Rule number one: Don't fall for my brother-in-law. It should be easy, right?Wrong.When I moved in with my sister over summer break, I had no intention of returning to college in the fall. A work trip for her meant a lot of time alone for me with her husband. Boone Stanton. World famous bull rider and way, way off limits.A few late-night deep conversations between the two of us, only the midnight sky our witness, and suddenly, I can't look away. Can'...

Finch was sent to the moon as a canary. They were one of the expendable—a soul desperate enough to risk their life for the safety of the ‘real’ astronauts. A decade later, they are the last canary left alive. Alone at the first lunar water mining station, Finch finds peace in solitude and the safety of routine.Ray grew up hearing her father rant about corporations ‘making the moon gay.’ For her, that sounded like hope. She shaped her life around reaching a place where she could fin...

Revealing how Canada’s first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada.In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the...

Shakespeare has been dubbed the greatest psychologist of all time. This book seeks to prove that statement by comparing the playwright's fictional characters with real-life examples of violent individuals, from criminals to political actors. For Gilligan and Richards, the propensity to kill others, even (or especially) when it results in the killer's own death, is the most serious threat to the continued survival of humanity. In this volume, the authors show how humiliated men, with their ...

When a rogue vampire threatens to expose vampires to humans, Phoenix has one week to prove she’s the alpha her pack needs—before her father hands over her birthright to someone else.Phoenix is heir to the werewolf pack, even if her father will not formally acknowledge her inheritance. The alpha has concerns about her leading the pack because she is autistic. Phoenix is ready to show him that she may be different, but she is more than capable of keeping her pack safe.Now, sh...

Nori is fed up with her cheating boyfriend and father of her two daughters. Living with a man and still being a single mother was not what she had in mind when she and Kayden met. Desperate for a break from her life, she throws caution to the wind and goes on a girls' trip, risking it all for a taste of freedom. The getaway offers more than she expected when a generous stranger sweeps her off her feet and shows her and her friends a good time.Returning home, Nori contemplates givin...

Word to the wise: Getting hot and heavy one night with the broody, hot rancher in town is rarely a good idea—Especially when said rancher is your ex-husband.Conrad Strauss is the owner of Grazing Acres Ranch, home to some of the sharpest bucking bulls around. As Copper Lake's only veterinarian in our small town, I have to see him more than I'd like. It hasn't always been easy, but it's become manageable.Until, of course, the night my need for him burned too...

William F. Buckley Jr. perhaps best described the importance of this seminal work when he said, “James Burnham has written a book about Liberalism for which the world has been aching. It is worth more to the West than the year’s gross national product, more than all the planes and bombs.”Through studious research into past civilizations, Burnham diagnoses the twentieth century and finds it afflicted with destructive, even “suicidal” tendencies––all of which arise from the “Liberal ...

In this thrilling novel from the authors of the bestselling Death of the Black Widow, the police of a small New England town are confronted with a baffling series of crimes.Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate—zero--is a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett.The day the stranger shows up is when the trouble star...

Max Canes can see spirits—a gift he has spent years trying to ignore. He arrives in Immortal, CO, hoping to make one exception: a last conversation with his recently deceased grandfather. But his grandfather has already moved on, leaving Max alone in Immortal—burned out, autistic, and not sure what comes next.Then he meets Sam—a warm, chaotic artist with ADHD who has somehow forgotten that she's dead. The moment she remembers, she blackmails Max into investigating her murder. Not f...

THE WEDDING FLORIST: After losing her job and getting evicted from her home, the last thing florist Anna Nolan needs is to ruin her new gig. But it's hard for her to work for the powerful and sexy Gabriel Radcliffe. Namely, because Anna's arranging the flowers for his wedding to society girl Stephanie Maurier – and she wishes she were the bride...THE HORSE TRAINER: Fallon Radcliffe can only escape her socialite family and their expectations when sh...

The New York Times bestselling story from the author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction.Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute ...