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George Hunt can think of nothing he’d like more than to skip the high-society fundraiser where he has to guard a precocious seventeen-year-old girl and her judgmental therapist, but there’s no way out of it. If anything bad were to happen and he wasn’t there to stop it, he’d never forgive himself. So even though she’s grilling him about his dating life and the good doctor is psychoanalyzing him, he’s going to soldier on, because protecting his charges is what a knight does.

Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and...

In Physics and Philosophy: A Modern Love Story, George Le Savant offers a luminous, witty, and emotionally resonant exploration of a relationship as seen through the dual lenses of science and meaning. Blending narrative, essay, and observation, this novel traces the arc of two minds—Leo, a hopelessly reflective philosophy lecturer, and June, a brilliant physicist who trusts equations more than emotions.

Walking away from Matt Moreno was the hardest thing I've ever done. Lying to him was a close second, but for his safety, I had no other choice. I was undercover, working to put some nasty people behind bars. But when Matt nearly recognizes me on Lincoln Road a year later, all those very real feelings come rushing back. Now that my assignment's almost over, will he understand why I lied? Why I had to leave? Most important, can he ever forgive me?

From “America’s librarian” and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, “Anne-Tyler-esque” (Library Journal) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads. George and Lizzie are a couple, meeting as college students and marrying soon after graduation, but no one...

On a winter night, young university professor Janet Jobbe is rushed to the emergency room and pronounced dead. She miraculously returns to life, and after discharge from the hospital embarks on a journey into her mind to determine what has happened. She remembers her life had entered a downward spiral. And her beloved Lucius had started canceling dates.

This story follows the life of a man from the age of three to the age of 70. It is a story of love and tragedy. It is the quest of a man searching for love. The death of his mother, when he was three years old, and the absence of his father for the first seven years of his life, sets the stage for the choices he makes throughout his life. The story begins in the late 40s, early 50s, and progresses to present day.

Donovan Porter knows what it means to survive—but survival comes at a price. Wracked with guilt and hunted by his past, he sheds his name and flees to Mexico, reemerging as T.C. in a land pulsing with danger, desire, and discovery. Immersed in vibrant culture and shadowed by vice—sex, drugs, and the underworld—T.C. is searching for more than escape. He’s searching for himself. Then she appears. Mysterious. Magnetic. A spark in the haze. When T.C. agrees to show her the streets he’s come to call home, he has no idea what fate is about to ignite.

Manhattan domestic violence counselor Zoe Anderson is going on the most important vacation of her life. Her Cinderella dreams shattered three years ago, leaving her a scarred widow, inside and out. In an attempt to bury her demons, Zoe sets out for picturesque Lake George to claim the treasured family cottage she recently inherited - a place where she found happiness before. Her therapist's advice: reboot, restore to an earlier time. What she finds is a rundown shack.

Everything in her life is taken for granted. The simplest smile, action and even goodbye. Until the day her 12-year-old son walks out the door and never returns. His brutal murder sends Jordan Wyatt into a self-sheltering world for which she wants no escape. Her life exists only for a daughter that she not only hides from the world, but hides from life. Fear keeps her from living and from allowing her daughter to live a normal existence.