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While "The River" speaks of creating harmony from complexity, other poems honor various people in the author's life. "Perspective" gives us advice on how to deal with pain, rejoicing in any release from it. Many of the poems celebrate the joy of nature: planting and sharing, seeing a seed sprout, observing a spider and her web, or talking about how the grit in an oyster's shell can result in a beautiful pearl.

In the harsh Northern Waste where human life is worth little, ice trucker Raina Bowen has learned to keep her eyes open and her knife close at hand. She's spent her life on the run, one step ahead of the megalomaniac who hunts her.

For most of her life Tatiana was imprisoned, tortured in the name of science, her DNA used to create a plague that could wipe out the entire population of the Northern Waste. But since her escape she's no one's victim. Not any more. She means to hunt down her tormentor, kill him, and destroy the plague he created. Nothing slows her down or distracts her from her mission. Until she encounters the mysterious Tristan who claims his goals match hers.

Growing up, Ash Bane and his sister had one rule to follow when they visited their grandma: never enter her art studio. An odd rule, if you asked Ash, but when he finds himself staring at the painting his sister vanished into, it doesn’t seem all that odd. Determined to save her, Ash and his best friend follow her through the painting. But travelers are not welcome in this new world, and they must find a way home before the villainous lord has them executed for trespassing.

The endless lives of a Hollywood vampire couple, Ashara and Liam, are turned upside down when their daughter is kidnapped, and they are forced into a world of danger and deceit, where long-dormant family secrets begin to wake. Their search takes them from London to LA and Las Vegas, where they meet mysterious and strange supernatural creatures who may not be what they seem.

Hayden didn't plan on being contaminated during a routine extermination of a rogue wolf pack. He didn't count on it changing everything he believed ties humans and supernaturals together.

As operatives of the elite Wicked Grove Supernatural Regulatory Agency, three fiercely independent and unstoppable siblings, Amy, Jay, and Craig, know the risks that come with the job. When Amy is captured by a malevolent faery tribe unlike any encountered before, the race is on to rescue her before she’s assimilated and lost forever. These creatures are not easily swayed, but there is one who can possibly help her escape. It might backfire, but with Amy’s memories fading with each passing moment, she’s forced to make a desperate choice which could incite a preternatural war.

Raina and Wizard are back, racing across the Northern Waste to outrun ice pirates as they follow a distress call to an isolated community that just might hold the answers to the mystery of Wizard's missing-and-presumed-dead, now-possibly-alive sister, Tatiana. But instead of answers, all they find are buried secrets and a truckload of trouble. Warning: Frozen includes nonstop action, Reavers, snowscooters, plasguns, frigid temperatures, rebels, a heroine who's a blonde tsunami with a backbone of pure steel, and a smart, hot hero who has a little difficulty with emotion.

Aurora Sefton, Lady Sheffield, has been a widow for almost as long as she was a wife. Of the two states, widowhood has always been much preferred. She lives independently, enjoying her freedom, her wealth, and her occasional lovers. Then she's asked for a favor from an old friend...to take the unexpected heir to a dukedom that had very nearly gone extinct and turn this rough laborer into a gentleman. But Gavin Barreton, the Duke of Westerhaven, is much more than she ever bargained for.

In the harsh Northern Waste where human life is worth little, ice trucker Raina Bowen has learned to keep her eyes open and her knife close at hand. She's spent her life on the run, one step ahead of the megalomaniac who hunts her. All she wants is to stay out of trouble and haul her load of grain to Gladow Station—but trouble finds her in the form of a sexy stranger called Wizard. He has the trucking pass she needs, and she has to drag him out of a brawl with the very people she's trying to hide from in order to get it.

The secrets behind the Kingmaker Curse are starting to unravel. Leslie’s initial excitement about formulating a plan to break the curse plunges into devastation when she realizes the personal cost. Each candidate has had to sacrifice what he wants most in the world, and one of them will pay with his life. Nothing can prepare her to learn one of the candidates is not who he claims to be. There’s a fourth player in the trials, whose presence has been felt but not seen, until now. The mastermind’s sole purpose in life is to save the Community - and her.

Observations, insights, and musings from the life and times of Kathy Andrews. Kathy offers advice on dating, grooming, and dealing with the day-to-day trials, during her many years on this planet, but especially in her later years.

It was a blow to Persephone “Percy” Blake’s vanity to discover that she’d somehow become a spinster aunt. It’s certainly not what she set out to be. She had just been working away in her father’s library, cataloging historical documents. Then one day she looked up to find that 10 years had passed and she was firmly on the shelf. Now, with the recent passing of her father, the country estate and the library are long gone.

This is a small book for the small hours when we sit alone in the dark or feel as though our grief isolates us. In the months following her husband’s sudden death, Sally Rosenthal explored her reactions to loss and came to realize that strength is a synergetic wisdom woven from the love passed on through the examples of relatives and beloved animals. In poems and prose, she shares what she has learned about survival and resilience. Come sit with Sally at her kitchen table and share the journey.

Leslie wants nothing to do with Myca, the bloodsucking predator of humans she’s stuck with for her third trial. When he’s not trying to wear her down, he’s messing with her head. If not for the simple fact every human she crosses smells like dinner, she’d leave him fast. And…there’s also the teeny-tiny matter that he happens to hold the keys to everything that’s going on: the curse, her father’s death, the truth behind the trials. He won’t talk unless she stays. She won’t stay unless he talks.

After the shock of her first trial, Leslie believes she can handle anything, including turning into a magic elf or whatever the fae really are. But the differences between alpha werewolf Ben and Tristan - the enigmatic leader of the fae, whose abs and sexual prowess are the stuff of dreams - soon have her wading into new supernatural waters. Guarded where Ben was assertive, Tristan is hard to understand and even harder to predict. The most unnerving part: He’s empathic. He can read every tiny little emotion she experiences. Such as…betrayal.

Miss Olivia Dunne was the darling of society, until a thwarted abduction and elopement scheme by an unscrupulous man left her reputation in tatters. But having moved from paragon to pariah, Olivia realizes that there is no reason for her to continue abiding by society’s mandates. In fact, she decides to embrace her scandalous nature and do the very thing she’s been accused of...take a lover. The man she’s chosen is one she’s secretly loved for years, but she’ll need to employ the aid of an unlikely ally to carry it off.

Lynda Lambert covers a wide terrain of subjects and topics in this new audiobook, from lights to legends to seasons, treating us to images and metaphors about plants, people, and weather. She opens this large collection with the title poem, "Star Signs", which walks us through the alphabet as it digs through thoughts, emotions and observations, “Using star signs to map out new terrain”. Throughout this audiobook of poems, these gems of poetic creation shimmer like beads on her fabric art, like bold brush strokes of color on her paintings.

When an old acquaintance asks Lord Sebastian Strong to look into the strange goings on at a remote family property, he agrees, naturally...for a price. After all, as a younger son, he has to make his own way in the world. If that means convincing a gaggle of spinsters in the throes of senility that their ancestral home isn’t haunted, he’s game for it. But when he arrives at Evenwold Manor, the woman who greets him looks like no spinster he’s ever encountered.

In this new collection of poems, essays, and flash fiction, the author once again exhibits her ability to write about both the light and dark sides of life. There are numerous poems and stories about nature: its kindness, cruelty, and wonder. There are frank expressions of the sadness and frustration she felt at the progressive loss of her eyesight and a poem about the social isolation that disability can bring. Other pieces, though, sing of joys as diverse as family closeness, the love of dogs, the delights of scents, and the power of the muse.