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Anna Lenai and Melissa Carlson are on their way to Salus Prime: a low-tech planet in the grip of the Ragnos Confederacy. Together, they must build a resistance movement to overthrow Ragnosian rule and prevent their enemies from gaining a stronghold from which to attack Leyria.

Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people’s emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women’s nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night while drawing a portrait, she feels a sinister emotion projected by a woman named Luciana, who invites Malibu to her Presidio Heights mansion.

In the third book in Kenna McKinnon's Annie Hansen Mysteries, Annie and her partner, Mark Snow, investigate the murder of Mark's aunt Clarise after she's found dead in the lobby of their apartment building.

Amelina Scott's destiny is to be a Krystallos: a magician of light, chosen to learn the ways of crystal magic on her 16th birthday. Located on a river pathway in a mysterious part of Cambridge, the Crystal Cottage is guarded by mythical beings.

Paulie Galamb is the hapless hero of this story, no matter if he likes it or not. The unattractive, unassuming divorcee was good at his job as a taste-tester of lab-grown meats, until his body turned against him.

Reeling from the loss of those closest to her and blocked from using magic, she must fight in the ring every day just to survive, magically healed from her wounds only to be forced to fight soon again.

For adventurous steel heiress Violet Warren, life is satisfactory but not truly satisfying. It's the wake of World War I, and although she has some friends and a mysterious book to keep her company, Violet finds life in 1919 Pittsburgh stifling.

Ghosts trail after us. They are our fears and the shape of our hates. We bring them into our lives and into our homes. Poltergeists and the spirits of drowned girls; malicious presences and portents; cat vampires and roaming bushrangers. These ghosts haunt Canberra—these ghosts can kill.

After the War of the Gods, Athena found herself a goddess without followers. Traversing the spirit world, she defends those who are lost between life and death. When she meets a young girl, Cordelia, Athena realizes that there is something special about her. Listening to her story gives her a renewed sense of purpose. There is wisdom in justice, and Athena will not abandon her cause simply because her followers have abandoned her.

It is 1863, and the Civil War continues to rage. Reuben Cole, soon 20 years of age, is a scout for the Union forces.

Scotland, 1849. The O'Donnell girls are driven from their Wicklow home by starvation and an Anglo-Irish landlord. After losing their father, the three sail to Glasgow with thousands of others in search of a new start.

Grecken Slade’s devious plan has thrown the galaxy into war. With the three major spacefaring civilizations at each other’s throats, the Justice Keepers are hard pressed to maintain order.

Bruce has lost his inspiration, and is struggling to come up with anything for his latest project. A writer, he is deep in the depths of despair.

After their father dies in a tragic accident, heiresses Evelyn, Georgia and Olivia Belle are left with a massive hole in their finances. With the world's media and National Crime Agency looking on, their family home, cars, and other assets are sold at auction, leaving the sisters penniless, homeless, and jobless. Shunned by their celebrity friends, the sisters must learn to fend for themselves for the first time in their lives.

La amnesia plaga a Owailion, El Despertado. Después de conocer al gigantesco dragón Mohan, se convierte en su aprendiz. Mientras los dragones guardianes del reino se preparan para entrar en hibernación durante mil años, Owailion tiene la tarea de proteger la tierra de los invasores. Dotado de una poderosa magia, estará solo; el único humano aislado del resto del mundo.

Topical, relatable, and just plain fun, these and many other stories in this collection deal with friendship, kinship, and the complexities of the modern world, and are sure to leave you with a smile.

Herb Lawson has just finished a tour in Vietnam. Returning to Hell's Kitchen in New York City, he finds work as an apprentice jeweler and bets heavily with a feared loan shark. Soon after, Herb is contacted by his former Sgt. Matthew Rainwood, who recruits Lawson to become a mercenary in Africa to protect ranchers during the Zimbabwe war of independence. With the help of a fixer, who provides them with arms and intelligence, Lawson and Rainwood help a family of five British expatriates while attempting to adjust to life after and during wartime.

Tristan Grieves. The enigma peeler and ferryman on watered time is moving oars through rough months. Boomerang throws TG into an ex-serotonin chaser’s house that smells like stolen passports. A flesh horizon where knives sail into. A nicotine party for a ghost exit, where a she-golem built from old betrayals waits. But what do you do when even the sun don’t want you?

It's the aftermath of the second opium war in Southeast Asia. Declan Malcolm, the newly elected captain, must lead a crew of sailors to navigate the treacherous high seas while protecting goods for a local triad leader, Three-Finger Tang.

It is AD 689, and Cynethryth is returning from Rome, carrying her dead husband's child. She soon gives birth to a son, Aethelheard, whose parentage alone places him in danger. His mother has a tough choice to make and travels to Dorset, where the king is a cousin of her late husband.