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THE WELCOME PARTY & Untitled Novel, Emily Harding

Two former friends, after eight years apart, are the only ones who make it to the Amalfi Coast for a friend’s wedding, where they end up spending a week together following the trip itinerary, and confronting their lingering feelings. From the author of How Freaking Romantic (2025) and Thank You for Remembering (September 2026), to Gallery Books, World Rights, Summer 2027.  Also

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THE WELCOME PARTY & Untitled Novel, Emily Harding

Two former friends, after eight years apart, are the only ones who make it to the Amalfi Coast for a friend’s wedding, where they end up spending a week together following the trip itinerary, and confronting their lingering feelings. From the author of How Freaking Romantic (2025) and Thank You for Remembering (September 2026), to Gallery Books, World Rights, Summer 2027.  Also includes Untitled Novel, also commercial women’s fiction.  

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LIGAMENTS: Holding Us Together, Roy A. Meals MD

A lively tour through the biology, health, human performance, and popular culture of our bodies’ essential connective tissue. Ligaments are the quiet workhorses of the human body. They anchor our bones, guide our movements, and protect our joints―yet they remain largely unseen and misunderstood. In Ligaments: Appreciating the Bands that Bind Us, orthopedic surgeon and acclaimed science writer Roy A. Meals explores anatomy, biology, history, health, human performance, and popular culture to unlock the mysteries of ligaments. Completing a trilogy that

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THE MARRIAGE BED, Tommy Hays

A freak accident comes on the heels of a startling revelation—laying bare the foundation of a marriage, and a husband is left to grapple with the aftermath. A poetry professor at a small college in Asheville, NC, Asa Flowers, comes home one stormy evening to find his wife Betsy inexplicably distraught. As the evening goes on, the couple end up in a heated argument that sends Asa to sleep out in their garage apartment for the first time in  twenty-five

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BENJAMIN, Ben H. Winters

IN ONE L.A. MOTEL ROOM, A COSMIC QUEST IS ABOUT TO BEGIN . . . More than just a writer, more than just a science-fiction icon, Benjamin J. Carp was a cultural revolutionary. Over the course of 44 novels and hundreds of short stories—including the counterculture classic The Man They Couldn’t Erase—Carp pushed the boundaries of literary respectability for the sci-fi genre and his readers’ perception of reality itself . . . until decades of amphetamine abuse and Southern California excess

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Author Spotlight

Hays

Tommy Hays is an acclaimed Southern writer, whose fiction grows out of his emotional connections to places he’s lived and known—Greenville, South Carolina; Asheville, North Carolina; and Atlanta.  His novel, The Marriage Bed, was published by Blair in March 2026.  His prior novels are The Pleasure Was Mine (St. Martin’s Press 2005), In the Family Way (Random House, 1999), Sam’s Crossing (Atheneum 1992), and YA novel What I Came to Tell You (Egmont, USA 2013). He has published stories, profiles

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