Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After falling for a telephone scam, she loses everything and is forced to abandon her trailer. With only two-thirds of a tank in her old van, she heads toward the Pacific Ocean with her cat - on...

Allie and Bea

Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: Her friends, her homes, her social standing - because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars. Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best fri...

Silver Girl

From the next "major voice in Southern fiction" (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand) comes the first in an all-new series chronicling the journeys of three sisters and their mother - and a secret from their past that has the potential...

Slightly South of Simple

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Garden Spells comes a beautiful, haunting story of old loves and new, and the power of the connections that bind us forever…  The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a picture postcard. Just an...

Lost Lake

A 2018 Spring Okra Pick  USA Today Happy Ever After’s Best Women’s Fiction  Southern Living’s Most Anticipated Beach Reads of 2018  Deep South Magazine’s Summer Reading List  Raleigh News & Observer's “The Best Reads of Summer”  Charlotte Observer’s ...

The Secret to Southern Charm

From the next "major voice in Southern fiction" (New York Times best-selling author Elin Hilderbrand) comes a new novel about what it really means to tell the truth....  After 60 years of marriage and five daughters, Lynn "Lovey" White knows that all...

Lies and Other Acts of Love

From internationally best-selling author and “rising star of Southern fiction” (Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times best-selling author) Kristy Woodson Harvey comes the third novel in her Peachtree Bluff series, in which a secret threatens the tight-kn...

Southern Side of Paradise

Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal - especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical gu...

The Manager's Path

While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA team that conducted the intense "Ames Mole Hunt."  Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille were two of th...

Circle of Treason

The newest installment of the New York Times best-selling Peachtree Bluff series follows three generations of Murphy women as they come together to face a hurricane that threatens their hometown - and the holiday season - in this “book equivalent of ...

Christmas in Peachtree Bluff

The New York Times bestselling author of Nantucket Sisters whisks listeners away to the island of Nantucket in this delightful story about two single parents who accidentally rent the same house one sunny summer.  Wendy Anderson is 35, the mother of ...

The Guest Cottage

From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of Memories in the Drift, comes an emotionally rich, feel-good novel about hope, second chances, and seeing the world through someone else’s eyes.  Orphaned at a young age and witness to her brother’s decline in...

The Night of Many Endings

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky and the Peachtree Bluff series brings “her signature wit, charm, and heart” (Woman’s World) to this sweeping new novel following four women across generations, boun...

The Wedding Veil

An unexpected connection becomes the saving grace for two unlikely friends in a heart-stirring novel about love, loss, and moving forward by a New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author. Never knowing his parents, eleven-year-old Stewie L...

Dreaming of Flight

A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by "a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely" (Edward P. Jones).  In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut, shoreline, affectionately named ...

As Close to Us as Breathing

From a remarkable new voice in suspenseful women's fiction comes an emotionally searing drama about a woman who risks her life to discover the devastating truth about her family.…  Humanitarian aid worker Gia Andrews chases disasters around the globe...

The Last Breath

North Carolina, 1946. One woman. A discovery that could rewrite history. "A beautifully rendered portrait of a young woman finding her courage and her voice." (Lisa Wingate, number one New York Times best-selling author) Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning ...

The Tobacco Wives

When you arrive at foreign shores by sailboat, it's not such a small world after all.   Come along with Glen and Julie as they sail around the world and discover that reality is even bigger than the escape they imagined.    This breathtakingly person...

Escape from the Ordinary

For fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, debut author Suzy Krause delivers a quirky, colorful story about love, loss, second chances, and what it means to truly live. Valencia, a timid debt collector with crippling OCD, is afraid of many thin...

Valencia and Valentine

Do you want to better understand yourself, maximize your strengths, and improve your relationships?  Understanding how we are wired can enrich our lives and our relationships, helping to overcome differences that can seem irreconcilable. Instead of t...

Wired That Way

A childhood on the streets taught Mallory Phillips to never trust love again. Years later, she longs for a peaceful existence and a community to call home, only she can’t quite settle into the picturesque, cozy world around her.  When Polly Lombard s...

Christmas on Mimosa Lane

"The encounter was so sudden it took my breath away, and for a single moment I stood frozen, staring into the grizzly's eyes. It was so close I could reach out and touch its shaggy bronze fur."   Dolly Faulkner has many heart-stopping moments of terr...

Forty Years in the Wilderness

When Gracie MacDougal returns to Seagull Point, Virginia, seeking to reform her workaholic ways, she discovers more than relaxation. The picturesque town calls to her, as does the waterfront Victorian house she envisions as the perfect bed-and-breakf...

Amazing Gracie

From viral TED Talk speaker and founder of The World Needs More Love Letters, Hannah Brencher's Come Matter Here is the power listen you need to start living like you mean it here and now.  Life is scary. Adulting is hard. When faced with the challen...

Come Matter Here

On the evening of her twenty-second wedding anniversary, Katherine Price can't wait to celebrate. But instead of receiving an anniversary card from her husband, she finds a note asking for a divorce.  Fifty-five and suddenly alone, Katherine begins t...

The Promise of Provence

Suddenly single after twenty-two years of marriage, the calm of Katherine Price's midlife has turned upside down. Seeking to find her true self, she took a chance on starting over. A year later, she is certain of this: she's in love with Philippe and...

I Promise You This

"A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." -Stephen Fry Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right...

Wit's End

Since a solo plane crash killed her husband two years ago, Annabelle Murphy has found solace in raising her two children. Just when she thinks the grief is behind her, she receives news that the wreckage of the plane has been discovered - and that he...

The Art of Keeping Secrets

The story of the people who see beyond the stars  Humans from the earliest civilizations were spellbound by the night sky - craning their necks each night, they used the stars to orient themselves in the large, strange world around them. Stargazing i...

The Last Stargazers

Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more th...

An American Bride in Kabul

Ellie Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her husband - between her reality and the woman she wants to be - she doesn’t quite seem to fit into her own l...

Coming Up for Air

The painful memories from her life back in Toronto will never be distant enough, but Katherine Price finds peace under the autumn sky in the South of France...and a deepening, dizzying love with Philippe. Together, they savor the delicacies and splen...

Promises to Keep

One day can change your life forever. Three days can transform a painful past into a beautiful tomorrow....  Once, Sam Perry had it all. A loving marriage, an amazing job she adored as a preschool teacher, and a beautiful home. She was safe, happy, a...

Three Days on Mimosa Lane

An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world  The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people bac...

Why Liberalism Works

Law Beaumont and Kristen Hemmings have watched each other from a distance for years. But Law, a bartender with a bad-boy past, and Kristen, an assistant principal devoted to helping her community, couldn’t seem more different. When they unite to ment...

Love on Mimosa Lane

Understand how day trading works-and get an action plan Due to the fluctuating economy, trade wars, and new tax laws, the risks and opportunities for day traders are changing. Now, more than ever, trading can be intimidating due to the different meth...

Day Trading for Dummies, 4th Edition

The latest in a series that has been called "a must for fans of science fiction, fantasy, and short stories in general" Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine. Fantasy takes us through doorways of ma...

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 12

Through the story of a $6,000 egg, Deb and Todd Duncan reveal that even the smallest interactions have the power to create lifelong patrons or alienate once-devoted customers. The 10 Golden Rules of Customer Service represents the costly mistake of r...

The 10 Golden Rules of Customer Service

Boy or girl? Even before a person is born, that’s the first thing everyone wants to know - underscoring just how much value human societies of all types place on gender. In His Brain, Her Brain, we take a closer look at the anatomical, chemical, and ...

His Brain, Her Brain

Like most mothers, Amy Reynolds has anticipated the moment when her son brings home his first serious girlfriend. But when he does, she’s shocked to meet the girl’s father. He is none other than Nick Lowry – the college boyfriend who captivated her h...

Losing the Moon

A darkly funny novel from a fresh new voice in fiction about brides, lovers, friends, and family, and all the secrets that come with them.  Tiny McAllister never thought she’d get married. Not because she didn’t want to, but because she didn’t think ...

All Are Welcome

When she was 18, she joined the army to finance her nursing education.  With less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam.  True tales of the war that are by turns horrifying and humorous, told with an eye for detail, by a woman who was in the thick of it.

When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell

The next twelve hours will change everything.  Ronnie's husband is supposed to move out today. But when Jeff pulls into the driveway drunk, with a shotgun in the front seat, she realizes nothing about the day will go as planned.  The next few hours s...

The Far End of Happy

An emotionally riveting tale of the bonds of family and the power of hope in the sultry Deep South.  In 1969, the first footsteps on the moon brighten America with possibilities. But along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a category five storm is brewing,...

The Oleander Sisters

Sheriff Guy Trident doesn't have much to do with off-worlders; he has his hands full keeping his own planet safe. But he'll do anything, go anywhere to save Jewel Quinn. She broke his heart years ago when she left to marry a Terraloft aristocrat. Now...

Silver Bound

Traditional economics measures the ways in which we spend our income, but doesn't attribute worth to the crucial human interactions that give our lives meaning. Clair Brown, an economics professor at U.C. Berkeley and a practicing Buddhist, has devel...

Buddhist Economics

Lisa Landon makes her living with her voice — a voice fueled by a heartbreak she vows never to experience again. But despite her renown, Lisa’s real ambition is to escape the memories that follow her from one sold-out engagement to the next. Perhaps ...

Always

Meridy Dresden was once a free-spirited, fun-loving girl. All that changed when the boy she loved was killed in a tragic fire. Since then, she alone has carried the burden of a terrible secret. Years later, married to a wonderful man and mother of a ...

Where the River Runs

This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of...

The Women's House of Detention

The charming, and not entirely trustworthy, unnamed narrator of The Last Night at the Ritz invites three friends to join her for lunch at the elegant Ritz-Carlton in Boston to celebrate her birthday. Two of them, Gay and Len, are a long-married coupl...

The Last Night at the Ritz

The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn't the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River - and it was completely preventable.  In 1865, the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincoln's assassi...

Sinking the Sultana

Do you have the right strategy to lead your company into the future?  Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review artic...

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Vol. 2

From a prize-winning journalist, Mary Carter Bishop, a moving and beautifully rendered memoir about the half-brother she didn’t know existed that hauntingly explores family, class, secrets, and fate. Applying for a passport as an adult, Mary Carter B...

Don't You Ever

Discover a groundbreaking, science-based approach to leadership that generates radical innovation for dramatic and permanent results. Today's business arena is undergoing a revolutionary transformation, equivalent in impact to the Industrial Revoluti...

The New Science of Radical Innovation

The rise of China's tech companies and intense competition from the sector is just beginning. This will present an ongoing management and strategy challenge for companies for many years to come. Tech Titans of China is the go-to-guide for companies (...

Tech Titans of China

The potential power of forgiveness in an age of resentment.   Crimes and violations of the law require punishment, and our legal system is set up to punish, but what if the system was recalibrated to also weigh grounds for forgiveness? What if someth...

When Should Law Forgive?

In 1933 in the Shenandoah Valley, there isn't a place for Lum (short for Columbia), a 33-year-old intersex woman. She travels by schedule from one branch of the family to another, assisting with cooking, childcare, and housework. Always an outsider, ...

Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan’s memoir of her 30 years living intimately with raptors, gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, and the l...

Peregrine Spring

In a small Virginia town still reeling from World War II, a photograph of a beautiful murdered woman propels three young people into the middle of a far-reaching mystery.  A lurid crime scene photo of a beautiful woman arrives on mystery writer Bunny...

Dodging and Burning

A true-adventure, coming-of-age tale set in the exhilarating first wave of Beatlemania. It's 1964, and 16-year-old Janice is struggling in a grim foster home in Cleveland when she falls suddenly, deeply in love...with The Beatles. They and their musi...

My Ticket to Ride

While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's ...

Of Human Kindness

This invaluable guide will help the historical number of eightysomethings live fulfilled, happy lives long into their twilight years.  Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their ...

Eightysomethings

Stories provide the connective tissue of the South. The intrepid Pamela Petro drives from the Carolinas to the Appalachians to the Atlantic seaboard, from Virginia's valleys to Louisiana's swamps to meet the mesmerizing guardians of its history: the ...

Sitting Up with the Dead

Sometimes All You Need Is Love; sometimes Love Is a Battlefield. Whether Love Hurts, Bites, Will Keep Us Together, Will Tear Us Apart, or Is a Four-Letter Word, it seems we Want to Know What Love Is. Love - in both the abstract and the up-close-and-p...

Love, Sex, and Science

Life is good for Dr. Laura Nelson. Her kids have their ups and downs, but seem well adjusted to high school and college; her research project at the university is going well; and she is highly regarded as the chief of surgery at Tampa City Hospital. ...

Weapon of Choice

After her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again . . . Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. But after a job change forced Frank to begin a long car commute ev...

The Brainwashing of My Dad

A heartwarming memoir of a family that refused to give up When 22-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was struck by déjà vu. The same illness that took her sister's life was threatening to take her daughter's too. He...

The Cookie Cure

Is it possible to take advantage of the benefits of data collection - and mitigate risks - for both companies and customers? Most consumers are not very skilled at evaluating privacy risks; they're either unable to determine the cost of sharing perso...

Customer Data and Privacy

Building a successful career starts with you.  It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day demands of your current job and lose sight of the big picture, but with a typical career spanning 50 years or more, you do so at your own peril. It's up to yo...

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Career Resilience

Five years in prison or five years working as an undercover agent? Not the easiest choice for Ana Moreno, who has a history of B and E convictions and a problem with authority. But it's a decision she and four other felons are willing to make to stay...

Criminal Instinct

In the watershed year of 1919, world leaders met in Paris, promising to build a new international order rooted in democracy and social justice. Female activists demanded that statesmen live up to their word. Excluded from the negotiating table, women...

Peace on Our Terms

The Department of Health advises that one in four people will experience a mental health issue at some point in their lives. Although a number of recent developments and initiatives have raised the profile of this crucial issue, employers are experie...

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

"Our commander-in-chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it."* - Hillary Clinton  "She doesn't have strength. She doesn't have the stamina.... I think she's an embarrassment."** - Donald Trump  In this presidential contest of diame...

Trump vs. Clinton: In Their Own Words

A mystery for young adults and anyone else who's been wrongly accused.  A year ago Frankie was a middle-school baseball star. Now, she's been banned from pitching and accused of killing a cat. Frankie didn't do it, but who amongst her houseboat neighbors did? Can she catch the culprit with the help of a former TV star and a not-so-friendly German shepherd?

I Didn't Kill Your Cat

A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis  Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while R...

Essays One

The first in a series of books, I Somehow Survived is an extraordinary collection of true stories giving testimony to those who survived World War II. Based on interviews with numerous veterans from across the spectrum of wartime experience, the book...

I Somehow Survived

A spellbinding journey!  Trapped on the battlefield and badly wounded, Pvt. Ransom MacTavish consoles a dying officer by reading to him the letters of his fiancee, Elizabeth, a wealthy Charleston lady.  Stranded alone when the officer dies, the only ...

Some Glad Morning

Money laundering is a serious crime that presents a heightened, yet underrated, global threat. Although often thought of as a victimless crime, money laundering significantly impacts the global financial system, which leads to further crime, corrupti...

The Flow of Illicit Funds

Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton's compositions like "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" hav...

Unlikely Angel

Break down the barriers to effective collaboration. For cross-functional projects to work, you need to bring together diverse ideas and resources from across your organization. But office politics, conflicting objectives, and lack of clear authority ...

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