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Kayla LeCroix is busy this holiday season. On top of her job, she's planning the company Christmas party, and trying to keep off the holiday pounds by going to the gym. Then, unexpected packages filled with expensive gifts start arriving, and no clue as to who sent them. As Christmas approaches, Kayla attempts to find her Secret Santa.

One afternoon, single mother Sara Weston says that she's going to the store--and never returns. In her absence, she leaves her teenaged son alone with his damaged past and a legacy of secrets. Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson. He survived--but with devastating physical and emotional scars. Without his mother, he has no one to help him heal, no money, nothing to live for but the medications that numb his pain. Isolated and angry, his hatred has one tight focus: his half-siste... more info>>

These were the people in Dan's world who played the deadly Hollywood game of intrigue that would end the life of one and ruin the career of another. HOLLY: the aging Star who wanted Dan and to keep his job he had to be on call night and day. GALE: the young starlet was the new, exciting talent, who might, someday, become a big name in Show Business--if only given a chance. ELLIOTT: the writer, who knew Holly Hill the way no other person had known her, long before she'd become a Big Name Star. HE... more info>>

When a mystery writer cries bloody murder, everyone blames her overactive imagination? Thriller scribe Sophie Katz is as hard-boiled as a woman who drinks Grande Caramel Brownie Frappuccinos can be. So Sophie knows it's not paranoia or post-divorce, living-alone-again jitters, when she becomes convinced that a crazed reader is sneaking into her apartment to reenact scenes from her books. The police, however, can't tell a good plot from an unmarked grave. When a filmmaker friend is brutally murde... more info>>

Shiny Things (In Nests). Like it or not, we all collect shiny things. Whether people or objects, memory or emotions, they dazzle and seduce. We build or seek nests to store them in--containers for the comfort and nurture that they bring. We change nests, construct new ones, fill them with more shiny things, perhaps the same ones? Sometimes the shiny things tarnish, lapse, their true value revealed. Brighter ones are sought or found. Sometimes other people deposit their shiny things in your nest.... more info>>

When Maggie Horton was murdered by her husband, she left her shoe marks, along with a broken heart. But there's one more thing she left behind... unfinished business.

Professional nature photographer Rylee Morgan invites her recently un-engaged younger sister to accompany her on a business trip across the country. Lexie, the wild child of the family challenges Rylee to stretch her boundaries and live outside the neatly constructed box in which she's placed herself for safe keeping. A perfectionist, Rylee lives life in the same way she's learned to use her talents with a camera--dictated by rules. A cardinal rule of photography is that you never shoot into t... more info>>

Lambda-nominated author Dorien Grey (The Dick Hardesty Mysteries, The Elliott Smith Mysteries) knows more than just how to write a great murder novel. He's also had amazing life experiences in the military and around the world. Here, for the first time, are the collected blog and journal writings of this prolific author. As Grey notes, "Sometimes things are more clearly seen through the eyes of others." The hope is that the reader will see similarities to his/her own life, and recognize the comm... more info>>

A poor family's peaceful morning is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of two men who have come to put a layer of white siding onto the family's black shotgun shack at the end of the road.

Private Detective Charles "Curly," Morgan is used to dealing with intrigue. Between his caseload and moonlighting for the CIA as an escort for dignitaries visiting Washington, D.C., he's no stranger to flirting with mystery. When the mystery begins to involve his personal life, however, he's left to ponder whether one can ever truly leave the past behind or if the present can haunt as desperately as age-old ghosts from years past. Which demons are making his business personal? Who is stalking hi... more info>>

Annora knows a lot about her best friend, Singh--including the fact that he is a lion shapeshifter and has a notoriously wicked way with women. She secretly longs to experience that passion herself, but doesn't dare risk their friendship.Then Sin's usual flirting becomes way more intimate. Suddenly, neither of them can resist their desire--even though according to pride rules, their union is forbidden....

Larry Rochelle's latest book of poetry, Siren Sorcery: Magic In The Night, takes the reader on a tour of the jazz bistros of New Orleans, the blues bars of Kansas City and the honky-tonks of Toledo. Each new location creates magic in the night, as Rochelle combines the haunting rhythms of thesaxophone with the wailing of the blues harp, creating mood poetry for the big city soul.

Lindsay McKenna has a life that she divides into a pie; or maybe a huge pizza would be a more appropriate symbol! Most important to her is her Native American heritage, which has taught her that living life and taking risks is important, rather than standing back and letting life pass her by. She lives her life according to this philosophy, and it shines through the books she loves to write: romance, adventure and suspense topics. Lindsay started writing at age thirteen and continues to hone her... more info>>

One couple yearns to find it. One community fights to preserve it. Both must face the enemy within and among them ... before it's too late. An atavistic connection to nature draws a husband and wife into a surreal world which leads them to question if the life they've known and what they've believed as real is destroying the human spirit. Following a long-forgotten, nameless yearning, they are compelled to discover if they can reclaim their connection to an ageless natural wisdom that could heal... more info>>

E.R. nurse Ella Majors has seen all the misery that she can handle. Burned-out and unsure of her next step, she accepts the temporary position as caregiver to Marion Henderson, a frightened five-year-old who suffers from juvenile diabetes.But Ella soon realizes there is more sorrow in the isolated home than the little girl's illness can account for. Harris Henderson, a single father, seems better able to deal with the wild birds he rehabilitates in his birds-of-prey sanctuary than with his own d... more info>>

Investigating the fate of an aircraft said to have crashed in 1940, Theo Stern uncovers a heinous crime that, even after seventy years, still provokes violence and even murder.

Master essayist, gadfly, literary myth-figure and viewer of dark portent, Harlan Ellison has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under the saddle of Complacency. His two books of TV criticism, The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat, are taught in more than 200 universities and colleges. In this, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and unreprinted works twenty wide-ranging essays that demonstrate why the monstre sacre of imaginative liter... more info>>

Once defined by her career and independence, stay-at-home mom Samantha Friedman finds that her days have been reduced to errands, car pools and suburban gossip. What was an easy decision for Sam years ago has become a nagging awareness that this life was her choice. Now she deals with a husband who shows up for dinner but is too preoccupied for conversation, and a daughter swathed in black clothing and Goth makeup who won't talk at all. Believing she's an adopted mistake, seventeen-year-old Camm... more info>>

There are a lot of things worse than being SLIGHTLY ENGAGED...being entirely broke, completely alone and wholly perplexed. It's been a year and a half since Tracey and Jack moved in together, and everything's totally perfect--well, okay, almost perfect. There's still Tracey's mom, who says they're "living in sin," and her friends, who are all smug, married and totally sure that there would already be a ring on Tracey's finger if she hadn't been in such a rush to cosign a lease. Even Tracey is be... more info>>

After two years, the man who bought a lifetime subscription to TiVo without trying it finally committed to a lifetime subscription to Tracey Spadolini. All Tracey wants is to get hitched without a hitch--but as the calendar marches toward her late-October wedding date, suddenly she and her fiancee can't agree on anything. From where to get married (New York City or Buffalo?) to how many attendants they're going to have (she's already asked eight; he was thinking of just a best man). Meanwhile, T... more info>>

The uproarious sequel to the national bestseller The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist finds Bobby Joe Grooves at the most critical point in his career--and still hell-bent on challenging PGA decorum and common sense. Introduced in Dan Jenkins's previous uproarious novel of the pro golf tour, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, Bobby Joe Grooves is now forty-four and still without a win in a major championship. A student of golf lore, Bobby Joe is well aware th... more info>>

Harlan Ellison celebrates four decades of writing and publishes his seventieth book with this critically acclaimed, wildly imaginative and outrageously creative collection. The award-winning novella "Mefisto in Onyx" is the centerpiece of this brilliant collection which also includes screenplays, an Introduction by the author, interspersed segments of autobiographical narrative and such provocatively titled entries as "The Man Who Rowed Columbus Ashore," "Anywhere But Here, With Anybody But You,... more info>>

A Dry Creek Family by Janet TronstadMaegan Shay is on a mission-to meet her long-lost niece, Lilly, in Dry Creek, Montana. When Maegan discovers she and Lilly share a special trait, the two grow close. Now the girl's handsome guardian, Clint Parker, fears he can't be what Lilly needs. Unless Maegan can show him what faith and family are all about.A Mother for Mule Hollow by Debra CloptonWidowed mother Olivia Dancer arrives in Mule Hollow, Texas, to check on her nephew, and his single father. But... more info>>

In this international bestseller, Peter H�eg successfully combines the pleasures of literary fiction with those of the thriller. Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Her childhood in Greenland gives her an appreciation for the complex structures of snow, and when she notices that the boy's footprints show he ran to his death, she decides to find out who was chasing him. As she attempt... more info>>

A relationship on the brink. An ER road trip to Single County. Make or break. Full-throttle. Eugen's command, lightness of touch and somewhat convoluted thinking bring this eShort home.