An annoyingly irresistible cop and a dare that could ruin her life... Love is a complication Kat will avoid at any cost. Sharp-shooting cop Katerina Hellman needs a fresh start. Leaving behind a failed marriage, she ditches the city and bunks with her sister in the tiny town of Graywood. When the local police chief offers her a position as the temporary firearms instructor, she jumps on it. So what if it's a 'mostly boys' club? She's done with men, doesn't need their unrealistic expectations and not even the tall, dark and annoying badge Roman can change that. Roman Farkos lives for his job, to serve and protect...until Kat shows up with her snarls and superiority. He can't resist pushing her buttons. She wants to be considered one of the boys, which would be fine if she didn't stir a desire to do more than protect and serve her. Kat may be raw from her recent split, but Roman resolves to convince her that love—preferably with him—is worth the risk. When Roman challenges Kat to a six-week contest of wits and skills, it's game on. As they work and play side by side, her resistance fades and unexpected passion flares. But when big-city danger hits and secrets are revealed, Roman faces the greatest challenge of all—convincing Kat that real love is worth the fight.

In Juliana Goodman's powerful young adult debut The Black Girls Left Standing, Beau Willet will stop at nothing to clear her sister's name. Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she’s grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister’s name by finding the only witness to the murder; Katia’s no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths of so many other Black women who are wrongfully killed. With the help of her friend, Sonnet, Beau sets up a Twitter account to gather anonymous tips. But the more that Beau finds out about her sister's death, the more danger she finds herself in. And with a new relationship developing with her childhood friend, Champion, and the struggle to keep her family together, Beau is soon in way over her head. How much is she willing to risk to clear her sister's name and make sure she's not forgotten?

In 2017 an aging Baby Boomer must be put in a nursing home. His son discovers a box of photographs spanning his fathers life. The photos inspire stories to portray what it was like being an immigrant, a first generation American in the 1930s, and a young man facing life, love and loss across the 20th century.

The telling of this story begins during the period of Dr. Israel Newman’s grief inflicted by the traumatic death of his toddler son, Markus. As a necessity of heaven, he insists it must be a physical place where he can hold his son again. One day, on his way to work as a pain management specialist caring for people dependent on opioids, he observes impossible changes of Mount Rainier, with disappearance and reappearance of Tahoma Peak. He thinks he might be losing his mind. In his psychology support group, a socially and professionally ostracized genius of physics, the amusing Michael Hannity, suggests that what really happened was Israel’s mind moving between different timelines. As Michael explains spiritual travel in relativistic spacetime, Israel sees and hopes for a possibility to prevent the death of his son. He cannot control his travels and experiences horror, romance, humor, and intrigue in the lives of others. He falls in love. At the end of a series of hellish experiences, he encounters for the first time, Jesus as a lad of twelve, who admonishes him to make heaven in the lives of others. Jesus appears again and again, and in whose lives? We see a psychologically troubled, human Jesus and within him an omniscient presence. A tour-de-force of imagination, wildly inventive and funny as well as thought-provoking and moving, this book will draw you into a world you never dreamed of. It answers many questions and asks some more. You will want to talk about it.

“A vibrantly told love story” with tragic roots in WWII Czechoslovakia (The Washington Post). An American-born son of Czech immigrants grows up in postwar New York, part of a boisterous community of the displaced where he learns fragments of European history, Czech fairy tales, and family secrets gleaned from overheard conversations. Central in his young imagination is the heroic account of the seven Czech parachutists who, in 1942, assassinated a high-ranking Nazi. Yet one essential story has always evaded him: his mother’s. He suspects she had a great wartime love, the loss of which bred a sadness that slowly engulfed her. As an adult, he travels to Prague, hoping to piece together her hidden past—leading to the compelling story at the heart of The Visible World—an “almost unbearably poignant work . . . a penetrating, beautifully composed novel from a writer with a tangible sense of place and period,” the acclaimed author of Brewster and God’s Fool, named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle (Booklist). “The sheer beauty of Mark Slouka’s prose will draw comparisons to The English Patient.” —Gary Shteyngart, New York Times–bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story “A book that will last.” —Colum McCann, National Book Award–winning author of Let the Great World Spin

He was dangerous, infamous, scandalous... and the most beautiful man she'd ever seen. Fighting for her land, widowed Kerry McKinnon can't believe the handsome Arthur has come to seize her home and leave her to a terrible fate. Yet from the moment they meet, a scandalous passion ignites between them — impossible to resist. Then a crime will force Kerry to flee with Arthur to England — where a challenge to their love could drive them apart forever...