Halloween in the small town of Fallowbrook, Wisconsin, is the perfect season for Deputy Donut Café owner Emily Westhill to unmask a killer. October 31st is just around the corner and Emily Westhill's Boston cream donuts, carved with a scream, have made an indelible impression on local eccentric Rich Royalson. So much so that he's ordered three dozen, with twice the fudge icing, for his 70th birthday—a special event in more ways than one. It's to be held on fog-shrouded Lake Fleekom where, twenty years ago, his wife mysteriously drowned. But the next day, when Emily arrives with her scrumptious screamers, she stumbles upon Rich's corpse. The poor guy wanted a unique birthday bash—just not one to the side of his skull. With a guest list of possible perpetrators, and his last will and testament suspiciously left at the scene, Emily soon discovers that the Royalson closet is rattling with skeletons. As... Views: 193
One night leads to life-changing consequences in this gripping pregnancy romance from Harlequin Presents author Michelle Smart.Argentina's most desirable playboy:Polo star, billionaire...father?Blindsided by a shocking family secret, Emiliano Delgado spends a desperate, wildly passionate night with temporary dog sitter Becky Aldridge. But as he's cursing himself for breaching his boundaries, Becky has life-changing news...A marriage proposal from Emiliano to claim his heir is totally unexpected. And everything independent Becky doesn't want, no matter if she's carrying his child or how intensely he tempts her. She has her own terms for becoming a family: if his heart stays off-limits, so does she!From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.Read all of The Delgado Inheritance books!Book 1: The... Views: 193
Villains from the '80s are forced out of retirement in order to stop a new threat from ending the world as they know it. Views: 193
A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways—and how to fight back In the "vigorous, well-informed" (Kirkus Reviews) A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, the co-hosts of the popular education podcast Have You Heard expose the potent network of conservative elected officials, advocacy groups, funders, and think tanks that are pushing a radical vision to do away with public education."Cut[ing] through the rhetorical fog surrounding a host of free-market reforms and innovations" (Mike Rose), Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire lay bare the dogma of privatization and reveal how it fits into the current context of right-wing political movements. A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door "goes above and beyond the typical explanations" (SchoolPolicy.org), giving readers an up-close look at the policies—school vouchers, the war on teachers' unions, tax credit scholarships, virtual schools, and more—driving the... Views: 193
A real-life vanishing act leaves one man looking for his missing friend in this Kafkaesque new novel from the author of The Room and The Invoice. The gentle, off-beat narrator of The Circus is perfectly content with his quiet life. By day he works in a bakery, and by night he obsessively organizes and reorganizes his record collection: it's all just the way he likes it. But when his childhood friend Magnus comes calling out of the blue, the contours of our narrator's familiar world begin to shift. On a visit to the circus together, Magnus volunteers to participate in the magician's disappearing act, and midway through the routine he vanishes. Is this part of the act? What's happened to Magnus? And who is it calling on the phone in the dead of night, breathing into the receiver, but never saying a word? Smart, sharply unsettling, and with its sleight of hand exquisitely kept, The Circus is a funhouse mirror of... Views: 193
From USA Today Bestselling author Jennifer Sucevic comes a sexy, new bully romance. Welcome back to the privileged world of Hawthorne Prep. From the outside, the hundred acres of perfectly manicured property seem like an idyllic place to finish out my senior year before spring boarding to the college of my choice. Unfortunately, like most things in life, looks are deceiving. And I would know that better than most. A month ago, my parents moved us to Nowheresville, Wisconsin in order for my father to claim his inheritance. Little did we know that the town hated us or that there was a decades long feud that would ultimately lead to a forced engagement. My forced engagement, to be specific. Kingsley Rothchild, the self-appointed king of Hawthorne Prep, has made me his queen. Even though I've bent my knee and kissed the crown, it doesn't take long to realize how easily queens can be cast aside. If I'd thought all the secrets had been dragged into... Views: 193
