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Though she’s still healing from serious injuries, Taylor Quinn’s heart is ripe with happiness. Business at Flour Sax Quilt Shop has blossomed in the early spring sun, and with it hope for the future of Comfort, Oregon. But the promise of the season is poisoned when she discovers a dead body. Murder at the family strawberry farm uncovers a scandal she’d do anything to bury.

After a year of hell, Lani Summerland’s life is just getting better when she’s tossed unceremoniously a few hundred years into the future with her orange Persian cat, Charming Marvin, in her arms. With no way to fight it, no way to go back, things are only looking to get worse fast. Breaking protocol is cause for severe consequences in the time and world Liev Blackburn lives. But, after a year of government regulation, the crackdown is easing up and he begins to relax. Everything he’s worked for is hinged on keeping his reckless brother in check.

After much hard work, Taylor Quinn is finally finding relief from the trauma of losing her mom. Invited to help solve the mystery of an abandoned quilt, she agrees to take on the pleasant distraction. But her innocent investigation leads her straight to a dead body with a pair of sewing shears stuck in its back. When two journalists reporting on the stabbing are taken out the same way, Taylor faces her worst fear: A monster is targeting everyone she’s talked to about the quilt.

Two years after the tragic death of her mother, Taylor is living her best life. She’s got a steady boyfriend, stable business, and the coup of hosting a hugely popular quilt expo in her small town. If that weren’t enough good news, outtakes of her mom’s old YouTube show have exploded online, bringing fame and money to everyone involved.

A Little Princess tells the story of Sara Crewe, daughter of a rich English officer stationed in India, who is sent to Miss Minchin's boarding school in London. Despite her wealth and privilege, Sara is kind and generous, befriending everyone from school outcast Ermengarde and motherless toddler Lottie to the teenage scullery maid Becky. When Sara's status is abruptly changed, her resolve to behave like a princess no matter her circumstances is put to the test. Frances Hodgson Burnet's children's classic is performed by a full cast and will be loved by listeners of all ages.

Human beings are complex characters, full of both good and bad habits. Most of the time, we know what we should be doing but still can’t seem to find the drive. We know of all the good habits that can make us better as a person, but they seem almost too difficult to achieve. This book How to Build and Keep Good Habits: Where We Are Going Wrong, and How to Improve Our Lives with Healthier and Better Habits is a one-stop guideline to everything you need to know about good and bad habits.

Taylor is a fixer when it comes to quilts, cases, and her family. As she continues to mourn her mother, she hopes to turn her unintentional rival Sissy into her first friend in sleepy Comfort, Oregon. But when her new pal’s favorite aunt suffers a poisonous fate, Taylor must switch her attention from cotton to killers. As Taylor digs deeper, she finds a host of frustrated family members, all of whom could have done the deed. With her town in danger and her anxiety on the rise, she follows the victim’s fortune to pin a top suspect as quickly as possible.

Everybody keeps saying it’s time to send Grandpa Ernie to an old folks home, but Taylor Quinn isn’t sure she agrees. As Grandpa says, “Everyone who moves there dies.” And since the latest death at Bible Creek Care Home was the chaplain who was stabbed in the back during the annual resident tea party, Taylor is beginning to believe her grandpa.

Set in early 20th century New York, Edith Wharton's classic novel follows the changing fortunes of the beautiful Lily Bart, an impoverished socialite who relies on the kindness of rich friends to move in glamorous society. Lily and all her friends know that she must make a rich marriage to achieve financial security, but she is drawn to kindred spirit Lawrence Selden, a charming but decidedly middle-class lawyer. Will Lily survive in a world of predatory financiers and their ruthless wives?

Girls, guns, and greenskins. Small Towns in America have a way of enforcing conformity. High School outcast Samantha Jenkins always had a hard time fitting into that mold. Quirky and opinionated with a dark sense of humor, she's no one's idea of a hero. Unfortunately, when orcs invade and start abducting people, she may be the only hope humanity has left. Can one sarcastic girl and her Golden Retriever save the world...or are we all doomed to servitude?

Our emotions are often so intense and so powerful that we can’t seem to control them. Be it the positive ones like love and happiness, or the hatefully negative ones like anger and contempt, our emotions are better hidden inside us. When we unleash them to the world without a second thought, we might become the reason behind someone’s unhappiness and suffering.

A smart, sexy, and witty romantic comedy about a 20-something who lives out every woman’s fantasy: getting paid to give men who do us wrong a taste of their own medicine. But when a previous target unexpectedly shows up at her office, she’s forced to rethink her life as a professional heartbreaker.

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy-to-understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock-full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including: current and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language; tips for what to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you; LGBTQ+ etiquette and techniques for respectful conversations; common bloopers to avoid; and more.

Seventeen-year-old Amber Borden has a lousy sense of direction - so lousy that she takes a wrong turn when returning from her near-death experience. She ends up in the body of the most popular girl in school, who has just tried to commit suicide. Can a girl who can't even navigate the halls of Halsey High discover the secrets of her new identity and find her way back to her own life? From the author of The Seer Series.

Everyone knows that twelve-year-old Madison “Madi” Lewis is not allowed to bring home any more animals. After she's saved hairless mice, two birds, a rabbit, and a stray tom cat that ended up destroying the front porch, Madi’s parents decide that if they find one more stray animal in the house, she won’t be allowed to meet Jane Goodall at an upcoming gala event.

We thought we were alone in the universe. Turns out, we were wrong. Dead wrong. When alien ships land, it’s all anyone can talk about. But for a year, nothing happens and the world starts to believe it’s just an elaborate prank. Until they finally emerge from their space crafts. And that’s when I saw him. Jace’el, son of Thral’el, leader of the Others. I don’t know if I can trust him, but I do know I can’t stay away even if I wanted to.

Sixteen-year-old Ava Phoenix’s unlikely defeat of the grand praetorian’s son in a fighting contest triggers her father’s murder and an official decree to destroy her village. Together with her first love, Beau, she races across a post-apocalyptic landscape to save her village while being hunted by her dystopian world’s deadliest teenage warriors. Heart-rending loss, romance, and an unjust world combine to create a heroine who rises above violence even as she dispenses justice.

Can four teens solve a puzzling whodunit that captivates their small town and baffles the police, all while starting high school? Besides years of close friendship and their shared confidence in each other, just what do a spunky smart tomboy, clever billionaire athlete, gossipy in-the-know cheerleader, and technological genius have in common?

Welcome to the new world. We thought we were the last and all we had to do was survive the initial outbreak. Turns out the hard part is surviving each other. Man, the post-apocalypse is brutal. Most of the runners have phased out, but a fraction have survived. They are smarter, faster, and way more deadly. We were supposed to be safe, but the virus has mutated, making the infected smarter than anyone ever thought possible. Our only hope for survival is to make it to the Tower, where we'll be safe behind walls with a group of survivors just like us.

As childhood friends, Richard and Cynthia were inseparable. But nothing remains the same forever, and Richard is forced to move to Queensland with his family. Maybe it is true what they say about distance and the heart growing fonder, because as the years start to speed by, Richard and Cynthia realize their feelings for each other go beyond simple, childish friendship. Deeply in love, Richard decides to surprise Cynthia, but instead of the happy reunion he envisions, Richard receives a devastating shock. One which changes everything and makes him disappear from Cynthia’s life.