Not Quite Mine (Not Quite #2)

by Catherine Bybee
 SUMMARY
 Gorgeous hotel heiress Katelyn "Katie" Morrison seems to have it all. 
But when she crosses paths with Dean Prescott - the only man she's ever 
loved - at her brother's wedding, Katie realizes there's a gaping hole in
 her life. After the ceremony she gets an even bigger surprise when 
someone abandons a baby girl on her doorstep. Determined to keep 
the newborn until she learns who her mother is, Katie has her hands 
full and doesn't need Dean snooping around, especially when his presence 
stirs feelings she thought were long gone.

Dean Prescott knows Katie is lying to him when he discovers a baby 
is living with her. He shouldn't care what the woman who broke his
 heart is up to...and he most certainly shouldn't still be aching for her. 
Yet Dean can't ignore the need to protect Katie - or the desire to be 
near her every chance he gets. But when he and Katie solve the
 mystery surrounding the baby, their second chance for happiness
 could be shattered forever.

Paperback, 292 pages

Published May 7th 2013

 by Montlake Romance

  (first published April 23rd 2013)

ISBN

161109951X (ISBN13: 9781611099515)

series

Not Quite #2

Mystery Girl: A Novel

by David Gordon
 SUMMARY
 When Sam Kornberg’s wife, Lala, walks out on him, he’s an 
unemployed used-book store clerk and failed experimental
 novelist with a broken heart. Desperate to win her back, he
 takes a job as assistant detective to the enigmatic Solar Lonsky, 
a private eye who might be an eccentric and morbid genius or
 just a morbidly obese madman.
It’s a simple tail job, following a beautiful and mysterious lady 
around L.A., but Sam soon finds himself helplessly falling for his
 quarry and hopelessly entangled in a murder case involving Satanists,
 succubi, underground filmmakers, Hollywood bigshots, Mexican 
shootouts, video-store geekery, and sexy doppelgangers from 
beyond the grave. A case that highlights the risks of hardcore 
reading and mourns the death of the novel—or perhaps just the
 decline of Western Civilization.

Mystery Girl is a thriller about the dangers of marriage and a detective 
story about the unsolvable mysteries of love, art, and other people

Hardcover, 320 pages

Published July 16th 2013

 by New Harvest

  (first published June 5th 2013)

ISBN

0544028589 (ISBN13: 9780544028586)

edition language

English

url

http://davidgordonx.blogspot.com/search?updated-

Brash Endeavor (A Stan Turner Mystery #2)

by William Manchee (Goodreads Author)

SUMMARY

 Step into the shoes of Dallas attorney, Stan Turner, in the late 1970's 
as he begins the practice of law. Then hang on for the ride of your life 
as Stan immediately steps into a rattlesnake's nest and has to do some
 fancy two-steppin' to avoid a lethal strike from his own clients. When 
Stan's wife, Rebekah, is arrested for murder and a client turns out to be
 a ghost, Stan turns in his legal pad for a detective's notebook and goes
 to work to solve these most perplexing mysteries.

Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Stan pushes on relentlessly to 
extricate himself and his family from certain doom. Sex, greed and a
 lust for power drive this most extraordinary novel to a stunning conclusion. 

Paperback, 298 pages

Published August 1st 1998 

by Top Publications 

  (first published July 1st 1998)

original title

Brash Endeavor, A Stan Turner Mystery

ISBN

1884570895 (ISBN13: 9781884570896)

edition language

English

series

A Stan Turner Mystery #2

characters

Stan Turner

For Fall Into Me (Thrillseekers Anonymous, #3)

For Fall Into Me (Thrillseekers Anonymous, #3) 
 by Julia London 

SUMMARY
Previously published as American Diva

While guarding a beautiful, high-maintenance pop star, a stuntman wrestles with frustration - and intense desire.

Raven-haired, blue-eyed Jack Price hates being the only single member of Thrillseekers Anonymous, and he wishes his friends would stop trying to play matchmaker. He already has someone on his mind: Audrey LaRue, the gorgeous pop star - and diva extraordinaire - he's guarding from a vicious stalker.

All Audrey ever wanted to do was sing, write songs, and inspire other girls to do the same. Suddenly, she's a megafamous celebrity - and she hates it. The paparazzi document her every move. A crazed stalker threatens to kill her. Anyone in her position would throw an occasional tantrum - or ten.

As Audrey's tour marches on, the pressure - and the danger - build. But Jack rarely leaves her side, watching her and giving her the sexiest smiles she's ever seen. Can they keep this relationship professional - or will they succumb to overwhelming desire?

 

 

Paperback, 376 pages

Published June 11th 2013 

 by Montlake Romance

ISBN

1477805834 (ISBN13: 9781477805831)

edition language

English

series

Thrillseekers Anonymous #3, Thrillseekers Anonymous

 

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She Can Scream (She Can... #3)

 by Melinda Leigh

 

 

SUMMARY

 

In one moment, high school teacher and single mother Brooke Davenport interrupts a vicious assault, saves a young woman’s life, and attracts the attention of a serial killer.

Sixteen years ago, Brooke lost her roommate to a brutal murder. Now she teaches women’s self-defense, still trying to heal from the guilt and grief that plague her. Convinced the predator knows his victims and is stalking his prey online, she is determined to find him before he strikes again. Her brother’s friend, Luke has the computer expertise to help. But Brooke’s unexpected desire for Luke complicates her investigation, and her fixation with the case provokes a deadly reaction from the killer.

Injured in terrorist bombing overseas, computer expert Luke Holloway is still haunted by flashbacks of his young assistant’s death in the explosion. But Luke can’t refuse the request of a deployed friend to look after his sister, Brooke. Taking on responsibility for Brooke’s safety threatens Luke’s tenuous recovery, especially after he develops feelings for her that transcend a promise to a friend. When Brooke saves a young girl from a brutal assault and becomes a killer’s obsession, Luke vows to protect her at all costs.  

 

 

 

Paperback, 357 pages

Published September 17th 2013 

by Montlake Romance

ISBN

1477807411 (ISBN13: 9781477807415)

edition language

English

series

She Can... #3

Starry Night: A Christmas Novel

by Debbie Macomber

 SUMMARY
Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more
 serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: She can cover
 any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview 
with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author.

Living in the remote Alaskan wilderness, Finn has written a megabestselling
 memoir about surviving in the wild. But he stubbornly declines to speak to 
 anyone in the press, and no one even knows exactly where he lives.

Digging deep into Finn’s past, Carrie develops a theory on his whereabouts.
 It is the holidays, but her career is at stake, so she forsakes her family 
celebrations and flies out to snowy Alaska. When she finally finds Finn, 
she discovers a man both more charismatic and more stubborn than she 
even expected. And soon she is torn between pursuing the story of a
 lifetime and following her heart.

Hardcover, 256 pages

Published October 8th 2013

 by Ballantine Books

  (first published January 1st 2013)

ISBN

0345528891 (ISBN13: 9780345528896)

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Little Failure: A Memoir OCTOBER 2013

Little Failure: A Memoir

by Gary Shteyngart

 

 

 SUMMARY(GOODREADS)
 After three acclaimed novels—The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,
 Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Love Story—Gary Shteyngart turns
to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far.
Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and 
forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving
 insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family
 and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own.

Born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad during the twilight of the Soviet Union, 
the curious, diminutive, asthmatic boy grew up with a persistent sense of 
yearning—for food, for acceptance, for words—desires that would follow
 him into adulthood. At five, Igor decided to become a writer, and his 
grandmother paid him a slice of cheese for every page he produced. He 
wrote Lenin and His Magical Goose, his first novel.

Shteyngart’s loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a
 lawyer or at least a “conscientious toiler” on Wall Street, something their 
 distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian,
 his mother created the term Failurchka—Little Failure—which she applied 
to her son. With love. Mostly.


ADVANCE READER'S COPY EDITION

Hardcover, 368 pages

Expected publication: January 7th 2014 

 by Random House

ISBN

0679643753 (ISBN13: 9780679643753)

 

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