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Jane Oppenheimer
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"Susan Coll uses her experience as both an author and bookstore employee to deliver a big-hearted and dramatic comedy about myths, real life, and the overlap between them"-- Provided by publisher.
"Cassie Klein has always used stories to help her fly, but now her plot points aren't lining up. By her 50s Cassie has already weathered more than most. She was orphaned at the age of two and has never understood why her parents were on a bridge in West...
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"Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams-with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand ... When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she's shocked and furious ... at first. By the time her head...
24) The tea chest
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"Boston, 1773: Emma Malcolm's heart belongs to Noah Winslow. But her father has promised her to Samuel Clarke, a sadistic man. After Emma is drawn into the Boston Tea Party, Samuel blackmails her. Emma realizes she must protect those she loves, even if it means becoming Samuel's wife. Present Day: Lieutenant Hayley Ashworth is determined to be the first woman in the Navy SEALs. When an unexpected encounter with the man she once loved leads to the...
25) Girl Among Crows
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Beware the Brotherhood of the Raven
When two boys vanish from her hometown, Daphne Gauge notices uncanny parallels to her brother's disappearance 30 years earlier. Symbols of an ancient Norse god. Rumors of a promise to reward the town's faithful with wealth and power, for a price. She warns her husband that another sacrifice is imminent, but just like last time, no one believes her.
This leaves her with a desperate choice: investigate with limited...
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The story of one woman's unique, four-year-long quest to banish melancholy and depression, find happiness and fulfillment, cultivate wellness, and ultimately create her best self-lessons anyone can use to pursue a healthier and more satisfied life.
When Maria Borelius turned fifty-two, she hit menopause and her physical health began to decline. Feeling tired, sad, and depressed, she suffered from physical pain, including a lingering back ache....
27) Search Heartache
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When I got home, I did what I had stopped myself from doing earlier. I Googled the name: Aimee Laroche. I wondered what I would have done if I had found myself embroiled in this scenario fifteen, even ten years ago. Would I have hired a private detective to track this woman down? Would I have passed sleepless nights waiting for him to hand over a manila envelope containing long lens black-and-whites of a femme fatale smoking Gauloises at a sidewalk...
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From USA Today bestselling author Paullina Simons comes a fascinating novel of love, betrayal, and the price of passion.
Nothing is ever as it seems…
Larissa Stark is many things. Wife, mother, devoted friend, and unhappy. Her seemingly charmed life in a New Jersey suburb should leave her fulfilled and content. Instead, she feels increasingly isolated and empty. But when she has a chance encounter with an intriguing stranger, her idyllic existence...
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Adults and Other Children follows four women as they navigate life from the confusion and innocence of childhood to the bizarre and darkly humorous complexities of adulthood. Along the way, we meet a vindictive, and imaginary, nanny, who casts doubts about the true identity of a little girl's new baby sister; A group of friends who spend their time obsessing over the gory details of a spate of recent crimes; A college professor who has her boss fired...
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As her recent memories fade, Mary lives increasingly in the past — returning to the secrets of her turbulent interracial love story.
Coming to terms with advancing dementia, Mary has no choice other than to move into her daughter's home. Her daughter, Kayla, caught between her cognitively impaired mother and her belligerent teenage son, soon finds caregiving is more challenging than she imagined. Sage, the family's golden retriever,...
Coming to terms with advancing dementia, Mary has no choice other than to move into her daughter's home. Her daughter, Kayla, caught between her cognitively impaired mother and her belligerent teenage son, soon finds caregiving is more challenging than she imagined. Sage, the family's golden retriever,...
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It takes a guilty bastard to make a justified bitch. When a severed finger shows up on her doorstep in a seedy section of Las Vegas, Helen Taylor does not freak out. She's already crazy, as evidenced by her junk-stuffed house and its ever-growing population of cats. There's also Bobby, her long-dead husband. Helen talks to him regularly, and Bobby talks back. The finger and the brutal murder it reveals are more than a hoarding cat lady with a phantom...
32) On the Third Day
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Marie Michaels had a perfect life; a happy marriage to her college sweetheart, mother to two beautiful teenage children, and the owner of a successful business. Her life was everything she had imagined, until the day she was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
After undergoing several medical treatments, she loses her ability to hear making communication with her family and friends challenging. After slipping into a coma, lingering for several weeks,...
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The first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic Philip Gefter.
Richard Avedon photographed the most iconic figures of the twentieth century in a starkly bold, intimately minimal, and rigorously forensic visual style. His work for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and The New Yorker transformed ideals of women's fashion, culture, and femininity and became the defining...
34) The Twins
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Although she vowed never to go back, nurse Siobhan McCormick returns home after two family members have died and her brother's life is threatened. Her new job introduces her to accident victim Jared Pierce, a man whose casual charm tempts her with the same bad decisions she made in her past. Haunted houses don't sell, and Jared Pierce's family sends him from Louisiana to Illinois to make sure there aren't any ghosts lingering in his great-aunt's house....
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The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them. Organic farmer Riley Fenniman is happily single at forty-seven and refuses to acknowledge an attraction to her younger accountant, let alone surrender to it. Unfortunately, a legal catch in her farm's ownership and a health scare give her no choice in the matter. The women of The Homegrown...
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Mourning the death of her best friend Vanessa, seventeen-year-old Bailey creates a chat bot using their text messages and emails, but, unsatisfied with the result, Bailey seeks out more data for the app and uncovers Vanessa's secrets, forcing Bailey to reconcile what she thought she knew about her friend with what Vanessa kept hidden.
37) Hero Within
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The Classic Guide, Updated for Our Contemporary World
A modern classic of Jungian psychology, The Hero Within has helped hundreds of thousands of people enrich their lives by revealing how to tap the power of the archetypes that exist within. Drawing from literature, anthropology, and psychology, author Carol S. Pearson clearly defines six heroic archetypes-the Innocent, the Orphan, the Wanderer, the Warrior, the Altruist, and the Magician-and shows...
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This is a book about healing your whole self, a book about becoming conscious and discovering the eternal and unbreakable you. The authors take listeners on a journey of discovery, a journey in which listeners will discover tools for their wholeness and personal power. The authors focus on seven topics:1. Understanding healing2. Asking the right questions about who you are3. Understanding the power of the mind4. Drawing on inner resources5. Taking...
39) Zenith
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Most know Androma Racella as the Bloody Baroness, a powerful mercenary whose reign of terror stretches across the Mirabel Galaxy. To those aboard her glass starship Marauder, however, she's just Andi, their friend and fearless leader. But when a routine mission goes awry, the Marauder's all-girl crew is tested as they find themselves at the mercy of a sadistic bounty hunter from Andi's past. Meanwhile, across the galaxy, a ruthless ruler waits in...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE-PATRON PHILOSOPHER
OF TODAY'S DISRUPTIVE ENTREPRENEURS
His favorite personality was a "free spirit": an obsessed individual with a vision of the future and the will to make it so, a rebel who creates the future with childlike enthusiasm.
Now, serial entrepreneur Dave Jilk and venture capitalist Brad Feld extract from Nietzsche a modern Art of War, connecting the dots to our high-tech business environment.
Each quick, digestible...
