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Välkommen till North Falls, en liten stad där alla känner alla. Det är i alla fall det de tror …Åtminstone fram till kvällen då två tonårsflickor försvinner spårlöst mitt under fyrverkerierna och hela staden exploderar av oro och misstänksamhet.Kommissarie Emmy Clifton, som har bott i North Falls i hela sitt liv, känner sig personligt ansvarig eftersom hon inte tog en av flickornas oro på allvar. Och nu är flickan försvunnen. Men när Emmy börjar nysta i de trådar som flickorna lämnat efter sig, upptäcker hon att hon inte kände dem på riktigt, att hon inte vet vilka de egentligen var. Och att ingen visste.Alla tonårsflickor har hemligheter, men vem är beredd att döda för dem? Och vad döljer sig egentligen i den lilla staden?Alla är vi skyldiga är första delen i en helt ny serie av hyllade Karin Slaughter.Karin Slaughter är författare till över 20 böcker som gått rakt in på Sunday Times bästsäljarlista, inklusive den Edgarnominerade De fördärvade och fristående romaner som Den goda dottern och De vackraste. Hon är publicerad i över 120 länder och har sålt över 40 miljoner böcker över hela världen. Flera av hennes böcker har blivit framgångsrika tv-serier och mer är att vänta. Karin Slaughter har grundat Save the Libraries – en ideell organisation som stödjer bibliotek och deras verksamhet. Hon är född i Georgia och bor i Atlanta."Skickligt ... Det här har man inte läst förut." Titti Schulz, Go'kväll"Det är rörande, roande, brutalt och nästan feelgood-mysigt om vartannat. En bok man har svårt att lägga ifrån sig." Pia Lindestrand, BTJ-häftet

Much of the advice we've been told about achievement is logical, earnest...and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You'll learn:

- Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength

- Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers

- Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution

- The secret ingredient to "grit" that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going

- How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man

By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them-and find out in some cases why it's good that we aren't. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn't so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.

Why is paying for things painful? Why are we comfortable overpaying for something in the present just because we've overpaid for it in the past? Why is it easy to pay $4 for a soda on vacation, when we wouldn't spend more than $1 on that same soda at our local grocery store?

We think of money as numbers, values, and amounts, but when it comes down to it, when we actually use our money, we engage our hearts more than our heads. Emotions play a powerful role in shaping our financial behavior, often making us our own worst enemies as we try to save, access value, and spend responsibly. In Dollars and Sense, bestselling author and behavioral economist Dan Ariely teams up with financial comedian and writer Jeff Kreisler to challenge many of our most basic assumptions about the precarious relationship between our brains and our money. In doing so, they undermine many of personal finance's most sacred beliefs and explain how we can override some of our own instincts to make better financial choices.

Exploring a wide range of everyday topics-from the lure of pain-free spending with credit cards to the pitfalls of household budgeting to the seductive power of holiday sales-Ariely and Kreisler demonstrate how our misplaced confidence in our spending habits frequently leads us astray, costing us more than we realize, whether it's the real value of the time we spend driving forty-five minutes to save $10 or our inability to properly assess what the things we buy are actually worth. Together Ariely and Kreisler reveal the emotional forces working against us and how we can counteract them. Mixing case studies and anecdotes with concrete advice and lessons, they cut through the unconscious fears and desires driving our worst financial instincts and teach us how to improve our money habits.

The result not only reveals the rationale behind our most head-scratching financial choices but also offers clear guidance for navigating the treacherous financial landscape of the brain. Fascinating, engaging, funny, and essential, Dollars and Sense provides the practical tools we need to understand and improve our financial choices, save and spend smarter, and ultimately live better.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone who gave us A Merry Little Meet Cute comes a new holiday rom-com - 'tis the season for second chances!

What happens when there's no room at the inn and you and your potentially demonic cat become roommates with your grumpy one-night stand?

Part-time adult film actress/one-time adult film director/makeup artist Sunny Palmer has accidentally sold her very first screenplay to the Hope Channel. That was six months ago. Fast forward to a looming deadline, an uninspired Sunny has returned to the source of her inspiration in Christmas Notch, Vermont, to immerse herself in the local Christmas miracle on which her fever dream of a movie pitch was based.

Isaac Kelly, former boy band heartthrob and the saddest boy in the music biz, is the latest owner of the town's historic mansion. After his years of heartbreak following his young wife's death, Isaac's record label is done waiting for new music. What better place to attempt his first holiday album than a snow-covered mansion where he can become a hermit in peace?

But after their best friends' wedding leads to them waking up together in a freezing motel room with questionable wiring and a broken shower, Isaac takes a chance and asks Sunny to stay with him at his home. Surely the place is big enough that he'll hardly see her or her unhinged cat. But when the two discover they're both creatively blocked, they make a handshake deal: Isaac will help Sunny hunt down the truth behind the local lore, and Sunny will find Isaac a new muse.

And with these two opposites under one roof, there's no way this jingle bell mingle could go off script...right?