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WHAT’S YOUR ADVICE is a fun party game about creating problems and asking for advice, which can either be good or bad advice. After one player makes up a problem based on drawing cards and choosing which people, places, objects, actions, or complications to include, other players give their good or bad advice. Then, the player with the problem gives the card to the player offering the best advice. The winner is the player with the most cards at the end of the game. Any number of players can play.

Monreith, Massachusetts, was once a small community of whalers and farmers. These days it’s a well-to-do town filled with commuters drawn to its rugged coastline and country roads. A peaceful, predictable place—until popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home. Suspicion naturally falls on Laurel’s husband, Simon, who had gambling debts that only her life insurance policy could fix. But there are other rumors too. Among the group of six friends gathered for Alice Stone’s fortieth birthday, theories abound concerning Laurel’s death.

In seventeenth-century Paris, nineteen-year-old Catherine Monvoisin is a well-heeled jeweler’s wife with a peculiar taste for the arcane. She lives a comfortable life, far removed from a childhood of abject destitution—until her kind spendthrift of a husband lands them both in debt. Hell-bent on avoiding a return to poverty, Catherine must rely on her prophetic visions and the grimoire gifted to her by a talented diviner to reinvent herself as a sorceress. With the help of the grifter Marie Bosse, Catherine divines fortunes in the Île de la Cité—home to sorcerers and scoundrels.

For Melanie Drake, school guidance counselor in a small Virginia town, the day’s challenges typically involve a playground scuffle or a student skipping school. It’s worlds away from her previous career as a vital part of the Office of Special Investigations. There, she devoted herself heart and soul to covert operations, the riskier the better.

Willow lives in a nice little neighborhood where she knows all of her neighbors… all but one. She has never met Mr. Flower. Who is he? What is he like? Her neighborhood friends have a lot to say about the mysterious Mr. Flower.

Fear! The year is 1889 and a private investigator, John Doyle spends his nights in terror. He is tormented by a desperate fear: his mortality. In the mysterious streets of Philadelphia, Doyle is on a quest not only for answers but for his very soul. Along with his partner, Thomas Braham, Doyle investigates unsolved cases, sightings, and obscurities that fall through the cracks from the local authorities. When an esteemed colleague suddenly vanishes, Doyle and Braham embark on the case of their lifetime.

Timothy Nonn lost his sight to glaucoma over a period of ten years. He has written poetry that reflects his journey from sight to blindness. His poems are hauntingly beautiful as he learns to see the world in a new way, not with his eyes but with his heart.

Das Herz denkt nicht, es fühlt – und doch versuchen wir, genau das zu vermeiden. Das Fühlen. Marinas Leben, geprägt von Höhen und Tiefen, nimmt seinen Lauf. Das Denken geht ihr noch immer leichter von der Hand als das Fühlen. Verunsichert vom Richtig und Falsch, vom Sein und Werden, sucht sie nach Sicherheit durch Kontrolle und strebt gleichzeitig nach Vertrauen. Mehr und mehr versteht sie sich selbst, beginnt, sich in ihrer Unvollkommenheit zu akzeptieren, und verändert sich, wird zu dem Menschen, der sie immer schon war.

Alice George is a headstrong young British woman who finds herself living among the Tuareg, a tribe of nomadic warriors. While the outside world faces the catastrophe of World War I, the Tuareg continue to crisscross the Sahara as a matrilineal society in which the men are veiled, and the women hold property—a world in which anything can happen. It is a world well suited to eighteen-year-old Alice, who discovers a life she could never live in corseted England. In 1917, Alice returns home to a world completely alien to the one she left in the Sahara.

The neighborhood of Oleander Court is the poster child for suburban bliss. The residents compare lawns beautified by hired help. They monitor home values. They toss perfect furniture because they wanted tapioca, not beige. But when a string of murders rips through the neighborhood, suspicions abound as new secrets come to light. And as more and more bodies are taken away, it becomes clear that the killer is strategically selecting each and every victim, picking off the shallowest, most wasteful of the lot in spectacular fashion and leaving everyone in the neighborhood to wonder Who’s next?

As a foster kid in the system, Emerson Duplessis never had two nickels to rub together. He worked harder than anyone else he knew and graduated with a degree in accounting—the safest career he could imagine. But when a round of unexpected layoffs leaves him unable to pay his rent, he resorts to taking temp jobs found for him by friends.

A delightful middle grade adventure by two-time Caldecott Medal winner Chris Raschka about good, evil, and cats. When a twelve-year-old girl named Cleo and her cat, Muffin, become the newest members of PURR (Peace Urgently Requires Reasonableness), a secret society of cats fighting for peace...

I may have found the one who "ignites my heart," but that only leaves me with more questions than answers. And this magnificent power coursing through my veins is cool and all, but can it really help me do the impossible? One way or another, we're about to find out.

A witch's quest for answers leads her to uncover a dark family secret and a deadly supernatural threat. In the captivating first book of the Minerva Mysteries series, Minerva Winters, the formidable Head Witch of New York City, finds herself facing a complex web of old family matters, personal demons, and an insidious supernatural adversary.

Sex. The word makes some people giggle or blush, while others may draw back in discomfort. So, why do we find it so difficult to talk openly about sex? Much of our reticence in discussing and acknowledging the realities of sex comes, at least in part, from a unique time and place: medieval Europe. In the 12 episodes of Sex in the Middle Ages, Professor Jennifer McNabb and a panel of experts in medieval history and literature will take you back to the period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the Renaissance to explore the ideals and realities of sex and sexuality.

Melanie Mooney thought she was just doing her job when she came upon an unusual accident in the deep woods late one night. Acting alone, what she found was nothing like she’d expected. What followed was even more unexpected. Recruited by emissaries of a galaxy-spanning civilization, Melanie is thrust into a world she thought only existed in supermarket tabloids. As the first human in the Galactic Union Medical Corps, she cares for extraterrestrials in desperate need of a medic who can ignore the fact that they’re nothing like any patient she’s ever seen, even on their best days.

During her ten years as Director of Nursing at the health department in Parkdale, Missouri, Lacey Bookman thinks she has seen everything. That is until several cases of polio affecting children pop up in her community. Her nightmare begins with nerve-shattering swiftness the moment the case reports hit her desk. There hasn’t been a case of Type I Poliomyelitis reported in the United States since 1979. Now, not only has the eradicated disease mysteriously reappeared, it attacks children who are up-to-date on their polio immunizations.

She does the craziest thing she’s ever done.... He’s hiding his identity.... Grieving over her divorce and the death of her mother, she’s trying to start over. But he’s there to hide from his fans. When she doesn’t know who he is, he continues a lie that could destroy everything. Can sparks fly when two people are keeping secrets?

It is good to follow the rules. But there are just so many! In this fourth book in the beloved Jo Jo Makoons chapter book series, Jo Jo’s talents may not quite include following her substitute teacher’s rules… Jo Jo and her classmates are excited that the Elders’ Tribal Center has...

In her first collection of poems, Ching Yeung Russell captures elements of her youth in rich, vivid snapshots and authentic detail. Listeners of all backgrounds will relate to spirited Yeung Ying, her dynamic family, and her courage in the face of life's obstacles.