**A Buzzfeed Must-Read Book of Fall**"A love story to best friends everywhere. Smart, charming, and delightful." — Kirkus Reviews"Readers aching for a combination of the '80s and a romance like Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park will be stoked." —BooklistIt's the summer of 1982, and for Scott and Cath, everything is about to change. Growing up across the street from each other, Scott and Cath have been best friends for most of their lives. Now they've graduated high school, and Cath is off to college while Scott stays at home trying to get his band off the ground. Neither of them realized that their first year after high school would be so hard. Fortunately, Scott and Cath still have each other, and it's through their letters that they survive heartache, annoying roommates, family dramas, and the pressure of figuring out what to do with the rest of their lives. And through it all, they... Views: 66
‘Til Somebody Loves You When a copywriter for a Chicago ad agency has to promote a celebrity fragrance, she’s convinced its secret ingredient is the key to her happily-ever-after! MaryBeth Winters weaves advertising slogans with sweet dreams about her office crush, Dean Dineno. Adventures along the way help her discover how much fun it is to be a damsel in distress-who can also save the day. Views: 66
SUMMARY:There's a serious reality breach in the 1950s American town of Lychburg, as the Second Doctor discovers when the TARDIS unexpectedly lands there, and he discovers it to be a city of anachronisms and temporal contradictions. Its people seem to be under the influence of a mysterious force...What's more, the inept police force are baffled by a series of brutal and horrific murders taking place all over the city, with no witnesses. Meanwhile the Fourth Doctor is battling with the sinister Aleister Crowley, Head of the Provisionals, in 1980s London. Exactly what were the consequences of his disastrous post-war experiments in magic and the occult, and can the two Doctors save the people of Lychburg? Views: 65
Ben has always wanted to be a cop, so he's intrigued when police officers show up at the door, asking for his parents. Then his parents arrive after the police leave and rush him and his sister into the car, insisting they are going on a vacation. Ben's a little skeptical—his family doesn't go on vacations. After they lose the police in a high-speed car chase and end up in a remote cabin deep in the woods, Ben discovers his parents' secret: millions of dollars were deposited into their bank account by accident, and they took the money and ran off. Ben isn't sure what to think. Are his parents criminals? And because he ran off with them, is he a criminal, too? Views: 65
Home To Her DestinyShe swept back into Destiny, Texas, no longer plain, awkward Hannah Morgan--but now sophisticated Dr. Morgan! Then one look from Dev Hart sent her right back into a teenage swoon. A definite problem since for the next several weeks they'd be living on the same ranch....Hannah's combination of smarts and sweetness took Dev's breath away. And yet what he needed was someone to help him care for his little boy, not a city girl who would turn him inside out. Unless he could convince her that where she truly belonged wasn't the big city, but on the ranch...with him. Views: 65
After living all her life in the jungle of Panama, Destiny is on her way to London to claim her inheritance—a business worth millions!Flung into a city jungle, Destiny feels lost, self-conscious and out of her depth in the world of international business. Especially as her company has a predator—handsome, ruthless tycoon Callum Ross. He's determined to own her company; she won't sell. So he has a proposal for her—merger by matrimony! Views: 65
Winner of the American Library Association's W. Y. Boyd Award for Excellence in Military FictionTwo mighty armies blunder toward each other, one led by confident, beloved Robert E. Lee and the other by dour George Meade. They'll meet in a Pennsylvania crossroads town where no one planned to fight.In this sweeping, savagely realistic novel, the greatest battle ever fought on American soil explodes into life at Gettysburg. As generals squabble, staffs err. Tragedy unfolds for immigrants in blue and barefoot Rebels alike. The fate of our nation will be decided in a few square miles of fields.Following a tough Confederate sergeant from the Blue Ridge, a bitter Irish survivor of the Great Famine, a German political refugee, and gun crews in blue and gray, Cain at Gettysburg is as grand in scale as its depictions of combat are unflinching.For three days, battle rages. Through it all, James Longstreet is haunted by a vision of war... Views: 65
In the elegant isolation of a Victorian mansion in Cape May, New Jersey, Autumn Thackeray, the once proud heiress of a once proud family, learns that she is "ill-suited to service." Her family's fortune diminished, she has taken a position as a companion to the mother of Cain Byron, a complex and ungracious young gentleman who is accustomed to giving orders and expecting them to obeyed without question, especially by the women of his household. His temper is infamous, and his domineering and masterful ways dictated by his upbringing and his social status. But Autumn has been reared by open-minded and generous parents; she will not be intimidated by Cain's tyrannical manner. And she will not be seduced by his attraction to her. She will be no man's "light o' love." In truth, Autumn finds that, as Cain's passion for her deepens, as his temper softens and his understanding and sensitivity grow, she is falling in love. She discovers as well the dark secret that looms over the Byron fami... Views: 65
The late Bryan McMahon in his short story, "The Crossing", said, through one of his characters, that writing is "a compulsive venting of the fermenting cask of my passion". I have always admired McMahon anyway but I have never found anything that so expertly defines 'writing'. Many of my poems in this book were written at times in my life over the last twenty years when my head was literally exploding with feelings of one kind or another, from intense love through to dejection and near despair. If the person who casually takes up this book takes the time to read the poems within I think this will become very obvious. Starting with my Inis Meáin poems right through to poems about family and relationships at the end of the book I am only too well aware that I have probably exposed more of myself than many would care to do. I think I have a reputation for direct, no nonsense, plain talking and I believe I have done that in this, my first, collection. One thing that I hope does... Views: 65
Serafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her back to Mexico -- without her three-year old daughter. Twelve years later, with a pair of silver barrettes her only tangible memory of Elvia, Serafina begins a harrowing journey back across the border to find her daughter. At the same time Elvia, now fifteen and pregnant, resolves to track her mother down. They travel a landscape populated by desperately poor migrants moving from harvest to harvest, truckers living hand-to-mouth in seedy motels, and lost children in foster homes. But the memory of love inspires hope, and out of these women’s losses -- and their determination -- Straight has crafted a deeply moving tale of the meaning of home and family. Views: 65
Richard Delancey, inadvertently embroiled in Liverpool labor riots, sidesteps punishment by volunteering for the Navy. Ranked as a midshipman, he is no sooner aboard than his ship sails for the port of New York. But when the events of the American Revolution and the ongoing hostilities between England and France send him back across the sea, Delancey finds himself instrumental in defending the Isle of Jersey and, later, the Rock of Gibraltar. Views: 65
