Included in Entertainment Weekly's "10 prescient new feminist dystopias to read after The Handmaid's Tale." "Find her. You need to keep looking, no matter what. I'm afraid of what might've happened to her. You be afraid too."After months of disturbing behavior, Gardner Quinn has vanished. Her older sister Fredericka is desperate to find her, but Fred is also pregnant—miraculously so, in a near-future America struggling with infertility. So she entrusts the job to their brother, Carter. Carter, young but jaded, is in need of an assignment. Just home from war, his search for his sister is a welcome distraction from mysterious physical symptoms he can't ignore...and his slightly-more-than recreational drinking. Carter's efforts to find Gardner lead him into a dangerous underground, where he begins to grasp the risks she took on as a Nurse Completionist. But his investigation also leads back to their father, a...

UNDER HER CHRISTMAS TREE, THE ONLY PRESENT SABRINA CATES HOPED TO UNWRAP WAS MICHAEL WORTH...After a rocky beginning--Sabrina almost had her boss, the new CEO of Worths Department Store, arrested for shoplifting--their relationship only got worse! First Michael cancelled the store's annual Santa Claus parade. Then he wouldn't believe that Sabrina hadn't encouraged his teenage son to fall in love with her. He even suspected her of being a gold digger.Except no Christmas grinch could kiss a woman senseless or set her blood on fire like Michael did. They were completely wrong for each other .. so why did it feel so right?

London, 1816 Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, his career ignominiously over. He stumbles onto the case of a kidnapping, the accused a prominent MP. Lacey's search for the girl leads to the discovery of murder, corruption, and dealings with a leader of the underworld. At the same time, Lacey must face the everyday troubles of his own life.

Each book in the Adventures with the Parkers series for kids 8-13 takes the Parker family to a popular national park and is packed with adventure as well as interesting facts about park activities, natural history, outdoor safety, and much more.

For the sake of cheated settlers, Sheriff Pat Stevens takes on a Powder Valley conman On a weather-beaten stretch of the Kansas prairie, a family fights to survive. Molly Hartsell is only twenty-seven, but years of barely scraping by have made her old before her time. Her children are frail, tired, and hungry. If something doesn't change soon, the Hartsells are doomed. But Molly's husband returns from the bank with good news: He sold the farm and invested every penny in property far away in Colorado's lush Powder Valley. It's a new start for the Hartsells, but it turns out their troubles are just beginning. When the Hartsells arrive in Powder Valley and discover they were sold a bill of false goods, it seems as if the family is ruined. But Sherriff Pat Stevens—with the help of his loyal friends Sam and Ezra—will fight tooth and nail to defeat the crooked swindlers and make sure everyone in town can call Powder Valley their home.

SynopsisBook 1Life is bleak for Rose Lucas, a spirited, intelligent girl, born into a large family in the slums of pre-war Birmingham. But her friendship with Diana, daughter of a vicar from middle-class Moseley, gives her hope. She learns to aspire to a different kind of existence, vowing never to become a child-bearing drudge like her mother. Life, however, never follows the way of dreams. After a childhood marked by tragedy, Rose eventually finds and loses the love for which she has striven so hard. From Italy, where she has travelled during the Second World War, she is forced to return to Birmingham and an unhappy marriage, her hopes and illusions shattered. But Rose will not be defeated and she, too, is determined to rise once again above the devastation of her life ...Collect the Birmingham set: "Birmingham Friends Birmingham Blitz".

Grove Press continues the reissue of Bruce Jay Friedman's critically acclaimed fiction with two classic novels by the comedic genius. Friedman's first novel, Stern, tells the story of a young Jewish man who relocates his family from the city to the suburbs, where they are besieged by voracious caterpillars and a bigotry that ranges from the genteel snub to outright confrontation.

Becky McCullough: Once she'd shared her bed, her children, her world, with Mike. Though their marriage had ended, she'd never stopped caring about him....Mike McCullough: He'd thought the worst was over when Becky walked out. Now his family was being stalked, and Mike's nightmare was just beginning. Yet so was his sweetest dream....At the snowbound cabin deep in the storm-swept woods, Mike fiercely guarded his son--and the woman he still loved. He knew it was too late to recapture what they'd lost. But as danger closed in, he couldn't help remembering those long-ago promises of forever....