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One day, 18-year-old Bowen's monotonous life is shaken to its core when she finds a dead body. But upon returning with help, it's nowhere to be found. She questions her sanity until he turns up at her house, very much alive. Peter's not dead...at least not anymore. He's nothing like she could have expected. As normal as he appears, he's never ridden in a car, used a shower, or has any idea where he is on the map. And as they scramble to piece together his history and find out who he really is, they soon learn that he isn't the only thing around that goes bump in the night.

1862. When a group of young Australian women set sail for matrimony in Canada, they believe it’s the start of a happy new life. But when one of the intended brides goes missing, only Alyssa Chalmers, the one educated, wealthy woman in the group, is convinced the disappearance is no accident. She sets out to find out what happened. Has there been a murder? Alyssa is willing to move heaven and earth to find out the truth. She is about to discover that there is more to her voyage into the unknown than she bargained for, and it may well cost her life.

A hidden, sacred canyon. Eight women. Twelve centuries. And a mystical song that connects it all. Deep in the wilderness lies a hidden canyon, one that calls out to travelers with its haunting siren song. Sacred wisdom, terrible secrets, and a veil of mystery shroud it--but the power of nature cannot be ignored. Seen through the eyes of eight women across time, Sedona’s Oak Creek Canyon calls through the ages, echoing across 12 centuries to capture the minds of visitors from ancient hunter-gatherers to Spanish conquistadors to modern-day seekers of truth.

Starting over is never as easy as it sounds. To heal herself and her sons, Holly Simon made the radical decision to move 1,700 miles away to begin a brand-new life as an Airbnb host just outside Yellowstone National Park. Forced to fake it until she makes it, she soon realizes that her old problems have a way of resurfacing—no matter how far she goes to outrun them. Self-doubts and paralyzing fears begin to creep back in as Holly works to establish their new lives in a small town, bowled over by the overwhelming challenges of being a single mother living in the Wild West.

From this inauspicious beginning, entirely without support, Crystal Lindsey has created a system for survival allowing her to thrive and develop her emotional resilience. Crystal knows trauma unlocks superpowers, and she has developed biohacks to show you how to discover your own superpowers using daily gratitude and grit psychology. She gives you a story of hope and optimism while "getting real" about the challenges you will face in adulthood after growing up with abuse and/or aging out of foster care.

A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation, America, Goddam explores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the United States today. Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities.

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.

As the curtain falls on the March family's tale, we revisit the Plumfield clan 10 years later, all grown up and finding their way through life's adventures and misadventures.

Nothing is as it seems in New Hope, Indiana - the land of curly-haired designer dogs, bunco nights, and manicured lawns. Wanting the good life for her sons, Holly stretched to afford a home in picture-perfect suburbia. Her dream is destroyed the night her son is found in the neighborhood park, unresponsive after an overdose on prescription drugs. Forced to navigate the terrifying gauntlet of addiction and treatment, she uncovers a maze of secrets and lies. How far will she have to go to save her son? Back to Before explores one mother's roller coaster ride of hope and heartache.

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. A work of considerable power and intensity set in the Yorkshire moors in the late 18th century - the bleak and wild moorland often reflected in the natures of the characters. Unsettling at times, the novel is a heady mix of gritty realism, romance, Gothic horror, and tragedy.

It is 2055, and there’s a new pope. It’s Jessica Simon, an American, a wife, and a mother. She’s taken the name Francesca. A lifelong advocate for the poor, she believes the Catholic Church must return to Jesus’ teachings and bring God to life in the world. But powerful forces are aligned against her. They see Francesca as a threat.

Willow’s life began the day she died. Given a second chance by the Grim Reaper himself, she is tasked with rescuing lost souls on Earth. The problem? She has no idea what she’s doing. She enlists the help of Sydney and Scott, two unlikely friends with painful pasts of their own. They embark on a mission to find the lost shadows of two special children - Willow and Sydney’s younger siblings.

Breaker did the one thing he swore he’d never do - leave his little brother Brody behind. All for a chance to save the planet he hates from a mad queen. But the Queen Mother is determined to find the galaxy’s biggest payload of dark matter, which means Scarlatti is still in danger. And the clock is ticking. With the fate of his friends, his family, and the entire planet of Scarlatti in his hands, Breaker must decide how far he is willing to go to try to save them all. Because this time, he has nothing left to give save himself.

When a mermaid goes on a quest in search of help to clean her river from plastic pollution, she makes an unlikely new friend - and helps solve another big problem. A fun adventure story about teamwork and the environment, by the mermaid who really did rescue a cow. In the winter of 2018, Lindsey Cole set out to swim 120 miles of the River Thames as a mermaid for a plastic awareness campaign after she cut her hand on a small piece of plastic whilst freediving in Indonesia. Along the way, she subsequently rescued a drowning cow and made national news.

The infancy of the 21st century brought humanity to bear with its most dire delusions. The morals of mankind were revealed - appendages, shriven and corrupted. As the lasting monuments of economy and state colluded to replace their dying society's spirit with the augmentation of technology, their efforts fell short of war's inevitable shadow. Weapons incubated in the dark, waiting for the call. Rivalry and insult traded over the borders of nations, followed by fire.

Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novella introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant consulting detective, as portrayed through the eyes of his friend and colleague Dr. John Watson, a retired army physician. In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson take on their first case together, involving a body discovered in an abandoned London house with a bloody message scrawled on the wall above.

A decade ago, MIT and Harvard-trained researcher Elizabeth Ricker set out to answer a provocative question: if you had only 15 minutes a day, no prescriptions, and a tiny budget, what tools could you use to measurably upgrade your brain? Smarter Tomorrow shares the spoils of Ricker's around-the-world quest to answer that question.

Eleven women confront dramas both everyday and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City. In stories as darkly comic as they are unflinching, people isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace - they have no other choice. Horrocks' women find no simple escapes, and their acts of faith and acts of imagination in making do are as shrewd as they are surprising.

One second. Seventeen-year-old Corinne has everything. Her life. Family. Friends. Boyfriend. But in that one second, she loses it all. Now she's left with harrowing nightmares. Hallucinations. And panic attacks that seem to come out of nowhere. She tries everything to take the pain away, but there's only one option she sees as a true way out. When Corinne is sent to live in a psychiatric institution, she doesn't want to talk. It's pointless. They can't help her.

The classic horror story of dual personalities gone too far, this full-cast narration explores the attempts of Utterson, a London lawyer, to investigate the strange occurrences surrounding his friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the shocking discoveries he makes along the way. The impact of this story has been so strong that "Jekyll and Hyde" has become part of our vernacular, referring to those who are outwardly good but inwardly evil.