January 2010 On Sale: December 29, 2009 360 pages ISBN: 0843963603 EAN: 9780843963601 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com What, you’ve never dated a man with rotting flesh before? My Zombie Valentine by Lisa Cach, Katie MacAlister, Marianne Mancusi, Angie Fox Tired of vampires and werewolves? This quartet of comedic zombie romances by bestselling authors will drive you mindless with hilarity! FOUR WOMEN ARE ABOUT TO DIG UP THE TRUTH Tired of boyfriends who drain you dry? Sick of guys who stay out all night howling at the moon? You can do better. Some men want you not only for your body, but your brains. Especially your brains. It’s true! There are men out there who care, early-rising, down-to-earth, indefatigable men who’ll follow you for miles. They’ll take the time to surprise you, over and over. One sniff of that perfume, and you’ll have to use a shotgun to fight them off. And then, once you get together, all they want is to share a nice meal. And another. And another. Romeo and Juliet, eat your hearts out. Will the zombies win? Previous Picks

January 2011 On Sale: December 21, 2010 Featuring: Elyse Ulrich; Patrick 162 pages ISBN: 0061935018 EAN: 9780061935015 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Young Adult Buy at Amazon.com She’s in love, Cupid! Rhymes With Cupid by Anna Humphrey Love happens when you least expect it… Goodman’s Gifts & Stationery Store February 14 Cashier: Elyse 3 boxes of heart-shaped chocolate . . . $12.00 Chocolate is the only good thing about this nauseating holiday. 4 containers of candy hearts . . . $5.00 Ever since my ex cheated on me, I’ve sworn off love. Too bad my new neighbor Patrick didn’t get the memo. 1 Valentine’s Day card . . . $4.50 I’m not interested. Although, he is pretty cute. And sweet. And funny. 1 singing Cupid doll (promotional item) . . . $0.00 Stupid Cupid! Point your arrows at someone else. . . . Subtotal . . . $21.50 It’s going to be a complicated Valentine’s Day. Rhymes with Cupid is a sweet, funny love story about a girl who finds romance despite her best efforts not to. All that Elyse Ulrich wants is to get through Valentine’s Day as painlessly as possible. Working at Goodman’s Gifts & Stationery is…

Hamish Macbeth #25 January 2010 On Sale: January 12, 2010 Featuring: Josie McSween; Hamish Macbeth 256 pages ISBN: 0446547387 EAN: 9780446547383 Paperback (reprint) $6.99 Add to Wish List Mystery Private Eye Buy at Amazon.com Exploding Valentine parcel sets the scene for a murder Death Of A Valentine by M. C. Beaton Hamish suspects love is blind, deaf and deadly. Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, may actually marry at last. The entire village of Lochdubh adores Macbeth’s bride-to-be. Josie McSween is Hamish’s new constable, and she is a pretty little thing, with glossy brown hair and big brown eyes. The local folk think that Josie is quite a catch, but Hamish couldn’t be more miserable. The wedding wouldn’t be happening if it weren’t for the murder of a beautiful woman in a nearby village. After the gorgeous woman receives a deadly Valentine’s Day gift, Hamish and Josie take on the case. However, they soon discover that the list of the victim’s admirers is endless. The case confirms Hamish’s belief that love is extremely dangerous, but he still can’t avoid the events that lead up to his celebrated engagement….

February 2005 Featuring: Kate Hamilton; Rob Sutter 352 pages ISBN: 0060009268 EAN: 9780060009267 Paperback $6.99 Add to Wish List Contemporary, Romance Buy at Amazon.com Best romantic comedies week, with a Valentine twist The Trouble With Valentine’s Day by Rachel Gibson Kate Hamilton should know. Dumped by her boyfriend, stressed out by her job, she’s returned to Gospel, Idaho, for some rest and small-town fun. But when her first attempted seduction of a hunky stranger is completely rejected, she wonders what else could go wrong? Well, for starters, she quickly realizes that the Mountain Momma Crafters’ original poetry readings is about as good as it gets on a Friday night. Then she comes face-to-face with Rob Sutter, former ice hockey madman, owner of Sutter Sports–and the hunky stranger who told her to get lost. Rob’s been more than burned by love–but then he and Kate find themselves in an ultra-compromising position in the M & S Market after hours, giving the phrase “clean-up in aisle five” a whole new meaning, and causing a whole lot of gossip in Gospel… Cleverly written, fun-filled romantic escape. Excerpt Just like the first time she’d seen him, she wondered if thinking about the man had…

January 2011 On Sale: December 28, 2010 Featuring: Susan Allison 320 pages ISBN: 031254748X EAN: 9780312547486 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Buy at Amazon.com Heart-touching, Lifetime movie source The Lost Valentine by James Michael Pratt Movie Tie-In Edition EXPERIENCE THE LOVE STORY AMERICA IS TAKING TO HEART with The Lost Valentine—now the basis for a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie! News reporter Susan Allison is looking for the perfect story about true love, though she doubts where such a thing really exists. Neil Thomas, Jr. wants the world to know about his parents’ bittersweet love story: On February 14, 1944, Caroline Thomas said good-bye to her beloved husband, a Navy pilot sent to the Pacific. For fifty years, she waited for him—until a miracle happened, and she received his lost valentine… In the present day, when Susan and Neil meet, can the story of Neil’s parents bring them together in a love as powerful as she dreams of and he remembers? Previous Picks

A Blessings Novel January 2010 On Sale: January 1, 2010 Featuring: Bernadine Brown 400 pages ISBN: 0061547816 EAN: 9780061547812 Paperback $13.99 Add to Wish List Multicultural Inspirational, Fiction Buy at Amazon.com Everyone deserves a second chance, right? A Second Helping by Beverly Jenkins With the millions she received after divorcing her faithless tycoon husband, Bernadine Brown saved the historic town of Henry Adams, Kansas, from financial ruin and found loving homes for five needy children. Now there are other “projects” crying out for rescue. If ever a town institution needed rescuing, it’s the beloved Dog and Cow diner. Once it was Henry Adams’s social center—or gossip central!—now it’s in danger of becoming duct-tape central. But there are other distractions pulling Bernadine from the task at hand: a plethora of romantic entanglements, including her own with a disturbingly attractive Malachi July; a bitter young boy newly arrived in town with his widowed father; and a fugitive on the run with a six-hundred-pound pet pig that’s wanted for murder (the pig, that is). And when Bernadine’s philandering, trouble-making ex-husband rolls into town looking for a second chance, life in Henry Adams gets very interesting indeed. A novel about community with something for…

The Bodyguards, No. 3 January 2006 Featuring: Ethan Garrett; Darcy Prescott 337 pages ISBN: 0312990936 EAN: 9780312990930 Paperback $6.99 Add to Wish List Romance Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Suspense adds to this second chance tale. To the Brink by Cindy Gerard When the stakes are high and the danger is real, there is only one place left to go… HER LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE… Working on highly sensitive diplomatic affairs, Darcy Prescott is a natural target for terrorist kidnappers. But when she’s mysteriously plucked off a street in Manila one sultry night, Darcy’s disappearance isn’t what it seems… AND THE ONLY MAN WHO CAN SAVE HER… The moment Special Forces soldier Ethan Garrett laid eyes on Darcy, he knew she was the woman he would marry—and he did. But when their marriage fell apart, Ethan never really recovered. Now a highly paid bodyguard, Ethan quickly slips back into combat mode when he learns of Darcy’s disappearance and calls in old favors to assemble a rogue rescue team…. IS THE HUSBAND SHE LEFT LONG AGO… Tracking Darcy all the way to the jungles of the Philippines, Ethan knows every move he makes could mean the difference between life and death….

The Rosewood #1 February 2010 On Sale: January 26, 2010 Featuring: Travis Maher; Margot Radcliffe 407 pages ISBN: 034548276X EAN: 9780345482761 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Sometimes going home can bring a second chance to love. Remember Me by Laura Moore A rising star in the modeling world, Margot Radcliffe hasn’t forgotten the hurt that sent her running from Rosewood, the beautiful Virginia horse farm where she was raised. Travis Maher, a ruggedly handsome rebel and gifted trainer with a hard-knock past, had once captured Margot’s heart—and then gave it back to her broken. But when Margot’s family is struck by tragedy, she is forced to set aside her skyrocketing career and return to a place she never expected to see again, where the legs everyone is interested in belong to thoroughbreds not supermodels. Now Rosewood’s success is dependent on Margot, and the only person she can count on for help is the very man who taught her the meaning of sorrow all those years ago. As Margot and Travis join forces to save Rosewood from ruin, their wild natures clash and passions surge. But will this hard-hearted horseman be able to…

London’s Greatest Lovers #1 October 2010 On Sale: October 1, 2010 Featuring: Claire Lyons; Morgan Lyons 384 pages ISBN: 006192296X EAN: 9780061922961 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com Too young first time? Passions Of A Wicked Earl by Lorraine Heath Known throughout the city for his prowess in the bedroom, Morgan Lyons, Eighth Earl of Westcliffe, cannot forgive an unpardonable affront to his honor. Discovering his young bride in the arms of his brother was a staggering blow — so he banished the beautiful deceiver to the country and devoted himself entirely to the pursuit of carnal pleasure. Claire Lyons was an innocent, frightened girl of 17 on her wedding day, seeking chaste comfort from a childhood friend. Now three years later, she has blossomed magnificently. Still innocent, she has returned to London with one goal in mind: the seduction of her notorious husband. Unskilled in the sensual arts, she burns nonetheless for the kisses too long denied her. And now she has but one Season to win back the heart of the rogue she betrayed. A witty, wily and sensuous Regency Romance! Previous Picks

Modern Library Classics June 2001 On Sale: June 12, 2001 Featuring: Anne Elliot; Frederick Wentworth 224 pages ISBN: 0375757295 EAN: 9780375757297 Paperback $5.95 Add to Wish List Fiction Buy at Amazon.com Ultimate novel of second chance love Persuasion by Jane Austen Called a ‘perfect novel’ by Harold Bloom, Persuasion was written while Jane Austen was in failing health. She died soon after its completion, and it was published in an edition with Northanger Abbey in 1818. In the novel, Anne Elliot, the heroine Austen called ‘almost too good for me,’ has let herself be persuaded not to marry Frederick Wentworth, a fine and attractive man without means. Eight years later, Captain Wentworth returns from the Napoleonic Wars with a triumphant naval career behind him, a substantial fortune to his name, and an eagerness to wed. Austen explores the complexities of human relationships as they change over time. ‘She is a prose Shakespeare,’ Thomas Macaulay wrote of Austen in 1842. ‘She has given us a multitude of characters, all, in a certain sense, commonplace. Yet they are all as perfectly discriminated from each other as if they were the most eccentric of human beings.’ Persuasion is the last work of one…