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Two suburban families share pews, friendships, and routines until private resentments ignite into violence.
Evidence of Love
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Two suburban families share pews, friendships, and routines until private resentments ignite into violence. In Evidence of Love, John Bloom and Jim Atkinson reconstruct the relationship between Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore, tracing an affair, mounting jealousy, and a killing that shattered a Texas community. This true crime account examines desire, denial, and the courtroom battle that followed a plea of self-defense.
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The "fascinating" true story behind the HBO Max and Hulu series about Texas housewife Candy Montgomery and the bizarre murder that shocked a community (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.
On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty's utility room that morning was all too real.
Based on exclusive interviews with the Gore and Montgomery families, Edgar Award finalist Evidence of Love is the "superbly written" account of a gruesome tragedy and the trial that made national headlines when the defendant entered the most unexpected of pleas: not guilty by reason of self-defense (Fort Worth Star-Telegram).
Adapted into the Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning television movie A Killing in a Small Town—as well as the new limited series Candy on Hulu and Love and Death on HBO Max—this chilling tale of sin and savagery will "fascinate true crime aficionados" (Kirkus Reviews).
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A secret affair between a rising political aide and a powerful attorney ends in disappearance, leaving questions that refuse to fade.
And Never Let Her Go
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A secret affair between a rising political aide and a powerful attorney ends in disappearance, leaving questions that refuse to fade. In And Never Let Her Go, Ann Rule examines the relationship between Anne Marie Fahey and Thomas Capano, tracing the charm, control, and deception that shaped their bond. This true crime narrative explores obsession within elite political circles and the unraveling of a man whose public success concealed lethal intent.
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From America's most celebrated true-crime writer comes the heartbreaking real-life drama of a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of sexual intrigue, political manipulation, and emotional deception by her charming and successful—but ultimately deadly—lover.
The author of fifteen New York Times national bestsellers, Ann Rule, a former Seattle policewoman, has researched thousands of homicides and understands every facet of murder investigation. Now, in the most complex and shocking book of her long career, she delves into the motivation that drove a seemingly successful man to kill, and she explores heretofore unknown aspects of a fatal affair between a beautiful young woman who moved confidently in the heady world of the upper echelons of government and a widely admired millionaire attorney who was an immensely popular political figure.
On June 27, 1996, thirty-year-old Anne Marie Fahey, who was the scheduling secretary for the governor of Delaware, had dinner with a man she had been having a secret affair with for more than two years. "Tommy" Capano, forty-seven, was perhaps the most politically powerful man in Wilmington. Son of a wealthy contractor, former state prosecutor, partner in a prestigious law firm, advisor to governors and mayors, Tom Capano had a soft-spoken and considerate manner that endeared him to many. Although recently estranged from his wife, he was a devoted father to his four beautiful young daughters, the trusted son of his widowed mother, and the backbone of his extended family. But sometime after 9:15 that night when Anne Marie and Tom left a Philadelphia restaurant, something terrible happened to Anne Marie. It would be forty-eight hours before her brothers and sisters realized that she had disappeared entirely.
Ann Rule brilliantly traces the lives of both Fahey and Capano as she discloses the intimate details of their ill-fated bonding. A vulnerable, trusting woman becomes spellbound by a charming, duplicitous married man, and what begins as a seemingly unremarkable affair is slowly transformed into an obsessive, convoluted, and deadly relationship.
Through her impeccable research, Rule peels away layer after layer of deception to reveal a man who lived a secret life for decades, a man so greedy that he would sacrifice anyone to gain what he desired. One of his many mistresses—all of whom were unknown to one another—was Deborah MacIntyre, an attractive and wealthy member of one of Wilmington's oldest families and an administrator of an elite private school. She, too, would become part of the mystery surrounding Anne Marie's disappearance.
As three prominent families are destroyed to satisfy one man's jealous obsessions, this unfathomable tragedy becomes a tale that few would believe if it were presented as fiction. Shockingly, it is all true. Destined to become a classic, And Never Let Her Go is a riveting account of forbidden love and murder among the rich and powerful, and a chilling insight into the evil that sometimes hides behind even the most charming façade.
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In a quiet Colorado town, suspicion grows when two husbands die under circumstances that strain belief.
American Black Widow
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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In a quiet Colorado town, suspicion grows when two husbands die under circumstances that strain belief. In American Black Widow, Gregg Olsen reconstructs the life of Sharon Nelson, a minister’s wife whose charm masked calculation and whose marriages ended in violence. As investigators revisit accidents and unravel insurance claims, this true crime account examines manipulation, greed, and the unsettling ease with which trust can be exploited.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable story of Sharon Nelson, the minister’s wife whose two husbands mysteriously ended up dead.
Colorado, 1976. When Reverend Mike Fuller and his beautiful wife Sharon arrive in the sleepy town of Rocky Ford, local residents think something’s off about the new couple. The God-fearing minister is gruff and cold, while charismatic Sharon has her husband wrapped around her finger.
It isn’t long before Sharon is charming her husband’s congregation, and finds herself in a tryst with local, married optometrist Perry Nelson. After the affair ends both their marriages, Sharon and Perry tie the knot. But shortly afterwards, Perry disappears. When his body is shockingly discovered the bottom of a canyon, his death is ruled an accident, allowing grieving widow Sharon to claim his substantial life insurance.
Trying to move on from the tragedy, Sharon soon remarries fireman Glenn Harrelson. But when the charred remains of Glenn’s body are discovered with two bullet holes in his skull, the police can’t help but question if both men dying in such mysterious circumstances is one coincidence too many…
Shocking, sensational and gripping, this is the true story of the black widow Sharon Nelson, a must-read tale of greed, sex and murder in a sleepy Colorado town that will have true crime fans of The Staircase, American Mother and Making a Murderer hooked from start to finish.
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A single gunshot in Memphis ignites a search that spans continents and fractures a nation already on edge.
Hellhound On His Trail
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A single gunshot in Memphis ignites a search that spans continents and fractures a nation already on edge. In Hellhound On His Trail, Hampton Sides traces the parallel paths of Martin Luther King Jr. and his assassin, James Earl Ray, as investigators launch a relentless sixty-five day manhunt. The result is a gripping work of narrative nonfiction that captures grief, tension, and the scale of history in motion.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King’s assassin that would lead them across two continents—from the author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers.
With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's The Death of a President and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. With Hellhound On His Trail, Sides shines a light on the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to see.
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An empire racing toward progress begins to sense the approach of its own extinction.
Grave Empire
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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An empire racing toward progress begins to sense the approach of its own extinction. In Grave Empire, industrial ambition collides with outlawed sorcery when a spreading plague and a broken prophecy signal the coming Great Silence. Tasked with seeking forbidden answers, ambassador Renata Rainer must navigate war, politics, and ancient forces in this epic fantasy shaped by looming catastrophe and moral reckoning.
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From critically acclaimed author Richard Swan, Grave Empire begins the epic tale of an empire on the verge of industrial revolution, where sorcery and arcane practices are outlawed – and where an ancient prophecy threatens the coming end of days.
"A dazzling and immersive epic fantasy." ― Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Blood once turned the wheels of empire. Now it is money.
A new age of exploration and innovation has dawned, and the Empire of the Wolf stands to take its place as the foremost power in the known world. Glory and riches await.
But dark days are coming. A mysterious plague has broken out in the pagan kingdoms to the north, while in the south, the Empire’s proxy war in the lands of the wolfmen is weeks away from total collapse.
Worse still is the message brought to the Empress by two heretic monks, who claim to have lost contact with the spirits of the afterlife. The monks believe this is the start of an ancient prophecy heralding the end of days—the Great Silence.
It falls to Renata Rainer, a low-ranking ambassador to an enigmatic and vicious race of mermen, to seek answers from those who still practice the arcane arts. But with the road south beset by war and the Empire on the brink of supernatural catastrophe, soon there may not be a world left to save...
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A goldfish slips from his bowl and witnesses a cross section of human longing as he falls toward the street below.
Fishbowl
Literary Fiction
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A goldfish slips from his bowl and witnesses a cross section of human longing as he falls toward the street below. In Fishbowl, Ian’s brief descent offers glimpses into the intertwined lives of apartment residents, each standing at a turning point shaped by desire, secrecy, and regret. This literary novel weaves humor and quiet reckoning into a portrait of connection within shared walls.
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A goldfish catches intimate glimpses of life as he plummets to his fate in this "irrepressible novel—breezy, funny, sexy, and bursting with life" (Tom Perrotta).
A goldfish named Ian is falling from the 27th-floor balcony on which his fishbowl sits. He's longed for adventure, so when the opportunity arises, he escapes from his bowl, clears the balcony railing and finds himself airborne. Plummeting toward the street below, Ian witnesses the lives of the Seville on Roxy residents.
There's the handsome grad student, his girlfriend, and the other woman; the construction worker who feels trapped by a secret; the building's super who feels invisible and alone; the pregnant woman on bed rest who craves a forbidden ice cream sandwich; the shut-in for whom dirty talk, and quiche, are a way of life; and home-schooled Herman, a boy who thinks he can travel through time.
Though they share time and space, they have something even more important in common: each faces a decision that will affect the course of their lives. Within the walls of the Seville are stories of love, new life, and death, of facing the ugly truth of who one has been and the beautiful truth of who one can become.
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Awkward moments become the doorway to belonging in a collection shaped by humor and vulnerability.
That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You
Biographies & Memoirs
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Awkward moments become the doorway to belonging in a collection shaped by humor and vulnerability. In That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You, Elyse Myers expands on the personal stories that built her online community, reflecting on neurodivergence, relationships, anxiety, and self-acceptance. Blending essays with illustrations, this memoir centers on finding connection through honesty, discomfort, and the courage to be fully seen.
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New York Times Bestseller!
Writer, comedian, and content creator Elyse Myers gets real about life’s awkward moments in her bold, funny, and unfiltered debut book
Elyse Myers is known to her twelve million followers as “The Internet’s Best Friend,” sharing her relatable stories and comedic sketches and serving as an advocate for topics such as neurodivergence, impostor syndrome, body image, and more. Whether she’s making people laugh with tales of disastrous dates or giving a voice to that awkward internal monologue many of us have, she has three simple goals behind everything she makes: To make people feel known, loved, and like they belong.
In That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You, Elyse delivers a debut collection of deeply personal stories and hand-drawn illustrations, offering even more intimate reflections beyond what fans have seen on her social media, including:
- Spending 7 Minutes in Heaven accidentally friend-zoning her crush
- How Lucy, the Magic 8 Ball keychain, changed her life by accident
- Moving from California to Australia to Texas to Nebraska to like (maybe even love!) herself
- How to Fold Hospital Corners in 10 EASY STEPS!—a practical guide and a rumination about…everything
- The “meat cute” when she met her smoke show of a husband at a butcher’s counter in Australia—and how she revealed herself to be an emotional runner
Plus, tales involving bad dates and is-this-a-dates; the tempting yet futile urge to reinvent yourself, panic attacks and escape hatches, and favorite pens and systems to use them, all while loving and letting yourself be loved, preferably at the same time.
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A quiet college campus becomes dangerous when a body surfaces in its lake.
Murder Made Her Wicked
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Historical Mystery
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A quiet college campus becomes dangerous when a body surfaces in its lake. In Murder Made Her Wicked, Marigold Manners returns to Wellesley determined to rebuild her life, only to confront rivalries and resentments simmering beneath the surface of her cloistered academic world. As suspicion spreads through the tight-knit community, this historical mystery blends sharp intellect, social tension, and the resolve of an unconventional heroine.
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Bicycle-riding, aspiring archaeologist Marigold Manners is back and ready for adventure in Elizabeth Hobbs’s next mesmerizing historical mystery.
“A humdinger…whose characters bring to mind those of both Emily Brontë and L. M. Montgomery” (Kirkus), this second installment is perfect for fans of Deanna Rayborn.
1894, Boston. Penniless Boston heiress and accomplished modern woman Marigold Manners has put her past to good use, selling the story of the Great Misery Island Murders to earn enough money to resume the life she was always meant to have and return to her studies at Wellesley College. But her carefully laid plans for academic excellence are thrown into disarray when she stumbles across the body of a young woman in the campus lake.
When the peace of the bucolic campus is shattered by the murder, the cloistered world of a women’s college that Marigold finds so comforting proves it is not immune to the malice and wickedness of the world. The closed community becomes a hothouse where disparagement blooms into insult and small slights that have festered for years blossom into academic rivalries that could spill over into something far more sinister. Marigold must use every ounce of her logic and enlist her eccentric, colorful cast of fellow students and found family to identify the girl and find the murderer—before they kill again.
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A dying mother sends her twelve-year-old son on a journey no child should have to take.
The Talisman
Horror · Dark Fantasy
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A dying mother sends her twelve-year-old son on a journey no child should have to take. In The Talisman, Jack Sawyer crosses America and a parallel realm known as the Territories in search of a mystical object that can save her life. As he moves between worlds shadowed by violence and dark magic, this epic fantasy thriller explores courage, sacrifice, and the cost of growing up too soon.
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The iconic, “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) collaboration between bestselling authors Stephen King and Peter Straub—an epic #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy thriller about a young boy’s quest to save his mother’s life.
Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman—the only thing that can save Jack’s dying mother. But to reach his goal, Jack must make his way not only across the breadth of the United States but also through the wondrous and menacing parallel world of the Territories.
In the Territories, Jack finds another realm, where the air is so sweet and clear a man can smell a radish being pulled from the ground a mile away—and a life can be snuffed out instantly in the continuing struggle between good and evil. Here Jack discovers “Twinners,” reflections of the people he knows on earth—most notably Queen Laura DeLoessian, the Twinner of Jack’s own imperiled mother. As Jack “flips” between worlds, making his way westward toward the redemptive Talisman, a sequence of heart-stopping encounters challenges him at every step.
An unforgettable epic of adventure and resounding triumph, The Talisman is one of the most influential and highly praised works of fantasy ever written.
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Best for readers who like epic romantic fantasy with political intrigue, forbidden love, and slow-burn spice.
Daughter of the Drowned Empire
Romantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Lady Lyriana Batavia has spent years hiding her sisters’ forbidden magic, but when her own power brings a sentence of exile, she accepts a deadly contract: seven months to train without magic and pass the Emperor’s brutal test. It has a 3.8-star average from more than 9,200 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like epic romantic fantasy with political intrigue, forbidden love, and slow-burn spice.
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Cleopatra meets Throne of Glass in this romantic fantasy series with forbidden romance, political intrigue, and slow burn spice.
Lady Lyriana Batavia is third in line to the Seat of Power in Bamaria: a position of wealth and privilege, but not safety. Bamaria falls under the rule of the Lumerian Empire, survivors of a celestial war whose island sank in the Drowning. Now all Lumerians submit to the Emperor and his strict laws about magic. He decides what magic can be practiced and what powers remain forbidden. He decides who will die for possession of forbidden magic.
Lyr’s own cousin was executed for wielding the wrong kind. And for years, Lyr has sworn to protect her older sisters, helping them conceal their own illicit magic.
But when Lyr must participate in the ceremony that reveals her power, she uncovers something else entirely. Something that means banishment from the Empire.
Faced with death in exile, and leaving her sisters behind, Lyr has no choice but to accept a deadly contract. She has seven months to train as a warrior and pass the Emperor’s brutal test of strength, without magic.
But when she’s forced to train with Lord Rhyan Hart, the man she’s secretly loved since she was a girl—a feared warrior in exile himself, forbidden to her in every way—she’s in danger of losing far more than her family, life, and country.
Rebel forces, and an invading army, are destabilizing Bamaria, just as her family’s secrets threaten to reveal themselves.
Surviving the training, and saving her sisters may mean sacrificing her own heart.
'One fantastical world. One fierce heroine to take it down! Daughter of the Drowned Empire is sexy, thrilling, and pure magic!' Cecy Robson, author of Bloodguard
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An aircraft known for killing its own crews becomes the proving ground for six young airmen.
Widow Maker
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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An aircraft known for killing its own crews becomes the proving ground for six young airmen. In Widow Maker, newly assigned pilots and crew members must master the controversial B-26 Marauder while confronting the fear that their greatest threat may be mechanical failure as much as enemy fire. Set in World War II Europe, this historical novel examines courage, camaraderie, and the cost of survival in combat.
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Six young Americans have been assigned to fly the Martin B-26 Marauder in combat during World War II. The B-26--dubbed Widow Maker by the press and the aircrews who flew her--was one of the most controversial aircraft produced in the United States during the war. These young men find themselves confronted not only with doubts about the airplane they are given to fly, but also the sometimes fatal choices made by a military organization unprepared to employ them in combat.
Against the setting of World War II Europe, the heart and minds of these young men are revealed as they are forces to make a swift and frequently terrifying journey into manhood. The differences between them, seemingly irreconcilable at first, fade away as they form the ancient bond between men whose lives must depend upon one another in combat. But even after these young Americans make the transition into seasoned warriors, they are still faced with the grim reality that some of them will survive--and some will not.
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A career setback sends a professional hockey player into the wilderness, where attraction complicates his plans for escape.
Barn Burner
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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A career setback sends a professional hockey player into the wilderness, where attraction complicates his plans for escape. In Barn Burner, a trip to rural Alberta brings him face to face with a guarded cowboy whose life revolves around the ranch. As identities blur and desire deepens, this MM sports romance explores vulnerability, pride, and the risks of loving across different worlds.
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I’ve ridden a Zamboni, but never a cowboy…
Missing out on my first Stanley Cup has left me more torn up than I expected. It was in my sights. So close, I could almost touch it.
With my brother back in England, I’m facing nothing but an empty house and my thoughts, and there’s only two ways to soothe my mind:
The ice and nature.
But when I pack up my car and head out into the Alberta wilderness, my bad luck lands me in the reluctant hands of a grumpy cowboy with a perpetual scowl.
I shouldn’t get involved with Jesse.
His life is the ranch, whereas my life is hockey.
So why do I allow myself to fall for him so hard?
And why do I keep my real identity a secret?
I live for barn burners, but this is one I might not survive.
Barn Burner is a part of Love the Game, a multi-author MM sports romance shared world.
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