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Everything you need to know to create your very own sacred space—perfect for practicing home-based witchcraft including spells, rituals, herbalism, and more—from the author of The Green Witch and Spellcrafting. Your home is an important part of who you are—it makes sense to tie your...

The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological "tales" by multiple award-winning science writer Marcia Bartusiak. In 32 concise and engrossing essays, the author provides a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe and those who strive to uncover its mysteries. Bartusiak shares the back stories for many momentous astronomical discoveries, including the contributions of such pioneers as Beatrice Tinsley and her groundbreaking research in galactic evolution.

The acclaimed author of Pandora’s Lunchbox and former New York Times reporter delivers an “entertaining and highly useful book that gives you the tools to understand how alternative medicine works, so you can confidently make up your own mind” (The Washington Post). We all know someone who...

From James Leo Herlihy (author of Midnight Cowboy) comes a series of grim yet insightful short stories in his first collection, The Sleep of Baby Filbertson. Both an examination of the darker themes of alienation and isolation and an elevation of the oddities and quirks that make up human nature, Herlihy’s seven tales tackle the anxieties of fragile people and get to the heart of a world inhabited by perennial outsiders.

In his second collection of short stories, James Leo Herlihy explores a landscape of people living on the fringes of normal society as the pleasures of daily life fade. Men and women search for the missing fragment of meaning from their existence with Herlihy’s signature humor and deft dialogue. In the titular story, Mary Ellen McClure is trapped in a dull, unfulfilled life in a trailer park, suspecting her husband of having an affair. Together with her neighbor Ivy, she dabbles with a Ouija board which spells out the name Ezra and implies that Mary Ellen will have an affair.

Why do we do the things we do, think the thoughts we think, and feel the ways that we feel? Dr. Andrea Bonior has spent more than 15 years in the field of psychology helping people discover "what makes them tick". In her clinical practice, as well as various mental health agencies and counseling centers, she draws upon sound psychological principles to address anxiety disorders and depression, relationship issues, grief and loss, and other issues. As a mental health columnist and public speaker, Dr. Bonior encourages people to fuel their energy by connecting with themselves and cultivating the relationships around them.

Grace Angelo just can’t seem to catch a break. Just when she thought things were going well with her new love, Dario Donatelli, Grace is thrown a curveball when he disappears without a trace or message. At first, she wonders if he’s just ignoring her, but when she discovers the bookstore he owns hasn’t been opened for a while and he’s not answering his phone, Grace soon learns that there’s more to his disappearance.

Grace Angelo, witch and retired detective, is looking forward to a night of glitz and glamour. Her friend Dario, a local bookstore owner, has invited her to a prestigious book award event, but the celebrations are cut short when one of the winners is found dead. Hemlock Cove PD’s detective, Zachary Jackson, is quickly on the case, and it soon becomes apparent they have a murder on their hands. Grace agrees to consult on the case and recruits Dario to help.

Everything is quiet in Hemlock Cove - until Grace Angelo gets a call that shatters the peace. An old enemy, Callum King, has been arrested for murder and is calling in the favor that Grace owes him. He wants her to do the opposite of a lifetime: prove he is innocent. Not one to break a promise, Grace agrees to take on the case, but when she discovers powerful magic at play, things take a strange turn - especially when a mysterious owl makes itself at home at the family guesthouse.

Winter has arrived in Hemlock Cove, and the Angelo family of witches are hoping for a restful week in a cozy lakeside wood cabin on a luxury New England estate. But when Noah, their pet dog, digs up a bone, Grace and her family are plunged into a decades-old mystery: the disappearance of the former owner of the estate, Everett Goodman. But the bone isn’t the only puzzle Grace needs to solve. There’s also the matter of the strange groundskeeper, Eddy, who lives in the woods and barely speaks a word.

Grace Angelo, a witch and former cop, is looking forward to Hemlock Cove’s biggest occasion of the year: the Founders’ celebration. However, the party atmosphere is soon ruined by the discovery of a body in the old bell tower. To make matters worse, her friend and bookstore owner, Dario, has had one of his most valuable and rare books stolen from his exhibit. But it’s no ordinary book - it’s a powerful spell book.

After solving her last mystery, Grace Angelo is hoping to enjoy some relaxation in the coastal town of Hemlock Cove with her friends. But things are anything but quiet when the town’s two warring families, the Mannings, and the Kings, take their long-running feud to all new levels. To make matters worse, there’s still a killer on the loose and hints of dark magic wherever Grace turns.

In what is Grace’s last case, she faces her biggest test yet. Amber, the young apprentice and Zach’s girlfriend, has gone missing. A strange man arrives at the Angelo guesthouse and requests their help to find her. All he knows is that she’s been kidnapped by rogue members of Amber’s family. Grace and the others will have to leave the comfort of their home town and travel to the city in order to find Amber and learn the dark secrets of her family.

A “tense, taut, and thrilling” (Marie Claire) novel about a teenage girl, a predatory teacher, and a school’s complicity from the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women—“riveting, terrifying, exactly the book for our times”...

When witch, and former cop, Grace Angelo decides to take a beach vacation with her friend, the last thing she expects is to get involved with another mystery. But when she explores the coastal town with her special dog, Noah, their walk is cut short when they stumble across a group of people dragging a dead body from the sea. Local detective Zach Jackson is soon on the case, and just as quick, Grace agrees to help discover what happened to the deceased - a local scuba diving instructor. The mystery deepens when a number of Viking artifacts surface and are sold on the black market.

When Grace Angelo and her family of witches reopened their guesthouse, they could not have predicted the consequences. Or that their first guest would turn out to be a powerful warlock. Soon, the warlock’s dark influence starts to spread, and Grace and her sisters will have to combine their forces if they’re to protect their beloved New England town of Hemlock Cove. Join Grace and her friends in this fun, riveting small-town mystery. For fans of paranormal mystery, cozy mystery, and witches.

When his mentor at Harvard University suddenly leaves for Washington, Paul Cattleman finds himself adrift in the wilds of academia. He's lost his fellowship position for the fall semester, can find work only in what he considers to be intellectual cesspits--schools that would brand the young history professor as forever unsuitable for the Ivy League--and is one thesis short of a PhD. Rather than doom his career, he takes a temporary job in Los Angeles, a city whose superficial charms signal an adventure.

From a writer whose every book is a literary event, a superbly accomplished work of fiction. Last Night is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion–by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. In ten powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most intimate moments. A book dealer faces the truth about his life–as it is and never will be again–when he is visited unexpectedly by his brash former girlfriend.

Starting her junior year, Logan McRae is excited about her internship at CRUSH magazine. But she is not so excited about her new boyfriend Jeremy's travel abroad in Ireland. Logan is in over her head trying to balance school, love, and friends, while trying to solve an astrological mystery the fate of a Gemini is star-crossed. Will Logan find out who is in danger before the CRUSH Halloween costume party? Can she prove to the publisher she deserves her own astrology column?

A compelling memoir of a gay Catholic woman struggling to find balance between being a daughter and a mother raising her son with a loving partner in the face of discrimination. From the time she was born, Michelle Theall knew she was different. Coming of age in the Texas Bible Belt, a place where it was unacceptable to be gay, Theall found herself at odds with her strict parents, bullied by her classmates, abandoned by her evangelical best friend, and kicked out of Christian organizations that claimed to embrace her - all before she’d ever held a girl’s hand.