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Alyen, the crown princess of Dúramair, has trained her whole life to be queen. She's kept her faerie Sight a secret, trusting that the Keeper of Scales will find an apprentice soon—for surely one other candidate can be found. But when news comes from the north of dark magic returning to Dúramair, Alyen is forced to make the hardest decision of her life. A decision that could determine the fate of her kingdom.

Scatterings, set in Santa Cruz California in the ’80s, weaves the true crime story of the Trailside Killer into a suspenseful, heartbreaking mystery of an abducted identical twin sister. Characters come to life against the colorful backdrop of Santa Cruz’s beauty and weirdness.

Scientist Beth Darlow has discovered the unimaginable. She's built a machine that allows human consciousness to travel through time—to any point in the traveler's lifetime—and relive moments of their life. An impossible breakthrough, but it's not perfect: the traveler has no way to interact with the past. They can only observe. After Beth's husband, the co-creator of the machine, dies in a tragic car accident, Beth is left to raise daughter—and continue the work they started. Mired in grief and threatened by her CEO, Beth pushes herself to the limit to prove the value of her technology.

After being separated by an evil monarch and a mysterious, kind face in The Wood, Idalia and Braizen must fight their way back to each other. With winter swiftly approaching, and new secrets revealed, the two find that they are in way over their heads. Thankfully, with the help of an animal-loving Viking with a penchant for violence, an overly confident bard who cannot sing a single note on key, and a few other misfits, they might just stand a chance… Or perhaps, meet their eternal doom.

The Battle of the Second Slayer is won, but peace in Dúramair is short-lived. Ylvain's darkling elementals still roam the kingdom in a violent storm, leaving chaos and destruction in their wake. Even Faer Dinnán, the faerie king, is fading, and unless the darklings are stopped soon, all of Dúramair will find itself in mortal danger. It falls to Alyen and the new Trianid to stem this evil and restore balance before all hope of victory is lost. But soon Alyen finds herself facing more than just the storm.

Follow Clare Muller as she navigates the challenges of living in a new culture after a miscarriage in 1980, and then again in 2000 as she revisits Marburg as a mid-career professor, following the death of her father. The house they inhabit, once a birthing house, becomes a source of inspiration and healing, helping Clare to craft a new narrative for her life. The intertwining timelines reveal a story of resilience and the rediscovery of joy, set against a backdrop of historical and philosophical musings.

It’s as if my heart is bursting out of my chest. Nine-year-old Jubilee, our new adopted daughter, is beaming. She’s the little girl I always wanted and we’re finally taking her home. Three months later. ‘This can’t be happening,’ I say. ‘She can’t be gone. She’s just a little girl, our little girl. She was here in her bed last night. I remember. I . . .’ I feel the panic rising, my worst fear surfacing. What if I brought her home—only to be taken?

Milly Pepper has two loves: solving murder cases, and her pet bunny, Waffle. But life in the small town, Star Lake, Iowa, involves only one of those things—Waffle. The rest of her time is dedicated to running the failing Starlight Café. Milly’s determined to make the café a success for the sake of her father’s legacy, even if it means setting aside her aspirations to take her detective’s test to solve cases in the city. But when she wakes up one morning and finds her neighbor dead in front of the waffle station, Milly has to investigate the case or lose the café for good.

This issue of Assemble Artifacts is packed with thrillers, sci-fi, horror, and more. It features Hongfei Liu's brilliant artwork and stories of elite survival, supernatural battles, and eerie mysteries. You'll find haunting twists on a childhood tale, genetic secrets with life-or-death stakes, and unsettling explorations of relationships under pressure.

Embark on a rollicking Florida escapade through this masterfully crafted, wickedly funny comic novel. Set in 1980s Florida, this coming-of-age adventure follows the journey of a 17-year-old aspiring horror filmmaker captivated by a B-movie scream queen. Stealing away from his family’s Palm Beach mansion, he joins forces with an aging con man and his ambitious girlfriend. Together, they race into the heart of the Everglades, where his dream girl is filming Swamp Fiend 2. However, their plans bog down in a treacherous swamp teeming with competing cons and hustles, and a whole lot of alligators!

The brutally beaten body of a young girl is discovered in a marsh in Jamesport, one of New York’s most elite suburbs. Police comb the area, while many speculate her murder might be connected to the abduction, six months earlier, of three girls from Jamesport. The FBI has evidence of an underage prostitution and trafficking ring which may be related.

Olivia Glass, 34, turns her back on her life as a high-powered executive in Chicago and relocates to Tuscany, determined to start a new, simpler life - and to grow her own vineyard. Olivia is falling in love with the Tuscan life and the gorgeous Tuscan scenery, especially as she travels to visit Pisa. Yet when the winery she works for auctions off a rare and expensive bottle of wine - and when someone turns up dead - Olivia must draw on her strength as a sommelier to get to the bottom of the murder.

When Sunny Charles arrives in small-town Parfait, Florida, the last thing she expects is a note from her aunt instructing her to take control of the famous Sunny Side Up Café. After going through a vicious divorce, losing her entire life savings, and, oh yeah, having the Russian mob on her tail, Sunny’s willing to give it a shot, even if it means trying her hand at cooking. Let’s face it, eggs over easy aren’t exactly "easy" to make, but they beat facing off against armed men with guns.

Are you tired of long and boring car rides? Are you tired of seeing your kids spend hours upon hours just staring at their phones or tablets? Most road trips tend to start the same way with a long, agitating, and tiresome car ride. But, it doesn't have to be that way! This road trip activity audiobook is exactly what you need to make every car ride fun and enjoyable! With a total of 400 fun, silly, and thought-provoking "Would you rather...?" questions at your disposal, time will fly by.

We were sent to Glennmare Academy. An elite boarding school on a windswept island off the coast of Seattle where the unruly daughters of affluent East Coast families are exiled. Kitty, Bernie, Coretta, Diane, Jolie. We're more like sisters than roommates. Even if Kitty is gone. At Glennmare, each bed is filled with a teenage girl who wears ribbons in her hair, a nod to innocence we lost long ago. When we were sent out into the world, away from home, to fend to for ourselves. If we start telling the truth about what happened that night we might just break down.

Olivia Glass, 34, turns her back on her life as a high-powered executive in Chicago and relocates to Tuscany, determined to start a new, simpler life - and to grow her own vineyard. When a bachelorette party comes to the winery, Olivia is hard at work to accommodate the wedding party - when a shocking murder leaves the wedding in shambles, and Olivia in the spotlight. Will she find the murderer and clear her name?

In this short, accessible guide, Mayo Clinic breast-cancer specialists Tufia C. Haddad, M.D., and Kathryn J. Ruddy, M.D., and colleagues offer their insights on how to navigate this new phase of the journey, including monitoring for signs of recurrence; optimizing diet, sleep, and exercise habits; coping with lingering treatment effects; improving sexual health; managing money and insurance issues; and much more.

The story of The Happy Prince has three major themes. Firstly it shows that apparent beauty is nothing and the real beauty is to bestow love and sacrifice. Secondly, it discusses that love and sacrifice are two saving forces. Thirdly, it shows that there is a large gap between rich and poor people the rulers and the masses. When the happy prince is alive he lives a happy life without sorrows, he is living a care free life but after his death he sees through a tall Colum that life has another view except happiness and that is helplessness poverty, hypocrisy and corruption of elite and ruling class.

What’s worse than cold chicken noodle soup? A dead ex-husband...When Sunny Charles opens her aunt’s café on a sunny Monday morning in small-town Parfait, Florida, she’s looking forward to a day of challenging work cooking and serving customers. The last thing she expects is to find her ex-husband lying dead on the floor, right between the coffee bar and the cake stand. Distraught, confused, and definitely a prime suspect, Sunny has to figure out why her ex-husband is even in Parfait in the first place, let alone murdered.

Every book tells two stories - one written on the pages with pen and ink, and one woven into the paper, a story of the soul. The Lane women have the gift of bibliomancy. They can read both. But Cassie Lane doesn’t see this as a gift. For her, it is a curse because the book magic comes with a price - the Lane women die young and the men are lost to the sea. As soon as she’s able, she leaves Laurel Point, Oregon, running from her past and her fate, ending up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.