Laurie: 1609 books

The timeline is post-Castro Cuba and Erica Stevens has just lost her father. She doesn't believe he died of a heart attack. She suspects he'd been murdered. Erica embarks on a whirlwind journey to find her father's killer. Though she's hindered by a past she can't escape, it's that mysterious...

Snarky waitress Christina Davenport lands in a world of trouble when she accepts a job as an assistant to a charming street performer. She'd wanted to be a magician and vowed to never again stand in the background holding some guy's props, but Christina has a score to settle—with her traumatic family...

Landing an internship at an ad agency isn't what her principal or her mother wanted for Jordie Popkin, aspiring journalist. At sixteen, Jordie is glad of the chance to collect "real world" experience and finds working with the "creatives" at the agency a nice break from her math and science curriculum....

Laurie Loveman shares her experience going through several years of a divorce and the process of trying to regain the self-assurance and confidence she had before her marriage. It was critical to her future that she accomplish this, and after a brief introduction, Loveman begins her memoir in 1979 when...

A Reluctant Groom Just one kiss and he knew . . . he’d made a terrible mistake Growing up unwanted left contractor, Mike Danvers, unwilling to risk his heart. Despite wanting marriage less than an incurable disease, he yearns for the family he never had. At nearly thirty-eight, he...

In World Gone Missing, Laurie Ann Doyle's powerful short story debut collection, people have disappeared. Set in and around San Francisco, these twelve stories weave contemporary issues—divorce, sexual identity, homelessness—through a cast of memorable characters struggling to fill the void of...

The Early Birds is the touching and funny follow-up to The Future Homemakers of America. 'Funny, heartwarming and a real treat. I would recommend it to anyone!' Katie Fforde 'Wit and insight to match Nick Hornby**, and** the entertainment value of Helen Fielding' Independent on The Future...

this is the first in a series of fictional plots featuring the creek family, and in particular burra creek, however, in this adventure to fords beach, it is burra’s long time friend and drinking partner, cliffy hill who accompanies him on a journey far from home to the seaside where they are to...

After an accident while racing his horse, William Granville, the eighth Earl of Scarborough wakes up with the unwanted ability to see ghosts. With best friend and fellow soldier, Alex Blackwood missing, William must fulfill a promise: to care for Peter’s sister, Amelia. Now the reclusive earl must...

The time-bending parallel tale to the national bestseller Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict In Laurie Viera Rigler's first novel, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, twenty-­first-century Austen fan Courtney Stone found herself in Regency England occupying the body of one Jane Mansfield,...

Thalia Sunborn is a professional assassin from the Eastern Isles. Although she is feared now by potential targets and other assassins, alike, she was once a scrawny 16-year-old trainee. When Talia was six-years-old, a rival murdered her parents. By eight, she was homeless, even the orphans' shelter...

Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: HIS TWIN BABY SURPRISE Oklahoma Girls by Patricia Forsythe Real‐estate agent Lisa Thomas's jam‐packed schedule is about to get even busier—she's...

the medicine man: after being involved in a particularly nasty accident, burra needs medical attention, but initial tests provide results that deem burra’s accident as minor compared to his overall health, which is more concerning to the doctors. with burra being in denial and appointments disrupting...

a long and arduous journey seeking riches again results from a little aside by burra's grandson 'stinky,' who provides burra with a wisp of information on the huge benefits on offer from wildlife smuggling and spoken in confidence by a friend who's father is deeply involved. with figures in his head...