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Fate Actually by Elizabeth Hunter
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt’s paranormal women’s fiction for lovers of magic, mayhem, and a solid afternoon nap (when they can squeeze one in.)Toni Dusi grew up knowing everyone’s business and everyone knowing hers, because in Moonstone Cove, you can’t pass a restaurant, farm, or winery that doesn’t have at least one Dusi involved. Despite that, Toni has managed to carve out a private niche for herself... -
![The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Power of Meow by David Michie]()
The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Power of Meow by David Michie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“If you ever doubted that your feline companion has her own inner life, just watch what happens when she falls asleep, and loses conscious control of her physical being . . . a twitching of limbs, a quivering of the jaw, sometimes perhaps a snuffling noise or a meow. . . . Cats may indeed be capable of great mindfulness. But we are thinking beings, too... -
![When Angels Cry by MaryLu Tyndall]()
When Angels Cry by MaryLu Tyndall
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the not too distant future…Wars, plagues, and famines ravage the world, immorality and violence are rampant, and the Bible is outlawed.Angelica Smoke, a single mother and cocktail waitress, ascends the steps of a megachurch to deliver a message from God to the one man she hoped to never see again...Categorized as:
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![Becoming Hank by Maggie M. Lily]()
Becoming Hank by Maggie M. Lily
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHank & Darla Trellis have nine adult children that are just a smidge different. But, long before parenthood, they were in love.Take a step back in time to meet a young Henry "Trip" Trellis before he met Darla and changed the course of his destiny.Haven't read the Building the Circle series? No worries...Categorized as:
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![The Art of Purring by David Michie]()
The Art of Purring by David Michie
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat makes you purr? Of all the questions in the world, this is the most important. It is also the great leveler. Because no matter whether you are a playful kitten or a sedentary senior, a scrawny alley Tom or a sleek-coated uptown girl, whatever your circumstances, you just want to be happy. Not the kind of happy that comes and goes like a can of flaked tuna but an enduring happiness... -
![The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty]()
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsFour decades after it first terrified the world, William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist is back! An extraordinary classic work of horror and dark paranormal suspense. In this stunning 40th Anniversary Edition, a desperate mother and two priests fight to free the soul of a little girl from a supernatural entity of pure malevolence...Categorized as:
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![The Color of Love by Julianne MacLean]()
The Color of Love by Julianne MacLean
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean continues her Color of Heaven series with another fast-paced, emotionally gripping tale that will move and inspire you. Carla Matthews is a single mother struggling to make ends meet and give her daughter Kaleigh a decent upbringing... -
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The Color of the Season by Julianne MacLean
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean comes the next instalment in her popular Color of Heaven series - a gripping, emotional tale about real life magic that touches us all during the holiday season... Boston cop, Josh Wallace, is having the worst day of his life... -
![The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin D. Yalom]()
The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin D. Yalom
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSuddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier... -
![Hell to Pay by Pamela Fagan Hutchins]()
Hell to Pay by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUSA Best Book Award-Winning Series, Cross Genre Fiction. A pulse-pounder full of humor and heart, the latest in the What Doesn't Kill You romantic mystery series. Big-haired paralegal and former rodeo queen Emily has her life back on track. Her adoption of Betsy seems like a done deal, her parents have reunited, and she’s engaged to her sexy boss Jack... -
![The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Education of Oversoul Seven, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time by Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts]()
The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Education of Oversoul Seven, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time by Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJane Roberts has contributed to The Oversoul Seven Trilogy as an author.Roberts was considered one of the most important psychics of the twentieth century...Categorized as:
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![The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies]()
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe complete volume of Robertson Davies's acclaimed trilogy, featuring Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Fifth Business Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and...Categorized as:
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![Hannah's Hometown Hero by Lyn Cote]()
Hannah's Hometown Hero by Lyn Cote
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan a shy girl find her moxie and win her hometown hero? Or "let" him win her? Food blogger and columnist Hannah, recently “unengaged,” strikes out to help her parents get settled in their new house and show them the new forceful Hannah... -
![A Madness Most Discreet by Nichole Van]()
A Madness Most Discreet by Nichole Van
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTENNYSON D'ANGELO . . .Darkness lives within each of us. Shadows. We are each capable of great goodness and unbelievable evil. It is the duality of being human. I want to live in the light. I don’t enjoy the shadows. But I’m not sure I’ve been given a choice in the matter. The shadows own me. They dance at my edges and tangle in my light. They torment my days and make my nights an anguished hell... -
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![Lightning Struck by Nichole Van, P.J. Ochlan]()
Lightning Struck by Nichole Van, P.J. Ochlan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJack Knight-Snow has had a bad year for losing things. So far he has lost a ship full of ancient treasure, his family, his friends, his title, his lands and money, his fianc�, the century into which he was born...oh, and his physical body. Worse, feisty Chiara D'Angelo might just finish the job and make him lose his mind... -
![Love's Shadow by Nichole Van]()
Love's Shadow by Nichole Van
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings**A WHITNEY AWARD FINALIST 2016** Branwell D’Angelo . . . Six years ago, I fell in love with Lucy—my brother’s girlfriend. Stupid of me, I know, but sometimes the heart doesn’t listen to reason. Six years, I’ve lived on the sidelines. Seeing him love her, be with her, bask in her sunshine . . . I watched her break his heart and then cleaned up the shattered pieces of him she left behind... -
![Curses and Cupcakes by Michelle M. Pillow]()
Curses and Cupcakes by Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNY Times & USA TODAY Bestselling AuthorA Cozy Mystery Paranormal Romantic ComedyWelcome to Everlasting, Maine, where there's no such thing as normal.Marcy Lewis is cursed (honestly and truly) which makes dating very interesting. With a string of loser boyfriends behind her, she's done looking for love in all the wrong places... -
![Angels Everywhere by Debbie Macomber]()
Angels Everywhere by Debbie Macomber
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a season of giving, the beloved New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber sends joy winging our way with two miraculous full-length novels together in one volume...Categorized as:
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![Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman]()
Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis is the second book in the Peaceful Warrior Saga. Neither a sequel nor prequel, this adventure takes place within the context of the original book, shedding new light on the path he was to travel, and would one day teach. After a period of training with the man he calls Socrates, Dan Millman is sent away by his old mentor to apply what he has learned to everyday life...Categorized as:
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![The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie]()
The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“‘Oh! How adorable! I didn’t know you had a cat!’ she exclaimed.I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat?‘If only she could speak,’ continued the actress. ‘I’m sure she’d have such wisdom to share.’And so the seed was planted . .Categorized as:
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![American Gods by Neil Gaiman]()
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 99 ratingsFirst published in 2001, here is the New York Times bestselling novel that became an instant classic and was hailed by USA Today as “a powerful, searing force that makes readers confront what is real and what is not…”—now a TV series from FremantleMedia North America is coming to STARZ with Bryan Fuller and Michael Green as showrunners, and starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Crispin Glover,...Categorized as:
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![Beyond by Catina Haverlock, Angela Larkin]()
Beyond by Catina Haverlock, Angela Larkin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***Sequel out 2018***“Dangerous. Wrong. She could be so close to finding out who I really am, and I don’t want to think about how badly that could damage her. If I have any conscience,I’ll turn and run. But I can’t let her go.” Presley Hale has no idea the guy she just told off in the school parking lot died in a drowning accident four months ago... -
![Mercy's Rescue by Debra Holt]()
Mercy's Rescue by Debra Holt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFighting for his life after an ambush, Sheriff Josh Wellman awakes to find himself looking into the eyes of a real-life angel of mercy. Despite his groggy condition, he knows his life has changed the instant their hands touch. Devastating heartbreak has left Mercy Smith's faith in tatters, her heart guarded against more loss... -
![All of You by Fabiola Francisco]()
All of You by Fabiola Francisco
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the bestselling author in Country Music, comes a new novel in the Rebel Desire Series... She's a single mom with a messy life. He's Rebel Desire's bass player. I want what all my friends have. He doesn't need my baggage. I can't stop thinking about her. Romance isn't my priority, my daughter is. I want to show her she can have it all. He thinks we can be a family...Categorized as:
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![The Bridesmaid Earns Her Wings by Heather Horrocks]()
The Bridesmaid Earns Her Wings by Heather Horrocks
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMoonchuckle Bay ... Movies ... Monsters ... Magic! DIXIE’S GOOD LUCK STREAK IS TAKING HER ACROSS STATE LINES! When a Vegas psychic tells Dixie and Stacy that their “lifemates” are waiting for them in a small town in Utah, of all places, they take a road trip. Everyone in Moonchuckle Bay is incredibly nice to her, so Dixie decides to stay for a while... -
![The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen]()
The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInspired by one of the finest lyrics in the English language, the anonymous, pre-Shakespearean “Tom o’Bedlam” (“By a knight of ghosts and shadows / I summoned am to tourney / Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end / Methinks it is no journey…”), Kenneth Patchen sets off on an allegorical journey to the furthest limits of love and murder, madness and sex. While on this disordered pilgrimage to H...Categorized as:
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![Amanda Cadabra and The Hidey-Hole Truth by Holly Bell]()
Amanda Cadabra and The Hidey-Hole Truth by Holly Bell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAsthmatic furniture restorer and covert witch Amanda Cadabra is a survivor. After all, her family’s bus went over a Cornish cliff. Now the presentable but irritating Inspector Trelawney is dogging her footsteps as he investigates the unexplained deaths. But that’s the least of her problems... -
![A Wandering Heart by Thomas Kinkade, Katherine Spencer]()
A Wandering Heart by Thomas Kinkade, Katherine Spencer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll the stars come out in Cape Light... New York Times bestselling authors Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer continue their Angel Island series with a sparkling new tale set in Cape Light. Celebrity has landed on Angel Island, but it's new love that steals the show. Welcome to Angel Island. . . -
![The Dividing by Devin Downing]()
The Dividing by Devin Downing
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAdamic is the language of the Gods. When spoken, it has the power to create worlds, to raise the dead, to make man as God. Fortunately, no one has spoken it in thousands of years. The only remnants are the written spells. The people of Cavernum depend on these spells. They’re etched into the city walls, fending off the feeders—deadly creatures with a thirst for human blood... -
![The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch]()
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsHarry Mulisch's magnum opus, is a rich mosaic of twentieth-century trauma in which many themes—friendship, loyalty, family, art, technology, religion, fate, good, and evil—suffuse a suspenseful and resplendent narrative.The Discovery of Heaven begins with the meeting of Onno and Max, two complicated individuals whom fate has mysteriously and magically brought together...Categorized as:
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![Godsquad by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Godsquad by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Team:Joan of Arc, the armour-plated teen saint of Orleans.Francis of Assisi, friend to all the animals whether they like it or not.St Christopher, the patron saint of travel who by papal decree has never existed – no matter how much he argues otherwise.The Mission: An impossible prayer has been received by Heaven and it’s a prayer that only Mary, Mother of God, can answer... -
![Satan's Shorts by Heide Goody]()
Satan's Shorts by Heide Goody
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCurious about the day that Saint Christopher found out he'd been declared non-existent by the pope? What exactly is a cat in Hell's chance? How would an annual Christmas present exchange between Heaven and Hell work out? Find out the answers to these and other pressing questions in this collection of short stories from the world of Clovenhoof... -
![Tonight And Always by Linda Lael Miller]()
Tonight And Always by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKristina's beauty befits a child of vampires, but she does not possess the seductive gifts of her parents. Her cursed bloodline remains, making her immortal. The one time she dared give her heart to a mortal man, she suffered the torment of his immortality, and vowed never to love again--until now... -
![What Lies Beyond The Stars by Michael Goorjian]()
What Lies Beyond The Stars by Michael Goorjian
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Something in me knows of a life I was meant to live but for whatever reason, I have not . . . ”Words that ring painfully true for Adam Sheppard, a San Francisco programmer who has spent the vast majority of his 30-something years lost in the dim glow of a computer screen...Categorized as:
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![Choir of Angels: Shirley, Goodness and Mercy\Those Christmas Angels\Where Angels Go by Debbie Macomber]()
Choir of Angels: Shirley, Goodness and Mercy\Those Christmas Angels\Where Angels Go by Debbie Macomber
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAngels are all around us—especially at Christmas!Greg Bennett hates Christmas. Divorced, almost friendless and about to lose his business, he has no time for what he considers sentimental nonsense. It takes three irrepressible angels to show him the truth. Shirley, Goodness and Mercy shall follow him—until he learns what Christmas is all about... -
![It's Not Unusual To Be Loved by an Alien by Chloe Archer]()
It's Not Unusual To Be Loved by an Alien by Chloe Archer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA sexy alien living incognito on Earth meets a sci-fi loving nerd who wants to rock his universe. What could possibly go wrong? Besides the unexpected tentacles and the accidental Mating Courtship Ritual, that is....RIVER SULLIVANAs a bona fide sci-fi nerd and total X-phile—the truth is out there—I’ve always believed in aliens. Duh... -
![Those Christmas Angels by Debbie Macomber]()
Those Christmas Angels by Debbie Macomber
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree delightful angels come down to earth--just in time for Christmas!Shirley, Goodness and Mercy: three well-intentioned angels who are occasionally allowed to intervene (or--perhaps more accurately--interfere!) in human affairs. Despite their frequent misadventures, despite the chaos they often cause, things always seem to turn out right.Their latest prayer request comes from the Seattle area... -
![Shirley, Goodness and Mercy by Debbie Macomber]()
Shirley, Goodness and Mercy by Debbie Macomber
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlone at ChristmasGreg Bennett feels his life has been a waste. Sixty years old and he has no one to spend Christmas with, no one who cares.Greg knows he's made mistakes, hurt people, failed in all the ways that matter. As a young man, he fathered a child he never acknowledged. He deserted a friend in his hour of need. He abandoned his own brother, whom he hasn't seen in years... -
![Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman, Multivoice]()
Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman, Multivoice
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSUM shows us forty wonderfully imagined possibilities of life beyond death. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us to figure out what they could not. In a different version of the afterlife you work as a background character in other people's dreams...Categorized as:
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![The Lights of Tenth Street by Shaunti Feldhahn]()
The Lights of Tenth Street by Shaunti Feldhahn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey have the house, the two kids, and the minivan. They have a well-meaning but shallow church. What Sherry doesn't know is that Doug has a shameful struggle with his thought life... -
![Love Notes in the Key of Sea by Anna Celeste Burke]()
Love Notes in the Key of Sea by Anna Celeste Burke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeorgie Shaw and Detective Jack Wheeler have a second chance at love—despite the fact they met during the investigation of a Murder at Catmmando Mountain. Decades earlier, Georgie lost the love of her life in an attack on the beach that left one man dead and two others missing including her fiancé, Danny Farrell... -
![Magic of Winter: A Celtic Legends Novel by Martina Boone]()
Magic of Winter: A Celtic Legends Novel by Martina Boone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPerfect for the holidays! In the harsh winter of the Scottish Highlands, where love and past history are equally fierce, burning away old hurts lets the future bloom its brightest... -
![Love on Pointe by Tiffany Odekirk]()
Love on Pointe by Tiffany Odekirk
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRhys Solario has a secret—one he plans to keep: he's a non-Mormon attending Brigham Young University. With only two semesters left before graduation, he just wants to keep flying under the radar. Then he meets Emmy in a Book of Mormon class, and for the first time, the idea of keeping to himself doesn't sound so appealing.Emmy Jennings feels confident only when she's dancing ballet... -
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Mystic Tea by Rea Nolan Martin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA community of quirky, mismatched, and endearing women struggle to find meaning and purpose on a ramshackle monastery in upstate New York. Having spent their lives in service to a church that seems to no longer serve them, they are confused about their own futures and the future of the entire monastery...Categorized as:
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![The Accidental Dragon by Dakota Cassidy]()
The Accidental Dragon by Dakota Cassidy
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom national bestselling author Dakota Cassidy comes the latest in a series that "gets better and better with each book" (Bitten By Books). Firefighter McAllister “Mick” Malone knows he has a protective streak, especially when it comes to his deceased best friend’s sister, Tessa... -
![Meant to Be by Edie Claire]()
Meant to Be by Edie Claire
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEdie Clare writes a follow-up to her women's fiction debut "Long Time Coming" with a compelling story about a young woman who inherits an estate and finds love unexpectedly... -
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A Sterling New Year by J.L. Langley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShort story about Rhys and Sterling on New... -
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Almost Heaven by Chris Fabry
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of War Room comes a gripping novel that was awarded both an ECPA Christian Book Award for fiction and a 2011 Christy Award!Billy Allman is a hillbilly genius. People in Dogwood, West Virginia, say he was born with a second helping of brains and a gift for playing the mandolin but was cut short on social skills... -
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Zeroville by Steve Erickson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsZeroville begins in 1969 on Hollywood Boulevard, when a Greyhound bus drops off a film-obsessed ex-seminarian with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on his head. Vikar Jerome steps into the vortex of a cultural transformation: rock ’n’ roll, sex, drugs, and — far more important to him — the decline of the movie studios and the rise of the independent director... -
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Tilly by Frank E. Peretti
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKathy looked at the little gravestone again. Now she could see it clearly. It bore just that one name: Tilly. . . . She couldn't take her eyes away. She didn't want to. She stooped down to look. Only one date. Only one. Nine years ago.Kathy and Dan Ross are just like any other young couple...
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