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The Vampire King wasn't on the invite list for our engagement party, but that won't stop him from demanding his due. He insists Madi and I make an appearance at his club. He wants a performance where we're the players. I would refuse—war be damned, but my bride is intrigued. And what she wants, she gets.

Everyone knows the story of Cinderella. In fact, many of us know a few different versions. But there are thousands of folk tales and hidden gems from every corner of the world that are timeless classics in their local communities that don’t have the same reach. Until now. This beautiful treasury has stories to make you laugh, gasp, join in with and learn from. Each tale is written by an expert storyteller from around the world.

Set against the backdrop of the post-war booming art market, the failed actress Carmen meets Jean-Patrique (JP), the handsome clairvoyant on the steamer from Barcelona to Mallorca, and a chain of mysterious events draws them together to defraud an American multi-millionairess of her wealth. Carmen underestimates the psychological issues JP has to contend with, yet with the help of JP’s unscrupulous spirit guide, all goes to plan until an unexpected legal hitch from an unwelcome visitor to the island becomes an impediment that needs to be removed.

Dr Dave has led the sort of life that most people only dream of. He has set records for spacewalking. He has lived undersea for weeks at a time. He has saved lives as an emergency doctor, launched into the stratosphere twice and performed surgery in zero gravity. But if you ask him how he became so accomplished, he’ll say, 'I’m just a curious kid from Saskatchewan.' Curious indeed.

A unique a thriller from James Patterson. Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep.

The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow docket,” regularly making decisions that affect millions of Americans without public hearings and without explanation, through cryptic late-night rulings that leave lawyers—and citizens—scrambling. But Americans of all political stripes should be worried about what the shadow docket portends for the rule of law, argues Supreme Court expert Stephen Vladeck.

In 1819, John Adams came across a stunning story in his hometown Essex Register that he described to his political frenemy Thomas Jefferson as “one of the greatest curiosities and one of the deepest mysteries that ever occurred to me…entitled the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The genuine sense of America at that moment was never so well expressed before, nor since.”

In this powerful memoir, Harker shares her painful journey through multiple divorces, trauma and addiction. By examining a lifetime of family dysfunction, secrets and lies, Harker is forced to confront her demons. With raw honesty and vulnerability, she recounts the pain of failed marriages, learning along the way the signs of the disordered mind, and the importance of seeking professional help.

My hellish enemies have sealed my fate. And made a very big mistake. There will be no forgiveness. Only revenge. The vicious kind. I’ve become as savage and ruthless as they are.

What Kind of Hair Is This is an exhilarating tale of a Black girl who loves her hair. Regardless of what others say about her beautiful Black locks she stands her ground and tells her friends that her hair is beautiful!

"Why is resilience so important?" you might ask. Resilience is important because it entails accepting that things did not go as planned and believing that the endeavor will be successful.

She doesn't wear my ring. We never stood before a preacher. The only vows exchanged were between our bodies and souls. But she was mine, and I was hers, until I ruined it.

On any given day, at any given hour, across the various platforms constituting what we call social media, someone is angry. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Reddit. 4Chan. In The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry, Jeff Rice addresses the critical question of why anger has become the dominant digital response on social media. He examines the theoretical and rhetorical explanations for the intense rage that prevails across platforms and sheds new light on how our anger is not merely a reaction against singular events but generated out of aggregated beliefs and ideas.

After helping the Libert’s store in Ractos sell his herbs, Takumi and Leo visit an orphanage run by the duke’s family. But what they find is an institution full of sick children. Takumi quickly gets to work using his cultivation gift to heal them, with surprising consequences.

As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from a small Carpathian town become such an influential figure on the world stage? Drawing on Wiesel’s prodigious literary output and interviews with his family, friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger seeks to answer this question.

Abby St. Clair can’t wait to start another season with her elite riding team at her boarding school. She has something to prove after literally falling on her face during the biggest competition of the year the previous season. And she could really use a win after her mom left her family, her dad remarried, and Abby’s new stepsister, Emery, proved to be a strong rider and stiff competition. Abby wants to return to some semblance of normal but is hiding a secret: she accidentally cost her biggest rival, Selly, a chance at team captain.

It's a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott Shapiro exposes the secrets of the digital age. With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators.

Sixteen-year-old Orion is about to find out, as his world is thrown into turmoil. When he learns that the stars are his home and that he is destined to rule over a kingdom. His world is thrown into chaos as he must leave everything he knows behind, risking losing himself and his humanity to save magical races he never knew existed. With the help of his newfound companion, Orion must embark on a journey to dangerous new places and take on an unknown evil that seeks to take over his kingdom.

This time, there’s no escaping. I played a game with the bratva and lost. Now, I have to pay the price, dragged deep into a world of immoral, twisted, obsessed men. And this time, there’s no escaping the dangerous, evil men who plan to make money off me, even if it destroys me.

I must pay for the sins of my father with the only thing I have of any value.... My virginity. I will be auctioned. Sold. Shared. Ruined. And then tossed away. It’s a sacrifice I must make to save Daddy, to those seeking revenge for his mounting offenses. But when I become a pawn in a dangerous game played by two rival Russian mafia factions, it seems I might have some leverage. They will fight over me. And in doing so, destroy each other.