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Alice's best friend has become horse-crazy - just as Alice realizes she's afraid of horses. Terrified of losing her friend, Alice is relieved to meet Freedom, Jani's young horse. She hopes that being around a foal will help her be around big horses. That night, Alice is in a terrible accident. Half the town goes out searching for her, and Jani and Penny join the horseback hunt. But how can they find Alice when Freedom runs off on wild goose chases? The young filly's strange history might mean she knows more than the average horse.

Ellinor, a thirty-five-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognize the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she's ever been. But when her coworker vanishes overnight, an unusual new task is dropped on her desk. Off she goes to meet the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, setting the ball rolling on a strange and transformative six months.

For fans of Legends & Lattes and Dungeons & Dragons comes an unconventional hero's journey told through the perspective of a non-player character in a fantasy role-playing game. Anya Dazel is a burnt-out barkeep in Eternity: The Endless Realm, the world's premier online role-playing game. As a...

A fiercely original debut from Leigh N. Gallagher, Who You Might Be takes readers from 1990s Southern California to a UFOlogist holdout in Nevada, the graffiti playground of Detroit, and a self-important New York art scene in an unflinching examination of how life’s most unexpected turns—and...

From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile justice system and its inhabitants—young people of earnestness, disappointment, hope, and...

In the Podgorze district of Krakow sits the Under the Eagle pharmacy, a family-run business that has long served Jews and Poles alike. Since Poland's occupation by German forces, Irena, a pharmacist, has watched and worried as the store's access to medications is reduced to a trickle. But now come rumors that there is more to fear than dwindling supplies.

The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world.

A New York Times Notable Book Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee...

In the summer of 2020, social justice protests and the removal of Confederate monuments rock the city of Richmond, Virginia, as the marriages of two estranged sisters implode. When Cynthia’s husband, Bobby, can no longer hide his dire financial situation, their union finally ruptures. Melissa, her sister, has dedicated herself so fully to racial justice activism that she becomes alienated from her own Black husband.

In VOLUME 9 of The Things Our Fathers Saw® series, ‘Homefront/Women At War’, we will take an often-overlooked view of the story of World War II. You will visit with the people on the homefront, from schoolkids navigating growing up during the Great Depression and the War, to the women on the factory floor and the armed services, newly independent but having to fight for their rights and later, their jobs, laying the seeds of societal change for the future.

Humans would sell their souls for it. Immortals would steal souls to keep it. Infinite life is too seductive and powerful to resist. But, immortality is more like a bad drug habit than a gift. Immortals can't give it up because they don't know how to face death after living for so long. You see, living forever isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sure, you have your pros, but it's the cons that can make an Immortal wish for a death that will never come. Anala Geil is a Hunter. She is bound by the rules of the Society. The rules are few, but they are strong.

Discover the secrets of three gripping mysteries in this thrilling collection of novellas. Each novella in this collection is a masterful blend of suspense, intrigue, and mystery that keeps you guessing until the end.

How long, exactly, had June been coming to Moonie's for the sole purpose of pining after the bartender? Long enough to know, probably, that there was no good reason for Mal Edwards, a bastion of stability and good sense, to see any kind of future with June anyway. Was it even fair to express feelings to a woman like that when June was barely around, on the road more than she wasn't?

The situation is dire for the Free People as Cerah, the Chosen One, leads her army northward in pursuit of Surok, intent on destroying the monstrous force that threatens her beloved Quadar. But inside Cerah, other battles rage—a broken heart from the loss of her true love, Slurr, and her own nagging self-doubt.

A chance encounter with a celebrity, an impromptu video, and a shiny new espresso machine all added up to a juicy tale for Rachael Allen to share with friends. But when her best friend posts the video online without her knowledge, Rachael begins receiving bizarre threats from an obsessed fan. Mick Sullivan, the star in her video, offers to help. Despite his fame and reputation as a player, he tries to stay down to earth. However, Mick has secrets. And there's one he's hidden even from himself.

Brooke and Jenny had the perfect Key West getaway planned. What was supposed to be a long weekend of fun in the sun quickly changed to hunting for stolen treasure with the two handsome men they met their first night at the resort. Ollie is a businessman with a past that he keeps from Brooke. Ollie’s past causes others to judge him too quickly and one that could be putting him and his new friends in danger. On the other hand, Luke is Ollie’s closest friend, who seems to have a sinister side that could also place the others at risk.

Enjoying his day off, Deputy Brody Katz made the catch of his life while fishing in the South Platte River. The beaten woman had been shot and was on the brink of death by the time her body made it to the riverbank. When she wakes, she has no recollection of who she is, where she came from, or why someone tried to kill her.

A Single Candle, the third book in the Cerah of Quadar series, picks up the action where book two leaves off, bringing the forces of good and evil face-to-face.

What's a woman to do when she finds her boyfriend with her best friend? It's simple! She leaves them, and she doesn't say anything about the small fortune that she just inherited. Shelby Finn has had more than her fair share of trouble, but she thinks things are about to change for the better. Unfortunately, she couldn't be more wrong.

Poe Baxter has always wanted to go to Capetown, and when she hears that a rare book by a famous South African novelist has come on the market, she takes the opportunity to fly to the city. But as soon as she and her best friend Beattie begin researching the whereabouts of this supposed literary treasure, they come upon another mystery that takes their attention and puts them in peril.