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“Wickedly witty ... Crackling sharp ... Fireworks shoot out [of this collection].” —The Boston Globe

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron chronicles her

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The Valley of Silence is a forbidding place for the battle of all battles, but the Circle continues to prepare through magic and a few early stakeouts that test their strength individually and as a team. Moira finds herself playing the roles of warrior and royal, as she follows the tradition of her people and prepares to take the crown before leading them into battle. And if that isn't enough, she finds her thoughts turning to Cian more often than...

Georgiana Knight, born into the ruling class of India, vows not to marry until she meets a man who will treat her as an equal; when Ian Prescott arrives on a mission to defuse the threat of war, Georgiana cannot resist provoking the lust that lies beneath his cool surface.

"In this book Lisa and Francesca spill all their family secrets?which sound a lot like yours, if you understand that three generations of women is the formula for spontaneous combustion" --Publisher description.

"Olivia "Lovie" Rutledge lives in her beloved Primrose Cottage on Isle of Palms with her daughter Cara. Lovie remembers many summers, but especially 1974. Lovie had always done what was expected -- marrying Stratton Rutledge and turning over her fortune and fate to his control. But she refuses to relinquish her family's seaside cottage where she indulges her vocation as a "Turtle Lady", tending the loggerhead sea turtles. This summer, however, is...

In the exquisite setting of Friday Harbor, Zoe Hoffman, an innkeeper who has all but given up on love, is attracted to Alex Nolan, a bitter and cynical man battling his demons with the help of a whiskey bottle, until he is visited by a mysterious ghost who is stuck in the Nolans' Victorian house. All the ghost knows is that he loved a girl once. And Alex and Zoe hold the key to unlocking the mystery that keeps him trapped there.

Kim's happiness seems as distant as the childhood summer when she played the hours away with young Travis, who came to Edilean with his mother under mysterious circumstances. At the end of that innocent season, he promised Kim he would return one day-- and then vanished without even a goodbye. When she least expects it, Travis, now a savvy Manhattan attorney, will crash into her life once more. Will Kim see the boy she knew under the man he's become? In...

Judge Daniel Brennan is only days away from achieving a seat on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals bench when he's brutally stabbed to death in his garage. An army of media and law enforcement descend on the case, and thousands of tips pour in from the public. When one tip leads New Jersey policeman Luke Somers to Steven Gallagher, things go quickly wrong, yet Luke is instantly glorified for solving the case. Except by one man. (Mystery).

Recently divorced, Ellen McClarety has opened a bake shop in her small Midwestern town, hoping to turn her life around with the traditional Danish pastry called kringle. Her younger sister, Lanie, a successful divorce attorney with a baby at home, is beginning to feel that her perfect life is not as perfect as it seems. As close as two sisters can be, both women long for the guidance of their mother, who died years ago.