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When the outbreak comes to a head, Laney is away from home. Chasing her dream of being the winner of a baking reality show, she is sequestered like a juror. No phone, no internet, no knowledge of what is happening. When the show evacuates all of the contestants, somehow Laney is left behind. Shut off from communication when the city loses power, Laney is clueless about what is happening and lacks the knowledge of the virus she is facing. Those infected experience a violent fever rage before the virus ultimately consumes them and takes their lives.

Who says your forties can’t be magical? Amelia Matthews, innkeeper of the Crescent Moon Inn in Cypress Grove, Florida, is back — and her sleuthing skills are about to be tested in new and spellbinding ways. With her sidekick cat Freddie Purrcury, Amelia finds herself caught in mysteries that mix sunshine, sorcery, and a sprinkle of danger.

Jolly Copper is one of the few people who know the world is on the brink of cataclysmic destruction.... not because he had any scientific knowledge or prophetic dreams, but because he is nosey and read what was on a fellow bus passenger's phone one day. He learns there will be an unprecedented series of natural disasters, and the expected grand finale disaster is predicted to be a tidal wave massive enough to swallow half the globe.

Amelia Matthews never anticipated inheriting a hotel in in a small southern town, but life's twists and turns have led her to the Sunshine State. Under the hotel's quirky, rundown façade lie haunting secrets—an unsolved murder and a restless spirit who keeps turning off the air conditioner. In the summer. In Florida.

As a high school senior, Cadence Wiles doesn’t have her life figured out. Over the summer, her mentally ill mother forced impossible choices on her and now she has to face reality. Alone, without anyone to support her, it’s time Cadence explores her newfound freedom and what it really means to be an adult. But the five boys she meets aren’t in her plans and they’re more than determined to insert themselves into her life. Will they be able to break through the barriers she’s had to rely on to keep herself safe?

Cadence has lost her rhythm and only the guys can help her find it again. It’s a fact that Cadence’s life sucks. Too much, too fast, too often. She doesn’t know what to do with herself anymore. Her music has gone quiet. Her thoughts are numb. And only the guys staying by her side has kept her from screaming her head off. She no longer knows which direction to turn.

A Dead End Former TV star Kit Wilder arrives in the affluent, Mayflower-pedigreed town of Westdale hoping for a quiet fresh start. What she finds instead is a skeleton in her house, a murder investigation, and a dangerously charming detective named Romeo Moretti. Armed with instincts borrowed from her old TV role as hotshot detective Ellie Gold, Kit throws herself into the case — if only to get back to renovating her kitchen and avoiding her gin-swilling, razor-tongued mother.

Cadence wants to believe that everything is finally looking good. She has new friends she’s able to open up to. She’s pushing her music to the limit, and so many new possibilities have opened up before her, not just in her career, but in her personal life too. But secrets have a way of finding the light, forcing Cadence to navigate around danger slowly slipping into her life.

When Shelby Arnold slipped into the airplane bathroom to argue with her husband, she never would have thought it would save her life. But it did. While she bickers with him over video chat, an unexplained phenomenon strikes the earth with devastating force, and the world is plunged into darkness and silence. In an instant, ninety percent of the population loses both their sight and their hearing. Shelby is not one of them. She and a few others on flight 1515 are spared the effects of the anomaly. Unfortunately, they are not spared the horrors of the world they face once they land.

Resilient leaders rise: Empower yourself and your team to conquer every challenge. Have you ever experienced a moment when the pace of the world seemed to surpass your ability to keep up? As a leader, the demands of navigating through challenging times can feel utterly overwhelming. The business landscape is evolving at an unprecedented rate, presenting new challenges and uncertainties every day.

Their trip through the Androski wormhole didn't take them on the journey they expected, and now Reyanne and the team face a new challenge: stay or go? Stay on this new Earth and make a fresh start, or risk going back through the wormhole, not knowing where they will end up. Neither is ideal, and both have unpredictable consequences. There are still too many unanswered questions about what happened on Earth, and the more the team search for signs, the more they realize how little they really know.

The Manual is a roadmap for teachers on how to create a classroom culture of caring, creativity, learning and emotional health. Increasingly progressive educators are focusing on play-based learning and social-emotional development, but The Happiest Preschool: A Manual for Teachers is unique in providing a comprehensive and thorough discussion of this focus and illustrating all precepts with teachable examples.

Reyanne Harper is an elementary school teacher in a not-so-normal world. Destructive hail storms and earthquakes, food shortages, and significantly rising sea levels are becoming the new norm. But there is a plan to save the human race. A plan Reyanne unknowingly helped to formulate. Without warning, she is whisked off on a mission to travel through a wormhole in space to a planet scientists hope will sustain human life. The mission seems simple enough, but there are more unknowns than her team can possibly prepare for.

Midlife crisis? More like midlife magic! Step into Cypress Grove, Florida, where the historic Crescent Moon Inn isn't just serving up Southern hospitality – it's dishing out supernatural surprises. Meet Amelia Matthews, our newly-minted innkeeper who's discovering that forty-something comes with an unexpected bonus: mystical powers she never knew she had.

Setting Boundaries for Survival is more than a workbook to help you heal from toxic family habits; it's a toolkit for surviving in a dysfunctional home without having to isolate yourself or sever relationships. Asking others to respect your boundaries isn't selfish. In fact, it may just be the most compassionate step you can take in life.

Amelia Matthews, midlife innkeeper and reluctant witch, is determined to make her first Florida Christmas magical for her daughter, her friends, and the quirky guests of the Crescent Moon Inn. Between baking for what feels like everyone in town, wrangling inflatable snowmen, and coordinating the town’s beloved Christmas parade, she barely has time to breathe.

When Amelia Matthews agrees to a friendly game of pickleball, she never expects it to end in murder. But that's exactly what happens when her opponent drops dead on the court. Now, Amelia and her coven sisters must serve up justice before one of their own gets framed for the crime. With her psychic gifts working overtime, a stolen journal full of secrets, and a ghostly bureaucrat wreaking havoc, Amelia's got her hands full. Can she navigate the cutthroat world of small-town art galleries, expose a web of lies, and unmask a killer? Or will this be game, set, and match for the murderer?

Embrace your inner witch and kickstart your magical adventure! So, you've felt that spark, the one that whispers about magic and a connection to something bigger, right? The intrigue of witchcraft has not only captured the curiosity of millions but also opened a door to a world where personal empowerment and a profound connection with nature aren't just ideals—they're achievable realities.

A devastating terror attack has been unleashed. Geologist Ruth Garber and her granddaughter Stella are working on an offshore drilling rig when the power goes out. Stranded miles from shore with a raging storm on the horizon, they struggle to survive as the truth slowly sinks in. No one is coming to rescue them. All they have is each other—and their will to survive.

An orphan bent on revenge. A monster searching for freedom. A forbidden pact that binds their fates. Lyss has heard her father's screams, smelled the iron-tang of his blood. She witnessed his execution. And plotted her revenge. Then, a violent encounter traps Lyss in a blood-pact with a rarkyn from the otherworld, imbuing her with the monster's forbidden magic—a magic that will erode her sanity.