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My memory is lost. Gone. I can’t remember my name or magîk. I don’t know what happened to our ruler or why the jungle is transforming and becoming even wilder. Who is the guard, and why is he angry? And why do I feel safe with a deadly panthera? Arriving in Pûleêr, I hope to find relief among the magî and, hopefully, some answers. Instead, the laws of nature change before my eyes, and the dangers of the jungle are nothing compared to this twisted utopia.

David. He's Intriguing. Intelligent. Pensive. Penetrating. Mysterious. Dangerous. And interested. But most importantly...He's not Sam.

Gabriella Mallory, AP student and perfect-daughter-in-training, stands barefoot on a public toilet for three hours while her school is on lockdown. Someone has planted a bomb, and she is hiding. The bomb is defused, but the would-be bomber is still at large - and everyone at Central High School is a suspect. The school starts a top-secret crisis help line, and Gabi is invited to join. When she does, she is drawn into a suspenseful game of cat and mouse with the bomber, who has unfinished business.

Devastated by her father's absence, Gaia is offered a home by the mother of Mary Moss, who suggests to Gaia that she live in Mary's old room. Gaia accepts, and suddenly finds herself in a family desperate to fill a void. Meanwhile, Tom is on assignment in Germany, and learns of a terrorist plot to kidnap Gaia and use her DNA for some hidden purpose.

Here, in her first collection in eight years, McCorkle collects 11 brand-new stories bristling with her characteristic combination of wit and weight. In honeymoon shoes, mud-covered hunting boots, or glass slippers, all of the women in these stories march to a place of new awareness, in one way or another, transforming their lives. They make mistakes, but they don’t waste time hiding behind them. They move on. They are strong. And they’re funny, even when they are sad.

No one or nothing is quite as it seems in this best-selling edgy urban series. No one is quite who they seem. Is Loki Gaia's uncle or her father? Gaia isn't sure. But regardless, she knows that her father loves her and that he is in great danger.

Three sisters come together for the first time since birth: Nessa Kurland, a werewolf with powers she has learned to control; Delphine, who grew up knowing there was more to their family's story than was being said; and finally, the chimera, a construction of their father's lab, whose very existence threatens them all. Now that all three live at their father's property and laboratory facility in the Pacific Northwest, what will the family's future hold?

Jo Spencer is a girl who knows what to be and how to be it - straight-A student, cheerleader, May Queen, popular and cute and virginal, and in perfect control. But halfway through her first year in college in the early '70s, her carefully normal life explodes and she comes completely undone. In The Cheer Leader, Jo Spencer looks back, as if she were watching reruns of old syndicated TV shows, to figure out what happened.

With her dad safely home after being kidnapped and Natasha and Tatiana in custody, Gaia is enjoying a sense of normalcy for the first time, but the kidnappers are still at large and Natasha and Tatiana are refusing to cooperate.

From the start of Elizabeth McKenzie’s beguiling fiction debut, we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed, intrepid Ann Ransom. Stop That Girl chronicles Ann’s colorful coming-of-age travails, from her childhood in a disjointed family through her tender adolescence and beyond. Along the way, she discovers the absurdities that lurk around every corner of a young woman’s life, by way of oafish neighbors, overzealous boyfriends, prurient vegetable salesmen, sour landlords, and an iconoclast grandmother, known even to her family as Dr. Frost.

Sable Ursu has just turned 18, which means she is ready to breed. Within the confines of her world, a patriarchal cult known as the Den, female fertility and sexuality are wholly controlled by Men. In the season they come of age, Sable and her friends Mamie and Dinah are each paired with a Match with the purpose of conceiving a child. Sable is paired with Ambrose, the son of a favoured Man in the Den. Others are not so lucky.

Seventeen-year-old Gaia Moore is genetically enhanced to be fearless. Since moving to New York, she has befriended Mary, a lesbian whose lifestyle Gaia defends. But by doing so, everyone assumes she and Mary are an item, including Mary's brother's friend Sam. Gaia must show him how she truly feels.

In the 21st century, the pioneers who tame Earth's sister planets - the Sunspacers - venture into the frontiers of deep space. From the scorching mines of Mercury to the icy voids beyond Pluto's orbit, these visionaries develop Earth's sunspace and spearhead humanity's expansion into the galaxy.

In their remote Viking settlement, Folkví and her brother, Áslakr, have always been close—unnaturally close. They’ve grown more intimate still as Folkví learns her shaman mother’s craft, as men regard her with newly devouring eyes. Then illness carries off their parents, and the nest of home is shattered. Áslakr sets off on his first expedition, abandoning Folkví to the dark of an endless winter. When he returns, he’s done the unthinkable: He’s found someone else to love.

By law, any child born in Idara is free, even if that child is born in a slave brothel. Unfortunately, Cinder has grown into a beauty that surpasses even the renown of her mother and grandmother, making her far too valuable a commodity to lose. The slaveholder calls in Cinder’s debts. Forcing Cinder to play a game where her very freedom is the prize. The man most interested in buying Cinder is Adar - a prince with a wicked reputation that masks a kindness Cinder cannot fathom. In his glittering world of prestige and power, she discovers the game for her freedom is a smaller move.

Gaia Moore isn't like anyone else in the world. She's trained in ten different martial arts. She has a sharp mind, and an even sharper tongue. As a teenager she cut class to bust gang members and drug dealers on the streets of New York City. And now Gaia's been recruited to join the world's leading crime-fighting organization. At FBI training camp in Quantico, Gaia will become a part of an unparalleled team. She'll learn the strict codes and procedures of the FBI. She'll be pushed to her body and mind's utmost limits.

Thirteen-year-old Anthony Faircloth hasn't spoken a word in almost a month, and with each passing day his near-catatonic state worsens. No doctor, test, or scan can tell Anthony's distraught mother what has happened to her already troubled son. In desperation she turns to Mira for answers, hoping her unique abilities might succeed where science has failed. At their first encounter, Mira is pulled into Anthony's mind and finds the child's psyche shattered into the various movements of Modest Mussorgsky's classical music suite Pictures at an Exhibition.

When the battle moves to the heart of her village, Ilyenna looks into her enemy’s eyes and sees more than just cunning. There is also lust - lust for power and lust for her. She could escape. If she's willing to take the fae's impossible bargain. Dark magic in exchange for her soul. But she risks losing more than her soul. She would also lose Rone, the man she's been in secretly in love with for years. But as things heat up between Rone and Ilyenna, so does her captor's cruelty. Worse, the feud between clans is merely a distraction from something far worse.

Magical fantasy. Romance. Deception. All of my expectations shattered the day my sister fell, and my magic changed. Zivrune, the magi prince I’d loved since childhood, didn’t become king. My sister didn’t heal the land. The two of them didn’t become bondmates. For years, I waited in hiding, hoping for the promised rebellion. Instead, the cruel king’s guards arrive and leave a trail of bodies in their search for someone. I know who they want. I just don’t understand why. To find answers, I’m forced to return to Yandari and face my past. But I’m not the same girl anymore.

There's somebody who wants me dead.And he's probably going to succeed.Very soon. There is something I have to do before I go. And there's only one person I want to do it with. Sam.