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Working the Mound
When her high school sweetheart comes crawling back. Literally.
With her degree in theater, Tiffiny Campanaro, had high hopes of being under the lights of Broadway. Instead she's sweating her ass off in a Liberty Bell costume as the mascot for her brother's Entertainment League Baseball team, the Philly Sillys. When she thought her life couldn't get any worse, her brother recruits her ex, the only man she ever loved, to join the team.
Ender Roche was a hotshot pitcher in high school. Sweet, charming, the one guy all the girls wanted. But he only wanted Tiffiny. That was until he let his balls do the thinking for him, dumping her for a chance to try to date the popular girl. Except, he couldn't go through with it. All he could think about was Tiffiny.
He never stopped thinking about her, even though she black listed him. A subpar performance in Spring Training lands him with an uncertain future until his former teammate encourages him to sign with the ELB team he coaches for. Ender finds himself back in Tiffiny's orbit and will do everything in his power to win her back. Grovel on his knees, read her dark romance books, anything goes. Will Tiffiny forgive him and admit that Ender is her one true love, or will she forever give him the cold shoulder?
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Some Bright Nowhere
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK
"Extraordinary. Books like this are why I love reading. This novel about marriage and friendship and life and dying is a marvel." --Elin Hilderbrand
"Profound and moving and real."--Andrew Sean Greer
"Some Bright Nowhere is a novel that draws you in deeply and holds you there. Wonderful."--Meg Wolitzer
The bestselling, beloved author returns with her first novel in over a decade, an intimate and profoundly moving look at a long marriage and the ways in which a startling request can change a couple's understanding of who they are, together and apart.
Eliot and his wife Claire have been happily married for nearly four decades. They've raised two children in their sleepy Connecticut town and have weathered the inevitable ups and downs of a long life spent together. But eight years after Claire was diagnosed with cancer, the end is near, and it's time to gather loved ones and prepare for the inevitable.
Over the years of Claire's illness, Eliot has willingly--lovingly--shifted into the role of caregiver, appreciating the intimacy and tenderness that comes with a role even more layered and complex than the one he performed as a devoted husband. But as he focuses on settling into what will be their last days and weeks together, Claire makes an unexpected request that leaves him reeling. In a moment, his carefully constructed world is shattered.
What if your partner's dying wish broke your heart? How well do we know the deepest desires of those we love dearly? As Eliot is confronted with this profound turning point in his marriage and his life, he grapples with the man and husband he's been, and with the great unknowns of Claire's last days.
Ann Packer makes a triumphant return with this powerful novel that is tender and raw, visceral and unexpected. Emotionally vibrant and complex, Some Bright Nowhere explores the profound gifts and unexpected costs of truly loving someone, and the fears and desires we experience as the end of life draws near.
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As Many Souls as Stars
"This novel will bend and twist your notion of what love is, while leaving you utterly bewitched." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS (Starred Review)
"Vivid and impressive...Fans of Addie LaRue will be enthralled." -- PUBLISHER'S WEEKY (Starred Review)
An inventive and romantic speculative novel about two women--a witch and an immortal demon--who make a Faustian bargain and are drawn into a cat-and-mouse chase across multiple lifetimes.
1592. Cybil Harding is a First Daughter. Cursed to bring disaster to those around her, she is trapped in a house with a mother paralyzed by grief and a father willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of magic.
Miriam Richter is a creature of shadow. Forged by the dark arts many years ago, she is doomed to exist for eternity and destined to be alone--killing mortals and consuming their souls for sustenance. Everything changes when she meets Cybil, whose soul shines with a light so bright, she must claim it for herself. She offers a bargain: she will grant Cybil reincarnation in exchange for her soul.
Thus begins a dance across centuries as Miriam seeks Cybil in every lifetime to claim her prize. Cybil isn't inclined to play by the rules, but when it becomes clear that Miriam holds the key to breaking her family curse, Cybil finds that--for the first time in her many lives--she might have the upper hand. As they circle each other, drawn together inescapably as light and dark, the bond forged between them grows stronger. In their battle for dominance, only one of them can win--but perhaps they can't survive without each other.
Natasha Siegel has written an unexpected love story that feels both epic and deeply personal. Ambitious, gothic, and magical, As Many Souls as Stars is about the lengths we go to protect ourselves, our legacy, and those we love.
"Dark longing waltzes hand-in-hand with historical elegance in this hypnotic gothic tale." -- S.T. Gibson, author of A Dowry of Blood
"[A]n epic story of deep loneliness, tormented love, and one woman's quest to set herself free--no matter how many lives she must be born into." -- Sunyi Dean, bestselling author of The Book Eaters
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Women of Wild Hill
A witty, spectacular, and timely tale of modern-day witches waging war on the patriarchy, from fan favorite Kirsten Miller, the author of The Change and Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books.
There are places on earth where nature's powers gather. Girls raised there are bequeathed strange gifts. A few have powers so dark that they fear to use them. Such a place is Wild Hill, on the tip of Long Island. For centuries, the ghost of a witch murdered by colonists claimed the beautiful and fertile Wild Hill...until a young Scottish woman with strange gifts arrived. Sadie Duncan was allowed to stay.
Five generations of Sadie's descendants called Wild Hill home, each generation more powerful than the last. Then, in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy, the last of the Duncans, once prophesized to be the most powerful of their kind, abandoned their ancestral home.
One of them, Brigid Laguerre moved to California and turned her dark gift into fame and fortune. Her sister, Phoebe, settled on a ranch in Texas, where women visit in secret for her tonics and cures. Phoebe's daughter, Sybil, has become a famous chef. Seemingly powerless, Sibyl has never been told of the Duncan bloodline.
Now Brigid, Phoebe, and Sibyl have been brought to Wild Hill to discover their family legacy. The Old One, furious at the path mankind has taken, has chosen three powerful witches to turn the tide. The Duncans will fulfill their destinies--but only if they can set aside their grievances and come together as a family.
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Old School
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unteachables comes a hilarious story about a boy who is homeschooled in his grandmother's retirement community...until he is forced to go to public school.
Dexter Foreman is twelve going on eighty. He has lived at The Pines retirement village with his grandmother since he was six years old, and as a result he gets along better with senior citizens than kids his own age. He's homeschooled by the residents up until the day the county's truancy officer shows up and announces that Dex has to go to a "real" school, to the local middle school.
At school, Dex sticks out like a sore thumb. He dresses like a grandpa (and can be just as cranky). His taste in movies and music is decades out of date. Only a few students--like Gianna Greco, a reporter at the school's newspaper--find him intriguing. For most, he is either a weirdo or a target.
Dexter would do anything to return to his old life at The Pines. But when his wish finally seems to be coming true, his old and new worlds collide in a way that surprises everyone--Dexter most of all.
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Ellie & Ollie: A Story From Ellie's Adventures
Ellie & Ollie is a heartwarming reminder that we all carry something that makes us wonderfully unique. Many of us live with a health-related challenge-big or small-that shapes our journey, but it never has to define who we are. This story encourages both kids and adults to embrace themselves fully, normalize different ways of living, and see their own strength in Ellie's gentle courage.
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Grasping Joy
"There's a small chance it might not be cancer."
Encouraging or not, these words started a journey no one would willingly take, but one Heidi and her family reluctantly began-cancer treatment with their child. Two-year-old Drew will capture your heart as you watch him courageously endure treatment for stage four cancer. At the same time, you'll learn what true joy really is and how to hold it tight, even in heartbreaking circumstances. Heidi will leave you convinced that it is possible for a regular, average Christian to walk with the Lord and experience His joy during the unimaginable.
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Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Named a Best Book of 2026 so Far by The New Yorker - The Telegraph "An emblem of resilience for women everywhere." ―Vogue "A rousing feminist manifesto." --The New York Times Book Review "Gisèle has challenged the patriarchy everywhere. . . . She has become a symbol of strength, of endurance, of kindness, of honesty--and we will be forever grateful." --Gloria Steinem "[A Hymn to Life] is the end of silence, unconsciousness, forgetting, unknowing. It is the start of consciousness; the start of change." ―The Observer The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman's rallying call for shame to "change sides." For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story. In 2024, Gisèle Pelicot waived her right to anonymity in her legal fight against her ex-husband and the fifty men accused of sexually assaulting her, a courageous decision that inspired millions of people around the world. Only four years prior, Gisèle had made the shattering discovery that her partner, Dominique Pelicot, had been secretly drugging and raping her, and inviting strangers to also abuse her in their home for nearly a decade. "Shame must change sides," Gisèle bravely declared at the opening of the trial in Avignon, France, and the dictum soon became an international rallying cry. Her message--that she and other victims of sexual abuse have no reason to feel ashamed--galvanized a movement to radically transform public sentiment and legislation surrounding cases of sexual violence. In A Hymn to Life, Gisèle tells her story for the very first time, not as victim, but as witness. With unwavering honesty and devastating grace, she retraces the steps of a life built over the course of five decades, the final decade of her marriage and its hidden abuse, and the long path of emotional healing that ensues. As Gisèle transcends the unfathomable traumas of her past, against all odds, she emerges with a renewed sense of passion and reverence for her life. Part memoir, part act of defiance, A Hymn to Life is a moving story of survival, testimony, and courage, and an unforgettable portrait of a woman who broke her silence, reclaimed her voice, and forced a reckoning.Sold out -
Sacred Light (Main)
Tragedy, deception, and peril await painter and amateur sleuth Georgia O'Keeffe in this enthralling historical mystery set in 1930s New Mexico, from multi-award-winning author Kathryn Lasky.
"Step aside Miss Marple, Eugenia Potter, and Kinsey Millhone--Georgia O'Keeffe is the new sleuth in town!" Award-winning author Katherine Hall Page Under the spellbinding stars of the New Mexico desert, a bloodied axe carves through the night--its story buried in silence and sand . . . New Mexico, 1937. Painter Georgia O'Keeffe is excited for her trip to the intriguing wilderness of the Bisti Badlands--a common site for archaeological excavations, it's a historical place with enchanting desertscapes but also perilous natural structures. Her trip is overshadowed by the sad news of her friend and native Juan Nez going missing. No one knows where he is, and it's unlikely he's gotten lost. He knows these lands like the back of his hand. Has something happened to him and, if so, was it an accident, or has a horrible crime taken place? Trying to make sense of the situation, Georgia seeks solace in her art, but soon comes face-to-face with a dangerous reality and an even deadlier disaster . . . For fans of Stephanie Barron, Nicola Upson, and Bella Ellis. "A compelling mystery" (Booklist on A Slant of Light) featuring real-life painter Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. -
PRESCRIPTIONS Rx, FOR NONPROFIT SUCCESS
"Many in the field do not know how to fully achieve nonprofit success because they have not experienced it. Their competency is not fully developed for the complex nature of the nonprofit sector. I have experienced nonprofit success, as you will see from my experiences. As a Doctor of Education, understand my prescriptions, follow my instructions, and achieve your own level of nonprofit success."
Nonprofit management involves a number of elements. These include working with administration, staff, board, donors, volunteers, community, and an array of internal and external players. As a nonprofit professional, you constantly seek time, talent and treasure from individuals, corporations, foundations, associations, and organizations. There are approaches to achieving degrees of success in mastering the art of nonprofit professional experience. This sector is a combination of art and science.
In this book, based upon decades of service, you will study articles written for various publications throughout my career. Important topics covered include fundraising at various stages of the donor process, donor relations, and donor stewardship. Other topics include career advice, board development tips, how to achieve corporate wins plus a host of other interrelated subjects.
I have always believed you must constantly blend theory and practice. Reading my book will help you prepare for the challenges you will face as you advance your career to higher levels. I have worked in every facet of nonprofit administration during my fifty year career which is still going strong.
This book is based upon successful experiences in a variety of nonprofit settings over time. I hope you are inspired to value my "prescriptions" that will provide solutions to your questions. Seek to chart your own successful nonprofit career path, learn from my experiences and serve others well! Thanks, Duke.
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In The End
"Morning, honey, how was your night?"
The pillow beside her never answered. But Annie kept talking to it anyway, because after 24 years of marriage to a man who gave her nothing but silence and anxiety, even a lump in a blue satin pillowcase felt familiar.
Annie is a writer, a photographer, and a woman who has learned to love her own company. Her historic Southern home with its pecan trees and back porch she calls "Annie's Island" is her sanctuary. Her dearest friends, the fiery and unpredictable Ginny and her whiskey-drinking husband Tony, fill her weekends with bonfires, flea market treasures, and enough chaos to keep life interesting. She captures weddings through her lens, chases stories across small towns, and finds beauty in old buildings, stray cats, and strangers who become family over a plate of biscuits.
Then Evan walks into her world, and everything changes.
Quiet, charming, and tender in ways Annie forgot a man could be, Evan becomes the love she stopped believing in. But when armed officers surround her home one morning and take him away in handcuffs, Annie is left with unanswered questions, an empty bed, and a truth far more devastating than she could have imagined.
What follows is a story about picking yourself up when the floor has been ripped out from under you. About the friends who hold you steady when your hands shake. About finding the courage to sit in a rocking chair, glass of wine in hand, and decide that your life is still yours to live.
From the magnolia-lined streets of the Deep South to the salt air of a quiet island, In The End is a story of resilience wrapped in warmth, heartbreak laced with humor, and the stubborn, beautiful refusal to let love's worst lessons be its last.
Readers who love Southern fiction with heart and grit, stories of women reclaiming their independence, and novels that feel like a long conversation on a front porch will find themselves right at home with Annie.
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Dinner Party
For fans of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Assembly, an intimate and darkly propulsive story told over the course of a dinner party, from its careful preparation through its explosive, irrevocable finish, about the tensions of love and autonomy, grief and female rage, and the surprising moments when they come crashing to the surface. Franca left the Netherlands behind to start her new life in England with Andrew. Andrew, whose parents lived in South Kensington but had a flat their son could "borrow" nearby. Andrew, an old-fashioned British gentleman who encourages her not to work but to instead focus on her writing. Andrew who suggests a dinner party with his colleagues to celebrate their big upcoming launch. A dinner party that Franca must plan and shop and cook and clean for. A dinner party during a heatwave when the fridge breaks, alcohol replaces water, and an unexpected guest joins their ranks, upending the careful balance between everything Franca once was and now is... Expertly weaving the past and present with precision and delicious tension, The Dinner Party is a thoughtful and thought-provoking look at female rage, body autonomy, and all the concessions women make throughout their lives--big and small--until the surprising moment when they decide they can make them no longer. -
Dash Diet for Dummies
Transform your health with the proven eating plan that doctors recommend most for heart wellness
In DASH Diet For Dummies, 3rd Edition, cardiologist Sarah Samaan, registered dietitian Rosanne Rust, and culinary registered dietitian nutritionist Cynthia Kleckner explain how to lower your blood pressure and improve your cardiovascular health with common-sense dietary and lifestyle changes. The authors draw on decades of clinical expertise and the latest dietary guidelines, providing you with a medically sound, practical roadmap offering evidence-based approaches to metabolic health that help you manage hypertension, lower cholesterol, and achieve sustainable weight loss through delicious, balanced nutrition.
This fully updated edition goes beyond basic DASH principles to offer comprehensive support for modern health challenges. With 25 new tested recipes, expanded guidance for managing Type 2 diabetes, and customizable meal planning tools, DASH Diet For Dummies transforms complex nutritional science into actionable daily strategies that fit into your busy lifestyle.
You'll find:
- Expert authorship combining cardiology, nutrition science, and culinary expertise for well-rounded guidance
- 25 brand-new recipes tested for both flavor and nutritional value to keep meals exciting and satisfying
- Expanded coverage of related conditions including metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and weight management
- Easy-to-follow meal plans with grocery lists and restaurant dining strategies for real-world application
- Science-backed motivational tools and progress tracking methods to ensure long-term success
Whether you're dealing with hypertension, managing health conditions, or simply seeking a sustainable path to better wellness, DASH Diet For Dummies empowers you to take control of your cardiovascular health with proven dietary strategies that deliver lasting results without sacrificing taste or convenience.
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Bird Who Couldn't Tweet
Some voices don't arrive all at once.
A gentle, empowering story for children who are still finding their voice-perfect for read-alouds at home or in the classroom.
Piper knows there is something inside her she wants to say. She just hasn't found the words yet. So she pauses. She practices. She tries again.
And when her voice finally comes, it's all her own. Joyful, bold, and ready to be heard.
With expressive, engaging artwork and a warm emotional arc, The Bird Who Couldn't Tweet encourages confidence, self-expression, and patience, especially for children who need a little time to find their words.
An uplifting story about voice, courage, and growing into who you are. Ideal for children ages 3-7.