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Neighbors Betsy Callison and Kat Ellis were oil and water when they met thirty-five years ago. Betsy was a prim, neat freak, Republican wife, and Kat was a wild, irreverent, hippie Democrat. But they soon discover common ground that creates a bond that lasts for decades. Until Betsy's husband leaves her for his secretary, then comes sniffing back around two years later and convinces newly widowed Kat to marry him! Not that Betsy wants him back, but...

"Tanner Everett spends most of his time jet-setting around the world. But that hasn't stopped innocent Stasia Bolton, the daughter of a neighboring rancher, from falling head-over-heels for the jet-setting playboy. Unbeknownst to Stasia, her father makes it a condition of his will that the ranch will go to her upon his death only if she and Tanner marry, linking the two properties in matrimony. If they don't marry, her ranch will be sold to someone...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century.
"The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation." —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five
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"She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever. Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous...

In exile after the death of Rajah Tarek and the invasion of the imperial city, Kalinda must fight and defeat three tournament opponents to ensure the help of Prince Ashwin against the warlords and to win Captain Deven Naik's release from prison.

"Sage Fowler, the apprentice to a matchmaker, becomes a spy for the army to uncover a treasonous plot and finds herself entangled in a romance with a soldier"-- Deemed unfit for a suitable marriage, Sage is apprenticed to a matchmaker and tasked with wrangling other young ladies to be married off for political alliances. She spies on the girls, and on the soldiers escorting them. Recruited by a handsome soldier to infiltrate the enemy ranks, Sage...

Next door neighbors from birth, Adam and Emily grow up together as bestest friends, then as teens they fall in love, marry after college, and life is good for many years. Then tragedy strikes--Adam slips and falls to his death. However, his invisible ghost mysteriously stays on earth, and along with his life-long partner Emily to help, he intervenes invisibly to prevent suffering people from taking their own lives. In doing so, they give every one...

Barbie McKnight, an aspiring Hollywood actress hopeful, reunites with a fellow high school student, Mike Henderson, a successful businessman, far away and years after graduation. Their attraction is immediate, and after a whirlwind romance, they marry only to find they can't stand to live with one another. They go their separate ways. However, fate pulls them together when she desperately needs a place to stay after finding herself homeless. The arguing...