When mystery author D. B. Ziegler is late delivering her book, Abi Schore steps in to help. Surely she can give her favorite author moral support over the holiday break and get the manuscript to her boss at Tea & Sympathy Publishing in time for the new year. When Abi shows up on Ms. Ziegler’s doorstep bearing holiday treats, she’s met by the author’s handsome grandson Dov, who reveals a startling plot twist. His grandmother isn’t able to finish the book and Dov promised he’d complete it so fans won’t be disappointed—a task that’s harder than he ever imagined.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

There's no place like home for the holidays ... especially for Lesley Carver. Life in the big city just wasn't her jam and now she's back in Hickory Falls, working at the family diner and helping her mom after she took a tumble. Lesley longs to build a life here, working at the cafe, selling her handmade ornaments and ... er, apparently reviving her high school crush on her best friend’s older brother. Only one problem, her mom wants her to leave Hickory Falls far behind.

Tilly Farriday isn’t feeling very jolly this season. Recently divorced and broke, she’s squatting in one of her rental agency’s properties until her new home is ready. The sprinkles on top of the burnt Christmas cookie that is her life? The new owner shows up early, forcing Tilly to hide in the attic to save her job…and what remains of her dignity.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm’s length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn’t been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before.

Oakland-bred LaVeesha “Vee” Gilliam (Coco Jones) is a determined single mother of an autistic son and a gifted aspiring coder. When Vee loses her job as a food-services worker at the onsite restaurant at Grapengine, a large Silicon Valley tech company, she’s unable to pay for her son’s much-needed specialized education. By a twist of fate, mistaken identity, and her tech skills, Vee meets Troy Wilson (Keith Powers), the company’s wealthy founder and CEO and a wunderkind in the tech industry, who believes that Vee is a college-educated techie who works at his company.

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.

“Of all the things she finds, she never expected to find love…” Noelle’s life is next to perfect. It’s the Christmas season, and she has a loving family, a brand new job right out of college, and just closed on her first home. That is, however, until she finds out that she has a birth sister that she’s never met. How could this be? How could her parents have kept this secret from her? Noelle spent the last 23 years of her life believing she was an only child. Until now. Noelle decides to go on the journey of finding her sister. In the process, she finds a whole lot more over the...

“Of all the things she finds, she never expected to find love…” Noelle’s life is next to perfect. It’s the Christmas season, and she has a loving family, a brand new job right out of college, and just closed on her first home. That is, however, until she finds out that she has a birth sister that she’s never met. How could this be? How could her parents have kept this secret from her? Noelle spent the last 23 years of her life believing she was an only child. Until now. Noelle decides to go on the journey of finding her sister. In the process, she finds a whole lot more over the...

“Of all the things she finds, she never expected to find love…” Noelle’s life is next to perfect. It’s the Christmas season, and she has a loving family, a brand new job right out of college, and just closed on her first home. That is, however, until she finds out that she has a birth sister that she’s never met. How could this be? How could her parents have kept this secret from her? Noelle spent the last 23 years of her life believing she was an only child. Until now. Noelle decides to go on the journey of finding her sister. In the process, she finds a whole lot more over the...

Four best friends from college decide it’s time to make up for lost time. It’s been nearly 15 years since they graduated from college together and life hasn’t gone as expected for Scarlett, Madison, Hannah, or Marcy. After years of chasing careers and heartbreak, they decide it’s time to reunite their friendship. For once, everything else can wait. The best friends start planning and decide it’s time to book a trip over Christmas. This year, it will be Christmas at the Pinecone Cottage in the snowy mountains of Vail, Colorado. What they expected to be a simple relaxing weekend ...

Four best friends from college decide it’s time to make up for lost time. It’s been nearly 15 years since they graduated from college together and life hasn’t gone as expected for Scarlett, Madison, Hannah, or Marcy. After years of chasing careers and heartbreak, they decide it’s time to reunite their friendship. For once, everything else can wait. The best friends start planning and decide it’s time to book a trip over Christmas. This year, it will be Christmas at the Pinecone Cottage in the snowy mountains of Vail, Colorado. What they expected to be a simple relaxing weekend ...

Four best friends from college decide it’s time to make up for lost time. It’s been nearly 15 years since they graduated from college together and life hasn’t gone as expected for Scarlett, Madison, Hannah, or Marcy. After years of chasing careers and heartbreak, they decide it’s time to reunite their friendship. For once, everything else can wait. The best friends start planning and decide it’s time to book a trip over Christmas. This year, it will be Christmas at the Pinecone Cottage in the snowy mountains of Vail, Colorado. What they expected to be a simple relaxing weekend ...

If you love sweet, clean Christmas romance books then you will adore this 5 book collection of historical Western romance reads set during the most magical time of the year. This heartwarming collection of joyful romance will take you on a rollercoaster of courage, despair, heartbreak and love. Follow the journeys of 5 courageous women who search for happiness and romance at Christmas time as Mail Order Brides. Their stories are all different and filled with challenges along the way. For some they almost don’t find their happy ending as their past comes back to haunt them, and some are ...

Four best friends from college decide it’s time to make up for lost time. It’s been nearly 15 years since they graduated from college together and life hasn’t gone as expected for Scarlett, Madison, Hannah, or Marcy. After years of chasing careers and heartbreak, they decide it’s time to reunite their friendship. For once, everything else can wait. The best friends start planning and decide it’s time to book a trip over Christmas. This year, it will be Christmas at the Pinecone Cottage in the snowy mountains of Vail, Colorado. What they expected to be a simple relaxing weekend ...

“Of all the things she finds, she never expected to find love…” Noelle’s life is next to perfect. It’s the Christmas season, and she has a loving family, a brand new job right out of college, and just closed on her first home. That is, however, until she finds out that she has a birth sister that she’s never met. How could this be? How could her parents have kept this secret from her? Noelle spent the last 23 years of her life believing she was an only child. Until now. Noelle decides to go on the journey of finding her sister. In the process, she finds a whole lot more over the...

Four best friends from college decide it’s time to make up for lost time. It’s been nearly 15 years since they graduated from college together and life hasn’t gone as expected for Scarlett, Madison, Hannah, or Marcy. After years of chasing careers and heartbreak, they decide it’s time to reunite their friendship. For once, everything else can wait. The best friends start planning and decide it’s time to book a trip over Christmas. This year, it will be Christmas at the Pinecone Cottage in the snowy mountains of Vail, Colorado. What they expected to be a simple relaxing weekend ...