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The dead man had threatened her with all manner of atrocity, so she didn't feel guilty about checking his body for coin. She should have been watching out for his conjuring partner. Now this runaway girl turned duelist is robbed of her priceless sword. Can she get it back or even survive when she gets caught between the town's greatest swordsman and a powerful sorceress?

Someone is paying a group of complete strangers a handsome amount of money to live together for one week. As they gather at the secluded home in the mountains, they quickly realize they all have very different personalities. As mayhem and mishap ensues, it becomes questionable if the little group can hold it together long enough to collect their reward - without killing each other in the process. All bets are off in this light-hearted and comical journey.

There is a bar on the far side of Olde Country where patrons come to get inspired. While drowning their sorrows in The Blue Lagoon, they witness a performer pull off a feat they had not thought possible.

Seventeen-year-old Molly's recurrent nightmares become waking visions after she nearly drowns at a party. Soon she's witnessing events through the eyes of a girl who lived in her father's house nearly a century before.

Miranda isn't happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda's anger turns to shock when she learns the girl's horrible secret: Abby's parents and sisters were killed in a house fire in this very town - more than 300 years ago. Somehow Abby survived the fire and has been living in a virtual limbo ever since.

When faced with newfound feelings for Theo, the drummer of her band, married young mother Portia must decide whether to follow her heart or question her sanity. Going off her medication feels like waking up for the first time. But could this clarity be harmless daydreaming, or a symptom of something more serious? Portia's husband, a well-respected prosecutor in their small Vermont town, is convinced of the latter. He retaliates, initiating an intervention, claiming that Portia's behavior is proof of her bipolar disorder.

A Curse of Blood and Bone is the heart-pounding second installment in the Ozero Curse series that will leave listeners breathless. Nicolette Elzie weaves together themes of female empowerment, love, lust, and grief with masterful precision, creating a story that will grip listeners from the very start.

In the heart of the treacherous Cicatrix, Kiki Xochicale faces her most harrowing challenge yet. The curse that grips the Ozero Kingdom tightens its grip, threatening to consume everything she holds dear. Time is running out, and Kiki must race against the ever-encroaching darkness to save the cursed princes and the kingdom they call home.

Shadows & Ciders is the third book in a series of interconnected standalone fantasy romance novels that take place in a cozy, small town where folk of all species reside. Grab a warm cup of tea or a strawberry sage cider and dive into this world of romance, magic, and mayhem.

Kiki Xochicale is a Slayer in the Demon Corps. She patrols the border along a mass of darkness that splits the kingdom in two. It's her job to ensure the demons that crawl out don't make it past her. When Kiki's best friend goes missing, everyone assumes she's either deserted or been eaten by a demon. After all, Slayers go missing all the time. But Kiki refuses to believe it. Instead, she follows a trail of clues that lead her into the heart of demon territory. What she finds is beyond anything she could ever have imagined.

The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them.

With Merry Day right around the corner, the folk of Moonvale are preparing for the holiday while hoping to avoid any more magical mishaps—especially because magic has finally returned to the realm, throwing everyone off-kilter. Ciders are flowing, pastries are baking, and gifts are being prepared. But Kizzi brought three elusive dragon eggs to town, and miraculously, they're hatching. Can Kizzi and her best friend Fiella keep the dragons contained and save the town from destruction, or will Merry Day be ruined?

Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change. In some cases, women make up almost 90 percent of casualties during dangerous climate events, and the majority of those displaced in the aftermath are women. Despite this disparity, women are underrepresented at every level of decision-making about the future of our planet. In Intertwined, writer and wildlife biologist Rebecca Kormos elevates the voices of women working to prevent the climate crisis, weaving together their stories to make a powerful case for why women are essential to changing our current trajectory.

Kizzi is a witch who knows what she wants—she wants to brew the best potions, drink the best ciders, and run her apothecary business without being disturbed by pesky sprites. Tandor, the local orc bartender, spends his days serving ales at Ginger's Pub, yet he can't help but yearn for the sassy green-haired witch that's always guzzling his ciders. When a magical mishap destroys Kizzi's cauldron and doses the entire town with a love potion, Kizzi enlists Tandor's help to find the cure before she misses out on Moonvale's Hallow's Eve celebration—a journey that will bring them closer than ever.

Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative.

As a descendant of Poseidon, my magical abilities are immense. At least they were until I fell in love and was tricked into having my powers stripped. Never again. Exiled with less than my full powers, now all I want is to reclaim what’s mine and dish out some pain to those who took them from me. It won’t be easy. And once I recover my powers, the Oracle foretells disaster. Worse, fate decrees that I must mate with four different fae.

Certified wealth management advisor and entrepreneur Jennifer Wines delivers an insightful exploration into reimagining and redefining wealth. This book explores the technological advancements and societal shifts that have us considering everything from digital assets to digital community, all of which are organized around values. This new paradigm places a premium on intangible, or invisible, assets represented by 5 principles—money, health, knowledge, time, and relationships—each of which is attainable through your own personal, renewable resources.

Gallery owner Ally Blake risks everything to exhibit at an art fair in Bogotá in the 1990s. She needs wealthy collectors to boost her gallery's sales and save her family from bankruptcy. When her art crates are tampered with and she discovers an ex-boyfriend and colleague from her State Department days in Santiago has involved her in a money laundering scheme, she devises a strategy to thwart the fraud, protect her children, and secure her family's future—but pulling it off will require her to make the art deal of a lifetime.

Christmas Eve 2005. Eight year old Michelle Harper is the only survivor in a horrific massacre that has left her four siblings decapitated, and her mother slowly dying as her innards ooze out onto the second floor landing, the words Santa Took Them written in blood on the bedroom wall. Ten years later, having been released from a psychiatric hospital for children, Michelle disappears, her uncle and his girlfriend found hacked to death with a knife before being decapitated, the words Santa Took Them once again written in blood on the wall.

Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a suicidal romance, and much else that is incredible, mad, sublime, and delicious.