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On the fourth Thursday of November, without fail, families across the United States gather for Thanksgiving. Attendance is mandatory, whether or not you want to be there. Thanksgiving at the Harwood residence looks like a happy affair, all overseen by the sharp eyes of Granny Harwood. To an outsider, the wealthy Harwood family is a tight-knit group with few disputes and a strong commitment to family. Nothing could spoil this special time. Nothing, that is, except for Uncle Victor dropping dead at the dinner table. When it becomes clear that Victor has been poisoned, old wounds and grudges threaten to tear the Harwoods apart. So who killed Uncle Victor? Was it John James, who has never thought much of his sister Victoria's husband? Could it be Victoria, who suspects her husband once had an affair with her brother's long-dead wife? Or perhaps Granny, who would do anything to protect the Harwood family legacy? A satiric examination of family dynamics, House of Harwood strips away one family's carefully constructed image, revealing the deception, anger, and resentment bubbling just beneath the veneer of normalcy.

It's been a bad week for Vera. She lost the job she loved as a librarian and ended a comfortable and seemingly reliable relationship. So when her eye catches a job ad for a company that boasts "a library of characters for every occasion," impulse (and the word "library") compels her to respond. Shortly thereafter, Vera has accepted her first assignment from Loan Some, a business that rents out people who play parts at special occasions. Need a mourner at your funeral or a pretend girlfriend to make your ex-wife jealous at a comic book convention? Look no further. The rules are strict: hide your identity, and no fraternizing with the clients. But as Vera begins relaxing into her new role-or rather, litany of roles-she finds herself attracted to several men, including the charming and flirtatious Greg Goodman as well as Cole, the sizzling nephew of the Loan Some CEO. Vera's comfortable, if unusual, existence comes to an abrupt halt when she finds herself face-to-face with the woman she's been tracking for the last thirty-or-so years-the mother who abandoned her. Will Vera be able to maintain her alias amid the family she never knew she had?

They say that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned-but "they" haven't read this book yet. Paradise High is a sharp, witty, and somewhat flippant romantic comedy where the fury is a lot worse, because it comes not from a ticked-off girl, but from a ticked-off God. God doesn't like what's been going on in the world: Hatred. Violence. War. Reality TV. It's just too much, so he's decided to put an end to it once and for all, and he dispatches teen angel Michael Night to bring Armageddon to earth. But Michael finds himself at odds with God's plan. When he's captivated by a young babe-o-rama named Shelly Bloom, he can't imagine killing her or anyone else in the world. So Mike asks God for a little time. He wants the chance to pursue Shelly and prove that humankind ain't so bad after all-and, if he can win Shelly's heart, that love just might save the earth from God's fury. But, then again, it may not. God moves in mysterious ways...and so do sixteen-year-old girls. Paradise High is clever, clean fiction that's sure to entertain teen and young adult readers and youthful spirits of all ages.

What makes a hero a hero? Courage? Honor? Determination? Young Gremlaw has these qualities in spades, but he wouldn't call himself a hero-these days he mainly plays the role of a thief, doing whatever it takes to survive. But when the dangerous narcotic Forever begins infiltrating the kingdom of Trathlain, Duke DeLarouge decides Gremlaw is just the thief to help him discover who is smuggling the drug across their borders. And DeLarouge will do whatever it takes to ensure that Gremlaw agrees. Forced into a dangerous mission, Gremlaw unknowingly takes the first steps of his hero's journey, willing to risk his life in order to protect the only two people he loves. The Spaces in Between is a fantasy adventure full of magic and intrigue, testing the boundaries of the human mind and the complexities of the heart. Along the way, Gremlaw discovers that he has a remarkable ability: he can see negative space, allowing him to slip through gaps that others overlook. But he soon learns that gifts can also be curses, and when he is abducted and imprisoned by the Lavashians, his power may in fact be the end of him. A solid read that surprises and inspires, Gremlaw's tale will keep you guessing and hoping until the final page.

Angelique grew up as a ward of the court with one parent abandoning her and the other an alcoholic, ill-equipped to raise a child. The story begins as Angelique turns eighteen and is released from the institution and the court system that have dictated everything about her life for years. She knows how to shoot a gun and like the girl with the dragon tattoo, she wants to get even with the people who put here there. For the first time in her life, she can choose where she lives. She has set up accounts on Facebook and dating sites and ten men have invited her to move in with them, even though she has never met any of them in person. Angelique is a beautiful young green-eyed redhead that men will always find attractive, and she knows what she wants. Unfortunately for her story, men will always find her attractive and she will always be looking for true love. She feels empowered by walking out the door of the institution and leaves without a job, a photo ID, a social security card, a bank account, or any idea of what the men she has flirted with online are really like. She first makes her way to the house of her childhood friend, Ashley, the fourth generation in a family of psychics where her mother casts love spells in exchange for donations and wants Ashley to join the family business. Ashley is a teenage mother with other ideas. After spending a few days with Ashley and hooking up with Ashley's neighbor, she finds the first of the men she has encountered online and moves in with him and his buddy in an abandoned lake cottage. She falls in love with Andrew but feels betrayed when she discovers that Andrew and his buddy are out for a good time, but he doesn't intend to marry her. Angry at the people who had controlled her life, and angry at Andrew and his buddy for what she sees as betrayal, she goes back online. Hoping for an immediate response, she lets three men know where she is and that she can be picked up that afternoon at the beach along the lake. The first one to arrive is Chuck who has promised her a trip to Disney World as he delivers product he has grown to customers in Florida. By the time she arrives in Florida she has fallen in love with Chuck who disappears during a transaction, leaving his truck and Angelique at the Days Inn in Orlando. After several days, she is forced to leave the hotel. She wants to stay in Florida to wait for him. She asks Ashley's mother Louise to cast a love spell to bring Chuck back. She discovers she is pregnant. She is 99% but not 100% sure Chuck is the father. She vows to continue to wait for him, and goes to stay with Ashley's crazy cousin Cynthia, also a spell caster, who lives near Orlando. Angelique's story continues in serial form each week with readers voting on what happens next in the story on the website serialities.com.

When Eliza was thirteen, she was shuffling through a turnstile of foster homes when she met a mysterious doctor who seemed to understand the strange extrasensory abilities awoken in her after her parents' deaths. A few years later, as she finds herself living in seclusion in Dr. Conners's lab, Eliza realizes that she's not ready to sacrifice control of her life for the sake of security. Eliza can travel through time, and Dr. Conners and his financier want to put Eliza's talents to suspicious use. She knows she can't trust anyone at the lab but Jason Bray, a handsome young researcher. As Eliza and Jason become closer, she's more convinced that she has to escape. But where will she go? And how will she learn to control her powers? Eliza's time travel isn't without limits. She can't interact with others during her visits to the past, she can't see before her own birth, and she definitely can't change the past. Or can she? As she fights to free herself from Dr. Conners's grip, Eliza will learn that she's the only one who is ultimately in charge of her fate-and maybe the fates of many others.

Long-buried secrets surface as families are torn apart in Holly Lynne Aasen's tightly written emotional drama, Heart of Palms. Cole Wells and his father, Jack, have been on their own since Cole's mother died thirteen years before. Now the twenty-three-year-old is lying in a coma after recently being acquitted of drug trafficking charges. Questions hang over his hospital bed, including the depth of his involvement in the drug ring and who wants him dead...questions that Jack will stop at nothing to answer. Meanwhile, the Stanton family faces its own crises. Ella, a brain surgeon, attempts to coax Cole out of his coma, while her sister, Bella, stands on the brink of stardom. Their parents, on the other hand, are barely holding it together as they balance a wildly successful business with a deeply troubling psychological disorder. As these two families intersect, they discover that all is not as it seems-a long-standing deception has unwittingly shaped their destinies for better or for worse. While attempting to unravel the lies, they come across strange characters whose motivations remain unclear...including a member of a religious cult whose thirst for chaos threatens them all. Can these two families possibly reach a good end?

During the late sixties, the America that Herman Hesse thought would never be receptive to his works came alive with the counterculture and Americans began to become aware of Hesse first through Siddhartha and Narcissus and Goldmund. In Herman Hesse, a volume first published in the series Writers for the Seventies, Ed Casebeer makes the claim that American readers need Hesse who believed that the universe makes sense and that the best way to realize that affirmation is to realize yourself. By his novels and by his life, Herman Hesse provided the assurance and guidance of a man who sought himself through eighty-five years of some of the most disastrous events of the past two centuries. This volume contains chapters on four of Hesse's novels most popular in the counter culture: Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Narcissus and Goldmund, and Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game). Together, these novels show an amazing breadth of subjects, situations, characters, themes, and techniques. Yet underlying them all is a unifying theme: the search for self-realization in a harmonious universe. Hesse tells us, "We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone."

It's 2057 and Zachary Nixon Johnson is the last freelance private investigator on planet Earth. Lucky for him, he's mind-melded with HARV, the most advanced cognitive processor on Earth-so Zach generally does pretty well when it comes to cracking cases. And when a certain lady loses her dog, she naturally turns to the last PI on Earth for help. See, the lady in question is Merinda-1616, a member of the High Council of Mars, visiting Earth for important trade negotiations. And until her pooch, Saturn, is safely by her side, Merinda-1616 won't participate in the talks. Tall, with dark hair, creamy white skin, and steady, piercing green eyes, Merinda-1616 cuts quite the striking figure for a bionic clone. Zach learns quickly that it's not just the fate of Saturn at stake: someone wants Merinda-1616 dead. With plenty of bionic suspects with ample motives and opportunities to harm the councilwoman, Zach and HARV certainly have their work cut out for them. A hilarious and high-spirited intergalactic romp, The Raven Haired Rogue will delight anyone who has ever wished there were more pulp humor sci-fi mystery adventures novels on bookstore shelves today.