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The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

Emily Croy Barker · Pamela Dorman Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world - where she will need to learn the skills of magic to surviveNora Fischer's dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friend's wedding, Nora wanders off and walks...
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Devil's Cut: A Bourbon Kings Novel

J R WARD · Ballantine Books
Pages: 393
Format: Hardcover

In #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward's thrilling finale to her Bourbon Kings series, the Bradford family dynasty teeters on the edge of collapse after the murder of their patriarch - and a shocking arrest. At first, the death of William Baldwine, the head of the Bradford...
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Postcards from the Past

Marcia Willett · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Beloved novelist Marcia Willett continues to captivate readers with her inspiring novels about family, friendship, and love. In Postcards from the Past Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. With family and friends nearby, and their living...
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Catching the Wind

Melanie Dobson · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

What happened to Brigitte Berthold?That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and ten-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival....
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Home Sweet Home: A novel

April Smith · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 351
Format: Print book

From the widely praised author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series and A Star for Mrs. Blake, this riveting epic drama follows the Kusek family from New York City to America's heartland, where they are caught up in the panic of McCarthyism, a smear campaign, a sensational trial, and,...
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Love and Happiness

Galt Niederhoffer · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Jean Banks won’t give up on love.  It’s the prism through which she sees the world, the stuff of the independent movies she produces in New York City, and it created the son and daughter she shares with her director husband, Sam.  But the course of love doesn’t...
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The Summer That Made Us

Robyn Carr · MIRA
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover

The brand-new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr that Kirkus calls "a blissful beach read." The Summer That Made Us is an unforgettable story about a family learning to accept the past, to forgive and to love each other again. That was then ... For the Hempsteads,...
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The Simplicity of Cider: A Novel

Amy E Reichert · Gallery Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Fall in love with The Simplicity of Cider, the charming new novel about a prickly but gifted cider-maker whose quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of a handsome man and his young son at her family's careworn orchard by the author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake and Luck, Love...
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The Rosie Effect: A Novel

Graeme Simsion · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Rosie Project, starring the same extraordinary couple now living in New York and unexpectedly expecting their first child. Get ready to fall in love all over again.Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. The Wife Project...
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Waking the Dead

Heather Graham · Harlequin MIRA; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

They say a painting can have a life of its own ... In the case of Ghosts in the Mind by Henry Sebastian Hubert, that's more than just an expression. This painting is reputed to come to life - and to bring death. The artist was a friend of Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, joining them in Switzerland...
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Heartwood: A Novel

Belva Plain · Bantam
Format: Paperback

Few authors have understood the tender intricacies of relationships better than the incomparable Belva Plain. In Heartwood, her final novel, she comes full circle with the themes she took up in her very first work, Evergreen, bringing us an unforgettable story of family and friendship,...
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My Italian Bulldozer: A Novel

Alexander Mccall Smith · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From one of our most beloved and best-selling authors: a hilarious new stand-alone novel about one man's misadventures in travel and romance in the Italian countryside.When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already overdue cookbook, he expects...
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A Most Extraordinary Pursuit

Juliana Gray · Berkley Books
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

Known for her original plots, deft characterization, and lyrical voice, Juliana Gray presents an extraordinary novel of an uncommon pursuit ... February, 1906. As the personal secretary of the recently departed Duke of Olympia - and a woman of scrupulous character - Miss Emmeline Rose...
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Christmas masquerade

Debbie Macomber · Severn House
Pages: 174
Format: Print book

Jo Marie first met Andrew, her dream man, in the crush of a Mardi Gras parade. But by Christmas, he was introduced to her as someone else's fiancé.Yet Jo Marie noticed that Andrew and his intended didn't always act like a loving couple. In fact, in the whirl of Christmas parties and festivities...
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The Firebird

Susanna Kearsley · Sourcebooks Landmark; 1st Thus. edition
Format: Paperback

New York Times Bestseller Two Women. One Mysterious Relic. Separated By Centuries. Nicola Marter was born with a gift so rare and dangerous, she kept it buried deep. When she encounters a desperate woman trying to sell a small wooden carving called "The Firebird," claiming it belonged...
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