"From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and aging joyfully. Margareta Magnusson shared with the world her practical Swedish tradition of döstädning, or "death cleaning"-cleari...
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"An intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra--from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life. More than a hundred books have been written about legendary crooner and actor Frank Sinatra. Every detail of his life seems to captivate: his career, h...
"An electrifying literary thriller introduces an unforgettable mother and son, whose simple trip to the zoo one afternoon is transformed into three hours of terror and survival after gunshots ring out. What would you do to protect the ones you love? After school on a late October...
Taking place during a summer on Cape Cod, Noelle and Nate's marriage is threatened when Noelle is drawn into a secret affair with another man.
In Gin Point, Iowa, the Union Army Enrolment Office is sifting through the locals for recruits. Jim McGaughey, a Harvard-educated doctor far from home, is determined to enlist, despite being exempt from the draft. When one young would-be soldier, roughed up by troopers, goes miss...
"When your mother is an astrologist and your dad is a minister, you learn to keep an open mind. Which is just what Mac loves to do--exercise her mind by puzzling out fictional clues in the mystery novels she reads and discusses with her Cozy Capers Book Group. But now Mac's frien...
"London. December, 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope, secret agent and spy, takes a break from the Special Operations Executive division to defuse bombs in London. But Maggie herself is like an explosion waiting to happen. Shaken by a rec...
Moving into the building that once hid a speakeasy, Ella Hawthorne uncovers the Jazz Age story of a scandalous love triangle involving redheaded flapper Gin Kelly, a rugged Prohibition agent, and a wealthy debonair Princetonian.
"It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster -- now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state ...
"In December 1944, Lt. Col. James Rudder's 2nd Battalion would form the spearhead into Germany. Rudder was given two objectives: Take Hill 400 and hold the hill 400 by any means necessary. Several Wehrmacht regiments had been given the exact same orders. The clash of the two forc...
It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother, who never returned from France, she is trying to keep herself out of trouble: holding down a typist job at the Ministry of Informat...
Things are good for Fran: it's her thirtieth birthday, she has a Very Posh Job, and her handsome and talented boyfriend, Michael, is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his pocket. But something's gone wrong: by the evening¡s end, Fran is howling in ...
Abortion is illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own. Susan is a frustrated...
New York City 1921: The war is over, fashions are daring, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. Dorothy Parker: renowned wit, member of the Algonquin Round Table, and more fragile than she seems. Jane ...
1924. Ginger Kelly wakes up in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, having fled south to safety in the company of disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall and her newly-orphaned young sister, Patsy. But paradise is short-lived. Marshall is reinstated to the agency with suspici...
Red wine or gin-and-tonic? Baguette or wrap? Every day we are faced with hundreds of lifestyle choices that impact on our health. These dilemmas might seem small, but choosing the healthier option can make a big difference to your overall wellbeing. Award-winning health writer Hi...
Gin Lightly and her daughter never stayed put for long. When their car dies in Banister Falls, Wisconsin, she promises Raine they'll stay until she finishes high school. But Gin's hopes for her daughter's future are compromised when Raine reveals she's pregnant. After losing his ...
Since losing his wife, Adele, in a freak accident, Holton has been shut off from the world, making driftwood sculptures and drowning his pain in gin. Then twenty-three-year-old Libby knocks on his door, asking for a job and claiming to be a friend of his late wife. When Holton di...