Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist | Barnes & Noble Press Presents Featured SelectionThe summer after graduating from college, 22-year-old Danny Wolinski takes a cross-country US road trip with his friend, Ian Perez, hoping to find the inspiration to reach his songwriting potential, start a band, and avoid student teaching in the fall. Danny is tormented by intense physical and psychological pain and sees music as his only...

From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile and Sisters!Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department's stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doe...

A beautiful lawyer with a checkered past is putting everything on the line for love in this sexy, edgy urban romance from media superstar Wendy Williams.Kimberly Kind is trying to escape her roots. As the new assistant district attorney of New York County, she's finally finding direction in her life and getting off the streets. But a terrible accident threatens to throw her carefully laid plans off course. Now Kim's hiding a huge secret . . . one that could threaten...

A New York Times bestseller! Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover.That’s the real-life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It’s a miracle that Jimmy survived being hungry and homeless, bouncing in and out of the foster care system, and sleeping in the streets. But he didn’t just overcome great adversity...

A Steamy Hot Alpha Biker Romance SeriesWhen Callie McCallister hooks up with luscious drummer Adam Marin in a biker bar for a no-strings-attached night of unbelievably hot sex, she feels like the pure Alpha male sexy biker and she make a connection. When a second chance encounter with Adam leaves her heartsick, Callie moves on and goes on the hunt for a hot biker type she can keep.After a string of dates from a biker website, fate pairs Callie with the gorg...

Sam Krushing asked Callie Ryan to marry him when they were four-years-old...and she said yes.Then he discovered he wasn’t like other kids. He wasn’t good enough for her. Years later, he’s a drummer in a Grammy-winning country band, touring most of the year, at the start of a great career. When he comes home for a week, they can’t resist the pull between them.She’s a librarian with good friends and a job she enjoys...and a mom who’s not well. Yet sh...

Stellium in Scorpio, a Richfield & Rivers mystery, is the passionate reuniting of two powerful women on the glitzy Las Vegas Strip where everything is an illusion and love is a gamble. L.A. screenwriter Teague Richfield is headed for the Desert Star Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, laser-focused on her hot reunion with Callie Rivers, the gorgeous, psychic astrologer who's inexplicably put their relationship on planetary pause. But Callie is focused on why a young Vegas showgirl is on the ghoul...

For a runaway boy who goes by the name Punkzilla kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in Portland Oregon is a prelude to a mission: reconnecting with his older brother a gay man dying of cancer in Memphis. Against a backdrop of seedy motels dicey bus stations and hitched rides the desperate fourteen-year-old meets a colorful sometimes dangerous cast of characters. And in letters to his sibling he catalogs them allfrom an abusive stranger and a ghostly girl to a kind transsexual a...

In this short story, Harry's a blackjack dealer at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. The kind of guy you'd never notice. Ordinary-looking, inconspicuous, practically invisible. Lives in a little apartment behind the hotel. Been working graveyard shift for twelve years now. Got no life of any consequence.But one night Petra sits down at his table, and then…"Mike Dennis is a modern master of noir." -- Max Allan Collins, author of ROAD TO PERDITION"Dennis writes true noir." -...

**In this heartfelt novel a young, small-town dreamer sets out to the big city to make her mark in the country music industry.“Reading about Retta Lee Jones’s journey to Nashville was a lot like reading my own diary, except she had prettier boots. It’s a wonderful story about dreams and determination that reminds us all to squeeze the most out of every single day.”—Dolly Parton**Blessed with a beautiful voice and full of country music dreams, Retta Lee Jones wants mothering...

Looking for entertaining stories of drama, glamour and passion featuring sophisticated and sensual AfricanAmerican and multicultural heroes and heroines? Harlequin® Kimani Romance brings you all this and more with these four new full length books for one great price!PASSION’S SONGFarrah RochonApril Knight has realized her dream of becoming a celebrated cellist. And she's returned to the Ninth Ward of New Orleans to encourage the youth...

The oh so cold Prince of Lies from Eric's critically acclaimed Crushed Ice returns! He lurks in the silence, ready to strike without warning, without mercy. Truth is a man for hire, a man of many faces, many names. A killer? Only if someone tries to kill him first. But even a cold-as-ice operator like Truth has a heart. He's known love and loss, and now his past mistakes are coming back to haunt him. When the sensuous schemer Sophia, on the run from a Saudi prince's harem, begs for Truth's...