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The pass is open again. So is the door they thought they'd sealed. Eight years after the collapse, Kettle Falls remains what almost nowhere else does: a free county. No census. No rations. No Authority counting souls. Through one hard winter, Mabel Gray and the fugitive pilot who fell out of the...

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She crossed a mountain to get them to safety. She didn't plan on staying for the winter. Eight years after the country came apart, Mabel Gray has finally reached Kettle Falls—the free county her father helped build, the one place the Regional Authority never managed to put on its books. She told herself she was only delivering a downed pilot and his ten-year-old son to somewhere safe. But the first hard snow seals the pass behind her, and safety, she's learning, is a place with walls that keep people in as surely as they keep the world out.

She wasn’t supposed to bring him back. She did it anyway. Eight years after the collapse, Mabel Gray survives inside Ridgeline Valley, a hidden settlement in Washington’s Cascade Mountains. Its forty residents are held together by strict rules, guarded borders, and the fragile belief that survival depends on keeping the outside world out. Mabel follows the rules. Mostly. Then she finds an unconscious boy beside a mountain road, watched over by a loyal dog who refuses to leave him.

In Silverdale, Washington the survivors of a worldwide apocalypse are preparing for the coming winter storms. But just as they’re stocking away the last of the fall harvest, they make a disturbing discovery - someone has pilfered the food supplies!

McKenna Williams is determined to let nothing mess up her zen, until she gets a request to teach a private yoga class for recent divorcee Piper Patrick, and she’s hit with an instant attraction so intense, she can barely breathe. Everything about falling for Piper is a bad idea. The magnetic pull toward each other is undeniable, and McKenna knows that it can only end in heartbreak.

To Hell and Back Again: An Insight Into Addiction is a collection of journal entries that were written by Leona Mae Peters during her six month stay at a drug rehabilitation facility in Orlando, Florida.

A getaway to a lush vacation rental with her best friend is just what Abby needs after breaking off her engagement to her fiancé. She’s on her way out to enjoy a relaxing day at the beach when she notices a foul smell in the garage. She freezes when she sees the limb of a dead body.

In Silverdale, Washington the survivors of a worldwide apocalypse are preparing for the coming winter storms. But just as they’re stocking away the last of the fall harvest, they make a disturbing discovery—someone has pilfered the food supplies!

Bad things happen in threes; at least, that's what Annie Fullerton has always believed. And the way her life is shaping up, she feels like the proverbial poster girl! Her career as an up-and-coming sous chef has gone up in smoke, she's lost her beloved pet, and then her roommate, Danica, has betrayed her in the worst possible way. It's the straw that breaks the camel's back. I mean, come on! A person can only take so much!

Jennifer gets the perfect Christmas gift at the Evergreen Country Club where she works. She gets a special something from Santa. It's just what she needs at just the right time...some Christmas pleasure. Is it just a holiday fling, or will it lead to something more?

Bambi: A Life in the Woods was written by Austrian writer Felix Salten and first published in 1929. It is the story of Bambi, a roe deer, whose wide-eyed curiosity leads him to explore all the wonders of the forest. He is enchanted by the songs, scents, and all the diverse creatures who live in the trees alongside him. But within these moments of discovery lies the ever-present danger of predators—one predator in particular: man.

No good deed goes unpunished in a willfully blind, technocratic society. Gordon Gray, a retired librarian, only wishes to chain smoke, read twentieth-century novels by dead white men, and at the time of his choosing, shuffle off his mortal coil. Everyone from his thanatophobic doctor to his New Age neighbor has an opinion on what Gordon should want and how he should be treated.

It’s summertime in Silverdale and the warm weather has brought some new additions to town. A brand new café has just opened up and Ian’s new business is booming. But it’s not all sunshine and roses as the influx of out-of-towners causes friction. When the Connor baby goes missing, Hilda Jo assumes that she and Irene will solve the case together. She’s disappointed when Irene decides to leave town. Things start to look grim when the Perez family finds their youngest child gone too.

Join Irene and Hilda Jo as they navigate their way through the Leantimes, uncovering clues and trying to solve the mystery before it’s too late. With its unique blend of cozy mystery and post-apocalyptic setting, In the Leantimes will keep you guessing until the very end.

Linda Delaney and Timandra Murdock mysteriously disappear on the same day. Police investigation reveals no commonalities or association between the two women, but detectives don’t believe in coincidence. * ** Like a fish out of water, Courtney March is determined to conquer her anxiety and leave home to begin “adulting.” In hunting for her first apartment, she encounters Linda Delaney, a woman who could be her twin. The small complex at Eleven-eighty-five Lincoln Avenue becomes the setting for unexpected adventure and romance.

Better Than Mom's is a neighborhood diner in a small city in Wisconsin where good food and interesting people come together. Meet Brady, the warm-hearted owner who takes pride in making homemade food for his customers, Fay, the sassy morning waitress who cares for people more than she lets on, Naomi, the welfare mom who cooks like an angel and needs a job, Steve, who sits in the back booth and won't let anyone see what he's writing, and Officer Bates, who comes to investigate a crime but ends up sweeping Fay off her feet.

Despite her success in teaching, and being named Teacher of the Year, Jennifer Donnelly abruptly leaves. Flashbacks are taking her back in time, revealing a horrible secret from her past. Only when she discovers the truth can Jennifer move forward in life.

Gail Logan, a widow in her mid-fifties, has lived her life by what other people think. That has to change. Signing up for a watercolor class and thrifting a new wardrobe with a young classmate makes a good start. Replanting her regimented flower garden is another idea, but at the garden center, Abel Baker dismisses her plan and tells her what to buy. Gail doesn’t appreciate his interference. Widower Abel turns up in Gail’s path again and again, but she buried one bossy man, and she’s not interested in another. Should she give Abel a chance?

Energized by changes in careers and romances, the ladies of Novel Women book club transition from a tumultuous summer into autumn. But they soon discover that this new stage of life doesn’t come with instructions. Sandwiched between their parents and children, they rely on each other to navigate this confusing period.