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When you look in the mirror, who do you see? With Mandy the haunted doll now safely ensconced in Mason Town Museum, sealed in a glass case, Shady Groves and her colleagues, Annie and Ray, can relax. After a fashion. The small-town museum they run is not like others, it’s a place that seeks to contain and understand artifacts and relics charged with negative energy. Their aim is to gradually reduce how potent that energy can be, and the destruction it can lead to. All is well, until Shady chances upon a mirror in a thrift store. The reflection staring back at her is not quite her own.

Sixteen-year-old Azi Hammerfel has finally achieved her dream. Inducted as a squire into her parents’ honored guild of knights, she’s excited to set out on her first quest for the king. But when she isn’t chosen and her father returns badly injured without her mother, the young apprentice is shocked to discover herself stuck by a curse. Unable to even raise a sword without experiencing excruciating pain, Azi despairs at her mom’s disappearance.

Hank Walker is a softly spoken, affable, chubby-cheeked, long-haired hipster. On the surface it would appear to many that he has the perfect life, the kind of life that many men would kill for. Hank has a well-paid job as the head of a department at Omni Creative, a graphic design and company that produces images for everything from movie posters to art for upmarket hotels. He has money, a nice apartment, a cool car, and a casual sexual relationship with a former coworker named Audrey. Hank wants more....

18 biographical dramas based on the lives and loves of celebrated writers.

Maybe Alina's aunt was right. How could she possibly hope to become a musician, a trobairitz, as impoverished as she was and without the status of a good marriage? But 14-year-old Alina refuses to accept the oppressing life her strict aunt wants to impose upon her. When the perfect opportunity comes along for her to escape, she and her brother embark on a journey through the Byzantine Empire all the way to Jerusalem.

Chandler Gray is a sailor and app developer that has created Saga. A virtual AI detective that lives on his phone. The duo embark on an unlikely adventure together across the globe after Gina Lee, a wealthy and glamorous yacht owner, is kidnapped during the famous Swiftsure boat race. Along with a group of friends, the two must work together to track down the missing woman. Their journey leads them far and wide; from piracy in the Aleutians to being attacked in the backwoods of Vancouver Island.

Janet’s first love arrives out of the blue after 30 years. Those were simpler times for them both. Sunny childhood beach holidays, fish and chips and big copper pennies clunking into one armed bandits. The Wells family has run the Cromer Pier Summertime Special Show for generations. But it’s now 2009 and the recession is biting hard. Owner Janet Wells and daughter Karen are facing an uncertain future.

The universe is in chaos. After a mysterious ancient alien race invaded human space, wiping out untold millions on dozens of worlds, humankind teeters on the brink of utter disaster. Only two paths forward seem to exist: enslavement or annihilation. But a small team of humans - seemingly thrown together by fate - emerge from the chaos of the attack, coalescing around a solitary noble warrior and a woman who the enemy seem to fear.

After the success of the first three volumes, this fourth book comes out with brand-new dirty one liners on practicing oral sex at home or at the office. Women love men with a sense of humor. The life of the party is the man who cracks the right word in the right moment. The problem is: Where are the good lines when you need them? They are here.

A romantic novella in the Icebound series, an ongoing collection of polar delights. Behold dogsleds and penguins. Howling winds and cold, pitiless wastes. This is Antarctica, where the intrepid inhabitants of the frozen ends of the earth battle the terrain, and each other, to find love - in a past much like that of the early 1900s. Amidst the scientists and explorers at the British Antarctic base in 1900 there are a few women who serve as maids, cooks, and nurses. Then there’s Electa Yellowsmith.

A romantic novelette in the Icebound series, an ongoing collection of polar delights. Behold dogsleds and penguins. Howling winds and cold, pitiless wastes. This is Antarctica, where the intrepid inhabitants of the frozen ends of the earth battle the terrain, and each other, to find love - in a past much like that of the early 1900s. Reluctant spinster Florance Barton fled to the British Antarctic base to escape a scandalous love affair. Amidst the handful of other women there, Florance is the perfect chambermaid, meek, mild, and forgettable.

Eighty-nine is just a number…. A nameless immortal tasked with ensuring fixed points in time. Without fail she’s always done her job, protecting reality. But Eighty-nine’s world is flipped upside down when a jarring discovery, followed by a loss, causes her to question everything. With the help of an unlikely ally, Eighty-nine will embark on a journey that will end with one simple choice: to save reality or let it be ripped apart forever.

When museum curator Annie Hawkins walks into a diner in Idaho Falls, seeking the help of 22-year-old Shady Groves with an old broken doll named Mandy, life takes a dramatic turn for both of them. Psychometry is the ability to sense or read the history of an object just by touching it, and Annie has heard Shady has this psychic ability.

The world is a mess. There's a climate crisis, widespread poverty, war, and increased crime, but who is going to do something about it? Alan Didsbury finds he is the one given the role of fixing the world's ills. There's a catch, though. He can only choose one thing to change. When faced with the task of fixing a single thing for the betterment of humankind, Alan needs the help of six people he's never met - but somehow knows everything about - to decide what he should change.

Merlin the wizard is a good-looking, but very well-disguised woman. She's also ambitious and becomes Arthur's mentor, falling in love with him. It's reciprocated, and they elope, leaving the wizard's cave to Tertia, Unita, and Marlene (Merlin's apprentices and her sister). They start a detective agency, however bored with the lack of fifth century crime, they start up the Temporal Detective Agency and use Merlin's time portal to move from Camelot to the 21st century, where the cases are better.

With her best friend in the clutches of Zurenda’s lair, Kiera had no choice but to retreat and take refuge in the woodland hills of Aeolia. Supported by her friends, she discovers her true identity and destiny. Join Kiera as she sets out with one mortal friend, and some not so normal helpers, to mete out justice upon the Evil Queen of Piperi and take her rightful place in the Olympic Palace of Selene.

The forest village of Monkspike sits brooding. There is a sickness here passed down through ancient lines, one which is noted and deeply felt by Sylvia Massey, the new psychologist. What is wrong with nurse Belinda Sully's son? Why did her husband take his own life? Why are the old people in Temple Lake Nursing Home so terrified? And what are the lawless inhabitants of nearby Wolfs Cross hiding?

In this novel we meet Alison Wheaton and Charlie Dunn, a couple who are very much in love. Alison has survived cancer, but only just. The couple are taking an extended sabbatical in a small Icelandic town. The couple is finding their way back normality; that is until Alison starts to suspect that something is not quite right. What begins as a romance slides into an odd, dreamlike surrealist fantasy. Meanwhile, back in Coventry young Jessica Kirkpatrick has finally plucked up the courage to leave her abusive boyfriend.

Constance believes she knows her online friends very well. Or does she? After all it’s been five years of tweeting and sharing information. So by now she certainly feels a bond. Finally getting the chance to meet her friends: Stan, Karmel, Henry, Jagger and Estelle, at a glitzy party at The Dorchester hotel with a bag full of gifts and a smile, she’s excited to surprise them all and catch up in person.

After finally meeting in person at the publishing party of the season, Constance and Estelle are determined not to let their friendship return to mere virtual champagne bottles and uploaded pictures of food. It’s been a busy year, and Constance feels it’s time to reward herself with the spa break Estelle gave her for Christmas. Naturally, Constance wouldn’t dream of taking anyone other than Estelle, and this will provide the perfect opportunity to bond with her new chum.