A Modern Twist on One of the World’s Oldest Tales Bret and Sara Vreeland have been targeted. Someone has plans for them, a plot that reaches into their past and threatens their future. When one of Sara's patients dies, a mysterious old man, he leaves his fortune to her and her family. They have no idea they are part of an experiment. Satan once tested Job through trials, but failed to break him. Now Satan has sought God’s permission to test the Vreelands with a $6,000,000 blessing. As their lives take turn for the better, will their souls take a turn for the worse?

Product Description: Nine months shy of hs 40th birthday, freelance music producer Tyler Harrison has started to experience horrific hallucinations. At first, he thinks it's just the stress of his job, but the hallucinations continue until they culminate at the three-day concert in Chicago, Lollapalloza, which he is covering for work...read more

"In life you never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. "A business empire worth ten billion dollars. This is the tantalizing offer made by Vinay Mohan Acharya, one of India's richest men, to Sapna Sinha, a simple salesgirl in an electronics store in downtown Delhi. She can be the next CEO of his incredibly huge and profitable company. There is only one catch--she needs to pass seven tests from the "textbook of life." Thus begins the most challenging journey Sapna has ever undertaken, one that will take her from her swanky showroom to the heat and dust of India's backstreets and villages. Along the way she encounters a host of memorable personalities, from a vain Bollywood superstar to a kleptomaniac Gandhian. But are the seven tests real or is Acharya playing a game driven by a perverse fantasy? Vikas Swarup, acclaimed author of "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Six Suspects, " has written a compelling, suspenseful tale about the lure of money and the power of dreams. "The Accidental Apprentice "is international crime fiction at its most entertaining.

Sapna Sinha, an ordinary salesgirl in an electronics store in downtown Delhi, is approached by Vinay Mohan Acharya, a billionaire industrialist and one of India s richest men. He offers to make her CEO of his company. There is only one catch she must pass seven tests from the textbook of life. Thus begins the most challenging journey Sapna has ever undertaken one that will test her character, her courage, and her capabilities. Along the way she encounters a host of memorable personalities, from a vain Bollywood superstar to a kleptomaniac Gandhian. At stake is a business empire worth ten billion dollars and the future she has always dreamed of for herself and her family. But are the seven tests real, or is Acharya playing a game driven by a perverse fantasy? Vikas Swarup, acclaimed author of "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Six Suspects," has written a compelling, suspenseful tale about the lure of money and the power of dreams. "The Accidental Apprentice "is international crime fiction at its most entertaining."

Product Description: Megan O'Rourke's beloved grandfather had always been determined to lure her out of New York and back to their ranch in Whispering Wind, Wyoming. Now his will makes it impossible for her to refuse. She's named guardian of Tex's daughter - a daughter Megan never knew about! Jake Landers has also come home to Whispering Wind...read more

Product Description: Megan O'Rourke's beloved grandfather had always been determined to lure her out of New York and back to their ranch in Whispering Wind, Wyoming. Now his will makes it impossible for her to refuse. She's named guardian of Tex's daughter—a daughter Megan never knew about!Jake Landers has also come home to Whispering Wind...read more

Product Description: Megan O'Rourke's beloved grandfather had always been determined to lure her out of New York and back to their ranch in Whispering Wind, Wyoming. Now his will makes it impossible for her to refuse. She has been named guardian of Tex's daughter -- a daughter Megan never knew about...read more

From Flannery O'Connor and Rona Jaffe Award winner Lori Ostlund, a deeply moving and beautiful debut novel about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a new life in San Francisco, launching him on a tragicomic road trip and deep into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhood.Sensitive, big-hearted and achingly self-conscious, forty-year-old Aaron Englund long ago escaped the confines of his Midwestern hometown, but he still feels like an outcast. After twenty years under the Pygmalion-like direction of his partner Walter, Aaron at last decides it is time to stop letting life happen to him and take control of his own fate. But soon after establishing himself in San Francisco-where�he alternates between shoddy garage apartment and the absurdly ramshackle ESL school where he teaches-Aaron sees that real freedom will not come until he has made peace with his memories of Morton, Minnesota: a cramped town whose four hundred souls form a constellation of Aaron's childhood heartbreaks and hopes.After Aarons father dies in the town parade, it was the larger than life misfits of his childhood-a sardonic, wheel-chair bound dwarf named Clarence, a generous, obese baker Bernice, a kindly aunt preoccupied with dreams of The Rapture-who helped Aaron find his place in a provincial world hostile to difference. But Aaron's sense of rejection runs deep: when Aaron was seventeen, Dolores-Aaron's loving yet selfish enigmatic mother-vanished one night with the town pastor. Aaron hasn't� heard from Delores in more than twenty years, but when a shambolic PI named Bill offers a key to closure, Aaron must confront his own role in his troubled past and rethink his place in a world of unpredictable, life-changing forces.Lori Ostlund's debut novel is an openhearted contemplation of how we grow up and move on, how we can turn our deepest wounds into our greatest strengths. Written with homespun charm and unceasing vitality, After the Parade is a glorious new anthem for the outsider.

Product Description: THE CHARACTERS IN SCOTT NADELSON’S third collection are living in the wake of momentous events-- the rupture of relationships, the loss of loved ones, the dissolution of dreams, and yet they find new ways of forging on with their lives, making accommodations that are sometimes delusional, sometimes destructive, sometimes even healthy...read more

Product Description: From the author of Daniel Isn’t Talking and Dying Young comes a shattering new novel, a page-turner about a sexual relationship between a grown man and a newly teenaged girl. June was a young widow with ahopeless crush on Craig Kirtz, a disc jockey at a local rock station...read more

Product Description: The ultimate love story forged on the gritty streets of New York began with White Lines, and now, in this stunning conclusion, Jada and Born come full circle, but not without paying a hefty price in White Lines III: All Falls Down by Tracy Brown...read more

Product Description: The ultimate love story began in White Lines, and now in this stunning conclusion, Jada and Born come full circle--but not without paying a hefty price.On the surface, Jada's life is back on track--she's battled her demons, her son is a permanent part of her life--but it still feels like she's on shaky ground...read more

Product Description: [Read by Lloyd James]Michael Piafsky's captivating, Tarot-inspired debut depicts the dramatic arc of an Everyman's life from childhood to old age. -- An Everyman searches for truth and meaning in a life fraught with unsettling challenges, joyful milestones, and the unconscious awareness of the passage of time...read more

Product Description: [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.] [Read by Lloyd James]Michael Piafsky's captivating, Tarot-inspired debut depicts the dramatic arc of an Everyman's life from childhood to old age...read more

The stunning debut novel from sculptor and painter Annie Weatherwax, a wry and sharply observed portrait of a gritty mother and daughter, living on the edge of poverty, who find an unlikely home amid the quirky residents of small town America.For thirteen-year-old Ruthie Carmichael and her mother, Rita, life has never been stable. The only sure thing is their love for each other. Though Rita works more than one job, the pair teeters on the edge of poverty. When their landlord kicks them out, Rita resorts to her movie-star looks and produces carpet-installer Phil, "an instant boyfriend," who takes them in. Before long, Ruthie convinces her mother to leave and in their battered Ford Escort, they head East in search of a better life. When money runs out and their car breaks down, they find themselves stranded in a small town called Fat River where their luck finally takes a turn. Rita lands a steady job waitressing at Tiny’s, the local diner. With enough money to pay their bills, they rent a house and Fat River becomes the first place they call home. Peter Pam, Tiny’s transgender waitress and the novel’s voice of warmth and reason, becomes Ruthie’s closest friend. Arlene, the no-nonsense head waitress, takes Rita under her wing. The townspeople—Hank and Dotty Hanson, the elderly owners of the embattled local hardware store, and even their chatter-mouth neighbor Patti—become Ruthie and Rita’s family. Into this quirky utopia comes smooth-talking mortgage broker Vick Ward, who entices Rita with a subprime loan. Why rent when you can own? Almost as soon as Rita buys a house their fortunes change. Faced once again with the prospect of homelessness, Rita reverts to survival mode, and the price she pays to keep them out of poverty changes their lives forever. Accomplished visual artist Annie Weatherwax has written a stunning, heartrending first novel. Ruthie’s wry voice and razor sharp observations about American life in the twenty-first century infuse the prose with disarming honesty and humor. All We Had heralds the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction.

Product Description: Esquire Top 9 Books of the YearMidwest Booksellers Choice Award FinalistBooklist Editor's Choice 2011 Best BookPublishers Weekly 20 Top Indie Sleeper HitsWBEZ Chicago Top 10 Books of 2011We were exposed to these phenomena in order that we might learn something, but of course the lessons we learn are not always those we are taught ...read more

Product Description: We were exposed to these phenomena in order that we might learn something, but of course the lessons we learn are not always what was intended.So begins Matthew Garth's stor of the fall of 1962, when the shooting of a young woman on Thanksgiving Day sets off a chain of unsettling evens in Willow Falls, Minnesota...read more

Product Description: During a rumschpringe visit to Niagara Falls, Phoebe Miller meets Eli Riehl, a young man who charms her--and everyone else--with his exceptional storytelling ability. When Phoebe sketches scenes to illustrate one of his tales, Eli encourages her incredible talent, and together they embark on a lofty and unlikely business venture for two young Amish people--writing and illustrating a children's book...read more

Product Description: Celebrating life’s simplest but most essential values, Cynthia Keller brings together two heartwarming holiday novels of discovery, forgiveness, and the power of love.   AN AMISH CHRISTMAS   Meg Hobart has everything: a happy marriage, a beautiful home in Charlotte, North Carolina, and three wonderful children...read more

Product Description: THE BOOKS OF JINCY WILLETT ARE A DELICIOUS SECRET WITTY CLEVER IRONIC FUNNY HER NEW NOVEL POKES FUN AT OUR WORLD OF INSTANT CELEBRITY AND BUZZ MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE The endearingly bitter writer Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing Shes done a lot of thinking but very little writing On an unassuming morning in her slippers Amy trips in her backyard and goes head over heels into the side of a birdbath The hospital clears her of head injury so Amy returns home When a local reporter shows up for a scheduled interview Amy is not quite herself The article paints Amy as the zen goddess of writing publishing and life Her bizarre interview is interpreted as the rambling of a true genius But all that really happened was Amy fell down The next thing she knows friends and fans are coming out of the woodwork Suddenly Amy is on radio shows keynoting a major publishing event and guiding a local writers retreat But the strangest thing of all Amy starts to write Readers witness Amy confront her past and present and choose to take down the walls she so carefully wrote up around her Amy Falls Down is surprisingly heartwarming and a witty mirror into today s publishing worldas only Jincy Willett could write A scathingly funny and wickedly humorous roman a clef by one of our most acclaimed literary humorists about a bitterly uninspired writer who decides to change her life after a freak accidentThe endearingly bitter writer Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing she s done a lot of thinking but very little writing On an unassuming morning in her slippers Amy trips in her backyard goes head over heels and into the side of a birdbath The hospital clears her of head injury so Amy returns home When a local reporter shows up for a scheduled interview Amy is not quite herself The article paints Amy as ...read more

Product Description: Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writer’s block, she doesn’t suffer from it...read more

Product Description: Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writer’s block, she doesn’t suffer from it...read more