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Spring in Silver Pines means bunting on Main Street, garden plots in full bloom, and just enough small-town chaos to keep things interesting. Clare Garner’s juggling custom furniture orders at The Mill and doing her best to referee the rising tension between her high school sweetheart, Jackson, and her recently re-rooted college ex, Blake. But when a local green thumb turns up toes-up in the community garden, Clare finds herself knee-deep in a mystery that’s more tangled than last year’s Christmas lights.

Autumn has arrived in Silver Pines, and the sleepy mountain town is anything but quiet. With peak leaf-peeping season in full swing, Clare Garner’s charming inn, The Cozy, is packed with tourists eager to spot the perfect golden view. The town square is dressed in pumpkins and pinecones, and Lucy is ready for the “Dog Leaf Jump” doggie event. But, when a body is discovered, gossip spreads faster than falling leaves. Clare once again finds herself tangled in a mystery that cuts through the crisp autumn air.

One more day. One more chance to tell family you love them, feel the grass beneath your feet, or finally speak your mind. So This Is The End follows Nora Hamilton as she navigates her last 24 hours before death, and she is determined to do something meaningful with her last moments. While looking for unique bucket list ideas, a friend suggests going on one last first date. What happens next is like a love story. Of course Nora would fall in love in her last 24 hours before death.

Unexpected connections, heartfelt confessions, and the first sparks of second chances in this clean & wholesome small-town romance prequel. Five kids. Five single moms. One unforgettable summer. In the coastal town of Willet Cove, five kids have grown up side by side, bound together like family. Their moms—five single mothers who’ve built a found family of their own—have given them everything.

Cora Gilbert wishes she weren’t a finder. Constantly overpowered by her strange ability to locate other people’s lost items, the lonely adoptee worries she’ll never have a normal life. But even she didn’t expect her gift to bring her to the site of a murdered corpse. After the police find no clues to the culprit, Cora allows the victim’s fiancé to persuade her to help him dig up evidence. But when she discovers the handsome man is not what he seems, the sensitive tracker fears the only thing her talent will lead her to is her own unmarked grave.

In Exit Rich, author and mergers and acquisitions authority Michelle Seiler Tucker joins forces with Sharon Lechter, finance expert and author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, to create a must-have guide for all business owners—whether they’re gearing up to sell a business now or just getting started building out their company into something to sell for a profit in the future. Seiler Tucker’s approach to selling your business for maximum profit combines two of the most powerful elements of her toolkit: the “ST GPS Exit Model” and the “6 P Method”.

Sass Luckett is cursed. Not because her truck keeps breaking down, her bank account’s on life support, or she’s constantly dodging packs of dire wolves looking for a witch-sized snack. No, Sass’s family is literally cursed! They must stay and guard their small town of Rattler’s Run from the Crossroads, the Bermuda Triangle of the prairie. If Sass and her sisters flee, the uncontrolled magic will wipe the town straight off the map, and the world will be overrun by the unnatural critters that emerge from the cataclysm.

Whether you're worrying about a partner struggling with depression or witnessing a friend spiral into addiction, many of us feel helpless when someone we love faces mental health challenges. In this groundbreaking book, psychotherapist Sophie Scott draws on moving client stories, proven therapeutic techniques and her own personal journey to help you navigate the emotional complexities of caring for someone with mental illness—while still taking care of yourself.

Timed to the hundredth birthday of Marilyn Monroe, and with the full cooperation of the Monroe estate, comes an investigation into the literary life of the Hollywood icon and actress, from the author of Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz and Dorothy Parker in Hollywood. Far from the spotlights...

I lost a bet to my older brother. My evil, life-ruining older brother, and now I can't go on a date for FOUR months. I can't even touch a woman. No hand holding. Forget kissing. I'm walking the straight and narrow (AKA dateless and lonely) just fine. Until my best friend (the woman I've been pining over since college) gets her heart broken.

After being forced to use a pistol against invaders, Evelyn Mapleton is no longer the timid girl her extended family expects. The more her aunt and cousin resent her new independence, the more Evelyn is determined she'll make her missing father proud by taking up his cause and aiding Confederate soldiers, even if she has to outmaneuver the Yankees guarding her home to do it. Samuel Flynn's life is consumed with two priorities: learning to become a proper guardian for the young orphans he's adopted and obtaining his physicians license.

When Anna and David adopt twelve-year-old Mia, it feels like their family is finally complete. She's polite, intelligent, and eager to please—everything they'd hoped for. But when Mia's behavior toward Anna turns cold and unsettling while remaining perfect for David, cracks begin to show. Small accidents around the house, strange conversations, and moments that don't add up leave Anna questioning her own sanity. As the tension builds, she realizes that bringing Mia into their home wasn't just a mistake—it might destroy their family forever.

With intensive couples therapy, you can create the opportunity for real progress to be achieved—not weeks or months down the road but now, when the couple needs it the most. In The Clinician’s Guide to Intensive Couples Therapy, you’ll find an accelerated framework for couples therapy that involves meeting with clients for two to three consecutive days, for six hours at a time. Written by relationship expert and renowned Gottman therapist Elizabeth Earnshaw (@lizlistens), this approach allows you to dive deep into the heart of relational issues.

In the cozy town of Sugarville Grove, Charlie Keene quietly runs her beloved pizzeria, a tribute to the father she lost, carefully hiding her past as a tech millionaire. Haunted by painful Christmas memories, she has avoided the festive cheer that fills every corner of her adopted home—until a gentle-hearted adventurer starts to change everything.

Kira Frost, fae princess and future leader of the matriarchal kingdom of Terrandale, must make a choice. To receive her elemental powers and the ability to control water, she must complete four harrowing feats representing each of the elements her people control. And she must complete them alongside three sexy fae men from opposite elemental lines vying for her love and affection. They all want her, but she can only have one - bonding herself to one man for life in exchange for her powers and her future throne. There’s only one problem: she wants them all.

Kate Matcham needs a fortune or a husband. She wants neither. With a tainted inheritance in the balance, she receives one offer to become a scoundrel's mistress and another offer of a marriage of convenience. Before resigning herself to a choice, she accepts the invitation to visit a childhood friend, considering it a last hurrah before embarking on a bleak future. The visit goes sideways when she falls for the gentleman her friend intends to marry, a man well out of Kate's league—and one who seems to be hiding something.

Kit Adderley is the worst man in England, a bored libertine who’ll do anything to entertain himself, including kidnapping the strong-minded, freckled dab of a girl promised to his partner in crime. Bryony Marton is trapped in a quiet life and looking for escape, when her awful fiancé’s best friend inadvertently offers it. Everything would be fine if he hadn’t kidnapped her pretty young cousin as well. And now there’s a handsome young Bow Street Runner chasing them..!

“In the beginning, God was said to have created everything in fairly short order. Some say seven days. Others say three. The truth is that god created nothing. God flipped a switch. The machines have been building ever since.” In the crowded techno-religious city of Aberthene, almost everyone is augmented by biomedical modification. Part machine, and part human. The church rules the state and controls everything from production to housing. Addeleigh Simmons works in a religious building cleaning out suicide booths during the day while attending classes and studying at night.

As a certified professional organizer, everything in Paige Parker's world is as it should be. And now, she has the perfect vacation planned to honor Singles Day. After all, what's better than celebrating her pride in being single? Who needs a man anyway? They have zero taste in quality television, leave the toilet seat up, and sleep with your best friend. No thanks. Her life is fine just the way it is.

Viva the Entrepreneur shares the lessons Brian learned while building his company. He shows how to manage your own psychology and your operations, be it working with cofounders, building a culture, or managing a board of directors. Brian also reveals the secrets of scaling a business and best practices for raising venture capital in Latin America. You will develop an understanding of the most critical parts of an investor term sheet and gain perspective into the inner workings of the venture capital game.