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Decades after its original publication, James Agee’s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man’s death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed.

A sixteen year old boy awakens in a dark forest with no memory of how he got there. When he finally begins to come to terms that he is no longer at home, he begins to realize that he is not only in a different environment, but he's in a different time period! To make matters more trivial, all the townspeople, also known as "Locksmiths," have these "Keys" that allows them to emit different colored energies or, "HUEs," at will. It just so happens the dark HUE that emits from him is the most powerful in this futuristic world of "Aether." Is it a simulation? Is it a dream?

For Christian Clark, Tingston was an idyllic place to grow up, seemingly frozen in a mid-century suburban innocence. His big brother Dan was the star high school quarterback and prince of the town. Life revolved around football games, drive-in movies, long nights in the booths of Crommel's Diner...

James Brandt didn’t look back when he got away from his rural hometown as a teenager. Now he has returned to Kippen for the first time in twenty years because his cousin Tony has been found dead under the local bridge. The news that Tony has left him the entire family farm triggers James’s...

This is a book about phobias and obsessions, isolation and dark corners. It's about families, friendships, and carefully preserved secrets. But above everything else it's about love. Finding love - in any of its forms - and nurturing it. Miss Hayes has a new theory. She thinks my condition's...

In the book, One Fare University, you follow three friends through some of the major events that they must go through in one of the toughest culinary and hospitality management programs in the country. Akira is one of the fiercest main characters, being skillfully creative, determination, with a deep dislike for losing and failing, that continuously uses his wit, and background to fight for his degree.

In the early centuries of Christianity (first to fourth century), the composition of the Bible was not fixed, as letters and manuscript were often kept separate, and different communities had different collections of texts. Many letters and sermons of the nascent Christian church in the first few centuries were persevered, even though they were not included in the New Testament.

Lucy James goes out to celebrate the end of her final exams at college. It’s a decision she soon comes to regret, because next day, she has to attend an important interview, but she can’t remember why. Having recently passed the stringent vetting procedure for a top recruitment agency, she thinks she is probably meeting a prospective employer. Or is it yet another member of the agency? Deciding to wing it, she turns up and meets Gloria.

"Jenny James' midlife road trip with a reclusive stranger gave me all sorts of ideas . . . Warm, witty, relatable, poignant--Jenny is a delight!" --Emma Grey, bestselling author of The Last Love Note Embark on a road trip around the British countryside with Jenny James Is Not a Disaster by...

Getting saved never really turns out like you’d expect. There are always strings attached. And sometimes, the only one who can save you...is you.

An indie musician reeling from tragedy and a public breakdown reconnects with her father on a weeklong cruise in “a pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest places” (Rebecca Serle, bestselling author of In Five Years) “The characters are drawn with a generosity...

Five years ago a tragic accident changed Jagger’s life forever. He ran from LA to Las Vegas, leaving his father, four brothers, and former life behind. Now, after his father’s death he’s returning to help his brothers with the family business and his former street racing reputation. On his first night back in town his path crosses with Londynn at the races. She awakens something in him that he hasn’t felt since that fateful night years ago. 

"You are really by yourself when you’re by yourself". These words reverberate through the head of 16-year-old Beth Duncan after the death of her parent and forced to live with her strange older uncle in the small backwoods town of Luina in the barren North West corner of Tasmania, Australia.

"Peace must be fought for." The Thrilling saga of the Save the World Academy series comes to a powerful end in this gripping conclusion! As Viktor Steel's grand scheme to take over the world is revealed, the students must fight to survive in a race to protect the planet and themselves from a global threat. Prepare for an epic battle that will leave you speechless. Heads will roll!

An evil that has been unseen in the Academy walls for decades returns in this fourth instalment; the legendary Brotherhood of the Rabbit has risen to antagonise the students of Save the World Academy. With their twisted ancient rituals and rumours of double agents threatening the school, the students and teachers must be on their guard to stay alive.

The Boots My Mother Gave Me explores the dynamics of abuse and dysfunction, the courage to overcome, the strength in sisterhood, and the ongoing conflict and unconditional love between mothers and daughters. Climb into Charlene the Chevelle for a fast-paced story about a girl who is tough enough to survive and tender enough to learn to trust in love.

Jackson James is a high school senior (Class of 2004), trying to live up to his science scholarship to Booker T. Washington in Tulsa, OK - one of the most prestigious schools in the nation. Growing up in a single parent household with limited means, Jackson's struggled to find his place among private school elites. But he is determined to make his name known. With aspirations to start his own hip-hop label with his best friend, Dillon, as his first recording artist, he is ready to embrace his last year of high school. But, all of that changed one night, when the unexpected happened.

Cassie Garnet hates the word mediocre. Yet her existence in a rural Indiana town could certainly be labeled that, if not for her place on the cross country team. With her senior year approaching, Garnet has been River Bend High's best runner...but she longs to be better. Cassie has never been challenged and pushed to reach her potential, and the Lady Coyotes are a terrible team. Then, everything changes. When the beautiful and charismatic Charna Rothstein Simon moves to River Bend to become a teacher and cross country coach, Cassie's senior year will be anything but ordinary.

Wyatt Vicissitude is about a man who had a well-laid plan to achieve his happily ever after. Before getting his desire, he experiences character-defining moments that will forever change him and the way he views life. He becomes reacquainted with himself all over again, to find an evolved self. Wyatt still marvels at how fortunate he is to reach his desired dream when he thought it wasn’t possible.

Follow Mary Jade VonStine as her world is turned upside down with the murders of her parents. Now, Mary must go to a faraway kingdom, and live with her distant royal family. How will Mary adapt to a strange country and her family? When her family is all a bunch of monsters mostly vampires, werewolves, and other undead creatures, how will Mary survive and cope living with them, and what of the assassins who seek to kill her? Who knows - there may be more to Mary than just your typical southern tomboy