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After an election upheaval, Dominic Cochrane decides it's time to leave his 20-year political staffer career behind. He opts to stay in a friend's converted waterside boatshed in a quiet Sydney backwater. The long-time neighbours take Dom into their fold, but his peaceful retreat is quickly upended as he becomes embroiled in a tragic mystery a family has never solved – 25 years ago a schoolteacher, husband and father, beloved by all, disappeared without a trace. Was it a walkout? An affair? Or was it foul play?

"Dream Life and Real Life" is a haunting short story about a little orphan girl in servitude to a cruel Boer family. One night, following a beating, she runs away and hides in a cave. But there she overhears three men plotting to rob and burn down the Boer's farm and kill the family. What should she do? Warn them, or let them burn to death?

Embark on a magical journey with Debra Moioffer's enchanting tale, "The Colorful Dragon." In this story, children and adults alike will discover a world where emotions come alive through the ever-changing colors of a mystical dragon's scales. Each color tells a story, each hue a different emotion. From the golden joy that sparkles in the sunlight to the deep blue of reflective sadness under the starlit sky, this dragon teaches us to embrace our feelings.

When Steven Dobrowski and his family move into their new home, strange things happen. At first, the hauntings perpetuated by the angry spirit are innocuous, but soon turn malicious and dangerous. Keisha - Steven's wife - insists the family move for the sake of the family's safety, but Steven's obsession with the spirit overshadows his judgement, and he refuses to turn his back on the house he believes he and his family deserve. As events unfold, eventually Steven is taunted by an entity that persuades him to perform evil acts on the ones closest to him.

When I move to a cozy New England town to escape my past, I revel in the warm bodies that fall into my lap. From college co-eds to tweed-jacketed professors and everyone in between, the sleepy hamlet is the perfect hideout for a decades old vampire. I do more than a shot of tequila at the end of the night; I take shots of A+ and O- like it’s going out of style. When a specter from my past emerges from the shadows and waltzes into my bar, it takes all my strength not to ruin her in front of the entire town. The one who made me, the one who will break me—Camilla, queen of the bloody undead.

A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York...

A man walking his dog stumbles upon trees that cause disappearances, death, and mania. The Trees Swallow People tells the story of the narrator and his dog, Diva, as they witness disappearances, mania, and cult worship caused by a paddock of supernatural trees in a public park in a small Irish village.

A young woman has been murdered in River City. Police Detective John Tower is assigned to the case, but there are few clues to go on. As he digs into the case, he's soon picking up hints that this murder may not be the killer's first...or his last.

Nick Smart is fresh out of school, a wet-behind-the-ears jackaroo on a gap year. But at Palmenter Station, nothing is what it seems. Nick is about to discover there’s a lot of grey between black and white, between legal and illegal and between right and wrong.

From Southwestern Colorado to the Antarctic, from the Tree of Life to the depths of Hell, Rex Rian has written the most trying existential questions on life, love, and the separation of self and other into fiction. Follow Austin Davis and Taylor Shaffer as they work their way up the ladder of spiritual ascension and learn how to sacrifice themselves to save one another and the world at large.

Raised in the States after her mother’s mysterious death, Irish-born Arianna Sullivan grows up haunted by waking dreams of an otherworldly lover. On the night her father dies, he appears to her with cryptic instructions to return to her birthplace to meet her destiny. Into her hand, he slips an old skeleton key. One she suspects will open the door to a cottage in County Clare Ireland, whose deed she found among her father’s papers.

In this short book, we’ve set out the rules of around 30 popular schoolyard games and suggested adaptions to make them inclusive for visually impaired children. They have been tried and tested by Maya and her friends. Our hope is that teachers, parents and kids will find this helpful and our suggestions, based on Maya’s experience, will lead to a lot of fun and laughter in other schoolyards.

Erzulie Murphy is many things. Beautiful, talented, seductive, and clever. She's had a long journey from the streets of Port-au-Prince to her successful tattoo studio on Miami's vibrant South Beach. When an old Haitian man visits her and asks for her help, Erzulie must find the answers to a mystery riddled with voodoo, intrigue, and murder! To prevail, she will awaken the demons from her past and the angels best left forgotten.

In the second book of the Sunshine State Trilogy, dermatologist Dr. Harry Poe returns to force himself upon the detectives of the Miami Metro-Dade Police and help them investigate a murder mystery involving surfers, syphilis, and the state department.

Dermatologist and family man Doctor Harry Poe is dragged into a murder investigation and finds himself hip-deep in the unexpected world of illicit cosmetic surgery, tattoos, and flesh.

David and Caroline Connolly are swimming successfully through their marriage’s middle years - raising two children; overseeing care for David’s ailing mother; leaning into their careers. Then one early fall afternoon, a student of sublime, waiflike beauty appears in David’s university office and says, “I think you might be my father.”

The president of the United States has been targeted for assassination - by his own handlers. The killing must look like the president's political opposition is responsible. Desperate to prevent the crime and the overwhelming outpouring of sympathy that will only further empower the real killers, the opposition turns to the only force that can stop it this late in the game - a mysterious hunter-killer team known as the Sleeping Dogs.

Jake finds himself hated by his fellow detectives, and ostracized by his squad, after being accused of negligence in the violent death of his partner the previous year. He is wanted by the mob, on the run, and framed for a murder he did not commit. He has to face up to his past as he fights to save what's left of his future, and comes to the realization that he must choose who he can save, and who he must let go.

A letter penned in 1944 uncovers the powerful and heartfelt story of Helen Gregg, the daughter of Irish immigrant parents who grew up in the miseries of Hell's Kitchen during the Great Depression, and Clarence Raymond Stephenson, a young aspiring B-17 pilot raised in the small, struggling city of Ironton, Ohio. Fate brings them together in New York's Central Park in 1942. From the moment their eyes first met, they knew their lives would never be the same.

What is stargazer, skateboarder, chess champ, pepperoni pizza eater, older brother, sister hater, best friend, first kisser, science geek, control freak Will Tuppence so afraid of in this great big universe? Jerry Spinelli knows...