In this delightful story, song, and picture book for kids 4-8, you'll meet Arlie, the most friendly alligator ever! Arlie is a very curious, lovable, positive thinking alligator who wants, more than anything, to make friends with the strange creatures (humans) on the beach. He is determined to do what no other alligators have done before—talk to the creatures. Can you help Arlie? Will you be his friend? As kids read along and look at the beautifully illustrated pictures, they can also sing...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When a murder mystery party in the exclusive Trivolity active adult community turns deadly, two retired investigators team up to find the killer. They uncover a web of blackmail, jealousy, and secrets hiding beneath the manicured lawns and polite smiles of their quirky neighbors. With a rising body count and a murderer on the loose, they must untangle the truth before another resident checks out permanently.

A Bride Until MidnightInnkeeper Summer was Orchard Hill’s very own keeper of secrets. Of course, the biggest secret she kept was her own – a past life that had made headlines! So when fate deposited journalist Kyle on her doorstep, he sparked her deepest suspicions…and her deepest desires.Something UnexpectedRosemary knew she was in trouble when the handsome stranger who’d romanced her on the dance floor turned out to be her new hom...

This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging scholars recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the transition from slavery to freedom in the period following the Civil War through the struggle to secure rights for gay and lesbian women in the late twentieth century. Placing their subjects in their larger historical ...

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetica...

**The plan was to sell the family bookstore and flee Texas, not play sheriff . . . “**Joan Hess and Margaret Maron [fans] will find much to appreciate in this series.” —Kings River Life MagazineWhen kindergarten teacher Charli Rae Warren hightailed it out of Hazel Rock, Texas, as a teen, she vowed to leave her hometown in the dust. A decade later, she’s braving the frontier of big hair and bigger gossip once again . . . but this time, she’s saddled wit...

It all started with sex on the beach…the drink, not…you know.As a bartender, Mason Cambridge often charmed beautiful women who ordered up cocktails on his shift. It was part of his job after all, and he needed the tips—badly.When Lexi Swafford plopped her pretty little tail down on the bar stool, Mason offered her a drink. He had no idea that he would soon be working with her or that he'd be letting her room with him until her new apartment was ready.In fact, once L...

Donna VanLiere's Christmas books have enthralled millions of readers. Now she delivers another inspirational novel about an unlikely friendship between two women—a friendship that will change each of their lives forever.The Christmas Note is now a Hallmark TV movie!Gretchen Daniels has recently moved into a condo with her two children to be closer to her mother, Miriam. As they build a life together in their new co...

As the Dating Guy on L.A.'s top morning show, I give the single guy's perspective on dating, love, and sex—and I give great advice. Everyone's hooking up…well, except for me. Sure, I can get any woman I want, but I've got a "no relationship" clause in my contract and the only woman I want has "relationship" written all over her. Probably stamped on her ass, too. And wouldn't I like to confirm that.Unfortunately, she wants nothing to do with me. At all. Something about the next Ice ...

Pregnant and stranded, Jacey never imagined a handsome stranger would deliver her baby! With an irresistible infant around, it’s beginning to feel like Christmas around the ranch. But can her rescuer convince Jacey there’s something – or someone – worth sticking around for when Christmas is over?

NAMED "BEST OF" BY MULTIPLE ROMANCE BLOGSNo Weddings | One Funeral | Two Bar Mitzvahs | Three Christmases | For Valentine's*Award-winning author Kat Bastion teams with her husband, Stone Bastion, in the No Weddings Series about Cade Michaelson, a successful man with his sights set on a new venture in business, and Hannah Martin, the woman who makes it personal.*The No Weddings Limited Edition Box Set ...

Winner! 2017 Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence.How can you imagine forever with someone who's leaving everything behind?Callahan, a former army sniper, wants to make an escape from his past and everything he experienced at war, but most of all, just not feel. Feeling leads to pain and he’s suffered enough. When he inherits a house on South Carolina’s Kiawah Island, he packs his bags, lured by the peace and seclusion he thinks it will bring....