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At turns funny and strangely sobering, this “found memoir” is a picaresque tale of inspired, heroic deceit, incompetence, and - just possibly - triumph. Follow the flailing escapades of maverick music manager Campbell Ouiniette at the Calgary Folk Festival, as he leaves a trail of empty liquor bottles, cigarette butts, bruised egos, and obliterated relationships behind him. His top headlining act has abandoned him for the Big Time. In a fit of self-delusion or pure genius (or perhaps a bit of both), Ouiniette devises an intricate scam....

Her Christmas lanterns save the festival—and catch mountain man Wade's eye. Can she trust his promise of forever? I'm just trying to survive the Christmas festival with my dignity intact. My handmade wooden lanterns aren't exactly flying off the table, my student loans are crushing me, and I'm pretty sure I'm destined to be single forever. At twenty-three, I've never even been kissed—pathetic, right? Then Wade Metcalfe shows up at my booth. He's six feet of pure mountain man perfection, all broad shoulders and blue eyes that make me forget how to breathe. When the festival's pathway ...

She’s spent her life living for everyone else. He makes her wonder if she could finally choose herself. I’d spent my whole life living for everyone else. Since the age of twelve, I’d worked in my parents’ restaurant—trading proms for late-night shifts, friendships for endless obligations, and love for a future I never chose. At twenty-three, I was still stuck in their dream, not mine, pouring my heart into crafting snow globes that captured the kind of family and freedom I’d never have. Then came the Wildwood Valley Christmas Festival. One careless moment—a pack of kids ...

She came to sell fudge. He demanded black coffee instead. I came to Wildwood Valley's Christmas festival to sell my gourmet fudge and test my dream of opening a mountain shop. I didn't plan on falling for a grumpy mountain man who demanded black coffee at a hot chocolate booth. Keaton Reed was everything I should have avoided. Rugged, intense, and way too confident for his own good. The kind of man who made smart women do stupid things. Like agree to let him help run my booth when a busload of unexpected customers showed up. Like follow him upstairs at the wrap party for what was supposed ...

When the town’s fire chief shows up for an inspection, she doesn’t expect him to reignite an old flame… After a messy divorce, Lila Morgan is back in Cedar Falls, knee-deep in corn silk and tangled extension cords as she helps her brother prepare the family’s haunted maze. The last thing she needs is Sawyer Grant—her brother’s best friend, first crush, and the man she’s spent a decade trying to forget—walking back into her life in full fire chief uniform. Sawyer has three priorities: protect his town, protect his crew, and never touch the one woman he’s wanted for ten ...

In this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller—Turner Classic Movies host and author of Dark Cityand Noir Bar—offers a uniquely intimate look at the women who defined film noir, now featuring updated text and 10 new star profiles. Film noir was...

His playing days are over. His winning season just began. I'm reorganizing my friend's book booth when he walks up behind me. Tall, broad-shouldered, and absolutely gorgeous. The kind of man who makes my librarian brain short-circuit and my carefully organized world tilt sideways. He's also Cassie's brother. The famous football star whose career ended too soon. The one she's been worried sick about for months. The last man I should be fantasizing about while I'm supposed to be watching her booth at the fall festival. But when Orion looks at me like I'm the most fascinating puzzle he's ever ...

A broken-down car and one grumpy mountain man shouldn't lead to love. But sometimes the best romances start with a breakdown. My spider-decorated car breaking down at a mountain harvest festival was bad enough. Then the grumpiest, most gorgeous man alive showed up to "help." Clayton Rivers hates tourists, hates the festival, and definitely hates my Halloween decorations. Too bad my broken alternator has other plans, stranding me right in his grumpy path. One reluctant rescue leads to unexpected hayride duties, which leads to the kind of chemistry that could set the whole mountain on fire. ...

Nora Finch has always loved history. She just never expected to fall into it, literally. One moment, she’s running her barely-surviving time-travel-themed tour company in the sleepy Scottish village of Glenmoore, dodging rent notices and awkward family dinners. The next, she’s hurled back to 1745, armed with nothing but a sarcastic archaeologist, a cursed runestone, and a head full of historical trivia that’s suddenly become uncomfortably relevant. Enter Oliver Black: grumpy, brilliant, and deeply unimpressed by time travel, fake marriages, or Nora’s flair for spontaneous chaos. ...

She destroyed his kindling pile and ignited his heart. Now this mountain man will prove she's worth the burn. I came to Wildwood Valley to write about their charming fall festival. Instead, I accidentally destroyed a perfectly organized pile of kindling that belonged to the hottest mountain man I've ever seen. Talk about making a first impression. Silas is all dark eyes, broad shoulders, and safety lectures that somehow make my pulse race instead of my eyes roll. He's also patient enough to teach a clueless city girl how to build the perfect fire, one carefully placed stick at a time. Which...

They shut me away for my safety. They should have triple checked the lock. My bodyguard Jamie is my shadow. He escorts me everywhere; he plans my days. He’s so damn beautiful that maybe I wouldn’t mind, except this has already gone on too long. There’s a whole city out there. A world to explore. Music, laughter, life. That’s why I do it: dive out of the car and disappear into the crowd. Why I run off to spend my stolen hours with a gorgeous musician and the captain of a riverboat. Jamie’s always so serious. Well, it’s time to play a game. Count to ten, Jamie. Then come find me...

The final volume in “The Dark Circus Trilogy” where the line between the real and the imagined is a thin one... After escaping the Cirque Du Noir, I head home, back to the family farm. But I never make it. Once I disembark the train, I’m accosted by none other than Rex, the foreman of the circus, and another man I’ve never seen before. One who holds a gun to my face. Forced back to the circus, I’m now more keen than ever to solve the mystery of the darkness that seems to absorb everyone who not only works for the circus, but who attends it. The answers I find, I’m not prepared ...

Busty, independent Meg has dark desires. When she meets a music executive at a festival, he knows just what to do with her. Mr. Rice will teach the coed how to please him—even if it means passing her around in public. Can sexy Meg handle so much pleasure and so much humiliation?

He’s her mountain man; she’s his secret Valentine... Tessa As the quiet owner of The Velvet Book in Hope Peak, Montana, I’ve always been more comfortable lost in fictional love stories than living them. So when Ryder Hawke—the town’s rugged wilderness tour guide and my brother’s best friend—asks me to be his fake girlfriend, I hesitate. We’re complete opposites: he’s adventurous and wild, while I prefer the coziness of my bookstore. But I can’t resist helping him out, even if it means risking my heart. Then I start receiving steamy, anonymous Valentine notes that make my...

Burning Man is the premier countercultural event of modern times, growing over 25 years from a strange San Francisco beach party into an experimental city of 50,000 colorful souls in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, which burns brightly for a week before dissolving into dusty memories and changed lives. Longtime newspaper journalist Steven T. Jones embedded himself in this blossoming culture starting in 2004, a dispiriting year for American politics but the beginning of Burning Man’s renaissance, when it exploded outward in unexpected ways. The result is the most in-depth book ever written ...

Rhyme and Passion Collide in Cleveland's Hip Hop Scene... In the vibrant underground rap scene of Cleveland, an aspiring singer and a rising star rapper turn musical competition into sizzling romance. Meet Jasmine, a talented songbird determined to be heard in a male-dominated industry, and Malik, a cocky emcee with undeniable lyrical skills. Though initially at odds, their rivalry shifts into high gear when Malik invites Jasmine to collaborate. In the studio together, their chemistry ignites into an irresistible attraction neither can deny. They embark on a secret affair that amps up the ...

Five friends. One vengeful plan. A carnival that knows their darkest secrets. When Lila Moran and her four friends crash on a lonely road, they are trapped in a nightmare where every ride is a test and every game holds deadly stakes. But this is no ordinary carnival—it’s a twisted venue where secrets must be confessed and lies are paid for in blood. A grinning Ringmaster whispers their darkest deeds out loud. Sweet-talking Miss Ruby runs a motel where no one sleeps peacefully. And a silent Strong Man makes sure there’s no escape. As her friends face deadly challenges one by one, Lila ...

Will Rajnish, a 5-year-old dreamy-eyed kid, survive a multi-pronged attack by a fearsome hyena, a lurking ghost, a beautiful witch, and an unlawful theft? Will these kids become famous? Will they sanely handle ghosts and demons? Will Rajnish be a demon slayer? Does he play with a ghost rider toy and does he read goosebumps books at such a tender age? Are children in the family safe from demons, ghosts, and other elements, like cobra, thieves, et al? Kids from 3 to 12 years in the family have a habit of keeping vampire diaries and ghost puranas. Can Rajnish deal with the story of his father ...

Love Rocks at Woodstock '69 Daisy’s 18. Free from foster care. Thumbing it to Woodstock. Grooving to peace, love, and music. Shiloh, a Please Man—the festival's commune security force, helps Daisy find the tent she stashed her sleeping bag in. Turns out to be his tent. Next thing, he is dancing barefoot in the rain, at her side. Do the imprints of their bare feet in the mud mark a moment of wild joy? Or the steps to Daisy’s future?

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.