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Wilde Roads was dealt an evil hand in life, but is attempting to make the best of her situation without complaints or the need for recognition. Her story plays out the same each day with caring for her sickly son being top priority. The lack of insurance has her up to the neck in medical bills, which encourages to Wilde to pursue a life outside of the one she’d imagined for each of them. Some nights are wild. Others are reckless. But, the night that she encounters Jhalil Hanover, mayor of the city, Wilde falls victim to both.

As James Schiff writes in the introduction to this volume, of the writer who would eventually express himself in written form as fully as any American writer since Henry James, "Updike needed to write the way the rest of us need to breathe or eat." With his stunning rhetorical gifts—allowing him to thrive in both fiction and nonfiction, in criticism as well as poetry—he was also a consummate letter writer.

Stealing to survive, unhoused fourteen-year-old Kuin is about to have her entire world changed. When a mysterious stranger comes into her life, the girl who never had a home, along with her best friend and a magical companion, travel to the world of Hilcha—where she learns that not only is she a princess, but that the blood of dragons flows in her veins.

Born into a daring, musical family in 1886, Annette Kellerman was a force of nature and made for the stage – her first love – and encouraged to defy social norms from a young age. But after she was diagnosed with rickets as a child she took up swimming for therapy, and soon she became an Australian champion, beating boys, breaking records and astonishing huge crowds by diving from great heights. By 1905, Kellerman was 18 and on her way to England in an attempt to swim the Channel and challenge endurance records in the Thames.

After a string of bad press, I traded my celebrity past for the quaint, mountain countryside. But meeting the hottest man alive, a single dad and small-town Casanova, turns all my plans—and maybe my skirt—upside down. How can I escape my own past, when I can’t even avoid a mechanic’s smoldering eyes and wicked smirk?

After escaping Queen Malvolia's mad court and reuniting with my beloved twin sister, we have no choice but to flee to the Fallax Islands, deadly wyvern breeding grounds that could hold the key to our survival. As we work out a plan to defeat the evil that threatens to destroy all of civilization, we also must heal the rift between our family, for we can't battle external forces if we're fighting amongst ourselves. I'm not sure I can reconcile with our parents after their deception and neglect. And I doubt our mother will forgive Malvolia's cruelty, or that Malvolia will forgive herself.

When Katherine Jenkins is rescued from the side of the road, half-frozen and left for dead, her only option is to stay silent about her identity or risk being shipped back to her ruthless guardian, who will kill to get his hands on her inheritance and the famous Jenkins Lipizzaner horses. But even under the pretense of amnesia, she cannot shake the memory of her sister and Katherine’s need to reach her before their guardian, or his marauding bandits, finish her off. Will she be safe in the earl’s manor, or will the assailant climbing through her window be the death of her?

Paris, 1995: It’s been five years since Lily Jacobsen and her best friend Mary Louise arrived in Paris from their small town of Froid, Montana. Determined to establish themselves as artists—Lily, a novelist, and Mary Louise, a painter—they share a tiny walkup and survive on brie and baguettes. When Mary Louise abruptly moves out, Lily feels alone in the city of light for the first time and must find a new way to support herself. She lands a job as a programs manager at the American Library in Paris, following in the footsteps of Odile, her beloved French neighbor in Montana.

When up-and-coming artist Scarlett Ash discovers the perfect model in small-town Levenham, she can’t believe her luck. Her creativity abandoned her months ago and with her move to London to take up a prestigious residency fast approaching, she’s desperate for a muse to bring it back. Surfing dairy farmer Sam Greenwood is delivering milk when a gorgeous girl accosts him. Charmed by her invitation to model for a painting, Sam wants to say no. While Scarlett might be stunning, she’s arty-farty weird, and he’s flat out with his growing dairy business. Somehow, though, he can’t resist.

Don’t Make Me Laugh balances anger and humour with the deftest of touches. It is a story about power and control and manipulation, about gendered roles in both the workplace and our personal lives, and about how women are set up in competition with each other. And ultimately—satisfyingly—it’s a story about fighting back.

Here’s a secret: If you want meaningful and authentic relationships, you must be your true self, and sometimes that means saying “No.” Ever said “Yes” when everything in your body was screaming, “No!”? Perhaps your boss asks you to take on an extra project, Maybe your friend wants you to babysit… Or maybe you find yourself volunteering to organize an event when you already have 100 other demands. These are familiar scenarios for many people and mean that you’re compromising your own needs for the sake of different people.

Winning the heart of a heartless girl was deemed an impossible task. But, unbeknownst to me, Psalms ‘Sonnie’ Santoro was willing to visit the depths of the soil to retrieve that particular piece of me that I’d left to rot.

I went after him, there’s a bounty on his head that I wouldn’t be able to deny. But I don’t know if I was going to do everything in my power to make sure that I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way. As a hunter, I had no choice but to allow things to happen a certain way. I knew what I needed, and I knew precisely what I wanted. There was only one thing that could change the way that I thought and even then, I didn’t know for sure.

Seoul, present day. Antiques dealer Alys’s task is nearly complete. She has at last secured Elizabeth, the final anatomical Venus in a dangerously intertwined trio. Crafted in eighteenth-century London and modeled after real-life sex workers to entice male medical students to study female anatomy, these eerie wax figures, known as slashed beauties, carry unsavory lore. Legend has it that the figures are bewitched, and come to life at night to murder men who have wronged them.

Do you long to reconnect with your spiritual self and trust your inner wisdom more deeply? Imagine the empowerment that comes from enhancing your self-awareness, trusting your intuition, and effortlessly making better decisions. It's not just a wish; it's a reality waiting for you. If you answered yes, you're not alone. Many women feel this way, yet a transformative solution is closer than you think.

Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin?

When an EMP cripples the nation's power grid, lawlessness erupts across the country. Fighting against the chaos, Bailey Smith must rescue her family from the city and bring them to a remote cabin in the West Virginia mountains.

Maya Rosen has plenty of experience with vampires, demons, and danger. She wears the scars that prove it. But she established Witch's Brew, her bookshop and mage's office, as a cozy place of safety and protection. When the brutally handsome vampire Ravyr appears, decades after she thought he died in the ruins of her master's lair, Maya is prepared for a fight. Until he saves her life instead—and they realize they have an enemy in common.

This book is your ultimate guide to reducing relationship anxiety, improving communication, and building a strong, thriving partnership. Whether you’re newlyweds or decades into your marriage, this book provides actionable tools to help you navigate challenges and deepen your connection every day.

Once a snake, always a snake, huh? No matter how much Luna tries to prove herself, everyone will always blame her for the invasion of Nightfire Academy and theft of a dangerous spell book. Well, to hell with them. Luna hasn't got time to convince them otherwise, juggling her studies, magic practice, three handsome guardians, and a mysterious stranger that she can't stay away from. When a dark spell unlocks her memories, she opens a door she'll never close. Monsters court monsters, and turns out, she's one of them.