"A young black British woman with a popular student radio show that dishes out relationship advice finds her show and her reputation on the line after she makes out with a man she publicly denounced"-- Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she's made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean...

Juan Gabriel Vásquez retraces his most intense obsessions: the weight of the past, memory faults, how our lives intersect with the political world. But it is also a novel about the importance of opinion in our societies. In the demanding genre of the novel, which has given so many masterpieces in the Latin American tradition, Vásquez gives us his most intimate: an intense reflection on the weakness of public and private judgments on irreversible...

Emma, a politician constantly under fire who is lobbying for a new law to protect women and girls from online bullying, is pushed to the limit when a body is found in her house, and will do anything to protect her reputation and family, no matter what the cost. "As a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career -- including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora. A former teacher, the glare of the spotlight is unnerving...

"At the famous Patisserie Clermont, a chance encounter with the owner's daughter has given one young man a glimpse into a life he never knew existed: of sweet cream and melted chocolate, golden caramel and powdered sugar, of pastry light as air. But it is not just the art of confectionery that holds him captive, and soon a forbidden love affair begins. Almost eighty years later, an academic discovers a hidden photograph of her grandfather as a young...

Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon -- it's a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year, they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. And leaving one always means missing the other. Until this particular Christmas, when Sierra meets Caleb, and one life eclipses the other. By reputation, Caleb is...

A nobleman becomes infatuated with a professional gambler and proposes a wager: if she wins, she'll have enough money to secure her independence; if he wins, she has to spend a week with him, possibly ruining her reputation.

"In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she has been thrust into the afterlife, fighting to head off a curse that will otherwise devastate generations to come. Hak Jeonga has always shouldered the burden of upholding the family name. When she sent her daughter-in-law to America to cover up an illegitimate birth, she was simply doing what was needed to preserve the reputations of her loved ones. How could she have...

"A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this sapphic romance set 1814"-- It is the year 1814 and life for a young lady of good breeding has many difficulties. There are balls to attend, fashions to follow, marriages to consider and, of course, the tiny complication of existing in a world swarming with fairy spirits, interfering deities, and actual straight-up sorcerers. Miss Maelys Mitchelmore finds her entry...

Rhett Eaton is the face of professional bull riding. The golden boy. Or at least he was until it all blew up in his face after a public brawl. Now his agent says he has to clean up his image, and sticks Rhett with his ball-busting daughter for the rest of the season as "full-time supervision." But Rhett doesn't need a babysitter -- especially one with skin-tight jeans, a sexy smirk, and a mouth she can't stop running. And he quickly learns that Summer...