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When a reaper breaks into the fortress sanctuary and slaughters every living soul inside, 15-year-old Aura flees to the Grand Citadel.‬ But inside the walls, powerful forces are wrestling for control and raising long-buried demons, eager to tear free of their cages.

Ten years ago her best friend left. This Christmas, he’s back. Will this spell love or disaster? Birdie Hawthorne has spent her entire life at her family’s magical bakery, infusing pastries and dessert with an extra special spark. At twenty-eight, she isn’t certain she wants this life; to stay in her small Ontario hometown and eventually inherit the bakery. Not when she’s never experienced anything beyond the Bruce Peninsula. When her best friend Charlie Singer comes home for Christmas after ten years away, Birdie’s life turns upside down. Ten Decembers with zero contact.

Ellie Hughes is done. Done being pitied, done being part of a life where she no longer fits in, done. After the loss of her husband, Ellie travels halfway across the world, on a whim, to the tiny hamlet of Bettyhill, Scotland. The town is full of colorful characters, including the handsome but surly librarian, Lawson MacCallum. When unforeseen circumstances leave her stranded, the kind townspeople happily come to her aid. But this small town has secrets around every corner.

A killer goes on a murderous rampage at an exclusive Palm Beach country club. Crawford and Ott arrive just fifteen minutes after the mass carnage and can’t believe what they’ve just walked into. A man with a semiautomatic assault rifle is all they know… and a day later that’s still all they know. But then the suspect list starts to grow… and grow. As does the pressure to catch the killer before he strikes again.

In The Captaincy, Mark Francis draws on forty years in elite women’s rugby and global leadership consultancy to reveal the real foundations of modern leadership. Through over 60 Captain stories—from world-class athletes, pioneering women, and bold change-makers—Francis shows that leadership isn’t a job title. It’s an ethos. A choice. An intention.

A small town, slow-burn romance for fans of Elsie Silver and Laura Pavlov. Lily I fell in love with my best friend when I was fifteen. My first love, my first everything. But then I left, and broke both our hearts in the process. I tried to move on, but when tragedy brings me back home to Amity...

Anything can happen when the super yacht, Boys Night Out, drifts out past the 3-mile limit… The passengers are some of Palm Beach’s richest and most libidinous men in town and the “crew” are twenty of the most smoking hot women around. Throw that together with high-stakes gambling and free-flowing cocktails and something treacherous is bound to take place. Like a shockingly brutal murder! Enter homicide detectives Charlie Crawford and Mort Ott to try to get to the bottom of it.

A modern-day Artemis turns predator, stalking and executing those who desecrate her woods, while FBI Agent Brynn Justice ventures deep into untamed territory to decipher a pattern written in blood before another corrupt soul is claimed beneath the moon.

What happens when you unearth boxes of old letters, dog-eared essays, rebellious cartoons, and forgotten report cards from a dusty storage unit? You get SCRIBBLINGS FROM STORAGE, The Confessions of an English Major—a candid, witty, and deeply human memoir by Charles Francis Guittard, Baylor class of 1964. Told through the artifacts of his so-called “permanent record,” this unconventional memoir traces Charles’s winding journey as an earnest but often insecure teenager stumbling reluctantly toward adulthood.

In this thrilling 1950s noir, when a beautiful woman comes into Paris Minton’s life, everything starts falling apart—leaving him no choice but to ask Fearless Jones for help. Mosley returns to mysteries at last with his most engaging hero since Easy Rawlins. When Paris Minton meets a...

When we were little we dreamt and imagined that the world is a beautiful place. Later, when we become adults, problems of all kinds come to us. We lose this inner childish innocence. Our mind is filled with negative thoughts, feelings and emotions, we are looking for the worst life scenarios, and we are moody and angry with the world. Furthermore, we do not feel happy with ourselves, we do not know how to have a positive mindset we do not know what to do and life can be meaningless and empty.

Scamming the local perverts out of their social security checks inside of Reuben "the Prince-of-Porn" Sturman's Paris Adult Theater; learning everything there is to know about wholesale drug dealing from two of the biggest street pharmacists in the city; getting mixed up with gay motorcycle gangs or attempted murders out on Lake Erie; and experiencing every puppy-love whore-crush in between. There really were a lot of Drugs and Other Things to Do in Cleveland during the 1980s!

After the Collapse, insulin is in short supply for the 40 thousand diabetics in Wyoming. Word comes down there's a lab north of Boulder, Colorado, that can make insulin in sufficient quantities to keep people alive. Governor Agar handpicks a team—The Fallen Eagle convoy—to retrieve the scientists and their lab in a desperate bid to save the lives of his constituents—at a cost some will consider too high.

The past will never let you go... When a four-year-old girl and her father are found dead in the Swedish city of Karlskrona, the police quickly rule it as a suicide. Believing it's a mistake, reformed criminal Luke Bergman is determined to uncover the truth. As the body count rises, Luke embarks on an investigation into his friend’s former involvement with a sinister cult, and dark secrets are exposed as Luke struggles to keep his own long-buried demons hidden.

Eloping with the love of my life isn't as easy as finding an Elvis chapel on the Vegas strip. Demons from my wife's past come back to haunt us before the honeymoon can even start. We have to get through all the secrets and lies to get our happily ever after.

One evening, Tru Lockhart gets a bizarre visit from his father Argus, who has escaped from an institution for the criminally insane. Tru is certain that murder is on his father's mind. Instead, Argus performs a bizarre ceremony that will trigger a startling chain of events, plunging Tru into many oddball worlds, and into the hands of many outlandish villains.

Ex-army ranger Steve Wolf is hoping to clear his name for a war crime he didn’t commit. But when a mysterious fixture in his life resurfaces with a dire warning for him and his mentor, Big Jim McNamara, he discovers that his past has once again come back to haunt him. Wolf is being stalked by powerfully corrupt foes—plural.

Through the changing seasons, amidst a sprawling ducal country estate, ex-steelworker George Purse's role as a gamekeeper goes beyond mere employment. With determination, he safeguards the birds, nurturing them with care, even as they become targets for the wealthy elite. As the Glorious Twelfth approaches, George must orchestrate flawless hunts for the Duke and his esteemed guests, ensuring their satisfaction while fending off the persistent poachers who threaten the delicate balance of the land.

Since its birth in 1948, the powers that be have chipped away at the NHS. Now, Britain's best-loved institution is under greater threat than ever, besieged by a deadly combination of underfunding, understaffing and the predatory private sector. In the wake of the pandemic, we have come to accept a 'new normal' of permanent crisis and years-long waiting lists. But, as Gavin Francis reveals in this short, vital book - it doesn't have to be this way, and until recently, it wasn't.

That’s what Steve Wolf is starting to believe after a carefully planned appeal to clear his name—an appeal his high-priced lawyer assured him was a slam-dunk—mysteriously disappears from the Military Court of Appeals docket.