Virginia, the young daughter of a wealthy doctor\u2019s family, sees her life forever altered by the Great Depression. Forced to give up her own room so that relatives can move in, her resentment at those circumstances is altered as she helps her father, who spends his spare time giving medical attention to the people of \u201cSoo City.\u201d Soo City is a makeshift camp near the Soo Line tracks. But her father\u2019s goodwill clashes with powerful people who wish the camp destroyed. The violent strike of workers in the grain mill district brings tragedy to the strikers, and the father is severely wounded while helping the people of Soo City as the police are clearing out the camp. What happens next will astound you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ariadne Daniels seems to have it all: A successful career as a pastry chef, a Victorian home in a trendy neighborhood, and her dedicated boyfriend Scott who she’s been with for years.<\/p>\n Her life is great until the day she stops by Scott’s apartment to surprise him and finds out that he’s not so dedicated to her after all. Shocked and too depressed to celebrate, she decides to skip Christmas. Her best friend Jess does his part to convince her otherwise, but Ariadne’s determined to wallow in her misery, at least until spring.<\/p>\n Life has other plans for her, however. Some helpful meddling from a new friend at a local bookstore, along with some questionable behavior on the part of Jess\u2019s girlfriend, turn Ariadne\u2019s ho-hum holiday plans on their head.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Divorced by a husband who wanted children she couldn’t have, editor Mary Bellamy has left the Boston suburbs to telecommute from tiny, affordable Lawson, New Hampshire. All she wants is peace and quiet and maybe a cat. But an unhappily-married Episcopal priest who’s trying to save her heathen soul might be susceptible to more earthly temptations. And the handsome local cop who’s also an excellent kisser confuses her by being in favor of gay rights, but opposed to sex before marriage.<\/p>\n Soon Mary’s keeping a scandalous secret at great cost to her own happiness. Worse, her disintegrating ex-husband threatens what little she has left. But in this witty and affectionate tale of small town life, Mary discovers that the connections she’s made can result not only in terrifying risks, but in unexpected blessings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Lt. Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels of the Chicago Police Department is back, and once again she’s up to her Armani in murder.<\/p>\n Someone is sending Jack snuff videos. The victims are people she knows, and they share a common trait \u2014 each was involved in one of Jack’s previous cases. With her stalwart partner hospitalized and unable to help, Jack follows a trail of death throughout the Midwest, on a collision course with the smartest and deadliest adversary she’s ever known.<\/p>\n During the chase, Jack jeopardizes her career, her love life, and her closest friends. She also comes to a startling realization \u2014 serial killers have families, and blood runs thick.<\/p>\n Rusty Nail features more of the laugh-out-loud humor and crazy characters that saturated Whiskey Sour and Bloody Mary, without sacrificing the nail-biting thrills. This is Jack Daniels’s third, and most exciting, adventure yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Getting rid of your cable or satellite subscription will save you money, so it\u2019s no surprise that cord cutting has become an international phenomenon. But even as cable prices soar, it can be tough to make the leap. How will you watch your shows? Aren\u2019t streaming services just for millennials? Do stations really still broadcast over the air?<\/p>\n My life was full of nevers.<\/p>\n It was never supposed to go this way. I was never supposed to lose Mom so soon. I was never supposed to worry about making ends meet, to worry about losing the farm. I never thought I\u2019d be working a job I hate, with a boss who was more interested in what was under my shirt than in my head. Saving neglected and abused horses had been my whole life. It was my reprieve, my sanity, my last saving grace in a cruel world. I never thought I\u2019d grow to resent it, but I guess there is a first for everything.<\/p>\n Then I met him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n U.S. President Isabel Aragon Tennyson embarks on a fearless crusade to rein in the financial industry and other rich and powerful forces in the U.S. and around the world. But she is up against a ruthless international conspiracy determined to destroy her first. The ensuing conflict results in assassination, impeachment and murder. The Latina President is not a true story. But it could be. Its themes and conflicts are as current as today\u2019s headlines and newscasts. The story skims the surface between fiction and reality, told by an author who himself spent decades immersed in the tense and turbulent world of high stakes politics. The Latina President is suspenseful, topical, important. And it\u2019s one hell of a good read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bob Fever has swept the globe, with A Street Cat Named Bob<\/i>vaulting its way to #7 on The New York Times<\/i> bestseller list in its first week on sale. With rights sold to 27 countries around the globe and a top spot on the British bestseller list for more than a year, this book has been a smashing success around the world. As Street Cat Bob and James spend a cold and challenging December on the streets together, James once more draws strength and inspiration from his extraordinary cat\u2014learning important lessons about the true meaning of Christmas along the way.<\/p>\n From the day James rescued a street cat abandoned in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, they began a friendship which has transformed both their lives and, through the bestselling books A Street Cat Named Bob<\/i> and The World According to Bob<\/i>, touched millions around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [wp_ad_camp_2]<\/p>\n Now a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie, CHRISTMAS WITH HOLLY (previously published as CHRISTMAS EVE AT FRIDAY HARBOR) is the first book in New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas’s new series, which begins during the most magical time of year…<\/p>\n ONE LITTLE GIRL NEEDS A FAMILY Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with A War of Gifts<\/i>, a short novel set during Ender Wiggin’s first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays.<\/p>\n The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older students, doesn’t see it that way. He thinks that giving gifts isn’t exactly a religious observation, and on Sinterklaas Day he tucks a present into another student’s shoe.<\/p>\n This small act of rebellion sets off a battle royal between the students and the staff, but some surprising alliances form when Ender comes up against a new student, Zeck Morgan. The War over Santa Claus will force everyone to make a choice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018Twas the night before Christmas, and Savannah was breezy<\/p>\n But there’s trouble afoot – and it’s heading toward Weezie.<\/p>\n Seems BeBe’s been holding a big secret back<\/p>\n that would make Santa’s reindeer stop dead in their tracks.<\/p>\n Can these two best friends wriggle out of these twists? After being left at the altar, Jade Roberts seeks solace at her best friend\u2019s ranch on the Colorado western slope. 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