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MURDER IN DARK WATERS They’re hunting a killer But the bayou keeps its secrets Angelique Santori has vowed that she’ll find her mother’s murderer. When chief of police Daniel LeCroix asks her to let the police handle things, they reach an agreement: She’ll go back to her life if he gives...

Early retirement never sounded so good to Mervin and Ruthie Miller. After a lifetime in Millersburg, where Mervin worked at a furniture and shed factory and Ruthie helped out at a fabric store, they have exciting plans: They're going to become "Amish Gentlemen Farmers." That means buying a...

“Beautiful and piercing stories about the burdens women and men bear, detailed with tender and understated precision.”—Nobel Prize-winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, author of Afterlives and Theft In a searing collection by the award-winning author of The Return of Faraz Ali, characters seek to...

THEIR SUMMER RESCUE Saving the turtles… Leads to finding each other Dr. Nyla Dávila is devoted to protecting the turtles in Soledad Bay, her small community on the coast of Florida. So when her sea turtle research and education center falls victim to a cyberattack, she’ll do whatever it...

MANILA TAKES MANHATTAN Fans of Jasmine Guillory and Helen Hoang will adore this irresistibly engaging story of two Filipino celebrities caught between everything they want…and everything they are. How do you follow your heart when it’s in two places? Filipino musician and producer Mon...

FAKE FLAME In this fun, fast-paced romantic comedy, a bookish firefighter who knows his Jane Austen suggests a little fake dating to fend off an ex. What’s a feminist English professor to do—except say yes… You can’t fake heat like this… To an observer, hauling a baby grand piano onto...

ROMANCING MISS STONE His perfectly planned life is about to go wild. By-the-numbers Bo Ferguson has his future all planned. Then his archaeologist fiancée dumps him. Via text. From Belize. Navigating the rainforest to win her back is way out of Bo’s comfort zone, but so is the idea of...

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize! From the author and translator of The Details, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, comes a story about five people—or five stories about small talk and big lies. From a successful child actor who has now turned into a failing...

Mit „Krambambuli" schuf Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach eine der bekanntesten Tiergeschichten der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Hund Krambambuli, der zwischen zwei Herren gerät und dadurch in einen schmerzhaften Konflikt zwischen alter Bindung und neuer Zugehörigkeit gerissen wird. Die Erzählung entwickelt sich zu einer bewegenden Geschichte über Loyalität, Instinkt und menschliche Verantwortung.

A winning story about playing games at casinos and on lotteries.

Step into a world of enchantment and gentle wonder as you unwind and drift peacefully toward sleep with this soothing collection of magical bedtime stories for grown-ups. Magical Fairytales for Relaxation & Sleep is a calming anthology of timeless fairytales, lovingly narrated by Joanne D'Amico, the voice behind the beloved Drift Off podcast.

No name in the modern art world sends a shudder down the spine quite like the name Moira Petrovic. The Swedish prodigy, famous at a young age for her dazzling landscapes and haunting self-portraits, has practically vanished from the public lexicon after her tragic death in the late 2020s. Her masterpieces enjoyed a brief resurgence in popularity posthumously, only to be eclipsed by the ghoulish conspiracy theories surrounding her death.

Born under the watchful eyes of the wolf star, Wolf Shadow was never meant to live an ordinary life. Named by the shaman Star Wolf and chosen by the spirits, she defied her tribe's traditions to become a warrior. She is one who walks between the living and the dead.

Des voyageurs surpris par l'orage se réfugient chez un homme qui a autrefois passé un pacte avec le DIABLE... Repenti, il attend vainement que son pacte cesse. Or, cette nuit-là, nos voyageurs mi-goguenards mi-effrayés vont le tenter… Un récit fantastique ou SF, qui grâce à l'interprétation magistrale de Marc Deroy vous fait dresser les poils et vous donne la chair de poule !

What if the visitor you were waiting for had already arrived? Martin Avdeitch is a skilled cobbler whose tiny basement workshop looks out upon a cold Russian street. Once sustained by family and faith, he has been left alone by devastating loss. Grief has hardened his heart, and he can no longer...

Un clásico indispensable para gestionar el talento de manera eficaz. El pez que no quiso evolucionar es el primero de una serie de relatos que describen distintos aspectos de la vida en la empresa. A través de sus páginas podemos sentirnos identificados y reflexionar, junto al autor, acerca...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Deep in the unmapped Alaskan north, two gold prospectors camp in sight of a mountain shaped like a vast reaching hand – and watch in horror as a shaft of unearthly light stabs the sky and a broken thing crawls into their firelight. It is a man, his...

A sharp classic science fiction tale of alien intervention, prehistoric invention, and the dangerous ripple effects of technological progress, This Star Shall Be Free by Murray Leinster explores how one experiment in abundance helps shape humanity’s future among the stars...

What if the most important things in your life were never the ones you planned for? Unexpected Gifts is a collection of twelve powerful stories about the people who find what they never looked for — a man who boards the wrong train and discovers his father in the margins of a stranger's book, a woman who opens an attic trunk looking for Christmas ornaments and finds sixty years of her grandmother's hidden interior life, a teacher whose student's question about a butterfly reveals something about herself she'd never been able to articulate.

In the first tale of relentless vengeance and justice, a retired Navy SEAL, haunted by the brutal murder of his wife, becomes The Ghost of Cancun. With unwavering determination, he wages a one-man war against a powerful drug cartel, eliminating their members one by one. This gripping saga explores love, loyalty, and the limits one man will go to honor his lost love.