Community First

299 Days: The Community, the third book in the 299 Days series, reunites Grant Matson with his family after his wife, children, and in-laws accept that the only way to survive the Collapse is to flee the comfort of their suburban lives and join him at his isolated cabin in the woods. With riots becoming more violent, power outages more widespread, and the military crumbling, Grant and others throughout Washington State realize they must organize if they want to endure.

I've been secretly in love with my best friend for years. Unfortunately, the entire town seems to have figured it out before he did. Willow Harbor seems convinced Ben Carter and I belong together. Maybe it's because we practically raise a rescue dog together. Maybe it's because he's the first person I call when something goes wrong. Or maybe it's because Ben has spent years showing up for me in ways that look suspiciously like love. Not that he'd ever mean it that way. That's what I keep telling myself. As a volunteer firefighter and the town's favorite handyman, Ben is everybody's hero. To...

A small-town cowboy romance filled with heat, heart, and hard-won love. Francina Brown came to Sunset Springs, Texas, for a wedding and the holidays—not to fall for a cowboy with a dangerous smile and a habit of saying exactly what she’s trying not to hear. Travis Garland came home to Texas to rebuild his life, take a job at Stanley Ranch, and finally put distance between himself and the Windgate name—a family legacy rooted in cruelty, entitlement, and violence. Love wasn’t part of the plan. Then Francina walked into the ranch kitchen. She’s brilliant, guarded, and heading back to...

One misplaced parcel, one snowy lane, and a quiet love that grows by the light of a lantern. When the first real winter snow hides Willow Lane, Lydia Zook’s neat life as a village seamstress is nudged off course by misdelivered letters and a stubborn neighbor who means well. With timbers, beeswax, and steady hands, Amos Byler—the quiet carpenter whose eyes are as careful as his joinery—helps build a simple post cupboard to keep the lane's parcels safe. What starts as a practical solution becomes a tender work of repair—of relationships, of reputations, and of two hearts learning to ...

Fans of Hugh Howey and Kim Stanley Robinson will find much to love in Silo 42: Arrival—a hopeful post-apocalyptic novel about building a better world after the old one has failed. After surviving the exodus from Silo 42 and the long march east to the Atlantic Ocean, the pioneers finally reach the coast—only to discover that freedom is far more complicated than escape. As the community begins building Sunrise Village from the ground up, new alliances, old conflicts, and unexpected realities reshape how they build a resilient life. Calen, one of the silo engineers, is invited into the ...

At Stanley Ranch, love doesn’t arrive quietly. It comes with second chances, old secrets, unexpected family, and healing that changes everything. As spring turns to summer in Sunset Springs, the people of Stanley Ranch are building more than businesses, homes, and futures - they’re building a family. Luke and Edye Stanley are finally within reach of making their love official in the most important way possible: adopting Nia and Malik, the two children who have already claimed their hearts. But as the paperwork moves forward, the woman who made it possible - Loretta Brooks - begins to ...

"...Hammer's voice is brimming with such melody that, if you listen to it long enough, you can probably get drunk off it." — Vulture.com *Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now available for the first time in the US. In England’s birdwatching paradise, a new breed has been sighted—a murderer . . . Young Tom French is...

She came to Sealight Cove for a quiet fresh start. What she found was murder… and a dog who talks. After walking away from the life she thought she wanted, Nora Hale arrives in the small coastal town of Sealight Cove hoping for peace, second chances, and a place to begin again. Instead, she finds a cozy candle shop, a town full of secrets, and Rufus, an unusually clever rescue dog with a habit of noticing things other people miss. Very unusual things. When a longtime local is found dead beneath the old lighthouse, the town quickly calls it a tragic accident. Rufus disagrees. And when ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” –The New York Times Book Review "Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." –The Washington Post From the New York-Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, the beloved novel about young love and a big secret...

A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A National Bestseller | Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award | Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize | One of The Washington Post's Best Books of 2024 | An NPR Best Book of 2024 | An Elle Best Book of 2024 | A Boston Globe Best Book...

READ BY THE AUTHORS. Discover the joy and freedom of being loved and loving well. Do you feel your relationships are lacking deep connections? Do you feel your time with God could be more rewarding? New York Times bestselling author Sadie Robertson Huff and her husband, Christian, invite you on...

As a response to the increasing violence in our culture, the widening ideological divides, and the growing gap in economic well-being, there is greater awareness that a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. But even as we acknowledge the need to build community, the dominant on-the-ground practices about how to engage people, civically and organizationally, remain essentially unchanged. We still believe community is built with better messaging, more persuasion, and social events for people to get to know each other better. All of which is naïve.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The acclaimed author of Bird by Bird brings her brilliant combination of humor and warmth to a "smart, funny, and comforting" chronicle of single motherhood (Los Angeles Times Book Review). It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her...

Bloomsbury presents Solidarity: The Work of Recognition by Dr. Rowan Williams, read by Niall Lucas. Celebrated thinker Rowan Williams explores the shared burdens and hopes that make solidarity possible. From its use as a rallying cry by the labour movement to its central place in struggles for...

The annual Hollow Creek celebration is the town's pride, a perfect autumn day filled with laughter, parade floats, and the sweet smell of caramel apples. This year is the biggest yet, drawing crowds from across the state. But as the sun sets, the sky darkens with an unnatural shade of green. The weather warnings come too late. When an EF5 monster descends upon the crowded festivities, the heart of the community becomes a storm-ravaged warzone. A first responder battles through the debris to find the living. A mother clings to her child as the world is ripped apart around them. A ...

A parenting guide that speaks directly to Latinx families with language, history, and lived experience that honors and celebrates our cultura—while helping readers unlearn violence and shame as tools of discipline. For many in the Latinx community, “la Chancla”—what we learn to see as...

"[Narrator] Mark Sanderlin’s youthful voice is a good match for Nathan, showcasing a variety of emotions. He paces the narration to enhance the excitement." — Booklist "Mark Sanderlin is the perfect narrator for this story of a preteen boy who is keeping a huge secret. Sanderlin's tone is...

Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities - businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, government - do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost.

The rain had been falling for six days, and somewhere in the back of Nora Vale's mind, a clock was ticking. Briar Creek is an isolated community of eleven hundred people tucked into a crease in the Blue Ridge. For over a century, the people and the mountain have shared a quiet existence. But as relentless storms batter the slopes and the ground reaches its absolute breaking point, that fragile agreement is about to be violently revoked. When the earth finally gives way, it takes the roads, the power grids, and the only routes to safety with it. Now, entirely cut off from the outside world, ...