New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong? City girl Torre DeRoche isn't looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He's just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves good-bye to dry land and braces for a life-changing journey that's as exhilarating as it is terrifying. Somewhere mid-Pacific, she finds herself battling to keep the old boat, the new relationship, and her floundering sanity afloat. . . . This sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and always poignant memoir is set against a backdrop of the world's most beautiful and remote destinations. Equal parts love story and travel memoir, Love with a Chance of Drowning is witty, charming, and proof positive that there are some risks worth taking.

ROWAN IRONWOOD IS A STARK ANOMALY. In a realm where magic courses through every creature and arcane prowess defines destinies, he has neither and is marked for slavery—that is until fate thrusts him into the perilous corridors of Mystic Knight Academy. As Rowan grapples with his limitations while facing the relentless judgement of his peers, a greater threat looms. The Dark Knight, an immortal force of evil, plots to release Garland, his corrupted master and a fallen celestial who once shrouded Enchantra in darkness. Magicless, Rowan must defy the odds, forge a new path, and become a strategic savior and Enchantra’s last hope against an ancient evil.

"'When vagabonds descend on Sarah's village, Sarah clashes with their leader, the cruel Sam Ridley, who had abused a sin-eater, a man down on his luck or short of wits, paid to symbolically assume the transgressions of the community's most recent dead. Her retribution sets Ridley on her trail. Mary, a refugee from an unhappy marriage, soon joins Sarah and Bill, another sin-eater that Ridley has targeted, on their travels. While the ultimate showdown with Ridley and its resolution will surprise few readers, the author convincingly presents the main characters' inner lives in a manner that calls to mind Iain Pears's classic 'An Instance of the Fingerposts'."--Publisher's Weekly.

One yellow April morning, a 17 year old girl asks herself, “Do I dare to eat a peach?" Three different answers will send her down three very different paths. That morning is long past. Now she is 41. Kitty Trevelyan has been happily married 23 years. Happily enough. Until her professor asks her for coffee and kisses her. Dr. Katherine North's memory of two lovers chafes her like a hair shirt. After reading one has died, she contacts the other—only to discover that she has been renounced for God. Ántonia searches the sea-horizon every evening. In the last light, she can glimpse it: a feminist Utopia built on an abandoned oil rig, led by her charismatic and bipolar lover. Her lost Eden made by Eves. Who are we? Who haven't we been? Have we dared? Three of one woman's possible lives are about to collide.

As Thunder McCloud's sophisticated mother battles a difficult Internet addiction including cyber sex, Thunder reaches out to assist her. Fleeing to a tropical getaway in Bermuda, they are caught up in the dog-eat-dog world, compliments of the Americans following their scent. The commencement of sunshine, blue skies, and pink beaches soon evolves into puzzlement and mystery when they venture outside their Southampton rental quarters. Meanwhile, a killer has "honed his skills" on a mousey woman named Onion Breathitt who recently became nationally recognized as a blue ribbon winner for her peanut butter recipe. After using her as an experimental rat he realizes his mousetrap invention will not serve his purpose in carrying out future killings -- nine to be exact! Traditional teatime becomes a poisonous deed when the killer takes his "one-man show" on the road to Bermuda, and Thunder and her mother are caught up in the bigger-than-life performance.

A Study Guide for Robin Behn's "Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love's moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon--an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato's Symposium, love is "something in between." Jollimore makes his case by proposing a "vision" view of love, according to which loving is a way of seeing that involves bestowing charitable attention on a loved one. This view recognizes the truth in the cliché "love is blind," but holds that love's blindness does not undermine the idea that love is guided by reason. Reasons play an important role in love even if they rest on facts that are not themselves rationally justifiable. Filled with illuminating examples from literature, Love's Vision is an original examination of a subject of vital philosophical and human concern.

Claire François has it all: beauty, brains, and the blood of nobility. As the daughter of a high-ranking noble, she takes her status and the according responsibilities with utmost seriousness--even as the king threatens to undermine his realm's stability with his visions of "meritocracy." Claire is nevertheless prepared to take this societal change in stride, until one of the new commoner students at her elite academy, Rae Taylor, turns her life upside down. Everything about Rae confounds Claire, from her behavior to her intellect to her bizarre fixation on Claire herself. Little does she realize just how much Rae will change her world, and how much she'll change Rae in turn.

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: SURVIVING THE WILDERNESS by USA TODAY bestselling author Maggie K. Black When masked figures take his daughter, Master Corporal Jeff Connor will do everything in his power to rescue her—even if it means working with stubborn wilderness guide Quinn Dukes. As Quinn’s thrown into the line of fire too, Jeff will risk his own life to uncover the kidnapper’s identity…and protect them both. TRACING A FUGITIVE (A Boulder Creek Ranch novel) by Hope White Discovering a wounded man on a mountain trail, Rose Rogers and her precocious dog, Oscar, must get him to safety—especially when bullets start flying their way. But when guarding army veteran Noah Green puts her in the middle of a manhunt, can they outrun the danger in time? SECRETS LEFT BEHIND by Shannon Redmon After several failed attempts on her life, Skye Anderson knows detective Jake Reed’s suspicions of foul play about the accident that killed her husband must be true. Someone will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden—and Jake is Skye’s best chance at survival from the killers pursuing her. For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense June 2022 Box Set – 1 of 2