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Sarah Valentine is so over seeing drama about her city's superheroes on every newspaper and TV broadcast. Besides, she has her own problems to worry about: her career isn't going anywhere, she doesn't have a boyfriend (or any prospects), and most of her weekends are spent escaping into video games that are way more thrilling than anything that will ever happen to her.

On the suggestion of my exquisite prophetess Qamara, we’re heading to the Traisel Commonwealth, a land of myriad beastkin communities. I’m not sure what we’ll find there, but I expect my uninvited frequent visitor will make an appearance. You’d think that having a smoking hot catgirl following you around would be a good thing, but it’s not in this case. She’s an assassin, and she’s tried to kill me several times already. Truly a bad kitty.

The search is on! The body of the latest minion of the demigod Aeyr was barely cold when we found our next urgent task. Some dude calling himself the Searcher, on the hunt for explorers and scholars, with the goal of ending their careers…and their lives.

Raven Hunter, a musical prodigy, flees to the Hawaiian Islands to pick up the pieces after her marriage to her manager collapses. Instead, she experiences extraordinary and unsettling events that are beyond her understanding. Living in paradise, marine biologist Finn Taylor has the unconscious but effortless ability to understand the needs of the animals he cares for. His playboy lifestyle is most men’s fantasy. That is, until the night he meets the shy and elusive new island resident. Suddenly his life no longer feels like his own.

Colton Stone is a newly traded tight end, whose reputation is as battered as his football helmet. When he receives a vacation invitation from his new teammates, he throws old habits and caution to the wind and accepts. There he collides with Dr. Lillian Morgan, a pediatric cardiovascular surgeon, and his world unravels. A widow with two children, Lilly is looking forward to her friends' wedding. When she meets Colton Stone, his arrogant attitude only makes her long for the love she once took for granted.

Why do we get cancer? Is it our modern diets and unhealthy habits? Chemicals in the environment? An unwelcome genetic inheritance? Or is it just bad luck? The answer is all of these and none of them. We get cancer because we can’t avoid it - it’s a bug in the system of life itself.

We all come to a point in our lives where we finally ask the ever-looming question, "Is this all there is?" And most of us coast along afterwards, just accepting that the answer to that question is probably, "Yes, this is it." Sometimes, though, we're lucky. Sometimes we run into the right people at the right time. Ryan and Jennifer are at that point in their marriage, asking that question. Luckily, tonight at a friend's holiday party, they're about to run into those very right people at exactly the right time.

In this forty-day devotional, Cuban American writer Kat Armas shows us that reading the Bible with fresh eyes allows us to experience God in new and liberating ways. Many Christians today are seeking to disentangle biblical teaching from power structures that marginalize women and people of color. There's a hunger for a new kind of devotional that offers refreshing and relevant ways to connect with God and the Bible—ways that challenge listeners to seek out a more liberated and embodied faith.

When she is caught in the early hours of the morning driving without a license or insurance, a college girl is taken in by a policewoman. Put in a cell in the quiet police station, she expects to spend the night there, as it isn’t her first offense. It quickly becomes obvious that the policewoman has desires of her own though and wants to take advantage of the situation.

Ben is a witch, a seer to be exact, and he guides Frankie into her new identity as a healer, a restoration witch. With the help of Ben and his coven-mate Cleo, Frankie navigates the treacherous classes of witches: dragons, shifters, and the abhorred vampire-life-drinking witches. It was a vampire that killed Frankie's grandmother, and she's after Frankie. But, much to the chagrin of best friend Ben, it isn't Frankie's vitality that the vampire wants.

No clothes. No memories. Dangerous monsters all around. I woke up with four beautiful women in a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it should be. We have no idea what happened, and there isn’t anyone around to ask.

I’ll just say it. I hate secret doors with magical locks. So much. You would think after all my smoking hot companions and I had been through, we could catch a break. I mean, Dayra, every librarian fantasy rolled up into one with a dash of badassery, even found a magical book to help us. But no. Now we’re on our way to the mysterious land of Sauvaxera, heading toward the ocean. Why? To find the lost race of sirens, of course! Their voice magic is the only chance we have left to move on with our quest.

Annabelle, like all of her fairy friends, desperately wants to be a rose fairy when she grows up. But when things go horribly wrong at the Great Selecting ceremony, the fairy queen tells Annabelle she will have to spend the rest of her life as a fart fairy! As Annabelle's childhood friends distance themselves from her, Annabelle's family - especially her goofy brother, Fevrile - tell her everything will be all right. But, she knows better than to believe them.

You’ve seen the red string. You’ve heard the word. But you’ve never seen Kabbalah like this. KABBALAH: The Code Behind Creation isn’t a self-help book or a watered-down celebrity guide. It’s a walk through the original system, the hidden structure underneath Judaism, language, magic, and the universe itself. This book breaks down the real Kabbalah. From divine blueprints and shattered vessels to mystical alphabets, mud men, cosmic repair missions, and the infinite nothingness that came before God.

Ten years ago, in the pine-shaded town of Savage Ridge, Nick, Emmy, and Pete murder their high school classmate, Sammy Saint John. His body is never found, and no arrests are made. The three friends make a pact to leave Savage Ridge and never return. Now, each is drawn home, seemingly by chance or fate. But it's neither: Private Investigator Sloane Yo has brought them back to finally answer for their crime.

In Obsessed, 16-year-old Scarlet Paine races to save her true love, Sage, before he is killed at the hand of the Immortalists. Alienated from her friends and family - and with only one night left before Sage is wiped out - Scarlet is forced to choose whether to sacrifice it all for him. Caitlin and Caleb race desperately to save their daughter, still determined to find a way to cure Scarlet and to end vampirism for all time. Their quest leads them to one shocking secret after the next as they seek to find the ancient, lost vampire city, hidden deep beneath the Sphinx in Egypt.

Broadcast live, Rosa Lincoln takes to the stage at her brother’s memorial service with a bomb concealed beneath her clothes. Being in Jimmy’s shadow was never easy, even when he was alive, but in death he has become a national hero. When she crosses paths with the enigmatic Teresa, she discovers that those she has been taught to view as enemies may not be the real villains after all. The lies need to be stopped, and Rosa intends on doing just that.

Imogen Carlisle’s job at a Milwaukee bar was supposed to be temporary, a lifeline when her world was crumbling. But eight years of making drinks and offering customers a listening ear made her past as a rising actress feel like a bad dream. When Luca, a handsome, mysterious man with an uncanny interest in her, comes to the bar near last call, he begins probing into her past. As they talk, she remembers long-suppressed memories of lead roles, traveling shows, and the true nature of her relationship with the bar’s owner that ended it all.

What does it mean to wake up? Not spiritually. Not metaphorically. Literally — to become so clear, so present, so aware that the illusion of separation burns away and reality is seen for what it is. This book is about the ones who did. From Siddhartha under the Bodhi tree to Eckhart on the park bench, from Rumi’s spinning silence to Jung’s shadowed inner world — The Ones Who Woke Up is a soul-piercing walk through a few of the most conscious human beings to ever live. They didn’t seek followers. They didn’t chase fame.

»Flieg nur davon, mein Täubchen. Flieg so schnell du kannst. Aber du wirst mir nicht entkommen. Denn einen Vogel erlegt man nicht im Käfig. Die Kunst ist, ihn im Flug zu fangen. Und du hast die Jagd soeben eröffnet.« Olivia will nur eines: Fliehen. Weg von Craven, weg von dem Club und vor allem weg von der Dunkelheit, die er in ihr entfacht hat. Doch egal, wie weit sie rennt – er ist ihr immer einen Schritt voraus. Als sie die Weihnachtstage mit ihrer besten Freundin in einem abgelegenen Ski-Chalet verbringt, scheint es, als hätte sie endlich einen Zufluchtsort gefunden.