Here are a couple of the editor's favorite lines from the book:"She looked ten times better than the sexy women on TV and she had a voice made of satin. She could make you believe up was down and night was day with her voice and beautiful eyes. ""My dad told me: the problem is not when evil men stand up, but when righteous men sit down. I would not be a coward again. I would stand up and fight."

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A poignant and tender story of love, loss, passion, and the fragile threads that bind families together from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Women.“A beautifully simple, deeply compassionate story.”—Diana GabaldonAnnie Colwater's only child has just left home for school abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Alone in the ...

Nolan Lennox had things figured out. Named after a baseball legend, she enjoyed being the Tomboy, her closet filled with her brother’s hand-me-downs, cut-off jeans and soccer shorts. But when her first trip to high school results in a broken heart from the first boy to ever make her heart flutter and cruel words from an older girl she once thought a family friend, Nolan starts to question the very person she thought she was and wonders if her humble upbringing can compete with the afforded...

Dear Reader,My boy Stone has always been the quiet one in the family, but now he's got the whole town talking. He and his long-time sweetheart Sharon are crazy about each other, but suddenly they can't see eye-to-eye on their future. Sharon thought they were going to go to college, then get married. But Stone had other plans--plans he didn't share with anyone.So it looks like our resident matchmaker Miriam is going to be wrong for the first time ever. She swears Shar...

Only the strong will survive. But what does it mean to be strong?The “Smash” has been building for years—runaway national debt, escalating oil prices—but when order finally breaks down, it happens astonishingly fast. Economic collapse. Government in chaos. Gas shortages. Loss of power. No running water. Martial law. Rioting, looting, and lawlessness…Security specialist DJ Frost saw the writing on the wall, and he has prepared. He’s planned his bug-out route...

For most of the last year Jodie’s been in a coma.Now she’s out, back in the arms of her overprotective family. And, strangely, someone else’s as well – devastatingly handsome Devlin, who she’d just started dating before the accident.But what did Devlin want with her? And who was that tiny baby in his arms?

New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer, “famous for her heartrending slices of Americana,”* is at her best in this sweet, small-town romance about a country music star discovering the true meaning of love...Eighteen years ago, Tess McPhail left her tiny hometown of Wintergreen, Missouri for the bright lights of Nashville and never looked back. Now, one of country music’s biggest stars, “Mac” is a hardworking woman with little time for a personal...

Oh. No. This can't be happening. Me and Sean Reed? "Trust Partners" for the entire counselors-in-training program? Sean may have deep blue eyes that make my heart flutter whenever he looks at me, but he's always been a troublemaker. Being thrown together all summer? That is so not going to work. Even if he does have a really, really nice smile.Trust me on this.

Like many young women, Grace Barnum's life is a precarious mix of sensible choices and uncomfortable compromise. She dutifully edits children's textbooks that she fears may be more harmful than helpful. She is engaged to a patent attorney with whom she has a reliable relationship. She's wary of her fascinating father, a renowned New York painter, and she prefers her mother slightly drunk.Always organised, always a planner, Grace carries her life around in a handbag - that is, until...

When Asia's police officer best friend confessed his attraction to her, she gave into fears and doubts and pushed him away. After all, she had a plan for her life, and that included taking a new position in Ocean City, Maryland, far away from family and friends.Sean has loved Asia for a long time, but when she rejects him, he figures he's destroyed a friendship that has lasted for years. When a lateral move brings him to the OC Police Department, Sean sees another opportunity to wi...

Kate Carter is an ordinary eighteen-year-old. Other than a somewhat obsessive fondness for iced tea and complete swearing-off of boys ever since a blind date when she was fifteen (don’t ask), she’s about as normal as they come. At least until she steps into art class. There, she’s surrounded by pencils, paper, paint and her stoic table partner, Silent Nathan. Which is fine with her—no guys, remember? When her new art teacher starts a series on how to use art in the everyday world, Kate sta...

Nothing can ruin a new school year...except maybe a pesky little brother. This Step 4 reader is the perfect back-to-school story for newly independent readers!Will should be excited to start third grade. But his little brother, Steve, is starting kindergarten. The same laugh-out-loud writing and hilarious illustrations that brought us How Not to Babysit Your Brother now portray the tribulations and embarrassments of starting school with a very troublesome ...