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Imagine a London where magic is real...real, but feared. This is Eliza Braxton's London, and she has always accepted her place in it gladly. As one of the Riftborn, her magic has relegated her to the servant class, where she dutifully serves as the lady's maid in one of the most powerful households in the country. There, she uses her remarkable powers of persuasion to keep Elder Hallewell's rebellious daughter in the path to an arranged match of power and prosperity. Eliza has never questioned her loyalty...until now.

As Jess Ballard is struggling to adjust to her new life in London without Finn Carey to watch over her, she has thrown herself into her role as a tracker, using her gift to communicate with and help as many spirits as she can. But just as she begins to settle into a new city, the city reveals a mystery too intriguing - and dangerous - to ignore. Something sinister is drawing restless spirits to a tiny old museum, luring them with a promise of salvation it cannot deliver upon.

If you were one half evil, wouldn’t you want to know about the other half? In the scorching summer of 1976, Robyn spends her days swimming at the Lido and tagging after her brother. It’s the perfect holiday – except for the crying women her mum keeps bringing home. As the heatwave boils on...

What is the key that unlocks the doorway to the power greater than we are? How can we discover the secret that Jesus so plainly told us was inherent in the kind of relationship he had with God? We are so inclined to think of Jesus as a person filled with love and compassion and human kindness that we have overlooked something else about him that is equally important. Jesus had access to a spiritual power that he used in every way. He was not the great exception; he was the great example.

After a few ghostly encounters, Hannah becomes obsessed with learning the truth about what happened in her recently purchased home. Thrust into the mystery, what Hannah finds in the house's crumbling halls, she'll never be able to unsee again. A paranormal phenomenon, a mysterious curse, and an unsolved murder forty years in the making. Can Sasha solve the mystery in time? Or will she face the same doomed fate as the tenants who came before them?

I've found love in the darkness. Three broken muses possess me, mind, body, and soul. I won't give them up for anything, Especially not for a witch with a blackened heart. In a school ruled by shadows and secrets, I'll shine a light in the darkest places. We'll expose a long-buried violation, and force a villain to confront her sins. If only our secrets don't devour us all. With Titus and Ivan at my side, we'll free Dorien from his cage. We'll drag these skeletons into the daylight. The ghost of Manderley will have her revenge.

From three-time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer L. Holm, a chilling but heartfelt story of a girl being raised in a compound who doesn't understand how isolated and unusual her life is...until she must encounter the outside world.

Mina Wilde is thrilled to be invited to a prestigious writers' retreat at Meddleworth House. Heathcliff, Morrie, and Quoth decide to come along to keep her company and indulge in some of the estate's activities. Mina is excited to get feedback on her first novel, but her dreams of writing stardom are shattered when the other writers tear her work to pieces. A little criticism never hurt anyone, right? Wrong. Their picturesque country holiday soon turns deadly when a violent storm closes in. As the writers gather around the fire to critique each other's work, the power goes out.

The only unpredictability I allow in my structured life is my work as a trauma surgeon. That comes to a halt when a young, feral goth biker decides I am his. The gifts he sends me are downright creepy. But the scars his tattoos fail to hide make me want to protect him from the world. When a security threat forces the hospital into lockdown, Bloom's feral nature takes over. He doesn't care how many die as long as I make it out alive. Only then do I understand how unhinged he truly is. But when he whispers, "It's November," my protective instincts kicks in.

The Shakespeare Festival has come to the village, and all of Argleton has gone bard-crazy. Mina's excited about Nevermore being the festival's official bookstore, but a rival bookshop opens up across the green and completely cramps her style.

I've lived a ruthless life full of resentment. There's nothing and no one I loathe more than Chief Ben Witter. I'm the president of the Blood Hounds MC, and Witter has always been a thorn in my side. He can't be bought. And he's on a mission to dismantle my club. But my obsession with hurting him has nothing to do with club business. It's personal. I want to annihilate him for making the man I've always loved, fall for him instead. A dead man whose ghost lingers between us. When Witter needs help to close a dangerous case involving my club, I volunteer. 

Designer, activist, and educator Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller is legendary for her decades of scholarship and advocacy, and as a touchstone and conscience for the design profession. In HERE: Where the Black Designers Are, Holmes-Miller documents the history of—and answers to—the question she has been asking for decades: “Where are the Black designers?” Holmes-Miller explores this essential question through the lens of her own development as a designer and leader, beginning with her own family and its rich multiethnic history.

Middle school is off to a rocky start for Marvin Watson. Doomed to misfit status, his only friends are a girl with major orthodontics, the smelliest boy in school, and the trio of sarcastic man-size moths that live in his attic. No one said middle school would be easy! Also, no one said that Marvin's town would be threatened by mutant bugs, including a very hungry Shakespeare-quoting spider. But life in the suburbs is full of surprises.

Em uma cidadezinha costeira do estado americano do Maine, Evvie Drake raramente sai de sua casa enorme e vazia, mesmo um ano após a morte do marido. Todos na cidade, inclusive Andy, seu melhor amigo, acreditam que ela fica trancada ali porque ainda está em processo de luto—e Evvie certamente não faz nada para mudar essa impressão. Já em Nova York, Dean, ex-arremessador profissional e amigo de infância de Andy, vive o pior pesadelo de um atleta em sua posição: não consegue mais arremessar e, o pior de tudo, não faz ideia do motivo.

Wren Vesper's life has changed dramatically in just a few short days. She and her mother have moved to their old family home in Sedgwick Cove, Maine. She discovered that she is, in fact, a witch. And rather than spending the start of her summer vacation hanging out with her friends, she spent it defeating an ancient and terrible Darkness hellbent on laying claim to her magic. Now all she wants is to have an uneventful summer, beginning her magical education and sunning herself at the beach.

There are wars, and then there's War. The all encompassing thing that is fought on many levels, and with many kinds of weapons, many kinds of warriors. Even ghosts. Alex was no one, a man just trying to get by at his paperwork job at the new Homeland Security. A man grieving for his wife, who had died in the Invasion. Someone just trying to keep his head down while the elves appointed him to do the paperwork of putting their boots on the necks of a conquered American people.

Fae Wars returns on a new front as war rages in the Pacific Northwest! Corporal Erik Doherty isn't some kind of special operations super soldier; he’s just an infantry grunt trying to get by in what was once the United States Army, now an enforcement arm of the Fae overlords. When orders come down from a chain of command more interested in boot licking their new masters than protecting American citizens, he has to make the choice. To serve and live, or run and die?

Journalist Karin Sommer er blevet enke, er gået på pension og forsøger at bekæmpe en depression med lykkepiller, da hun bliver draget ind i sagen om et muligt justitsmord: Er det en uskyldig mand, som er dømt for drabet på højskoleeleven Rebekka Madsen? Højskolemordet nyder stor offentlig interesse, men overskygges så fuldstændigt af en ny og opsigtsvækkende sag: Én eller flere kvinder skamferer og dræber tilfældige mænd. Da opklaringsarbejdet er på sit højeste, får Karin Sommer et natligt besøg, som knytter de to sager sammen.

Nogen vil betale 4 millioner for at få dræbt Karin Sommer, og selv den hårdkogte lejemorder undrer sig. Hvordan kan en midaldrende, ukendt provinsjournalist være så mange penge værd? Under fuld bedøvelse følger den hæsblæsende jagt på lejemorderens gådefulde bagmænd og samtidig Karin Sommer, der i kapløb med morderen endevender sin fortid og må helt tilbage til sin spædeste barndom i slutningen af anden verdenskrig for at finde ud af, hvem der kan hade hende så meget...

Karin står foran snarlig pensionering og har derfor fået en retrætepost på Sjællandsposten. Hun glæder sig til at nyde sit otium sammen med kæresten Jørgen på deres elskede Skejø. Men inden da skal hun på en 'ludertur' til Litauen, inviteret af det magtfulde firma Hands and Brains International, der gerne vil prale af de hormonstruttende svinefarme i de tidligere østlande, som de hjælper med at finansiere og etablere. På turen møder Karin en gammel bedstemor, der beder hende om at aflevere nogle pølser og uldsokker til barnebarnet, der arbejder i Danmark. Det bliver sværere end som så.