Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. From the Great Plains to the borderlands to the Mississippi Delta, rural America is struggling. The population is shrinking. And the economy is shifting away from agriculture. Without a safety net, rural families struggle with depression, drug abuse, alcoholism, and other problems...read more

Product Description: The pulse-pounding conclusion to the Black City trilogy for fans of the Legend seriesFans of urban fantasy and forbidden romance will definitely want to pick this one up."--USA Today on Black CityFollowing Phoenix, Natalie finds herself separated from Ash and unexpectedly reunited with her parents, including the father she thought was dead...read more

Product Description: Steve August is lucky to get a job at the world-famous Angion Laboratory in Boston, headed by George MacGregor, a prominent scientist turned entrepreneur. The young neurosurgical resident never expected such an honor. He accepts the position and, in an effort to impress, works to the point of exhaustion...read more

Product Description: Can a pastry chef be too sweet? Rita Lucero, owner of New Orleans cake shop Zydeco Cakes, can’t seem to stop saying “yes.” Even though things at the bakery are busy, Rita finds herself accepting a seat on the local small business alliance—a group full of colorful characters like Chopper Shop owner Moose Hazen and his wife, Destiny, whose personal life is messier than a cake someone left out in the rain...read more

Product Description: Dear Reader, Imagine inheriting the family fortune and business at the age of nineteen. Imagine choosing between the Bentley, the Rolls Royce, the Benz and the Range before the ink on your driver's license dried. I can see you now with the Black Card in Cali on Rodeo Drive shopping until you drop without a care in the world...read more

Michaelo O’Dell is hit by a car, and when he doesn’t die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can’t seem to move, frozen in the crash position. He can’t concentrate, or control his anger and grief, or work out what to do about much of anything. His professional life begins to crumble, and although his wife Wendy is heroically supportive, his teenage children only exacerbate his post-accident angst. His daughter Rosie punches out a vindictive schoolmate, plunging the family into a special parent-teacher hell. Meanwhile, his son Declan is found with a stash of illicit drugs, and a strange policeman starts harassing the family, causing ordinary mishaps to take on a sinister desperation.Equal parts hilarious and painful, this compelling novel delves into the difficulties of family, love, and the precarious business of being a man. Mark Lamprell’s extraordinary debut examines the terrible truth: sometimes you can’t pull yourself together until you’ve completely fallen apart.

Product Description: Paris in the 1920s - dizzy and decadent. Where a young man can make a fortune with his wits ... unless he is led into temptation. Cocaine's dandified hero Tito Arnaudi invents lurid scandals and gruesome deaths, and sells these stories to the newspapers...read more

Product Description: A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable--they fall in love...read more

Product Description: In a 'hood boiling over with sex, brutality and crime, three friends are at a turning point. They can surrender to the streets and the murderous men who rule them, or they can walk a totally different path. But nothing is simple for women addicted to life on the edge - and everything has consequences...read more