When Maggie Blackthorne returns to her hometown after nearly 20 years to serve as an Oregon State Police Sergeant, she expects to deal with the usual suspects—drunk drivers, oxy slingers, and the occasional rural scofflaw.But after she stumbles upon the bullet-ridden bodies of twin brothers, she realizes she's stepped into something much more sinister. With little homicide experience, Maggie and her partner, Trooper Hollis Jones, find themselves thrust into the mur...

“Emily Harding’s writing is fresh, romantic, full of wit! You can’t go wrong with one of her books!” —Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFor fans of Hello Stranger and Pictures of You, a modern amnesia romance about fresh starts, unexpected love, and what happens when forgetting your past sends you stumbling straight into your future.Growing up, Marnie Stephens believed that destiny was real and th...

A Christmas delight, ’Twas the Knife before Christmas will charm the stockings off readers of Joanne Fluke and Leslie Meier.It’s out of the cupcake tin, into the fire for Holly White’s best friend, Caroline. Can Holly clear Caroline’s name in time to go caroling?When a body turns up in the dumpster behind Caroline’s Cupcakes, Holly White is horrified to learn her best friend Caroline is the main suspect. Everyone in town, ...

If you want to get your manuscript published, listen to Imagine a Door.There's no secret handshake or golden key in this book, but Imagine a Door offers a more equitable and empowering prize: information delivered with gentleness. Author and publisher Laura Stanfill started working on this project in 2016, ultimately interviewing more than seventy-five authors and industry experts, including Wendy Chin-Tanner, Tove Danovich, Omar El Akkad, Erin Ha...

The perfect life...or the perfect nightmare?Millie has just served a long sentence for a murder she didn't commit. It's her identical twin sister Eve who was the killer...and the person who framed her.Millie is willing to forgive Eve and hopes they can still be loving sisters. But when she is released, instead of welcoming her, Eve coldly rejects her. Now Millie only wants one thing: revenge.Eve seems to have the perfect life; plenty of money, a bea...

Join the movement that celebrates single living with Peter McGraw's groundbreaking book, Solo.Amid the complexities of modern relationships, loneliness epidemics, and online dating burnout, there's a refreshing alternative: going Solo. "Solos," as coined by behavioral economist Peter McGraw, are people who choose to lead their lives authentically, purposefully, and passionately outside the confines of traditional relationship labels.In a world buil...

A stunning and unputdownable report of the US meat industry, the overwhelming disappointments of the country's food framework, and the developing frustration of elective meat makers professing to reform the fate of food. Ideal for fanatics of Kochland, The Meat Racket, and The Mysterious Existence of Food.A long time before Coronavirus cleared across the US and the director of Tyson Food varieties notoriously proclaimed that the food production network was perilously powerless, Ame...

Featuring multiple narrators, each story is brought vivdly to life.Desire. Longing. Tenderness. Passion. In this year’s volume, love lies at the heart of the stories that guest editor Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “so good that they may be bad for you”: a sixteen-year-old moves into town and effortlessly falls in love with a classmate who he knows he must abandon; a grandmother stitches together the hurts of her past when she connects with her granddaughter in the presen...

Nora Green wants out. Out of rural Georgia—and, more importantly, out of the house she's been resentfully occupying with her father and his wife. It's been five months since her mama died and the state dumped her on her father's doorstep, and Nora's been counting every second.With the sudden closure of the Shep horse ranch, Nora's last home-away-from-home, comes two surprises: news of her admission to a prestigious equine training program in Montana, and a job wrangling ho...

Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companiesThere has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix,...

An enemies to lovers, marriage of convenience, royal romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin Crews.The husband she loves to hate…until their wedding night!Princess Aikaterini thought losing her husband was the worst thing that could happen to her. Until she’s required to marry his successor, Prince Kyriakos. He exudes danger and makes Aikaterini tremble with what she’s sure is fear. Then he kisses her—everyw...

In this “beautifully composed” (Joyce Carol Oates) short story collection—the title piece successfully made into an HBO film—the complex relationships between lovers, spouses, neighbors, and friends are artfully explored.When the austere and moving title story of this collection appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, it inspired two memorable film adaptations, and John Updike selected it for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century.