Afterword On her 43rd birthday, widower True Dickinson admits that her son, her thriving business, and her loving friends can't give her the one thing that's missing in her life: romance. But everything changes when her car slides into a ditch, and she stares opportunity in the face. more »

From the author of PS, I LOVE YOU, a simultaneously funny and tender novel about what happens when two people who are destined to be together can never seem to get it right. Rosie and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone but them seems to realize it. Rosie's best friend since childhood, Alex ... more »

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a shy Oxford mathematician, reverend, and pioneering photographer. Under the pen name Lewis Carroll he wrote two stunning classics that liberated children's literature from the constraints of Victorian moralism. But the exact nature of his relationship with Alice Liddell ... more »

Suzanne Kingsbury's evocative first novel is an intense and unforgettable tale of four young people coming to terms with racism over the course of a sultry Southern summer. Set in fictional Houser Banks, Mississippi, it captures the exhilaration of first love -- and the consequences of rebellion in a ... more »

In this compelling Delinsky novel, Lily Blake leaves her hometown Lake Henry, to pursue a new career. She leads a picture perfect life in Boston, as a music teacher by day and a nightclub entertainer by night, until one fine day her whole world turns upside down. Terry Sullivan, an unscrupulous journalist ... more »

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud tells the haunting story of a young man who narrowly survives a terrible car wreck that kills his little brother. Years later, the brothers bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries separating life and death. Charlie St. Cloud lives in a snug ... more »

Here is the story of one of the most memorable rogues in contemporary fiction, the prominent Washington columnist Brandon Sladder, who is writing his memoirs. He believes his own life story could add much more than a footnote to our age. What emerges is a picture of a loathsome, self-important man, oblivious ... more »

For Anyone Who's Ever Been a Teenager Who's teenage years weren't terrible? Remember the scary older kids? The sadistic gym teacher? The smelly kid who sat next to you in science class? Your first fumbling kiss? That time you threw up in the cafeteria? Your first attempt at putting on a condom? The period ... more »

Linda Howard is a superbly original storyteller. IRIS JOHANSEN Linda Howard meshes hot sex, emotional impact, and gripping tension. Publishers Weekly (starred review) From the Hardcover edition. more »

Since childhood, Sam Grandy and Roy Courtright have been best friends. They grew up in the same prosperous community, went to the same prep school, and later entered the same university. After Sam's father died, Roy's father looked after him. At one point Sam dated Roy's sister, Robin. As best friends ... more »

Fifteen years after he tormented fellow students at Catahoula Bayou School, Junior Guidry is broke, drunk, one-legged, and living in a wreck of a trailer on the edge of a snake-infested swamp. He's survived an oil-rig accident that would've killed most men but, with the help of a good lawyer, made him ... more »

Katie Wilkinson has found the perfect man at last--but one day he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read. The diary is written by a woman named Suzanne and is addressed to her new baby boy, Nicholas. In it she pours out her heart about the joy he has brought her. As Katie ... more »