After an app she develops crashes and burns, Olive Peale tries her hand at the family business. Running a wedding venue can't be as hard as writing code... right? As if juggling bridezillas and cheating grooms wasn't stressful enough, a rival venue swoops into town with fireworks, helicopter rentals, and a charming owner.Wesley Belmont wants to be Olive's friend.And maybe something more. But what would an arrogant playboy like him want with a nerd like her?Unless he's determined to put her out of business...With her family business in trouble, Olive turns to her trusted gamer friend Culler for help. Wesley and Culler are as different as night and day.Culler would be the perfect ally against Wesley. Culler is the perfect man, actually.Except for one problem?Olive doesn't know his name. Has never seen his face. Never met him in real life. Until Culler suggests they meet.And Olive discovers she's in for the surprise of her life.

Elyse Darrow knows she'll excel at anything she puts her mind to. Run a successful wedding photography business? Check. Be a good mom to a stray dog? Piece of cake. Loosen up the handsome yet tragically square veterinarian Aiden Hines? It'll take tough love to get this heir of a BBQ sauce fortune to flaunt the six-pack she knows he's hiding underneath his dorky Dad clothes, but somebody's gotta do it. Mentor and makeover her timid friend Viola? This is the challenge she's been waiting for. Give her two weeks and she'll transform this mouse into a confident woman?much like herself. Elyse will even prep Viola for dating and she knows an Aussie barista who's been shooting smoldering stares their way. Despite what Aiden says, matchmaking is not meddling, especially when Elyse's judge of character is always on point.And while she's at it, she might as well find a match for herself. Someone spontaneous and exciting- the polar opposite of Aiden. Autumn is the season for matchmaking in Indigo Bay. With Elyse playing cupid, what could possibly go wrong? Once Upon a Photo Booth is an opposites attract romantic comedy that is as spicy and comforting as a generous helping of good old-fashioned Southern BBQ. Perfect for fans of Clueless.

In a stunning novel set in the 1980s, a girl with heavy secrets awakens her sleepy street to the complexities of love and courage. It’s the summer of ’83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father’s death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing troubles of his own. But as June Bug’s connection to the world grows stronger, her mother’s grows more distant — even dangerous — pushing June Bug to choose between truth and healing and the only home she has ever known. Trowbridge Road paints an unwavering portrait of a girl and her family touched by mental illness and grief. Set in the Boston suburbs during the first years of the AIDS epidemic, the novel explores how a seemingly perfect neighborhood can contain restless ghosts and unspoken secrets. Written with deep insight and subtle lyricism by acclaimed author Marcella Pixley, Trowbridge Road demonstrates our power to rescue one another even when our hearts are broken.

In 1912, just over a year after returning from his studies at Columbia and Oxford, the thirty-year-old Pixley ka Isaka Seme succeeded where others had failed in forming a political organisation that represented all black South Africans. Seme also established a national newspaper, became one of the pioneering black lawyers in South Africa, bought land from white farmers for black settlement at the time when opposition to it was gaining momentum, became an adviser and confidant to African royalty, and was considered a leading visionary for black economic empowerment. And yet, when he became president general of the ANC in the 1930s, he brought it to its knees through sheer ineptitude and an authoritarian style of leadership. On more than one occasion he was found guilty for breaching the law, which partly led to him being struck off the roll of attorneys. This book discusses in detail Seme’s extraordinary life, tracing it back to his humble beginnings at Inanda Mission to his triumphs and disappointments across the continents, in his public and private life. When Seme died in 1951 he was bankrupt and his political standing had suffered greatly. And yet he was praised as one of the greatest South Africans ever to have lived. For all this, he has largely been forgotten. This biography brings the remarkable life of this extraordinary South Africa back to public consciousness.

An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice

Tells of the transformative period in the early 16th century when the Spaniards introduced horses to the Great Plains, and how horses became, and remain, a key part of the Plains Indians' culture.

A ruby red obsession... Rock bottom. Familiar with it? I'm living it. It's a high school expulsion and a dead end job. A future as a pathetic nobody. But you know what they say about rock bottom? There's nowhere to go but up. I've got an ace up my sleeve. Or rather...a ruby. Priceless. Magical. A wicked jewel that can raise the dead. There's only one problem. I don't have it... Yet. It's hidden in an old mansion by the sea. You know the kind. There's one in every small town. A house with an overgrown lawn and a grave or two. Locals whisper about the ruby's bloody history. Tales of murder, madness, and curses... But that's just a load of crap. Made up to scare off treasure hunters and tomb raiders. Right? Good thing I'm neither of the above. I'm just a girl trying to make ends meet. Every story needs a hero. Every hero sheds a little blood...