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Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment that occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters.

A breakthrough audiobook on dating and divorce from best-selling law of attraction expert Linda West. A complete guided 28-day plan to manifest the love and the relationship you deserve!

The pink-and-white awning of Stoneybrook’s newest shop, Patchwork Quilts, has locals seeing red. Regardless of the warm welcome the town gave her, Mabel Bailey seems bent on sewing the seeds of competition with Frannie’s Quilt Stop. Slashing prices is one thing, but stealing quilt designs is a crafting faux pas. When Hadley finds Mabel dead in her quilt shop, the townspeople have to face the terrible truth that one of their own might have taken her out.

All her life, Aelys of Brionne had been weak. As the noble daughter of one of the empire's most powerful magic-wielding families, it should have been easy for her to live her dream of bonding with a warrior protector and joining the Imperial Battlemage Corps. But when her weakness robs her of her dreams, best friend, and the man she loves, Aelys makes the only choice she can see: she takes her fate into her own hands and runs, leaving her safe, protected world behind.

A double murder and an attempted kidnapping of a baby in a national park have Officer Danica Hayes and her K-9 partner on high alert. She'll have to protect Luke Stark and his nine-month-old son while tracking the person who murdered his sister. Danica and Luke face a battle for their lives to keep from becoming the next victims.

Shannon Kane's world is shattered when her husband, the brilliant chemist Dr. Henry Kane, is brutally assassinated. With his government secrets stolen and the authorities offering no hope, Shannon takes destiny into her own hands. Embracing her new identity as the Spider-Queen, she dives headfirst into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with her husband's killers.

Summer in Battle Lake kicks off with fireworks and festivities, but it’s a local treasure hunt that’s amping up the tourist trade. It certainly piques the interest of part-time reporter Mira James—both as fodder for a column and because she could use the five grand in prize money. The treasure? A faux diamond hidden at the bottom of Whiskey Lake.

Charlie Rhodes has a lead on her past, but it just might endanger her future. Nothing can stop her from seeking answers though, which means a trip to Colorado with her boyfriend Jack. Her parents and brother are along for the ride. There’s just one problem…death has followed them to Estes Park.

Dear listener, if you love rescue cats, goats who wear pajamas, and a cozy bookstore, you're going to love this new series by Eryn Scott. Hold on to your hats. The town of Button is as cute as they come, but that doesn't mean its free of murder.

Perfect strangers Lucy and Greta have agreed to a house swap—and boy, are they going to regret it. Lucy’s hometown of Dallas has gone from home sweet home to vicious snake pit in the blink of an eye after her son makes a mistake he can’t undo. And Greta’s beloved flat in Berlin is suddenly up for grabs when her husband Otto takes a dream job in Texas without even telling her. In their rush to leave town, Lucy and Greta make a deal, pack their bags, and—thanks to martinis, desperation, and some very rusty German—have absolutely no idea what they’re getting themselves into.

Alora’s brain has always been a little strange. No matter how hard things on Earth got, and they got pretty awful, she always dreamt that she possessed amazing telekinetic powers on another world. Her brother called them her delusions of grandeur.

Pebble Cove is not the sleepy coastal town Rosemary remembers from her childhood. Ghosts are everywhere, and only she can see them. When Rosemary Woodmere inherits her estranged grandmother's Victorian tea house, she doesn’t expect to also inherit a ghost named Asher from the 1920s. Things get weirder for Rosemary. Her grandma was supposedly murdered. A body washes up on the beach, and the police suspect her of the man's murder. She's trying to navigate her newfound ability to talk to ghosts. And she doesn't even know the first thing about tea.

Charlie Rhodes has spent her entire life wondering who she is, why she was abandoned as a child, and what’s behind the magical powers she can wield in the blink of an eye. She’s finally getting her answers. Now that she’s been reunited with her birth mother and brother, the search is on for her father. He’s supposed to be somewhere in Boston...but where? He’s fallen out of touch, and finding him is virtually impossible. Thankfully for Charlie, the Legacy Foundation’s next assignment is in a suburb of the very city where she lives.

When two teens discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family’s possibly magical pastelería, his secret forest of otherworldly trees, and the swallows returning to their hometown, in Anna-Marie McLemore's The Mirror Season....

Clea McAllister returns to the Newport haven of her childhood, a gilded mansion by the sea once owned by her beloved grandmother. Now she is a paying guest at her own ancestral home, and Clea’s vacation hides a darker intention: to confront the estate lawyer who stole her rightful inheritance. But wicked games are still being played at Belle Mer, and Clea uncovers more than she ever intended.

“We’re still married...” When her annoyingly gorgeous ex-husband walks back into her life eight years after their divorce, those are the last word Everley expects to hear. Their marriage only lasted a year. They burned bright and crashed—and they both thought they’d moved on. Shame somebody forgot to file the papers. Now Dylan is back in town for a few months—taking a break from his work as a doctor overseas—and he’s determined to clear up the mess. The only problem is the more time he spends with Everley, the more he remembers how good they were together.

Charlie Rhodes has spent her entire life wondering who her birth parents were, why they abandoned her, and where the magic she’s been learning to hone came from. She’s finally going to get some answers. With proof that the new member of the Legacy Foundation is really her brother, Charlie sets off to visit Salem with him and her boyfriend, Jack Hanson. She’s never been to the city before and finds that the history swirling is only one of the things that has her excited.

This is the third set of books in Eryn Scott’s popular Stoneybrook Mystery series. Follow jam maker Hadley James and her friends as they solve crimes in their usually peaceful town. Each book features a different cat and two recipes.

It’s cold enough to freeze a shadow when Battle Lake local Tom Kicker braves the killer temps to bag a deer—only to get shot to death by his best buddy, Clive, in a hunting accident. Tragic, yes. Accident? Mira James, just a few weeks into working toward her PI license, isn’t so convinced.

Isn't your wedding day supposed to be the happiest day of your life? Not if you're the emergency substitute bride! But how could Rylie say no when a child's life hangs in the balance? Now she's married to the man she loves, but he's still pining for her sister! Jarrett owes Rylie a huge debt. She's giving up a year of her life to help him adopt Gabe to get him the medical treatment he needs. But the more time he spends with Rylie, the more he's beginning to think he fell for the wrong twin. Rylie doesn't believe him! Will these two stubborn computer nerds ever admit their feelings?