Xe Sands

Finding a man should be simple, especially when you aren't expecting romance! Lucy Lang wants a husband. She's not looking for anyone special, just someone decent and reliable-but definitely not a man she'll fall in love with. A young widow, Lucy already loved and lost her soulmate, and she doesn't want to risk that kind of heartbreak again. But sick of being lumped in with her cursed "Black Widow" aunts, Lucy is motivated to give up her casual and...

Publisher Annotation: Publisher Annotation: Reckless Daughter tells the story of Joni Mitchell and also of the fertile, exciting musical time of which she was an integral part, one that had a profound effect that can still be felt today on American music and the industry. 448pp., 100K

"This emotional journey...is filled with drama, laughter and tears and squeezes the heart. It should be on every bedside table in the country!" —#1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr

Don't miss this deliciously romantic read from New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins!

Millie Barnes is this close to finally achieving her perfect life...

Rewarding job as a local doctor on Cape

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Once a century, for only six days, the bay around a small Washington island glows like a water-bound aurora. Dr. Rachel Bell, a scientist studying the 100-Year Miracle and the tiny sea creatures that create it, knows a secret about the phenomenon that inspired the region's myths and folklore: the rare green water may contain a power that could save Rachel's own life (and change the world). When Rachel connects with Harry and Tilda, a divorced couple...

A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community. Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful, in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God, but there was no denying the truth that lived under that conviction: she was queer and, if she wanted to survive, she would need to leave behind the church and every foundational building block she knew. Heretic is a memoir...

"Winner of the Paul Davidoff Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning" "Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Social Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association" Eva Rosen is assistant professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, DC. Twitter @eva_rosen "A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America's housing crisis."-Matthew...

Ever since the Bommarito sisters were little girls, their mother, River, has written them a letter on pink paper when she has something especially important to impart. This time, the message is urgent-River requires open-heart surgery, and Isabelle and her sisters are needed at home to run the family bakery and care for their brother and ailing grandmother. Isabelle has worked hard to leave Trillium River, Oregon, behind as she travels the globe...

A story of fertility, feminism, and family Jenn Berney was one of those people who knew she was destined for motherhood-it wasn't a question of if, but when. So when she and her wife Kelly decided to start building their family, they took the next logical step: they went to a fertility clinic. But they soon found themselves entrenched in a medical establishment that didn't know what to do with people like them. With no man factoring into their relationship,...

Recently widowed and rendered penniless by her Ponzi-scheming husband, Julia Bishop is eager to start anew. So when a stranger appears on her doorstep with a job offer, she finds herself accepting the mysterious yet unique position: caretaker to his mother, Amaris Sinclair, the famous and rather eccentric horror novelist whom Julia has always admired...and who the world believes is dead.

When she arrives at the Sinclairs' enormous estate

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My Misspent Youth is an incisive collection that marked the start of a new millennium and became a cult classic, from the editor of Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed and the author of The Unspeakable An essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From...