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Quite by accident she thinks, Henrietta Draper (Hattie) finds herself standing on the surface of a distant planet orbiting the star HD10307 in the constellation Andromeda. Bad enough . . . but it seems the planet's inhabitants expect her, somehow, to "save the universe."

Banger and Mash knew something strange was happening when their peoples’ scent began to fade. Sweetpea the cat knew it too, but…you know…he just wasn’t that worried about it. But when their human vanishes into thin air right before their noses, they race to get help from the other dogs in the village, only to discover that EVERYONE'S humans have disappeared.

Lose your heart to the epic star-crossed love story of Zaja, a highly sensitive energy-weaving witch and queen, and Sin, her fiercely devoted soulbonded and protector. Experience alongside them the impossible choices they face as they fight to halt the inexorable destruction of their world—and ours… For the listener who loves to be swept up in heartbreaking emotion while enjoying exquisitely gorgeous writing. Would you save your world if it means sacrificing your love—and shattering your sanity? My reality isn’t reliable. My world isn’t my own.

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. Longlisted 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize 'Transcends the boundaries of historical fiction' Books+Publishing DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a...

On her way to a weekend ski vacation, Natalie Locke is involved in a head-on collision on a snowy highway and finds herself traveling through the space between life and death, where she sees a Native American man who visited her rock shop earlier that day. Lone Eagle went to Locke’s Rocks in Albuquerque to find an important tribal artifact and return it to his father, Chief Looking Elk. Before the elderly chief passes away, he makes Lone Eagle promise one thing – to teach Natalie the ways of their tribe.

You think you know your world, right? Taxes, traffic, and the everyday routines that shape your life. It's a world where predictability reigns, where the only constants are corrupt politicians and the ever-looming specter of pollution. But then there's Olivia—a brilliant and determined scientist who suspects something else is below the surface. She firmly believes that the reality surrounding all of us is nothing more than an intricately woven computer simulation.

A deep-seated confusion guides the lives of domesticated humans, causing a crisis of planetary proportions. With all their fervor and devotion, the forest keepers summon the presence of the Great Mother to assist their human Under the guidance of a variety of creatures, Artemio embarks on a journey through the uncertain and bewildering paths of the Wild Spirit.

Awakening among the remains of a smoking forest, panic sweeps through the boy. All he knows is he does not belong. Not to the tribe whose lifeless bodies adorn the forest floor or to the hard-eyed, fur-clad warriors that surround him. And he knows that he hates the red-haired beast who gloats in his face. Called by a past he can no longer remember and driven forward by powers beyond his control, the half-witch, Du Mu, finds himself caught in the grip of the most powerful Cro clan to walk the Plains.

Lythe’s homeroom teacher is dead. Her angry ghost says she was murdered. The hidden ward in the teacher’s house is evidence the ghost is telling the truth and witchcraft is involved. When a witch takes the dead teacher’s place and offers to help Lythe develop her magic, the teenager is caught up in a high-stakes battle.

Kweku Ashworth is a child of the cataclysm, born on a sailboat to parents fleeing the devastation in search for a refuge in the Southern Ocean. Growing up in a world forever changed, his only connection to the events that set the world on its course to disaster were the stories his step-father, now long-dead, recorded in his manuscript, The Forcing. But there are huge gaps in the story that his mother, still alive but old and frail, steadfastly refuses to speak of. When he discovers evidence that his mother has tried to cover up the truth, he knows that it is time to find out for himself.

Un livello dopo l’altro, un’esperienza dopo l’altra, Silvano Rei si trasforma. La sua evoluzione non è graduale, ma si compie attraverso momenti violenti di introspezione e di esibizione. Vuole cambiare, vuole stare nel tempo, e cambiare la sua percezione delle cose, e con la percezione delle cose cambiare gli universi, come opere d’arte contemporanea, attraenti, incomunicabili. Rei non resta mai uguale: è necessario mutare per appartenere a un mondo, per comprenderlo e conviverci, anche se per poco. Ogni frame è una performance, e ogni performance è la vita.

Oriana emerges as the re-birth of Tara's evolution and biological mutations. She is now Mother Nature's warrior, messenger and illuminator. Her mission is to enlighten humanity into awareness and the urgent need to live with respect, care and harmony with all life forms. Her siblings, Link and Angie, are by her side in spirit and conviction, even as they experience their own life dramas. They're vigilant and determind to protect Oriana from capture at all personal costs.

Spirituality and urban living serve as a purposeful backdrop of Moment Before Creation, both “otherworldly” and deeply rooted in the saga of living in the ghetto. It’s a hypnotic tale that boasts good old-fashioned story-telling, Quantum Physics, “street smarts,” and wisdom of the ages. Engaging and wittingly original, Moment Before Creation promises to deliver on all that has come before it.

In the seemingly ordinary town of Meadowbrook, Jay is a teenager grappling with the usual challenges of adolescence. But beneath the mundane lies a tapestry of secrets rooted in the ancient Roji heritage that he is only beginning to discover. As mysterious events ripple through Meadowbrook, Jay finds himself at the heart of it all, with his mother's silver necklace—a relic from a past she rarely speaks of—playing a pivotal role.

Story is told by a narrator who is a psychologist in Indian country. What appears to be a consultation with a patient ends up being a meeting with his teacher, Tarrence. Tarrence proceeds to take the narrator into a dreamtime journey that melts the worldview held by the storyteller. The dream leads the narrator to a place in which the energy generated by ancient dreamers must be balanced. The lack of balance brought on by the power dreamers and their ceremony resulted in the atomic bomb.

Becoming Forest opens with Aishling—the young Irish woman at the heart of this story—as she visits her grandmother in California following her grandfather’s death. Aishling finds her grandfather’s journal and reads about a trip he made to India years ago to visit the original Bodhi Tree, the place where the Buddha found enlightenment. At the end of the journal, she finds a letter addressed to her from her grandfather asking for her help passing along his message of “deep security” to her generation as they deal with the climate crisis and the uncertain future ahead.

A single night, a single moment, changed everything; Xander Stryker changed everything. But the worse has yet to come… Because, like the world, Xander Stryker has been changed, as well, but nobody—not even his wife, Estella—can be certain if this is for better or for worse. With apocalyptic threats rising from both the human world and the mythos world, however, the only certainty is that Xander is one of the only people on the planet that stands a chance of facing what’s coming.

Working as a journalist in the quiet corners of a Maine town, Ionna Bellmore receives an estate letter that unravels her reality. A mysterious grandmother, an inherited estate, and a journey to the enchanting landscapes of northern Wales await her. But what she uncovers there fractures her perception of her family, revealing a darkness lying just below the surface.

More than an engaging story, the 7-book Waldmeer Series is a doorway to personal and spiritual growth. Waldmeer is an idyllic coastal village with stunning natural beauty. It is a place of healing with its quiet, repetitive rhythm and has remained relatively undamaged by the outside world. The simple events of Waldmeer belie the far more complex events of the interdimensional worlds. These worlds meet and merge.

Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist for The Story Prize Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist for the California Book Award Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the New American Voices Award...