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Spenser Song could have never imagined that her career in the FBI would lead to her husband’s death. She moved to Sweetwater Falls and accepted the job as the town’s Sheriff to escape from the pain of her dark past. But a fresh start in the once idyllic town came with many unexpected twists...

I had one goal, just one teensy-weensy simple goal - to figure out what happened to my dad. All I had to do was head out to his cabin in the woods, look for clues, and figure out how and why he died, then go home to the city where I belong. Except I'm a kindergarten teacher, not a detective. Of course everything goes wrong, and my first night there, I end up with Liam, Christian, Athos, and Nix refusing to leave my side.

Cass Kennedy finally gets what she's been dreaming of for the past 10 years: a drifter ship to call her own. All the sim time and battle training is going to pay off in spades as she sets her course for the future. She'll be living on her own terms, not those of her father. But drifting through deep space with a crew of nutty strangers on the DS Anarchy carries a lot more surprises than she bargained for.

While Ryker completes building a small dog park, Spenser can’t help but think about her past. With her former FBI partner’s trial looming around the corner. It seems like the darkest chapters of her life might finally see justice. Shortly after arriving at her office, Spenser is called to the scene of a shooting. She talks to the wife of the victim. The woman is visibly shaken up and in a state of shock and terror. From the couple to the quiet neighborhood, nothing seems out of the ordinary.

Have you been on so many diets that you can’t remember a time in your life when you weren’t dieting? Be You Be Free gives you the tools you need to break free from dieting and make peace with food, exercise, and your body.

Jamie Bailey has not had such a wonderful life. He gave up his dreams of Harvard at 18 to raise his sister’s unwanted baby, and later a prized job to help a sick friend. Now the father of six-year-old Mia, and assistant manager at Raven Books, Jamie’s dreams are dashed once again when Uncle Billy admits the bookshop is in dire straights. Stanton Potter, son of the most notorious businesswoman in Bedford Falls, loves his job teaching at the local elementary school. But he’s less than thrilled when he is forced to put together a Christmas pageant with first-graders.

The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair.

Within a short period of time, FBI agent Blake Wilder has had to overcome many life-altering events. From the relief of discovering the truth of her past and having the reunion she had always dreamed of. To becoming suffocated by the feelings of grief and failure, feelings that nearly resulted in her death. Safe to say, Blake Wilder is far from looking forward to the festivities to come. Blake and her team are summoned to a small town in northern Washington to investigate the mysterious death of a patient at Whitehorn.

Is it really considered kidnapping if I go willingly? Asking for a friend. If it were up to Christian, Athos, Nix, or Liam, their answer would be a resounding yes. Yet it's my fifth and final mate who steals me away - Kade. He's the definition of bad boy, and he draws me in like no other with his dimpled smile and haunted eyes. Kade yanks the veil away from my eyes, hinting at the intricate motivations of each of my fated mates, but my devious rogue isn't just opening my eyes to them. He's also unraveling the history of my ancestors and just what it means to be blessed by a goddess.

Sunny Burke is the all-American life of the party. The golden boy everybody loves, a talented cowboy, and the man who warms my bed at night. In rodeo circles, they call Kai Hunt "Frost" because of his determination to win and his icy exterior. He's never made it a secret he can't stand his best friend's girl. Aka, me. Then the three of us got into a car, and everything changed. Because only two left it alive. In the aftermath, I slink back home to my little country town to lick my wounds. Yet fate has other plans.

Christmas on Nantucket finds Winter Street Inn owner Kelley Quinn and his family busily preparing for the holiday season. Though the year has brought tragedy, the Quinns have much to celebrate: Kelley has reunited with his first wife, Margaret; Kevin and Isabelle have a new baby; and Ava is finally dating a nice guy. But when Kelley's wife, Mitzi, shows up on the island along with Kevin's devious ex-wife, Nora, and a dangerously irresistible old fling of Ava's, the inn is suddenly overrun with romantic feuds, not to mention guests.

In a world stripped bare of digital images and promotainment, unveiled with the audiovisual overlay of the ImmaNet, in an exposed world, a naked world, Amon Kenzaki awakens, lost and alone. He must now travel deep into the District of Dreams in search of Rashana Birla, the one person that might help him unravel the mystery of jubilee. But deprived of the apps and informational tools he's depended on his entire life, traversing the largest bankdeath camp on Earth is no easy task.

FBI agent Cora Pratt came to Storyville searching for the crazed Postcard Killer. A killer that has taunted her all over the USA. When she arrived in this quiet town, nothing could have prepared her for the supernatural mysteries that would unfold. Orphaned as a young child, Cora did not know about her family’s background. Let alone her shocking connection to this strange place. Until now, the truth of her unusual past has been kept secret to almost everyone. But as the end draws near, it’s now time for Cora to learn of her special purpose.

Fall marks the beginning of the town’s many festivities, and no town celebrates Halloween quite like Hollow Nest — with the brutal death of a teen girl dressed in a black cat costume sparking strange speculation and rumors. It’s up to Olivia and Brock to discern the truth and solve one of the most bizarre cases yet.

Galina has been looking for a way out. So when she has the chance to get out of her kingdom and away from the man who wants to own her, she has no choice but to see it through. Even if it means collecting on a life debt from the worst decision she’s ever made. Davin’s mistakes are catching up to him. A lifetime as the royal screwup of the Lochlannian line has landed his people in danger. So when Galina shows up at his door in need of a betrothal, it might just solve all of his problems. Even if it means playing house with a woman who hates him.

First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation.

A cyber-dystopian thriller unlike any other. In a near-future Tokyo, every action - from blinking to sexual intercourse - is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees. A BodyBank computer system implanted in each citizen records their movements from moment to moment and connects them to the audio-visual overlay of the ImmaNet so that every inch of this cyber-dystopian metropolis crawls with information and shifting cinematic promotainment.

As the small town of Storyville tears itself apart and the residents turn on each other, Cora sees the worst in humanity. Voices whisper in the back of her mind, telling her that perhaps Uriel and Sandra aren’t entirely wrong. That perhaps the darkness bleeding across the world has spread too far and can’t be reined in. She recognizes that she—and humanity as a whole—is being tested. Judged. And she begins to fear that perhaps humanity is beyond saving. That it is beyond redemption.

The new Park Row Magic Academy construction is underway, and Kyana is searching for magic activities to fill the school break. When she visits the building for supplies, she's grabbed by an Available spirit! Even though she's able to slip its grasp, something is wrong—she can't stop crying and laughing uncontrollably. Is she cursed? Then Ashley shares an invitation to a camp for magical learning. Ash thinks that whatever curse is messing with Kyana, Dr. Minzy, a famous teacher there, will know how to fix it. But once they reach the secret camp site, the magical portal suddenly collapses!

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too-many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one had made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials, but of Vänna, a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain.