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25% OFF STANDING ORDER BASIC I 96 hardcover titles each year for about $2,526. WHEN SHE DREAMS Amanda Quick NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR'S CHOICE #2 TITLE Maggie Lodge, assistant to the advice columnist known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia to her readers, hires private eye Sam Sage to help track down the person who is blackmailing her employer. In spite of the verbal fireworks between them, they are fiercely attracted to each other, but each is convinced it would be a mistake to let passion take over. When the pair discovers someone is impersonating Aunt Cornelia at a conference on psychic dreaming and a woman dies at the conference, the door is opened to a dangerous web of blackmail and murder. Secrets are revealed, leaving Maggie and Sam in the path of a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to exact vengeance. | 9781432896171 | $37.99 U.S. Historical Romance | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. THREE DEBTS PAID A Daniel Pitt Novel Anne Perry NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR'S CHOICE #2 TITLE A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt’s university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. He turns to Miriam fford Croft, Daniel’s good friend and now officially one of the first female pathologists in London, to find details he and Daniel have missed. As the murders continue with no clue as to who is committing them, Miriam and Daniel find themselves questioning everything. Is the “Rainy-day Slasher,” as the newspapers have deemed the killer, really just one person? Or have they stumbled into a more complicated web of deceit? The answer may lie closer than anyone expected. | 9781432896324 | $37.99 U.S. Mystery | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. THE INVESTIGATOR John Sandford NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR'S CHOICE #2 TITLE “Sandford’s patented investigation/action formula hasn’t aged a whit. Bring it on.” — Kirkus Reviews By age 24, Letty Davenport has seen more action than many law enforcement professionals. Now a Stanford grad with a master’s in economics, she’s restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty’s ready to quit, but Colles offers her a carrot: feet-on-the-ground investigative work in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security. Several oil companies in Texas have reported thefts of crude. Who is selling the oil, and what are they doing with the profits? Rumor has it that a militia group might be involved. Letty is partnered with a DHS investigator, John Kaiser. When the case turns deadly, they know the clock is ticking down. | 9781432894801 | $37.99 U.S. Thriller | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. gale.printorders@cengage.com | gale.com/thorndike 3
25% OFF STANDING ORDER BASIC I 96 hardcover titles each year for about $2,526. AN HONEST LIE Tarryn Fisher NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR'S CHOICE #7 TITLE “Readers will cheer as Rainey risks everything to bring down the man who stole her childhood. Fisher delivers the goods.” — Publishers Weekly Rainy lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Cloistered in pine trees and fog, it’s a sanctuary, a new life. She can hide from the past she wants to forget. When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls’ weekend in Vegas, she’s prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. After a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn’t come back to the hotel room and Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe’s phone: someone has her. But Rainy is who they really want, and Rainy knows why. What follows is a twisted, shocking journey on the knife-edge of life and death. If she wants to save Braithe — and herself — the only way is to step back into the past. | 9781432896492 | $36.99 U.S. Thriller | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. BOOK LOVERS Emily Henry NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR'S CHOICE #8 TITLE The only people Nora Stephens is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to North Carolina when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away — with visions of a transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a brooding editor from back in the city. As they are thrown together what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves. | 9781432896041 | $36.99 U.S. Romance | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. THE BOOK WOMAN'S DAUGHTER Kim Michele Richardson NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Honey Lovett has always known that old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. When her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia, but the route can be treacherous. Honey is going to have to fight for her place and, along the way, learn that the extraordinary women who run the hills and hollers can make all the difference in the world. | 9781432898564 | $35.99 U.S. Women's Fiction | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Basic 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. 4 Call 1.800.223.1244 Ext 4 | Fax 1.800.558.4676
25% STANDING ORDER BASIC I 96 hardcover titles each year for about $2,526. THE PARIS BOOKSELLER THE BALLERINAS Kerri Maher Rachel Kapelke-Dale “Recommend to fans of Paula McLean’s LIBRARYREADS PICK The Paris Wife and anyone who enjoyed INDIE NEXT PICK Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast.” “Deliciously observed emotional tangles.” —starred, Booklist (starred review) — Library Journal When Sylvia Beach opens Thirteen years ago, Delphine Léger Shakespeare and Company in 1919, abandoned her prestigious soloist spot she has no idea that she and her new at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life bookstore will change the course of in St. Petersburg — taking with her a literature itself. It's where some of the most important secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow literary friendships of the 20th century are forged — dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Now 36 years old, Delphine none more so than the one between James Joyce and has returned to her former home and to the legendary Sylvia herself. When Joyce's controversial novel Ulysses Palais Garnier Opera House, to choreograph the ballet is banned, Beach takes a risk and publishes it under the that will kickstart the next phase of her career — and, she auspices of Shakespeare and Company. But the future hopes, finally make things right with her former friends. of her store is threatened when Ulysses' success brings But Delphine quickly discovers that things have changed other publishers to woo Joyce away. As she faces painful while she's been away, and some secrets can't stay buried personal and financial crises, Sylvia must decide what forever. Shakespeare and Company truly means to her. 9781432898120 | $32.99 U.S. 9781432896867 | $33.99 U.S. Women's Fiction | Releases 5/4/2022 General Fiction | Releases 5/4/2022 Available in Basic 6, 7 & 8. Available in Basic 5, 6, 7 & 8. HARROW AN IMPOSSIBLE IMPOSTOR Joy Williams A Veronica Speedwell Mystery WINNER THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION Deanna Raybourn 2021 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FINALIST 2022 PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD “Even after seven books, readers can still be 2022 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST surprised with the stories from Veronica’s unknown past. Fans of the series will delight in “An enigmatic, elegant meditation on the the continued adventures and relationship of end of civilization—if end it truly is .... A the intrepid pair.” — starred, Library Journal memorable return for renowned storyteller Williams after a lengthy absence from long form fiction.” London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and Stoker are — starred, Kirkus Reviews summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie on behalf of his Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was goddaughter, Euphemia Hathaway. Her brother Jonathan, marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a heir to Hathaway Hall, was believed to have been killed. moment and then came back to life. After Khristen’s Now a man matching Jonathan’s description and carrying failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, his possessions has arrived with no memory of his identity and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she or where he's been. Could this man truly be Jonathan, or is ranges across the dead landscape and washes up at he an impostor? Veronica and Stoker agree to investigate a “resort” on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the mysterious amnesiac. To help Sir Hugo discover the the elderly residents there call “Big Girl.” In a rotting truth, she must open doors to her own history that she honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to long believed to be shut for good. punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature’s beauty. 9781432896850 | $30.99 U.S. What will Khristen learn from this “gabby seditious lot”? Hard-boiled | Releases 5/4/2022 9781432897413 | $30.99 U.S. Available in Basic 8. General Fiction | Releases 5/4/2022 Available in Basic 7 & 8. gale.printorders@cengage.com | gale.com/thorndike 5
25% OFF STANDING ORDER CORE I 96 hardcover titles each year for about $2,520. ROBERT B. PARKER'S REVENGE THE HOMEWRECKERS TOUR Mary Kay Andrews A Sunny Randall Novel NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Mike Lupica EDITOR'S CHOICE #6 TITLE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping EDITOR'S CHOICE #3 TITLE clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at 18, married the “Splendid. ... Parker fans will look forward to seeing what Lupica does with Sunny in her boss’s son at 20, and was only 25 when next outing.” — Publishers Weekly her husband was killed in a motorcycle accident. Determined to continue the PI Sunny Randall’s landlord and former client, novelist business, she takes the life insurance money, buys a small Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened and blackmailed. house, flips it, then puts the money into her next project As Sunny looks into the identity of Melanie Joan’s but that house is a disaster and a money-loser, which stalker, she learns that much of the author’s past is a rocks her confidence. Then Hattie gets an opportunity to product of her imagination, and her loyalty to her old star in a beach house renovation reality show called The friend is challenged as she searches for the truth. At the Homewreckers, cast against a male lead. It's a question same time, Sunny springs into action when her aging of who will flip, who will flop, and will Hattie ever get her father is threatened by a lawyer with a desire to settle happily-ever-after. an old score. Sunny must use all of her savvy to protect those she loves. One thing is for sure with both cases: | 9781432898137 | $37.99 U.S. this time, it’s personal. Women's Fiction | Releases 5/4/2022 Available in Core 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. | 9781432896874 | $37.99 U.S. Mystery | Releases 5/4/2022 Available in Core 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. LAST DANCE ON THE THE LAST HOUSE ON THE STREET STARLIGHT PIER Diane Chamberlain Sarah Bird NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR July 3, 1932. Shivering and in shock, " . . . dual narratives merge beautifully before Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite an explosive conclusion. This will keep readers Palace burn into the sea and wonders enthralled." — Publishers Weekly how she became a person who would 1965. Growing up in Round Hill, North cause a man to kill himself. She’d Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be come to Galveston to escape a dark a proper Southern lady but she’s chosen past in vaudeville and become a good to spend her summer break helping person, a nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, to register black voters. As Ellie follows her ideals fighting Evie is swept into the alien world of dance marathons. for civil rights, her parents scorn her efforts, and her All that she has been denied — a family, a purpose, neighbors reveal their prejudices. 2010. Kayla Carter and even love — waits for her there in the place she dreads her husband designed a house for themselves in Round most: the spotlight. Hill. It was supposed to be a home where they could raise their daughter and grow old together. Instead, the | 9781432897734 | $36.99 U.S. home has been targeted by vandals, and Ellie Hockley is Historical Romance | Releases 5/4/2022 harboring secrets about the dark history of the land where Available in Core 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. the house was built. 9781432898953 | $35.99 U.S. Women's Fiction | Releases 5/4/2022 Available in Core 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. 6 Call 1.800.223.1244 Ext 4 | Fax 1.800.558.4676
25% OFF STANDING ORDER CORE I 96 hardcover titles each year for about $2,520. TAKE MY HAND THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES Dolen Perkins-Valdez Elif Shafak INDIE NEXT PICK “Shafak amazes with this resonant story of the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR generational trauma of the Cypriot Civil War Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh . . . Shafak’s fans are in for a treat, and those out of nursing school, Civil Townsend new to her will be eager to discover her earlier intends to make a difference in her work.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review African American community. At the Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on she hopes to help women shape the island they call home. In the taverna, their destinies, to make their own choices for their Kostas and Defne grow in their love for each other. A fig lives and bodies. But Civil is shocked to learn that her tree stretches through a cavity in the roof and is there when new patients, Erica and India, are children. One day war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to rubble, and she arrives at their door to learn the unthinkable has when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. happened, and nothing will ever be the same for any He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's of them. Decades later, Dr. Civil Townsend is ready to searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in retire and leave the past behind. But there are people the back garden of a house where Ada Kazantzakis lives. and stories that must not be forgotten. Because history This tree is her only connection to her family's troubled repeats what we don’t remember history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets. | 9781432896058 | $35.99 U.S. Women's Fiction | Releases 5/4/2022 9781432898380 | $32.99 U.S. Available in Core 5, 6, 7 & 8. Adventure | Releases 5/4/2022 Available in Core 6, 7 & 8. THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS MARION LANE AND THE Sosuke Natsukawa DEADLY ROSE LIBRARYREADS PICK T. A. Willberg INDIE NEXT PICK “Willberg’s secret agency full of loners and “Bibliophiles will dote on this charming outsiders who use quirky gadgets like the Liar’s import from Japan, smoothly translated by Eye and Spy Snakes is imaginative and fun. Louise Heal Kawai.” — Library Journal Lovers of mysteries with a dollop of magic will Natsuki Books was a bookshop on enjoy.” — Publishers Weekly the edge of town. Inside, towering It’s 1959 and a new killer haunts the shelves reached the ceiling, every one streets of London. The newspapers crammed full of books. Rintaro Natsuki loved this space call him The Florist because of the rose he brands on his that his grandfather created. He spent many hours victims. The police have turned yet again to the Inquirers there, reading whatever he liked. It was the perfect at Miss Brickett’s for assistance, and second-year Marion refuge for a boy who tended to be a recluse. After the Lane is assigned the case. But her informer seems to be death of his grandfather, Rintaro is devastated and one step ahead, predicting what will happen before it does. alone. It seems he will have to close the shop. Then, a When a fellow second-year Inquirer is murdered, Marion talking tabby cat appears and asks Rintaro for help. The takes matters into her own hands and must come face-to- cat needs a book lover to join him on a mission. This face with her informer — who predicted the murder — to odd couple will go on three magical adventures to save find out everything they know. Until then, no one at Miss books from people who have imprisoned, mistreated, Brickett’s is safe and everyone is a suspect. and betrayed them. 9781432896508 | $30.99 U.S. 9781432898144 | $31.99 U.S. Mystery | Releases 5/4/2022 General Fiction | Releases 5/4/2022 Available in Core 8. Available in Core 7 & 8. gale.printorders@cengage.com | gale.com/thorndike 7
25% OFF STANDING ORDER WHEELER HARDCOVER I 60 hardcover titles each year for about $1,633. THE BAXTERS Karen Kingsbury NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR'S CHOICE #1 TITLE A storm builds as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari’s wedding to Tim Jacobs, and there are dark currents of conflict coursing through the Baxter family. In the midst of them, Kari Baxter is starting to panic. Is marrying Tim a mistake? And what about her family? Her brother Luke is angry and resentful of their sister Ashley, who has recently returned from Paris. At the same time, Ashley and their sister Brooke have lost the faith that is the family’s glue. When the storm reaches a terrifying crescendo, a shocking moment of danger brings important truths to light. At the end of the long day, can the Baxters remain a family, tested but stronger? | 9781432896607 | $37.99 U.S. Christian Romance | Releases 5/4/2022 | Wheeler Hardcover 3, 4 & 5. COUNTRY BORN Painted Pony Creek Series Linda Lael Miller NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR'S CHOICE #5 TITLE Rancher and military veteran J.P. McCall loves simple pleasures, but ever since his two closest friends have married and started families of their own, J.P. realizes what he’s been missing. Then Sara Worth comes crashing back into his life. Single mom Sara has her hands full. After a disastrous early marriage, she's now writing bestselling books by day and caring for her two teenagers by night. When an innocent request for J.P.’s help leads to an unforgettable kiss, she’s intrigued. But when the man from Sara’s past resurfaces, J.P. will do whatever it takes to protect the woman who’s stealing his heart. | 9781432896485 | $37.99 U.S. Romance | Releases 5/4/2022 | Wheeler Hardcover 3, 4 & 5. KILLING THE KILLERS THE SECRET WAR AGAINST TERRORISTS Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR'S CHOICE #7 TITLE As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing its deadly flight plan, America went on war footing. Killing The Killers narrates America's intense global war against extremists who planned and executed not only the 9/11 attacks, but hundreds of others in America and around the world, and who eventually destroyed entire nations in their relentless quest for power. | 9781432898830 | $38.99 U.S. History/Historical | Releases 5/4/2022 | Wheeler Hardcover 3, 4 & 5. 8 Call 1.800.223.1244 Ext 4 | Fax 1.800.558.4676
25% OFF STANDING ORDER WHEELER HARDCOVER I 60 hardcover titles each year for about $1,633. IN BLOOM Fern Michaels, Lori Foster, Carolyn Brown NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR EDITOR'S CHOICE #8 TITLE In Amazing Gracie by Fern Michaels, Gracie Walden is at home in Texas. But there’s unexpected turbulence between her mother and her older sister. In Meant to Be by Lori Foster, Cory Creed has decided it’s time to leave North Carolina, and Austin Winston, behind. But Austin has finally realized what Cory was once so sure of, and now it’s his turn to prove they belong together. In The Mother’s Day Crown by Carolyn Brown, Monica Allen still hasn’t forgiven Tyler Magee for breaking her heart. They’re back in Texas, visiting their respective grandmothers. Will Monica learn to stop holding a grudge and hold on to love? | 9781432896898 | $36.99 U.S. Women's Fiction | Releases 5/4/2022 | Wheeler Hardcover 3, 4 & 5. THE LIFEGUARDS Amanda Eyre Ward NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Whitney, Annette, and Liza have grown thick as thieves as they've raised their children together for 15 years, believing that they can shelter them from an increasingly dangerous world. Their friendship is unbreakable — as safe as the neighborhood where they've raised their sweet little boys. Or so they think. One night, the three women have been enjoying happy hour when their boys, lifeguards for the summer, come back on bicycles from a late- night dip in their favorite swimming hole. The boys share a secret — news that will shatter the perfect world their mothers have so painstakingly created. | 9781432898540 | $35.99 U.S. Women's Fiction | Releases 5/4/2022 | Wheeler Hardcover 4 & 5. THE RUNAWAY A Peter Ash Novel Nick Petrie “Downright frightening fun ... This is one hellacious ride for crime fiction fans.” — starred, Kirkus Reviews Peter Ash is driving through northern Nebraska when he encounters a young pregnant woman on a gravel road, her car dead. Peter offers her a lift, but what begins as an act of kindness soon turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse chase with the woman’s vicious ex-cop husband hot on their trail. The woman has seen something she was never meant to see ... but protecting her might prove to be more than Peter can handle. To save the woman and himself, Peter must use everything he's learned during his time as a Marine, including his knowledge of human nature, to escape a ruthless killer with instincts and skills that match Peter’s own. 9781432896904 | $31.99 U.S. Thriller | Releases 5/4/2022 | Wheeler Hardcover 5. gale.printorders@cengage.com | gale.com/thorndike 9
25% OFF STANDING ORDER HISTORICAL FICTION I 24 hardcover titles each year for about $625. THE LAST WHITE ROSE RED BURNING SKY A NOVEL OF ELIZABETH OF YORK A WWII NOVEL INSPIRED BY THE Alison Weir GREATEST AVIATION RESCUE IN HISTORY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Tom Young Elizabeth of York is the oldest “Young touches on such matters as the civil daughter of King Edward IV. Her life is war pitting Chetniks against Tito’s partisans disrupted when her father dies. Her and the loyalties of Italians only recently turned uncle, the notorious Richard III, takes to the Allied side. Readers will be moved to seek advantage of King Edward’s death out nonfiction accounts about this bold, little- known operation.” — Publishers Weekly to grab the throne and Elizabeth is subjected to Richard’s overtures to make her his wife. Summer, 1944. Yugoslavia is locked in a war within a war. Elizabeth is saved by Henry Tudor, who challenges In addition to fighting the German occupation, warring Richard and defeats him at the Battle of Bosworth Field. factions battle each other. Hundreds of Allied airmen have Henry becomes king and asks Elizabeth to be his wife. been shot down over this volatile region. With three failed The marriage is happy and fruitful, not only uniting the air missions, Lieutenant Drew Carlton is desperate for warring houses of Lancaster and York but producing four redemption. He volunteers for a dangerous assignment children, one of whom, Henry VIII, will rule the country in Yugoslavia’s green hills. This daring plan — to evacuate for the next 36 years. hundreds of stranded airmen while avoiding detection by the Germans — faces overwhelming odds. What follows | 9781432896881 | $34.99 U.S. is an elaborate rescue that required astonishing courage, Historical Fiction | Releases 5/18/2022 sacrifice, and resilience. 9781432898786 | $33.99 U.S. Historical Fiction | Releases 5/18/2022 25% OFF STANDING ORDER BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR I 24 hardcover titles each year for about $612. ALL THAT SHE CARRIED CHASING HISTORY THE JOURNEY OF ASHLEY'S SACK, A KID IN THE NEWSROOM A BLACK FAMILY KEEPSAKE Carl Bernstein Tiya Miles NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR “[A] brilliant and compassionate account.” “Aspiring journalists and readers interested — starred, Kirkus Reviews in mid-20th-century ... events and politics In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved will enjoy this colorful ... portrait of a bygone woman named Rose faced the era, where once the clatter of a typewriter imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. and the bustle of a newsroom permeated the newspaper industry.” — Library Journal Thinking quickly, she packed a bag with a few precious items to try to ensure Ashley’s In 1960, Carl Bernstein was just a 16 year-old at risk of survival. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth failing to graduate high school. Inquisitive, self-taught, and embroidered this family history on the bag in haunting truant, Bernstein landed a job as a copyboy at the Evening language — including Rose’s wish that “It be filled Star, the afternoon paper in Washington. By 19, he was a with my Love always.” Ruth’s sewn words evoke a reporter there. Bernstein recalls the origins of his storied family story passed down through generations. Tiya journalistic career as he chronicles the Kennedy era, the Miles metaphorically unpacks the bag, deepening its swelling civil rights movement, and a slew of grisly crimes. emotional resonance and exploring the significance of Funny and exhilarating, poignant and frank, Chasing everything it contained. History is an extraordinary memoir of life on the cusp of adulthood for a determined young man with a dogged 9781432898403 | $33.99 U.S. commitment to the truth. Biography | Releases 5/4/2022 9781432898656 | $32.99 U.S. Biography | Releases 5/4/2022 10 Call 1.800.223.1244 Ext 4 | Fax 1.800.558.4676
25% OFF STANDING ORDER NONFICTION I 36 hardcover titles each year for about $920. HEIRESSES THE LIVES OF THE MILLION DOLLAR BABIES Laura Thompson NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR “Engaging .... A book that offers insight as well as entertainment―a peek into the human condition from an unexpected angle.” — Kirkus Reviews Heiresses tells the stories of Mary Davies, who inherited London’s most valuable real estate and was bartered from the age of 12; Consuelo Vanderbilt, forced into a loveless marriage; Barbara Hutton, who married seven times and died almost penniless; and Patty Hearst, who was arrested for terrorism. However, there are also stories of achievement: Angela Burdett- Coutts, who became one of the greatest philanthropists of Victorian England; Nancy Cunard, who became a pioneer of the civil rights movement; and Daisy Fellowes, linchpin of interwar high society and noted fashion editor. 9781432898618 | $34.99 U.S. History/Historical | Releases 5/18/2022 | Available in Nonfiction 2 & 3. THE OTHER DR. GILMER TWO MEN, A MURDER, AND AN UNLIKELY FIGHT FOR JUSTICE Benjamin Gilmer “This painful look at a terrible social injustice deserves a wide audience.” — Publishers Weekly Dr. Vince Gilmer’s arrest for murder shocked his patients. The deeper Benjamin Gilmer (no relation) looked into looked into Vince’s case, the more he became obsessed with discovering what pushed a good man to darkness. When Benjamin visited Vince in prison, he met a man who appeared to be fighting his own mind, constantly twitching and veering into nonsensical tangents. It was obvious that Vince needed help. Dr. Benjamin Gilmer’s story asks us to answer a profound question: In a country with the highest incarceration rates in the world, what would it look like if we prioritized healing rather than punishment? 9781432898410 | $32.99 U.S. True Crime | Releases 5/18/2022 | Available in Nonfiction 2 & 3. LOST IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH A STORY OF OBSESSION AND DANGER IN THE HIMALAYAS Harley Rustad “Rustad draws readers into a tale of adventure and tragedy that, despite its dark outcome, is illuminated with a remarkable sense of humanity ... Equal parts tribute and travelogue, this is sure to enthrall those curious about a life lived to the extreme.” — starred, Publishers Weekly In his early 30s Justin Alexander Shetler quit his job and set out on a global journey: across the United States, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal. But the explorer was driven to pursue greater challenges and risks. In 2016, he made his way to the Parvati Valley, a remote corner of the Indian Himalayas shrouded in darkness and danger. He spent weeks studying under a sadhu, an Indian holy man, living and meditating in a cave. At the end of August, he set off on a “spiritual journey” to a holy lake from which he would never return. 9781432898946 | $31.99 NCR Travel | Releases 5/18/2022 | Available in Nonfiction 3. gale.printorders@cengage.com | gale.com/thorndike 11
25% OFF STANDING ORDER THRILLER, ADVENTURE, AND SUSPENSE I about $946. 36 hardcover titles each year for THE FIELDS Erin Young “Young delivers a disturbing, twist-riddled thriller stocked with well-drawn characters.” — Publishers Weekly It starts with a body — a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal when she discovers the victim was a childhood friend, connected to a dark past she thought she’d left behind. The investigation grows complicated as more victims are found. Drawn deeper in, Riley soon discovers implications far beyond her Midwest town. 9781432897819 | $34.99 U.S. Thriller | Releases 5/18/2022 UNDERMONEY Jay Newman “Newman’s international-finance background is evident here as he takes readers deep into the cloaked financial- espionage world where tricked-out planes and jet packs provide glitter and layers of double-crossings mask the final play.” — Booklist When a U.S. airdrop of billions of dollars disappears in Syria, only a small group of military operatives knows its ultimate destination or why it has been stolen. Their goal is the restoration of America’s geopolitical dominance. Essential to this scheme are Greta Webb, a CIA operative who is an expert on dark money, and Elias Vicker, who runs the world’s largest hedge fund. To achieve its goals, the group must form dangerous alliances. One is with the family that manages the largest private pool of capital that's ever existed. Another is with Fyodor Volk, a mercenary with ties to Vladimir Putin. Volk has his eye on Greta. She would be wise to avoid him but cannot 9781432898373 | $33.99 U.S. Thriller | Releases 5/18/2022 THE MOTHER NEXT DOOR Tara Laskowski “Smartly paced, menacing, full of bizarre twists ... this is a fine domestic thriller.” — Booklist The annual Halloween party is the pinnacle of the year on Ivy Woods Drive. An influential group of neighborhood moms plans the event for months. This year’s block party should be the best yet, until the women start receiving anonymous messages threatening to expose the neighborhood’s dark past and the lengths they’ve gone to hide it. As secrets seep out and the threats intensify, the moms must sort the loyal from the disloyal, the good from the bad. They’ll do anything to protect their families. But when a twisted plot is revealed, their steady foundation begins to crumble, leaving only one certainty: after this year’s party, Ivy Woods Drive will never be the same. 9781432898489 | $33.99 U.S. Suspense | Releases 5/18/2022 12 Call 1.800.223.1244 Ext 4 | Fax 1.800.558.4676
25% OFF STANDING ORDER MYSTERY I 72 hardcover titles each year for about $1,786. AUNT DIMITY AND THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE Aunt Dimity Mystery Nancy Atherton NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR When Crispin Windle arrives at Pussywillows, no one knows what to make of him. Soon, the townspeople have all but dismissed him. Only Lori and Tommy Prescott refuse to give up. They orchestrate a chance meeting that leads to a discovery of overgrown ruins. They are, Aunt Dimity shares, the remains of a Victorian woolen mill that once brought prosperity to Finch. The three stumble upon the unmarked graves of children who died working at the mill. As Mr. Windle works to name the forgotten children, he begins to open up, giving the romantic cottage a chance to heal his heart as well. | 9781432898465 | $35.99 U.S. Cozy Mystery | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Mystery 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6. EASTER BONNET MURDER A Lucy Stone Mystery Leslie Meier NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR “Small-town evil at its smarmiest.” — Kirkus Reviews The Heritage House senior center regularly attracts new residents and positive press, but the place may soon be making headlines for different reasons following an unexplained disappearance. Lucy can’t fathom how Agnes Neal could go missing or why few seem concerned. While police stall the investigation without answers, Lucy realizes backstabbing has no age limit when alarming parallels bloom between her daughter’s college frenemies and social circles at Heritage House. Gathering clues, Lucy must hop to it and discover what happened to Agnes — before her own story becomes another springtime tragedy left unsolved. 9781432898472 | $33.99 U.S. Cozy Mystery | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Mystery 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6. CUTTHROAT DOGS An Amos Walker Novel Loren D. Estleman Nearly 20 years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide, but suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend. Dan Corbeil was convicted of her murder and sent to prison. Case closed. Or is it? A chance meeting during a bank robbery introduces Detroit private detective Amos Walker to Corbeil’s sister, who hires him to prove her brother’s innocence. Walker discovers that nobody else is eager to see this cold case reopened, including the victim’s father, who is now the host of a true-crime series, Cut-Throat Dogs; the one-time public defender who lost Dan’s case back in the day; and even Dan himself, who long ago gave up any hope of being a free man again. Uncertain who he can trust, or even if Dan is truly innocent, Walker faces both bribes and bullets as he prowls swanky neighborhoods and dangerous slums to uncover an ugly truth buried decades ago. 9781432898793 | $31.99 U.S. Hard-boiled | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Mystery 3, 4, 5 & 6. gale.printorders@cengage.com | gale.com/thorndike 13
25% OFF STANDING ORDER MYSTERY I 72 hardcover titles each year for about $1,786. GHOST BLOWS A KISS A Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel Carolyn Hart NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR “Fans of paranormal mysteries will appreciate this case, a template for a traditional mystery in the style of Agatha Christie. The likable Bailey Ruth should appeal to fans of Cleo Coyle’s 'Haunted Bookshop' mysteries.” — Library Journal The late Bailey Ruth Raeburn is delighted when she's assigned a new mission by Heaven's Department of Good Intentions. This time she's determined to be the perfect unseen emissary. Arriving in her old hometown of Adelaide, Oklahoma, to find a woman drowning in a pond, Bailey Ruth carries out a daring rescue with textbook invisible effort but realizes there's more to Fran's accident than a late-night walk gone wrong. Soon Bailey Ruth finds herself caught up in a complex web of family secrets, loyalties, and lies — and if she doesn't act fast, an innocent will be locked up for a very long time. 9781432898663 | $30.99 U.S. Cozy Mystery | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Mystery 4, 5 & 6. A PLUS ONE FOR MURDER A Friend for Hire Mystery Laura Bradford Emma Westlake sunk all her cash into her dream job of travel planning but as her customers became more internet savvy, the need for her services declined. At a loss, she turns to a friend who suggests she try to get paid for being a companion. Emma thinks it's a crazy idea until requests start pouring in. Writer Brian Hill asks Emma to be his cheering section at an open mic night but when he steps up to the mic, he promptly drops dead. Emma becomes an immediate suspect. Now she'll have to cozy up to a killer to save her skin and her new business. 9781432898366 | $30.99 U.S. Cozy Mystery | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Mystery 5 & 6. A SIDE OF MURDER A Cape Cod Foodie Mystery Amy Pershing “Cape Cod provides a stunning background for a debut that offers the ideal combination of mystery, romance, and recipes.” — Kirkus Reviews When Samantha Barnes inherits a house on the Cape and lands a job writing restaurant reviews, it seems like the perfect pairing. What could go wrong? Well, as it turns out, a lot. The dilapidated house comes with an enormous puppy. Her new boss is, well, bossy. And the town’s harbor master is none other than her first love. Nonetheless, Sam’s looking forward to reviewing the Bayview Grill but the body in the pond outside the eatery wasn't on the menu. Sam is certain this is murder. As she begins to stir the pot, is she creating a recipe for her own demise? 9781432898359 | $30.99 U.S. Mystery | Releases 5/4/2022 | Available in Mystery 6. 14 Call 1.800.223.1244 Ext 4 | Fax 1.800.558.4676
25% OFF STANDING ORDER SOFTCOVER COZY MYSTERIES I 48 softcover titles each year for about $972. THE HOLLYWOOD SPY HOOKED ON A FELINE A Maggie Hope Mystery A Magical Cats Mystery Susan Elia MacNeal Sofie Kelly NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR “MacNeal deftly captures both the dazzling “Kathleen is a smart, resourceful heroine, side of 1943 California, with cameo and cat lovers will delight in the charming appearances from Hollywood stars galore, felines.” — Booklist and the dismaying aspects of the Golden It’s summer in Mayville Heights, and State’s darker side.” Kathleen Paulson and her boyfriend, — starred, Library Journal Marcus, are eager to attend the Los Angeles, 1943. Up in the lush foothills of Hollywood, closing concert of the local music festival. The concert is a woman floats lifeless in the pool of one of California’s a success, but one of the band members is discovered trendiest hotels. When American-born secret agent and dead shortly after it. Kathleen suspects foul play. When British spy Maggie Hope learns that this woman was she and Marcus take a closer look at the man's family engaged to her former fiancée, John Sterling, and that tree, they begin to think a previous death of one of his he suspects her death was no accident, intuition tells relatives now seems suspicious. The more Kathleen her he’s right. As she traces a web of deception from thinks about it, the more this murder feels like it could the Garden of Allah to the Carthay Circle Theater, she be an encore performance. Kathleen will need to act fast discovers things aren’t always the way they appear in and be very careful if she wants to stay off a killer's hit list. the movies — and the political situation in America is more complicated and dangerous than the newsreels 9781432898854 | $26.99 U.S. would have them all believe. Cozy Mystery | Releases 5/18/2022 Available in Softcover Cozy Mysteries 3 & 4. 9781432898847 | $26.99 U.S. Cozy Mystery | Releases 5/18/2022 Available in Softcover Cozy Mysteries 3 & 4. WINING AND DYING WHOLE LATTE MURDER A Cookbook Nook Mystery An All-Day Breakfast Café Mystery Daryl Wood Gerber Lena Gregory Crystal Cove is buzzing with the launch Summer has arrived, and Gia's best of its annual Art and Wine Festival. friend, Savannah, is getting hitched. Now Jenna’s thrilled to be showing one she's enlisted Gia's sleuthing talents of her paintings at the fair, but her in a search for the perfect wedding excitement fades when an up-and- dress. But when Savannah mysteriously coming artist is murdered. What’s vanishes after showing a mansion to more, the evidence points to a good a bigwig client, Gia investigates the friend of Jenna’s as the culprit. Certain that her friend house Savannah was trying to sell. Inside the house, she is being framed, Jenna starts digging into an array of stumbles on Savannah's potential buyer — dead. Soon colorful suspects, including a tech guru with a penchant afterward, a woman's body is fished from the lake near the for stalking women, the mayor’s wayward son, and an same house. The townsfolk are now sweating bullets over older art instructor. Jenna will have to wine and dine the murders, and the heat comes down on Gia to find her her way through all the clues before she can see the full missing friend and track down the killer. picture and put the real killer behind bars. 9781432898861 | $26.99 U.S. 9781432898878 | $26.99 U.S. Cozy Mystery | Releases 5/18/2022 Cozy Mystery | Releases 5/18/2022 Available in Softcover Cozy Mysteries 4. Available in Softcover Cozy Mysteries 3 & 4. gale.printorders@cengage.com | gale.com/thorndike 15
25% OFF STANDING ORDER BLACK VOICES I 36 hardcover titles each year for about $891. THINGS PAST TELLING LIKE A SISTER Sheila Williams Kellye Garrett “Momma Grace’s story is often a brutal “Garrett explores racism and sexism with one, but it’s full of adventure and romance, aplomb, as shown by the sarcasm Lena courage and resilience. It’s no apologia for displays when others underestimate her slavery but a moving portrait of its fully because she’s a young Black woman. This human victims.” — Kirkus Reviews talented author has upped her game with this one.” — Publishers Weekly Born in West Africa in the mid-18th century, Maryam Prescilla Grace When the body of reality TV star survives capture, enslavement, the Desiree Pierce is found the morning Atlantic crossing, and a brief stint as a pirate’s ward, after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media acting as both a spy and a translator. Maryam learns are quick to declare her death an overdose. Desiree’s midwifery from a Caribbean-born woman. Those skills half-sister Lena Scott knows that can’t be the case. A allow her to sometimes transcend the racial and class graduate student at Columbia, Lena has spent the past barriers of her enslavement, as she tries to balance decade forging her own path, but some facts about the lives and health of her own people with the cruel Desiree just couldn’t have changed since their childhood. economic mandates of the slave holders. Throughout Despite the bitter truth that the two haven’t spoken in her life, Maryam gains and loses her homeland, her two years, torn apart by Desiree’s partying and by their family, her culture, her husband, her lovers, and her father, Mel, Lena becomes determined to find justice children. Yet as the decades pass, this tenacious woman for her sister, even if it means untangling her family’s never loses her sense of self. darkest secrets — or ending up dead herself. 9781432898304 | $32.99 U.S. 9781432898311 | $31.99 U.S. Women's Fiction | Releases 5/18/2022 Mystery | Releases 5/18/2022 Available in Black Voices 2, 3 & 4. Available in Black Voices 2, 3 & 4. THE LAST IN THE FACE OF THE SUN SUSPICIOUS HOLDOUT Denny S. Bryce STORIES Los Angeles, 1928. An up-and- Ladee Hubbard coming journalist, Daisy Washington “Short stories brimming with societal nuance anonymously chronicles fierce activism and human complexity offer a penetrating and behind-the-scenes Hollywood overview of urban Black America near the scandals to save her family from turn of the 21st century.” poverty. But power in the City of Angels — starred, Kirkus Reviews is also fueled by racism, greed, and betrayal. Chicago, 1968. For Frankie The twelve gripping tales in The Last Suspicious Holdout Saunders, fleeing across America is her only escape deftly chronicle poignant moments in the lives of an from an abusive husband. Her rescuer is her Aunt Daisy, African American community located in a “sliver of still reeling from her own shattered past. Daisy will do southern suburbia.” Spanning from 1992 to 2007, the whatever it takes to settle old scores and resolve the past stories represent a period during which the Black middle- and Frankie will come up against hard choices in the face class expanded while stories of “welfare Queens,” “crack of unexpected passion. Both must come to grips with babies,” and “super predators” abounded in the media. what they need, what they’ve left behind, and all that lies Characters spotlighted in one story reappear in another, ahead. providing a stunning testament to the enduring resilience of Black people as they navigate the “post-racial” period 9781432898571 | $30.99 U.S. The Last Suspicious Holdout so vividly portrays. Historical Fiction | Releases 5/18/2022 Available in Black Voices 4. 9781432898670 | $31.99 U.S. General Fiction | Releases 5/18/2022 Available in Black Voices 3 & 4. 16 Call 1.800.223.1244 Ext 4 | Fax 1.800.558.4676
25% OFF STANDING ORDER SOFTCOVER ROMANCE AND WOMEN'S FICTION I for about $731. 36 softcover titles each year 30 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MYSELF Radhika Sanghani “A heartwarming read about self-acceptance and the idea that it’s possible to learn to love your imperfect self.” — Kirkus Reviews Nina didn’t plan to spend her 30th birthday in jail, yet here she is. Unfortunately, it gives Nina time to reflect on how screwed up her life is. She’s just broken up with her fiancé and has to move back in with her depressed older brother and their uptight, traditional Indian mother. Her career isn’t going in the direction she wants, and all her friends are too busy to hang out with her. As Nina falls into despair, a book lands in her cell: How to Fix Your Shitty Life by Loving Yourself. Nina makes a decision to embark on a self-love journey. By her next birthday, she’s going to find 30 things she loves about herself. 9781432898342 | $26.99 NCR Women's Fiction | Releases 5/18/2022 AFTER I DO Taylor Jenkins Reid NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR “As uplifting as it is brutally honest—a must-read.” — Kirkus Reviews When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for? 9781432896911 | $25.99 U.S. Contemporary Romance | Releases 5/18/2022 HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY HOME Katy Regan “[A] well-crafted, compelling family drama that explores the meaning of home with care and grace.” — Booklist Emily has been looking for the same face in every crowd for more than a decade: her brother’s. She never expects that one day he'll walk through the door of the housing office where she works, homeless and in need of help. Emily’s overjoyed to see Stephen and invites him to live with her but the baggage of the day that tore them apart more than 15 years before is heavy. As they rebuild their relationship, they embark on the adventure they’d always promised to take when they're children running wild in the wetlands of Canvey Island. And so, they must finally confront what happened that day and in all the days since if they are to finally find their way home. 9781432898335 | $25.99 NCR General Fiction | Releases 5/18/2022 gale.printorders@cengage.com | gale.com/thorndike 17
25% OFF STANDING ORDER ROMANCE I 48 hardcover titles each year for about $1,197. SUNDAY AT THE WHITE KNIGHT NEEDED SUNFLOWER INN Betina Krahn A Honey Creek Novel NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Jodi Thomas Just as Barclay Howard declares NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR himself finished with love, he's thrust Jessica Ann McKenzie has the best into another sort of commitment: restaurant for miles around. Serving guardian to his nephew. Barclay hasn’t candlelit dinners on Valentine's Day a clue about children and now must is a reminder of another dream, one relocate to his family estate. Norah she's given up on. Until Sergeant Capshaw was fleeing a brute when she Tucson Smith clambers onto her land, bringing the found herself swept into a lecture hall, jailed, and jobless. promise of something they've both been searching for. Without a penny or relative to her name, she can’t resist When McCoy Mason crashes on Interstate 45, Honey Barclay’s offer of a position as tutor to his nephew. In Creek offers a temporary respite, a place to recover fact, it’s hard to resist Barclay. Soon, with their attraction before moving on. Charles H. Winston III lives by routine growing, the two embark on a journey into the southern but it's not too late to seize a chance for adventure. And uplands of Scotland — and into the heart of a great love there's no better season than spring, when the warm neither expected. breeze brings fresh hope and second chances to those 9781432897666 | $32.99 U.S. who need them most. Historical Romance | Releases 5/18/2022 9781432898250 | $33.99 U.S. Available in Romance 2, 3 & 4. Contemporary Romance | Releases 5/18/2022 Available in Romance 2, 3 & 4. HOW TO LOVE YOUR A DUKE, THE SPY, AN ARTIST, NEIGHBOR AND A LIE Sophie Sullivan Rogues and Remarkable Women • Book 3 “Intricate details about home renovations Vanessa Riley jostle for space with matters of the heart in For Cecilia Charity Thomas, marrying this lighthearted romance.” Viscount Gantry to save him from danger — Kirkus Reviews and herself from mercenary suitors was In between finishing school and a mistake. Instead of a passionate life working odd jobs, Grace Travis together, she's stranded at his mansion will get her degree and her dream with his unaccepting family. Worse, she job. When an opportunity to fix up and live in a little finds he's actually a spy dedicated to duty over wedlock. house on the beach comes along, Grace is all in until When she hears her sister has been driven to her death, her biggest roadblock moves in next door. As a real Cecilia is determined to expose the man responsible. When estate developer, Noah Jansen knows when he's found her pursuit threatens influential enemies, will Gantry and something special. Something he could even call home. Cecilia's only chance to gain justice separate them once and Provided he can expand by taking over the house next for all? door — the house with the combative and beautiful woman living in it. With the rules for being neighborly 9781432897642 | $31.99 U.S. going out the window, Grace and Noah are in an all-out Regency Romance | Releases 5/18/2022 feud. But sometimes, your nemesis can show you that Available in Romance 4. home is always where the heart is. 9781432898298 | $31.99 U.S. Contemporary Romance | Releases 5/18/2022 Available in Romance 3 & 4. 18 Call 1.800.223.1244 Ext 4 | Fax 1.800.558.4676
25% OFF STANDING ORDER CHRISTIAN ROMANCE I 36 hardcover titles each year for about $848. A VIEW MOST GLORIOUS THE ELEMENT OF LOVE American Wonders Collection • Book 3 The Lumber Baron's Daughters • Book 1 Regina Scott Mary Connealy Coraline Baxter longs to live a life of Laura Stiles and her sisters have been significance. When her local suffragette able to deal with their mother's choice group asks her to climb Mount Rainier in husband until they discovered his to raise awareness of their cause, she plans to marry each of them off to his jumps at the chance, even though she lecherous friends. Now they must run has absolutely no climbing experience. away to find better matches to claim After her mother issues an ultimatum their portion of their father's lumber — that Cora marry the man of her mother's choosing dynasty. During their escape, Laura befriends a mission if she fails — Cora must do it. Mountain guide Nathan group heading to California. She quickly volunteers herself Hardee initially refuses to help Cora but has a change and her sisters to join their efforts. The sisters are excited of heart when he sees what's at stake. These unlikely to put their skills to good use but when secrets around partners may just discover that only together is the view them come to light, it'll take all the smarts the sisters have most glorious. to keep trouble at bay. 9781432898229 | $30.99 U.S. 9781432898212 | $30.99 U.S. Christian Romance | Releases 5/4/2022 Christian Romance | Releases 5/4/2022 Available in Christian Romance 2, 3 & 4. Available in Christian Romance 2, 3 & 4. THE SPARK OF LOVE TO TREASURE AN HEIRESS Mesquite Springs • Book 3 The Secrets of the Isles • Book 2 Amanda Cabot Roseanna M. White “[T]he juicy schemes and blossoming 1906. After stumbling across a collection romance will keep the pages turning.” of letters and a map buried on her — Publishers Weekly family's property, Beth Tremayne's When a spurned suitor threatens found adventure in the hunt for pirate her, Alexandra Tarkington flees treasure. To discover where the clues New York for the Texas Hill Country, lead, she must search alongside where her father is building a hotel. Lord Sheridan, a man she finds Alexandra carves out a niche for herself in town, teaching insufferable. Sheridan has spent years pursuing whatever schoolchildren to paint and enjoying the company of archaeological interests pique his imagination and when Gabe Seymour, a man she met on the stagecoach. But he discovers that Beth's search connects with one of two men, each with his own agenda, have followed her to his far-removed pirate ancestors, he can't help getting Mesquite Springs and Gabe, an investigator, is searching involved. As they work together, which treasure will bring for proof that her father is a swindler. With so much to the greatest surprise — the one they find in each other or lose, Alexandra and Gabe will have to come together if the one just out of their reach? they're to discover whether the sparks they've felt from 9781432898243 | $29.99 U.S. the beginning can kindle the fire of true love. Christian Romance | Releases 5/4/2022 9781432898236 | $29.99 U.S. Available in Christian Romance 4. Christian Romance | Releases 5/4/2022 Available in Christian Romance 3 & 4. gale.printorders@cengage.com | gale.com/thorndike 19
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