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Great friends. Amazing Apartment. An incredible job. Paige has ticked off every box on her 'perfect New York life' checklist. Until disaster strikes, and instead of shimmying further up the career ladder, Paige is packing up her desk. Her brother's best friend, Jake, might be the only person who can help her put her life back together. He also happens to be the boy she spent her teen years pining after, and Paige is determined not to repeat her past mistakes.

". . . powerful, thoughtful, and tender . . . An impressive literary novel filled with both searing regret and stirring hope." - Kirkus Reviews "A delightful story of redemption and second chances." - The BookLife Prize A bookclubs.com Great Indie Reads pick. A retired lawyer, an unlicensed...

Cultivation is all fun and games. Until someone kills Merlin. Apparently, the only logical response to this fairly important change to Arthurian lore is for me to be reincarnated into Dark Age Cornwall. But don't worry, I have an absolute understanding of feudal power dynamics, Qi cycling, and anti-Saxon spell flinging. Oh, I also lie a lot. There's just the smallest chance that our timeline is doomed.

Bumping Off Fat Vinny is a lighthearted look at the attempts of authors Margaret Stanton, Danny Garrett, and Maria Mancuso make to do away with a scoundrel who seemingly has more lives than a cat. It confirms the old adage that the best laid plans of mice and men sometimes do, in fact, go astray.

Henry Morgan was one of the most brilliant and unsung of the radio satirists. With his predilection for poking fun at radio conventions in general, and sponsors in particular, listeners took a shine to his breezy, don't-give-a-damn sarcasm. For a half-hour every week, Henry was allowed to unleash his biting wit on anything and everything, often in the form of parodies of movies and radio programs. He was aided and abetted by a cast that included Charles Irving, Madeline Lee, Florence Halop, Joe Julian, and the one and only Arnold Stang.

Recently divorced and bereaved, Gabby Dixon is trying to start a new chapter in her life. As her new life begins, it ends. On paper at least. But Gabby is still very much alive. As a woman who likes to be in control, this situation is deeply unsettling. She has two crucial questions: Who would want her dead, and why?

Experience the awesomeness of my unexpected voyage to an undiscovered land where I survive shipwrecks, arena death match spectacles, rampaging rhinoceraptors, naked and rather surly giants, and even dragons! Well, a dragon.... All in my pursuit of fame and glory. Every word of it is true. Totally true. How do I know? Because it's all about me. Gustav Gustavson, Legendary Viking Warrior.

Harriet Knight will sich jeden Tag einer Herausforderung stellen. Aber als die Hundesitterin ihren neuesten Kunden kennenlernt, gerät sie mächtig ins Stottern: Obwohl der attraktive Arzt Ethan Black bei vielen Frauen einen Fieberschub auslöst, scheitert er an der Erziehung des unbändigen Spaniels Madi kläglich. Um dem Hund zu helfen, bleibt Harriet nichts anderes übrig, als in Ethans Apartment im winterlichen Manhattan einzuziehen - wo sie sich Hals über Kopf in Ethan verliebt.

This is about Captain Morgan Jones of the Vindaloo Curry, a submarine he found in the desert one day, and after hauling it back to the ocean by camel train, set it to floating again after repairing a few holes. After trial and error and a lot of huffing and puffing, he managed to get to the Taff River and after sailing up it to Ponty, took on a crew and then set off for the Orient and many adventures.

Identical twins Goldie Silver, an over-the-hill flower child from Juneau, Alaska and her identical twin Godiva Olivia DuBois, a wealthy widow who writes a syndicated advice to lovelorn column from her Beverly Hills estate, don't go looking for trouble—it finds them.

Just when it seems like Meg Walton can get back to business as usual running the family's donut shop, another murder occurs in the once-sleepy town of Enchanted Bay. This time, a double-crossing carpet salesman turned theater owner is the victim...the police suspect one of Meg's friends as the possible killer. Meg knows she can't stand idly by. In order to prove her friend's innocence, she decides to find the real killer herself.

Emma Parker and Morgan Price are Glock-toting, high-kicking divorce lawyers. In the course of investigating a child custody case, Parker and Price step on the toes of more than one crime syndicate, uncover a murder plot, and lock horns with the FBI. The duo meets the challenge with humor, wit, aplomb, and more than a little strip-mall karate-studio-acquired kickboxing.