Novedades

As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can’t imagine how she’ll ever make a living. She’s still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor—and while the affair is brief, it isn’t brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyone’s advice, she decides to keep the baby, mostly out of naiveté and a yearning for something bigger.

When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building.

The four Jacobson children were raised to respect the value of a dollar. Their mother reused tea bags and refused to pay retail; their father taught them to budget before he taught them to ride a bike. And yet, now that they’re adults, their financial lives are in disarray. The siblings reunite when their newly widowed father puts their Jersey Shore beach house on the market. Packing up childhood memories isn’t easy, especially when there’s other drama brewing.

Get ready for a shenanigan filled trip to summer camp—Mountainville style! Hollywood icon Grant Baker has purchased a summer camp just for Littles. Nestled in the breathtaking mountains of New Mexico, it’s almost heaven on earth. Almost. The director, Thadeus Mauser, is a hard, mean Daddy who just loves to bust naughty Littles. And his contract is ironclad. Grant can’t fire him without a legal nightmare. But, if Mauser chose to quit…well, problem solved. But what would drive the camp director/dictator to willfully leave his post? How about Eli and the Mountainville Crew? With ...

This is a story about four friends who grew up together in rural northern New Jersey. The four are close enough to be brothers- chosen family- whose loyalty and love for one another becomes a powerful force in their lives growing up.

Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. He’s been hailed a profit and a diagnostician, and a century after his death, his unique perspective on the anxieties, injustices, and rapidly shifting belief systems of the modern world continues to speak to our contemporary moment.

Can comedy be taught? Someone, at some point, seemed to think so. The Chicago Stand-Up program has enrolled young comedians for nearly a decade. Its teachers and students all know how bits work—in theory, at least. They know that there's a line between sharp and cruel, that sad becomes funny at the right angle, that the worst is the best, the truth is the worst, and any moment of your life that isn’t a punchline will either get you to a punchline or force you to be one. They’re all afraid to be one.

An assassin who works for the mob. One hot detective. And a killer. Living in Honey Hollow can be murder. Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!" Humor with a side of homicide. A laugh out loud standalone cozy mystery by New York Times, USA TODAY, & Wall Street Journal bestseller Addison Moore ***A MURDER IN THE MIX SPINOFF!*** Includes RECIPE! My name is Eufrasia Canelli but everybody calls me Effie. I come from a big Italian family with big hearts, big appetites, and an even bigger bankroll that’s cleverly hidden from the IRS. I’m not married to the mob, I ...

Convinced of his own moral and intellectual superiority, the nameless protagonist of this debut novel is also paralyzed by self-consciousness. Yet, inspired by Stephen King’s On Writing, he decides to dedicate four hours a day to work on his own novel over the course of one summer. Only, he must also balance his creative goals with a part-time government job and looking after his girlfriend’s possibly brain-damaged Pomeranian dog.

Welcome to the little community of Marshland, North Carolina. The center of town, of course, is Marshland Baptist Church. In the first story of the series, young Jack Daniels comes to grips with the fact that maybe the miracle that he thought saved his life as a youngster wasn't a miracle at all. And when the Devil of Marshland, Duke Marbuck, actually shoots the preacher (in the arm, and more or less by accident), young Jack finds himself in the confrontation of his life.

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down. Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period.

From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York City’s glitziest neighborhood, it’s clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty with plenty of skeletons in her closet next to the designer knock-offs, doesn’t care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she aches for a deeper meaning to her flat existence—and a cure for her brutal nail-biting habit. She finds it all and more at HEBE, and with Tree Whitestone, HEBE’s charismatic, sinister founder and CEO.

It was just supposed to be one night. No kissing. No feelings. A wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am tangle in the sheets and we go our own ways. Only it's a small town, and I was bound to run into the irresistible Porter Jones again. I just didn't expect it to be at my job interview...which he's conducting.

Charlie is already feeling adrift when she relocates to an exclusive town in coastal New England with her mysteriously distant husband, Dev, and their young twins in tow. She hopes the move will recharge her stalled marriage, and she wants her kids to feel like they belong, even if she’s clearly a fish out of water herself. In a strange new world where summer is a verb and both the harbor and the partygoers are awash in a dizzying constellation of pinks and pastels, she’s never felt so confounded or alone. She’ll need more than a preppy handbook to find her way.

We meet our ill-tempered protagonist—the story’s titular “brat”—at a low moment, but not yet at rock bottom. The Gabriel of the novel is mourning the death of his father as well as a recent breakup and struggling to finish writing his second book. Alone and aimless, he agrees to move back into his parents’ house to clear it out for sale. Here, the clichés end.

If demons are possessing your Hallowe'en candy, or you know that Santa is just an anagram for Satan, then this book is for you. Brother Scriblicus Animicus has provided us with completely Christianized stories of the saints, so pure that they are safe for even the most separated among us. Today's story is an account of the celebration on behalf of St Lumbar, that diligent saint who waged war on aching backs and bad posture. Read on and be blessed, dear reader! Express permission granted for podcasting and public skits, non-commercial.

It's Hallowe'en in Marshland, and Marshland Baptist Church has narrowly dodged the plethora of preachers who forbid this scary holiday. The celebrations will continue! But one young man in the youth group has evil on his mind, while others are envying the wealthy Presbyterians. They are playing paintball all night long for prizes, while the poorer Baptists are toasting marshmallows and taking their little brothers and sisters out trick or treating. Dark plans are brewing out in the windswept marshes, and one young lady is being led astray. Will Jack Daniels realize what is going on and save...

You found a book, colorful and elemental, filled with acts of Virtue and Sin. The destruction, Change, and Creation of Spirits drive all to Glory or Dead Ends in the Realms of Strife. In the low places, there is war; In the higher places, contests of will. In the Lands of Labor, all is evolved or resolved by the Sweat of one’s brow, the Mud on their boots, or the Quality and Spirit of their soul. In the center of it all is a fool called You, a Merry-Can of Spirits. This unborn fy tries to reach the Living World, by Examining and Evolving Strife, but is a Jester, full of bubbles and Fyre. ...

Convinced that two unexplained deaths on her London patch are murders, rookie police officer Heather Prendergast’s unofficial investigation takes her to an isolated mill town on the Huddshire moors where she unearths a web of corruption that threatens her career – and her life. A dyed in the wool Southerner, Heather discovers that the isolated mill town is a throwback to another age - the personal fiefdom of a crooked Mayor Cameron Carmichael in league with a corrupt police force led by Chief Constable Euridice Montefiore.

Paradise is supposed to be a short-term stop. Until Thor shows up. Okay, not the real Thor. But replace the hammer with a dog who won't stop barking, and Adam Thomsen is definitely long-haired Thor's doppelganger. Too bad for me, he's decided I'm the villain in his story. Too bad for him, his scowl is no match for my super-powered positivity.