I Only Cuss When I'm Sailing is a memoir about a couple's move from landlocked Montana to a sailboat on the West Coast. They will fix up the old boat, learn to sail, and set off for the Caribbean. The idea started while they were renovating an old mining town brothel. Rae Ellen Lee and her husband, Tom, dreamed up a novel to co-author and set the story on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. After a book research trip to the island, they sell their house and buy a boat. But things...

It just goes to show that when you least expect it, wonderful things can happen. Any day! Blue is my very best friend. He has never been alone, cold, or hungry again. Neither have I. Blue Boy saved my life. I like to think I saved his too.

The place: Montana. The time: the present. After a nearly fatal encounter with a moose and a terrifyingly close brush with middle age, Molly reassesses her life. The Result: she ends her stale marriage and moves to a small mining town where she purchases The Bluebird House, an old bordello. She hires Ben, a handsome carpenter—and poet, gourmet cook, and mountain man—to help her renovate the old building. Molly can’t help but be attracted to the younger man—until she discovers that he was o...

Temptation has never been so dangerous.A domineering force in Miami’s volatile criminal underworld, Brad Black is respected. Feared. His deadly accurate trigger finger and indestructible persona has earned him his intimidating reputation and, up until six months ago, hookers, drugs, and protecting the Black empire was the sum of his life’s purpose.Until he saved her.Wild, brave, and beautiful, Pearl Kennedy is Brad’s kryptonite. A distraction. A you...

Santa came early this year, and he brought me a big lump of coal.When I asked for volunteers to help with our small town Christmas festival, I should have been more specific.Griffin McBride—the arrogant blast from my past who barges in like he's taking over the project—isn't who I had in mind.I want my gossip-fueled town to whisper about my successes instead of my failures for a change. To do that, I need someone to build my dream of a life-sized Ch...

My heart's had a No Trespassing sign on it for years, but my next-door neighbor is tempting me to lay out a welcome mat.When I took my friend's offer of cheap rent for my five-year-old son and me, I knew it came with a reclusive neighbor attached. I just didn't realize he's the same guy I adored from afar fifteen years ago.Back then, Ian was all smiles and flirty banter, and my teenage heart couldn't help but fall. Now? He's a grouch who's more lik...

I started this pretend romance to save face, not to lose my heart.I'm indoorsy with a capital I, but I need to fake a little outdoorsiness to get a promotion. A five-day hike sounds like my nightmare, but after upending my life and moving from the city back to my small hometown, I need a win.I didn't expect to find someone like Grant Irwin in the wilderness with me. A cinnamon roll in mountain man form, he's freakishly competent out here, and endlessly pati...

**A Kirkus Reviews Best BookAn NCTE Notable Poetry BookFourteen poems compiled by award-winning poet and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins introduce readers to the various construction people who collaborate to create a high-rise hotel building, from architect to crane operator to glaziers and more.**How does an empty lot transform into a new hotel? This anthology begins with a busy construction site, and an architect's (and her daughter's) dreams drawn on blueprint pa...

"[This] lavishly illustrated labor of love is a must-have for any baker who seeks to create honest, authentic and flavorful breads and pastries." —Stanley Ginsberg, award-winning author of The Rye BakerHere is a go-to resource for bakers of all skill levels who love new information and techniques that lead to better loaves and more flavor. These forty-five foolproof recipes for delicious, nutritious, good-for-the-gut breads and pastries star a wide range of...

A powerful and engaging exploration of contemporary Asian American identity through interwoven stories set in a teeming Chicago airport, written by award-winning and bestselling East and Southeast Asian American authors including Linda Sue Park, Grace Lin, Erin Entrada Kelly, Traci Chee, and Ellen Oh. Flying Lessons meets Black Boy Joy.“The individual narratives are consistently engaging and rewarding, and together they form a unique collection of...

**Brought to you by Penguin.*Narrated by Academy, Tony and Primetime Emmy Award winner Ellen Burstyn*From the beloved bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a posthumous collection of newly discovered writing, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind behind To Kill a Mockingbird.**Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon – thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To ...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month Deji Bryce Olukotun serves up a complicated story of morality, justice and interstellar cannibalism in "Between the Dark and the Dark." In her new SF tale "Th...