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Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.

As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creeks near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams, and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, Addie, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast, as far from her family as possible. Now, years later, she is summoned back to South Carolina, to help Addie care for their ailing mother. As Phoebe’s return lures her back into deep-rooted tensions and conflicts, she is drawn toward Celeste, whose granddaughter went missing years ago.

A second chance stand-alone from small-town romance author Brooke Montgomery about a literary agent from NYC who returns to her Southern hometown and the cowboy high school sweetheart she left behind…

She came back to claim her inheritance. He gave her a reason to stay. After the passing of her estranged grandmother, Ivy Hart never expected to return to Oak Hollow—let alone as a bride. But the will is clear: to claim the inheritance tied to her childhood home, she must marry a local and stay for one full year. Luke McAllister is the last person she imagined standing at the altar with. A widowed rancher with quiet eyes and calloused hands, he’s also her former best friend—and the only man who ever truly saw her. For him, the arrangement offers a lifeline for his struggling ranch and...

Five years after they thought they’d said goodbye forever, a group of sorority sisters find themselves back at the University of Alabama for Rush Week. Some return to rekindle their friendships, and others to keep long silent secrets from being exhumed. Unbeknownst to them at the time, the infamous “Spill Book” they wrote confessions in as a trust (hazing) exercise over the years was placed into a time capsule—now it’s been stolen, and the anonymous thief is threatening to expose them all on Bid Day.

It’s January 2020, and Miriam is already getting a sense that the world might be ending. First, she learns that her best friend, Esther, has died. Then her faith in God—in everything, really—follows suit. Her job teaching Scripture at a private Christian school suddenly seems untenable, so she quits. Thankfully, the postal service is hiring. While Miriam finds comfort in her route, the mail truck can hardly outpace the memory of her lost friend and eroded faith.

Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the sheriff, a local farmer, his beautiful wife, their son, and the sheriff's deputy, One Foot in Eden signals the bellwether arrival of Ron Rash, one the most mature and distinctive voices in Southern literature.

Set in Mexico City in three time periods (16th century, 2026, 2032), The Time Travelers recounts the rise of the Aztec Empire, the founding of the first Mexico City (Tenochtitlan), its destruction at the hands of Hernan Cortés, and the building of modern Mexico City upon its ashes. But the Aztec bloodline lives on today, holding ancient knowledge known to only a few. The discovery of a magnificent Aztec object buried near Mexico City’s Zócalo and National Cathedral pulls an archaeologist, an odd Jesuit priest, a police detective, and two beautiful divas from two time periods together in...

When I’m offered a spot in the best business incubator in the world, I jump at the chance. There’s one catch. I have to send letters to the mysterious billionaire who funds the program. It’s a world I don’t belong to. Luckily, I meet Javier Pendleton. He’s alluring, confident, and fits in with this crowd. We get close, dancing and watching fireworks together… Until it’s clear we both want more. He looks at my curves like he craves them, and his serious blue eyes and reluctant smile drive me wild. Soon I can’t hold back— But kissing him is a mistake.

In Driving Lessons, Christopher B. Strain sets out on a quintessential American road trip, exploring not just the roads and byways of the country but the road trip's place in American culture. Strain dives into the well of American travel writing, illuminating fascinating aspects of the road trip, such as how race, class, and gender shape the experiences of road trippers.

Un sorbo amargo, latidos descompasados, la presencia inminente de la emoción y el miedo. Marion y Paris: una pareja joven que se expone de continuo a transgresiones en la búsqueda de experiencias extremas. Narcotizados por las sensaciones que les regala la química de sus cuerpos puestos al límite, se desenvolverán en una atmósfera nebulosa que los llevará a crear una complicidad perversa e irrenunciable. Sin remedio, su futuro cambiará y los empujará por escenarios llenos de los más bajos instintos del ser humano.

It is 1978, and Nieve finds herself caught between the tides of her parents' turbulent relationship and a country in turmoil. To try to control her situation, she begins to record the intimate and harsh details of her life in her diary. Becoming her sole means of expression, the diary is her only constant and her only friend.

José Fernandez, el protagonista de la novela que presentamos, es un joven aristócrata bogotano que, durante una velada a finales del siglo XIX, y a petición de sus amigos más cercanos, lee de su diario las entradas correspondientes a un periodo de su vida en que viajó y vivió en Europa y en el que conoció y sufrió por cuenta de un enamoramiento que casi lo lleva a la tumba.

When a tornado nearly wipes the town of Croy, Oklahoma, off the map, Lerner Alquist, its wealthiest citizen, vows to memorialize the wife he lost by building a magnificent library. It is a splendid goal, but hard times keep delaying it. By 1952, Alquist needs one final ornament to make it complete: a sculpture over the main entrance. Pursuing that vision sets in motion a series of events that uncovers the racism, religious bigotry, and sexual tensions that underlie the town.

Benjamin lives with a name he hates in a run-down San Francisco apartment, until his brother Billy finds him. Billy's a war veteran who sleeps under a bridge with his loyal band of phone thieves, trying to avoid the police and the VA. Thirty years earlier, Benjamin had an Ivy League degree and was getting noticed for his Peace Corps work on the Ecuadorian coast. But Felicia also noticed, seducing him into a life of cajoling secrets from others to be peddled to the highest bidder. Felicia's talented protégé lived a privileged life until he made a mistake and had to flee with the name Gloria.

When it comes right down to it, what makes a family? Is it nature or nurture? Prosecutor Jack Westfield has it all – a beautiful, loving wife, an exciting legal career, a child on the way. With so much going for him, his life is perfect. Until the morning of his biggest case yet. That day Jack makes a mistake, one that costs him everything. Artist Mar Delgado had it all – marriage to her childhood sweetheart, a successful career. She had never been happier, until the boat carrying her husband on a trip to dive with hammerhead sharks returns without him. For four years, as his career ...

AL SON DE LA LLUVIA. 25 RELATOS. CUENTOS DE MUJER A MUJER. EMPODERAMIENTO FEMENINO. SENSIBILIDAD. Cuentos desde un corazón femenino. Al son de la lluvia es una antología de cuentos que nacen de la poesía de lo cotidiano, de sentimientos profundos y de las decisiones que, como pequeñas gotas de lluvia, van llenando la vida de historias, anhelos, amores y añoranzas. Tras Mujeres en tránsito, Carmen Hinojal nos trae una cuidadosa selección de historias con mensaje, contadas con pulso y delicadeza, cuyo eje común son las vivencias de personas que sufren y luchan ante los devenires de la...

Alessandro, a rising immigrant star, watches his promising career crash after a big mess-up. Instead of learning from it, he makes another bad decision, one so awful it leaves him feeling terrible. Now, Alessandro just wants to make things right. He searches for a way to fix his mistakes in a place he never thought he'd end up. But Alessandro doesn't realize that getting back on the right track won't be easy. There are forces at play, connected to his family's history, that are messing with his life even more.

These three contemporary plays by the father of ethnographic burlesque address human relations in the context of changing American social mores and political realities. Tattoos witnesses a father hitting on his son's wife while the son if off at bootcamp. School Play tells of an oppositional yet strangely connective relationship between a young black African male and his middle-aged, unsuccessful white college instructor. Tyrannos weaves elements of Oedipus Rex into a darkly comic tale of modern authoritarianism. Of William Young's Blue and Other Stories, Kirkus Reviews writes, "A richly ...

He needs a bride, and she needs a savior. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ZakharI strike fear in the hearts of those who serve me, in the hearts of my enemies, and even in the hearts of world leaders. People quaking in their boots at my mere presence is something I live for, but this woman has no fear of me. She looks directly into my eyes when speaking to me and dares to break our date. I’ve never met anyone like her and that’s why I know she must be mine … she will be mine. TabithaTrust? My trust has been shattered too many times that I care to remember. And now my best friend and soul ...