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Don’t miss this brand new collection of Contemporary Cross Stitch designs from leading modern designers. Hand-picked from the archives of World of Cross Stitching and Cross Stitch Crazy, you’ll find over 140 charts featuring stunning scenes, uplifting typography, cute motifs and on-trend home décor. Features designers include Tiny Modernist, Mollie Johanson, Jody Rice, Felicity Hall, Emma Congdon (Stitchrovia) and Durene Jones. Take your

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Cookbook author Rachel Samstat--out of analysis and seven months pregnant--discovers that her husband is into analysis and an affair, and suffers six weeks of intensive heartburn. When her husband announces that he is in love with another woman, Rachel, a noted cookbook author and TV personality, returns to New York and her wacky but loving family and friends to sort out her life.

Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.

"Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns (Crystal) believes. So when Harry meets Sally Albright (Ryan) and a deep friendship blossoms between them, Harry's determined not to let his attraction destroy it. But when a night of weakness ends in panic, can the pair admit they just might be the perfect match for each other?"--Container.

Interweaving stories tell of the evolving bond between practical, narrow-mainded Flo and her stepdaughter Rose, who manages to escape her small town life to achieve an equivocal success in the larger world.

"Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the denizens of an artists' colony. In the hands of T. Coraghessan Boyle, praised by Digby Diehl in Playboy as "one of the most exciting young fiction writers in America," the result is a sexy, hilarious tragicomedy...

When Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation, the claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer. "A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.”"--