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Fresh off her explosive return to her hometown, Special Agent Emily Slate finds herself facing her worst fear: the possibility of losing her best friend. Agent Zara Foley, Emily’s ride or die, has disappeared during an undercover assignment. Determined to stop at nothing to find her, Emily learns Zara was infiltrating a known domestic terrorist cell, one who had recently procured a large cache of explosives. Undeterred, and against her boss’s wishes, she joins the team tracking the terrorists in hopes that it will lead them back to Zara.

For more than 20 years, Secours has been urging audiences to look in the mirror. White Privilege Pop Quiz consists of questions and revelations that help set a context for discussing the term white privilege and serves to help people understand what it means to possess it. The quiz is meant to dispel any mystery or skepticism about the existence of privilege for those who have never given it much, if any, thought. After all, the number one privilege of Whiteness is to not have to think about it, therein denying its existence.

Work. That's all I do. After my best friend betrayed me, that's all I can do. I'm trying to nail a massive contract. One that'll put my company ahead of the rest. But, of course, he's a traditionalist. My assistant says I need a fiancée. Someone that makes me look good in a commitment. Except, I don't date. And I don't intend to start. So a fake fiancée it is. What I didn't expect were her legs. Or her poise. Or her perfection. And now? I can't keep my eyes off her.

This book shares two true stories that show how medicine can change a person’s life in very different ways—and how the difference often comes down to whether someone is truly listened to. The first story is about a young child whose life took a sudden turn after a medical accident. Instead of finding ways to help him heal, doctors decided to follow their own idea about what would be “best,” without asking or giving him a choice. They changed his body and told his parents to raise him in a completely different identity. As he grew up, nothing felt right.

Katie Porter must follow several confusing leads in her search for the truth concerning a case that the Fairfield Police Department has been unable to solve. She and her friends follow a trail of sinister notes, multiple suspects, unwanted flirtations, and a story that seems to go nowhere. Add the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the Porter’s elderly postman, and the near abduction of Gran, and the situation has the potential to become deadly. Pressure mounts as the crimes escalate. Can Katie Porter find Devlin Douglas before it’s too late?

Edie Carrigan didn't plan to "get herself" pregnant, much less end up in a home for unwed mothers. In 1950s North Carolina, illegitimate pregnancy is kept secret, wayward women require psychiatric cures, and adoption is always the best solution. Not even Edie’s closest friend, Luce Waddell, understands what Edie truly wants: to keep and raise the baby. Twenty-five years later, Luce is a successful lawyer, and her daughter Meera now faces the same decision Edie once did.

Neva's goals at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago are simple. Enjoy the spectacle—perhaps the greatest the United States has ever put on. (The world's fair to end all world's fairs!) Perform in the exposition's Algerian Theatre to the best of her abilities. And don't be found out as a witch.

Never a Cloud is a big old-fashioned, contemporary, social novel narrated by Violet Grey, an eccentric, out-of-the-ordinary loner, living on the coast of Maine. The deeply emotional love story of a complicated family in an enchanted place. A winter gathering at Margot Reid’s family home, Otyrburn, but this year is different, her oldest friend Owen and she will restore the walled garden. The party is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of the mysterious Ava Kerouac, Violet’s daughter and Margot’s half-sister—whom Margot has never met.

Midge Pennington is in trouble. She’s been arrested for the murder of her husband that was deemed an accident five years earlier. And who knew she was even married? Add a bloody crime scene, a rumored affair, nosy neighbors, an attractive chemist, and the best lawyer money can buy, and things really get interesting! Katie must use her best analytical skills and deductive reasoning to try and solve this cold case before her Gazette newspaper colleague is put away for life. Will this story be the one that gets the better of her?

What if the remarkable story of Ebenezer Scrooge was true? What if the account was relayed to Dickens, and he turned it into A Christmas Carol? What if the ghostly visitations did not begin or end with Scrooge, but the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet to come visit one misanthropic soul in need of reclamation every Christmas Eve? This modern-day sequel to the Charles Dickens classic assumes all of the above. And this time, the spiritual trio’s attentions have been directed to a not-so-nice woman in Philadelphia.

A little white lie never hurt anyone. When Clarissa takes a much needed nannying job under slightly false pretenses, she doesn't think it will be such a big deal. She may have told her movie-star boss that she was married, but that shouldn't matter—even though it was a specific job qualification. After all, the man is just worried about love-struck groupies applying for the position, and Clarissa doesn't want anything to do with men for a long, long time. Men have been nothing but trouble. But the love-struck groupies have a point.

The world is not always a nice place. Sometimes, it can be downright treacherous. That means sometimes you'll have to protect yourself, and other times you'll have to make your own justice. Hoodoo is old North American folk magic, born from the African spiritual traditions brought to the New World by slaves. Over the centuries it incorporated Native American and European influences, using what worked and discarding what did not. What is left is an adaptable, powerful magical system that works.

Katie Porter faces her most challenging, and dangerous, case to date after she writes a newspaper article about a series of local bank heists. Soon she’s confronted by the unusual methods of a team of clever thieves, evil threats to those she loves, a police sergeant determined to ruin her, and a ghost who has returned from the past to haunt Rosegate’s woods.

Maggie, a wife and mother, is disillusioned with her daily routine. Despite her boredom, when her husband David is called on assignment to South Africa, Maggie resents having to rearrange her life all because David has decided they all need to traipse halfway across the globe. While on safari, Maggie is catapulted into a mother’s worst nightmare: Her daughter Hannah has gone missing. Faced with the harsh truth of her abusive marriage, Maggie will have to find the courage to abandon her marriage and confront her self-destructive actions in order to save the life of her daughter.

When her ship is attacked and crew slaughtered by a mysterious creature, Violet "V" Green is rescued by the handsome Dr. Dominic Shade and brought aboard his magnificent luxury class vessel, The Persephone. The opulent halls, fine food, and high-quality hallucinogens are almost enough to convince her that she could recover from the horrific tragedy that brought her here. But from the moment she arrives, something only she can hear torments her endlessly: a woman's scream. Is it trying to tell her something, or is she losing her mind?

Sister Jane's Lenten Journal is a companion novella to Sister Jane. The journal entries cover the last 46 days of the original book and end on the same day. Hiding under the name Lydia, Jane has spent most of the previous two years in a monastery. But she is chafing at her restrictions particularly in the face of COVID-19 surging outside the monastery walls. She must act. Challenges abound: her identity, the threat of discovery, and the Sister Jane Society that has usurped her credibility.

Katie Porter and her friends volunteer to help with the Pearson Playhouse’s final stage production of the season. Soon, they find themselves in the midst of plots, betrayal, lost love, dark secrets from the past, and an old theater that is falling down around them. Will Katie uncover the truth in time to save the show, the playhouse, and those she loves before all is lost? Find out in this third Katie Porter mystery!

All her life, Jane believes she is small-town ordinary...until she isn't. Some people brand her a witch because of the cat while others believe she has a demon. Her family thinks she's ready for the nursing home, and the down-and-out reporter assumes she's a fake. But nobody, including Jane, can figure out how she does it: Heal the sick. All the sick. All the time. Is it a gift of God? The Church is divided. Then, everything erupts when the foreigners arrive along with the government people and the scientists. Will Jane become a pawn or save herself?

A rare painting is stolen from the wall of Fairfield's Mystic Museum of Art, and is then mysteriously returned to its owner. Is this the work of a remorseful thief or a dangerous gang involved in a series of sinister crimes? It's up to Katie Porter to solve this mystery that may bring ruin to her editor's family. Will she discover the truth and still keep her job as a reporter for the Fairfield Gazette?

Ava Rose Anderson is fighting for her freedom. Denied a privileged life, she is caught in the devious grip of an international trafficking ring. Confronted by the ultimate depravity of this underworld, she escapes, only for it to haunt her relationships, her future, her world. Ava’s former captors, Jeffrey Hoffman and his network of global elites, hold every option in keeping their secrets, silencing anyone who steps out of line. But Ava pursues them nonetheless. Only one woman, an accomplice in Hoffman’s criminal trade, might provide the closure Ava desperately seeks.