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Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter – environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, family man – she was doing her small part to build a better world.But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz – outré rocker and Walter's old college friend and rival – still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to poor Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become «a very different kind of neighbour,» an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes?In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realized characters, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.

He can protect anything except his heart!Leese Phelps's road hasn't been an easy one, but it's brought him to the perfect job—working for the elite Body Armor security agency. And what his newest assignment lacks in size, she makes up for in fire and backbone. But being drawn to Catalina Nicholson is a dangerous complication, especially since it could be the very man who hired Leese who's threatening her.What Catalina knows could get her killed. But who'd believe the sordid truth about her powerful stepfather? Beyond Leese's ripped body and brooding gaze is a man of impeccable honor. He's the last person she expects to trust—and the first who's ever made her feel safe. And he's the only one who can help her expose a deadly secret, if they can just stay alive long enough…

HIS WEDDING NIGHT WAGERAfter ten years Shelby had returned to Vegas. But unlike the last time – when she was paid one million dollars to jilt casino owner Hayden MacKenzie at the altar – she was now being blackmailed by Hayden!Shelby would do anything to keep her secrets hidden… even give Hayden the wedding night he had lost.HER HIGH STAKES AFFAIROf all the men for director Raine Montgomery to be attracted to – Scott Rivers, really!Professional gambler Scott had bet fifty thousand dollars he’d bed her before they finished filming the Vegas poker showdown. No one – not even sexy Scott – was going to trump her!But the allure of the forbidden might be too irresistible…THEIR MILLION DOLLAR NIGHTWas one night worth one million dollars? Millionaire Max Williams would have said no – then he set his eyes on scandalous and sinful Roxy O’Malley.Roxy knew her secrets could cost Max his million-dollar deal, yet she couldn’t resist one evening in his arms!