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Truer now than when it was written—the prophetic classic is back. Twenty-six years after its original publication, Borsook’s “smart, funny and irreverent” (The New York Times) critique of high-tech has proved a prescient assessment of a toxic ethos which has seeped...

An auditor for the Board of Magical Compliance and a skeptical single father with no time for magic collide in this start to a new cozy romantasy series. Honey Braxton doesn’t break rules, she enforces them. As an auditor for the Bureau of Magical Compliance, she specializes in wishing wells...

Destiny, a horribly selfish woman, created the company, Revenge Fairy to inflict vengeance on others. She enjoys her job almost as much as defrauding people. After an angry woman driving a red sports car runs her over, Destiny finds herself in purgatory. There, she learns that her soul hasn't grown after many lifetimes, and she faces being erased from existence. To avoid this fate, she escapes purgatory by disguising herself as a fairy godmother and reappears on Earth in Megan’s bedroom. Now that Destiny has access to a magic wand, will she wreak havoc and destroy the world?

Margo and Hank are teen detectives in tiny, god-forsaken Lazarus, Nebraska. They have a profoundly deep relationship; the only hitch is that Hank has been dead for two months. The pair team up to solve a local murder, with Margo doing the everyday gumshoe work and the late Hank spying on suspects unseen. At the same time, Margo attempts to solve the cold case of her mother’s murder seven years ago. As Margo’s quest becomes more perilous, Hank will try to protect her, anguished that he can’t do more as she finally battles the sinister forces that killed her mother.

When Jane Kovak trades her cheating ex-husband and a cushy city life for an old Victorian farmhouse in the mountains of Virginia, she’s prepared to face some challenges. Sulky teenager? Check. Leaky roof? No problem. Territorial chickens? Hmm, that wasn't in the real estate listing. A misogynistic neighbor with boundary issues? That’s just great. A zombie apocalypse? Now wait a damn minute.

Though she misses the feeling of a stake in her hand, Calla is willing to accept her new way of life, until she’s blackmailed by the annoyingly beautiful vampire Isolde. Urged by the Council to comply, Calla must pretend to date Isolde in a scheme to endear vampires to the human public. Calla promises herself she will do everything she can to undermine Isolde, but the longer she spends with her the harder she finds it. When she learns of a threat to all vampires, she must decide if she will help the woman she swore to hate but never could, or deny her heart and follow her training.

A week before Christmas, Aggie bumps into Officer Tom Wood, her on-again, off-again boyfriend at a new exclusive restaurant. Unfortunately, Tom is not dining alone. A beautiful, young woman accompanies him. Tom introduces her as an old friend. Even though Aggie plays it off as not being jealous; her friends Betty and Roger want to learn more about this mysterious woman. Will this beautiful old friend ruin Aggie’s festive mood?

Former First Lady Helena Barrett could use a vacation. Since her husband’s death, Helena has been happy to serve her country. That comes to an abrupt end after she calls the current administration’s policies idiotic during a televised climate conference in Paris. Oops.

Thalia Mara's story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi. As an adolescent Mara (1911–2003) studied with renowned Russian teacher Adolph Bolm, who recommended she go at age sixteen to Paris for further study. During a tour in Europe and South America, she met her partner in dance and life, Arthur Mahoney, and they dazzled the world with their breathtaking performances during the 1930s and '40s. The two were named codirectors of Jacob's Pillow in 1947, gracing the cover of Life magazine that year.

It’s St. Patrick’s Day and Aggie, Betty and Roger are celebrating at an Irish pub in Palm Springs when Betty’s leprechaun-love-interest drops dead. Could it be murder? Join Aggie and friends as they embark on a celebration they won’t soon forget.

How an Entrepreneur Can Lead a Team Successfully is your step-by-step guide to creating your own harmonious, happy and highly profitable team so you can avoid the headaches, costs, and upset of a failing staff. Team management knowledge, like the information in this book, doesn't help you achieve your goals just a little - it can make your business a huge success.

It’s Valentine’s Day and Aggie is looking forward to her yearly ritual of curling up on the couch in front of the television while eating ice cream. However, this year her friends Betty and Roger, have talked Aggie into spending an evening out on the town. And then, to her surprise, Officer Tom Wood had also asked her out. Wearing a very uncomfortable, slinky, red dress that Betty picked out for her, and a ruby red pocketbook to match, Aggie stumbles into a dangerous Valentine’s Day she’ll never forget.

Under the pale glow of the moon, in a secluded fishing village, a tiny baby is abandoned on the steps of the firehouse. The infant's piercing wail shatters the night as a young woman hastily flees. The next morning, the life of a lonely firefighter will be forever altered. Fifty years later, Ginny Mersea, a renowned biographer with an uncanny ability to uncover long-forgotten secrets, is taking a sabbatical to plan her upcoming wedding. Her expertise as both a storyteller and a mystery solver are highly sought after, and not everyone can wait until her office reopens.

For fans of Jodi Picoult and Bonnie Garmus, an illuminating novel about a mother struggling to raise a healthy neurodivergent child with a husband worn down by depression. When Julie Crawford’s whirlwind four-year-old is kicked out of preschool, suspected of having ADHD—likely genetic—her...

In the heat and smoke of a California autumn, the mother of a kidnapped girl finds unexpected guidance from a chatty young crow she names Veronica, who leads her to abandon her self-imposed isolation and seek hope despite her grief-filled limbo. When a crow swoops down on a smoky August afternoon and starts speaking with her, mythology professor Catherine Moss assumes someone is playing a joke. Stuck in the anger stage of grief ever since the disappearance of her daughter, Sierra, Catherine does not tolerate tricksters easily.

Vincent van Gogh arrives in Paris with little more than paint-stained hands and an aching determination to create something worthy of the world. Living in his brother Theo's cramped apartment, he struggles against poverty, doubt, and the relentless pull of his own restless mind. Across the ocean in Amherst, Emily Dickinson receives news that changes everything. Faced with the nearness of death, the reclusive poet does the unthinkable: she leaves the quiet safety of the Homestead and sails for Paris, determined to taste life before it slips beyond her reach.

As a survivor of intimate partner violence and cancer, with over thirty-five years of recovery from substance use, Dawn Nickel recognizes the greater risk women in recovery have for developing a co-occurring disorder. Recovering from all the things is the phrase she uses to recognize the...

The world ends when the Hg34 virus infects its population. Those who don’t die either hide or are taken captive; forced to dig underground until their bodies fail. Those who haven’t been taken fight for survival. The search for answers leads Libby and her companions into decimated towns where secrets lay buried. How far will the search for answers take them? What will they do with the answers when they find them?

Fear is powerful—it takes hold of us in seconds and often refuses to let go, making even the simplest of tasks feel impossible. But your life doesn’t have to be rooted in fear. You can be brave and do the inner work to create outer change. Glennon Doyle meets Kay Redfield Jamison in this unflinchingly honest memoir-meets-manifesto for anyone living with anxiety, OCD, or simply the weight of being human.

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