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On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War.

Savannah James is no stranger to heartache and loss. It wasn’t enough to lose two sets of parents: now she’s losing the only person she has left, Cash Coleman. Escorting him back to Magnolia Sound so he can say goodbye to his family is a no-brainer if it means she gets to spend whatever time he has left with him. Once he’s gone, it’s back to her lonely life in Seattle. At least, that’s what she thought would happen, until she met Cash’s family—and his youngest son.

For the four years Kaitlyn has been at Archibald Reynolds College, she has been watched over and cared for without question by each and every member of Delta Omega Gamma. Most don't even know why and they never ask. Now, she's about to graduate and leave the safe haven they've created for her. She can't go back home. She's not sure she can survive on her own in the human world. But it's time she stands on her own two feet. Scared and alone, Kaitlyn must face her life head on if she is ever going to rise above the demons of her past.

In 16 short stories and a novella, Anne Leigh Parrish explores the magic of life, love, and the soft boundary between fact and fantasy. The wife of an artist disappears under mysterious circumstances, a woman has the gift of taking away sorrow, another finds inner strength through writing poetry, and a great-grandmother spends the day sitting on a folding chair in a grocery store parking lot, contemplating the nature of the human heart. What Nell Dreams is Parrish's eighth book of fiction.

In a world where emotions are sold rather than felt, two artificial humans bred to produce this precious commodity must escape their bonds and discover what it means to truly feel or be overwhelmed by the flood of new sensations this world brings, with only the glassy manufactured memories of a lighthouse to guide them.

Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and 1982, including the seminal ‘Girl’, these stunning works announced a fully-formed, generational talent and firmly established the themes that Kincaid would continue to return to in her later work: the loss of childhood, the fractious nature of mother–daughter relationships, the intangible beauty of the natural world and the striving for independence in a colonial landscape.

Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple—handsome, rich and seemingly happy. Almost at once, however, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With a mixture of anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the privileged, facile world of her employers while comparing it to the vivid realities of her home in the Caribbean.

An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl’s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother’s shadow. When she turns twelve, however, Annie’s life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her.

The Riders Come Out at Night is the culmination of over twenty-one years of fearless reporting. Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham shine a light on the jackbooted and sadistic cops known as “The Riders,” and the lack of political will and misguided leadership that have conspired to stymie meaningful reform. The authors trace the history of Oakland since its inception through the lens of the city’s police department, through the Palmer Raids, McCarthyism, and the Civil Rights struggle, the Black Panthers and crack eras, to Oakland’s present-day revival.

Lauren and her family—lucky bastards—have been granted the use of a spectacular brownstone, teeming with history and dizzyingly unattractive '70s wallpaper. Adding to the home’s bohemian, grungy splendor is the bar occupying the basement, a (mostly) beloved dive called The Sweet Spot. Within days of moving in, Lauren discovers that she has already made an enemy in the neighborhood by inadvertently sparking the divorce of a couple she has never actually met.

Paulette and Fred Baldwin find themselves wading through a new season of life in Hickory Grove, North Carolina. Their only son, McKinley, now works hundreds of miles away, and the distance between the husband and wife feels even farther. When their son returns home, his visit dredges up even more conflict between Fred and Paulette.

Faith Eden’s brief foray into motherhood is marked by tragedy. Distraught that her baby was ripped away from her, she is determined to get little Paula back from the wealthy family who adopted her. Her brother, Trevor, is also anxious to get the baby back and will do anything necessary to do so. But when the dark truth comes to light, this twisted family will stop at nothing to keep outsiders out and secrets in—no matter the cost.

In Thyras Blut fließen besondere und magische Kräfte. Sie ist die Wächterin der Hexen. Ihr Zuhause ist eine Welt neben unserer, bevölkert von magischen Wesen. Tristan verlor seine Mutter durch die Hand einer Hexe. Geblendet von dem Gedanken an Rache, fristet er sein Dasein als Hexenjäger, auf der Suche nach der Mörderin. Ihr gemeinsames Ziel: Die magische Welt Morac, um einen Krieg zu beenden und Tristans Mutter zu rächen. Doch eine uralte Prophezeiung sagt ihr Scheitern voraus.

Stressful experiences are an unfortunate and unavoidable part of everyday life. While you can’t always predict, control, or eliminate triggering events, you can limit the impact these events have on your emotions and state of mind by practicing self-soothing. In The Little Book of Self-Soothing, you’ll find 150 self-soothing activities that immediately help you manage your emotions and reduce feelings of distress or anxiety. The practical and proven techniques will help you find peace in the moment and stop negative feelings from taking control of your emotions.

Master the communication skills to build authentic connections, forged upon a foundation of trust from a global behavioral expert and master spy recruiter. Robin is a best-selling author, professional speaker, trainer, facilitator, former Marine Corps Officer, and retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.

Farry and Kammy are two little sisters who love cooking and baking delicious treats with their mom. One Christmas Eve they decide to surprise their parents and bake a magical rainbow cake for them. Once they have all the ingredients they need, Farry and Kammy set to work. But when they put a little too much magic into their cake something amazing happens.

Five years have passed since Darcy Eberhardt left Raub for dead on Ulream. Darcy and her ragtag multispecies crew have used those years well, searching for her lost love, Adam, throughout the disreputable fringes of galactic society—though the odds are stacked against them. Along the way, they liberate the vulnerable and accumulate allies, some of them dubious.

GSI (Gettnor Space Industries) is beginning to investigate our solar system and mine the asteroids. Aircraft and automobile companies are beginning to switch over to thrusters from their more traditional products. New uses for thrusters are popping up in the healthcare and sports industries. However, at Epsilon Eridani, a race of aliens has so overpopulated their own solar system that they must move many tens of billions of their people to another system before overcrowding destroys them.

Many people have a set of runes lurking around on a bookshelf, but not many people truly know how to use them…or the rich history behind them. Perhaps you’re unsure of how to prepare your runes for a reading, or perhaps you need a little help with interpretation.

To find out who was claiming ownership of the only place he’d ever called home, Harry Maxwell knew he’d have to do some investigating. So the wounded lieutenant changed his name a little. Altered a few facts. All for a good cause—get in, get the truth, get out. But then he met the Bramblebery House heir presumptive, Anna Galvez. An easy connection had Harry questioning his priorities, but he knew he still wanted the house more than ever—though he might be willing to share…