauty of the present.

Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches

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John Briscoe

At the core of A Child's Christmas in San Francisco are seven poems, composed, author John Briscoe tells us, by generations of San Francisco school children. Over the week before Christmas these children paired iconic San Francisco food and drink with the days of the week. Each day got a poem featuring a particular food or beverage. In this way, Briscoe observes, the young poets showed "a precocious affection for the culinary tradition and abiding spirits of Christmas in their City of St. Francis."Briscoe was one of those children. "For the occasion of those seven days, we composed ditties of juvenilia, in verse from bad to worse, to celebrate the days of the week and their paired food or beverage soulmates. From Sutro Heights to South Beach, from Bernal Heights to the Bayview, we composed, and competed, and conceded to the best of us."These then are the best productions of San Francisco's youthful versifiers. They are sly and surprisingly sophisticated comic verses that bring to life a forgotten San Francisco, one spiced with wicked innocence and fueled by the city's unique culinary offerings. Like the season it recalls, this book is celebration, a feast that is guaranteed to delight.This book is for people who have affection for San Francisco, particularly its food, drink or history; people who don't know San Francisco but have been enchanted by films, books, or legends of San Francisco; and people who enjoy whimsy for whimsy's sake.The title of this little book is unabashedly borrowed from Dylan Thomas's delighting story, "Á Child's Christmas in Wales," which is best taken in by listening to Thomas himself reading it on the BBC. This little book is a bit of history of San Francisco, history that is inconsequential in light of the city's role in the California gold rush of 1849, in light of the city's destruction and rebirth in 1906, in light of the city's role in the creation of the United Nations and in the Treaty of Peace with Japan following World War II. But it is a bit, just a bit, of the city's history. It is also a bit of poetry, and this city has produced great poets including poets of that now scorned outlaw genre, light verse. It is a bit of nostalgia, for first visits to Playland, first trips to Fisherman's Wharf, first dates.It is a bit of nostalgia for a time that never really was.

A Child's Christmas in San Francisco

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B. Shannon

Signed by author personalized for Amanda 

Hot Shotz Book Two

When you hear the word albatross, what do you think of? Do you think of it as the metaphor, a curse, or do you think of the species of bird that mates for life? For me, it's both. I'm Tangier Grant and I've been cursed with a horrible surprise every six years since I was born. Besides losing my family, I was betrayed by the person who I thought was my albatross. Don't worry about me though, I've adjusted. I've taken control of every aspect of my life, including my men. Now it's my 24th birthday and I'm wondering what my best friend, fate, has in store for me. I did everything I could to prepare for her this time, but when Judge Carter swoops back into my life, I realize she just won - again.

Surprise Six

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Amanda Huth

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