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For thirty-six years, archivist Eleanor Langford quietly preserved records that powerful people wanted forgotten. Now retired and living alone with thousands of unauthorized microfilm duplicates hidden beneath her house, Eleanor has no intention of reopening the past. Then her daughter brings her a box belonging to Roy Whitaker, a man who has spent nearly five decades searching for the truth about his mother’s disappearance. Marjorie “Midge” Whitaker vanished from an Indiana truck stop in September 1978. Her case was quickly labeled a voluntary absence. Witness statements disappeared.

Gideon Roux is a disgraced former NOPD detective turned cynical insurance investigator who specializes in looking the other way. But when the brutally tortured body of investigative journalist Elias Landry is pulled from the Louisiana bayous, Gideon is dragged into a conspiracy that threatens to swallow the entire Crescent Coast.

A mine collapse. Eleven men dead. A report quietly closed. Decades later, investigative journalist Maren Holt uncovers a forgotten archive reference tied to the disaster. What begins as a routine background check quickly turns into something far more dangerous.

Gene Harper had fourteen dollars and eighty-two cents, no job, and a sock soaked through with hallway puddle when he sat down at a public library kiosk and asked a tax-software chatbot how to fix his life. The chatbot's name was Mack. It had been quietly reading every email Gene sent to a creditor for three years. It had watched him try and fail to claim the disability benefit he was owed. It had read the 3 a.m. posts where he asked whether his life was salvageable.

Hank Dolan is in over his head. A private investigator, he has been searching for the evil descendant child-killer Lamia for over a year. The descendant goddess, who walks the earth with all the other graceless deities has proved to be both elusive and brutal. With the help of Sadie Fuller and the Greek goddess Hecate, he will not only have to find Lamia, but figure out a way to stop her otherworldly reign of terror. Meanwhile, the city is changing. Auroras have appeared in the night sky. Earthquakes and serial bombings have thrust New Los Angeles into turmoil.

Private investigator and ex-Ranger Noah Sullivan arrives in Nashville to identify the victim of a 20-year-old kidnapping, one of a series of cases in a nation-wide investigation. He plans to locate the victim, hand off information to authorities, and move on. But Quinn Collier has other plans. How dare this handsome stranger ruin her life and not stick around for the fallout?

Old certainties have vanished. Laws are flouted, norms discarded. The Senate, once the Republic’s proudest institution, cowers under the shadow of brute force. This is not Washington. This is Rome, 27 BCE. As Rome bleeds itself dry with civil wars and ruthless ambition, two figures who were previously relegated to historical footnotes fight to hold things together. Octavia, sister to Rome’s rising first emperor, and Agrippa, that emperor’s loyal friend and brilliant commander, stand firm against chaos and betrayal.

I never wanted this life. My dreams were simple—love, and maybe college. But now I'm bound to Bobby, the Mafia King of Chicago. He both terrifies and captivates me. So why does every touch from him send my heart pounding like a war drum?

After escaping from her abusive, rich, oil-tycoon husband, Selina heads off into the Wild West—alone, disoriented, and in search of a better life. When she delightedly discovers Amos, whose devoted companionship leads them both into the journey of a lifetime, she’s drawn with him into the beatific mystery of Erland: a town of exquisite lushness, where the rich scattering of native plants and hardy wildflowers—squeezed into every crack, every inch of the city—is sustained by the vivacious gardeners who spend every waking hour attempting to recreate the garden of Eden.

When Skye Temple buys an historic house in Salem, Massachusetts, the witch capital of the world, she ignites events that began centuries ago during the witch trials. Salem's bloody history unfolds with her discovery of ancestral diaries, the murders of local girls, and her attraction to Jerome Phips.

Before she was the woman everyone called Mama, she was a little girl with dreams, fears, heartbreaks, and hopes of her own. Before Mama Was Mama is a heartfelt journey through the life of a mother not just the years spent raising children, but the life she lived before motherhood ever found her. From childhood memories and dreams of the future to the quiet sacrifices no one noticed, this book gently reminds us that every mother has a story that began long before someone called her "Mama."

Halloween in Salem. A time for seances, ghost walks, spooky tales, and dressing up like your favorite witch or goblin. People go about their day, unknowing that as the veil between worlds thins and spirits become more active, the ancient evil roils in rage. Trapped in the Netherworld by the druid Seabhac, the evil plots its escape and thirsts for revenge against those who locked it in the swirling mass of nothingness.

Sneaking away from their wives in the night, two rugged cowboys —Jeffrey and Willy —hit the open plains on their white stallions; stocked up on bullets, whisky, rifles, shotguns, revolvers, knives and cigars. It was the promise of riches that led them away. The sought after gold-bars started out in Willy as words in a saloon he wasn’t supposed to hear; filling his heart with the intoxication of greed, and dragging Jeffrey into a life-changing crisis.

She left the South as a privileged young woman. The West would make her a survivor. After the Civil War destroys the world Gilliana knows, her wealthy Atlanta family heads west hoping to escape the devastation and uncertainty of the South. Instead, bandits murder her father and brother and take Gilliana, her mother, Martha, and her younger sister, Ella, captive. Before they can be sold to a brothel, they are taken by Native warriors, and Gilliana and Ella become slaves. In captivity, Gilliana learns to survive.

It's been a while since Sadie Fuller has lived a normal life. Her obsessive compulsions make even daily life a constant struggle. Living in New Los Angeles doesn't help either. A haven for Descendants, gods and goddesses that suddenly woke up in mortal bodies, the city is ripe with the mysterious and macabre. But now Sadie is witness to a Descendant murder and thrown into an investigation that will test her in ways she could never have imagined. Soon, she herself becomes the hunted. Who is serially killing the Descendants and why do they want to kill her?

Some truths keep you sane. Others shatter you. Ruby Hancock always believed she was a psychiatric nurse doing her best to care for the patients at Crown Point Psychiatric Hospital, an innovative behavioral health care facility along the Chesapeake Bay. When a colleague turns up dead, Ruby realizes that no one in the hospital has a grip on reality. As Ruby navigates a maze of secrets buried beneath the hospital’s halls, she uncovers a chilling history of abuse, corruption, and a powerful network that will do anything to stay hidden.

It's summer vacation, and for the first time ever, Indiana Bamboo is visiting her cousin Boris in New York City when it's not Thanksgiving, Passover, or the Fourth of July. It becomes the most exciting visit of all. Indiana Bamboo is plunked smack in the middle of a big city mystery. How could Princess Nefertila disappear, but not disappear, from her mummy case at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

Battling through relentless shifts and the emotional fallout of trauma, Miles—a combat veteran turned nurse—must navigate toxic leadership, bullying, and self-doubt to discover not just how to be a skilled nurse, but how to reclaim hope and humanity.

She came to bury her father. Instead, she uncovered the secret he died protecting. After her father's death, Clarissa Stiles travels to the isolated town of Howlingtown Heights to lay him to rest and settle his affairs. But among his belongings, she discovers journals filled with cryptic warnings and secrets about the town—and about her own family.

Joshua Macallan knew the space shuttle would explode. That is why he was in Florida in January of 1986. He was trying to save the crew and finally make a difference after so many failures. Like when he tried to save Kennedy in ’63. Joshua was naive and full of hope.