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On a cold January evening, 14-year-old Jeannie Kynde is told that her beloved mother drowned in the murky waters along Florida's Gulf Coast. Her distraught father turns on Jeannie, no longer the caring father she once knew. Four years later, Jeannie is finally old enough to escape her father's clutches, but he has different plans. He imprisons her at Deadwater Manor, a psychiatric hospital with an unscrupulous past.

This novel takes place inside the real-life nature reserve of Paul Lister, a famous conservationist in the Scottish Highlands. Mixed with this beautiful place is a fascinating journey into the horrible dilemma of mental illness. After the death of Thomas Reid, his widow, Caroline sells the beloved lodge that she and her husband started, and she flees back to Charleston, SC. Malcolm Dargie and his fiancée, Molly, hope to complete their best friends' dream. They finish the remaining work soon after the wedding at their new home, which most villagers in the small town attended.

There was nothing left to do but walk. Walk miles down the highway, town after town, from one state to the other. After the leaps and bounds our society has achieved, this is what we are reduced to. Walking. Go North, they say. There's hope in the North, where the spiders haven't found us.... Yet.

Clementine has been taken by a creature of darkness. Dorin is a fiend in love who must find Clementine before losing her forever. While on his desperate search, Dorin pens eight dark and romantic monstrous tales, written only for Clementine.

Magical illnesses require magical cures, and time is running out. It's been months since I left my hometown. I'd never traveled outside its wall before. It seems like only yesterday that my biggest concern was writing my next hit article. Now, I'm running from the police and desperately searching for the only man who may know how to cure me of a magical ailment. I'm not alone, but I can feel the patience and energy of the man by my side diminish day by day. It's hard to persuade him that I'm spending all my time looking for another man so I can be whole for him.

Quitting her stressful job with the head office and retreating to her family's branch of the business was supposed to take away from her stress. Instead, on her first night back on the job reaping souls and taking names, she's faced with a client whose soul won't tear from his body. Her ledger clearly says: reap Kyle Riley. But he's not dead. He's not alive, but he's not dead.

Master Sword Bryan is an elite warrior on the prince of Shelkite’s council. When the realm is threatened by Ret, a powerful wizard-king, Bryan is ready to fight. But his plans are upended when he’s assigned not to the battlefield, but as the personal guardian of a young half-blood witch sent to aid Shelkite—Alexandra.

A look inside the culture of Amazon, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its relentless, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. When Amazon.com launched in 1995, it was with the mission "to be Earth's most customer-centric company". Through creating and sustaining a culture of innovation, the company has proven a track record of building and scaling new businesses.

The mysterious village of Brell isn't found on any map and has the habit of fading in and out of the surrounding river mists. In spite of this, the ordinary villagers living there don''t like anything strange. Or anyone. Althea Morgan is odd and small and doesn't fit in. Growing up, she hopes to leave Brell behind. Perhaps even go to Moor, the capitol city, and study at the famous university there. But it isn't to be. One day, a dangerous stranger appears, and before she knows it, Thea has stumbled into the extraordinary world of Thornwold.

August Taylor thought she could manage the weight of the world on her shoulders. Forcing a smile, she hid the secrets of the man she loved and pretended everything was okay. Until she found him unconscious, having chosen his addiction over her...one last, fatal time. Unable to understand the sickness that consumed him, grief rivets through August’s body. As she spirals into self-destructive behavior, she finds her life mirroring what she despises.

Caroline Emma Corbett Reid and her husband Thomas hail from Charleston, SC, but move to the estate of Alladale in Scotland when a nasty family lawsuit ruins their reputation. After five glorious years living at Alladale, the beautiful Caroline awakens tied to her bed inside her favorite suite, the Willow. After three days without food or water, she realizes her end is near.

I'm sure you've heard of Calamity Jane, but this is not a novel about Calamity Jane. At least not the Jane you may have heard about. Calamity Jane is part of the legends of the Wild West, but long before she scouted with Custer or "Wild Bill" Hickok, she was a 15-year-old girl with a fiery temper. Violence and tragedy turn young Jane's world upside down and soon she finds herself riding with an alien gunslinger — the Green Man — through a landscape of revenge and betrayal.

Foul magic stirs in the depths of the sea where sirens are ruled by the whims of powerful water nymphs. But when fever sweeps the watery kingdoms, threatening to destroy the race of sirens forever, a new hero must rise. Darya, a water nymph, is chosen to find a magical remedy to save her people. But the spell for the cure lies ashore in the Great Library of Nomadia.

Day by day, our community shrinks as people leave for the outpost, and I look over my family with worry. Hope is dwindling, along with our supplies. We turn our eyes to the North, and wonder if this is the day we abandon the remnant of the old lives we tried so hard to hang on to. We wonder if this is the day we join the Walk.

Emily Fox wonders how far her husband Henry will go to protect their adopted daughter from her felonious father. Henry storms into a rented bungalow ready to confront the man, but instead finds him shot dead on the bathroom floor! Emily protests the arrest, but when she learns Henry owned a gun and discovers it’s now missing, doubts begin to creep in.

When a retired teacher and her bestie join a training class with the goal of walking a breast cancer charity race, they run into a speed bump when a member of the group is murdered in the park. He had no shortage of enemies. Blackmail, harassment, and smuggling top the list of motives. Susan and Valerie both have detective daughters who, for once, request their mothers’ help. Meanwhile, Susan receives a mysterious gift on her doorstep and has no idea what it is or who sent it.

Evolution Device is an entertaining mix of backstage drama and spiritual fantasy, imagining a quintessential 1970s rock 'n' roll success story from the not-quite-real perspective of an artistic muse who makes the music possible. Taking off from a fictionalized amalgam of Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, and Heart, mixed with a bit of Janis Joplin and a dash of the Jefferson Airplane, Lif Strand introduces an unusual (but refreshingly original) angle of Native American mythology into the more familiar behind-the-music elements.

2030. Nina Gourriel is admitted to hospital after collapsing, but is later held in a secret government facility, where she undergoes continual physical tests with no explanation...until she meets Cain, a scientist, who tells her she's hunted for what she possesses. Nina doesn't know what these clandestine organisations want from her, but as her life begins to unravel she becomes the prey of more than one hunter. Is she a saviour...or the instigator of Armageddon?

He knew the risk it would present to the rest of his family to whisk Lyssa from the hospital and change her. Even knowing that, though, how could he be expected to sit back and do nothing when any moment could be the last chance he would have to save her? He was frightened. He was hurting. He was angry, damn it! While he was never human, can he, in a race against time to save her life, retain his humanity in an effort to preserve hers? Or must he do the unthinkable and face an eternity without her?

Andie didn't expect to be orphaned. Now she has no parents, no Nan, no one but Anne, the weird social worker who carries on conversations with old books and empty purses. Anne takes her to a small town in Texas to live with her new guardian, Celeste, an eccentric figure among many who seem to know something that Andie doesn't.