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Chrys has searched all of the Underworld to find a way to open Tartarus and bring her father, Hades, back to life. It was her fault he was sent there, and she doesn't care if she begins the end of the world to save him. Finally finding a clue on how to open the gates to hell itself, she leaves the Underworld and searches for the god Aether.

Since returning home recently from her never-to-be-forgotten cruise vacation, Samantha Rite has been busy trying to catch up at work and settle back into her normal day-to-day routine. Little does she know, her simple and quiet life is about to be thrown into turmoil as she has unknowingly become a pawn in a deadly game of deception. As she desperately struggles to make sense of it all, she soon realizes that someone she loves more than life itself is now in danger as well.

Welcome to the Barks & Beans Cafe, a quaint place where folks pet shelter dogs while enjoying a cup of java...and where murder sometimes pays a visit. Fed up with her go-nowhere job, newly single Macy Hatfield moves back to her small hometown in West Virginia. She joins forces with her brother Bo in his crazy new venture - the Barks & Beans Cafe, which caters to dog lovers and coffee drinkers alike. When a golf instructor is murdered at the nearby spiritual center, Macy winds up adopting his Great Dane.

It's the start of a new school year and a budding romance for Marcus and Alissa. However, everything is threatened when a sudden lack of funds puts all school sports on hold. To make matters worse, Marcus' father, the school's athletic director, is suddenly replaced by the arrogant, washed-up star athlete Mr. Dunbar.

Samantha Rite is in desperate need of a vacation. Her life is shattered when after 21 years of marriage, her husband walks out on her, leaving her for another woman. Her family decides now would be the perfect time for her to take a relaxing vacation. Before she can change her mind, she and her older sister are booked on a weeklong Caribbean cruise. Just days before the trip, her sister is involved in a horrible accident and is unable to go. Persuaded to take this trip alone, Sam finds herself caught in the middle of a deadly adventure of a lifetime. Will she make it out alive?

In a world where machines create most music, Alice Parsons is fed up, but what can she do? When she loses the only job she’s ever liked, she stumbles on a club that caters only to humans. She’s intrigued, and decides to inquire within. She discovers a group of rebels whose values align with her own. The president of MuseFam, the largest supplier of AI-generated music, takes an interest in the group of rebels and wants them stopped. When someone from Alice’s past reenters her life, suddenly her world is turned upside down, and she’s forced to come to terms with her situation.

Beyond Leaning In is a different kind of business book - based on research, but told as a novel and designed to spark discussion among friends, family, classmates, and co-workers across genders and generations. Through the perspective of female and male characters across generations, listeners gain new insights about why gender gaps are so hard to close despite our best intentions. We are inspired to think differently about what both individuals and organizations must do to ensure all employees thrive.

Chrys has been captured by Prometheus and Huntley and the others are searching all around the world for where he could have taken her. The clock is ticking, however, as Zeus is also searching for her, so that he may put an end to her life. Will they be able to find her before Zeus does? Or will this turn into an all-out battle until the end?

Alone and hurt, Alice is trying to pick up the pieces after the world crumbles around her. New York is just emerging from a devastating technological meltdown, and the authorities are blaming Alice. Just when she is feeling she can survive, she is jettisoned into a world she doesn’t recognize and questions her reality.

With the passing of her grandmother and the inheritance of an antique holiday postcard collection, 14-year-old Rebecca Renford discovers she is a Time Corrector. Guided by interdimensional overseers and aided by a handsome, humanized computer historian (called a Continuant), with the selection of each vintage postcard from her album, Rebecca must travel back in time to help rewrite historical wrongs.

Huntley knows time is running out to save Chrys from the marriage, and everything is riding on the mysterious box Hades has given Prometheus. Now all they have to do is sneak into Olympus, find Chrys, and convince Zeus she is already married to Prometheus. Easy as that. The problem is, Chrys has no knowledge of the plan. She feels all alone in a new world, surrounded by gods who are selfish and out to get her. Will she be able to last long enough for Huntley and the others to find her? Or will she take matters into her own hands?

After the AI Copyright Act is repealed, megacorporations such as MuseFam increase the production of AI-generated music more than ever before. Robot production kicks into top gear, and they manufacture thousands each day. Recent legislation requires owners of all-human clubs to accept all patrons, including robots. Outraged Alice Parsons unites several all-human club owners. Soon Alice finds herself in a plot to eliminate the MuseFam problem once and for all.

As the Great Depression hits the Midwest, Minerva Sinclaire runs away to Hollywood, determined to make it big and save the family farm. But beauty and moxie don’t pay the bills in Tinseltown, and she’s caught in a downward spiral of poverty, desperation, and compromise. Finally, she’s about to sign with a major studio and make up for it all. Instead, she wakes up next to a dead film star and is on the run for a murder she didn’t commit.

Emery St. James never dreamed of being a contestant in one of those dramatic baking contests. But then her life turned into a reality show of epic proportions. Owning a bakery was her childhood dream - and the pompous rich boy who opens a French pastry café right down the street, her worst nightmare. The last thing she needs as she struggles to make ends meet is competition. Even more annoyingly, there's competition by the name of Marshall Bartlett, who has the nerve to steal her parking spot and insult her bakery. But putting Marshall out of her mind isn’t a piece of cake.

Locked out of her bank accounts and kicked out of her apartment, Alice doesn’t think that her life could get any worse. Until it does. A hacker bent on Alice’s capture will stop at nothing before she is stopped. Soon, men in suits are chasing her through the streets of New York who are several steps ahead. Miscreants from every corner of the city attempt to stop Alice’s quest to liberate original music.

When Alice lands a new job as a talent agent that caters to all-human rock and roll bands, her world is turned upside down when a mysterious man captures one of her friends and leaves a sinister calling card. As she investigates, a series of unexpected circumstances threatens to unravel the life she has so carefully built.

After a disastrous few years trying to make it on her own, Lacy Steele returns to her tiny hometown. Feeling like a failure, she moves in with the one person guaranteed to make her fat, her beloved grandmother - a woman who uses food as love. As if to make her already depressing life more confusing, she reconnects with Jason, the former Adonis of their high school. Now a cop, Jason seemingly doesn't remember the frizzy-haired band geek Lacy was. Instead, he sees her as a potential problem, especially when someone she loves is arrested for murder.

Why did we let the machines assimilate our musical culture? In a world where machines create most music, Alice Parsons is fed up, but what can she do? When she loses the only job she’d ever liked, she stumbles on a club that caters only to humans. She’s intrigued, and decides to inquire within. She discovers a group of rebels who’s values align with her own. The president of MuseFam, the largest supplier of AI generated music takes an interest in the group of rebels and wants them stopped.

Chrys has been in the Underworld for thousands of years, hidden away by her father Hades from all the other gods. He's afraid that if someone finds out about her, they will destroy her because of the dichotomous power that she holds - the power of life and death. So, she has remained in the Palace of Hades all her life, making very little friends and always bored out of her mind.

Besides perfectly baked pastries and strong coffee, she has a fondness for stealing things. But she knows that stealing the most famous painting in the world would be pointless. After all, what can you do with it once the world finds out it's missing? Hide it in your closet? She'd rather use that space for her hat collection.