For Lucy, the best Christmas present is forgetting the past. Eager to banish the ghost of Christmas past – when her boyfriend dumped her on the streets of Paris – Lucy is determined to make this the best Christmas ever. She rallies friends and family for an epic celebration that just happens to fall on the same day as her ex’s festive wedding. Furious at how she’s been treated, Lucy can’t help relishing the party v wedding smackdown.<\/p>\n But when the wedding is threatened and only Lucy can help, can she find the spirit inside to save the day, or will this Christmas be even more disastrous than the last?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. For twenty years I had been perfectly comfortable; for twenty years I had had the window-boxes filled in the spring, the carpets lifted, the awnings put up and the furniture covered with brown linen; for as many summers I had said good-bye to my friends, and, after watching their perspiring hegira, had settled down to a delicious quiet in town, where the mail comes three times a day, and the water supply does not depend on a tank on the roof.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She thought she could escape to the West and start a new life\u2026<\/p>\n People are hunting Charlotte Baldwin, missing heiress–but no one is looking for Charlie West, bride of humble frontier shopkeeper Michael West. Marrying him was the cover Charlotte needed to keep her secrets hidden.<\/p>\n But what starts as a marriage of convenience turns hot in a hurry.<\/p>\n He believed the sins of his past were behind him\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As the festive season rolls around, everything seems to be going great for Marie. She has a gorgeous fianc\u00e9, a beautiful house and is surrounded by her quirky but loveable friends and family. Dedicated burn surgeon Kate Sinclair shields her tender heart behind a white coat and a coolly professional manner. But something about the little patient the nurses dub \u201cIron Man\u201d and his vital flyboy father challenges her as a doctor and a woman.<\/p>\n Since the car crash that killed his wife and almost took his son, pilot Patrick MacNeill\u2019s life has revolved around his little boy. No one\u2014no woman and certainly no interfering doctor\u2014can intrude on their bond, forged in love and pain.<\/p>\n When little Jack\u2019s care brings these two together, it ignites a passion they can\u2019t ignore. But their growing involvement threatens Patrick\u2019s emotional barriers and Kate\u2019s professional future. With so much at stake, will she trust her judgment…or her heart?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n From the pen of bestselling author Rebecca Milton, beloved for her romance stories, we bring you \u2013 for a Limited Time Only \u2013 not one, but THREE collections of her best Romantic Writing with no less than 33 stories in total!<\/p>\n These stories will move your heart, thrill your senses, and touch your soul. Each volume holds ten stories \u2013 some older, some newer \u2013 and ALL contain a Bonus story, one Never Before Published!<\/p>\n Book One: Loves\u2026 Explore why we fall in love, and with whom. Fall in love with Rebecca\u2019s stories of loves we win, loves we lose, and even loves who belong to someone else. To open the entire collection, we have a brand new story that may just explain it all: \u201cDraw Back Your Bow.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [wp_ad_camp_2]<\/p>\n In this classic novel, Ken Kesey\u2019s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story\u2019s shocking climax.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up magical problems. But when Kate\u2019s guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta\u2019s magic circles. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she\u2019s way out of her league\u2014but she wouldn\u2019t want it any other way\u2026<\/p>\n This special edition includes in-depth information about the world of Kate Daniels, with descriptions of its characters and factions. Explore Kate\u2019s Atlanta like never before with answers to FAQ and a quiz to find your place there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She was the first woman to run for president. She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress and to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. She\u2019s the woman Gloria Steinem called \u201cthe most controversial suffragist of them all.\u201d So why have most people never heard of Victoria Woodhull? In this extensively researched biography, journalist Mary Gabriel offers readers a balanced portrait of a unique and complicated woman who was years ahead of her time\u2014and perhaps ahead of our own.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont\u2019s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won\u2019t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies, Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secret\u2013a story that leads her far from her old life, and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her. In a tale that travels between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century, between Jay Gatsby\u2019s Long Island and rural New England, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written his most extraordinary novel yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When a chance roadside encounter brings Derek into her life, veterinarian Hayden Hunter isn\u2019t fooled by his bad attitude: All bark and no bite, he\u2019s hiding a wounded heart beneath that gruff demeanor. 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\nBut things are never simple in Marie\u2019s life. As she reluctantly agrees to host Christmas dinner for her friends and family, Marie suddenly feels the pressure of pleasing everyone. On top of that, her gorgeous fianc\u00e9, Brian is starting to lose patience with her reluctance to start organising the wedding.
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<\/a><\/p>\nLoves, Lives & Letters: A Collection of Three Romantic Readers<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\n1987. There\u2019s only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that\u2019s her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn\u2019s company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June\u2019s world is turned upside down. But Finn\u2019s death brings a surprise acquaintance into June\u2019s life\u2014someone who will help her to heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about Finn, her family, and even her own heart.<\/p>\nOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Little Failure: A Memoir<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nLittle Failure<\/i> is the all too true story of an immigrant family betting its future on America, as told by a lifelong misfit who finally finds a place for himself in the world through books and words. In 1979, a little boy dragging a ginormous fur hat and an overcoat made from the skin of some Soviet woodland creature steps off the plane at New York\u2019s JFK International Airport and into his new American life. His troubles are just beginning. For the former Igor Shteyngart, coming to the United States from the Soviet Union is like stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of Technicolor. Careening between his Soviet home life and his American aspirations, he finds himself living in two contradictory worlds, wishing for a real home in one.<\/p>\nDefending Hayden: A Second Chances Novel<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nNo one\u2019s tougher than Carolina Cougars linebacker Derek McLaughlin. But when a fatal car accident claims the life of his girlfriend, Derek finds himself caught in a destructive spiral of drugs, alcohol, and meaningless sex. But not even a string of one-night stands can ease the hurt. Football is all he has left. Then fate leads him back to the scene of the crash, and into the arms of a kind, gorgeous woman who sees past his fa\u00e7ade to the man he once was . . . and can be again.<\/p>\n