New York Times best-selling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season - an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast.... In the summer...

The Summer Wives

In this irresistible debut novel, a freak accident allows a wife and mother to explore the alluring road not taken. Meet Abbey Lahey... Overworked mom. Underappreciated publicist. Frazzled wife of an out-of-work landscaper. A woman desperately in nee...

The One That Got Away

Honor, Loyalty, Love  David Cruz is good at two things: war and training dogs. The ex-soldier's toughest case is Atlas, a Belgian Malinois whose handler died in combat. Nobody at Hope's Crossing kennel can break through the animal's grief. That is, u...

Extreme Honor

Her name is Alias, and she is in big trouble.  She is a sell-sword, a warrior-for-hire, and an adventuress. She awoke with a series of twisting, magical blue sigils inscribed on her arms and no memory of where she got them.  Determined to learn the n...

Azure Bonds

Navy Wife Lindy Kyle flees to Seattle to weather a broken heart, but is unprepared for a roommate like Rush Callaghan. Strong, sensitive, and sexy, the temporarily dry-docked naval officer is everything she’s ever dreamed of in a man...and in a husba...

Navy Brides

Love is an act of bravery.  Retired Navy SEAL Alex Rojas is putting his life back together one piece at a time. Being a single dad to his young daughter and working at Hope's Crossing Kennels to help rehab a former guard dog, he struggles every day t...

Ultimate Courage

With over $500 million a year in sales, the Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for three generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, VA-an unincorpo...

Factory Man

Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in 19th-century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marri...

Charity and Sylvia

Dinah Taylor has an orderly life that is just how she likes it. A perfectly furnished luxury apartment, a satisfying career as a scientist and CEO of her own company, and an uncomplicated personal life. But all of that changes when she meets seven-ye...

Heaven Sent Rain

High fantasy doesn’t get better than this - revisit the classic Forgotten Realms in this 2nd book of the Finder’s Stone Trilogy by veteran authors Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb. More than a hunk of junk, the Wyvern’s Spur has moldered in a crypt for 15 g...

The Wyvern's Spur

The third audiobook in Piper J. Drake's adrenaline-packed True Heroes series.  Sophie's dream is to own and run her own bed-and-breakfast in New Hope. Juggling her day job at Hope's Crossing Kennels, she's working hard on making those dreams a realit...

Absolute Trust

High fantasy adventure takes a turn with mystery in the final title in the Finder’s Stone Trilogy by Jeff Grubb and Kate Novak. When the Harpers judged the Nameless Bard responsible for the death of his apprentices, they sentenced him to exile and ob...

Song of the Saurials

The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, best-selling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War- an epic novel set 50 years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. 

Earth

Navy Baby It was a night she’d never forget...two strangers coming together in a moment of intense desire. But now, sheltered Hannah Raymond is expecting the child of a rugged naval seaman she thought she’d never see again. Riley Murdock has been sea...

Navy Families

Navy Brat Erin MacNamera has one rule: Never fall for a navy man. But from the pulse-stopping moment her eyes meet Lieutenant Brandon Davis' across a crowded lounge, Erin knows life will never be the same. Sexy, tender, and strong, Brandon is all she...

Navy Grooms

When Alyssa Denham, a single career woman, wins a fun getaway for two on Mackinac Island where her grandmother lives, she gives her carefree best friend a call. Together, they tour the old shops and hidden treasures of the quaint island while helping...

A Grand Design

Meet Ladarat Patalung - the first and only nurse detective in Thailand.   Two nights ago a young woman brought her husband into the emergency room of the Sriphat Hospital in Thailand, where he passed away. A guard thinks she remembers her coming in b...

Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness

Mars is supposed to be dead. Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off t...

The Daedalus Incident

National best-selling author Lauraine Snelling brings a small mountain town to thrilling life when a natural disaster threatens to destroy lives. US Border Patrol agent Ben James' life is in tatters. A tragic accident stole the love of his life and h...

Wake the Dawn

Turn back the clocks! Your sweet child has morphed into a teen. And it's no longer just a messy bedroom or an attitude with a capital "A" causing concern. There's a whole new range of issues on the horizon. What if your daughter texts a naked picture...

A Survival Guide to Parenting Teens

Where does Ebola originate? How does it spread? And what should governments do to stop it? Few people understand the answers to these questions better than Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laurie Garrett. In this masterful account of the 1995 Ebola ...

Ebola

Now a Hallmark original movie! Nancy Naigle delivers a heartwarming Christmas story that proves you can always go home again in Hope at Christmas.   Sydney Ragsdale is looking for a fresh start far away from her controlling ex-husband and the self-do...

Hope at Christmas

A heartwarming story that celebrates how life-changing friendships can be found in all seasons of life.  The sprawling lake home Lynn Lundberg built with her husband has been an epicenter of joyful family life, from summer holidays spent around the w...

Someday Home

"Perfect deadpan marks the opening of Ali Simpson’s The Monster'" writes Susan Merrell of The Southampton Review in her introduction to this issue of Recommended Reading. "[It's] an elegant take on the best kind of horror story—one that Shirley Jacks...

The Monster

A true story about discovering positive selfhood, from a woman who moved beyond stereotypes to explore the world of corsetry firsthand. On Sarah A. Chrisman's 29th birthday, her husband, Gabriel, presented her with a corset. The material and the desi...

Victorian Secrets

Jiri has always been special. Found as an infant in the ashes of her village, she was taken in by neighbors and trained to be a powerful jungle druid. Yet when Aspis Consortium mercenaries release an ancient evil that burns her adopted home to the gr...

Firesoul

Now a major Hallmark film starring Danielle Panabaker and Matt Long. Nancy Naigle's Christmas Joy is a heartwarming Christmas audiobook about family, friendship, and finding love in unexpected places.   Joy Holbrook might be all work and no play, but...

Christmas Joy

Great business leaders understand that acceptance of greater personal accountability and responsibility leads individuals, teams, and organizations back on the path to success.  But with the evolving nature of 21st century business, the practical ste...

Accountability Leadership

Two dimensions collided on the rust-red deserts of Marsand are destined to become entangled once more in this sequel to the critically acclaimed The Daedalus Incident.Lieutenant Commander Shaila Jain has been given the assignment of her dreams: The f...

The Enceladus Crisis

Wellman's work will be remembered, and should be preserved because it combines the dark gothic tradition of the American pulps with a detailed snapshot of regional history and culture. This mixture is shown through the lens of the American modernist ...

The Devil Is Not Mocked and Other Warnings

Food, friendship, family, and a fresh start.  Shelby Preston, a young single mother, is at a crossroads. She feels suffocated by her hardscrabble life in rural Georgia and dreams of becoming a professional chef. Lord knows her family could use a pot ...

The Promise Kitchen

In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells s...

Create Dangerously

Cult favorite Tony Vigorito invokes a kind of chaos theory in Nine Kinds of Naked that gleefully turns any expectation of time, space, or plot on its head.

Nine Kinds of Naked

The last chapter of the dimension-spanning Daedalus series brings the 19th and 22nd centuries together for an explosive finale in the jungles of Venus! In the year 2135, dangerous alien life forms freed in the destruction of Saturn's moon, Enceladus,...

The Venusian Gambit

For a small-town girl with big-city dreams, there is no address more glamorous than New York's Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives to work at Mademoiselle for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic roommate, Dolly, comes from a...

Searching for Grace Kelly

From USA Today best-selling author Nancy Naigle, Dear Santa is a heartwarming Christmas story about finding your passion for life and love.  Angela Carson wants nothing more than to be the third generation to run her family’s holiday store, Heart of ...

Dear Santa

Already provoking debate and garnering significant attention in France and within the wine world, Vino Business is a surprising and eye-opening book about the dark side of French wine by acclaimed investigative journalist Isabelle Saporta.  While Bor...

Vino Business

Stories by:   Lauren Willig  Adriana Trigiani  Jo Beverley  Alexandra Potter  Laurie Viera Rigler  Frank Delaney & Diane Meier  Syrie James  Stephanie Barron  Amanda Grange  Pamela Aidan  Elizabeth Aston  Carrie Bebris  Diana Birchall  Monica Fairvie...

Jane Austen Made Me Do It

Set in San Francisco and North Carolina, the linked stories in Damn Love introduce us to characters struggling with love in all its complicated forms, including a young doctor getting over a breakup with the help of a patient, a newly married gay man...

Damn Love

Young, homeless, pregnant minority women and their unborn infants are dying in the emergency rooms in East Los Angeles...When three pregnant, homeless women die within a week of one another inside the emergency room of County Hospital in East Los Ang...

Covert Reich

After a flood damages the looms at Zenus Dane’s Philadelphia textile mill and the bank demands loan payment, Zenus turns to his aunt for help repurposing his textiles. Trouble is...his aunt has already been hired by the lovely yet secretive Englishwo...

Masterpiece Marriage

Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family's experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, ...

Locked Down, Locked Out

Riley Cooper is offered the chance of a lifetime: to find the Crux Fidelis, the coronation cross of Charlemagne. Under Water Sea Adventures members believe they have found the remains of the Indigo, a heavily laden cargo ship commissioned by Charlema...

Expedition Indigo

Dear Listener,Yes, our town is way off the beaten path, but strange, wonderful miracles happen a lot around here.  I've owned the Cut 'n' Curl beauty shop for years, and I've seen folks come for a visit, then stay for a lifetime. Take Jane - that pre...

Welcome to Last Chance

She's a starving artist, and he's a billionaire playboy.  Siobhan comes to New York with a purpose: She wants to become a successful artist. To pay her bills in the meantime, she's the hostess at The Stone Room, a bar for the beautiful and the billio...

Dazzling

Simple yet powerful keys for keeping your composure and the mental edge over your opponents, which will help you play with more consistency, experience less frustration, and shoot lower scores. 

Zen Golf Daily Tips

Jenny Carpenter is the unrivaled pie-baking champion of Last Chance, South Carolina's annual Watermelon Festival and the town's unofficial spinster. With her dream of marriage and children on hold, she focuses on another dream, turning the local haun...

Inn at Last Chance

Dear Listener,  You won't believe what's happened. My son, Tulane, has come back home! You remember Tulane? He'd set out to find fame and fortune in the big, wide world outside of Last Chance, and I'm mighty proud. But that's not the half of it - Tul...

Home at Last Chance

He's worth millions, but he's worthless without her.  It's been a month since her traumatic breakup with Derick, and Siobhan now lives in Detroit, where she can support herself and her painting career. But suddenly Derick's back after flying halfway ...

Radiant

Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life. Until a talent manager discovers her and brings her into the world of theater. Now years later she's about to start shooting her first...

Under a Texas Sky

"Please don't let me fall."  Since Siobhan has made it as an artist, she's ready to start a life in New York with the love of her life, billionaire Derick Miller. But their relationship has been a rollercoaster ride that has pushed Derick too far. Will Siobhan be able to win back her soul mate?  BookShots Flames    Original romances presented by James Patterson  Novels you can devour in a few hours  Impossible to stop listening   

Exquisite

From acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe, a spellbinding true tale of 19th-century sex, scandal, and cold-blooded murder. In 1831, Lucretia Winslow Chapman was a wife and mother of five who had founded one of Philadelphia's first boarding sch...

The Murder of Dr. Chapman

The Best Sex Writing series has fundamentally changed the way people think - and what they say - about sexuality. Once again, Rachel Kramer Bussel has collected the year’s most challenging and provocative nonfiction articles on this endlessly evocati...

Best Sex Writing 2013: The State of Today's Sexual Culture

Prepare to be seduced by powerful magic - the sorcery of lust, need, and sensuality. Multiple award-winners Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together 22 tales of unearthly temptations wickedly concocted by some of today's most potent lit...

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers

Award-winning playwright and essayist Topher Payne selects his favorite scenes, essays, and stories, many available in print for the very first time. Delight in this hilarious and often surprisingly sweet world populated by Payne's signature brand of well-intentioned sociopaths. 

Funny Story

Ross Gardiner has had his fill of difficult relationships. Returning to Last Chance after a rough divorce, the town's handsome new fire chief just wants safety and stability - a tall order given his dangerous job and the way he has the attention of a...

Last Chance Hero

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of other animals. For instance: the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. Female c...

Odd Couples

Practical advice on how to enjoy the unique benefits and avoid the pitfalls of investing in real estate abroad   In the current uncertain investment climate, foreign real estate represents a more important opportunity than ever before, for both the i...

How to Buy Real Estate Overseas

Earth, the fantasy - the place where mankind originated, the storied vista of green, rolling hills and unblemished mountains and fields of amber grain waving in a light breeze. Earth, the reality - a junk world, a dirty, dangerous, rundown planet fil...

Space Junk

Amy has spent her life in isolation. Locked away in the Centre, a secret government facility where children with extraordinary abilities are raised as highly skilled fighters, she longs for a normal life - a life where being around people doesn't ove...

Hunting the Shadows

Based on the major themes found on the most active Facebook page in history, Jesus Daily is a 365-day interactive devotional that goes beyond even the fan page to create a deeper experience and cultural movement that celebrates your redemption in Chr...

Jesus Daily

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Theory of Death comes a short story set in an imaged future where computers speak for humans.  This tale begins: "It was a time when the world, though filled with sound, was quiet." Technology has re...

The Voiceless

The Oriental Wife is the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who flee Hitler’s Germany and struggle to put down roots elsewhere. When they meet up again in New York, they fall in love both with each other and with America, believi...

The Oriental Wife

Certain to appeal to all parents - whether they are expecting or raising their first new addition, in-the-trenches veterans or empty-nesters - this delightful Chicken Soup book offers a collection of inspiring and entertaining stories that relate to ...

Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul

Dorrie Gilbert, a potter who lives alone, is completely unprepared for motherhood when her oddball, overweight, and orphaned nephew Hugo comes to live with her, demanding to know the truth about his parents and horrified that she doesn't own a television so he can watch the soap opera he's devoted to. As Dorrie and Hugo attempt to work things out, each learns some hard and surprising, but deeply satisfying, truths about real life.

Real Life

"God let us go broke." "Dead broke. We got caught in a horrible swirl of depressed housing markets, of sagging businesses, of long periods of underemployment and then unemployment, of debt from uncovered medical expenses. All of this hit at once, lea...

Broke

I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here is a collection of essays for every person out there who feels like they're never going to fall in love or they're never going to be happy or they're just not sure that they'll ever get their life together. It answers...

I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here

James Patterson's BookShots. Fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. She's a starving artist, and he's a billionaire playboy.... Siobhan came to New York with a purpose: she wants to become a successful artist. To pay her bills in the meantime, she's the hostess at The Stone Room, a bar for the beautiful and the billionaires. She is fine with being on her own - until tech billionaire Derick takes her breath away. 

James Patterson's BookShots. Fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. He's worth millions, but he's worthless without her. It's been a month since her traumatic break-up with Derick, and Siobhan now lives in Detroit, where she can support herself and her painting career. But suddenly Derick's back after flying halfway across America for her. And though Siobhan's body comes alive at his touch, she doesn't know if she can trust him again.... 

Emily Lime and her equally palindromic dog Otto live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (zip code 11211), in a warm community of friends and fellow artists. Her life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Marcus, a dog walker and fellow Scrabble...

Solos

With her trademark acerbic wit and compassion, Francine Prose offers a sharp-eyed consideration of how men and women differ in their pursuit - and avoidance - of power, sex, and competition. A satire of the pieties of New Age religion and knee-jerk feminism, Hunters and Gatherers nevertheless radiates sympathy for our efforts to reconcile spiritual longings with our earthbound, all-too-human nature. 

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