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After serving his country for twenty years, the retired Navy SEAL was footloose and fancy-free. He wanted to travel and reconnect with family. One of his first stops was to spend the summer visiting his brother and cousin. Three months in Whisper Lake, and then he'd be on to his next adventure. Nothing was going to derail his plans. Not even a stunning, smart, sarcastic Sofia Vergara look-alike who made him want things he'd never wanted before.

Just because I look like a sweet witch next door doesn’t mean I fight like one. I was supposed to be the girl who went to a state college, joined my hometown coven, and dodged invites to multi-level marketing parties. Trusting the wrong vamp damned me to a different life. Now? I’m the pint-sized assassin no one sees coming. Framed for a crime I didn’t commit, I was forced to become a Shadow, using my fire elemental powers to do the Enclave’s bidding. A decade working alongside the world’s most ruthless bloodsuckers and shifters honed me into a weapon capable of surviving a brutal world.

Based on a true story. You can almost feel the red dust clinging to your skin and catch the faint scent of jasmine in the air. This is the 1890's Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, at the edge of everything—law and lawlessness, hope and heartbreak, where the lines between right and wrong blur with every sunset.

America is running out of people who know how to build what it needs. The Hands That Built This is a compact, urgent memoir-manifesto by K.A. Pierce—14 years as a carpenter and ironworker and nearly two decades as a construction-safety professional—that argues trades must be first-choice careers, not Plan B.

His entire life, both as wolf and man, Kane has been a hunter. Now, he is the one being hunted. A merciless stranger has emerged from the shadows, vowing to track Kane down and destroy him. To erase the Wolfwere bloodline from existence—just as this mysterious predator did to Kane's pack. But Kane has something this relentless hunter does not: an ex-criminal who's found the first hints of true joy in her life, and Emelda will stop at nothing to kill the hunter before he can take that away.

Barry, Beth, and Jenny ride again! The Silver Squad Rides Again picks up where the multi-award-winning The Silver Squad: Rebels With Wrinkles left off. This time Barry, Beth, and Jenny take on a trapper who tortured a wolf and a health insurance company that has denied a fifteen-year-old girl the surgery she desperately needs.

Amy Taylor thought she knew her husband, Craig. A quiet tech expert, devoted father, and reliable partner in their suburban life. But then she finds the photo that changes everything. Craig is away on business for the weekend. So Amy has 72 hours to figure out who she's living with. Yes, he does have a second family. But as she digs further, she realizes that's the least of her worries. Because it's what Craig does on Mondays that is truly terrifying.

Emelda Thorne thought her time with Kane was over. When he'd walked into the Canadian woods that final morning, she felt she'd closed the book on her life's greatest adventure. That together they had beaten incredible odds, then parted ways forever. One phone call from a stranger just changed all of that.

This compulsive novel wrestles with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death, and how to make a really good commercial. Told entirely through questionably obtained company emails, chat transcripts, TED Talks, training sessions, and more, this all-too-probable future pits emotionally intelligent AI against emotionally stunted humans.

You’ve read the books. You’ve led the teams. You’ve read about emotional intelligence. But now you’re ready for something more. Emotion Rules takes you past surface-level strategies and into the core of emotional wisdom: a framework for integrating heart + logic in every area of your life and leadership. In this robust and poetic guide, Freedman introduces 12 powerful Emotion Rules — principles that decode the deeper architecture of feelings so you can understand what they really mean and how to use them as allies in moving from success to significance.

Navigate Your Grief and Find Healing—Even Meaning—In the Loss of Your Loved One. This poignant guide navigates the unfathomable pain of losing a cherished soul, illuminating pathways toward healing and newfound purpose.

The story of a fervent atheistic communist woman in Moscow who was denied entrance to medical school because she was Jewish. She applied to leave Russia and was denied, thus becoming a Refusenik. It describes her two-year tortuous struggle to leave, her humorous adjustment to American society, and her challenging journey to become a physician and learn what it meant to be Jewish. Her historian husband interweaves her life with the history of Soviet Russia and the Cold War period, including the fail of the Soviet Union.

A Force for Good is the biography of the heroic life of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski, a courageous young German Jewish woman who leveraged her wealth and family connections to save countless children from annihilation at the hands of the Nazis.

Sleep-deprived moms and dads take note: The two women who help Hollywood's A-listers get their ZZZs share their no-fail, family-friendly solution to get any baby, toddler, or preschooler to sleep—usually within less than five nights. Pioneers in children's behavioral sleep, Jen and Jill give...

After her mother's death, Delaney Byrne faces escalating debts and a sister to support. Their home is burglarized, hinting at her mother’s obsession with a hidden treasure in Arizona's mountains. When her estranged best friend, Joss, proposes one final treasure hunt, Delaney is skeptical but desperate. As they delve into the wilderness, Delaney and Joss navigate a maze of old betrayals and hidden dangers. Each clue they uncover draws them closer to the treasure but deeper into risk. Delaney vows not to repeat her mother’s mistakes, but the mountain’s perils are relentless, and trust is scarce.

Amid the social turmoil of 1968, the last poor farm in Vermont is slated for closure. By the end of the year, the twelve destitute residents remaining will be dispatched to whatever institutions will take them, their personal stories lost forever. Hazel Morgan and her husband Paul have been matron and manager at the Sheldon Poor Farm for the past 20 years. Unlike her husband, Hazel refuses to believe the impending closure will happen. She believes that if she just cares deeply enough and works hard enough, the Sheldon Poor Farm will continue to be a safe haven for those in need.

In 1992, at the dawn of the age of technology, disgraced ex-game show host Manny di Martini schemes for a comeback with a deep-sea television special in the South Pacific. He quickly finds himself in over his head, attracting the attention of a cosmic being who will lead Manny to a television broadcast event much bigger than the entire planet bargained for: evidence of a slumbering alien in a ruined city at the bottom of the ocean. One look at the monster on TV, and humans collectively freak out.

It's the early 2010s, and 17-year-old Yesenia Rivera hates everything about herself: her brown skin and wide nose, her curly hair and hand-me-down clothing, and her inability to fit in with either the Mexican girls or the white girls at her school. So when her mother's new job requires them to uproot their lives and move to the Pacific Northwest, Yesenia devises a plan to remake herself completely.

Just when Betty Lennox thought she had a handle on her life—reconnected with her earth magic, brought the saguaros back from the dead, sexy alpha wolf sharing her bed—everything goes sideways. Turns out she’s not just an earth witch. Thanks to dear old Grandpa Sexton, she’s got a demon side that's tired of being locked away. A powerful and ruthless demon side with zero qualms about damage control when someone threatens her people. When Demon Betty takes the wheel, Witch Betty ends up doing morally questionable things like killing people who really, really need to die.

April 1891, as the dusty frontier city of San Diego recovers from a collapsing real estate bubble, residents look forward to the arrival of Benjamin Harrison, the first US president to visit their city. Little do they suspect that some of their citizens are planning an attack on the president and his train.