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In the heart of Raven's Cross, Virginia, the decaying Scott house looms. Its broken-window eyes watch a town desperate to forget. When Roxy, a teenage girl, vanishes into a sweltering night, long-buried fears erupt, and suspicion turns savage. The townspeople turn on the newcomers, blaming them for what they refuse to face in themselves. As polite smiles crack and old grudges resurface, Raven's Cross's genteel mask begins to slip, revealing the rot beneath.

Step into a world where words heal, inspire, and awaken the soul. Naomi’s Poetry is more than a book—it’s an intimate journey through life’s deepest emotions, from the quiet ache of loss to the radiant joy of love. Each poem is crafted with raw honesty and lyrical beauty, speaking directly to the reader’s heart.

The world is tearing itself apart. As foreign imperialists begin to carve up China, the Brandt family finds itself caught in a devastating geopolitical crossfire. Meanwhile, back in San Francisco’s vibrant Chinatown, the fight for survival hits closer to home. The community becomes the epicenter of a brutal, two-front struggle: fighting to expose the horrific reality of sex slavery and battling for the fundamental civil rights of Chinese Americans.

On the outside, Esther Hsu looks like the proverbial second-generation immigrant success story, an Ivy League grad taking a well-earned break from her lucrative consulting career. However, she sees herself differently: almost 40, jobless, aimless, alone. She's an imposter hiding her failure from everyone, including her oldest group of friends—the Mathey Girls, named after their old Princeton dorm.

Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, selfaware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the first fully drawn Black fathers in American fiction. Haunted by the family he has left behind, Jim acts as father figure to Huck, the white boy who is his companion as they raft the Mississippi toward freedom. Jim is also a highly polarizing figure: he is viewed as an emblem both of Twain’s alleged racism and of his opposition to racism.

Dans un pays inconnu, plus personne ne meurt. Les hôpitaux regorgent de malades, les entreprises de pompes funèbres et les compagnies d'assurance font faillite, les familles conduisent les membres les plus encombrants aux frontières, l'Église est menacée de disparition : sans mort, pas de purgatoire, de Paradis ni d'Enfer... Mais un beau jour la mort revient sauver les hommes.

Alma Alt, the sheltered youngest daughter of an interfaith, interracial Jewish-Mexican couple, rarely ventures far from her home on a wealthy tree-lined street in Ottawa, where nothing ever happens. The one time she did, striking out to visit her older sister, Marnie, in Montreal, things ended in disaster as she found out that beautiful, blonde Marnie had been lying about their family’s background, trying to pass herself off as white. The unintended fallout from that betrayal leads to a devastating accident, one that claims Alma’s arm and someone’s life.

Chase Montgomery has always been the golden boy of Wrightsville Beach—reckless, charming, and impossible to resist. And Savannah Monroe? She was the one girl he never forgot. Years ago, Savannah left, determined to escape the past—and him. But when she returns for one last summer in this small coastal town, the boy who once set her soul on fire is no longer just a memory. He's a man. Quieter, stronger, and just as devastating.

Joseph Fasano’s The Last Song of the World delves into the chaos of the modern world, and searches for resilience in the face of environmental and societal devastation. Dripping with images of ancient ruins and mythological figures, these poems serve as vignettes of fatherhood, love, and desire against the backdrop of apocalyptic events.

In 1967, on the night of the first Apollo mission, a child named Izzy is orphaned when the doomsday cult she was born into clashes with the sheriff in the high desert of New Mexico. She’s taken in by a struggling rancher who is trying to keep his mind from falling apart as NASA rocket tests encroach on his outer range. Inspired by the true story of a UFO cult in a village near White Sands, this audiobook traces Izzy Gently’s whole life.

Read by the author. They've come for a birthday celebration . . . but they'll leave celebrating themselves. Moira Allyson is going all out for her 50th birthday. The planning part is easy--in her big, beautiful mansion set on Savannah's waterfront, perfect parties practically plan themselves...

Máximo es un joven estudiante de Sociología de diecinueve años que sufre un accidente de moto y, al despertar, descubre que es capaz de leer el pensamiento de las personas a través de sus ojos. Este inusual y peligroso don pone patas arriba la vida de Máximo y sus seres queridos. Lo someterán a estudios médicos, indagarán las posibilidades de negocio de su poder, lo rechazarán por la amenaza que supone.

Every family has its ghosts. For Timothy, they rise up when he becomes executor of his Mom’s estate, the one she insisted would be “easy and kinda fun to manage.” Arriving in Atherton, North Carolina, he learns that the gifts from the grave will not inspire last-minute love. Instead, the Last Will and Testament might fracture the family he has left.

This book of poetry by Janet Coplin brings her latest observations of life’s experiences, especially the seemingly mundane as she has encountered them in various locations. Several of them are laced with humor and a tip of the hat to the author O. Henry with some unexpected endings. These poems offer perspectives on the world around us and preserve moments of serendipity. Circling back to some of the experiences in our lives can be a way to better understand them.

Liz Tucker's childhood was ruled by the stars. Every morning, her mother read the horoscope page. When the prediction was positive, all was good. But God help them if the planets were out of alignment. Now a successful producer in an LA public relations firm, Liz has escaped those arbitrary forecasts, but her mother's stroke takes her back to her stepfather's beautiful Atlanta house, a place she could never bring herself to call home.

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON A Katie Couric Book Club Pick A Jen Hatmaker Book Club Pick “[A] word-of-mouth smash hit.” —The New York Times “A treasure.” —Hoda Kotb One spring morning, a stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden. He doesn't...

Songs from Fern’s Pond is a collage of poetry, letters, and prose that captures the universal resilience of the human spirit through the humor and courage of a woman who fearlessly pursued the life she dreamed of. A duet of text between mother and daughter, it’s a transcendent vision of the rough, wild, and beautiful landscape of the heart—and a reminder that every chapter is worth living to its fullest.

Renowned as a novelist, journalist, and humorist, Mark Twain is not only one of the most widely read and admired American writers, he is also among the most quoted. Wit and repartee permeate his work — from the short, light pieces to his great novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and even later, in dark meditations on the human condition where his humor takes on a cynical, satirical twist.

An Athlete. A Therapist. A Murder. A Medal. Siana Singh can run fast; she is just slow in discovering where she belongs, wedged between her traditional Punjabi family and her western beliefs. She clashes with her father on everything from ripped pants to life goals until she can no more. Dr. Silverstone is a therapist whose primary purpose has been one of being an exemplary mother. Living her life guided by deep faith, she has lost her daughter to 9/11 and her living son is behind bars. She understands loss well and is eager to help her patient Siana.

With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who ran the family corner store.