by Danielle Stewart

4.6 stars – 1,687 reviews

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Remembering the past can be like buying a return ticket for a train you aren’t sure you want to board.

Rocking away on her peaceful front porch, Betty Grafton receives sad news which forces her to relive the darkest moments of her life. Surrounded by her family, a captive audience hanging onto her every word, she weaves the tale of how an unlikely and controversial friendship shaped her into the woman she is today. Exposing her own mistakes, fears, and soul deep heartbreak, Betty shares the hard truth about growing up in the South in the 1960’s.

Though the years have blown by with hurricane force, the ache in her heart feels fresh. The threat of harm still chills her to the core. But the joy of friendship continues to sustain her.

by J.S. Scott

4.2 stars – 52 reviews

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After being cruelly and brutally dumped by her boyfriend for being overweight, computer programmer Abbie Wright has sworn off of men. The relationship had left her raw and wounded, crushing her already fragile self esteem. The last thing she needs is to work a special project for millionaire client, Ian Campbell. His previous employees call him “the beast” because of his difficult personality and the trials that his employees have to deal with in having him for a boss. Just what Abbie needs…having her spirit crushed by an ogre of a client. It was an assignment she couldn’t turn down…but she dreaded it. Abbie doesn’t know that she is in for a pleasant surprise when Ian turns out to be one of the finest men she has ever known. He nudges his way into her heart, but Abbie has a past and she knows a man like Ian would never want a plus sized woman like her. If she lets him get too close…he will destroy her completely.

by Sylvia McDaniel

4.1 stars – 92 reviews

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Nothing says bad judgement like trying to prove a superstition true… Taylor Braxton, along with a few adventurous girlfriends, decides to test one such superstition on Valentine’s Day – the day Taylor’s ex-fiancé is to be married. A few bottles of wine help lower her inhibition and go a long way to giving her the courage to try to heal her broken heart. After all, Taylor reasons, what is the worst thing that can happen – the superstition of finding her true love might come true? Sheriff Ryan Jones is used to getting calls about the odd dancing around the downtown fountain. When you live in Cupid, Texas, there were always some residents who believed if you dance naked around the fountain, you were guaranteed to find your true love. What he doesn’t expect is to find the lovely, but spirited Taylor Braxton confronting him at midnight – sans clothing. Unfortunately, a long-held promise and his badge stand between him and what he wants – Taylor. Will the Cupid Superstition help Taylor and Ryan overcome the past and take a chance on love again? Or will a promise he made to her best friend, and his career, deflect Cupid’s arrow?

by J.D. Winters

4.2 stars – 245 reviews

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Everyone remembers Haley Greco, except for Haley herself.Haley is a witch with amnesia and she might be the most normal thing in the spooky town of Moonhaven.She wakes up in a strange motel room, no idea who she is, with just the clothes on her back and, weirdly, the deed to a property in Moonhaven where everybody seems to know her. Back for less than a day she discovers, in no short order, that she has an entire missing family, a town history as a wild child, and a grandmother who seems to want her to prepare to save civilization. Not only that, she’s the lead suspect in a murder and Deputy Sheriff Shane McAllister knows more about her than he should. The real murderer is on the move. Can Haley clear her name and regain her memory before it’s too late?

by Marie Curuchet

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Is the devil real? If not, then who is to blame for the world’s evils?

In Disassembling the Devil, Curuchet contends that we blame the devil, politicians, ethnicities, or religions as convenient scapegoats and thereby greatly limit our long-term survival as a species. She discovers simplicity at the core of humankind’s failings, proposing that all evils originate from two causal proto-evils that must first be disassembled within ourselves before we can effectively tackle our larger problems.

The book paints humanity as teetering at the edge of destructive behaviors, enshrouded in self-created evils like vanity, self-absorption, doubt, corruption, inconsideration, and laziness. The lack of a universal code of ethical behavior couldn’t come at a worse time, given the imminent convergence of new apocalyptic technology challenges on the horizon such as unfettered genetic manipulation, aging cessation, and human-machine integration.