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Two Sisters. One Single Event. A Family Changed Forever.

At the turn of the twentieth century, sisters Emmy and Callie Bullock are living a privileged life as the only daughters of a wealthy Alabama cotton farmer when their well-ordered household gets turned upside down by the arrival of Lily McGee. Arrestingly beautiful, Lily quickly—and innocently—draws the wrong kind of attention. Meanwhile, Callie meets a man who offers her the freedom to abandon social constraints and discover her truest self.

After Lily has a baby, Callie witnesses something she was never meant to see—or did she? Her memory is a haze, just an image in her mind of Emmy standing on a darkened riverbank and cradling Lily's missing baby girl. Only when the sisters are separated does the truth slowly come to light through their letters—including a revelation that will shape the rest of Callie's life.

Bestselling author Valerie Fraser Luesse weaves a complex and suspenseful tale dripping with intrigue, romance, and Southern charm.

Uncovering long-held family secrets may sting at first--but the result can be sweeter than honey

Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business--one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together.

When Callie Peterson is named in the trust of a man she's never heard of, she's not sure what to do. Her fledgling business has just taken wing and her mother has reentered her life asking for help getting into rehab for her lifelong substance abuse issues, making Callie's financial situation rather . . . precarious. She's sure she has no right to someone else's farm, but the money from the sale could solve her problems and give her the stability she's always craved.

As these two women navigate their present conundrum, they will discover a complex and entangled past full of secrets--and the potential for a brighter future for both of them.

A captivating new gift book featuring over 100 real-life mysteries that might just give you goosebumps!

Does the Loch Ness monster really exist? Whatever happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste? And where exactly are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

Get ready to be amazed as you uncover the world's greatest mysteries, from Bigfoot to the Bermuda Triangle. Including alien abductions, haunted houses, mind-blowing natural phenomena, and much more, this book will explain the extraordinary—unless the extraordinary can't be explained, of course. Then you'll just have to make up your own mind...

With atmospheric artwork, compelling case studies, and a seriously stand-out neon cover, this is a haunting collection of mysteries that you won't be able to put down.

From bestselling, award-winning author Meg Rosoff comes a gritty, intoxicating novel about a summer of unforgettable firsts: of independence, lies, love and the inevitable loss of innocence. Sharp and irresistible, it's perfect for fans of Judy Blume's Summer Sisters and Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend.

New York City. Summer 1983. A summer internship in New York was meant to be everything Beth wanted. But from the moment she arrives in the city she feels wrong: wrong hair, terrible clothes, defective smile, too obviously a virgin. Sharing a hot, cockroach-filled apartment with a couple falling out of love completes the dream picture. Then she meets her fellow interns: ambitious out-of-towner Dan, preppy rich boy Oliver, and Edie—a beautiful, brittle, magnetic, instant best friend. Irresistible people are like gravity. You can't help being pulled towards them—can you?

A stalker who wants to finish what he started. A US Marshal who's vowed to protect his charge. And one woman who is determined to put the past in the past.

Flight paramedic Raina Price has been running so long it's hard to stop. To escape a dangerous stalker, she changed her name and disappeared, building a new life with the help of a friend from her time in juvie. It feels good to put her energies into saving people's lives, but because her stalker was never found, she's never stopped looking over her shoulder. And one can only run so far before the past finally catches up.

US Marshal Vincent Corelli's job is to hunt down fugitives and protect those who are assigned to him. When Raina is almost killed right in front of him, he vows to protect her at all costs--whether it's his job or not. Together they work to solve the mystery of Raina's past. But someone is out to make sure Raina doesn't live long enough to do it.

This summer is a season of rebuilding, restoration, and romance

Kelsey Ahern has performed at the Victoria Playhouse on Prince Edward Island since she was seven. But when a hurricane destroys the building, it's not just her memories that are in jeopardy. Her future as a drama teacher is too. She teams up with Levi Ross, the facilities director at the high school, to produce a benefit show to raise money to rebuild the theater. Levi has a reputation for being able to fix anything, and Kelsey is sure there's more to the quiet man than meets the eye.

For his part, Levi has admired Kelsey for years, but he can't seem to find the words to tell her. When a popular weatherman arrives in town to cover the aftermath of the hurricane and takes an interest in Kelsey and her show, Levi realizes that the time has come to speak up--or lose the heart of the woman he longs for.

Inspired by one of America's most notorious couples, Bonnie and Clyde, Jennifer L. Wright delivers a riveting tale set during the public enemy era of the Great Depression.

Beatrice Carraway has dreams. Although she's aged out of the childhood pageant circuit, she's intent on carrying her talents all the way to the big screen—if only she can escape the poverty of West Dallas first. But as the Great Depression drags the working class further and further under, Beatrice struggles just to keep herself, her mother, and her younger sister afloat. After a string of failed auditions, she feels defeated.

And then in walks Jack Turner. Though Beatrice is determined to pull herself up by her bootstraps, Jack has decided on a different path out of the gutters. It isn't long before Beatrice is swept into an exciting and glamorous life of crime beside the man she loves. Keeping one step ahead of the law, she sees her dreams of fame come true when her name and picture are plastered in newspapers across the country. Yet as their infamy grows, the distance between them widens. While Jack begins seeking bigger payouts and publicity, Beatrice starts to long for a safe, quiet life and something deeper to fill the emptiness in her soul. But when the danger of Jack's schemes ratchets up, Beatrice fears her dreams—and her future—will end up going down in a hail of bullets.

From John Cribb, author of the acclaimed novel Old Abe, comes a new work of historical fiction that brings Abraham Lincoln to life as never before.

The Rail Splitter tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's remarkable journey from a log cabin to the threshold of the White House--a journey that makes him one of America's most beloved heroes. We walk beside him on every page of this spellbinding novel and come to know his hopes and struggles on his winding path to greatness.

The story begins with Lincoln's youth on the frontier, where he grows up with an ax in one hand and book in the other, determined to make something of himself. He sets off on one adventure after another, from rafting down the Mississippi River to marching in an Indian war. When he is twenty-six, the girl he hopes to marry dies of fever. He spends days wandering the countryside in grief. A few years later, he purchases a ring inscribed with the words "Love Is Eternal" and enters a tempestuous marriage with Mary Todd.

Lincoln literally wrestles his way to prominence on the Illinois prairies. He teaches himself the law and enters the rough and tumble world of frontier politics. With Mary's encouragement, he wins a term in the US Congress, but his political career falters. They are both devastated by the loss of a child. As arguments over slavery sweep the country, Lincoln finds something worth fighting for, and his debates with brash rival Stephen Douglas catapult him toward the White House.

Part coming-of-age story, part adventure story, part love story, and part rags-to-riches story, The Rail Splitter is the making of Abraham Lincoln. The story of the rawboned youth who goes from a log cabin to the White House is, in many ways, the great American story. The Rail Splitter reminds us that the country Lincoln loved is a place of wide-open dreams where extraordinary journeys unfold.

"Finely drawn ... Charming and engrossing." —Suzanne Vega, singer-songwriter

An ode to the French café as a magical place, portrayed by a beloved author with humanity, insight, and tenderness. At a classic café in the French provinces, anonymity, chance encounters, and traumatic pasts collide against the muted background of global instability. Jean-Philippe Blondel, author of the bestselling The 6:41 to Paris, presents a moving fresco of intertwined destinies. In the span of twenty-four hours, a medley of characters retrace the fading patterns of their lives after a long disruption from Covid. A mother and son realize their vast differences, a man takes tea with a childhood friend he had once covertly fallen for, and a woman crosses paths with the ex who abandoned her in Australia.

Amidst it all, the café swirls like a kaleidoscope, bringing together customers, waiters, and owners past and present. Within its walls and on its terrace, they examine the threads of their existence, laying bare their inner selves, their failed dreams, and their hopes for the uncertain future that awaits us all.

"A raw, moving meditation on the dangerous myths we make as families and communities. A wise book,  exquisitely written." —Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest and The Sun Walks Down

Rachel Ruskin never intended to return to her family's tobacco farm in Shiloh, North Carolina. But  when her academic career studying Southern folklore in  New York City flames out, she has no choice. Back in her hometown in the wake of family loss, she is alone, haunted by memories, by ghosts, and by Shiloh's buried history of racism and violence. When another child is accidentally shot and killed, however, Rachel can no longer avoid confronting her own past wrongs; nor can she continue to hold herself apart from her community. How can the people of Shiloh reconcile their love of hunting and their belief in tradition with the loss of more children? How can she find a way back to those she grew up loving? Drawn into the rhythms of Shiloh and in search of a place to be-long, Rachel must question everything she grew up believing and at the same time find a way to accept those around her.

Haunting, fierce, and urgently topical, Inside the Wolf is a page-turning and redemptive novel about masculinity, guns, violence—and the American past. 

Virgil Colvin, a retired homicide detective, leaves his hometown Chicago to resurrect his honeymoon memories with his dead wife in Ithaca, Greece. There, he befriends the Vathy police chief, Costas Pantakalas, over stories of a shared profession and countless cups of ouzo.

One day, Virgil wakes to the violent tremors of the earth to find Ithaca has just had an earthquake. But that is not the only unusual occurrence. In the city's public square, at the feet of Odysseus, someone has dumped the body of a British tourist in the small hours of the morning. He ran to the ends of the earth to escape his former life, but murder had other plans for Virgil Colvin. Together, Virgil and Costas join forces to track down a killer. But in their quest to find the murderer, will they unearth an even more astounding secret?

Romance and family secrets intertwine in Tuscany.

​Erika Germoglio is a self-made woman who has it all--a successful career and a well-connected fiancé--then suddenly has even more. An Italian grandfather she has never met wills to her Casalvento, a house and a vineyard, and Livernano, a medieval village turned bed-and-breakfast, both in the Chianti region of Tuscany.

When Erika travels to Italy to settle the affairs of her inheritance, she meets Paolo, Casalvento's intelligent, compassionate, and strikingly handsome estate manager and wine maker. And she learns the inheritance comes with a catch—to keep or sell Casalvento and Livernano, she must live there and learn the business of the two estates for five months.

Should she uproot her New York life and embrace all Italy has to offer? And if she chooses Italy, which man will be by her side? Erika struggles with that question while fulfilling the stipulations of the will and trying to make sense of a series of letters left for her by her late grandfather, Craig's unpredictable attitude when she calls home, and her own feelings whenever she sees Paolo.

Set in the real Casalvento (House of the Wind) of Radda and Livernano in Chianti Siena, Italy, debut author Gudrun Cuillo's Casalvento will captivate your heart and make you wonder if not only in vino veritas, but also possibly in vino amore e felicità.

This picture book follows the story of an eager cockroach and his family who hitch a ride to school—with hilarious results. For fans of I Don't Want to Be a Frog.

Everyone's favorite cockroach from Your Birthday Was the Best! is back, and this time he's going to school... and bringing his whole family along for the ride!

From show-and-tell to arts and crafts, this little stowaway can't wait to try it all... and maybe become the new teachers' pet!

Charming, hilarious and just a tiny bit disgusting, this is a school tale with a twist.

Dripping with Southern gothic flavors, The Visibility of Things Long Submerged gazes at the holy and the obscene while plumbing gritty secrets of the human heart.

With swamps, alligators, revival tents, faith healers, sex, death, guilt, sin and snakes, Looney leads us through a dark landscape brimming with the miraculous and the peculiar alike. A man from a fire shows up on someone's doorstep, covered in ash and barely alive. One man’s actions make an entire town question its own violence. A healer is bitten in half by an alligator as a crowd looks on. Dripping with Southern gothic, The Visibility of Things Long Submerged gazes at the obscure and obscene.

Densely populated with characters that know intimately the trials of life and the restorative powers of love, these stories are filled with a deep longing for something beyond the restless disquiet.

In the fifth book of this award-winning national park series, Tommy "Bubba Jones" and his sister, Jenny "Hug-A-Bug," uncover amazing facts about Yellowstone National Park while on a mission to solve a park mystery.

This is no ordinary brother and sister duo; they are part of a legendary time travel family with a mission to preserve and protect our national parks and they have developed a reputation for solving mysteries.

As they time travel back hundreds, thousands, and millions of years, they not only learn about the past but also experience it. They encounter wild creatures and ancient plants. They meet members of the early park expeditions and encounter the U.S. Army who once served as the park stewards. They learn about the Native Americans that call this land home. They learn all about the volcanic activity and unravel some of the park's secrets.

Discover Yellowstone National Park in a whole new way!

A beautifully told, often humorous, unusual and also universal love story. A memoir about learning to live with another human being and about how every relationship is a mystery—and a miracle.

When they first met, John, a dashing European, a Latvian refugee, a physics PhD, is hoping to settle down. Michaele, a fast-talking American college student, a secular Jew, is hungry for an independent life as a writer and historian. When they meet again some years later, Michaele is ready. Or so she thinks. And anyway, opposites attract, right? This might be a simple story of two people, characters both, who meet, fall in love, and get married. But of course, no marriage is simple. The life Michaele and John build together intermingles sweetness—their love of good food, entertaining, and family—and complications—their ethnic and religious differences, the trauma John endured during WWII and its aftermath, Michaele's thwarted ambitions, and maybe even John's preoccupation with rye bread! As he opens a successful rye bread bakery, Michaele embarks on a European journey to understand where John grew up, excavating poignant stories of war, privation and resilience. She begins to reevaluate her own assumptions and prejudices, for the first time appreciating how rye bread represents everything about John's homeland that he loved and lost. Eventually Michaele comes to love rye bread, too.

With fierce honesty, Michaele Weissman crafts a beautiful memoir, one that resonates long after the last page: How do the stories we live and the stories we inherit play out in our marriages? How do couples in long-term relationships live together without wringing each other's necks? The Rye Bread Marriage will appeal to foodies—the ones who love rye bread and the ones who hate rye bread—and it will appeal to everyone who is bemused by the messiness of living with another person, and by what to cook them for dinner.

Secrets of the Moon reveals a Moon that is often different from the one we think we know. We typically underestimate its importance in our lives. Very few things are linked to such a wide and diverse net of concepts and beliefs. No matter what those beliefs are, the Moon plays a role in shoring up our reality.

Learning about the Moon is a chance to learn about ourselves and our world from an unbiased point of view, and that is Moon's biggest secret of all. The book is divided into sixty short sections, which are grouped into thirteen chapters and five parts. Each section tells a different story about the Moon and usually address one of two key questions: How did the Moon become so subtly influential in our lives and more importantly why is the Moon so essential to all life of Earth. Together, they form a collection of afterthoughts that will give us pause the next time we look up at the Moon. Perhaps we'll see it differently. Perhaps we'll see ourselves differently. Ultimately that is up to the reader.

Secrets of the Moon will only challenge those ideas that we are ready to face. Ultimately, the Moon you see is the one you choose to see, but if you are looking to ground a personal philosophy into something you can find nearly every night of the year, Secrets of the Moon might help.

"Kate Doyle's gorgeous, electric fiction upends expectations about how stories are told and what exactly needs telling. Lovers and rivals, siblings and friends, navigate the funny, strange, sometimes  explosive, sometimes transcendently beautiful terrain of love and ambition. These are wise, intimate, essential stories." —Mary-Beth Hughes, author of The Ocean House

With this sharp and witty debut collection, author Kate Doyle captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, pre-occupied by nostalgia for past relationships--with friends, roommates, siblings--while trying to move forward into an uncertain future. In "That Is Shocking," a college student relates a darkly funny story of romantic humiliation, one that skirts the parallel story of a friend she betrayed. In others, young women long for friends who have moved away, or moved on. In "Cinnamon Baseball Coyote" and other linked stories about siblings Helen, Evan, and Grace, their years of inside jokes and brutal tensions simmer over as the three spend a holiday season in an amusing whirl of rivalry and mutual attachment, and a generational gulf widens between them and their parents. Throughout, in stories both lyrical and haunting, young women search for ways to break free from the expectations of others and find a way to be in the world. 

Written with crystalline prose and sly humor, the stories in I Meant It Once build to complete a profoundly recognizable portrait of early adulthood and the ways in which seemingly incidental moments can come to define the stories we tell ourselves. For fans of Elif Batuman, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood, and Melissa Bank, these stories about being young and adrift in today's world go down easy and pack a big punch.

Disagreement is a visual narrative of an argument that devolves out of control, culminating in a shouting match where the only effort being made is to be the loudest. The polarization of opinions and lack of effort to compromise or reach common ground, inspired by recent political events across the globe, consumes those involved. They eventually escape the chaos through creativity and humanism, which ultimately leads to the path of understanding. This book artfully illustrates the toll of conflict and the magic that can occur when one takes a step back from the noise.

Once Our Lives is the true story of four generations of Chinese women and how their lives were threatened by powerful and cruel ancient traditions, historic upheavals, and a man whose fate – cursed by an ancient superstition – dramatically altered their destinies. The book takes the reader on an exotic journey filled with luxurious banquets, lost jewels, babies sold in opium dens, kidnappings by pirates, and a desperate flight from death in the desert – seen through the eyes of a man for whom the truth would spell disaster and a lonely, beautiful girl with three identities.

Winter, spring, summer, and fall? discover the spheres that surround us all!

Introduce the early math concept of three-dimensional shapes through a tour of the four seasons. From a ball of cookie dough to the Earth we live on, Spheres All Year teaches children to recognize spherical objects in nature and everyday life.

With this book as their guide, curious children will set out to discover more spheres in the world around them.

Jensen Beach, Florida is a quaint coastal town once revered as the "land that time forgot." The place where big city dwellers come for vacation. It was once known for its beautiful sandy beaches, breezy ocean air, pleasant year-round weather, frilly cocktails, hometown boutique shops and restaurants, and ocean activities.The town is also home to some unsavory characters and its many hidden skeletons-literally.

When Aunt Adeline goes missing, it is up to her niece, Charlotte, to uncover the clues of her deeply hidden family secrets and the town she calls home. Enjoy the dual narrative from both Aunt Adeline's and Charlotte's point of view. Discover secrets the She Shed holds, the importance of friendship, and the true meaning of family.

In a society where raging narcissism dominates the moral landscape, the virtue of humility is often dismissed as irrelevant. Not only is humility vanishing from contemporary culture, but we are also witnessing how destructive a lack of humility has become among our churches and ministry leaders. And yet, Richard Foster, the founder of Renovaré, insists that humility is central to the journey toward character formation and spiritual transformation. For this reason he decided to spend a year studying the virtue of humility.

Using the Lakota calendar as a framework, Foster provides us with a look into the insights he gathered from sources ranging from Native American culture to Julian of Norwich to Scripture to personal friends. By engaging with both the spiritual classics and Foster's own experiences, Learning Humility provides profound insight into what humility can look like in our current cultural climate.

Join Richard Foster on the journey toward a life of humility, which he says leads us into "freedom, joy, and holy hilarity."

Originally published in 1909, Beatrice the Sixteenth: Being the Personal Narrative of Mary Hatherley, M.B., Explorer and Geographer is the debut feminist science fiction novel by Irene Clyde.

Mary Harthereley is lost. After being struck by a camel’s hoof, Mary finds herself thrown into an alternate plane of existence some five hundred years in the past. Discovered by people of the local province, she is escorted into the Kingdom of Armeria ruled by Queen Beatrice the Sixteenth. Welcomed by the inhabitants, Mary is introduced to a rather progressive society wherein there is no gender, divorce or carnivores and is taken in by their concept of “conjux,”—lifetime partnerships based on romantic love and companionship rather than sex. Finding herself growing fond of the kingdom, Mary uncovers deception and plot as a war threatens to upend all that the Armerias hold dear.

Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover, this edition of Beatrice the Sixteenth is a classic of feminist science fiction literature, reimagined for modern readers.

People today encounter a dizzying array of religious options. We might consider mystical faiths like Buddhism and Hinduism, historical religions like Islam and Mormonism, or more nebulous modern expressions of being spiritual but not religious or religious but not spiritual. How do we know what is true? Is one faith just as good as another?

Trial lawyer Mark Lanier presents the claims made by the world's great religions, discusses their histories, and cross-examines their witnesses (their scriptures and traditions) to determine whether their claims are worthy of belief. With his keen legal mind and methodical style, he provides a careful comparative study, highlighting key truths he finds in each religion even as he offers critiques. Treating each perspective on its own terms and weighing the worldviews for consistency and livability, Lanier assesses evidence for and against belief systems with criteria for what constitutes sufficient proof.

Believers and unbelievers alike will find here perceptive insights into how we can make sense of competing religious claims and what difference it makes for our own lives.

Two exquisite novellas on memory, perception, and shifting intimacies

In “The Impostor,” a man travels with his wife through Italy and recalls a family legend about an uncle who was swallowed by Mt. Vesuvius. Preoccupied by this mysterious event, he grapples with the fallibility of memory and the enigma of time. In “Blue Butterflies of the Amazon,” a matriarch, rendered mute and paralyzed by a stroke, defenselessly observes the shifting dynamics between her only son, his wife, and her husband while they play out their complex intimacies before her.

As the characters of The Impostor wander between worlds and states of mind, Edgard Telles Ribeiro elucidates their situations in surprisingly inventive ways that explore devastating questions of reality, consciousness, and loss.

“Two elegant novellas, each an atmospherically charged investigation of consciousness, familial ties, legacy, and language.” —Publishers Weekly

“These inventive novellas are like literary puzzles for the reader to tease out.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Comical and brooding, enchanting and disturbing, The Impostor triggers a unique free fall into the unnerving craters of the mind.” —Laura Restrepo, author of Delirium and The Divine Boys

Mangas County has a wolf problem. That's why Special Deputy Jessie Torres spends her days examining wolf-killed livestock and pets in the rugged backcountry of western New Mexico. Despite the heartbreak of every so often having to deal with the death of a valued ranch dog or a favorite rodeo horse, she enjoys her work. She's outdoors, by herself, doing a job that needs doing.  But lately what Jessie is seeing doesn't make sense: too many kills, too much blood, and more wolves at the kills than are part of any local pack. Just what is going on? 

Now the isolated county is being invaded for the long July 4th holiday weekend and Jessie's been pulled from her wilderness work to deal with human beings instead of critters. Thousands of born-again hippies are squatting in the National Forest for a Gathering, tourists and locals are pouring into the county seat of Largo Creek for the parade and other events, and the sheriff is telling his deputies to hush up about the suspicious and bloody death of someone Jessie knows all too well. Juggling all this plus the demands of her grandmother, an Apache curandera and the unofficial ruler of the area, will try Jessie's strength and ingenuity to the limit.

"I had all kinds of chores that I needed to do today, but then I received a copy of Lif Strand's Dark Green. I  spent the rest of the $#$!@!! day reading it...but I got the best of the deal!" ~ Bill Gastner, former sheriff of Posadas County NM

What's wrong with Jamaican Christmas Cake? Everything, if it's not American!

Raymond is moving with his family from Kingston, Jamaica to Queens, New York and he can’t wait to show everyone how American he can be! Whether it’s through books, magazines, music videos and movies, he learns about America in any way he can, even if some of his sources of information are out-dated. However, on Raymond’s first day of school in America, his every attempt to impress everyone with his “American-ness” backfires. What’s worse, his new classmates doubt if he’s Jamaican at all. It’s not until Raymond remembers what he loves most about being Jamaican – making Jamaican Christmas cake – and shares it with his new classmates, that he gains the courage to be himself.

It'll Be Irie will captivate young readers’ hearts with the story of a head-strong immigrant child's humorous attempt to embrace a new cultural environment. In addition, it also offers readers a figurative taste of the underrepresented culture of Jamaica.

Rowan embarks on an expedition to prove once and for all that she is the rightful royal monster hunter, in the fourth and final book in this fantastical series by New York Times-bestselling author, Kelley Armstrong. Now in paperback!

The time has come! After discovering the true reason for the monster migration, Rowan is on an expedition to ultimately prove that she is worthy of the ebony monster-slaying sword on her back. She and her twin brother, Rhydd, their friends Dain and Alianor, as well as some other trusted advisors -- and the ever-growing group of monstrous companions -- are on a mission to help protect the dragon living in their homeland and are travelling to kingdoms beyond to make their case. But not everyone agrees that people can live peacefully alongside monsters, especially when new terrifying creatures appear. It will take everything Rowan has to fight off threats of all kinds, from both monsters and people. It won't be easy, but if she succeeds, she will become Royal Monster Hunter at long last.

It is spring, 1969. Warm temperatures and rain quickly melt the snow, raising the specter of record flooding in Northwestern Minnesota.

The peace of Davison City is further disrupted when an elderly resident, Miss Almira Archer, dies suddenly under mysterious circumstances. Her nurse caregiver turns to Beth Williams for help. A missing will, a mysterious painting, and long-buried secrets draw Beth and her best friend, Evie Hanson, into a labyrinth of history and memories to unravel the mystery.

Tinged with nostalgia for bygone days, Flood of Memories will keep you guessing right up to the end. This puzzling whodunnit will appeal to fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman, and Rhys Bowen.

"Serves up heaping portions of yearning, passion, alienation, and regret, and establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the new Israeli literature."—Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus

A piercing novel about life abroad in a cultural setting not one's own: Reut is an Israeli translator living in Paris with a French husband and their child. She's made sacrifices for her family but now feels a simmering discontent and estrangement that erupts at a festive dinner party with affluent, intellectual friends. During the sumptuous meal, she navigates a tangle of cultural codes with which she's never been fully at ease. This is a novel about big life choices that examines a woman's attitudes toward belonging to a man, to a culture, to a language. Where I Am is an intimate, witty book portraying a profoundly human yearning to stop everything, to lay down one's head, and to feel—if only for a moment—at home.

Published just two years before José Rizal’s national epic, Touch Me Not, Pedro A. Paterno’s Nínay is a cultural novel that portrays Philippine society to an international non-Filipino audience.

Considered to be the first novel published by a Native Filipino author, Nínay follows the life, love and death of a young woman named Antonina Milo y Buisan, or “Nínay” for short. Her story is told by a young man named Taric to an unknown narrator over the course of the nine-day vigil of Pasiyam. Recounting the passionate affair in the time of cholera between Nínay and the highly regarded Don Carlos Mabagsic, Taric explores the journey of two young lovers and the events that lead to their eventual separation.

Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover, this edition of Nínay is a reimagining of a Filipino classic for the modern reader.

A riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher.

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty, demanding, morbid, and sometimes dangerous - she loved it.

Butcher (yes, that is her real name, and she has heard all the jokes) spent day in and day out investigating double homicides, gruesome suicides, and most heartbreaking of all, underage rape victims who had also been murdered. In What the Dead Know, she writes with the kind of New York attitude and bravado you might expect from decades in the field, investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, 680 of which were homicides. In the opening chapter, she describes how just from sheer luck of having her arm in cast, she avoided a boobytrapped suicide. Later in her career, she describes working the nation's largest mass murder, the attack on 9/11, where she and her colleagues initially relied on family members' descriptions to help distinguish among the 21,900 body parts of the victims.

This is the fascinating and stunning real-life story of a woman who, in dealing with death every day, learned surprising lessons about life—and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself. Fans of Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell, and true crime won't be able to put it down.

Dracula Beyond Stoker is a fiction journal dedicated to celebrating and continuing the legacy of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Issue 2 focuses on Renfield, with 10 all new tales, an essay, a classic reprint, and a poem featuring the world's favorite flyman.

Delve into the mysterious mind of the zoophagus madman with 10 terrifying new tales, a humorous essay, a reprint of a lost classic, and a darkly kinky poem all under a gorgeous cover by Angela Johnson!

"In these impressionistic, roaming poems, David Michael Belczyk journeys into memories and across cities and continents—Bayeux’s “soaring spires,” Rochester’s “shuttered clapboard houses,” Granada’s “aisles of palm through iron bars,” Puerto Rico’s “wind and rivulets [that] ran through the open doors”—as he searches for “a sacred place... hallowed by the ones that went before.”  These are poignant songs of longing and desire that evoke the complexities of attraction to the real and imagined, the actual and the mythic, the love that compels the poet to meander for meaning “toward the end of all roads." —Orlando Ricardo Menes, The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds

"Travelers is Belczyk's serenade to places and to place; multiple journeys of body and of mind. These poems constitute a nuanced seeking after desire, and the sometimes perplexing results of that search." —Gerald Costanzo, Regular Haunts: New and Previous Poems

"The poetry of geography says that every place awaits the traveler. It's what the poet imagines each place to be as well as what it becomes when he goes there. Local or distant, it becomes personal in the poet's imagination. Take a trip with David Michael Belczyk in these poems, and you've seen the world." —Samuel Hazo, The Less Said, the Truer

"David Michael Belczyk's Travelers is an ambitious, conceptual collection that covers a lot of territory, both geographical and emotional. This series of love poems to places examines the important connections we make to specific locations, environments, and the influence those things have on our lives. A fascinating exploration." —Jim Daniels, Gun/Shy and The Luck of the Fall

Winter, spring, summer, and fall? discover the spheres that surround us all! Introduce the early math concept of three-dimensional shapes through a tour of the four seasons. From a ball of cookie dough to the Earth we live on, Spheres All Year / Esferas todo el año teaches children to recognize spherical objects in nature and everyday life. With this book as their guide, curious children will set out to discover more spheres in the world around them.

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Invierno, primavera, verano y otoño... ¡descubre las esferas que nos rodean a todos! Introduce el concepto matemático primario de las formas tridimensionales recorriendo las cuatro estaciones. Desde una bolita de masa para galletas hasta la Tierra en la que vivimos, Spheres All Year / Esferas todo el año les enseña a los niños a reconocer cuerpos esféricos en la naturaleza y en la vida cotidiana. Con este libro como guía, los niños con curiosidad se lanzarán a descubrir más esferas.

When Rachelle unearths her ex's handmade crystal radio, violence and terror reign in the form of hellhounds, shadow figures, and finally, possessions. Enter smooth, dark-eyed James Carroway. He offers her protection she's quick to accept despite her apprehensions.

When James reveals he's a warlock in search of the crystal radio that caused these supernatural events, Rachelle explains it belonged to her son's estranged father, Chad. They realize it played a part in Chad's possession.

Their only option is to find Chad and learn about the origins of the radio before more of her family are killed. Or worse, taken. Rachelle has to risk losing the people she loves (again) to make it stop.

Against a constellation of solar weather events and an evolving pandemic, Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Flare, Corona paints a self-portrait of the ways that we prevail and persevere through health adversities while facing an uncertain future.

Gailey juxtaposes eclipses and hurricanes with a body's many medical challenges, including neurological symptoms that turn out to be multiple sclerosis, highlighting the miraculous while melding the personal with the political to tell a story of a world and body in crisis. Alongside harbingers of apocalypse, foxes, cherry trees, and supervillains populate the page. Flare, Corona faces calamity head-on, illuminating the power of humor and hope to brave the ever-shifting landscapes of personal and ecological adversity.

Jeannine Hall Gailey's poems are incandescent and tender-hearted, gracefully insistent on teaching us how we can live in a beautiful and perilous world, the ways in which we can brilliantly and stubbornly survive.

Global inequality is growing. Financial markets disenfranchise women, the 99 percent, and the planet itself. But what if we found the source of power and turned it inside out? What if we made the tools of the system available to all?

When she launched the world's first stock exchange for social enterprises, Durreen Shahnaz started more than a new financial system; she sparked a movement. Defiant optimism—the stubborn belief that systems that enrich the few can be transformed for the good of the many—requires an indomitable spirit. In these pages, Shahnaz illuminates what investing in those excluded from networks of power and opportunity requires.

From growing up with constrained life chances, to working as the first Bangladeshi woman on Wall Street, to becoming a global leader in impact investing, Shahnaz takes us on a mesmerizing trek of innovation, compassion, and enterprise. We accompany her to villages in Bangladesh where she helps women entrepreneurs learn to proudly sign their names, and on visits to venture capitalists who walk past her to shake her male employees' hands. We go to a garment factory where women labor for low wages, and to a town in India where microfinance offers women enough capital to run grocery stores and tailor shops. Along the way, the birth of her two daughters only fuels her relentless pursuit of a world where girls are valued. Finally, armed with financial backers and a plan, Shahnaz crafts the world's first tradeable financial product geared toward investing in underserved women's livelihoods.

Changing how systems work—and who they work for—isn't for the faint of heart. But The Defiant Optimist offers strategies for placing women, the underserved, and the planet at the heart of systems. Together we can locate the levers of power and pull them defiantly in a new direction.

Conceived by Jamaica’s first Poet Laureate, Thomas MacDermot, The All Jamaican Library is where literary publishing in Jamaica found its footing. This indigenous imprint was designed to put forth work written by Jamaicans about Jamaica while being reasonably priced in order to remain accessible to the locals. Though it only ran for six years, MacDermot published two of his own novels, Becka’s Buckra Baby (1904) and One Brown Girl and ¼ (1909) comprising “The Story of Noel,” as well as E.A. Dodds’ Maroon Medicine (1905)—the first collection of stories by a Caribbean writer—and W.A. Campbell’s short story, Marguarite: A Story of the Earthquake (1907).

The first work from the series, Becka’s Buckra Baby, is a tragic story of race and class following the life of Noel Maud Bronvola. Wanting to honor her father after his death, Noel dedicates herself to helping others, eventually bringing a gift to a young child that has unexpected consequences. The second work, Maroon Medicine, is a collection of short stories that focus on the lighter sides of daily Jamaican life. Inspired by the spider-trickster spirit Anasi, these stories are a celebration of West African folklore. The third work, Marguerite: A Story of the Earthquake, is a short story following the tragic romance between George Hodlin and Marguerite. Nurturing Marguerite back to health and attempting to win her affections, the young lover’s lives and plans for the future are upended once an earthquake strikes Kingston. George now away at school and Marguerite the apple of Herr Otto Tiez’s eye, the pair try to decipher how love can last when held against the temptation of comfort and lasting security. The fourth and final work, One Brown Girl and ¼ is a spiritual successor to Becka’s Buckra Baby that focuses on Liberta Passley. Despite her beauty, wealth, education, and social standing, Liberta Passley is unable to feel satisfied. Feeling as though she must reject her African heritage, she makes a decision that unwittingly welcomes disaster into her life.

Professionally typeset with a beautifully designed cover, this exclusive edition of The All Jamaican Library is the foundation of Caribbean writing, reimagined for modern readers.

Inspired by actual events, The Truth is a Lie is the story of fifteen-year-old Sara, a devout member of the Truth. Sara is dedicated to the ways of the Truth: keeping separate from the Worldly and obeying all that Jehovah requires. Her reward? Eternal life in Paradise Earth after Jehovah destroys the world in Armageddon.

Then Rachel, an 18-year-old Sister, moves in and shares with Sara that she was sexually assaulted by someone in the Truth, someone close to them both. Sara's world is torn in two when she has to decide whether to follow the rules of the Truth, stay silent, and let Jehovah take care of it. Or, risk losing her family, her salvation, and everything she knows by running to the Worldly, the people she was taught to fear and hate, for help.

The 80s were the best decade and Blaine Reynolds is prepared to risk everything, including her heart, to prove it.

Blaine Reynolds is the owner of, "Back to the 80s" a novelty shop that her deceased mother passed on to her. Eric Morales is a developer who intends to destroy it to build a new brewery. In a desperate attempt to save what she holds most dear, she makes a bet with Eric that she just needs 30 days to prove to him why the 80s were totally rad and that her store is worth saving. He agrees with no intention of losing. As the month goes on, Blaine immerses Eric into a world of Cabbage Patch dolls, classic video games and neon. But the two soon realize there may be more at stake than either of them originally thought. Can they win the bet and still not lose their hearts to each other?

Bloomington. A town where on the surface nothing really happens. Where men at the diner never flip the page of the paper held in front of them. Where pointer fingers rise from the steering wheel of every passing car. Finds itself irrevocably changed after two of its own wind up dead. But, Detective Andews and partner Shupbert know what it takes to dig deep. Like their lives depend on it. A whirlwind of drugs, deception, sex, and an unusual dark energy lurks below the surface of this quaint town, and it’s a race against the clock to catch our killer before the walls of their sanity crumble down.

A supernatural whodunit told in a vignette-style at breakneck speed, Consumption and Other Vices, will leave you gasping for breath, checking the locks on your house at night.

A punk poetry chapbook.

Limited print 50 copies.

Indie release.

Ready to unf*ck your relationship? Time to get to work-on you!

Have you been stuck on an unhappy relationship merry-go-round? Feeling endlessly frustrated and out of sync with your partner? Couples counselor and relationship visionary Jessica Myers-Adams has been there, too, and with the help of the least-kept secrets in couples counseling, managed to unf*ck her thinking and create a joyful, supportive relationship built on communication, compromise, and connection.

More than just a guide to communication, this book will help you stop giving f*cks about the wrong things and start shifting your energy into creating a more meaningful and fulfilling relationship experience-under the expert guidance of someone who once walked the same path and knows how to help you create the partnership you deserve!

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the earliest work of literature discovered to date. Despite its age, the story is quite up to date. The epic provides drama with notable characters, offers a strong plot, and considers the universal themes of friendship, death, and the search for immortality. Centered on Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and his friend, the beast-man Enkidu, the tale relates the courage, hopes, fears, and doubts displayed by these two men through their dynamic personalities. Both men are relatable characters struggling to make sense of the world and of themselves, just like all human beings. Several other characters who encounter Gilgamesh such as Siduri and Utnapishtim offer interesting insights about life and the ways of the world in which they live. Though written approximately 450 years before the book of Genesis, the epic includes a narrative of the great flood that covered the entire earth. Whether seeking an adventure story, learning about the thinking of the ancients, or wanting to glean eternal wisdom, this poetic version of The Epic of Gilgamesh with its illustrations will delight the reader.

The rhyme scheme for the poem is the heroic couplet; that is, rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter. This scheme follows the form of the neoclassical tradition, particularly Alexander Pope with his Iliad and Odyssey. However, unlike Pope, Watson does not employ the closed couplet, opting rather for frequent enjambment. The original Gilgamesh is not very well-structured, and the sole use of the closed couplet would have proven too artificial. The freer, narrative style suits the epic well.

Where one life ends, another is revealed.

Liz Evans is setting out on a cross-country road trip, with her grandmother’s cat, to carry out her grandmother’s final wishes. However, she’s about to learn that the coupon clipping woman who raised her was actually a wealthy, Hollywood icon who had her share of international lovers.

Mark Watts is only one of the secrets Liz’s grandmother kept from her. A biographer, he resides in Liz’s grandmother’s Palm Beach home, which Liz knew nothing about. As her guide into her grandmother’s past, Mark becomes a confidant, a friend, and more.

Though Liz’s journey is to learn about her grandmother, she finds these lessons turn inward. Content with her life of solitude, Liz is challenged to live a big fat life with no regrets—which just might include a crazy cat, a house in Palm Beach, and a man.

In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed author Alex Wheatle details how reggae music became his salvation through a childhood marred by abuse, imprisonment, and police brutality

“In this inspiring, often harrowing narrative, the author chronicles how, shortly after he turned 3, he was abandoned by his parents and placed in the care of the government. That led to a childhood of physical and sexual abuse on top of the racism and police brutality he experienced growing up in Brixton, England, in the 1970s and ’80s... As dark as his early memories are, Wheatle describes his reggae memories with glimmers of hope and appreciation... A striking tribute to reggae’s ability to protect a fragile soul when seemingly everything else had failed him.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Abandoned as a baby to the British foster care system, Alex Wheatle grew up without any knowledge of his Jamaican parentage or family history. Preoccupied with his own roots, Alex grew inexorably drawn to reggae music, which became his primary solace through years of physical and mental abuse in a children’s home.

Although riven by loneliness and depression, Alex found joy and empathy among his reggae heroes: Dennis Brown, Bob Marley, Marcia Griffiths, the Mighty Diamonds, Sister Nancy, Gregory Isaacs, Barrington Levy, King Yellowman, and so many others. These were friends and mentors who understood the enormous challenges facing a young Black man, gave purpose to despair, provided a sense of belonging when Alex had no one, and who educated him in ways no school ever could. From the abuse he suffered in foster care, to the challenges he faced on the streets of South London as a young man and his eventual imprisonment for participating in the legendary 1981 Brixton uprising against racial injustice, reggae music always provided a lifeline to Alex.

Alex’s life story was portrayed in Oscar Award–winning director Steve McQueen’s 2020 Small Axe, and viewers will know that Alex is now one of the most lauded writers in Great Britain, deservedly honored with a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for services to literature. In Sufferah, he vividly tells his own story, putting the reader in his shoes through the many challenges of his younger years, answering the question: how on earth did he make it?

Alex Wheatle’s award-winning fiction—and this memoir—are a gift to us all, a call to never give up hope. His stories were inspired by a boy in the UK who knew nothing about himself but found a rich heritage, and through Sufferah we are reminded that words can be our sustenance, and music can be our heartbeat.

A bible salesman begins cashing the checks himself and wandering the country on the company's dime in an increasingly surreal travelogue.

"Drift captures the tedious terror-and terrifying tedium-of contemporary life like nothing I've seen. Craig Rodgers performs the neatest of tricks, sending European-style ennui (think Sartre and Camus) on a thrill ride through a uniquely American hell." —Jennifer Wortman, author of This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.

"With Drift, Craig Rodgers cements himself as a writer of considerable talent and limitless creative ambition. Following the exploits of a self-described piece of human spam, the novel trawls the liminal spaces and empty corridors of the often crappy and occasionally edifying experience of being alive in America. Rodgers's prose is spare, comedic, and deployed with a craftsman's attention to detail. Paced perfectly, Drift is the literary page-turner of the year." —Kyle Seibel, author of Hey You Assholes

"Drift is a potent literary moonshine that distills the existential milieux of McCarthy and the post-modern dysphoria of Bachman." —Alan ten-Hoeve, author of Notes from a Wood-Paneled Basement

"Drift by Craig Rodgers reads in the author's signature style -the familiar charm of characters from another time somehow thrust into a world they don't belong to, an initially-pleasant vintage dancing toward something faintly macabre. In this case, it is Charlie, a Bible salesman who, in the slow process of losing himself, embarks on a darkly-tinged trip both literally and through his own consciousness. Bleak, twisting, and satisfying, Rodgers seamlessly curates the details of each moment, weaving them together into a knot you'll want to follow to the end." —Tiffany M Storrs, Editor in chief, Roi Fainèant Press

If widowed town seamstress Nell Armstrong has to make one more pair of boring chaps for the cowboys in her tiny Wyoming town, she might lose her mind. So meeting Brand Nolte, a widower father struggling to raise three girls, seems like her dream come true. Brand has no idea how to dress the girls, and Nell finally has a chance to both create beautiful dresses and teach the girls to sew.

But Nell is much more than a seamstress, and the unique legal and investigative skills and knowledge she picked up alongside her late lawman husband soon become critical when a wounded stagecoach-robbery survivor is brought to town. As danger closes in from all sides, Nell and Brand must discover why there seems to be a bull's-eye on their backs.

Fan favorite Mary Connealy invites you back to 19th-century Wyoming for this adventuresome Western romance, complete with a budding romance, witty banter, and an absorbing mystery.

Divided Berlin in the face of the Cold War in the 70s: Kate is new at Berlin American High School in West Berlin, bewildered by the island of freedom walled in by a totalitarian state.

Life in the American Sector takes off when Kate befriends Amy, joins cross country, and discovers Berlin’s quirky nightlife, while falling quietly in love.

On the other side of the Wall, siblings Michael and Anika are alone, struggling to stay true to their values despite State repression and manipulations of a creepy relative who works for the Stasi. Anika must find the courage to reveal her dark secret to her brother.

Worlds separated by the Wall: when they merge, the result is an explosion of courage as love leads the way.

A heartwarming, coming-of-age debut YA novel with plenty to entertain both young and adult.

Explore the hidden gems of the criminal world: delve into lesser-known true crime stories that will challenge your perceptions and ignite your curiosity.

The 1970s brought about a new age of crime and has long been touted as the decade of the serial killer, sometimes referred to as the Decade of Death. From cults to serial killers, this installment in our series seeks to re-familiarize you with notorious cases of the decade and introduce you to lesser-known cases that have largely been overlooked.

Step into the chilling realm of the Golden Age of Serial Murder. Unleash your detective instincts as you construct your profile of what defines a serial killer. Can you outsmart the authorities and crack these cases before it's too late? Stay one step ahead, identify the suspects before they slip away, and prevent further bloodshed.

The clock is ticking, and the challenge awaits. Will you emerge as the ultimate crime-solving genius?

Summer Wilde is a wannabe country music star. But when her latest girl band abandons her in a motel outside Tulsa, she is forced to face the shadows of her past. Twenty years ago, the summer of '77 was supposed to be the best summer of her life. She and her best friends, Spring, Autumn, and Snow--the Four Seasons, 4ever--had big plans.

But those plans never had a chance. After a teenage prank gone awry, the Seasons found themselves on a bus to Tumbleweed, "Nowhere," Oklahoma, to spend eight weeks as camp counselors. Arriving with hidden secrets and buried fears, those two months changed their friendships and the course of their lives.

Now, thirty-something and with no direction for her future, Summer is at a crossroads. Returning to the place where everything changed, she soon learns Tumbleweed is more than a town she left and never wanted to see again. It's the place for healing, for reconciling the past with the present, and for finally listening to love's voice.

Celebrating the songs of our hearts, the joys of love, and the threads of friendship that tie us all together, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hauck's radiant story perfectly captures all the romance, heartache, and hope of the best summer ever.

“A vile crime is being planned,” he said.
“And heaven knows, it may even have been executed.”

When an old schoolfriend whisks private detective Asbjørn Krag away by train to an isolated snow-covered manor house, his curiosity is aroused.

John Aakerholm, a wealthy landowner with peculiar tastes, refuses to disclose why he is utterly terrified. Every evening at midnight he retires to bed, locking himself within three different chambers - and access is strictly forbidden. When a shocking murder takes place, Krag must use his sharp wit and skills to uncover the killer before he strikes again….

A brilliantly ingenious story, Through Three Rooms amply displays Elvestad’s gift for storytelling and style. Available in English for the very first time, this book will delight fans of vintage crime fiction. This new translation features an introduction by Nils Nordberg, radio drama producer and Norwegian authority on crime fiction.

“A brisk, pacey and thoroughly entertaining page-turner by one of crime fiction’s unsung heroes…well worth rediscovering.” – Tom Mead, author of Death and the Conjuror

“An enjoyable example of the traditional murder mystery.”– Martin Edwards, novelist and author of The Life of Crime

Jo Murphy was just an ordinary New Age witch who had a knack for reading tarot before she was kidnapped and tortured by the Fenris, a pack of insane werewolves. Since she escaped that hell after calling on the goddess Hecate for help, Jo hasn’t been the same, emotionally or magically. It left her with PTSD nightmares, a boatload of paranoia, and access to new powers that she doesn’t understand, including the ability to walk through mirrors. With the Fenris gone—apparently by her hand—Jo started running and didn’t stop until another werewolf tracked her down.

When Ezekiel Booker answered the Council’s call to find and question Josephine Murphy, he thought it would be one last job before he settled down to become alpha of his own pack in St. Louis. However, Booker didn’t bank on how she would affect him when they came face-to-face—and then she disappeared. When he finally finds her again, she’s settled down and created a magical sanctuary and occult shop out of an old building in his territory. And it’s entirely warded against werewolves.

Booker doesn’t want to hurt Jo—far from it—but he does need to find out why the Fenris wolves have completely disappeared. He contacts her, determined to prove that she’s not in danger from him. Meanwhile, Jo wants to trust alpha wolf Booker, but she’s not the naïve young witch she once was. There’s something in him that calls to her, and all her senses are telling him he’s on her side; it doesn’t hurt that he’s hot as hell and seems attracted to her. Even so, old habits and suspicions die hard.

But then a necromancer attacks Jo, using the freshly killed body of her friend and protégé as a weapon, and their only clue is a mysterious rune necklace and an all-girl Goth band that isn’t quite what it seems. Now Jo has no choice but to join forces with Booker and his pack to find out who’s raising the dead in St. Louis … or become a corpse herself."

Father of the Bride meets Bride Wars in Forever Hold Your Peace, in which two ex-best friends find themselves shockingly entangled after more than two decades apart, for fans of Good Company.

When their newly engaged kids ask all four divorced parents to meet each other over brunch, everyone RSVPs yes--secretly hoping someone at the table will get to the bottom of the bottomless mimosas fast enough to say what they're all thinking: that this engagement, coming after a whirlwind romance between two people barely out of college, is too much too soon.

But at that brunch it's not the impulsive couple's decisions that end up under the microscope, as it turns out June, mother of the bride, and Amy, mother of the groom, certainly do know each other--they're ex-best-friends who haven't spoken since their explosive falling out more than twenty-five years ago. Reeling from their unwanted reunion and eager to shift the spotlight off their past as decades-old secrets and rivalries come to light, the two moms battle it out for the prize of Most Enthusiastic About This Wedding.

But when their history--and their present-day shenanigans--threaten to crack the foundations of the happy couple's future, June and Amy find themselves becoming unexpected allies in an all-hands-on-deck effort to get their kids (and themselves) a happily-ever-after two generations in the making.

Forever Hold Your Peace is perfect for readers who love messy, complicated family novels like All Adults Here and stories that bring the past and present together like One Italian Summer.

From oral history to written word, learn about the history of Oregon through the stories of the Indigenous peoples of the Willamette Valley.

The Willamette Valley is rich with history--its riverbanks, forests, and mountains home to the tribes of Kalapuya, Chinook, Molalla, and more for thousands of years. This history has been largely unrecorded, incomplete, poorly researched, or partially told. In these stories, enriched by photographs and maps, Oregon Indigenous historian David G. Lewis combines years of researching historical documents and collecting oral stories, highlighting Native perspectives about the history of the Willamette Valley as they experienced it.

The timeline spans the first years of contact between settlers and tribes, the takeover of tribal lands and creation of reservations by the US Federal Government, and the assimilation efforts of boarding schools. Lewis shows the resiliency of Native peoples in the face of colonization.

Undoing the erasure of these stories reveals the fuller picture of the colonization and changes experienced by the Native peoples of the Willamette Valley absent from other contemporary histories of Oregon.

Beauty has been nothing but a curse to Penelope Snow. When she becomes a personal maid for a famous actress whose troupe is leaving Chicago to tour the West, she hides her figure beneath shapeless dresses and keeps her head down. But she still manages to attract the wrong attention, leaving her prospects in tatters—and her jealous mistress plotting her demise.

After his brother lost his life over a woman, Texas ranger Titus Kingsley has learned to expect the worst from women and is rarely disappointed. So when a young woman found in suspicious circumstances takes up residence with the seven old drovers living at his grandfather's ranch, Titus is determined to keep a close eye on her.

With a promotion hanging in the balance, Titus is assigned to investigate a robbery case tied to Penelope's acting troupe. The evidence points to her guilt, but Titus's heart divines a different truth—one that might just get Penelope killed.

An enchanting Western take on the classic Snow White fairy tale, Fairest of Heart will sweep you away from once upon a time to happily ever after.

"The sun, the moon, the fish and stars,

the flowers, trees, the birds and cars,

the sea, the rain, even the sand –

I like almost everything…

It’s cats I can’t stand!

But one day Dad came home

with a wiggly box.

Now, guess what was in it…"

The Hebrew version of Pumpkin the Kitten was voted number three (ages 3–5) and number five (ages 6–9) in the Israeli Ministry of Education’s 2006 Annual Book Parade (with votes cast by the children) and was chosen to be translated into Arabic by the Center for the Arab Child in Israel. It is a recommended textbook in numerous elementary schools in Israel, and in 2011 was chosen as one of nine books for the Ministry of Education’s My Bookshelf program. In 2019 it was chosen for Sifriyat Pijama, the Israeli PJ Library program, with 140,000 additional paperback copies distributed.

When Atlantis sunk it took with it a prison holding the worst monsters the earth had ever seen, and it needed something more powerful to guard them. Vampires. They didn't plan to go alone. A race of humans, Descendants of Atlantis, once held captive by a stone that took their will and made them happy blood slaves. They gained their freedom before the city sank, but they never stopped fearing the blood suckers who once enslaved them.

When a monster escapes it's Atlantean prison, it's Ian's job to track it above the waterline and bring it back. Ian's goals are derailed by the woman he finds seconds from death. Can he convince her to help him save the Descendants of Atlantis from a vampire and his monster minion?

Will she turn against him when she finds out what he is, what she is, and what he's willing to sacrifice for the greater good?

The first short story collection in seven years from multiple award-winning author Ian Watson, who worked with Stanley Kubrick for a year writing the screen story to the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and was the first novelist to write in the Warhammer 40K milieu. This volume gathers together ten stories previously published in Asimov's, Analog, and elsewhere, along with a brand new novella - one of four tales set in a near future shaped by the Chinese Time Machine.

Contents:

The Chinese Time Machine

1st Trip: Brave New World, by Oscar Wilde

2nd Trip: The Kidnap of Fibonacci

3rd Trip: The Emperor's New Wallpaper

4th Trip: Sherlock Holmes and the Butterfly Effect (with Cristina Macía)

Hot Gates

Monkey Business

When the Aliens Stop to Bottle

Heinrich Himmler in the Barcelona Hallucination Cell

Clickbeetle

Journey to the Anomaly

The Birth of Venus

About the Author

Powerful healing messages from the collective wisdom of the Gemstone Guardians!

This is not a crystal bible or a gemstone guidebook – instead, this is a collection of messages from thirty Gemstone Guardians via the Akashic Records.

From Quartz to Diamond, each of the 30 messages speak of hope to overcome fear. Each message holds a powerful view of life — of who you are and who you can become. Each message describes a path through the incredible current changes on the planet.

Most importantly, each message offers heartfelt energy to help you claim your power within.

This is an extraordinary book brought forward by Akashic Mystic Cheryl Marlene, an Amazon best-selling author and the world’s authority on the Akashic Records. Cheryl brings forward a unique perspective of crystal and gemstone energy to find release and healing balance.

Each included Gemstone Guardian shares their spirit name, their soul story about their creation and mission on Earth, plus a powerful message for humanity. You will also find Gemstone Guardian energy questions for journaling or to utilize in your Akashic Records practice.

If you are looking for a book to tell you exactly what the energy of a crystal is about — this is not your book!

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The Gemstone Guardians are on a mission to assist you now with your path forward as you heal old wounds and find life balance through your power within.

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All The World’s A Stage, As They Say.

In 1876 Philadelphia, Benjamin Grimm knows real life is much like the theater—people play their parts, hiding behind the illusion of their lives and never revealing their secrets. When he reunites with his childhood friend Eleanor Banneker, his delight turns to dismay. On learning she has been under a spell for the past seven years, forced to live as a servant in her own home, he realizes how sinister some secrets can be.

Ellie has spent the long years since her mother’s death under her stepmother’s watchful and unforgiving eye. Bewitched and hidden in plain sight, it seemed no one could help Ellie escape. Not even her own father, likewise bespelled. When she encounters Ben one evening, he seems immune to the magic that binds her. Her hope rekindles along with their friendship.

But time is running short. If they do not find a way to break the curse before midnight on New Year’s Eve, both Ellie and her father will be bound forever.

In 1837, Juniper Collins and her sisters are shocked by their father's final request in his will for a special set of beads to be returned to a Piegan Blackfoot woman he credits with saving his life during his travels west. Together, the sisters set out for the trapper rendezvous to find the woman, but their mission turns more daunting when they come upon the mass of men and lodges spread out in the Green River Valley.

Riley Turner came west to find peace and quiet and live off the land, but when four unprotected women arrive at the rendezvous, he feels compelled to help them and is more fascinated by Juniper than any other woman he's known.

As their search brings only empty leads and dead ends, the sisters must decide whether to return east or stay in the mountains to continue looking—and that's if the mystery woman is even still alive. Is the risk to honor their father's last request worth the danger they find at every turn?

Discover the majesty—and treachery—of the Rocky Mountains in this unique combination of exhilarating adventure, inspiring faith, and sweet romance from USA Today bestselling author Misty M. Beller.

A large body of evidence demonstrates that strong health over an extended period of life is possible. Dr. Dwight Chapin brings this science to life in Take Good Care with a behind-the-scenes look at seven specific wellness rituals practiced by 21 influential Canadians – accomplished leaders in sport, media, entertainment, healthcare, and business.

Awe-inspiring professionals such as Jann Arden and Dragons’ Den investor, Jim Treliving open their lives, sharing their formulas for health and success. Chapin explores the fine details and common ground in their approach to self-care, commitment to stress resiliency, preparation and recovery from peak performance, and pursuit of good health, hope, and happiness.

Look inside the fridge of Toronto Raptor’s dietitian… at the mental fitness exercises of an Olympic sprinter… at the movement strategies of a world-renowned performance physiologist. Read about how they’ve overcome the challenges of heartbreak, injury, obesity, addiction, and self-sabotage by putting the science of the 7 Wellness Rituals to work.

The disruption caused by the pandemic has left many realizing they want more from life and the return to the status quo holds little appeal. People want to feel, look, think, move, and be better. The techniques, rituals, stories, and science within these pages will show you how.

Set in modern-day Tokyo, The Butterfly Café tells the story of American Jessie Yamada. When her emotionally abusive husband suddenly dies in a traffic accident, she is overcome with guilt because while making plans to leave him, she had often thought how much easier it would be for her if he were dead. Those feelings quickly shift to shock and anger after discovering her entire marriage had been built upon secrets and lies. Jessie unexpectedly inherits a dilapidated café full of cats, where with the help of old friends and quirky neighbors, she constructs a new life for herself and her daughter. But just when things finally seem to be going right, a twist of fate forces her to make a decision that will have a far-reaching impact on herself and all the people she loves.

The Butterfly Café explores issues such as friendship, family, and love. It shows how second chances at happiness can be found in unexpected ways.

Introducing Elixir of the Gods: The Cocktail Guide to Greek Mythology, a must-have for any mythology enthusiast or cocktail lover. More than 20 free original recipes and 7 uncommon short stories from Greek Mythology!

This book seeks to bring these myths to life, to give them new meaning and relevance in the modern world. I have crafted each cocktail in this collection with care and attention to detail, inspired by the stories and characters of these ancient tales. There is a heavy emphasis on Greek flavors for these drinks, rather than simply trying to offer the widest variety of flavors. Whether you’re a fan of Greek mythology, a lover of cocktails, or simply someone looking for something new and exciting, I hope this book has something for you.

This e-book contains three variations of all the drinks in this book. The Zeus Edition is how I serve it in my bar. The Hades Edition is made using the minimum ingredients needed to still be the same drink. If you were in the underworld, it would have to do. The Aphrodite Edition is for those of us who aren’t thunder gods and would prefer something sweeter.

Discover the mythical origins of each cocktail and the story behind the ingredients used to create them. Whether you're looking for a new signature drink to impress your guests or simply want to indulge in a little bit of mythology, "Elixir of the Gods" is the perfect addition to your cocktail recipe collection.

Such a strange little boy he is, Ben Guggenheim. He always wants things when it’s not the right time! Or wants what there is – but not straight away, and what there is none of – he must have, today! One evening near bedtime, it’s already dark – he goes with his parents to play in the park!

A little flexibility helps young Ben’s parents to resolve their impasse with their stubborn, high-spirited son, as all three learn from each other. This charmingly illustrated tale makes a perfect bedtime story for energetic kids everywhere.

Scaredy Squirrel returns in a funny and reassuring graphic novel about managing anxiety, perfect for fans of Narwhal and Jelly. Now in paperback!

In this second NUTTY ADVENTURE, Scaredy is in for a big surprise... and Scaredy does NOT like surprises. He is a squirrel who likes a schedule, predictability, nothing unexpected. So, what's inside the mysterious crate? Turns out it's a POOL! Scaredy imagines sharks, eels and algae! He prepares safety rules! Luckily his friends Ivy, Timber and newcomer Rash are happy to remind him of another important rule... having fun!

Ever been part of a really tough project? So tough that you had to eat a teammate?

Unfortunately for an infamous group of pioneers, the effort to migrate to California reached those depths of project failure. Fortunately, we can use their story and other, historical examples to underscore the value of clear expectations.

Whether it’s a tragic journey west, the loss of a spacecraft (for the second time), or a corporate effort to look hip that created one of the nastiest personalities on the Internet, failed projects share a common trait; expectations for success could have been more clear.

MAP. MEASURE. MOVE. presents a framework for building clear expectations.

A standalone novel of magic, mayhem, love, and betrayal set in the Wrath of Ambar universe, this is the story of a bandit and a prince who change each other in unexpected ways. For readers of Sabaa Tahir and Marie Lu.

When they don't give us our birthright, we steal it.

Roshan Chaya is out for justice. Abandoned by her parents at birth and adopted by the kingdom of Jwala's most notorious bandit before his brutal murder, she is now leader of the Shadow Clan, a gang of farmers-turned-bandits impoverished by the provincial governor's atrocities and corruption. Roshan's goal: to avenge her adoptive father and earn back rights and dignity for her people.

Prince Navin has always felt like an outcast. Second in line for the throne, he has never been close to his grandmother, Queen Bhairavi of Jwala. When a night out drinking with friends leads to his capture by the infamous Shadow Clan, Navin schemes to befriend Roshan and use her as a means to escape. His ploy, however, brings Navin closer to the corruption and poverty at the heart of Roshan's province, raising questions about its governor and Navin's own family.

To further complicate things, the closer Roshan and Navin get, the harder it becomes to fight their growing attraction. But how can they trust each other when the world as they know it starts to fall apart?

Set in a magical world inspired by the badlands of 17th century India, this standalone epic fantasy novel by Tanaz Bhathena is packed with political tensions, dangerous schemes, and swoon-worthy romance that asks the age old question: can love conquer all?

Learn Python fundamentals that can be used in any programming setting – use the guidance in this book to program your own game in a unique and practical Python learning experience.

Learning Python opens the door to a world of programming possibilities.

From AI and machine learning to video game, app, and web development, Python is a critical behind-the-scenes component of everyday technology.

Python powers the services of household names like Google, Netflix, and Spotify along with tech pioneers like NASA, IBM, and Intel. Put simply, Python is the in-demand and easy-to-learn programming language that gets stuff done.

In Python QuickStart Guide, senior developer and programmer Robert Oliver lays out the quickest and most accessible path yet to the mastery of Python fundamentals.

Distilling his experience drawn from over two decades of working with Python and other programming languages, Robert’s clear voice and writing present a practical, hands-on approach that anyone, at any experience level, can use to become a Python programmer.

It doesn’t matter if you are a new or existing programmer, a job seeker looking for a career change or promotion, or just someone who wants to learn how to automate basic tasks with Python—Robert’s step-by-step approach, complete with a hands-on companion Python game project, is the perfect starting point to master Python fundamentals!

Python QuickStart Guide is Perfect for:

• New or experienced programmers looking to enhance their career opportunities with an in-demand programming language
• Job seekers who want to supercharge their resumes and increase their value in the job marketplace
• Students or recent college grads who have their sights set on a lucrative position in the tech industry
• Full stack developers or programmers who need to round out their programming skills to take on new projects
• Coding or programming bootcamp students looking for supplemental learning material
• Anyone who wants to explore the world of programming, use Python to automate tedious tasks, or enhance their resume and future-proof their skills!

Python QuickStart Guide Explains

• The best practical approach to learning Python—follow along with the exercises in the book to program your own video game and learn along the way
• How to master Python building blocks and build a robust set of programming skills at your own pace
• How to avoid common pitfalls new programmers face, how to debug code, and how to eliminate frustrating errors
• Coding best practices that anyone can use to level up their programming skills using Python or any other programming language

You Will Learn

• How to Use Python – Practical Examples, Code Snippets, Plus Follow Along to Code Your Own Game!
• Python Fundamentals – How to Use Python for Web Design and Interfacing with GitHub, SQL, and Other Applications
• Object-Oriented Programming Principles – Managing Data, Scripts, Logic, Inputs, Outputs, and More!
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• Python Next Steps –Testing, Optimization, Speed Improvements, Integrations with Other Applications, and More!

*Lifetime Access To Free Python Programming Digital Assets*

In addition to the follow-along Python game included with the exercises in the book, Python QuickStart Guide comes with a library of references and cheat sheets to help you go beyond the book and get the most out of your Python learning experience.

QuickStart Guides are books for beginners, written by experts.

Jaq is a loner. He is completely happy with sharing his home with no one but his adopted dog and having as little to do as possible with the neighbors. Or so he thinks until he bumps into a grimling in the pouring rain. Whether he wanted it or not, the encounter in the murky woods changes his life forever.

When Briar sets out hunting with his clan mates on a rainy day, little does he know of how revolutionary consequences a simple act of goodwill can have. The nocturnal fays avoid contact with humans far as they can, but when it comes to choosing between saving a life or closing his eyes to evil, to Briar, the choice is clear.

But will anything good come out of the collision of the opposites? Is allowing the night to step over his threshold the foolest choice Jaq has ever made, or could it result in something positive?

Allowing the Night is a romantic fae fantasy novella (45k words) with a tad of darkness. Please note that the book is not suitable for underage readers because of the intimate scenes!

Behind closed doors, it’s bad for the Perri family. And the masks they wear deceive even the most perceptive eyes. Each of them—Sal and Isabella and sons, Franco and Luca—harbors a secret. No one knows what they’re hiding…or what they’re capable of.

1930s pre-war Italy a young girl has gone missing from Chianlalea, a quaint fishing village at the edge of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It’s eerily reminiscent of a similar incident that happened to Isabella Perri when she was a child. The missing girl’s body surfaces near the Perri’s marina. And when fingers point at Sal because of his alleged mafia connections Isabella stands by him, refusing to accept the gossip. And the warnings.

Frightful noises in the middle of the night. An intruder’s footsteps below. A second girl, Gia, a friend of Franco and Luca, goes missing. The girl with the pretty smile who, only a few days earlier, had been at their house. Discrepancies in the boys’ stories make them suspect and Isabella starts to question everything she thought she knew.

Ominous notes beneath the door, the locked shed looming in the backyard, and whispers of lies and deceit prove that Isabella and her family are no longer safe. And as she peels back the layers of her small town, secrets of her family begin to emerge. Secrets she didn’t know existed. Still scared, but refusing to remain silent, Isabella vows to make things right, protect her children, and save the next victim. But doing so will change their lives.

Forever.

My smile tells a lie. All of ours do. I’d never tell a soul what happens behind the walls of my home. My beautiful boys, Franco and Luca will never know what it’s like to live a normal life. We go through the motions of living, but it’s hard to live when there’s so much fear.

Twisted Brotherhood’s president, Grave Robber, is a man in mourning after the murder of his daughter and wife. He knows the culprit and will get his revenge. One thing he promised himself: never impregnate another woman.

His word is his vow. He’ll never break it.

Aubry Baldwin unexpectedly uncovers gossip about San Francisco’s assistant mayor that leads her straight to the Twisted Brotherhood MC. She’s only there for a story until she sees Grave Robber. The club president is intimidating, enticing, and oh so sexy. He’s got all the charm and charisma of a badass biker and none of the sweet tenderness a girl like her should desire.

Months after a drunken one-night-stand, Grave Robber finds himself at a crossroads–Aubry is pregnant and he is screwed.

Now, the very man who murdered his wife and child is after Aubry. Grave Robber will keep her safe, but he can’t get attached. Aubry’s a good girl. She deserves someone better.

Can Grave Robber protect his baby mama or will he lose another person he loves?

Roxy Halstead doesn’t exactly wish her cheating, lying, thieving business partner would die.

But when she finds her dead on the floor of their office, she knows she could be the prime suspect, especially if the police discover dark secrets from her past.

Then Roxy’s brother Nick is killed, and she seeks help from her apartment building’s gym rat. Kane Llewelyn, a six-foot-five percussionist with the National Symphony Orchestra, is more than happy to watch Roxy’s back on a journey that involves jealousy, spite, betrayal, horror, fear, and grief, bracketed at each end by the discovery of a dead body.

The third book in a chapter-book adventure series featuring magical animals, perfect for fans of the Princess in Black series. Now in paperback!

On an island at the top of the world are the Fabled Stables, a one-of-a-kind place for one-of-a-kind creatures. Auggie is their caretaker, and it's his job to strike out into the Wide World and save creatures from danger. This time, he and his friends are tasked with saving a new creature, the Shibboleth. They hop through the portal and find themselves in the evil Rooks' lair! There, they meet a young girl named Veena and a monster . . . with a belly full of Rooks! It turns out, whenever anyone speaks to the Shibboleth, it gobbles them whole. Auggie puts on his gentlest voice to try to calm the beast, but he's swallowed in one gulp. Soon, with some help from Veena and a magic book, Auggie discovers that the Shibboleth eats anyone who doesn't call it by name. They save themselves and the creature with this simple act of kindness.

"We have a shared past

We face shared challenges

We must build a shared future with our love for Israel"

This is a unique and revolutionary take on a travel guide. A set of personal narratives with seventy essays, each by an extraordinary, accomplished individual from all walks of life – an entrepreneur, a singer, an athlete, and many other innovative and productive citizens of this land we love.

My Israel is a work of love. Here, seventy prominent Israelis put down into moving words what they see in their own special corners of the Land of Israel.

"On the eastern border of Jerusalem’s Old City, between the Jewish and the Muslim Quarters, sits a walled compound of approximately thirty-five acres, over which nations have fought and dreamt for hundreds of generations.… Just one glance toward the gilded dome of the Al Aqsa Mosque brings up the entirety of the history bubbling under the surface, and I am swept back in time…" —Lior Suchard, master mentalist and entrepreneur

After losing her job as an investigative reporter for The Phoenix Gazette, Kat Lawson has a new gig. The FBI has asked her to work undercover as a reporter for Travel International to cover Munich, Germany’s festive holiday scene—an excuse to get close to Hans von Hausmann, a very charismatic and popular museum curator suspected of hiding a cache of stolen masterpieces believed to be part of the World’s Largest Art Heist.

The job comes with lots of perks: airfare, travel expenses, the opportunity to see the world...and for a seasoned reporter like Kat, nothing she can’t handle. But, when a trusted source is found dead, Kat realizes the tables have been turned. Armed with evidence that will expose a cache of artwork stolen from museums and the homes of wealthy Jews during the 2nd World War, Kat must find a way to avoid being caught by the German Polizie, who have enough evidence to charge her with murder, and those who want her dead to keep their hidden treasures forever secret.

The hunter has become the hunted; now, Kat has a target on her back.

Larissa is an outsider in her anti-magic order, barely passing her battle test by using the very power they shun. Banished to the Darkkin, the order’s lowest caste, she discovers they hold the key to understanding magic, and the order’s enemy; a possession known as the Evercry. But when her battle-hardened mother seeks Larissa’s help against a dangerous foe, Larissa must journey with her childhood friend turned bully, Valare, to deliver a powerful orb. As they embark on a perilous quest, Larissa is drawn to using magic, while Valare’s hatred threatens to tear them apart. With their trust and lives on the line, Larissa must choose between duty and the monster she may become to save her mother and defeat the mysterious foe her mother hunts.

Join Larissa in this all-female cast of fierce women on an epic fantasy adventure filled with magic, friendship, and betrayal.

Springtide ushers in a season of bloom and fertility in Hazelfeur, but it also heralds the season of the bear - Artio's season, one which she rules over with relentless vengeance.

I've heard old tales of the goddess, tales from when she was green to motherhood, young and tender and forgiving, but it is hard to imagine such a thing when my knowledge of her is shrouded in red. She wishes to make the people of Hazelfeur suffer, and her army of bears, material and spectral, make ever-nearer attacks on our village.

This coming spring, I fear death.

Springtide has sprung, and the bear goddess Artio has awakened. For Rhoswen, sole Bearslayer of Hazelfeur, this means a season of overwhelm as vicious bears wreak violence upon her village. With one death too many and an insufferable anxiety haunting her, she sets out to liberate her people from Artio's bearspawn for good, even though to end the goddess's reign would mean to leave her without purpose.

In her search for the vengeful Artio, Rhoswen stumbles upon an enchanting forest maiden with secrets in her eyes and mysteries in her veins, a beauty which suddenly and unexpectedly captivates the Bearslayer beyond reason. Then she discovers the maiden is bound to Artio's forest and longs desperately for freedom, and Rhoswen's resolution hardens with passion.

She will unfetter Hazelfeur, and she will free her enchantress.

For fans of Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy) and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver, The Bear & the Rose is a tale told in lush prose which readers will find brimming with folklore, adventure, and a sweet sapphic romance.

Mona learns to find her voice over the course of a year that sees her immigrating from Dubai to Canada in this novel for fans of Front Desk by Kelly Yang. Now in paperback!

Mona Hasan is a young Muslim girl growing up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when the first Gulf War breaks out in 1991. The war isn't what she expects — "We didn't even get any days off school! Just my luck" — especially when the ground offensive is over so quickly and her family peels the masking tape off their windows. Her parents, however, fear there is no peace in the region, and it sparks a major change in their lives.

Over the course of one year, Mona falls in love, speaks up to protect her younger sister, loses her best friend to the new girl at school, has summer adventures with her cousins in Pakistan, immigrates to Canada, and pursues her ambition to be a feminist and a poet. 

From Governor General's Literary Award-winning author Susin Nielsen comes a funny and heartfelt story about learning how to rise above your most embarrassing moment with humor, best friends and a killer triangle solo. Now in paperback!

We all have moments that define us. For the comically clueless Wilbur, his moment happened on the first day of middle school, when someone shared his private letter with the entire student body. It revealed some of Wilbur's innermost embarrassing thoughts that no one else should ever know.

Now it's the start of ninth grade and Wilbur hasn't been able to escape that major humiliation. His good friend Alex stuck by him, but Alex doesn't have as much time since he started dating Fabrizio. Luckily, Wil can confide in his best friend: his elderly neighbor Sal. Also, Wil's in the school band, where he plays the triangle. They're doing an exchange program with students from Paris, and Wilbur's billet, Charlie, a tall, chic young woman who plays the ukulele and burps with abandon, captures his heart. Charlie likes him, but only as a friend. So Alex, Fabrizio and Sal host a Queer Eye-style intervention to get Wil in shape and to build his confidence so he can impress Charlie when their band visits Paris, and just maybe replace humiliation with true romance in the City of Love.

Home is not a place. Home is a feeling. A Jewish home is first and foremost an emotional sensation of togetherness and belonging to an extended family. This is not a travel guide, nor a book about Jewish history, Jewish community institutions, Jewish sites, or kosher restaurants. The Beating Heart is a groundbreaking anthology that will take you on a cultural journey to Jewish destinations and communities around the world, as a family member peering into your own childhood home. Following in the footsteps of its companion anthology, Heartbeats, whose journey and story take place in the Jewish homeland of Israel, The Beating Heart will not only whet your appetite to explore Jewish communities around the globe, it will invite you – whether you are in the United States, Canada, England, or anywhere else in the world – to connect to the Jewish home inside your heart.

The Beating Heart is the culmination of an inspired project by Ya’acov Fried, a pioneer and leader in the world of educational travel, and Yishay Shavit, a leading Jewish tour educator. In this stunning anthology, leading tour educators take you on a fascinating and eye-opening journey from Western and Central Europe to the former Soviet Union and on to China, India, and Africa, where they delve deeply into Jewish communities with which they are intimately familiar. Their fresh, unconventional attitudes are the product of thousands of tours around the world exploring the Jewish angle in each destination. In each chapter, a local personality was chosen to shed light on unexplored terrains. The Beating Heart will allow you to experience, feel, learn, and enjoy the layers beneath each destination. Our hope is that this book will inspire you to travel to these destinations yourselves and to search for the Jewish angle in each place. We hope that such visits will pique your curiosity and cause you to reflect on – and even challenge – your own Jewish identity.

"The Beating Heart is an in-depth, refreshing book that offers insights into the heart of Jewish communities around the world from a historical and a contemporary lens. The book leads you to a variety of roads where you will discover our joint destiny." —Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, Senior Rabbi, Stephen S. Wise Synagogue, NYC

"A rare invitation to be part of the vision in which every Jew has the right to find their own Jewish expression as part of their Jewish heritage. Opens the door to meeting new friends from around the Jewish globe who all share the same commonality of purpose and responsibility: making the world a better place." —Avraham Infeld, President Emeritus of Hillel – Foundation for Jewish Campus Life=

"From Belarus to Budapest, from Morocco to India, you are swept into a dramatic history and exciting realities. In this journey, you will gain a greater appreciation for the wonders of being part of one Jewish family." —Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, Senior Rabbi, Central Synagogue, NYC

"An inside look at how pivotal social justice has been to the past, present, and future of the Jewish people – and the powerful example it sets to the world." —Alan Gill, Executive Vice President Emeritus, JDC

"This is so much more than just a travel book – it’s an invitation to intimately explore Jewish culture and civilization from within. You will be surprised to see how much we all have in common and the extent to which you feel part of each community." —Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove, Senior Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue, NYC

"The reader is brought face to face with the depth and breadth of the global Jewish community, as seen through the eyes of master educators and guides. It is, as the title suggests, a heartfelt journey." —Rabbi Elka Abrahamson, Director, Wexner Heritage Foundation

"Land matters; it grounds our identity and roots us in our past. But people matter more. The tour educators and locals we meet throughout the pages of this book give us hope and inspiration." —Rabbi Steven Stark Lowenstein, Senior Rabbi, Am Shalom, Glencoe, Illinois and author of For the Love of Israel and For the Love of Being Jewish.

A year ago, Emory met the handsome, mysterious Ajax and threw caution to the wind for one night of passion. She accepted the consequences and loves her son more than life itself. But now she desperately needs to find Ajax again, because there is something wrong with their baby?

Elemental warrior Ajax never forgot the only woman who ever took his breath away. But when she walks back into his life, it's for the last reason he expects. Emory says the baby is his, but there's just one problem—he's sterile. All elemental warriors are. Which means she's playing some kind of dangerous game, and he needs to know what it is.

When the enemy rears its ugly head, Ajax is Torn between duty and desire. He must choose his mission or his new family. Either way, someone loses to the murderous forces of chaos.

Their lives depend on the Air elemental that swept Emory off her feet, but can she trust him to choose them? Or will Ajax sacrifice the ones he loves in his mission to save the world?

A tale of forbidden love, family, and sacrifice. Rise will keep you enthralled in its paranormal fantasy world and supernatural romance.

Welcome to the ultimate trivia book on U.S. Geography.

If you are looking for a fun way to learn interesting facts about U.S. Geography, this is the book for you. This book is divided into five quizzes. If you are playing with teams, have each group write the answer after each question. At the end of each quiz, go to the answers and determine which team got the most correct answers. Then continue to the next section. After you have finished all quizzes, the team that won the most is the champion team.

I’m sure you are excited to get started. Best of Luck!

Human civilization is in trouble. How come? The fault lies with some men, who have a genetic defect caused by eons of human evolution where strong men prone to violence were biologically selected because they were needed to protect women, children, and the tribe from enemies and wild animals.

Times have changed. Now minatory men like Putin and Kim, who seem hell-bent on causing wars that may lead to thermonuclear destruction, are no longer useful or needed. They are anachronistic. Civilization would be better off without them.

The solution is the return to women's values - peace, love, human care, free play, happiness, nourishment, service, altruism, empathy, succorance, environmentalism, and so forth - by removing men from power and establishing a world controlled by women. Lollipop's fictional tale tells us how she made all this come about.

Despite many difficulties, Lollipop and her friends, male and female, establish a new form of government called Women's World, where peace and prosperity reign and wars are completely out of the question. Women's World used existing biological techniques to engineer the bad traits out of the Y chromosome, creating a new form of non-violent man who knows how to work and play well with others.

In this exquisite titillative narrative, we explore complex notions about gender, power, and the consequences of scientific advances. How Women Saved Civilization is a manifesto that defines and underlines the salient problems of modern society and offers an alternative vision for the future while making for delightful and charmingly engaging reading.

Mitch Wegner had it all: a prestigious career as a professor, a loving wife, and a reputation as a brilliant academic. But when a student takes his own life and Mitch is blamed, his life quickly spirals out of control. As his marriage falls apart and his job is put on the line, Mitch finds himself descending into a dark and dangerous world.

Haunted by his past and fueled by his own narcissism, Mitch makes a series of increasingly desperate choices that lead him down a path of violence and betrayal. When another person on campus mysteriously dies, Mitch becomes the prime suspect, but the truth behind the killings is far more twisted than anyone could have imagined.

In this gripping psychological thriller, author Nadija Mujagic takes readers on a heart-pounding journey through the mind of a man consumed by his own ego and the dark secrets that he thought he had buried. With twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end, The Master of Demise is a chilling tale of obsession, revenge, and the terrifying consequences of our actions.

Putting God First: Jewish Humanism after Heidegger tackles the challenge of maintaining Jewish identity in a world dominated by Western humanism. It argues that the Holocaust reflects more broadly on contemporary humanism than the Jewish world has ever dared to acknowledge. It advances the view that the establishment of the State of Israel presents a profound historical opportunity to disentangle Jewish thought from elements of the Western humanist tradition that threaten Jewish survival and conceal from view the plausibility of core Jewish ideas and values. The work proposes that a healthy and peaceful relationship between Westernism and a robust Jewish identity can be achieved only by unraveling the two, and it presents a philosophical path for achieving this.

Following a precise analysis of modern and postmodern thought that includes discussions of Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Ludwig Wittgenstein, George Steiner, Bruno Latour, Hannah Arendt, Jonathan Haidt, Daniel Kahneman, and others, the centerpiece of the book offers a close reading of the masterwork Being and Time, which Martin Heidegger composed in the period when his thought was gravitating toward his endorsement of Hitler and Nazism. This deep dive into Heidegger’s ontological understanding of how the individual (Dasein) interacts with others in space and time yields a method for articulating the onto-theological meanings of key Jewish concepts such as the Nefesh (psyche), the Neshamah (soul), Tzelem Elohim (human being in God’s image), Am Segulah, (Jewish chosenness), Shabbat, the Land of Israel, and more in texts such as the Tanya, the Sefat Emet, the Nefesh HaChayim, the Kedushat Levi, and in the writings of Rav Kook and the Maharal of Prague. Ultimately the book proposes a disentangled spiritual/political vision for a Jewish state that is characterized by the politics of Tikun Olam.

A woman with an extraordinary mind and a dark past demanding revenge. 17 planets divided into four factions whose leaders forgot their inhabitants all arrived from the same place: Planet Earth. A threat that could turn a tool that saves everyone’s life into the worst imaginable nightmare. Elizabeth, a chameleonic and seductive woman, is the only one who can make a difference, but her uniqueness weighs on her shoulders like the world weighs on Atlas' shoulders.

These are just some of the ingredients of this novel where action scenes alternate with political ones and the relationship between the many characters, as much as the suffering and the claustrophobic anguish, alternate with the human need for love and loyalty. All seasoned with a drop of eroticism and a hint of humour.

In the novel there are a couple of features that I haven’t often found in other science fiction books. First, I worked with an artist to create drawings to add between the chapters in order to clarify the settings, but deliberately not too accurate so that the readers can fill in the gaps with their imagination. Second is the point of view I used. I like to think that science fiction is an excuse to talk about the complexity of human relationships, from an anthropological, philosophical and political point of view. I wanted to touch all the fundamental points for every life story: Power, Value, Freedom, Love, Truth and Justice. I have created the characters using my experience as a psychologist, giving them depth and realism. I also did a lot of research to be as precise as possible about technologies and life in the future on other planets.

The book has been translated into English from its original Italian publication and has been edited accordingly.

When Katelyn Sullivan travels across the country to help treat an injured prized thoroughbred she has no idea that its owner, Grant Tennyson, will try to stand in her way. But Grant's painful past becomes part of the mystery Katelyn must solve if she wants to help save his horse. Can she get close enough to this beast of a man, without losing her heart?

Fresh, organic, delicious, sustainable… Permaculture gardening at its best.

Have you been dreaming of creating a backyard garden oasis but unsure where to start?

Are you concerned with the effects of global warming on the planet and want to do your part to reduce your carbon footprint?

Does the capitalistic structure of our society make you uncomfortable or nervous, and do you want to find ways to be closer to nature and more self-sufficient?

Let’s face it–there’s not a lot of good to be said about industrialized farming. It pollutes air and water, emits greenhouse gases, and costs the environment an average of $3 trillion annually. With all of these things in mind, it is vital that we develop new ways to produce food that stop killing both our planet and economy.

The best way to accomplish this? Permaculture.

Simply put, permaculture is a holistic approach to living harmoniously with nature. When it comes to gardening, it means growing local, fresh, organic produce that supports the environment.

And the underlying ethics of permaculture are centered around how we connect to our planet – things we can all agree are important in our industrialized, often ostracizing world.

Discovering permaculture and incorporating its principles will have you living the sustainable life you’ve always wanted while benefiting the planet at the same time.

And the best part? Anyone, regardless of previous experience or skill level, can become a permaculture master in no time.

In this guide, you’ll find everything you need to know to start your permaculture garden. Inside, you’ll discover:

• The life-changing issues our planet currently is facing and how the only answer is permaculture
• The different zones of a permaculture garden and a step-by-step guide on how to plan for each different zone
• All of the essential information you need to be successful, from water management and mulching to companion planting and contouring
• How to be successful with permaculture in an urban setting
• What biomimicry is and how goes hand-in-hand with the ideas behind permaculture
• Hugelkultur beds – what they are, why they are beneficial, and how to build them
• The 12 principles of permaculture and how they apply to each stage of your gardening adventure
• How to store your produce to feed your family organic, homegrown produce year-round
• The ten best ways to make money off the excess bounties from your harvest

…and so much more!

Without careful planning, permaculture can be overwhelming.

But with all of the knowledge in this definitive guide, you will be able to plan and create a garden that is the envy of all permaculturists.

Step by step, plant by plant, you can have the garden and the life you have always dreamed of.

Twenty years have passed since the last battle and the Warriors have gone their separate ways. It’s not until one of their friends is mysteriously captured that Kendra and Endokia set out to find her. They seek the help from the other Warriors but even with their help they are always two steps behind. The journey creates new friendships and test old ones. When it’s finally discovered that an old enemy is behind the kidnapping and that a bigger plan is in effect, they must work together to stop a universal catastrophe.

This is the third and final book in the Warriors Legacy series.

Why has antisemitism mutated into a potent form of anti-Zionism? What is the goal of a Jewish state in the twenty-first century? How can we bring unity to Israel’s diverse society? Rabbi Doron Perez offers a fresh approach to these pressing questions. Drawing on thinkers from the Vilna Gaon to Rav Kook, Rabbi Sacks to Robert Wistrich, this book weaves together an old-new spiritual approach to the Jewish state – both to understand its challenges and to lay out a vision for the future.

“Everyone to whom Israel is dear should have this book in their library." —Rabbi Berel Wein

“Rabbi Doron Perez has authored a powerful and passionate call for civility and unity within the Jewish community.… He makes a compelling case for the central role the State of Israel can play and, in particular, the Mizrachi movement which he heads with such distinction can – and must – play in assuring the continued flourishing of the Jewish people.… Read this book carefully and be inspired to do your share." —Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought, Yeshiva University

"The success and sustainability of the Jewish People is in many ways dependent on its internal unity. Rabbi Perez has written a critical book about this very topic.… As a person who dedicates herself to sharing a love of Judaism, Israel, and of all Jews, I strongly recommend reading this book about our beloved Jewish state." —Miriam Peretz, Recipient of Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement

"Rabbi Doron Perez has masterfully woven biblical sources with medieval commentaries and contemporary thinkers to create a magnificent tapestry of the unique Jewish state illustrating its past and future. From the teachings of Avraham Avinu through Rav Kook, he has highlighted the religious, national, and universal tenets embraced by the Jewish people, and the importance of incorporating these three principles as a cultural platform for unity." —Rabbanit Shani Taragin, Educational Director, Mizrachi; Rosh Beit Medrash for Women, YU Israel

"In a world of polarizers and propagandists, Rabbi Doron Perez is a uniter – and, most important, an educator par excellence. In this important work, [he calls] on all of us, secular and religious, to better define the Jewish and Zionist mission." —Professor Gil Troy, author, The Zionist Ideas; columnist, Jerusalem Post

Gods and Demons Clash in Mythological Japan

In the Kingdom of Yamato, magic is misunderstood. When humans pray at shrines to the spirits of the land, their wishes are not granted directly. Instead, sometimes gods are born: shapeshifting animals with the power to conjure weapons and enter the realm of dreams.

When a snow monkey named Saru is born from a prayer of hope, he longs to understand the truth about his nature. At an enchanted temple, he crosses paths with the demonic monk Akame whose infernal magic destroys everything Saru loves—and could soon threaten the whole world.

Saru flees to Otari Village, a settlement of kind people who welcome him into their homes. The village, however, is plagued by ghosts and wicked men who would exploit Saru’s powers. With Akame’s arrival looming, will Saru save the village, or lose everything again? How far will he go to protect those he loves?

From the Valley of Orchids is the first book in the epic fantasy series The Legend of Saru.

The war is done.

Ricky wants some time to lick his wounds and learn what the new normal is going to look like for him but then his brother goes missing. Now Ricky needs to team up with his wartime friends (and at least one dog he'd hoped never to see again) to find him, figure out what's going on and save the world.

Again.

And the clock is ticking...

Discover the strategies to quiet your traumas and struggles… and build a life full of joy and peace.

Shadow work is a well-known method to manage your hidden sides and acknowledge and integrate suppressed desires to live a more balanced life.

Exploring your shadow can help provide answers that can change the course of your life and help you uncover the best and most authentic version of yourself.

In this guide on shadow work, you’ll discover:

• An enlightening lesson on the shadow – explore what it is, how it affects you, and how you can form a truce with it
• Thought-provoking prompts and exercises laid throughout the book to help you unlock your inner self, become accountable, and progress with shadow work
• A rundown on the methods for performing shadow work, including a bonus therapy for an added advantage
• The biggest mistakes people make when dealing with their shadows – and how to steer clear of them
• 7+ ways to finally face your hidden side and reveal your most authentic self
• Encouraging prompts and affirmations to reinforce positivity in your mind
• How to break free from your past and build a better future
• Self-care crash course – find out how to become more accepting and forgiving to achieve balance, happiness, and peace

And so much more!

With this guidebook by your side, you don’t have to wait another second to find a way to live the life that you desire and deserve.

You are worth more than what you give yourself credit for – it’s time to let the best version of you shine through.

Break free from your past traumas, discover self-love acceptance, and become the truest version of yourself.

In Darcy, Alice McVeigh captures the spirit of Pride and Prejudice, but adds a unique and refreshing twist.

Revel in The Wit and Wisdom of Mary Bennet.

Thrill to enticing nights in Rome.

Enjoy the “missing scenes” of Austen’s starriest work.

Intricately plotted and powerfully paced, this is P&P with (wedding) bells on, with extra helpings of classic regency romance. A new Austenesque variation to treasure.

Will their treasure hunt lead them to true love or fool’s gold?

Niclas Ruiz loves digging in the dirt for ancient artifacts. He’s obsessed with old words and lives in his own world. His summers are often spent traveling to new places to hunt for treasure with his trusty metal detector while trying not to get lost or stumble off a cliff.

Love has never been high on his priority list. His being autistic and asexual has often been a hurdle for other people. But he’s happy enough to plod along on his own with his horde like a fairy-tale dragon.

But sometimes, he allows himself to dream about a man out of his reach.

Two things about Falk “Grizz” Evensen are certain. He runs a successful security firm and has been hopelessly in love with his best friend’s younger brother for many years. Neither of them has ever dared to test the waters.

When Niclas plans to visit Cornwall for the summer, his older brother convinces Falk to join him under the auspices of keeping him safe.

Is this May-December romance doomed to be derailed by fears of unrequited love?

Will their treasure hunt lead them to true love or fool’s gold?

After a series of traumatic events (including the end of a 15-year marriage and multiple sexual assaults), a woman discovers she must face the reality of her life, or end it. On a scrap of paper she writes "Reasons to Live." It stays blank for days. Then, she remembers her old dream: move to Europe. By pet-sitting in exchange for lodging, she makes this dream a reality, finding solace in exploring new landscapes and spending time with animals. Against a backdrop of fur-filled adventures and cultural revelations, she battles the demons of C-PTSD and grief as she attempts to rebuild her identity and her life.One Reason to Live embodies a visceral experience of living with psychiatric injury, combined with the power of radical acceptance, sweetened by the healing quality of animal companionship and the joy of embracing self-love.

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"Christine’s wonderful travel stories, complete with a cast of adorable pets she takes care of, will have readers laughing, crying, and cheering.” ~Kristi Elizabeth, San Francisco Book Review

"...raw, tender, and ultimately, far more moving than anything I’ve read in the genre before...If you often find memoirs to be lacking in soul, give this one a try, you won’t be disappointed!" ~Beatrice Toothman, Manhattan Book Review.

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Content Warning: This is a tale about survival and grief. It contains references to (but not graphic descriptions of) sexual violence, child abuse, suicidal ideation, and self-injury. It also talks frankly about mental health, psychiatric injury, and profound grief.

For those looking to live in Japan, this series offers hard-won insights of how to land with a running start and set yourself up for success. Covering everything from how to best get started, dealing with taxes, applying for a permanent visa, side work, Steve explains how to handle the many unexpected challenges of living in a country that is distinctly foreign. Filled with tons of stories and honest firsthand advice, it’s a No-BS collection of wisdom garnered from two decades of living in the country.

These stories will feed your imagination, as well as your knowledge of some historical facts. There are 7 individual stories, which will take you to witches, ghosts, figures from the war years. Some stories are about innocents, who face unexpected counterparts and meet their ends in the most unexpected places—there's an elderly aunt who foresees things and conjures up spirits; there's an orphan who struggles through the war and ends up a wealthy young lady indeed—there's stories about many of our monarchs through the ages and what they did in sticky situations—and the story involving that great heroine Edith Cavell will leave you wanting more. Please come inside this book, and let your mind wander free—I promise you won't regret it.

A Very Sporting Adventure Sequel to Pride and Prejudice

Can Fitzwilliam Darcy help his young cousin vindicate her father’s honor?

1826, Yorkshire Wolds. In this humorous and heartfelt short novel narrated by Colonel Fitzwilliam’s daughter, Sofia-Elisabete, the colonel takes her to fox hunts. A terrible accident occurs at the second hunt when the impetuous and spirited Sofia fakes a “view halloo” and sets the riders in the wrong direction so that she can save the fox. Lies spread, and the colonel is unjustly blamed for the tragic death that occurs. A key witness—Nimrod, the popular sports writer—has vanished. The colonel seeks Darcy’s help to find this journalist.

There is no greater friendship than between loyal cousins.

Sofia hasn’t seen this cousin since she was a child, but she recalls the happy Darcys of Pemberley. Fitzwilliam Darcy at forty-two still has that certain je ne sais quoi that had captivated her as a girl. But can Darcy make things right in a world where corruption abounds and where trouble and the fantastic keep happening whenever Sofia is near? Told against the backdrop of the sporting life, from the chase to the turf, from the ring to the links, My Cousin Darcy lays bare the secrets of a flawed and sensitive hero from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

Warning: Extasia is a work of fantasy and escape, an Alice in Wonderland for adults that deals with BDSM themes. The main character enters this world of her own choosing, and readers are likewise free to make or decline that same choice. Not suited to all tastes.

A beautiful young woman awakes naked on a bed with no memory.

Finding three outfits, she discovers that the two glamorous ones each spark wonderful memories. She remembers passing through panels in the room’s floor-to-ceiling mirror and living out exciting romantic fantasies. Yet now these options repel. She has lived them already far too many times.

Only the strange final outfit yields no memories. With trepidation, she dresses her body in its degrading arrangement of straps, more harness than clothing, and passes through the mirror. She feels that this time she may be someone else’s fantasy.

The three non stop adventures of Hack and the prequel, all in the one place!

HACK ESCAPE

In a secluded military base nestled deep within the woods, the most significant project of their career has vanished without a trace. Panic sets in as the team realizes that their prized creation, the cornerstone of cybernetic soldier evolution, is missing. With no leads and time running out, they embark on a frantic search to uncover the truth behind the disappearance. But as they delve deeper into the mystery, they discover that there is more to this puzzle than meets the eye. With the looming threat of outside interference, the team must race against the clock to retrieve their project before it's too late. Will they succeed in their mission, or will this top-secret operation be their downfall?

HACK FROST

Hack is an AWOL military cybernetic experiment, always on the run and never stopping for anything. When his best friend offers him a high-paying gig to deliver a rusty and busted up ice cream van from one place to another, Hack jumps at the chance to make some easy money. But as he hits the road, he soon realises that there's more to the van than meets the eye. With angry clowns, roaming gangs, and dangerous mercenaries hot on his trail, Hack must fight to keep the van and its mysterious contents safe. And when the truth finally comes to light, Hack's world will be turned upside down in ways he never could have imagined. Get ready for a wild ride filled with action, danger, and unexpected twists and turns!

HACK STONE

After narrowly escaping death on his last mission, Hack returns home to find his past waiting for him on his doorstep. As a military runaway, he thought he had left his secrets behind, but now he must hit the road once again in search of answers. Joined by fellow cyber experiment Jane, their simple mission to track down their creators quickly turns into a harrowing cross-country journey. With enemies at every turn, from the Triad to bikers to corrupt cops, Hack and Jane must fight for their survival. Even an entire town seems to be against them, determined to make their lives a living hell. As the truth about their past begins to unravel, Hack learns that some family secrets are best left buried. Will he and Jane make it out alive, or will their past finally catch up with them? Get ready for a heart-pounding ride filled with danger, betrayal, and unexpected twists!

HACK SPACE

Former cyber soldier Hack has finally tracked down his nemesis, but he never expected to find him in the last place he'd ever imagined. With all he cares about at stake, Hack must race against time to put an end to the madman's plans for all-out war. But locating his enemy is only half the nightmare, as he must navigate a dangerous path filled with circus performers, crazed cult members, jealous ex-boyfriends, wildlife hunters, and even crazed droids. Can Hack overcome all the obstacles in his way and put a stop to the madness before it's too late? Or will the final frontier be his final resting place? Join Hack on his thrilling and action-packed journey in the epic conclusion to the Adventures of Hack series.

Now is the time to embrace why artificial intelligence is at the forefront of business innovation and how you can use it to your advantage.

Do you prefer to have technology explained in layman’s terms, and combined with actionable insights?

Are you constantly seeking ways to improve your business, expand your customer base, and grow?

Entrepreneurs to multinational corporations are racing to integrate ChatGPT into their businesses, so you are right in wanting to seize this opportunity.

This guide promises to provide more value than the cost of the book and the amount of time required to read it. The five easy methods can all be implemented today and will immediately benefit your business.

Let’s get started.

In this practical guide, you will discover:

• Introduction to ChatGPT and how to achieve these business-specific outcomes

• Why does AI deserve your time and attention

• How to prompt – ChatGPT It – business-oriented prompts to get the data you need to make informed decisions specific to your industry

• Build your confidence using ChatGPT

• Marketing tactics to find prospects similar to your current clients and increase revenue

• 5 ways to increase the effectiveness of your sales team, specific to their strategy, content, and computer mentoring to help hone their craft through role playing

• HR hacks to enhance the employee experience

• Finance enhancements to entice investors and preserve cash

• What you need to automate your business processes with a ChatGPT-powered chatbot

• Create vastly better business writing and boost your efficiency

And much more.

See how this guide could help you generate more revenue? With the insights and efficiencies gained from using ChatGPT, your business can see real growth.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to transform your business.

If you’re ready to incorporate AI into your business, start growing it today with ChatGPT.

Upper Canada, 1804, on the edge of Chippewa territory.

Flora MacCallum wakes from a malarial coma and witnesses the staggering loss her siblings have endured during their first days in their new land. Lured by Lord Selkirk's promise of fertile grazing land and freedom far from the Highland Clearances, Flora's father staked his life to bring his family across the Atlantic. During the settlement's first bleak winter, Flora discovers hope through an unlikely friendship. The eldest son of a Chippewa chief offers Flora the gift of his mother tongue. This gift shifts Flora's relationship with the land and the truth of her own spirit. As their furtive fellowship attracts attention, conflict arises.

Set amid the privation of a struggling frontier settlement and a Chippewa forest camp, Anangokaa is the evocative coming-of-age story of a young woman who must determine what sacrifices she is willing to make for the life she longs to live.

Every relationship is like a shelter. But not every relationship is meant to be a home.

Allie has always thought that when you find "the one", everything in life will fall into place. That love will always find a way in the end. But soon, she realizes that loving someone isn't enough to make a relationship succeed. And, sometimes, loving someone too much can ignite a relationship as quickly as it could extinguish one.

Her self-discovery journey began with her first crush in high school and continues today with the man she calls her home.

Allie's breaking point comes when she body slams her ex-boyfriend's date at a wedding, which goes viral on TikTok. Ultimately, she weaves through a series of romances, stoking every emotion and doubt, leaving her convinced she is broken and afraid to commit to anyone.

Until now. This might be the one.

In this magical mix-up of fairy tales and murder, Little Red Riding Hood solves the mystery at the heart of Beauty and the Beast...

What does it take to overcome a curse?

Traveling alchemist Red settles into life as a shopkeeper in rural Belville and expects to focus on her potions. But crime stops for no woman. Neither does Red's friend, police officer Thorn! When a beastly criminal escapes to a nearby abandoned castle and is found murdered, Thorn immediately suspects Luca, a meek-mannered bookseller-not to mention Red's best friend.

Red knows that there's more to the castle-and the murder-than meets the eye. But as she rushes to prove Luca's innocence, she's beset by a not-dead-yet ghost, a beautiful and ill-tempered suspect, and a horde of mysterious mist creatures that terrify the town. Oh, and then there's the series of lost books that hold the key to the castle's curse! If Red and her friends can't find the books and solve the mystery, Luca might not be the only one in trouble. But in idyllic Belville, appearances can be deceiving. Red will need all of her alchemical prowess and all the help she can get in order to uncover the truth behind this twisted tale.

This special edition includes a new epilogue, recipes, and a sneak peek at book two of The Alchemical Tales.

Sarah cannot escape the deadly Ludus—a mind-body dissociation game where bodies and souls don't always merge after the game is over.

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Parker's healing touch can bring beings back to life, provided they haven't crossed over. Until now she's managed to keep her gift a secret, but somebody seems determined to expose her and get her back into St. Mary's Orphanage.

Four years ago, Sarah was an orphan at St. Mary's who'd lost hope of ever being adopted and faced the gruesome Ludus, a mind-body dissociation game, until Ida showed up. She's lived a dream life since then, but Sarah senses something is amiss. She has pretty much settled into her "new life" when cracks appear in her comfort zone.

The last thing Sarah wants is to return to St. Mary's.

When Marcus David, her boyfriend, is accused of murdering a student and Ida is attacked shortly thereafter, Sarah's deepest fears materialize. She loses Ida and Marcus in one breath and returns to St. Mary's. There's no escaping the Ludus and the wrath of her newfound enemies. As Sarah readjusts to St. Mary's, she learns the orphanage holds crucial secrets to her past.

Biblical Questions and Answers for Smart Kids will help you navigate the tough waters of teaching Biblical truth without feeling intimidated because of misinterpreted theories and ideas. The second entry in the The Pentateuch Kids' Q&A series, this book presents quizzes which include questions about the Book of Exodus. Each quiz has 10 questions, with multiple choice, true or false, and thinking outside the box. The young person will need to read a passage from the Bible and then answer the questions asked based on the passage they have just read. Some questions require children to pretend that they are someone from the Bible and reason based on their actions in their imagination. These quizzes will help your child grow in knowledge about God and His plans for humanity.

Your work is too important to keep to yourself.

It’s time to share it.

• Do you keep making excuses for not launching your business or sharing your creative project?
• Are you afraid to let other people see or hear about your work?
• Have you ever wondered why clicking on the ‘post’ button fills you with dread?

Our work can’t make a difference unless we share it, and yet so many books, businesses and creative projects never get off the ground.

How To Share What You’ve Made is your guide to getting your work out of your head and into the world.

By reading this book, you’ll learn...

• the mindsets and tools you need to overcome your fears about sharing your work
• habits and ideas to help you stop procrastinating and start sharing
• how sharing your work will transform you and change the world

‘Whatever progress you wish you could make in your career, or more generally in your life, Robbie’s 12-Minute Method will help you overcome the obstacles in your way, focus your energy and start!’ Alex Swallow, Author, How To Become An Influencer

Sharing himself and the things he had made filled Robbie Swale with worry and anxiety. It was an agonising process to share, publish or launch anything.

Until he created a writing practice.

Through that practice, Robbie discovered the secret to getting things done: his simple but groundbreaking 12-minute method.

The method transformed him as a person and became the foundation of this series of productivity books.

In How To Share What You’ve Made you’ll discover paradigm-shifting lessons that Robbie learnt the hard way; lessons that have allowed him to become a successful coach, writer, public speaker and – above all – someone who can share the things he creates without being held back by fear.

This book is here to instill in you the courage and the confidence to bring your ideas to fruition.

‘Many times, in many ways, I have recommended the 12-Minute Method to others and watched them come alive with inspiration when they hear how Robbie brought this book to life. His genius ideas are exponentially valuable. To me, it’s the 12-Minute Miracle.’ Michelle C. Basey, Energy Healing Artist and CoreYou Coach

How to Share What You’ve Made is book four of The 12-Minute Method: Beat Procrastination, Be More Productive and Finally Do That Thing You’ve Been Meaning To Do.

Meg McGrath, a publicist with few but impressive credits on her resume, finds herself playing in the P.R. big leagues when she lands a job as head of publicity for The Chieftain’s Son, an Irish historical drama based on an insanely bestselling series of romance novels. The show’s buzz hits the stratosphere in its first season, and given her lack of experience, the network questions Meg’s ability to keep up with the skyrocketing publicity demands of their top tier show.

When her boss threatens to replace her with a new head of P.R. and demote Meg to an assistant position, she convinces him to make a deal. If she orchestrates an unforgettable splash for The Chieftain’s Son at Cali Con, a massive annual convention of the popular arts in San Diego, she’ll continue at the helm of publicity for the show.

Much to Meg’s resentment, in San Diego the network pairs her up with Cian Malley, the savvy publicist of the network’s other top show, Star’s Shadow, to show rookie Meg the ropes. Meg's initial game plan is to simply siphon off the best of her competitor's marketing flair in order to keep her job – until the heat between them burns down the boundaries of their professional connection, complicating everything.