It all started in 1965 with a guy riding a whale. The guy was Flip Nicklin's father, Chuck, and the whale was an unlucky Bryde's Whale that had gotten caught up in some anchor line. Hoping to free the whale, Chuck and some friends took their boat as near as they could, and, just before they cut it l[...]

"I hadn't even gotten to homeroom yet and I'd already discovered five hard truths about junior high: "
"1. My best friend had turned pretty. "
"2. She didn't know it yet. "
"3. It wouldn't be long before she did. "
"4. That knowledge would change everything between us. "
"5. And ther[...]

Is it impossible for old elementary-school friends and new junior-high friends to all get along as just, you know, friends? Good or bad, that's what I'm about to find out.
Jessica Darling is finally getting the hang of seventh grade Hosting an epic slumber party might even help to make Jessica p[...]

Crazy teachers; best friends turning pretty overnight; "The Unbreakable Laws of Cafeteria Line Cutting..".. Junior high is rough, and Jessica Darling needs help Enter older sister Bethany and her "It List," meant to help Jessica uphold "The Darling Domination of Popularity."
In "Jessica Darling[...]

They have lost everything but each other. When Grace Hooper, on the verge of womanhood, and her nine-year-old brother Billy are left orphaned by a freak accident at the beginning of a long, hot summer, they find themselves cast adrift from their old life and numb with grief. Sent to stay with their [...]

I WAS BORN, SEPTEMBER 1985, IN THE VORTEX OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK: THERE WERE FEW RULES OF LIFE AND ZERO CONTRAINTS ON BEHAVIOUR. IF YOU WERE NOT ECCENTRIC, YOU WERE WEIRD.It was a tenement building at the centre of the drug-addled, punk-edged, permanent riot that was iO's corner of the L[...]

'Hoyt's writing is almost too good to be true' Lisa KleypasNew York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Hoyt brings us the first book in her sexy and sensual Greycourt Series!Freya de Moray is many things: a member of the secret order of Wise Women, the daughter of disgraced nobility, and a chaperone[...]

At last, Henry Huggins's father has promised to take him fishing, on one condition. Henry's dog, Ribsy, has been in all sorts of trouble lately, from running off with the neighbor's barbecue roast to stealing a policeman's lunch. To go on the fishing trip, Henry must keep Ribsy out of trouble -- no [...]

British actor Rupert Everett charmed his way into moviegoers' affections with his scene-stealing performance in "My Best Friend's Wedding." Everett is also the gifted writer of this scathingly funny novel of a down-and-out actor's zany misadventures amid a wildly colorful menagerie of madcap trendse[...]

Europe Rehoused was one of the most influential housing texts of the 1930s, and is still widely cited. Written by the housing consultant Elizabeth Denby (1894-1965) it offered a survey of the nearly two decades of social housing built across Europe since the end of World War One, with the aim of inf[...]

National bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to small-town Darling, Alabama, in the 1930s--and the Darling Dahlias, the ladies of a garden club who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty solving mysteries...
Just in time for the Confederate Day celebration, the Darling Dahlias are re[...]

National bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to the small town of Darling, Alabama, in the 1930s where the ladies of the Darling Dahlias garden club are anything but shrinking violets when it comes to rooting out criminals
The Texas Star herself Miss Lily Dare, the fastest woman in th[...]

The New York Times bestselling author of the China Bayles Mysteries takes readers back to Darling, Alabama, in the spring of 1933 where the women of the Darling Dahlias garden club are betting their bottom dollar there s going to be trouble
When the local bank suddenly closes, the small town of [...]