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Diary of a Misfit
Casey Parks
Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life.When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks's grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, pulled her aside and revealed a startling secret. "I grew up across the street from a woman who lived as a man," and then implored Casey to find out what happened to him. Diary of a Misfit is the story of Parks's life-changing journey to unravel the mystery of Roy Hudgins, the small-town country singer from grandmother’s youth, all the while confronting ghosts of her own.For ten years, Parks traveled back to rural Louisiana and...
Bunny Misfit
Eve Langlais
Being a bunny in a family of wolves leads to Claire running away from home. But when her BFF needs someone to investigate a possible lead on her missing parents, Claire hops to the rescue.My name is Claire, and I am a bunny shifter who happened to be born in a pack of wolf shifters. Which, needless to say, didn't go over well.Before the people I thought of as family made me their next dinner, I ran away, and I might have stayed away forever if my best friend hadn't needed my help.A secret organization has been kidnapping shapeshifters, experimenting on them, too, and someone has to stop them.Not me, I should add, because I'm a rabbit, not a soldier, but I am good at poking my cute little nose into places I shouldn't and getting information. My mission is to locate the bad guys' HQ so the cavalry can ride in and put a stop to it.What I didn't expect was to run into an old crush of mine. A werewolf by the name of Derek who isn't...
Magical Misfit (Magic And Metaphysics Academy Book 3)
Laura Greenwood
Romance / Fantasy / Paranormal
With the academy against her, Lou has to prove she can be trusted, even to those she cares about the most. Determined to clear her name and defeat her unlikely enemy, but controlled by a book at every turn, it takes Lou and her allies everything they have to break Estelle's hold on the academy. Can Lou save the day while completing her mating bonds and keeping her friendships intact? Or is the Magic and Metaphysics Academy doomed? - Magical Misfit is the third and final book in the Magic and Metaphysics Academy series. It includes a reverse harem romance.
The Misfit 06-The Broken-Hearted Many
Part #6 of "The Misfit" series by Plum, AB
A dead man’s evil lives on …After a nasty mother-teenage daughter argument, AnnaSophia Romanov discovers her defiant daughter in bed with a stranger.Fodder for the sleazeratti. Hell for Alexandra's younger brother and sister. They’re still coping with the aftermath of their psychopathic father’s brutal, unsolved murder.Desperate, AnnaSophia calls the last person she should ask for help. The tabloids claim ex-cop Satish Patel abetted her in her husband's murder. He reluctantly agrees to deal with the deviant in Alexandra’s bed. But then, AnnaSophia makes a disastrous decision ...That decision uncovers a lifetime of lies, deceits, and secrets that threaten to destroy her entire family.
When You Got a Good Thing
Part #1 of "Misfit Inn" series by Kait Nolan
Romance / Contemporary / Suspense
Charming, poignant, and sexy, When You Got a Good Thing pulled me in with its sweet charm and deft storytelling, and didn't let go until the very last page. It has everything I love in a small-town romance! ~USA Today Best-Selling Author Tawna Fenske
She thought she could never go home again. Kennedy Reynolds has spent the past decade traveling the world as a free spirit. She never looks back at the past, the place, or the love she left behind—until her adopted mother’s unexpected death forces her home to Eden’s Ridge, Tennessee.
Deputy Xander Kincaid has never forgotten his first love. He’s spent ten long years waiting for the chance to make up for one bone-headed mistake that sent her running. Now that she’s finally home, he wants to give her so much more than just an apology.
Kennedy finds an unexpected ally in Xander, as she struggles to mend fences with her sisters and to care for the foster child her mother left behind. Falling back into his arms is beyond tempting, but accepting his support is dangerous. He can never know the truth about why she really left. Will Kennedy be able to bury the past and carve out her place in the Ridge, or will her secret destroy her second chance?
Misfit Mutts and Mayhem
Carly Winter
Someone killed a man. Someone set her up to take the fall. When a local bar owner is murdered, Gina Dunner doesn't give the event much notice—until the police find her DNA at the crime scene. With no known connection to the victim, Gina realizes she's being framed. Alongside her quirky, talking dog, Daisy, Gina sets out to clear her name and uncover the real killer. She unearths a suspect list full of unsavory characters—each seemingly more guilty than the last. But none of them had the opportunity to plant the incriminating evidence. Could the killer and the person framing her be different people? As Gina and her friends hatch a desperate plan to reveal the murderer and discover who planted her DNA, a shocking revelation comes to light. It will shake Gina to her core, and the citizens of Heywood may never be the same again.
Those Sweet Words
Part #2 of "Misfit Inn" series by Kait Nolan
Romance / Contemporary / Suspense
Good old, reliable Pru. Of the four Reynolds sisters, Pru is the natural choice to take on custody of the girl their late mother had planned to adopt. At thirty, suddenly becoming the mom of a teenager means big changes, but Pru's ready to do whatever it takes to adopt Ari. Before she settles down, though, she wants one thing for herself.
Enter Flynn Bohannon, the sinfully sexy Irish musician in town for her sister's wedding. He's led the kind of free, vagabond life Pru can hardly imagine. Definitely not the kind of guy she should be dating, but he's the perfect guy for a crazy fun fling before her life changes.
When Pru proposes a brief, no strings affair, Flynn's not about to say no. But when unexpected complications endanger the adoption, the two find themselves in a phony engagement.
Now they have to convince a sharp-eyed, skeptical social worker, a teen who's too smart for her own good, three dubious sisters, and one protective brother-in-law that Flynn's willing to give up the gypsy life and settle down. But in convincing everyone that this relationship is real, will they convince each other as well?
The Misfit of Demon King Academy
SHU
The world may be at peace, but old grudges die hard.Upon invitation to the Gairadite Hero Academy, the students of Delsgade embark for the continent of Azesion, but there's something fishy about the timing of this educational exchange. All is revealed during the inter-academy exam when a test of strength becomes a test of wit. The third years suffer an embarrassing defeat at the hands of these so-called heroes, and Anos must step up to avenge them—no matter the foe he must face. For lurking in the background is the ever scheming imposter whose time to step out from the shadows draws near. Behold the next step on a misfit's path of domination in the third volume of The Misfit of Demon King Academy, the Hero Academy Arc!
School for Stolen Secrets: A Reverse Harem Fantasy Romance (Academy for Misfit Witches Book 2)
Tara West
Memoir
A strong siren, sexy dragon-shifters, a murderous mage, mysterious fae, and a vengeful dragon king make this fast burn reverse harem fantasy one wild ride.Some secrets are better kept hidden... My grandfather still wants me dead, especially after I foiled his plot to annihilate the shifter race. I know he's planning revenge, not just against me, but also my mates and our unhatched eggs.I can't help but be suspicious when the fae claiming to be my father suddenly wants to be a part of my life, forcing my mates and me to follow him to the mystical fae realm, a mysterious place that leaves me with more questions than answers and fills my heart with dread.If we survive the fae, I fear an even darker fate awaits us.***No need to choose in this college-age reverse harem, where three sexy dragon shifters are better than one!***
Misfit
Gary Gulman
"One of my favorite books of all time." ―Amy SchumerA tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth grade and beyond―from the beloved stand-up comic and creator of The Great DepreshFor years, Gary Gulman had been the comedian's comedian, acclaimed for his delight in language and his bracing honesty. But after two stints in a psych ward, he found himself back in his mother's house in Boston—living in his childhood bedroom at age forty-six, as he struggled to regain his mental health. That's where Misfit begins. Then it goes way back. This is no ordinary book about growing older and growing up. Gulman has an astonishing memory and takes the reader through every year of his childhood education, with obsessively detailed stories that are in turn alarming and riotously funny. We meet Gulman's family, neighbors, teachers, heroes, and antagonists, and get to know the...
The Cancer Misfit
Saskia Lightstar
You've survived cancer - now what? This book is your spiritual companion on your post-cancer journey.This unique and empowering companion looks beyond surviving cancer treatment to help you begin to heal spiritually and emotionally, and embrace your new future.The Cancer Misfit is a book to help survivors navigate life after treatment. It is a life raft to carry and support when doctors, friends and family have gone 'back to normal' and assumed the survivor can do the same. It is a declaration that your best life and most beautiful self was not the person you were before the diagnosis, but the person you are today; that you have become even more powerful because of the hell you went through, and that the greatest chapter of your life is yet to come.After the initial diagnosis, the focus is wholly on cancer. Then the treatment stops and some survivors struggle to move on, feeling like they've been left in limbo; stuck in a no man's land between who...
Misfit in Love
S. K. Ali
In this fun and fresh sequel to Saints and Misfits, Janna hopes her brother's wedding will be the perfect start to her own summer of love, but attractive new arrivals have her more confused than ever.Janna Yusuf is so excited for the weekend: her brother Muhammad's getting married, and she's reuniting with her mom, whom she's missed the whole summer. And Nuah's arriving for the weekend too. Sweet, constant Nuah. The last time she saw him, Janna wasn't ready to reciprocate his feelings for her. But things are different now. She's finished high school, ready for college...and ready for Nuah. It's time for Janna's (carefully planned) summer of love to begin—starting right at the wedding. But it wouldn't be a wedding if everything went according to plan. Muhammad's party choices aren't in line with his fiancée's taste at all, Janna's dad is acting strange, and her mom is spending more time with an old friend (and...
Academy for Misfit Witches
Tara West
Memoir
From USA Today Bestselling Author, Tara WestSeraphina Goldenwand, heiress to the largest fortune in all four magical realms, isn't really a bad girl. At least she tries not to be. A small indiscretion with her professor shouldn't have resulted in the major scandal that got Serah kicked out of her posh private school and sent to Dame Doublewart's Academy for Misfit Witches. Her new school is a dungeon—literally. Luckily, three sexy dragon shifters save her from a miserable and lonely detention, and they enjoy a night that will forever alter the course of their lives. Draque, Teju, and Ladon Firesbreath, wayward dragon princes and masters of mischief, can't believe their good fortune when they rescue the beautiful witch from a night of fright, then discover she is just as turned on by them as they are by her. Little do they know that while they're locked away in their protective magical cocoon, someone will raze the school to the ground and frame them for the crime. Left with no choice but to flee, Serah and the dragon princes are forced to rely on one another. But when their trust in each other is shaken, they must learn to overcome their fears before their enemies find them.
The Misfit 07-The Whole Truth
Part #7 of "The Misfit" series by Plum, AB
An eye for an eye.A child for a child.Three children for an only son.Watch AnnaSophia come undone.Not all monsters win when they come out from under the bed. AnnaSophia Romanov survives fifteen lonely years of psychological abuse married to a psychopath. Handsome. Uber-wealthy. Powerful. Charismatic. A psychopath.After his brutal murder—still unsolved three years later—AnnaSophia thinks she’s helped their three children heal. Until … her oldest daughter uncovers her father’s most heinous atrocity.Suddenly, AnnaSophia’s carefully re-envisioned life falls apart. She pulls a trigger in defense of her family. The police close the case as an accident. But …Past and present collide when the serial killer who has a long, complicated history with her husband demands payback—her children’s lives for his son’s murder.Two combative men wait on her doorstep to help, but both have their own questionable agendas. The prospect of killing the two delights the killer—almost as much as piling more guilt on AnnaSophia’s plate.
Sipping from the Well of Power
Part #3 of "Misfit Magic" series by A. B. Bradley
Join Quinn, Heidi, and Billy as they travel through time to stop the evil librarian Nehemiah Crawford before he starts his war on the talented.
Lily to the Rescue: The Misfit Donkey
W. Bruce Cameron
Literature & Fiction / Humor
Lily to the Rescue: The Misfit Donkey is a new addition to the irresistible chapter book series from W. Bruce Cameron, the New York Times bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose, featuring Lily, a rescue dog who rescues other animals!Lily lives with her girl, Maggie Rose. Once a stray, Lily was rescued by the kind people at the animal shelter run by Maggie Rose's mom. Now she has a very important purpose: to rescue other animals in trouble. A baby misfit donkey tries to make friends with a herd of older donkeys from a neighboring farm, only to be rejected again and again. No one can figure out why—until Lily comes to visit. It's Lily to the rescue!At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Siren Misfit
Eve Langlais
A siren who's terrified of the ocean...with a destiny that involves a hunky shirtless dude. Ever meet a mermaid terrified of the ocean? The closest I get to saltwater is in my bath. As for singing? My siren heritage left me with a killer voice. Literally. Some people can charm animals out of trees. Me? They jump to their deaths rather than listen to another note. I know I'm different. And I'm cool with it. What I'm not cool with is the meathead who decides that he's my fated mate. Just because he's tall, handsome, and muscle-bound doesn't mean I'm going to fall into bed with him. We might do it standing upright first. Don't judge. I deserve a little fun, especially since I think my time on Earth is limited. The nightmares are getting stronger. The mood swings nastier. The ocean is calling, but I don't think it wants to give me a gentle embrace. Can a misfit who doesn't belong anywhere find a way to survive the...
Diary of a Mummy Misfit #1
Amanda Egan
Humor / Romance / Chicklit
Ever felt like you don't belong? When Libby Marchant and husband Ned made the monumental decision to sacrifice luxuries and holidays to see their only son Max through private education, they hadn’t expected to meet so many unsavoury and dislikeable personalities along the way. Happily, the cruel jibes of the pompous ‘Meemies’ are made more tolerable by the lasting and loyal friendship they strike up with the affluent Fenella & Josh. Follow Libby’s journey as she discovers the chasm between the Haves and the Have-Nots in her mad new world of school committees, designer handbags, bitching and botox. With Fenella by her side, Libby is able to maintain her sanity. But what happens when the credit crunch bites, you’re desperate for another baby and your Asian neighbour is trying to match-make you with her infatuated son?
When You Got A Good Thing (The Misfit Inn Book 1)
Kait Nolan
Romance / Contemporary / Suspense
Charming, poignant, and sexy, When You Got a Good Thing pulled me in with its sweet charm and deft storytelling, and didn't let go until the very last page. It has everything I love in a small-town romance! ~USA Today Best-Selling Author Tawna Fenske
She thought she could never go home again. Kennedy Reynolds has spent the past decade traveling the world as a free spirit. She never looks back at the past, the place, or the love she left behind—until her adopted mother’s unexpected death forces her home to Eden’s Ridge, Tennessee.
Deputy Xander Kincaid has never forgotten his first love. He’s spent ten long years waiting for the chance to make up for one bone-headed mistake that sent her running. Now that she’s finally home, he wants to give her so much more than just an apology.
Kennedy finds an unexpected ally in Xander, as she struggles to mend fences with her sisters and to care for the foster child her mother left behind. Falling back into his arms is beyond tempting, but accepting his support is dangerous. He can never know the truth about why she really left. Will Kennedy be able to bury the past and carve out her place in the Ridge, or will her secret destroy her second chance?
The Dispensable Wife (The MisFit Book 5)
AB Plum
Eyes are everywhere …
Multi-millionaire, high-tech icon, Michael Romanov demands total compliance with this mantra from his three model children and his unstable wife. When he discovers her flirting over coffee in a very public place with an obvious loser, he makes certain the see-all, tell-all witness never breathes a word.
The Darker Side of Mummy Misfit #2
Amanda Egan
Humor / Romance / Chicklit
THE SEQUEL TO 'DIARY OF A MUMMY MISFIT' Think you knew Mummy Misfit? Well, you might be in for a surprise. After a year of struggling with school fees, trying to become pregnant and feeling like she didn’t belong amongst the prep-school ‘Meemies’, Libby is back. Only this time, she’s got it all. But how long can it last and will she ever be truly happy? Join Libby on her hilarious, yet sensitive journey asloyalty, friendships and values are tested in‘The Darker Side of Mummy Misfit’.
Misfit
Adam Braver
Historical / Historical Fiction / Fiction
Melding facts with imagination, Misfit is centered around the last weekend of Marilyn Monroe's life, which, wanting to get away from the stress of a lawsuit filed against her by Twentieth Century Fox, she spent at Frank Sinatra's resort, the Cal Neva Lodge, in Lake Tahoe. Using this weekend as a springboard, the novel explores moments throughout Monroe's career when, faced with various opportunities, she altered her persona—from her days as a child, to her marriages with Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, to her studies with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, and, finally, to her role in the film Miller wrote for her, The Misfits.
Misfit
Charli Howard
So, how did a slightly bonkers misfit with anorexia, bulimia and anxiety decide to solve their problems? I became a model. As you do.Charli Howard had always wanted to be normal - but for some reason, she couldn't quite find out how to do it. As a teenager, she felt like the only one who struggled with anxiety and self-esteem issues when everyone around her seemed to fit in. So she tried to embrace standing out: by becoming a model. Believing it would make her happy and envied, she set out single-mindedly to make it - and she achieved her dream. But the reality wasn't quite as glamorous as she'd hoped. The pressure on Charli to look a certain way took an extreme toll on her body and self-image, and no matter how thin she got, she was never thin enough.When Charli, though medically underweight, was fired by her modelling agency for being too big, she decided she'd had enough. She used her platform for good and spoke out about the insane standards of the...
The Silliest Stories Out of Bustleburg
Jimmy Misfit
The Simpsons' Springfield may be horrible, but here's an invitation to explore a far more dreadful community.Welcome to Bustleburg, a dying American metropolis where the mayor has stolen the last eleven elections and polluting vampire industrialists hope to blot out the sun.The local televangelist takes credit for hurricanes through his prayer attacks, a media giant that never tells the truth just bought the TV station, and with the fire department on strike, blazes are everywhere.Prominent citizens of Bustleburg include mafia don Boss Vostic, who buries his victims in the only part of town where trees are legal, ditzy social climber Mauve Mertz whose fashion fiasco might get her exiled, and Queen Zina, the mystical wife of the mayor and possibly the source of all the city's woes.You'll never enjoy misery so much as your visit to Bustleburg.
Hybrid Misfit
Eve Langlais
I lost my humanity in a government experiment, and now find myself hunted because of it. Demons, vampires and even angels-everyone wants a piece of me. I say bring it on and prepare to die, because I intend to fight for my right to live. A chance meeting with a giant shifter and his best friend-an actual genie with a bottle-has evened the odds just as a prophecy involving me increases the danger. But, this Hybrid Misfit isn’t about to give up, and with my lovers supporting me, I will change the world-and discover that two naked men in bed is better than one.
The Dispensable Wife
Part #5 of "MisFit" series by AB Plum
Eyes are everywhere …
Multi-millionaire, high-tech icon, Michael Romanov demands total compliance with this mantra from his three model children and his unstable wife. When he discovers her flirting over coffee in a very public place with an obvious loser, he makes certain the see-all, tell-all witness never breathes a word.
A Valiant Quest for the Misfit Menagerie
Part #2 of "Misfit Menagerie" series by Jacqueline Resnick
Trapped in a toy store?Sounds like a mission for four furry friends. Bertie, Susan, and the Misfit Menagerie—Smalls the sun bear, Rigby the Komondor dog, and Wombat the wombat—have at long last escaped from evil Grand Master Claude’s Most Magnificent Circus and are finally free to live life at their leisure. But there’s something missing. Something that’s keeping them from moving on. Or rather, someone. Tilda the Angora rabbit—and fourth member of the Misfit Menagerie—is being held captive at Toddle’s Toy Emporium, a massive toy store more impressive than even F.A.O. Schwarz. Now Bertie, Smalls, and the gang—including a sword-wielding hedgehog—must embark on a quest to rescue their kidnapped friend, braving the mean streets of Hollyhoo City and the bratty Chrysantheum Toddle. It’s a journey that will take them over an actual clay rainbow, force them to hide among stuffed animals in a life-like jungle, and lead them to soar above the ground in a hot-air balloon—all big tasks for animals who only recently saw that there was a world outside of Mr. Mumford’s farm. But if they’re valiant enough, they just might reunite the menagerie and find themselves a new home.
The Daring Escape of the Misfit Menagerie
Jacqueline Resnick
Four animals must find their ticket out of the circus. Smalls the sun bear, Tilda the Angora rabbit, Rigby the Komondor dog, and Wombat the wombat are the four animals that make up "the misfit menagerie." Together they've always lived a happy life on Mr. Mumford's farm. That is, until one fateful evening when Mumford, loopy from elderberry wine, accidentally loses them to the dastardly circus owner Grande Master Claude. Suddenly, these animals are forced to perform death-defying tricks and live in filthy, cramped cages as members of Claude's traveling circus. But all hope is not lost! Claude's nephew Bertie and his friend Susan, a circus acrobat, are equally fed up with Claude's evil ways, and together they might just have what it takes to find their ticket out of the circus.
Misfit Princess
Nadia Jacques
Grumpy princess Grace loves her country, but that doesn't stop her from upsetting diplomatic Couran society at least once a week. When her favorite winesellers go missing, no one believes that it's anything but an accident of Coura's lethal geography. Grace knows better. Now she has to figure out how to get them back without starting a war Coura's perfunctory army can't win.
Notorious miscreant and security consultant Alessandra LeMieux gets what she wants, from choice party invitations to the jewels in someone else's bank vault. When the awkward Couran princess catches her eye, she makes a move.
Grace has enough trouble convincing people to listen to her without dating an alleged criminal. Will she have to sacrifice her love life to protect her country?
Pigsty Princess
Part #1 of "Misfit Monarchs" series by Nancy S. Brandt
In a country where Elemental Sensitivities determine a person's place in society, Mariana, fourth child of King Jonathan and Queen Alexandria, was born an Insensitive. She is given the made up title of Progenna, because she can't be in line for the throne and therefore, can't be a Princess. All her life, she is reminded that she isn't quite good enough. When her father decides she is to marry Pir Leo Valentine, an eighty-four year old man with a scar across his face that took his eye and only one hand, she runs away from the palace.Orlando of Talla is a pig farmer and former soldier who served the King until he watched his Sovereign burn an entire harbor town rather than lose a battle. Now he tries to live a quiet life while leading a band of rebels who steal from the nobility to bring prisoners home from that war.Orlando is also the bastard son of a nobleman, and therefore, he has a Sensitivity, one of Blood that allows him to feel the Sensitivities of others.He finds...
