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Yuna Yu, the hottest (and cruelest) girl on your campus, is graduating. Once upon a time, you were her slave. You had felt humiliated—but you can’t deny that you loved it. That was two years ago. You thought you had put it in the past. But now just when you are about to graduate and start your job search, you see her again in the career office—and she just took the job you wanted: a K-pop executive in training. Can you find a way into the K-pop industry to get closer to Yuna? Yuna is back, and the girls are bitchier than ever!

Sarah wakes beneath a chandelier of black candles with blood on her wedding dress and no memory of how she arrived at the castle. A masked duke is waiting beside her bed. He claims that she is his wife. He claims that she vanished seven years ago. And he claims that he has searched for her every day since. Duke Lucien Veyr rules a kingdom trapped beneath endless storms. Behind the walls of Velmora Keep, Sarah discovers locked rooms, shattered mirrors, black roses that seem to watch her, and a warning written in her own handwriting: Do not trust the man behind the mask.

*Batuffolo Isn’t a Cat* is a heartfelt true story about the extraordinary bond between a woman and the little Persian cat who became far more than a pet. Batuffolo—whose name means “fur ball” in Italian—enters Norma Mazzaretto’s life as a determined two-month-old kitten who seems to choose her before she can choose him. From that first encounter begins an eighteen-year companionship filled with affection, amusing habits, quiet conversations, comforting purrs, and the kind of understanding that sometimes seems to need no words at all.

Life asks a lot of us — often more than we were taught how to hold. Many people feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or quietly exhausted, carrying anxiety, grief, or emotional weight they don’t know how to release. The Art of Being Human is a grounded guide for navigating the complexity of emotions and learning how to move through life’s most difficult seasons with honesty and resilience. Rather than offering quick fixes or hollow motivation, this book invites you to understand your inner world, build emotional capacity, and stay present with yourself — even when life feels heavy.

What happens when the life we have built no longer holds and something we cannot name begins to move through us instead? Calcutta in the early 1930s, a prosperous Sindhi diamond merchant named Lekhraj Kripalani reached exactly that threshold. Surrounded by wealth and status, he began to encounter a light that made everything he had built feel insubstantial. From that awakening, a small gathering formed around him, then a community, and finally a siege.

Nora Miller knows that her best friend’s brother is completely out of her league. He’s older, extremely successful, and still carrying the quiet heartbreak of losing his wife two years ago. But when Theo’s nanny suddenly quits and he asks Nora to fill in, she can’t turn him down. As long as no one discovers her hopeless crush on her new boss, everything should be fine.

In Anne of Avonlea, L. M. Montgomery continues the beloved story of Anne Shirley as she steps into adulthood and embraces her new role as Avonlea’s schoolteacher. Now sixteen, Anne must balance her passionate ideals with the realities of responsibility, community expectations, and her own personal growth. Surrounded by familiar friends and new acquaintances—including the mischievous Paul Irving and the irascible Mr. Harrison—Anne navigates the humorous mishaps and quiet triumphs of village life.

A pilot is lost in the Sahara Desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, that's where he meets a small prince from another planet. The story has a philosophical theme, which includes social criticisms aimed at the strangeness with which adults see things.

At twenty-nine, Valancy Stirling is an “old maid” trapped within the tedium and troubles of family life. She escapes by building the imaginary world of the Blue Castle. When she is diagnosed with a serious heart ailment, Valancy realizes she has never been happy. She doesn’t want to waste what time she has left. She seizes the moment. This catalyst for change leads her on towards relationships and entanglements far beyond what she could have predicted, including with a mysterious man known as Barney Snaith.

Girl on a Train: Booktrack Edition is enhanced with a musical soundtrack from Booktrack for an immersive listening experience! Journalist Anna Rothman knows what suicide looks like. When Elly Swift, a passenger beside her on a train, leaves a locket in Anna’s bag before jumping onto the tracks, Anna starts asking awkward questions. But everything points to suicide and the police close the case. Anna embarks on a dangerous crusade to find Elly’s killer.

When Mona the Mouse stumbles across the wondrous world of the Heartwood Hotel in the middle of a storm, she desperately hopes they'll let her stay. As it turns out, Mona is precisely the maid they need at the grandest hotel in Fernwood Forest, where animals come from far and wide for safety, luxury, and comfort. But the Heartwood Hotel is not all acorn souffles and soft moss-lined beds. Danger lurks, and as it approaches, Mona finds that this hotel is more than a warm place to spend the night. It might also be a home.

There are whispers about what lurks in Witch Knell—the forest where sinners go to die. The villagers call it The Eating Woods because what's taken is never given back. Only those who've lost their senses would dare to go near it. Or the banished. Maevyth Bronwick knows better than to breach the misty labyrinth of trees, but a tragic turn of events compels her beyond the archway of bones to a boundary no mortal has crossed before. One that cloaks a dark and fantastical world that's as dangerous as it is alluring. It's there that he dwells, the cursed lord of Eidolon.

The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin is a timeless fairy tale that weaves moral wisdom into a vivid, magical narrative. Written in the mid-19th century, this enchanting story follows three brothers living in a fertile valley: the cruel and greedy Schwartz and Hans, and the kind-hearted Gluck.

Soothe aches, pains, ease fever, treat infections and tend to scrapes and bruises with herbal medicines easy enough to make in the home kitchen. In this Storey BASICS® guide, bestselling author and master herbalist Rosemary Gladstar shows you how to use 56 common herbs to safely address a wide range of everyday ailments. Covering everything from burns, wounds, and bruises to headaches, congestion, and insomnia, Gladstar offers dozens of easy-to-make recipes for herbal remedies that will soothe your woes without the harsh ingredients found in commercial pharmaceuticals.

The hilarious debut middle-grade adventure from Sarah Harrison, winner of the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition 2022. Eddie can eat a wheelie bin as easily as a cheeseburger – a talent that gets her sent to the School of Doom with its motto, ‘Be the Worst’ But Eddie’s...

An eldritch magic has awakened, turning the mortal world darker. Colder. Famished. With flesh-eating monsters and a sinister curse spreading like a plague, the last glimmer of humanity in Foxglove Parish has long since faded. For Maevyth and Zevander, the only chance of escape is through The Eating Woods. But fate has woven a new web, tangling the threads of destiny, and crossing the mystical boundary to Aethyria might not be so simple.

The New York Times bestselling classic of a young woman’s journey in work, love, and life “In this swinging, funny, and tender study of contemporary relationships, Bank refutes once and for all the popular notions of neurotic thirtysomething women.” —Entertainment Weekly “Truly...

One night. No names. No promises. Tory lets herself have something reckless—one perfect, unforgettable night with a stranger she knows she'll never see again. Weeks later, she finds something easy. Something good: a man who is grounded and predictable where her stranger was reckless and all-consuming. Tory has discovered a man who offers her something steady and real instead of passionate and fleeting.

The Life and Martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul offers one of the most compelling and lesser-known accounts of the Church’s apostolic foundations. Attributed to St. Abdias of Babylon, a disciple of the Apostles, this ancient narrative presents a vivid and dramatic portrait of the missionary labors, confrontations, and martyrdoms of Christianity’s two greatest witnesses.

Christmas has come to Pine Hills, and Krissy's blooming relationship with Officer Paul Dalton has her in an especially festive mood. The cafe's new seasonal signature drink is a hit too. But not everyone shares the same holiday spirit. There are some loud complaints about businesses profiting off the season and losing focus on what Christmas is really about. And as if on cue, a shop owner who'd been price-gouging his customers is found dead after receiving a mysterious gift.