Washoe County Library System

"Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the industry. Mickey Hayward dreams of writing stories that matter. She has a flashy media job that makes her feel successful and a devoted girlfriend who takes care of her when she comes home exhausted and demoralized....

It's Christmas Eve and Rory Andrews is desperate to get home to the family she hasn't seen in years. Problem is, her only ride to Lake Tahoe comes in the form of the annoyingly handsome Max Stranton, and his big, goofy, lovable dog Carl. Hours stuck in a truck with the dead-sexy Max sounds like a fate worse than death (not), but Rory's out of options. She's had a crush on Max since high school and she knows he's attracted to her, too. But they have...

"It's the most wonderful time of the year--for everyone except Starr Lewis. As if going home for the holidays jobless and single wasn't bad enough, she's dragged into a holiday season full of activities leading up to her sister's uber-romantic Christmas Eve wedding--to Starr's ex-boyfriend. But when her brother's best friend, Waylon Emmerson, attends their family Thanksgiving, she starts to wonder if maybe coming home for Christmas isn't so bad after...

"After ten years away, Keeley Carpenter is excited to be back in Belfrey, the traditional English village hometown she fled as a shy teen, with a plan to reopen her father's neglected butcher shop as a yoga café, where she will sell delicious vegetarian food by day and teach yoga classes at night. However the more traditional residents of Belfrey do not take kindly to this idea-or really anything they deem even remotely "New Age-y." Within an hour...

"Dear Reader, Montana has provided the setting for some of my favorite stories. In the late 1980s I wrote Tender Trap and Aftermath featuring Denver and Colton McLeantwo brothers returning to their family ranch after years away, confronting the secrets left behind. Im thrilled that theyre now available in one volume, with a striking new cover and title, Backlash..."-- Back cover. Aftermath ©1989: Nineteen and burning with love, Tessa Kramer had...

To catch a thief. Gina Petrillo postpones her appointment with lawyer Rafe O'Donnell and returns home for a reunion with her four childhood friends. Calamity Janes. Returning to her hometown to deal with the pressures of single motherhood and her career, Emma finds the strength to cope from her friends Cassie, Karen, Gina, and Lauren--known as the Calamity Janes--who lead her to Ford Hamilton, her devastatingly handsome nemesis who just might be her...

An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness.

When the demons from her past close in, threatening to destroy everything, Neve McKay turns to sexy Scottish bartender Ian Campbell for protection, and as desire rages between them, her enemy is determined to end things his way.

Released from prison, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter, but with everyone against her, she turns to local bar owner Ledger Ward who, risking everything, secretly helps her make amends.

"When his father falls ill, Andres, a professor of public health, returns to his suburban hometown to tend to his father's recovery. Reevaluating his rocky marriage in the wake of his husband's infidelity and with little else to do, he decides to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, where he runs into the long-lost characters of his youth. Jeremy, his first love, is now married with two children after having been incarcerated and recovering...