"After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale Loretha Curry's life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband...

Precious Ramotswe dips her toe into the world of politics in the newest addition to the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first unsure. But when she learns about the proposed construction of the flashy Big Fun Hotel next to a graveyard, she allows herself to be persuaded. Her opponent is none other than Violet Sephotho,...

The unearthing of a long-hidden body stirs up a woman's memories of a troubled relationship-and teenage trauma-in this suspenseful, emotional novel. When she was just fourteen, Jill's family moved to Walney Island. Initially intoxicated by the freedom of the seaside setting-and fifteen-year-old Andrew Brownstone-she came to learn that her first impressions were very wrong. After making a shocking discovery in Seaview House, Jill fled the scene-a...

Publisher Annotation: For a kid bouncing from foster home to foster home, The Book of Changes is the perfect companion. That?s why Marin carries three pennies and a pocket-sized I Ching with her everywhere she goes. Yet when everything in her life suddenly starts changing?when Marin lands in a foster home that feels like somewhere she could stay, maybe forever?the pennies don?t have any answers for her. Marin is positive that all the wrongs in her...

When Flo and her daddy go to visit a relative?s new nest, Daddy Duck says Flo must follow him or she?ll get lost. Together, they sing a song with all the directions for the journey ? up, down, in, and out. But Flo starts to make up her own words, and soon she gets so carried away that she wanders off. Oh, no ? now a fox is following Flo! Where is Daddy Duck? What are the words to his song again? Jarvis?s cheerful illustrations and charming text will...

""When I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait." With that insight, Pat Schneider invites readers to contemplate their lives through spiritual observation and exploratory writing. In seventeen concise thematic chapters that include meditations on topics such as fear, prayer, forgiveness, social justice, and death, How the Light Gets In gracefully guides readers through the...

The battle for control of Antora continues, and Simon and Kestra have been forced apart; Kestra is a prisoner in the cursed All Spirits Forest where Loelle wants her to use her growing power to heal the land and bring it back to life, while Simon has been made king of the Halderians, but is surrounded by men whose loyalty is uncertain and who fear his connection to Kestra of the hated Dallisor family, and the evil Lord Endrick.

A stunning, full-color illustrated edition of the classic novel about the magical nanny who has delighted children and adults the world over. Experience the fantastical adventures of the magical nanny who inspired the classic film, stage show, and young imaginations the world over in a whole new way. This illustrated gift edition features silver foil on the cover and beautiful artwork by J?lia Sard? that re-imagines Mary's London in rich, full color....