The big day is fast approaching, but so is a big disaster...Sabrina Falks is the golden girl - a star actress engaged to the too-good-to-be-true Edward. Her younger sister Mimi is funny and bright but hopelessly lost, with no career prospects, no money, no love life and a string of disastrous mistakes in her past. When Sabrina asks Mimi to be her bridesmaid, Mimi soon learns that 'bridesmaid' actually means 'unofficial wedding planner - servant, slave and general dogsbody'. And, to her horror, she knows that it's going to take more than just patience to whip up the wedding of the century, especially when the official wedding planner has a murky secret that could rock Sabrina and Edwa

Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of having been switched at birth. Although certain she's not the monster her mother claimed she is she does feel that she doesn't quite fit in ...The new girl in High School, she's bored and frustrated by her small town life and then there's the secret that she can't tell anyone. Her mysterious ability she can influence people's decisions, without knowing how, or why ...When the intense and darkly handsome newcomer Finn suddenly turns up at her bedroom window one night her world is turned upside down. He holds the key to her past, the answers to her strange powers and is the doorway to a place she never imagined could exist. Forening, the home of the Trylle. Everything begins to make sense to Wendy. Among the Trylle, she is not just different, but special. But what marks her out as chosen for greatness in this world also places her in grave danger. With everything around her changing, Finn is the only person she can trust. But dark forces are conspiring not only to separate them, but to see the downfall everything that Wendy cares about. The fate of Forening rests in Wendy's hands, and the decisions she and Finn make could change all their lives forever ...

Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, The Art Book has become a publishing phenomenon and a well-known event in the art book world. Reduced in size, making it light and highly portable, this new mini edition presents the same easy-to-use alphabetical guide to 500 of the world's greatest painters and sculptors. 500 color illustrations.

THE SHAPE OF WATER is the first in Camilleri’s series of contemporary mystery novels featuring Inspector Salvo Montalbano and set in Vigáta, a fictional seacoast town in southern Sicily. One can’t help but love this Montalbano character. He’s an unpretentious and honest Italian policeman who doesn’t care who he offends when he is intent on solving the crime of the moment. In this case, there doesn’t seem to be a crime at all when an influential local contractor is found dead in a very compromising situation.

The deceased Silvio Luparello appears to have had a last fling with a prostitute and suffered a massive and fatal heart attack in the process. Montalbano becomes suspicious when a powerful politician, a judge, and a bishop all apply pressure to quickly close the investigation.

Our hero manages to get a 48-hour extension during which he sorts it all out.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first novel from Stieg Larsson, a Swedish magazine editor who passed away before its publication. A runaway success in Swedish, this mystery novel doesn't adhere to the conventions of most English-language mysteries. The book tells the story of a journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, who is hired to investigate one prominent family's murky history, and he in turn hires a young girl to help him with the detective work.

That main thread is only one part of what's going on, though; Blomkvist is also caught up in a libel lawsuit stemming from his day job as a financial reporter. The editorial commentary on the world of high finance and the professional responsibility of financial journalists is an interesting but incongruous and not fully formed thread of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Overall, Larsson's debut novel is intriguing, and readers willing to stick with the unusual storylines will become absorbed in the mystery.