by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | Children & Middle Grade |
***Winner of the 2023 Feathered Quill Award – Best Children’s Picture Book***Cats are adorable…but…one loveable little kitty wants to make sure you understand what cats don’t like before your family brings one home. Cats Don’t Like That! is a humorous rhyming book that will make kids and adults giggle with laughter.By multi award-winning dad and accidental author, Andy Wortlock, and the guy who drew all the cool pictures, Nahum Ziersch.”Cats Don’t Like That! is a super fun rhyming tale of what cats don’t like which, as we know, is basically everything! Andy Wortlock has taken this to the extreme, and the awesome illustrations perfectly complement the craziness of the story! 5 paws up!” Adam Wallace – New York Times, Amazon and USA Today Bestselling author”One of my favorite children’s books is Green Eggs and Ham. Andy Wortlock reminds me of that book in Cats Don’t Like That! This book is such fun to read.” Philip Van Heusen – Readers’ Favorite (5 stars)Get your paws on a copy today and don’t forget the festive follow up, Cats Don’t Like Christmas!
by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | Romantic Comedy |
Missing Maeve Binchy? Bestseller Hill will cheer you up.’ (Romantic Times)Three heartwarming novels from USA Today bestseller Melissa Hill’s popular Heartbreak Cafe series in one bingeworthy collection.When a baby is left outside the Heartbreak Café in the small tourist town of Lakeview, everyone rallies round to help figure out the mystery. Hollywood actress Ruth is back in her home town following an ill-advised fling with a handsome co-star. Jess feels increasingly left out as the only non-mum amongst her friends. Terrified she might lose them altogether, she embarks on a cunning plan. Or is it? Nina has come to Lakeview to live with her estranged father, Patrick after a bad break-up. But will she ever dare tell him about the secret she is concealing?One thing’s for sure: someone knows more than they’re telling. And in this town, the truth won’t stay hidden …DAYS OF SUMMERThe summer season is on the way, and the small community of Lakeview is braced and ready.The weather is warm, days long and bright and Ella, the proprietor of the town’s ever-popular Heartbreak Cafe, is looking forward to tidying up the patio area, dusting off the outdoor seating and welcoming the first of the summer visitors, whose arrival always creates some drama…Grace likes the idea of spending summer days in a pretty summer cottage by the lake, but she’s not so enamoured of being there alone with four-old twin boys in tow. Her husband is much better at managing them, but he needs to stay on in Dublin for work. Can she cope on her own?Author Sam is in town to finish his hotly-anticipated new novel. But he can’t help getting distracted by Lakeview’s many charms; pretty waitress Nina in particular.Marianne hopes that lazy days of summer might help husband Donal forget about the pressures of work. But when he ends up paying more attention to his laptop than to her, she realises something has to give.CHRISTMAS AT THE HEARTBREAK CAFEThe Heartbreak Cafe is a local institution, and owner Ella has run a thriving business since it first opened its doors in Lakeview thirty years before. To honour all those happy years, she plans to host one last Christmas party to thank the community for its support and to bring all her loyal customers and staff together for a major celebration.Everything is set for it to be a tribute to not just the cafe, but life in Lakeview.But Christmas week, only days before the event, Ella receives a devastating letter.Her landlord won’t be renewing her lease in the New Year, and her beloved cafe will have to close.What will she tell her loyal customers? Will she have to start anew? Or is there a way to save the business by harnessing support and convincing Ella’s landlord by Christmas that her cafe has a special place in Lakeview hearts and minds.’ Sparkling with warm, delightfully flawed characters’ (Sunday Independent)
by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | General Nonfiction |
A true crime account of a brutal 1983 Texas murder and the ten-year hunt for the killer and the woman who placed a price on the victim’s head.“One of the most remarkable true crime books I’ve ever read.” —Ann RuleOn a fall afternoon in 1983, in an upscale Dallas suburb, Rozanne Gailiunas was found stripped, bound to her bed, and shot through the skull. Her four-year-old son has been napping peacefully in the next room when she was killed. Rozanne’s husband, Dr. Peter Gailiunas—and her lover, Larry Aylor—immediately fell under suspicion. Until a surprise informant identified the mastermind behind the murder as Aylor’s own wife, Joy—a woman so driven by jealousy and greed that she put out a contract on both Rozanne and later her own husband.On the run and managing to elude investigators for eight years, the two-year search for the socialite would eventually end in the south of France. There, authorities found the elusive femme fatale, living as comfortably among the world’s elite as she was among hired killers. At last, the authorities’ questions would be answered, to reveal a shocking insight into the heart of an unlikely killer, and a small-town Texas crime that made international headlines.“A masterpiece of murder and betrayal, Texas-style.” —Faye Kellerman, author of Grievous Sin“If Truman Capote invented the genre with In Cold Blood and Tommy Thompson improved on it with Blood and Money, Carlton Stowers has perfected the true crime story with Open Secrets.” —The Dallas Morning News“A must-read. Filled with more twists, surprises, and suspicious characters than even the most fertile imaginations could concoct . . . a difficult book to put down.” —Tulsa World
by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | Fantasy |
Keep your head down. Don’t make any enemies. And whatever you do, never let them see your wings.I’ve lived my whole life in a gilded cage, protected by my family but never able to show my true face to the world. So I did what any rebellious, hot-blooded teenage faery would do—I tricked them all and took off to live my own adventure.Too bad it ended in murder.Now I’m locked up inside the walls of Oberon Faery Reformatory, where no one knows my true identity. Well, almost no one. A note written by an anonymous author, calling me out for who I really am, wrecks my plans for escaping this awful place.Because if it gets out that Princess Aurora Finley Oberon was locked up for murder and has been Glamouring her true appearance her whole life, it could ruin the cohesive world my parents have worked so hard to build.So, until I figure out who wrote this note and neutralize the threat, I have to stay here. I have to keep my true self hidden, which means no one can see my power or my wings—both of which would be a dead giveaway that I’m not the normal faery I appear to be.I also have to keep my mind off a certain smoking-hot inmate with a huge chip on his shoulder who seems determined to knock me off my proverbial throne. Asher calls me Princess, like it’s the ultimate insult. If he only knew…There’s something off about this place and the archaic faery who created it. I just have to figure out what it is, who wrote that note, and find a way to escape, all while resisting the magnetic pull of Asher York.Easy, right?
by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
The job at Sunday Orchard was supposed to be temporary.A chance to gain some work experience. To have some fun. To get away from my overprotective brothers. To maybe, possibly encounter some lumberjacks in their natural habitat before moving on to the dream career that awaited me in the city. I had not expected to be welcomed into a family of gorgeous and weirdly efficient lumberjack-types myself. Or to find a purpose in the tiny Vermont town whose claim to fame seemed to be apple-based products and copious amounts of charm.And I most definitely hadn’t expected to fall for Knox Sunday, my grumpy, burly, fifteen-years-older, reluctant roommate, with his infuriating lectures, his hot-as-fire body, his superior attitude, his snarky humor, and his stealth cuddles.Now I find myself making excuses to delay my big dreams… just for a little while.But Knox has unfulfilled dreams of his own. A career he walked away from. A big city life in Boston he left behind when he returned to his hometown to help his family. He claims he’s not looking for anything permanent, and I’ve never been one to put down roots.My big life is waiting for me somewhere other than Little Pippin Hollow. So why does it feel like I’ve finally found the home of my heart?And how can I get Knox Sunday to… pick me?
