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Climate fiction without apocalypse, set in and around Washington, D.C. Newly minted engineering professor Jake Harper, dealing with issues of mild dyslexia and awkwardness with public speaking, wants to stave off climate weirding by re-engineering the North American electric grids. His pregnant partner Abbey London, sassy but irresistible, starts her practice as an infectious disease specialist, concerned with encroaching tropical diseases. Together they operate her parents' Dragonfly Inn just twenty minutes away in northern Virginia.

Follow Violet and friends as she caters delicious events and runs into titillating crime! Recipes are woven into these culinary cozy mysteries and follow each story.

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project sent mostly anonymous writers into the depths of Florida to reveal its splendor to the world. The FWP and the State of Florida jointly published the results as Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State, which included twenty-two driving tours of the state's main roads. Retracing the original routes in the Guide, Cathy Salustri rekindles our notions of paradise by bringing a modern eye to the historic travelogues.

Something is buried beneath the watcher tree in the woods—a metal box with treasure inside. But what kind of treasure? Gold? Secrets? Memories? And who buried the box at the base of the spookiest tree in Stony Brooke? The tree with a reputation for snatching children and gobbling them up. Jordan and Holly discover the box on one of their adventures and crack it open to find unusual objects inside.

Mena Garcia and the ABE crew embarked on a mission of space exploration in the next universe 15 years ago. Mena finds herself in a world controlled by a river. Can she challenge the river and save her crew? Commodore Rebecca Garcia is determined to find Mena and crew in the next universe. Accompanied by unexpected crew the new commodore is challenged and relies on her skilled crew for the future of humanity.

After a fight over the family ranch, Dad's young fiancée is found dead. Bria risks her family's disapproval to sneak around and investigate as the tragedies pile up. Luckily, she has help from her childhood crush and from the handsome new deputy. When new love blooms in two directions and her main suspect dies, she must grow around her grief to discover the family's secrets before she loses everyone she loves.

A well respected urban writer who has focused on New York's transportation system for more than a decade, author Nicole Gelinas resumes the story where Robert Caro's landmark The Power Broker ended. Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car explores how, in the half-century leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, New York's re-embracement of its mass-transit system and a livable streetscape helped save the city.

Old Mr. Berkshire hasn’t opened his attic in years. So long, in fact, that the door is covered in cobwebs. But why is it locked? To keep people out or to keep something in? Holly is certain Mr. Berkshire has a mysterious secret hidden away inside, and he doesn’t want it to escape. When the lonely, old man admits to being haunted by what’s behind that door, and he accidentally lets it free, Holly and Jordan set out to find the ghost from Mr. Berkshire’s attic.

Set against the glamorous backdrop of 1924 New York City, Patricia's marriage is a mirror of the era—fast-paced, boozy and free of restrictions that bound previous generations. But when her husband, Peter, fresh off his own one-night stand, demands a divorce due to her behavior, Patricia is left reeling. Ex-Wife is her story of reinvention—a journey into the wild, uncertain world of the "modern woman," rife with boozy nights, fleeting love affairs and fabulous fashion.

As Violet waffles over whether to stick with her cheating fiancé, she and her friends must cater his formal military dinner. When an officer is found beaten, and not with a whisk, her fiancé is the prime suspect and temperatures rise in and out of the kitchen. Can Violet and the handsome investigator crack the criminal before the tension boils over?