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Maggie has always put her family’s needs in front of her own, until one day—without forethought—she drives away, leaving behind her indifferent husband and two sulking teenagers.

As she begins a quest of self-exploration, she meets new people, enjoys new adventures, and rediscovers long-neglected passions. For the first time in years, Maggie contemplates what she wants from life and soon realizes that her deteriorating marriage can no longer continue as it is. Can sh...

I’m still kind of reeling from news I received this morning, so forgive me if I ramble a bit.

I found out this morning that a former co-worker took his own life. He was one of the kindest people I had ever met, and one of the happiest �� or so I thought, I guess. I won’t go any further into details here in a pubic forum, although I have many very sad, and very angry thoughts about the situation. He had three children and a wife that he loved, and he had recently become a first-time grandfather...

“Have you readOutlander yet? You’ll love it!��

“I just started readingOutlander. It’s so good!��

“My entire life has CHANGED since readingOutlander!��

Sexy Scots in kilts, romance, and history �� what’s not to love???

OK, so that last one might have been made up, but basically for the past few years it’s felt like EVERYONE has been telling me to read Diana Gabaldon’sOutlander series. I’m not kidding: I hear this (thankfully) more than that I should readTwilight or Fifty Shades of Gray. And most o...

The book that Laura Ingalls Wilder fans have been waiting for�� so much so that it sold out the entire first run of copies!

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Pioneer Girlfollows the Ingalls family’s journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory sixteen years of travels, unforgettable experiences, and the everyday people who became immortal through Wilder’s fiction. Using additional manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspapers, and other sou...

“Concerning the new Facebook policies/ guidelines�� Today, [insert date here], in response to the Facebook guidelines that I do not consent, and under articles L.111, 112, and 113 of the code of intellectual property, I declare that my rights are attached to all my personal data, drawings, paintings, photos, texts, etc�� published on my profile. For commercial use of the foregoing my written consent is required at all times. Those reading this can copy and paste it on their Facebook wall. This...

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DURING WORLD WAR II, the Japanese forced 200,000 young Korean women to be sex slaves or “comfort women�� for their soldiers. This is one woman’s riveting story of strength, courage and promises kept.

In 1943, the Japanese tear young Ja-hee and her sister from their peaceful family farm to be comfort women for the Imperial Army. Before they leave home, their mother gives them a magnificent antique comb with an ivory inlay of a two-headed dragon, saying it will protect th...

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An absorbing, highly entertaining novel about family secrets, The Never Never Sisters introduces you to the strong-willed and big-hearted Reinhardt women, as they reunite one summer in New York. Gifted storyteller L. Alison Heller has written another witty and moving page-turner that will captivate readers and keep them guessing right up until the satisfying end.

Sometimes you just need to get away��.

Marriage counselor Paige Reinhardt is counting down the days to summer,...

Well, it happened: as much as I was hoping that my lack of social media presence these days would make everyone forget all about me during these days of the viral “Ice Bucket Challenge��, it was not to be. One of my very best friends, who I love dearly, took the challenge, and then nominated me.

I immediately felt a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, for a variety of reasons.

I absolutely hate being cold. I am the world’s worst Canadian that way. I never jump straight into the lake; I’m t...

“Did you used to try and sit like Mork when you were a kid?��

This is what I asked my husband at the dinner table tonight. We had just heard about Robin Williams�� death, and it had hit us both hard- my husband, especially: RobinWilliams was one of his heroes.

Didn’t every kidof the 70s sit that way at least once?

I’m at a loss. I feel a little bit like that kid sitting upside down, trying to pretend she was from Ork -dizzy and disoriented.

But to know that it was a likely suicide? Shattering.

Depre...

“The Quick�� is not what you might think.

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An astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London

London, 1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he is introduced to the drawing-rooms of high society, and finds love in an unexpected quarter. Then, suddenly, he vanishes without a trace. Unnerved, his sister, C...