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It's official. Miriam Feldman is killing it in the midlife crisis department. She's mastered boredom, aced invisibility, and graduated Summa Cum Laude in smiling and playing nice in her post-divorce life. But when a drink with a "good guy" goes sideways, Miriam snaps, and in a cold dark rage unleashes a rare and powerful shadow magic. To make matters worse, her best friend goes missing and Miri is thrust into a world of hidden magic, vampires, and...
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Six novels in one volume by today's most outstanding female writers-includes The Magician's Assistant, Those Who Save Us, and more.
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto, to the multiple award-winning author of This Must Be the Place, this collection gathers a half-dozen top-notch literary talents in a treasure trove for fiction lovers. Included:
Almost by Elizabeth Benedict chronicles the attempt of writer...
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"You are an accomplished woman, but even you cannot withstand a current that has been churning for centuries." One minute, I'm just your average forty-year-old Londoner, past my sell-by date and going nowhere. The next, I've animated a dragon, kicked a few godly backsides and become an overnight sensation. My head is spinning. What I need is peace and quiet to catch my breath and enjoy the first flushes of my relationship with half-werewolf half-wizard...
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A funny, heartwarming, and bittersweet tale of finding answers in times of trouble through the treasured connection of friendship.
In a complicated world where the joy of true friendship can be hard to come by, Jan and her tight-knit group defy those odds. They share a bond that can't be broken, even in the hard times. Yet, that bond will be severely tested when Liz faces a critical illness and an uncertain future.
But, as only women can do...
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"I need your help." Those were the last words Maddalena D'Angelo expected to hear from Chief Alvin DeRoche when he requested her presence at the police station. A young woman is missing and her mother wants Maddalena to do a spirit portrait of her daughter to see if it will reveal any clues as to her whereabouts. Maddalena, together with Max, follow one of the clues to a hotel in town. While investigating, they discover another woman dead in one of...
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"Nooooo! You can't be here!" The shrill scream shattered the entirely normal morning that Maddalena D'Angelo had been enjoying. Racing to see what was wrong she found that her landlady, Grace Howard, was moments away from being run over by a massive motorhome. Acting on instinct alone, Maddalena jumped to the rescue, pulling her friend out of the way. Confronting the driver, she and her neighbor Max, learn that the man doesn't know who he is, where...
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Being a forty-something, newly divorced, single mom is getting easier every day. Thankfully, so is being a witch, you know, when monsters and power-hungry sorcerers aren't trying to kill me. And they aren't the only ones who want to take me down. Too bad for all of them. I don't die easy. Now that my nero-craft has been triggered, I'm off to the Iron Grove compound, along with my hot druid boyfriend and his violently awesome sister, to learn magic...
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Past mistakes lead to present problems and murder...Maddalena D'Angelo is no stranger to helping people, but when an early morning visitor comes to her door looking for help it's the last person she would expect... Chief Alvin DeRoche. He has made it clear in the past that he does not care for Maddalena's assistance, however, this time it's different. This time it's personal. An old friend of his has been murdered! Maddalena can't say no and agrees...
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Embracing a midlife transformation has never been more delicious.
At best, she's expecting a kitschy candy dish, at worst a beloved taxidermied pet, so when Cassie-newly divorced, single mom with zero prospects-discovers she's inheriting a fully stocked bakery along with a beautifully furnished
apartment from a great aunt she'd never even heard of, she's convinced she must be dreaming.
The apartment bizarrely adapting itself to her whims, and the...
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Living your dream shouldn't be this challenging.
She owns a magical bakery and has the greatest friends, so why isn't Cassie enjoying life as much as she thought she would?
It could be because her daughter is miserable and plotting ways to go back to Georgia to live with her dad. Or it could be because she's working so hard she can't enjoy the fruits of her labor let alone find time to connect with her kid.
There's also the magic. Between the pre-teen...
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As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women's cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this innovative book employs major contemporary texts by both African American and...
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Ariella Mason has the perfect life.
Perfect job? Check.
Perfect home? Check.
Perfect fiancé? Check.
None of this is by accident. Ariella is a card-carrying perfectionist.
On the other side of the city lives Ariella's polar opposite. Caleb Black is an unrepentant smart-ass, seat-of-his-pants, arrogant party-boy getting through life on charisma and raw sex appeal (his words).
So why, one night, does Ariella turn up with her bags, asking...
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"The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life. Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world. When Kollhoff unexpectedly...
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"From the beloved books editor at Glamour magazine comes a heartfelt and painfully funny debut about what happens when a wife and mother of three leaps at the chance to fulfill her professional destiny--only to learn every opportunity comes at a price. In A Window Opens, Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her...
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By bestselling British writer Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree is a sweeping, romantic novel about the women who stayed behind in World War II.
It is the summer of 1939, and the residents of the idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war. Beautiful but shy Judy Melton, daughter of a naval hero; her determinedly feckless friend, the social butterfly Meggie Gore-Steward; seemingly demure Mathilda Eastcott, and Rusty Sykes, the...
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"Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her overgrown garden, joining a grief support group, and even renting...
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Ruth Ritchie elopes with a stereo salesman, thinking that she has found her ticket out of Summerville, Tennessee where her future means selling pies at Durwood's Hardware. But Chuck "gets religion," and Ruth, who cherishes her freedom more than safety, buys a used car and heads north.
When Ruth faints from hunger at a North Carolina five-and-dime, Rose, a feisty elderly reporter, rescues her. A friendship stronger than family ties blossoms; for all...
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Same mom. Same dad. Completely different lives. Who's to say which sister has it sweeter?Viney Haverford always told her daughters to "be sweet." But the only thing sweet about Charlene Haverford these days is her sweet tooth. Little sister Janni is the nice one. The one with the intact marriage, the great kids, the stable life on the family homestead in Tappery, Michigan. Charlene's the sister who left town heartbroken and humiliated but built a...
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After an extraordinarily bad day during which Cassandra Dankworth's boyfriend breaks up with her and she is fired from her job, she wakes up the next day and has the chance to do it all again, differently.
Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend, Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn't (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug). Her life runs in a pleasing, predictable...
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Saturday morning coffee sessions are never going to be the same...
Sydney marketing exec Sophie presumed "making sacrifices for your children" meant giving up Bloody Marys and champagne for nine months. When she thought about it, that is...But then, two blue lines appear on her pregnancy test. How does a baby fit in with a hectic job, a chaotic social life, and the absence of Max, the Y chromosome in the equation, who has moved to San Francisco?
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