Lidia Yuknavitch

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

A Novel

National Bestseller A masterful literary talent explores the treacherous, often violent borders between war and sex, love and art. With the flash of a camera, one girl’s life is shattered, and a host of others altered forever. . . In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. The image wins acclaim and prizes, becoming an icon for millions—and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer’s best friend, who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her own. As the writer plunges into a suicidal depression, her filmmaker husband enlists several friends, including a fearless bisexual poet and an ingenuous performance artist, to save her by rescuing the unknown girl and bringing her to the United States. And yet, as their plot unfolds, everything we know about the story comes into question: What does the writer really want? Who is controlling the action? And what will happen when these two worlds—east and west, real and virtual—collide? A fierce, provocative, and deeply affecting novel of both ideas and action that blends the tight construction of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending with the emotional power of Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children is a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers.

The Small Backs of Children

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Donald Maass

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great

Discover the Difference Between a So-So Manuscript and a Novel Readers Can't Forget We've all read them: novels by our favorite authors that disappoint. Uninspired and lifeless, we wonder what happened. Was the author in a hurry? Did she have a bad year? Has he lost interest altogether? Something similar is true of a great many unpublished manuscripts. They are okay stories that never take flight. They don't grip the imagination, let alone the heart. They merit only a shrug and a polite dismissal by agents and editors. It doesn't have to be that way. In The Fire in Fiction, successful literary agent and author Donald Maass shows you not only how to infuse your story with deep conviction and fiery passion, but how to do it over and over again. The book features: • Techniques for capturing a special time and place, creating characters whose lives matter, nailing multiple-impact plot turns, making the supernatural real, infusing issues into fiction, and more. • Story-enriching exercises at the end of every chapter to show you how to apply the practical tools just covered to your own work. • Rich examples drawn from contemporary novels as diverse as The Lake House, Water for Elephants, and Jennifer Government to illustrate how various techniques work in actual stories. Plus, Maass introduces an original technique that any novelist can use any time, in any scene, in any novel, even on the most uninspired day...to take the most powerful experiences from your personal life and turn those experiences directly into powerful fiction. Tap into The Fire in Fiction, and supercharge your story with originality and spark!

The Fire in Fiction

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Debbie Macomber

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Rose Harbor Novel

Jo Marie Rose opens the Rose Harbor Inn bed and breakfast in Cedar Cove in order to start a new life, but the inn and its first guests bring surprises into Jo's life.

The Inn at Rose Harbor

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David M. Kaplan

A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction

Kaplan teaches revision as a creative, open-minded re-imagining that leads to better fiction. He then traces the revision process in three of his own stories -- providing strategies to help readers improve their own work.

Revision

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Maria Menounos

A host of Access Hollywood shares her experiences and practical tips that every girl can apply to achieve her own successful and healthy life. Original. 30,000 first printing.

The EveryGirl's Guide to Life

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Esther Freud

The highly praised author of Hideous Kinky, returns with a searing and sensuous tale young love set amid the heat and beauty of a Tuscan summer

The Independent calls Esther Freud "the best writer on childhood we have." In Love Falls this brilliant novelist proves her power once again with an utterly charming and irresistible tale of adolescent love and self-discovery set in a foreign land.

When 17-year-old Lara accepts her father's invitation to accompany him to Tuscany for the summer, she's excited and trepidatious. But, her fears prove groundless, for the villa's closest neighbors are the contagiously adventurous Willoughbys, the teenaged brood of a wealthy British lord. Caught up in their torrential good humor--and snared particularly by Kip Willoughby's dark, flirtatious eyes--Lara sets off on a summer adventure full of danger, first love, and untold consequences that will change her life.

Love Falls

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Lili St. Crow

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Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why.

Strange Angels

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Mark Polish

Michael Polish

Jonathan Sheldon

An Insider's Guide to Making Movies Outside of Hollywood

Critically acclaimed, award-winning independent filmmakers Mark and Michael Polish offer this practical guide to writing, shooting, editing, scoring, promoting, and distributing short and feature films--an indispensable resource for anyone interested in filmmaking.

The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking

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Devon Scott

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When Michael and Kennedy, the envy of their tight circle of friends, begin receiving threatening phone calls and emails, they find their once rock-solid marriage slowly unraveling as an unknown enemy reveals an intimate secret. Original.

Obsessed

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Suze Orman

5 Timeless Secrets to Get Out and Stay Out of Financial Trouble

Outlines a program for controlling personal finances using the author's "Five Laws of Money," which help in making wise choices to erase debt and build a sound financial future.

The Laws of Money

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Jennifer Crusie

Following her divorce, Nell Dysart takes a job working for a detective agency and finds herself knee deep in embezzlement, bribery, blackmail, arson, adultery, murder, and passion with her boss, Gabe McKenna.

Fast Women

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Francis Ray

Unforgiven

When wealthy Texas heiress Rachel Malone defied herpowerful father to elope with Logan Prescott, Logan trulybelieved that their marriage was forever. But that was beforea trumped-up assault charge set the whole town--and thewoman he loved--against him. With a heart full of pain,Logan fled Stanton--and the bittersweet memories of the passion he and Rachel had shared.

Unforgettable

When Rachel met Logan, she thought she'd found the perfectlove--until he betrayed her and her family. Now, eight yearslater, he was back--more arrogant and dangerously seductivethan ever. And this time the stakes were higher. For Loganclearly wanted revenge. He also wanted Rachel.

Undeniable

Undeniable

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Ashland Price

Wild Irish Heather

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Catherine Kay

Interlude

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Flora Kidd

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Desperate Desire

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Wanda Owen

From The Captain's Vixen and Golden Gypsy to last spring's Reckless Ecstasy, Wanda Owen is one author who's pulled in the numbers right from the beginning. Now, with Moonlit Splendor, she's sure to have her seventh bestseller.

Moonlit Splendor

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Pittacus Lore

We may be walking past you right now. We are watching as you read this. We may be in your city, your town. We are living anonymously. We are waiting for the day when We will find each other. We will make our last stand together—if We win, We are saved, and You are saved as well. If we lose, all is lost.

I Am Number Four Movie Tie-In Edition

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Janelle Taylor

Seven years had passed since the Oglala Sioux had banished Bright Arrow for loving the magnificent captive, Rebecca Kenny. And though his passion for her still blazed as brightly as the evening star, it was torture for the son of Gray Eagle to be apart from his people. He yearned to ride free in the wind and to sink his knife into the hunt with other braves. Now, Bright Arrow had to make his choice again-between his desire for a white woman and his honor as an Indian!

Stolen Ecstasy

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Jacquelin Thomas

Relocating to Los Angeles to provide a better life for her and her son, single mother Carrie McNichols unexpectedly encounters FBI agent Ray Ransom--a man who shattered her illusions of love--and vows to ignore the attraction that still exists between them, until a stalker threatens her and her son's life.

Forever Always

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Susan Mallery

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When her best friend dies, leaving her three frozen embryos, Pia O'Brian decides to become a single mother, but fate has other plans for her when she runs into Raoul Moreno on her way to the clinic.

Finding Perfect

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Jillian Burns

Working as a Keno girl in a Vegas casino, Jordan Brenner took her bets off the sex table ages ago. And all the hot flyboys in the world won't make a difference--until Major Cole Jackson sends Jordan's thoughts and hormones into wicked places indeed.... What Jordan doesn't know is that Cole made a deal with his buddies: get some hot-'n'-heavy action from the Keno girl, or pay up But Cole doesn't need an incentive. Every time he looks at Jordan's lips (or any part of her body, for that matter), he's immediately aware that something is up--and it isn't his ante It looks as if Cole won't lose just his shirt. He'll lose all control, too

Let It Ride

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Alison Sweeney

"Can you blame a publicist for blurring the lines between what's real and what's a dream, when her client is a gorgeous actor?" --Jodi Picoult Sophie is a Hollywood publicist who has a fabulous job, a fabulous boyfriend, and a fabulous life. She even scores her PR firm's most important actor client and every woman's dream--Billy Fox. But will a steamy make-out session in a restaurant alley with her big-name client cost Sophie her job? And does she really want an escape from her life and her loving, if imperfect, relationship with her investment banker boyfriend? The Star Attraction takes us on a wild ride through one woman's daytime soap come to life. "Alison Sweeney's novel is an entertaining, backstage glimpse at those who organize the lives of the Hollywood elite. It's great fun for any reader who secretly sneaks peeks at People magazine in the checkout line at the grocery store, and wonders, What if . . . ?" --Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Lone Wolf and The Storyteller Publishers Weekly: Actress and reality show host Sweeney (The Mommy Diet) hits it out of the park with her engaging fiction debut about an L.A.-based star publicist who lets her love life get in the way of work Sweeney uses many familiar chick-lit tropes but does it very well and also infuses her story with insider-y Hollywood situations and realistic depictions of relationship woes. It all adds up to a pleasurable read, and a particularly impressive first foray into this genre. Kirkus: A highly entertaining debut from Sweeney, host of The Biggest Loser and star of Days of Our Lives for 20 years. Sweeney's insider knowledge adds authenticity to this laugh-out-loud story of working and romancing in Los Angeles. What makes the book remarkable is not so much the plot but Sophie's reactions to what happens. You just have to love this girl. That sense of humor that can save a person in real life makes this an extremely fun read.

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