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I made the worst mistake of my life when I let my dad move me across the country after my sophomore year of high school. Had my football career taken off? Yes. But I’d lost the best thing that ever happened to me because of it. Anna Dupree was the only girl who ever loved me as a person and not for my athletic talent. Who cares if I can run the forty in 4.2 seconds, or if beautiful women sneak into my hotel room at away games?

No one knows why Dixie’s son is standing there, on Christmas Day, no less. And he doesn’t look happy. Dixie is keeping a big secret that will shake up everyone around her. Julie’s daughter, Colleen, is coming home for a visit, but she’s not alone. Janine makes a new friend, but nobody is thrilled about it. Julie and Dawson question their budding relationship. Will they move forward or decide that being friends is the best way to go? There’s so much happening on this little island, including the return of Julie’s ex husband and a shocking surprise at the end.

From USA TODAY and Amazon Charts bestselling author Lauren K. Denton comes her beloved debut novel, a heartfelt Southern story of family secrets, small-town charm, and the power of second chances. Perfect for fans of Patti Callahan Henry and Karen White, The Hideaway captures the spirit of the...

A daughter searching for answers. A mother chasing redemption. A past too powerful to forget. Thirty years ago, Savannah’s newborn daughter was stolen—and so was her future. Grief-stricken and alone, she fled to the Pacific Northwest, leaving behind the South Carolina Lowcountry and the pain that haunted every corner of it. Now, with her life unraveling once more, Savannah returns home in search of the one thing she’s never been able to find. Peace.

“An utter delight from start to finish.” –Terah Shelton Harris, author of One Summer in Savannah, for Sisters with a Side of Greens A heartwarming small-town tale of rediscovering joy in unexpected places. Starting over isn’t easy, but sometimes it’s exactly what we need. Newly...

In this new collection of short stories, vignettes, and autobiographical sketches - many previously unpublished - Charles Willeford, author of Miami Blues and The Burnt Orange Heresy creates a mosaic of the absurdities of life in the 20th century. From a malicious grandmother to prophetic depictions of the power of reality television, with his wry humor and sudden shifts to violence, he seduces, amuses, and repeatedly surprises you.

Capri's Second Chance is the tale of business owner Caprianna and her police officer husband, Marquise. To the outside world, they appear to have everything going for them. However, when tragedy strikes, not only is Caprianna's tenuous world shattered, she finds out her husband is harboring secrets of his own. But just when she thought she was at her lowest ebb, fate steps in. Can love rise out of the ashes?

Taylor's first live spoken-word collection since 2003, Icarus Airlines, contains 34 poems.

Lo más asombroso de Las Segundas Criaturas es cómo la vasta imaginación de Diego Cornejo-Menacho libera casi cualquier dispositivo narrativo para obtener versiones arriesgadas de lo que puede hacer una novela. La inspirada idea de Cornejo-Menacho es escribir una biografía parcial, apócrifa y desvergonzada del ya ficcional “Marcelo Chiriboga”, aquel ignorado escritor ecuatoriano perteneciente al Boom, que aparecía, a la manera del Zelig de Woody Allen, en las novelas y la no ficción de los escritores reales de entonces, José Donoso y Carlos Fuentes.

When you find an old notebook you never know what you will find sometimes. I was going through what I thought was a notebook with my first book of poems in it. Instead, I found a few poems that I had left out for one reason or another. Which leads to this book and its title. This is a group of poems that I wrote over several years about several different subjects. Mostly about relationships and love. I hope you enjoy these poems.

The second collection of my poems. These start as thoughts singing in my head. I then chase them around to exercise them into poetry.