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Remind Me Again Why I Married You: A Novel
by Rita CiresiNo one blends humor and heartbreak like Rita Ciresi, whose award-winning novels are lauded as much for their generous wit as for their unflinching honesty. Ciresi’s crowd-pleasing novel Pink Slip captivated readers and critics alike, introducing two utterly unforgettable characters and a love story both bittersweet and comic. Now Ciresi returns to the people and place of that irresistible bestseller in a riotous and rueful, sexy and poignant tale of married love…a novel that asks how two people who fell desperately, passionately, heartbreakingly in love can sustain a second act.It’s Valentine’s Day, and Lisa Strauss, nee Diodetto, is spending it playing dutiful wife at a $100-a-head benefit instead of in bed with Eben, her hardworking husband of (is it only?) five years. Once upon a time, Lisa, too, was a member of the corporate workaday world--until she fell in love with her boss (Eben), gave birth to a cute but rambunctious son, and gradually morphed into a stay-at-home mom. Somewhere in the mix Lisa also is a writer with ambitions of fame and glory, but those dreams seem to be shrinking, along with her sex life. That is, until a hotshot literary agent shows interest in Lisa’s magnum opus.Suddenly, she has a pen name, and an excerpt of her book appears in Playboy. In between revising chapters, Lisa is trying--and failing miserably--to get pregnant again. She’s going house-hunting with Cynthia Farquhar, the gorgeous blond Realtor/divorcee who has become her closest confidante (and the object of Eben’s secret fantasies). And she’s wondering if this is all marriage is and can ever be: bonded for life to a man who may never again be the red-hot lover of their pre-marriage union. In fact, he just may turn out to be the conflicted protagonist of her novel--a devoted family man whose moral fiber may not be strong enough to withstand the slings and arrows of lust and temptation. As their lives begin to bizarrely mirror aspects of Lisa’s book…as marital life as they know it teeters on the edge of utter chaos, Lisa and Eben search--apart and together--for the answer to the question that has plagued husbands and wives since time immemorial: Can love survive marriage?In a wickedly funny, right-on-target look at love and relationships, Rita Ciresi peels back the layers of a marriage with equal doses of hilarity and humanity. Filled with all the zest, zingers, and unexpected surprises of life, Remind Me Again Why I Married You is this uncommonly gifted author at her lusty and liberating best.
All Saints
by Liam CallananThe acclaimed author of The Cloud Atlas returns with a wondrous second novel. Set in a small beachfront Catholic high school, narrated by a beautifully complex heroine–theology teacher Emily Hamilton–All Saints is at once a mystery, a love story, and a powerful rumination on secrets, temptation, and faith. By life’s midpoint Emily has seen three husbands, dozens of friends, and hundreds of students come and go. And now her classroom, long her refuge, is proving to be anything but. Though her popular, occasionally irreverent church history course is rich with stories of long-dead saints, Emily uneasily discovers that it’s her own tumultuous life that fascinates certain students most. She in turn finds herself drawn into their world, their secrets, and the fateful choices they make. A novel of mystery and illumination, calling and choice, All Saints explores lives lived in a fragile sanctuary–from Emily and her many saints to a priest facing his own mortality and a teenager tormented by desire. Told with grace and compassion, this is a spellbinding novel of provocative storytelling.
So 5 Minutes Ago: A Novel
by Hilary De VriesBeing a celebrity publicist at a Los Angeles PR firm isn&’t the glamour job Alex Davidson thought it would be. Her love life is zilch, her newest client—an actor fresh out of rehab—keeps hitting on her, and all she has in her refrigerator is a half-empty bottle of Pinot Grigio. But her wisecracking gay assistant and her spark plug of a best friend give her reasons for crawling out of bed in the morning (well, most of the time). Everything changes the day her firm is bought out by a rival agency and Alex finds her once secure job of wanly ministering to a roster of B-list celebrities suddenly at stake. It looks like Suzanne, Alex&’s old boss and mentor, is being shown the door. And G, her new boss, wants bigger clients and more exposure. But certain things just don&’t add up: Why did G refuse to help Suzanne when a big client—a hot Latina singer/actress hell-bent on world domination—decided to bolt from the firm? And why is he being so nice to Alex all of a sudden? Knowing that in Hollywood there are always strings attached, Alex does a little digging and uncovers a dirty scheme that, if brought to light, will rock the entertainment industry. Will the temptation to betray Suzanne and accept a lucrative offer from G be too powerful for Alex to ignore? Or can she save her job, keep her soul, and score a victory for women in Hollywood? So 5 Minutes Ago is a laugh-out-loud novel about one young woman&’s attempt to make it in the shark-infested waters of Hollywood. Set in the sun-drenched L.A. of celebrity-magazine photo shoots, velvet-roped VIP parties, and red-carpet events, Hilary de Vries&’s debut novel takes us on a wildly entertaining romp with enough juicy behind-the-scenes action to satisfy even the most insatiable celebraholic.
I'm Never Alone
by Maryam IbrahimAre we ever alone? Come along on this journey and you’ll see! He’s been with us all along. And he will always be. He’s the only constant in an ever-changing world. This book could be a portal that introduces your child to Allah and ignites his love within them.
John the Revelator: A Novel
by Peter Murphy&“Murphy&’s darkly gorgeous debut . . . is an Irish coming-of-age novel. It&’s also a meditation on why we tell stories.&” —The Plain Dealer This is the story of John Devine—stuck in a small town in the otherworldly landscape of southeastern Ireland, worried over by his single, chain-smoking, Bible-quoting mother, Lily, and spied on by the &“neighborly&” Mrs. Nagle. When Jamey Corboy, a self-styled Rimbaudian boy wonder, arrives in town, John&’s life suddenly seems full of possibility. His loneliness dissipates. He is taken up by mischief and discovery, hiding in the world beyond as Lily&’s mysterious illness worsens. But Jamey and John&’s nose for trouble may be their undoing, and soon John will be faced with a terrible moral dilemma. Joining the ranks of the great novels of friendship and betrayal—A Separate Peace, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha—John the Revelator is &“remarkable&” and grapples with the pull of the world and the hold of those we love (The Observer). &“Murphy&’s strongly written debut splits the difference between the sensitivity of Portrait of an Artist and the freakishness of Butcher Boy.&” —Publishers Weekly &“Jaw-dropping . . . A terrific, disquieting addition to the long tradition of Irish storytelling.&” —Kirkus Reviews
Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
by Maude Barlow Tony Clarke&“Probably the most eloquent call to arms we&’re likely to hear about the politics of water&” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto). In this &“chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis,&” Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy (In These Times). Our most basic resource may one day be limited: Our consumption doubles every twenty years—twice the rate of population increase. At the same time, increasingly transnational corporations are plotting to control the world&’s dwindling water supply. In England and France, where water has already been privatized, rates have soared, and water shortages have been severe. The major bottled-water producers—Perrier, Evian, Naya, and now Coca-Cola and PepsiCo—are part of one of the fastest-growing and least-regulated industries, buying up freshwater rights and drying up crucial supplies. A truly shocking exposé, Blue Gold shows in frightening detail why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, &“The wars of the next century will be about water.&” &“Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke combine visionary intellect with muckraking research and a concrete plan for action.&” —Naomi Klein, author of The Battle for Paradise &“A sobering, in-depth look at the growing scarcity of fresh water and the increasing privatization and corporate control of this nonrenewable resource.&” —Library Journal &“An angry and persuasive account.&” —Bloomberg Businessweek &“The dire scenarios laid out in this comprehensive book are truly frightening.&” —The San Diego Union-Tribune
The Boarding-House: The Old Boys; The Boarding-house; The Love Department
by William TrevorA London boarding-house becomes a battle ground in this &“dazzling display of character-led fiction&” from the award-winning author of The Old Boys (The Independent). William Wagner Bird spent his life collecting lost souls—dispossessed immigrants, lonely old ladies, and the simply half-mad—to live in his London boarding-house. But when he dies, the true intent of his work is revealed in his diary. Bird had been watching them all closely, keeping notes on their sad and peculiar circumstances. And then there&’s the matter of his will, in which he leaves the house to the two tenants who most despise each other, the petty thief Mr. Studdy and the equally nasty Nurse Clock. In this &“rhapsody to misanthropy&” Whitbread Award winner William Trevor paints a fascinating group portrait of society&’s outcasts, each of whom sees their small life unravel &“in a manner somewhere between Dubliners and Grimm&’s fairy tales&” (The New York Times).
The eXercise Factor: Ease Into the Best Shape of Your Life Regardless of Your Age, Weight or Current Fitness Level
by Jim KirwanDon&’t fall victim to the inactivity epidemic! The eXercise Factor will show you how to ease into the best shape of your life, regardless of your age, weight, or current fitness level. You can increase your life expectancy and significantly improve the quality of your life by the actions you take now. What&’s the secret? The secret is there is no secret! This is not about a quick fix; it is about easing your way into a long-term, sustained lifestyle. Four key drivers work together synergistically to turbo-charge your success: * Knowledge—You can&’t solve a problem if you don&’t know you have one. * Nutrition—Restrictive diets don&’t work and are difficult to sustain. Instead, focus on more fresh whole foods and far less junk and processed foods. * Exercise—It&’s critical to a long, high-quality life. Get a move on and stave off major health problems. * The X Factor—It&’s arguably the most important of all, and the easy-to-remember acronym RECIPE provides its six key ingredients. You don&’t have to be fit and healthy to start. But you do have to start to be fit and healthy!
The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot
by T. S. EliotThe collected dramatic works of the Nobel Prize winner, from Murder in the Cathedral to The Elder Statesman. T. S. Eliot&’s plays—Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, The Cocktail Party (which won a Tony Award for its Broadway production), The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman—are brought together for the first time in this volume. They summarize the Nobel Prize winner&’s achievements in restoring dramatic verse to the English and American stages, an effort of great significance both for the theater and for the development of Eliot&’s art. Between 1935, when Murder in the Cathedral was first produced at the Canterbury Festival, and 1958, when The Elder Statesman opened at the Edinburgh Festival prior to engagements in London and New York, Eliot had given three other plays to the theater. His paramount concerns can be traced through all five works. They have been said to be closely related, marking stages in the development of a new and individual form of drama, in which the poet worked out his intention &“to take a form of entertainment, and subject it to the process that would leave it a form of art.&” What Mark Van Doren said, in reviewing Murder in the Cathedral, is true of all these plays: &“Mr. Eliot adapts himself to the stage with dignity, simplicity, and skill.&”
Make It Happen Blueprint: 18 High-Performance Practices to Crush it in Life and Business Without Burning Out
by Michelle McCullough&“[McCullough] shares fresh ideas, content, and strategies for creating a life and a business that you love. Reading this book will elevate your life!&” —Tiffany Peterson, professional speaker, TiffanySpeaks.com The managing director for Startup Princess—listed by Forbes as &“One of the Top 10 Resources for Women Entrepreneurs&”—Michelle McCullough is a popular small business influencer who runs her own consulting firms. Now, in Make It Happen Blueprint, she &“lifts the curtain on success to show there is no secret genetic code for high performers, and, in fact, everyone has what it takes to be successful&” (Richie Norton, #1 bestselling author, from the foreword). Sharing her own stories of triumphs and failures, she includes eighteen easy principles that will help you overcome mundane dissatisfactions to create a life—and a career—filled with purpose and passion. &“As entrepreneurs we often feel alone. McCullough&’s book Make It Happen reminds us that we are all in this together. She manages to rekindle your purpose as well as provides pertinent ideas and strategies to help you perform at your best. I love the way she provides a section at the end of each chapter to help you implement the things you read and learn in Make It Happen. Every purposeful entrepreneur should have this book on their nightstand!&” —Nicole Carpenter, CEO of MOMentity.com and bestselling author of 52 Weeks to Fortify Your Family &“Michelle&’s chapter &‘Raising High Performers&’ is great! . . . [Her] suggestions and principles really resonated with me and I believe they would absolutely help parents to raise children who thrive!&” —Tara Kennedy-Kline, author of Stop Raising Einstein
The Gathering (The Prophecy Series #3)
by Sharon SalaIn the climax of the New York Times–bestselling author&’s paranormal romance trilogy, Native Americans from the future unite with the tribes of the past. This thrilling conclusion to the Prophecy Trilogy follows Tyhen, the Windwalker&’s daughter, as she journeys to save her people from foreign invaders. She must now fulfill the prophecy by uniting the New Ones—those who come from the future—with the Native American tribes of the past. Her destiny is to save the future of the Native American nations, but as the gathering of these people approaches, danger follows. Tyhen and her soul mate Yuma must lead the party north, encountering various enemies and trials along the path. First published in 2015, The Gathering is the final book in the Prophecy Trilogy and was originally written under her pen name Dinah McCall.
Frank the Fiddler Crab
by Mohammad AwadWelcome to our adventure in the intertidal zone, near the beach! Come join us, me Fiona and Frank the fiddler crabs, and our friend Mike the Mudskipper, to explore how we live and survive in such a harsh environment. You’ll learn about us fiddler crabs, where our name comes from, and why boys are different from girls. Also, you’ll learn how we eat and how we use our legs to hear and to tell food from mud! And you’ll see how we almost got eaten by a flamingo! This educational journey through the intertidal zone, also explains how humans can help in protecting this environment, so we can all live together.
The Wentworths
by Katie ArnoldiFrom the bestselling author of Chemical Pink: &“While tales of dysfunctional families abound, this one separates itself from the pack&” (Elle). Katie Arnoldi&’s critically acclaimed debut novel Chemical Pink launched her onto the bestseller lists and so burrowed itself into the public&’s consciousness that its title was the answer to a Double Jeopardy question. Now, seven years later, her second novel, The Wentworths, gives her readers a fascinating, erotic, dark, and savagely funny page-turner that will both thrill her fans and appeal to new readers of all stripes. Arnoldi&’s searing portrait of a wealthy Westside, Los Angeles family, is a true binge read—boldly dramatizing the dysfunctionality of the modern American family as it examines how people get so screwed up. Comic and horrifying, sadistic and hilarious, tragic and funny all at the same time, The Wentworths is a shocking, yet redemptive tale that will have fans cheering. &“Too funny, too true, too sad, and too short.&” —David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of old Religion &“Savagely funny . . . You&’ll be hooked.&” —Marie Claire &“With a wry touch, Arnoldi draws a mocking portrait of a powerful Southern California family that, while not the worst family on record, is remarkably warped by wealth and power . . . A page-turner both for its well-paced intrigue and for its witty, sordid description of just how awful these people can get.&” —Publishers Weekly &“The #1 beach read of the summer.&” —The Malibu Times
Here Come the Dogs: A Novel
by Omar MusaA &“brilliant [novel] . . . Immediate and compelling, this one deserves a place on the shelf next to Trainspotting or The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test&” (Cleaver Magazine). In small-town suburban Australia, three young men from three different ethnic backgrounds—one Samoan, one Macedonian, one not sure—are ready to make their mark. Solomon is all charisma, authority, and charm; a failed basketball player down for the moment but surely not out. His half-brother, Jimmy, bounces along in his wake, underestimated, waiting for his chance to announce himself. Aleks, their childhood friend, loves his mates, his family, and his homeland and would do anything for them. The question is, does he know where to draw the line? Solomon, Jimmy, and Aleks are way out on the fringe of Australia, looking for a way in. Hip hop, basketball, and graffiti give them a voice. Booze, women, and violence pass the time while they wait for their chance. Under the oppressive summer sun, their town has turned tinder-dry. All it will take is a spark. As the surrounding hills roar with flames, change storms in. But it&’s not what they were waiting for. It never is. &“This stunning novel has such swaggering exuberance that it will make most other fiction you read this year seem criminally dull. You have been warned.&” —Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting &“With compassion and urgency, Here Come the Dogs excavates the pain of those who struggle to remain part of a ruthless equation that has been determined by others.&” —Los Angeles Times &“A bravado novel about survival and rebirth in a subculture that moves to its own rhythms.&” —Kirkus Reviews
The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America
by Barbara Clark SmithA brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian&’s curator of social history. The American Revolution is widely understood—by schoolchildren and citizens alike—as having ushered in &“freedom&” as we know it, a freedom that places voting at the center of American democracy. In a sharp break from this view, historian Barbara Clark Smith charts the largely unknown territory of the unique freedoms enjoyed by colonial American subjects of the British king—that is, American freedom before the Revolution. The Freedoms We Lost recovers a world of common people regularly serving on juries, joining crowds that enforced (or opposed) the king&’s edicts, and supplying community enforcement of laws in an era when there were no professional police. The Freedoms We Lost challenges the unquestioned assumption that the American patriots simply introduced freedom where the king had once reigned. Rather, Smith shows that they relied on colonial-era traditions of political participation to drive the Revolution forward—and eventually, betrayed these same traditions as leading patriots gravitated toward &“monied men&” and elites who would limit the role of common men in the new democracy. By the end of the 1780s, she shows, Americans discovered that forms of participation once proper to subjects of Britain were inappropriate—even impermissible—to citizens of the United States. In a narrative that counters nearly every textbook account of America&’s founding era, The Freedoms We Lost challenges us to think about what it means to be free.
The World Crisis: The Eastern Front (Winston S. Churchill World Crisis Collection #5)
by Winston S. ChurchillThe conclusion of the great statesman&’s epic five-volume history of World War I. The fifth and final volume of Winston Churchill&’s &“remarkable&” series, The World Crisis: The Eastern Front tells a gritty, true-to-life account of the combat in eastern Europe—written by someone whose decisions had a profound impact on the success of war efforts both in the East and in the West (Jon Meacham). While the battle for modern civilization was being fought on the Western Front during World War I, an equally important war—with equally high stakes—was being fought on the Eastern Front, between Russia, Germany, and Germany&’s Austrian allies. It&’s rare that a historical account of World War I documents in as much detail the events of the Eastern Front as those of the West. Churchill&’s account was one of the first to do so, telling the story of an armed conflict that was shockingly dissimilar from its counterpart in the West. &“Whether as a statesman or an author, Churchill was a giant; and The World Crisis towers over most other books about the Great War.&” —David Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace
The Widower's Son: A Novel
by Alan SillitoeRaised by a career soldier, a working class Englishman tries to find his place—both in and out of uniform—in this compelling novel of love and war Charlie Scorton sees his best friend killed beside him in the mine, and resolves to join the army. His father throws him out for deserting the coal miner&’s life, but Charlie never looks back. For twenty-four years, he roams the empire, a king&’s soldier who is finally left with no choice but to come home. He has a child, his wife dies, and the old soldier dedicates himself to raising his boy. Charlie trains his son, William, to be an artilleryman from birth. William finds a home in the army, the sort he has always longed for, and makes his mark during World War II, performing heroically during the retreat at Dunkirk, risking his life to save thousands. But soon, he will be forced to answer the question his father never could: What does a soldier do when war is over? Alan Sillitoe, the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, examines where the fight ends and life begins for a soldier in this story of love and war, and the blurred lines between them.
Eagle on the Street: The SEC and Wall Street during the Reagan Years
by Steve Coll David A. ViseA &“spellbinding account&” of Wall Street deregulation in the 1980s, based on a Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post series (The New York Times Book Review). Described by the New York Times Book Review as &“worthy of being on the same shelf&” as Liar&’s Poker, Greed and Glory on Wall Street, and Barbarians at the Gate, this eye-opening business history explains how Washington and Wall Street cut the deals that led to a decade of greed. For the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 1980s brought sweeping changes. Under the sway of Reaganomics and the leadership of John Shad, the SEC came down hard on insider trading but introduced wide-ranging deregulation to the stock market, which helped to both fuel the legendary bull market and sow the seeds of the 1987 crash. Shad, a former vice-chairman of the brokerage firm EF Hutton & Company and the first Wall Street executive to lead the SEC since Joseph Kennedy, was a true believer in the free market. His tenure touched all the big headlines and enduring images of this tumultuous decade, from leveraged buyouts to junk bonds, Manhattan skyscrapers to Senate hearing rooms, Michael Milken to T. Boone Pickens. David A. Vise and Steve Coll won the Pulitzer Prize for the original reporting in the Washington Post that would become Eagle on the Street. In an era when the costs, benefits, and risks of deregulation are under debate once again, their &“engrossing account of the struggle for the soul of the SEC&” is essential reading (The Washington Post).
First Class Killing: An Alex Shanahan Thriller (The Alex Shanahan Thrillers #3)
by Lynne HeitmanA female private investigator goes undercover to expose a high-flying prostitution ring in this &“action-filled thriller [that] packs an erotic punch&” (The Boston Globe). Tough, smart, and resourceful, Alex Shanahan survived the cutthroat corporate world on her own terms. Now she&’s using her hard-earned experience as a private investigator. Alex is hired to check out an airline that&’s been serving more than just in-flight beverages: there&’s a high-end prostitution ring catering to first-class passengers. Alex goes undercover as a flight attendant to infiltrate the group. But she can&’t stay hidden in the clouds forever, and when her cover is blown, the turbulence that follows might make this flight her last. &“Get ready for the plane ride of your life. . . . Heitman is an excellent storyteller who creates wonderful and believable characters. . . . First Class Killing will leave readers eagerly awaiting the next Alex Shanahan novel.&” —Old Book Barn Gazette
Payard Desserts
by Tish Boyle François Payard&“A French pastry master&” reveals his recipes and secrets in this dessert cookbook for both professional chefs and home bakers (Daniel Boulud, James Beard Award–winning chef). With beautiful photographs, this book from legendary pastry chef François Payard shows how to prepare pastry and other plated desserts that rival the best in the world. These recipes have been developed and perfected by Payard over twenty years, from his early days as a pastry chef in France to his current position as an American culinary icon. Each recipe is a singular work of art, combining thrilling and often surprising flavors with innovative, modern techniques to create masterpieces like Blueberry Pavlova with Warm Blueberry Coulis, Olive Oil Macaron with Olive Oil Sorbet, Dark Chocolate Soufflé with Pistachio Ice Cream, and Caramelized Pineapple-Pecan Tart with Brown Butter Ice Cream. Payard also includes priceless advice on choosing ingredients and equipment and composing perfectly plated desserts, as well as personal anecdotes from his long career working in many of the world&’s finest pastry kitchens. A must-have for professional bakers, it&’s also accessible enough for serious home baking enthusiasts.
Buyer & Cellar: The Original Script for the Off Broadway Hit
by Jonathan TolinsThe original script of the award-winning off-Broadway play—&“irresistibly entertaining [and] surprisingly moving&” (Paul Rudnick). Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in LA, he takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement—but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? A winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show, Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs. &“Jonathan Tolins has concocted an irresistible one-man play from the most peculiar of fictitious premises . . . This seriously funny slice of absurdist whimsy creates the illusion of a stage filled with multiple people, all of them with their own droll point of view.&” —The New York Times &“A gorgeous play: funny and beautifully observed and richly insightful.&” —Moisés Kaufman &“Tolins&’s writing is smart, sharp, and hilarious—and he paints a vivid picture that even a perfectionist like Barbra would have to applaud.&” —James Lapine
Lucky Moo Dreams to Fly
by Moza Ali AlsadaLucky Moo is a cow with the courage and ambition to be different. One day she was amazed to see an airplane and wished that she could fly in the sky. Her family and friends thought it was not a good idea to fly. What do you think? Can a cow fly? Have you ever seen a cow fly?
Myrina Holmes: Demons and Wonders (Myrina Holmes #1)
by Anna TrissI’m Myrina Holmes, the top Tracker of Infernum, tasked with neutralizing supernatural creatures who disobey our laws. In my world, demons have legions. Fourteen to be precise: seven dedicated to the cardinal virtues and seven ruled by the deadly sins. As a marginal hybrid, I belong to neither camp, which suits me just fine. I love my job and my life on Earth when I’m not on a mission. Except, of course, when mysterious corpses literally fall from the sky to torture my brain and when my succubus half-sister starts hanging out with the most detestable Hybresang there is, Kelen Wills. A supremely powerful sinner, commander-in-chief of an elite army, he doesn’t embody one deadly sin. No, he possesses all seven—with a penchant for lust, anger, pride, and gluttony. But keep that detail to yourself… Anyway, this guy has made it his mission to seduce me, probably because I’m the only woman who can resist his dubious charms. This Hybresang can go to hell, because I have other midnight demons to deal with.
Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First-Century America
by Michael Ratner Margaret Ratner Kunstler&“Compelling and useful reading&” for activists, protest groups, and individuals, from America&’s leading constitutional rights group (Booklist). In the age of terrorism and under the current administration, the United States has become a much more dangerous place—for activists and dissenters, whose First Amendment rights are all too frequently abridged by the government. In Hell No, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the country&’s leading public interest law organization, offers a timely report on government attacks on dissent and protest in the United States, along with a readable and essential guide for activists, teachers, grandmothers, and anyone else who wants to oppose government policies and actions. Hell No explores the current situation of attacks upon and criminalization of dissent and protest, from the surveillance of activists to the disruption of demonstrations, from the labeling of protestors as &“terrorists,&” to the jailing of those the government claims are giving &“material support&” to its perceived enemies. Offering detailed, hands-on advice on everything from &“Sneak and Peek&” searches to &“Can the Government Monitor My Text Messages?&” and what to do &“If an Agent Knocks,&” Hell No lays out several key responses that every person should know in order to protect themselves from government surveillance and interference with their rights. Concluding with the controversial 2008 Mukasey FBI Guidelines, which currently regulate the government&’s domestic response to dissent, Hell No is an indispensable tool in the effort to give free speech and protest meaning in a post-9/11 world.
Princess Charming (Large Print Ser.)
by Jane HellerThree divorced friends—and one killer—set out to sea in the New York Times–bestselling author&’s hilarious and &“unforgettable&” cruise-ship murder mystery (Booklist). Three best friends are on a Caribbean cruise for their latest vacation together. But the trip could be their last—unless they sort out which of the passengers is Mr. Right and which is the hit man hired by one of their ex-husbands . . . Feisty, fast-talking PR executive Elaine Zimmerman needs some persuading by her pals Jackie and Pat to climb aboard the luxury liner—and once she does, her luggage is misplaced and she&’s forced to resort to the ship boutique&’s tacky version of cruisewear. But Elaine cheers up once she finds herself seated next to Sam Peck. This couldn&’t be love at first sight (because she doesn&’t believe in love at first sight), or even lust at first sight (because she&’s the least lusty person on the planet), but whatever it is, she can&’t resist it. She&’s on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday, and it wouldn&’t kill her to fall in love . . . or would it? A glimmer of doubt becomes full-fledged suspicion when Elaine inadvertently learns that somebody&’s ex-wife has been marked for murder—and the hired hit man is already on board. Now the ladies have to figure out whose ex is out to deep-six whom . . . From the author of Three Blonde Mice, Princess Charming is a fun-filled mystery and a buoyant tale of friendship and true love—even if the glass slipper is several sizes too small and the prince arrives about ten years late. &“Sure to be a big hit with her faithful following.&” —Kirkus Reviews