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From the IPPY Award-winning author of The Almost Lovebirds comes a sweet enemies to lovers romantic comedy that will leave you swooning. In one week, two former college rivals will challenge everything they believe to be true about each other-and discover that being wrong might just be their greatest win. It's official: Sadie Harper's life is a dumpster fire. Last week she was living her best life as a beloved park ranger in a cozy woodland ...

Opposites attract in this sweet holiday rom com-but will this small-town sweetheart and her alluring new neighbor be a perfect match or a recipe for disaster? It's the most wonderful time of the year...unless you're me. Hold the hayrides, keep your cocoa, and don't put me within a country mile of mistletoe. This year, Christmas means chaos. My sister's getting married and I-Gwen Griffin, perfectionist extraordinaire-will make sure her wed...

An old flame ignites new sparks in this small-town second-chance romantic comedy. Feeling burned from a broken engagement and a flailing art career, Fiona just wants a peaceful place to recharge and relocate her muse. A quick visit to her favorite aunt and her hometown is the perfect solution-except Jasmine Falls is also home to Alex Fox: a gorgeous, charming metalsmith who makes a room ten degrees hotter just by walking into it. Eight year...

From the IPPY-award-winning author of Fallout Girl comes the final novel of the Hollywood Lights series.How do you find love when your biggest secret is an unforgivable sin?Charlie George, Los Angeles attorney, seems to have a perfect life. A sky-high apartment. A drool-worth sports car. A fast-track to partner in a prestigious firm. And a face that would make angels weep. But his drive for perfection is no accident: he carries a secret so ugl...

From the award-winning author of Sexism Ed and Grace Period comes a "haunting, mesmerizing" memoir-in-essays about survival, hope, and the strength we find within ourselves to survive a world that tries to break us. When Kelly J. Baker was two years old, her mother fled Baker's abusive father. But then a custody arrangement left Baker behind for much of her childhood, the new target of his violence. Out of this traumatic childhood Baker patch...

From Kelly J. Baker, author of the INDIE-award-winning Sexism Ed, comes an account of how the U.S. fascination with zombie apocalypses has shaped American culture-and our very humanity.Look anywhere in America these days, and you'll find the living dead: they've invaded TV shows, films, comics, novels, and video games. These monsters dominate pop culture in ways that titillate and terrify us, but to some people, zombies aren't just fiction.And...

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From New York Times-bestselling author Emily Colin comes a story of one young woman's battle for freedom in a future world where love is the ultimate sin.Eva Marteinn never wanted to be a killer.Raised in the Commonwealth, where citizens live and die by the code of the Seven Sins, Eva is sickened by the barbaric punishments the High Priests inflict. She sees the Bellators of Light, the Commonwealth's executioners, as no more than conscienceles...

For Lizzy Winston, one week will change everything.Fifteen-year-old Lizzy Winston has always been a good kid-and she sees the good in most everyone else, too. When she meets the charismatic Andy Masters, she starts crushing hard. She's not used to attention from boys like Andy, and soon he distracts her from other parts of her life that she's trying to hold together. Her grades start slipping, she makes a mistake that costs her mother her job,...

Sometimes the deepest wounds come from the ones who love us most. In her lab, Kate McDonnell's world is stable and predictable, just the way she likes it-and life outside her lab is anything but. Kate just wants a life where she's in control, but in one weekend her world explodes into a chaos she'd never imagined. When irresistible Andre Dufresne shows up on her porch to whisk her away for a romantic weekend, she's thrilled to have a second c...

From the bestselling author of Life of the Mind Interrupted comes an essay collection "rich in vulnerability and candor."How do we make a good life in a world where sexual violence always lurks in the shadows?Katie Rose Guest Pryal, rape survivor, law professor, and bestselling author, takes on the rapidly changing legal and social landscape of #MeToo and Title IX. Moving from the deeply personal to the socially critical, the essays in this co...

Louisiana gets a whole lot hotter in this spellbinding story of secrets, betrayal, and seduction. When Enza Parker inherits her estranged grandmother's house, it dredges up a haunting mystery-and puts her in the path of the most alluring man she's ever met. For Enza, Bayou Sabine means pain and heartache: a mother who left her and a father whose lies have caught up with him. Her only fondness for the bayou comes from the summers she spent ther...

Higher education has changed-and we have to change with it. The Freelance Academic will show you how. When Katie Pryal started her career in higher education, she did everything right-she thought. With a law degree, a doctorate, and a federal clerkship, how could her career go off track? But this is higher ed in the new millennium. "Off track" is the new normal. So, slowly, she made her own career, one she dubbed "the freelance academic" in a ...

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Bayou Whispers is a rich and emotional story that will draw readers into the heat of the bayou and leave them wanting more." -Tina Ann Forkner, award-winning author of The Real Thing and Waking Up Joy New love is put to the test in the sultry bayous of Louisiana. Enza Parker has finally found love with sexy firefighter Jack, and through him, she has gained a family, years after her mother abandoned her. With her friend Kate in town, Enza's loo...

Louisiana gets a whole lot hotter in this new adult saga of romance, mystery, and suspense from Family Circle Award Winning Author Lauren Faulkenberry. "Faulkenberry creates a world of magic, suspense, and desire. An engrossing romance with just the right amount of heat!" -Julie C. Gardner, author of Letters for Scarlet She heads to the bayou to flip a house. She just might lose her heart instead. Thirty-year-old Enza Parker is at a crossroads...

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Pryal pierces L.A.'s film industry veneer to find complex and relatable characters and then winches the ties between them, pulling the reader right into the fray. The result is as psychologically astute as it is engaging." -Kathryn Craft, award-winning author of The Far End of Happy "Pryal deftly portrays relationships that are under the magnifying glass, obsessive and dysfunctional, while still capturing the complexity and love." -Kate Morett...

Fractured family, deadly secrets, and a woman on the run in L.A.The day she buries her mother, Miranda George jumps on a plane from North Carolina, telling no one where she's heading. She wants to disappear and start over. She arrives on the Los Angeles doorstep of college friend Daphne Saito, and even though Miranda hasn't seen Daphne in years, Daphne welcomes Miranda into her home and her makeshift L.A. family.The problem is, Miranda is on t...

**Winner of the GOLD Medal in the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.**Why aren't more women at the top of the ivory tower?The academy claims to be a meritocracy, in which the best and brightest graduate students gain employment as professors. When Kelly J. Baker earned her doctorate in religion, she assumed that merit mattered more than gender. After all, women appeared to be succeeding in higher ed, graduating at higher rates than ...