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Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney returns to her Mississippi Delta roots, hoping that long drives through cotton fields and the companionship of her dogs will ease her restless spirit. Instead, she's confronted by a ghostly vision of a woman in white on the Tallahatchie Bridge, who disappears before Sarah Booth can investigate further.

TIME Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of the Year From the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious...

Award winning author Jamie Lisa Forbes brings us the story of Rowen Hart, the pampered only son of a prominent family in the small community of White Rock, North Carolina. It's the 1950's and Rowen is following the life path his parents have planned for him when his world is upturned by his...

"Family sticks together no matter what… right?" Former best friends and now husband and wife, Joaquin and Juliana, have experienced their face share of problems. Not only has Juliana had to care for her bull rider husband Joaquin after a shoulder injury, but also help raise Joaquin's two-year-old daughter, Trinity. With strength and perseverance, Joaquin and Juliana think everything is finally coming together. But life has something else in store for them… After a terrible bull riding accident that almost claimed his life, Joaquin finds his life spiraling out of control.

The title is a line from a song that came to Danny when he started what he could see as a real career path as a plumber's apprentice. "Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling." Unfortunately, the bottle and another kind of pipe had already started calling, leading to the kind of choices...

George de Clare is broke, charming, and completely unable to decide between four men and at least two career paths. New York is not helping. The British Mirage is the fourth act of The George Files: a gay British literary expat romance set across one sweltering Manhattan May, in rowing clubs...

Rediscovering lost words and memories, a collection of heartfelt poems and reflections emerges from the past. Each piece captures unique life experiences, offering insights and emotions that resonate with listeners of all ages, inviting them to reflect on their own journeys. In A Dusty Cardboard Box, the author shares a personal narrative of rediscovery, revealing how a seemingly mundane cardboard box became a vessel of lost creativity.

Birds, Boughs, and Belonging invites listeners into a quieter America—where meaning is discovered not in noise or ambition, but through attentive companionship with nature. Across gardens, forests, seashores, and mountain vistas, classic American writers—including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa...

Kallie Mae Bertram has harbored two dreams since childhood: to learn to read and to one day marry Quinn Spencer. But her first dream slipped away after her little sister died of a fever and her mother passed in childbirth. Kallie promised to care for the baby and her younger brother, which meant putting aside her own desires in order to keep her family together. But then a Moonlight School for adults offers Kallie hope of finally fulfilling that goal.

When Dr. McKenzie vanishes from a top-secret State Department lab, U. S. Marshals Kate Landers and Joleen Parker are thrust into a dangerous investigation to uncover the truth. As they dig deeper, they stumble upon a staggering secret: a biological breakthrough capable of empowering dictators and destabilizing entire nations. Now the marshals must race against time and an unstoppable enemy to prevent global catastrophe.

A suspicious death on a Kohala Mountain ranch draws ranger Makalani Pahukula into a tangled family tree in an emotional and suspenseful adventure by the bestselling author of the Lily Wong series. Makalani Pahukula, interpretive ranger for Pu‘ukoholā Heiau National Historic Site, craves some...

For listeners of The House on Mango Street and We the Animals, this striking debut brings to life an unforgettable young narrator and the complicated, loving, cruel, and generous figures that make up her universe. Sofia’s mother promises that soon she’ll have her own bedroom to decorate...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A sweeping novel of one Kentucky family’s rise and fall throughout the 1980s—a tragicomic tour de force about love and marriage, parents and children, and the perils of mixing family with business, from the acclaimed author of The Animators “This is the novel I’ve...

Caught between a relentless tech job, her adoring fiancé, and an unexpected new flame, Mei must learn what it means to choose herself. When Mei Li runs into Alexandre Brodeur at a family function, there’s no denying their chemistry. It turns out Alexandre, whose brother is married to Mei’s...

TRY TO BURY THE PAST,AND THE PAST BURIES YOU. When floodwaters unearth human bones beneath a long-abandoned orphanage, newly-elected Sheriff Hondo Velazquez is forced to confront a chilling discovery: his own initials carved into a bone. As Hondo digs into the orphanage’s dark history, his new wife, forensic anthropologist Magnolia Moss, urges him to focus on their future and their plans for adoption. But when a present-day killer begins hunting those who ran the orphanage, Hondo realizes this isn't just a cold case —it's a white-hot killing spree. Someone survived. Someone remembers.

The PENTAGON Series, is entirely a work of fiction drawn from evidences of real happenings. Free of 99 % plagiarism, this work of mine has been a result of my immense study and research work on current happenings in and adjoining countries. Close resemblance with any person living or dead is purely coincidental. This book of mine is written just to entertain readers and solely with no other intentions apart. Each chapter is designed to be simple, meaningful, and experiential, allowing readers to explore their thoughts, feelings, and creativity at their own pace.

Some neighborhoods are there to keep you safe. This one wants to keep you prisoner. Kate Harris thought River Falls was her family’s ticket to a fresh start: a pristine, exclusive gated community with perfect lawns, friendly neighbors, and all the luxuries they could ever dream of. But beneath the glossy veneer of this suburban paradise lies something sinister.

Miguel Balfour has been writing poetry since high school. What started out as two poems in the 12th Grade led to two volumes of hand-written song lyrics in two hardcover exercise notebooks. The initial thought was to possibly be a songwriter as one of my future endeavors. But alas! There was College, then Medical School, then Residency, then “real world” work, and as such the writing, which had continued over the years, never materialized to becoming actual songs. I had put the books away and only recently found the two volumes.

Eine Liebe, geboren aus Zucker, Honig und Mandeln Der Duft von Mandeln und geschmolzenem Zucker liegt über Alicante, warm und betörend wie ein Versprechen. Hier begegnen sich 1930 die stolze Sagrada Blasco, Tochter eines Mazapán-Fabrikanten, und José Vidal, der Erbe der rivalisierenden...

Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat mit seinen Erzählungen einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und dem Realitätsbezug des gewählten Gegenstands. Allerdings ummantelt er seine Geschichten ebenso gerne mit einem Grotesk-Phantastischen Gewand, so dass man zum einen nie weiß was als nächstes kommt und zum anderen immer das Gefühl vermittelt bekommt hautnah dabei zu sein, wobei einem die beschriebenen Szenen sofort an dem geistigen Auge vorüberzuziehen scheinen.