A New York couple meet on Love@AOL the week of 9/11/01 and assume they have at last found their soul mate. The timing of their encounter suggests a spiritual convergence - a phoenix rising from the ashes. She is 55, he is 73. Their courtship moves rapidly and they are married within six months. After resettling in Naples, Florida they start a non-profit organization called, Living Love in Action to promote romance and initiate a project to have 300 couples renew their wedding vows on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2004. The City of Naples is electrified and taken with the "Incurable Romantics", who appear everywhere dressed in formal wedding dress. Articles are written in all the local newspapers and magazines. The town is geared for the big event when suddenly the "Bride" walks out. She invokes a bogus Order of Protection from Domestic Violence against her husband and initiates a divorce suit, claiming half of all his assets. In his attempt to stave off a bitter War of the Roses, he writes her a conciliatory letter offering a settlement without malice, which lands him in jail for 28 hours for Violation of the Order of Protection. Left with the shock of her action and the embarrassment of canceling the event, he is thrust into the irrational world of Florida no-fault divorce law. The protagonist entered into this relationship in a quest for a soul mate. He believed in the myth of finding his missing part -that part that would make the perfect fit, that part that would open the gate to a creative future together. When the romantic fog cleared he found his illusions shattered. He found his soul mate to be self-centered, dishonest, emotionally immature, financially irresponsible and disengaged from real friendship. But this book is not about divorce. It is about an unmanageable relationship and the part that illusions play in creating bad marriages. It is about a marital and criminal court system with unjust laws, formula-driven judges and indifferent lawyers. It is about the prevalence of myths that masquerade as truths.

"The single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century ... a little golden miracle of a book." —Neal Gaiman Hope Mirrlees penned Lud-in-the-Mist--a classic fantasy, and her only fantasy novel--in 1926. When the town of Lud severs its ties to a Faerie land, an illegal trade in fairy fruit develops. But eating the fruit has horrible and wondrous effects. "Helen Hope Mirrlees was born in England in 1887. Mirrlees was a close friend of such literary lights as Walter de la Mare, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, Katharine Mansfield, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Bertrand Russell, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and William Butler Yeats. Under her own name, she published three novels: Madeleine— One of Life's Jansenists (1921); The Counterplot (1924); and her 1926 classic fantasy Lud-in-the-Mist, which has acknowledged inspiration to the likes of Neil Gaiman, Mary Gentle, Elizabeth Hand, Johanna Russ, and Tim Powers."--SF Site "Hope Mirrlees' writing, usually underrated, moves between gently crazy humour, poetic snatches, real menace, and real poignancy."—The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

El Hermano is a rare and authentic window into everyday Hispanic village life the way it once was, and to some extent, persists.

“A triumph. This novel’s haunting strength will hold the reader until the very end and make Faith and her story impossible to forget.” —Richmond Times Dispatch “Extraordinary.” —Orlando Sentinel From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care) comes Keeping Faith: an “addictively readable” (Entertainment Weekly) novel that “makes you wonder about God. And that is a rare moment, indeed, in modern fiction” (USA Today).

“A truly addictive read” (Glamour) about how a young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending in this “twisty, unputdownable, psychological thriller” (People). Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, Ivy’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen—and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy’s mother discovers her trespasses, punishment is swift and Ivy is sent to China, and her dream instantly evaporates. Years later, Ivy has grown into a poised yet restless young woman, haunted by her conflicting feelings about her upbringing and her family. Back in Boston, when Ivy bumps into Sylvia Speyer, Gideon’s sister, a reconnection with Gideon seems not only inevitable—it feels like fate. Slowly, Ivy sinks her claws into Gideon and the entire Speyer clan by attending fancy dinners, and weekend getaways to the cape. But just as Ivy is about to have everything she’s ever wanted, a ghost from her past resurfaces, threatening the nearly perfect life she’s worked so hard to build. Filled with surprising twists and a nuanced exploration of class and race, White Ivy is a “highly entertaining,” (The Washington Post) “propulsive debut” (San Francisco Chronicle) that offers a glimpse into the dark side of a woman who yearns for success at any cost.