Zach by Jenna Myles, 376 pages

 Smooth, Playboy, Billionaire.

All labels people apply to me. But the only label I actually care about is Brother.

Everything I do is for them. For the empire we built together. Women are an enjoyable distraction, that’s all.

So why can’t I stop thinking about the frumpy woman who’s taken over my marketing department? She’s constantly getting lost. She loses her shoes, and let’s face it, she’s just weird. I mean, yeah, she’s a brilliant marketer. And ok, my brothers like her. And fine, she has a backbone of steel and stands up to me when i’m being a dick.

But no way am I going to get sucked into a relationship like my brothers have.

I am a woman on the edge.

Ok, fine, not on the edge. But I really have nothing left. So why not pick up and move to a new city, start a new job, and become a totally new person? I’ve never been on an Airplane or outside of New York City, but so what?

People-ing is hard. Harder than I thought. But I’ve gotten sucked into this big, wild family, and I kind of like it. So maybe I can start a new life. Maybe I can cross some things off my Get a New Life list.

But never in a million years did I think I’d do any of them with my boss. But suddenly, there I am, laying on top of him in a crowd of people…Whoops, that came out dirtier than it was in my head.

So what’s a virgin, frump of a woman supposed to do when her sexy boss starts staring, and touching and trying to take care of her? No really…I have no idea what I’m doing. Help!

Barbarian's Choice by Ruby Dixon, 228 pages

 I might be the only unmated female in my tribe, but it doesn’t mean I’ve given my heart. I’m waiting. I want resonance, and I won’t settle for anything less.

But when an alien ship lands and a handsome stranger steps out, I know he’s the one. His name’s Mardok and he’s fascinatingly different – and distractingly appealing. But Mardok can’t stay on the ice planet, and he says he can take me with him.

Now, I must make a choice. Do I stay and lose my mate forever? Or do I follow him to the stars and leave behind everything I know?

The Private LIfe of the Cat Who: Tales of KoKo and Yum Yum) by Lilian Jackson Braun, 160 pages

 A collection of short stories starring Koko and Yum Yum—the fantastic feline duo from the bestselling Cat Who series.

What could be more purrfect for fans of the Cat Who series than an intimate look at the private lives of those extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum—the most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction!

In this charming collection of feline antics, you’ll discover why Jim Qwilleran considers Koko a veritable clone of T.S. Eliot’s Rum Tum Tugger, how Yum Yum was rescued from a burglar who is not above a spot of catnapping, and many more fascinating catly facts...

Declan by Jenna Myles, 349 pages

She's all I've dreamed of for years, but she's my employee...and around her, I turn into a stuttering teenage boy.

We’ve been dancing around each other for years. It’s not a dance I’m proud of. The day we met, I fell out of my chair. Now, we’re stuck in this repeating pattern: she corners me, I freeze then I bolt. I’m 33 years old and I should be able to handle a woman better than this.
But she’s not just any woman. She’s tough, smart, and her curves make my legs numb.
Oh yeah, she’s also my employee.
But when I finally work up the nerve to talk to her, I stick my foot in my mouth. Then that night, when her world is touched by violence, I firmly lodge my foot all the way into my throat.
Now I’ll do anything to fix what I’ve broken. I’m working to contain the aftermath of that night, and I have a plan to woo her (yes, I said woo). And my plan was working. Slowly, steadily, she was coming to me.
Then my brothers decided to ‘help’ us along and now we’re stranded at a tiny motel in the middle of nowhere, in a snowstorm.
And there’s only one bed.
When we get out of here, I’m going to murder my brothers. Then I’m going to make damn sure the threats against her are handled. Because even though I’m a computer geek, I am more than capable of being the man she needs.

I just hope I don’t run out of time before I can show her.

Tales From a Village School by Miss Read, 166 pages

 Our thirty-ninth book by Miss Read is a delightful collection of forty stories, first published forty years ago in England and collected here for the first time in book form. Based on Miss Read's (the real-life Dora Saint) own lifelong involvement with country schools, these stories chronicle the life of a village schoolteacher in the Berkshires. Whether describing the zestful decking of the church for the Harvest Festival or the wicked wisdom of a child confessing to breaking a skylight window, Miss Read captures the scenes of village school life and of childhood itself with humorous understanding of human foibles and a love of nature that have long endeared her to readers. Fresh and beautifully written, these stories led to the writing of Miss Read's popular novels set in the villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green. 

The Uncensored MAD by MAD Magazine, 192 pages

 MAD Magazine takes a look at sex. 

The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, 229 pages

 What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?

Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that’s not the main reason customers stop by . . .

The father-daughter duo are ‘food detectives’. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories – dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility.