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Blythe Abney's opulent beachside wedding should have been flawless. As the founder of a billion-dollar lifestyle brand, Blythe built an empire on her carefully curated image—with her three adult daughters, Allison, Grace, and Kit, an essential part of its public face. But beneath the façade, their family is irrevocably broken.

I have no idea why I'm locked in a stranger's room. All I know is that I need to escape—now. My abductor—Bedlam has something planned for me. He calls it: The Cycle. I don't know what his sick games are, but I am convinced he plans to kill me. As I learn more about the sadistic monster who imprisoned me, I realize that there might be another kidnapped woman in the house. She might be alive… or dead. I can't die yet. I have a whole life left to live. I must survive… no matter the cost.

"I am ready to join the Sisterhood of Viggy after reading The Rotting Room. Time to take my vows, now that I've novitiated on this awe-inspiring novel, and commit myself to a lifelong calling of reading whatever Parr Hampton writes." —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes...

The Apothecary of Belonging is a magickal journey through each of the four seasons with plant allies as our guides and companions. Alexis J. Cunningfolk explores how to know ourselves as land and as beings who deeply belong to the land and one another. Learn about the energetic foundations of traditional western herbalism that flow through the seasons within and around us and explore ways to map your inner landscape.

The baseball season has begun, and Zachary Wilson, in his final year of school, is at the pinnacle of his life. Baseball is his passion and his ticket to a promising future. However, a muscle tear during a game leaves him out of the game for months, plunging him into an overwhelming darkness. In the midst of his desperation, he finds a ray of light in an unexpected situation: the mysterious patient Sunny Smith in the hospital. Intrigued, he begins to visit her regularly, sharing with her his deepest and darkest thoughts.

Intuition—the extraordinary ability to access information from the quantum realms—is fast becoming humanity's most advanced form of knowledge acquisition. The Illumination Code presents seven keys to unlock your inner dimension so you can access expanded states of awareness that exist beyond the limits of the rational mind. Kim Chestney reveals the deeply personal nature of the universe while offering a new way to know the unknowable and experience the seemingly impossible. .

A conversation once changed Samantha Rose Hicks's life—now she passes that experience on to you. She presents the conversational approach to tarot, which starts with getting to know the cards as real individuals. Once you relate to them, you create personal bonds with them. No longer will you have to rely on standard, impersonal meanings. You'll know each card like an old friend.

In Sugarless, Dr. Nicole Avena—a pioneering neuroscientist on food addiction—spells out the substance's detrimental effects on the brain and body. She empowers listeners with an easy seven-step program to help them find the hidden sugars in their foods, control their sweet tooth, and break the vicious diet cycle for good.

Deborah Adele uses a lifetime of learning and study to bring understanding to these essential yoga concepts. The Sutras explain that the Kleshas create versions of the truth for our minds that are the most appealing. These appealing truths are often false, and they create entanglements that prevent us from being truly happy. As we grasp for more appealing truths, we only create a cycle of needs and wants that confusingly never satisfy.

Always Have Enough offers a pathway to creating wealth, written for those doing it for the first time. Maria Melchor offers a holistic formula to financial success that will make you feel richer from day one. Using the Always Have Enough plan, you will learn how to: - Address mindsets from...

My name is Raven Crowley-Lopez, and I plan to murder Mercedes Crowley, my mother-in-law. My family was forced to move into her estate after we lost our own home because of a severe personal crisis. Now, I'm facing a living nightmare because I'm convinced that my mother-in-law is plotting to get rid of me, and perhaps even plans to murder me. It happened once before, and it will happen again, even if no one believes me.

In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limon, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more.

Maria is a wanted woman. She’s wanted by an Aztec trafficker, a cartel boss, the people she fights for, and now the Devil she can’t resist. Her journey begins as a would-be immigrant turned vampire in Juarez, Mexico until the injustices of the world turn her into something else. Forced to...

Months after the expedition through the portal, Tyler Drake is still struggling with the gruesome consequences. So the call for help from Mexico comes just in time: Adriana's brother is missing—and seems to have made the journey alone to the world beyond the cave. Another race against time begins—and this time, the team has to contend with not only the dangers of an exotic world but also with terrestrial adversaries and an extraterrestrial threat, the existence of which they never even suspected. Will they succeed in saving not just one boy but an entire world?

When 16-year-old Gabriel Lazris, an American in Santiago, Chile, meets Caro Ravest, something clicks. Caro, who is Chilean, is charming, curious, and deeply herself. Gabriel dreams of their future together. But everybody’s saying there’s going to be a coup—and no one says it louder than Gabriel’s dad, a Nixon-loving newspaper editor who Gabriel suspects is working with the C.I.A. Gabriel’s father is adamant that the moment political unrest erupts, their family is going home. To Gabriel, though, Chile is home.

In The Conceivable Future, authors Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli explore the ways in which the climate crisis is affecting our personal decisions about family planning, parenting, and political action. This book offers fresh, timely answers to questions such as: How do I decide to have a baby when there's the threat of environmental collapse? How do I parent a child in the middle of the climate crisis? What can I actually do to help stop global warming?

Traumatization and Its Aftermath guides listeners through each element of the personalized struggle for survival and offers compassionate and patient explanations on how to shorten this struggle—and even prevent it. Packed with detailed resources and accessible storytelling, this book is a must listen for clinicians and anyone looking to better understand the mind, body, and natural ability to heal.

From award-winning journalists John Quiñones and María Elena Salinas comes One Year in Uvalde, a narrative that builds on yearlong ABC News reporting from Uvalde, Texas, chronicling how the community is forging on through grief with hope and activism in the shadow of tragedy.

Ender: When I first met Gabe—a month after our best friends started dating each other—I expected awkward small talk and polite smiles. What I don't expect is the way he looks at me . . . like I'm important. Like he sees something worth knowing behind the walls I've built over the years. No...

After years of hard work, Tyler built his IT Security company into a massive success. He trusted his people and now it was time to enjoy the fruits of that labor. Everything was perfect until an unexpected discovery. Should they go through the Maya portal? Adriana's small diving instruction shop is popular enough with the tourists for her to scrape out a living, but it's not the life she expected. When she got the call, it seemed impossible. Wasn't Xibalbá a myth? In a fantastic world of danger and possibility, two people want to discover the truth, but for entirely different reasons.