The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love<\/a><\/center>
Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, stealing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming villain, but that’s beside the point. As someone highly educated in the ruthless discipline of ornithology, Beth knows trouble when she sees it, and she is determined to keep her distance from Devon. <\/p>\n
For his part, Devon has never been more smitten than when he first set eyes on Professor Beth Pickering. She’s so pretty, so polite, so capable of bringing down a fiery, deadly bird using only her wits. In other words, an angel. Devon understands he must not get close to her, however, since they’re professional rivals. <\/p>\n
When a competition to become Birder of the Year by capturing an endangered caladrius bird is announced, Beth and Devon are forced to team up to have any chance of winning. Now keeping their distance becomes a question of one bed or two. But they must take the risk, because fowl play is afoot, and they can’t trust anyone else\u2014for all may be fair in love and war, but this is ornithology.<\/p>\n
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Liars<\/a><\/center>
When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including\u2014a few years later\u2014all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it\u2019s not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John\u2019s ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife.<\/p>\n
As Jane\u2019s career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter. Throughout the upheavals of family life, Jane tries to hold it all together. That is, until John leaves her.<\/p>\n
Liars is a tour de force of wit and rage, telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, and of a woman rising inexorably from its ashes.<\/p>\n
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Catalina<\/a><\/center>
When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school\u2019s elite subcultures\u2014internships and literary journals, posh parties and secret societies\u2014which she observes with the eye of an anthropologist and an interloper\u2019s skepticism: she is both fascinated and repulsed. Craving a great romance, Catalina finds herself drawn to a fellow student, an actual budding anthropologist eager to teach her about the Latin American world she was born into but never knew, even as her life back in Queens begins to unravel. And every day, the clock ticks closer to the abyss of life after graduation. Can she save her family? Can she save herself? What does it mean to be saved?
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Slow Dance<\/a><\/center>
They were just friends.Best friends. Allies. They spent entire summers sitting on Shiloh\u2019s porch steps, dreaming about the future. They were both going to get out of north Omaha\u2014Shiloh would go to go to college and become an actress, and Cary would join the Navy. They promised each other that their friendship would never change.<\/p>\n
Well, Shiloh did go to college, and Cary did join the Navy. And yet, somehow, everything changed.<\/p>\n
Now Shiloh\u2019s thirty-three, and it\u2019s been fourteen years since she talked to Cary. She\u2019s been married and divorced. She has two kids. And she\u2019s back living in the same house she grew up in. Her life is nothing like she planned.<\/p>\n
When she\u2019s invited to an old friend\u2019s wedding, all Shiloh can think about is whether Cary will be there\u2014and whether she hopes he will be. Would Cary even want to talk to her? After everything?<\/p>\n
The answer is yes. And yes. And yes.<\/p>\n
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Ne’er Duke Well<\/a><\/center>
Peter Kent\u2014newly inherited Duke of Stanhope and recently of New Orleans, Louisiana\u2014must become respectable. Between his radical politics and the time he interrupted a minor royal wedding with a flock of sheep\u2014not his fault!\u2014he\u2019s developed a scandalous reputation at odds with his goal of becoming guardian to his half siblings. For help, he turns to the cleverest and most managing woman of his acquaintance, Lady Selina Ravenscroft.<\/p>\n
Selina is society\u2019s most proper debutante, save one tiny secret: she runs an erotic circulating library for women. When Peter asks for her help, she suggests courtship and marriage to a lady of unimpeachable reputation. (Which is to say, definitely not herself.)<\/p>\n
But matchmaking doesn\u2019t go according to plan. Peter\u2019s siblings run rampant on Bond Street. Selina ends up in the Serpentine. And worst of all, the scorching chemistry between Peter and Selina proves impossible to resist. For the disreputable duke and his unpredictable matchmaker, falling in love just might be the ultimate scandal.<\/p>\n
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Cross the Line<\/a><\/center>
Formula 1 driver Dev Anderson\u2019s career is on the line. After a social media disaster leaves him with an angry team and sponsors threatening to jump ship, he needs someone to help save his image. At a party in Monaco, he bumps into the woman who can fix it all. There\u2019s just one problem: she\u2019s his best friend\u2019s little sister. And, okay, maybe there\u2019s another problem\u2014he kissed her last year and hasn\u2019t been able to stop thinking about it since.<\/p>\n
Recent college grad Willow Williams needs a job. She may have a talent for seeing the bright side of any bad situation, but it\u2019s hard to stay positive when she\u2019s struggling to get hired. So when Dev offers her a temporary solution, she can\u2019t help but say yes. Even if it means ignoring the crush she\u2019s had on him since childhood.<\/p>\n
Willow and Dev are determined to keep things strictly professional, regardless of old feelings and the blazing chemistry between them. But in the glittering and high-stakes world of Formula 1, some lines are meant to be crossed\u2026<\/p>\n
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Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop<\/a><\/center>
Normally, spooky season is Bailey Briggs\u2019 favorite time of year, and her Halloween-themed small town\u2019s time to shine. But between managing Lazy Bones Books, working on her graphic novel-in-progress, and running the Spooky Season Literary Festival, Bailey hardly has a moment to enjoy Elyan Hollow\u2019s spot-on seasonal vibes. Not to mention, at every turn she seems to be tripping over the contentious crew of Gone Ghouls, a ghost-hunting reality TV show currently filming around town. Bailey tries to stay focused on the Lit Festival, which is supposed to kick off Elyan Hollow\u2019s annual Halloween Fair; instead, this year\u2019s festival begins with a murder . . .<\/p>\n
It\u2019s bad enough Bailey discovered the victim, but now, as a lead suspect with some (admittedly) damning evidence pointing her way, she\u2019s got to clear her name! With the help of her librarian friend, Colby, and Jack Skeleton, her world-class bookshop dog (and the absolute bestest boy ever), Bailey sets out to solve a murder . . .<\/p>\n
As her investigation weaves through family secrets, professional rivalries, and town feuds, the list of suspects is growing fast . . . and unfortunately, so is the list of victims. If Bailey doesn\u2019t find the killer soon, Elyan Hollow\u2019s haunted reputation will get a little too real . . .<\/p>\n
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A Tale of Two Titties: A Writer’s Guide to Conquering the Most Sexist Tropes in Literary History<\/a><\/center>
Let’s face it, women’s representation in literature really sucks. And that’s mostly because of the male authors who write female characters like they’re nothing more than playthings in their stories. Whether they have breasts like ripe peaches or curves like a racetrack, the literary ladies gracing the pages of bestselling books rarely serve a purpose beyond supporting a male character (or giving him something to fantasize about).<\/p>\n
But what are you supposed to do about it if you can’t even get a foot (or, I guess, a boob) in the door?<\/p>\n
You beat them at their own game.<\/p>\n
In this hilarious yet incisive guide, you’ll learn how to write women just like a bestselling male author\u2014stereotypes, tropes, objectification, and all\u2014so you can start dismantling the system from the inside. With thoughtful literary analysis, interactive exercises, and commentary that perfectly straddles the line between satirical hilarity and righteous indignation, A Tale of Two Titties is both an illuminating study of women’s representation in literature and an absurd (yet accurate) guide to writing through the male gaze. Sources: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a>, 8<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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