Rife with misadventures, brushes with death, and moments of existential insight, The End of the World Notwithstanding is a hilarious yet reflective look at the emotional experiences that make everyday life exciting-and the physical ones that remind us we're lucky to be alive. I'm traveling alone, renting a cabin at a normally tranquil spot-that's called foreshadowing-on the banks of the Big Laramie River at the edge of the Medicine Bow National Forest. So...

Connor Danson becomes an unwitting witness to a violent crime and he is forced to leave Sacramento until the trial is over but when he arrives in Virgin River he meets Leslie Petruso who left her hometown to get away from her ex-husband and neither want to start a new relationship, but nobody can stay hidden from life or love in this town.

A world-class oncologist delivers a devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer, offering a searing account of how both medicine and society (mis)treats cancer, how people can do better, and why they must.

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship

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"A layabout mutt turned therapy dog leads her owner to a new understanding of the good life. At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied Labradoodle, a new leash--er, lease--on life by getting the two of them certified as a therapy dog team. Smart, spirited, and instinctively compassionate, Pransky turned out to be not only a terrific therapist but an...

The Cinderella story moves to Regency England-with more than a few twists and turns along the way! With A Kiss at Midnight, the remarkable Eloisa James spins a delicious tale involving a carriage, a godmother, a pair of rats...and a beauty with no interest whatsoever in getting married-and certainly not to a prince!

After ten straight losses under the satanic Judge Bullingham, Rumpole decides it's time to hang up his wig-permanently. But when he reads of the Notting Hill Gate Underground murder, he goes from being bored with his new life, to just plain homesick. So, Bullingham notwithstanding, Rumpole makes his return.

The story is largely one of sin and redemption. It emphasizes the intolerance of the late Victorian society by drawing from the prejudice and rigidity of Long Stow's inhabitants. The parishioners of the aforementioned village had condemned their parson as worthless upon discovering his affair with a choir girl notwithstanding the fact that he had willingly confessed to his own sin and taken responsibility, setting thus an example of Christian redemption....

With the defeat of Gauron, Sousuke's life has entered a comfortable rhythm. He's adjusting to school-the occasional car bomb false alarm notwithstanding-and balancing his newly-found normalcy with the needs of his mercenary life. He's even started to turn his thoughts toward the future-a future that might involve Kaname. But that future will soon face a threat, not from North Korean soldiers, Italian mobsters, or Russian spetsnaz... but from the hierarchy...