CeliaI'm excited to move back to my hometown and open the B&B that my sisters and I inherited. All that's left before the grand opening is the kitchen remodel. Since I'm the chef of the family, it's my job to oversee it. Too bad no one told me Malcom Maxwell was the man hired for the job. I used to have an embarrassing crush on him in high school. But he never noticed me. He's the last person in Daisy Hills I want to be stuck alone with, but no one...

Celia Dunne may be an old spinster, but she's no fool. She knows that changing her will to leave the grand family estate, Dunnian, to her grand-nephew will ruffle feathers within the family. But Celia also knows that Dunnian has stood solemn and empty for far too long, and she intends for that to change after she's gone. Humphrey's children will turn the creaky old house back into a family home-just the way it was meant to be. As Humphrey's young...

"Meet the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz--once just a girl from Havana, Cuba, who loved to sing. Her soulful voice, compelling charm, and unstoppable determination led to her meteoric rise to fame, opening the door for Latinx performers everywhere. Her booming career took her from the Sonora Matancera to the Fania All-Stars, with the rising popularity of salsa, a genre born of Afro-Cuban musical stylings. Six decades and more than seventy albums later,...

Fierce friendships, a fragile family, and a young woman's only sanctuary. Intent on escaping the far-off echoes of war, plus the heat and humidity of a Minnesota summer, Celia tags along with college friends to a tranquil lake resort. She quickly realizes that one glorious month at Whispering Pines-filled with sun-splashed days and crackling bonfires under starry night skies-will never be enough. Something about the resort pulls at Celia. Heartaches...

Originally published in 1991, “Celia, a Slave” illuminates the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society by telling the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her enslaver and ultimately executed for his murder. Melton A. McLaurin uses Celia's story to reveal the tensions that strained the fabric of antebellum southern society by focusing on the role of gender and the manner in which the legal system was used...

Author Jaclyn Moriarty's first novel is a #1 bestseller in its native Australia and a Book Sense 76 Pick, and has been nominated Best Book of the Year by the ALA. Told entirely through sticky notes from her mother, messages to "a Complete and Utter Stranger," and letters from fictitious companies, listeners get a peek into the complex life of teenager Elizabeth Clarry. "Highs and lows alternate as dizzily as adolescent hormone levels in this engaging...

Celia thought she was free of her past...Celia Tannehill just wants to live her life in peace. She's finally out from underneath her father's domineering thumb, or so she thought. When her past comes calling, her life is upended. Forced into an engagement she doesn't want, she's determined to escape her nightmare. Turning evidence on her dad to the Feds seemed like the best choice, until someone on the inside gives her up and destroys the evidence....

"Stunning debut: If you like Kerouac or Isherwood, you will love Celia's Room."An LGBT+ novel of the Barcelona night in a year of sex, drugs and deception. Told through their own eyes, sensitive Joaquim – whose passion for painting will propel him into the artist's life – and cynical Eduardo – addicted to a nightlife that thwarts his ambition to write – unveil a conflicted, shadowy city, personified by the enigmatic Celia. Despite their violently...