With Christmas only three days away, Carol Claus agrees to her father\u2019s request that she leave the North Pole on a mission to help save Christmas. Joining single father Ben Hanson and his children for the holidays seems an easy enough task until Santa informs her that Ben is the man behind the disturbing new book \u2018Beyond Bah Humbug: Why Lying to Your Children about Santa Claus is a Bad Idea\u2019.<\/p>\n Posing as Miss Kane, the children\u2019s new nanny, Carol pulls out all the stops to show Ben how fun Christmas can be, all the while struggling to understand how one man could hate the holidays so much. How could she, Santa\u2019s only daughter, be so attracted to a man who refuses to believe her father exists?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ten years ago, Jarrett Brandt left home and abandoned everyone of importance. After a hard reality check, the irresponsible young man matured into a ballsy DEA agent with a kickass Harley Davidson and a million-dollar bounty on his head. Ordered by his superior officer to take refuge at a safe house just days before Christmas, he headed back home to Washington State, instead, to make peace with his deceased brother’s memory.<\/p>\n Marissa Reinn Brandt never expected to see Jarrett again. Best friends since childhood and lovers as teenagers, immaturity, over-demanding parents and illicit drugs ripped them apart. Now a successful chef at a posh restaurant, the young widow and her son offered Jarrett a place to stay for the holiday.<\/p>\n Lonnie is stabbed to death while his sister, Mirage, is in a black out. Did she kill him? Gallup, New Mexico provides the backdrop for greed, scrambled brains, illicit love, and murder. Cinnamon and Burro trail a gallery owner, a young boy with TBI, and a group of greedy young artists through the high desert, looking for a murderer. Burro suffers visions of the crime. Spirits communicate with the suspects. Cinnamon and Burro search for answers and the illusive Momma makes a phone call from the past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n David is misunderstood. By everyone, so it seems. The millennial business enthusiast has failed at almost every career he\u2019s tried. Searching for his life\u2019s meaning and enamored by the startup culture in Silicon Valley, David jumps headlong into a job at a small, albeit growing, business.<\/p>\n He soon realizes, however, that while the company is considered a \u201cstartup,\u201d it\u2019s as unfulfilling as any corporate job he\u2019s had, and he chooses to pursue his own entrepreneurial venture, believing that if he can become a famous business owner, he\u2019ll find happiness. But not if his previous employer has anything to say about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When Stephen McCoy leaves the Indiana farm he shares with his brother Daniel, Daniel\u2019s wife Rosemarie, and their four children to go into town to load up on supplies, he never expects to return with a bride.<\/p>\n Indiana, May 1867 \u2013Calliope Bender arrives in town and steps off the stagecoach in a wedding gown, carrying a wilted bouquet. She is running from an unwanted marriage but still in need of a husband \u2013 one who will agree to a marriage of convenience. Eager to build a home for himself, Stephen agrees to Calliope\u2019s conditions, despite the fact that the idea of a \u201cmarriage in name only\u201d doesn\u2019t sit well with him. Neither one of them is looking for love, but will it creep up on them when they aren\u2019t looking?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The food truck craze has reached the charming coastal town of South Cove, California, but before Jill Gardner\u2014owner of Coffee, Books, and More\u2014can sample the eats, she has to shift gears and put the brakes on a killer . . .<\/p>\n Now that Kacey Austin has got her new gluten-free dessert truck up and running, there\u2019s no curbing her enthusiasm\u2014not even when someone vandalizes the vehicle and steals her recipes. But when Kacey turns up dead on the beach and Jill\u2019s best friend Sadie becomes the prime suspect, Jill needs to step on it to serve the real killer some just desserts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A Killer Who Gets Away With Murder Once. . .<\/p>\n It’s been twenty years since the night Jake Marcott was brutally murdered at St. Elizabeth High School. It’s a night that shattered the lives of Lindsay Farrell, Kirsten Daniels, and Rachel Alsace. It’s a night they’ll never forget. A killer will make sure of that. . .<\/p>\n Finds It Easier To Kill Again. . .<\/p>\n A 20-year reunion has been scheduled for St. Elizabeth’s. For some alumni, very special invitations have been sent: their smiling senior pictures slashed by an angry red line. . .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [wp_ad_camp_2]<\/p>\n In this New York Times <\/i>bestseller that inspired the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen<\/i>, Philippa Gregory tells the tale of Anne Neville, a beautiful young woman who must navigate the treachery of the English court as her father, known as the Kingmaker, uses her and her sister as pawns in his political game.<\/p>\n The Kingmaker\u2019s Daughter<\/i>\u2014Philippa Gregory\u2019s first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl<\/i>\u2014is the gripping tale of the daughters of the man known as the Kingmaker, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters, Anne and Isabel, as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n New York City’s Gilded Age shimmers with unimaginable wealth and glittering power. The men of the Knickerbocker Club know this more than anyone else. But for one millionaire, the business of love is not what he expected…<\/i><\/p>\n Born in the slums of Five Points, Emmett Cavanaugh climbed his way to the top of a booming steel empire and now holds court in an opulent Fifth Avenue mansion. His rise in stations, however, has done little to elevate his taste in women. He loathes the city’s “high society” types, but a rebellious and beautiful blue-blood just might change all that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The quaint coastal town of South Cove, California, is all abuzz about the opening of a new specialty shop, Tea Hee. But as Coffee, Books, and More owner Jill Gardner is about to find out, there’s nothing cozy about murder . . .<\/p>\n Shop owner Kathi Corbin says she came to South Cove to get away from her estranged family. But is she telling the truth? And did a sinister someone from her past follow her to South Cove? When a woman claiming to be Kathi’s sister starts making waves and a dead body is found in a local motel, Jill must step in to clear Kathi’s name–without getting herself in hot water.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In the companion book to his final PBS series, the world-renowned chef shows his close relationship to the land and sea as he cooks for close friends and family.<\/p>\n Jacques P\u00e9pin Heart & Soul in the Kitchen <\/i>is an intimate look at the celebrity chef and the food he cooks at home with family and friends\u2014200 recipes in all. There are the simple dinners Jacques prepares for his wife, like the world\u2019s best burgers (the secret is ground brisket). There are elegant dinners for small gatherings, with tantalizing starters like Camembert cheese with a pistachio crust and desserts like little foolproof chocolate souffl\u00e9s. And there are the dishes for backyard parties, including grilled chicken tenderloin in an Argentinean chimichurri sauce.<\/p>\n The world is descending into chaos\u2014and CIA warhorse Dan Morgan, after nearly losing his head on a covert mission in Colombia, knows the worst is yet to come. Frightened employees of the enigmatic government contractor Acevedo International are mysteriously dying. Morgan\u2019s own daughter finds herself lured into the violent world of college extremists. And a ruthless enemy that has long bided its time is prepared to strike at the very heart of America\u2019s intelligence and anti-terrorism infrastructure. Morgan and Zeta Division may be the only chance not for victory, but survival . . .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In the heart of Scotland, this Highlander is about to meet his match in a brand new romance from bestseller May McGoldrick.<\/p>\n Highland warrior Alexander Macpherson has lost his wife. When he agreed to take Kenna Mackay as his bride to advance his clan\u2019s power in the north, he expected a bit of an adjustment. He didn’t expect the sharp-tongued beauty to run away on their wedding night. 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