Lyssa Browne
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Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel 'Little Women.' In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories. She also produced wholesome stories for children, and after their positive reception, she did not generally return to creating works for adults. Alcott continued to write until her death. In this collection of four short stories, Alcott tells tales about ordinary young people...
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Natalie March is a respected surgeon enjoying a busy, productive life in Washington DC. As her demanding career has left little time for friends or romance, her deepest relationship is with her mother, Vera March, a Russian immigrant and MS patient confined to a rehabilitation center. Vera is still haunted by the fact that her Ukrainian parents, innocent of any wrongdoing, were sent to the gulag, Stalin's notorious network of labor camps, when she...
4) Guarded
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Former New York City flight attendant Annie Taylor is adjusting to farm life when her grandmother threatens to tear down the old stone house, unable to finance a restoration after the summer fire. Annie's boyfriend Jake has severed his corporate life in Cincinnati and is jumping headlong into sustainable farming on the land next door. Their new relationship is wonderful-but can it last? As they take steps forward, a paralyzing fear of abandonment...
5) Granted
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Former international flight attendant Annie Taylor is embracing her country roots and racing toward a future with her sustainable farmer fiancé, but wedding plans are complicated by her new job, a mysterious ex-boyfriend, and a narcissistic father.
Meanwhile, Annie's old-fashioned grandma, Beulah, is facing a shake-up in the last place she ever thought she would-home. A crisis on May Hollow Road follows a friend's betrayal, challenging Beulah's...
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Make a date with a hot new romance novella from Select Contemporary!
This boyfriend business is about to get a whole lot more personal...
Event planner Lexi Mannis has a busy life in Chicago - too busy to have a boyfriend. For special occasions, she has her Stand-In Boyfriend, Mac Northrop. Mac offers (almost) all the perks of a real boyfriend - furniture assembly, a date to big events, and someone to cook for. But they've never been "with benefits"...until...
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Audacity Jones is an eleven-year-old orphan who aches for adventure, a challenge to break up the monotony of her life at Miss Maisie's School for Wayward Girls. Life as a wayward girl isn't so bad; Audie has the best of friends, a clever cat companion, and plenty of books to read. Still, she longs for some excitement, like the characters in the novels she so loves encounter.
So when the mysterious Commodore Crutchfield visits the school and whisks...
8) Grounded
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On the 12/12/12 Mother Earth ascended into the Fifth Dimension and on the 21/12/12 she came into alignment with other planets in the universe. Although the time of alignment has now passed, our sister planets and the Inter-Planetary Galactic Federation are still willing to pass on their knowledge, experience and wisdom in order to assist Earth to ascend and to avoid remaining in the Third Dimension indefinitely. Channeled through Victoria Cochrane...
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Who needs enemies? There's something about Meredith... Meredith is a young underachiever, living in a squalid apartment, struggling to stay one-step ahead of her landlord and the law, when she meets a man from her past who offers her a way out and a chance to start over. Having worked her way into the lives of the rich and privileged, Meredith will do just about anything to preserve her new lifestyle. But, just how far is she prepared to go?
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The plucky and adventurous Audacity Jones returns for a brand new adventure in New York City, by Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson.
Audacity Jones and her best friend, Bimmy, are setting off from Miss Maisie's School for Wayward Girls on an extraordinary adventure! In the glittering city of New York, the girls meet Harry Houdini, the world's most famous magician, as he prepares a new spectacle: Houdini plans to make an elephant disappear from a crowded...
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When barbarians invade Rome, Miranda the cat and her daughter Punka must find a safe place to hide from the chaos. They make their way through the burning city, collecting motherless kittens as they go. At last they reach the Colosseum--but even there, danger lurks!
How these fortunate felines survive to become the noble ancestors of the cats of modern Rome is all due to the cleverness of the cat they come to call Miranda the Great, Queen of the...
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Create the life you want, combine the law of attraction with mindfulness.
The law of attraction suggests that our positive or negative thoughts bring about positive or negative experiences. The Mindful Guide to Law of Attraction pairs that belief with the powerful practices of mindfulness. Through intentional breathing, writing, and engaging, you'll hone a method for manifesting health, wealth, and love-the elements of happiness. Let the law of attraction...
13) Eat and Get Gas
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Thirteen-year-old Evan Hanson is always the last in her family to know what's going on-at least, that's how it feels. Her father, Gene, who's been meaner since he began serving in Vietnam, isn't around much, and she likes it better that way. But then her brother, Adam, gets drafted and her anti-war mother, Endura, takes him across the border to Canada, leaving Evan alone with Gene and her younger, special needs brother, Teddy.
When he realizes...
14) Lost Camelot
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Guinevere, wife of the Pendragon and Queen of Camelot is tricked by Morgan Le Fay.The grieving queen mistakenly drinks Shee blood and spends a thousand years as a vampire far away from her beloved court and her children. Through the ages, her love for Arthur never wanes and when he is reborn she faces the temptation to seek him out but realizes her weaknesses could spell Arthur's doom.A series of strange encounters reunites Queen Guinevere with her...
15) Summer
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Originally born in an impoverished community, Charity's parents sought out the most educated man in the nearby New England town to raise their daughter. After being surrendered to a lawyer named Royall, Charity was raised comfortably by Mr. Royall and his wife. However, when Mrs. Royall tragically passes away, Charity's relationship with Royall is threatened. After his wife's death, Royall begins to feel sexually attracted to Charity, and when she...
16) Fifteen Coffins
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From the bestselling author of the DI Bliss series comes an enthralling mystery thriller.
The truth can set you free — or bury you.
When FBI Agent Sydney Merlot returns to her home town in northern California to wind down her late father's PI business, she soon finds herself on the wrong side of the aftermath of a high school shooting.
Sydney's childhood friend — who is now county sheriff — plus the local PD, the mayor's office, and most...
17) Outlaw Derek
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Asking the wrong people the wrong questions, Shannon Brown barely escapes with her life and crosses paths with a handsome outlaw who cannot resist a lady in distress. Moved by the troubled stranger, Derek Ross agrees to help Shannon elude her pursuers. But the ferocity of his desire for Shannon stuns him, and mystifies her. She's known so much hurt in matters of the heart. Drawn into a shadowy world of danger and deception, Shannon is reborn in the...
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An on-stage attack left Honor Blackwood with more scars than just the one on her face. It's been ten years since she left her spot as Nashville's brightest country music star. Is now the time to return? And is she brave enough to do it? Country rebel and rock star, Jared 'Jed' Marshall is hot property on the Tennessee music scene in more ways than one. But when he sets his sights on Honor, is it pure attraction or just distraction on his mind? And...
19) Falling Home
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Cassie Madison has it all: a high-powered advertising career, a stylish Manhattan apartment, and a sophisticated, rich, and gorgeous fiancé. It's a far cry from her childhood in Walton, Georgia, home of the annual Kudzu Festival and hot, sticky summers. And then there are all the bad memories, the heartache. When Cassie's estranged sister calls to say that her father is dying, Cassie knows it's time to set aside her feelings and go home and face...
20) The Subjugate
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In this captivating near-future SF thriller, two troubled homicide detectives' race to find a serial killer in a town filled with surgically reformed murderers.
In a small religious community rocked by a spree of shocking murders, Detectives Salvi Brentt and Mitch Grenville find themselves surrounded by suspects. The Children of Christ have a tight grip on their people, and the Solme Complex neurally edit violent criminals - Subjugates - into placid...