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For Liv Brodbeck, magic has changed everything. Cel, the ancestral word of power inherited from her father, now slumbers in the back of her mind. After years of study, the ancient magic of the Old Gods is hers to wield, from brutal, cutting shards of ice to frozen, immovable walls. No longer a mere scullion, she is now an apprentice of the Watchful Guild of Magim, under her teacher, Master Grenfell.

If something seems too good to be real, you've got to get out of there. That's the rule that Page Found has always followed. She's a petty thief with no memory of her past, scrounging to survive on a backwater outpost—until she's kidnapped by one of her marks. Her kidnappers—the cruel, self-serving Zhak and the tough maverick Maelle—plan to pass Page off as a monk from an ancient, isolated planet to help them capture a treasure-filled ship.

Dragged from Earth by capricious gods, a nameless man awakens in a world ruled by divine games and deadly monsters. With no answers and no way back, he chooses a new identity: Gilgamesh, a name of power, legend, and blood. Armed with a mysterious system and nothing to lose, Gilgamesh is learning how far he's willing to go. Every fight makes him stronger. Every kill brings him closer to something darker. Heroes die. Survivors adapt.

A child like Liv doesn't have much hope. But when she accidentally unleashes a surge of wild magic, she takes her first step on a journey which will lead her from the kitchens of Castle Whitehill, to the cold palaces of the Eld, and beyond, to the graves of gods.

Meet Charlie. Better known as “Aunt Charlie” from the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. She's back, making teas and solving cases in this funny, twisty, cozy mystery series set in the 1990s in Redemption, Wisconsin.

The Las Vegas desert. A once famous pop singer lies dead. The only clue to her murder—a bizarre disfigurement. Only one thing to do. Call in Parker and Steele. To avoid the hassle of a media frenzy, the local police sergeant decides contact his old mentor, Wade Parker, and ask him to consult on the case. After nearly dying eight months ago, Miranda Steele can't wait to get back to real detective work.

Straight from the mind of a forensic psychologist comes an addictive series of betrayal, lust, revenge, and murder. These doctors earned their degrees from the dark side, so be careful when you let them into your head. The Doctors of Darkness e-book bundle contains the first three books in the series: Daddy Darkest, The Hanging Tree, and The First Cut.

Songs of No Provenance tells the story of Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, who flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage that she fears will doom her career. Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she's forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking—and her complicated history with a friend and mentee—while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member.

Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints. Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy seeks to recover the sensation of being present and embodied.

Emily, David, Mason, Lisa, and Mark head to the California coast to find a boat back to Canada. They all felt that it would be much easier and quicker to sail home rather than go over land with the others. They were wrong. The trek through the lawless city to get to the coast is only the first step. Hardship and loss await as the teens struggle to overcome both the challenge of the journey and threats from within. The trip home will change them all - for good or bad, as the stranded teens make for home by sea.

Thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele's abusive husband stole her newborn baby daughter and gave her up for adoption. Now Miranda thinks she's close to finding her. Until she finds the body of a young teen in the woods. Is this her daughter? And will the handsome detective investigating the case help her? Or drive her crazy? He thinks she can be a private investigator, too.

He Speaks in the Silence is the story of Diane Comer's search for the kind of intimacy with God every woman longs for. It is a story of trying to be a good girl, of following the rules, of longing for a satisfaction that eludes us. Disappointed with all Diane had been told was supposed to fulfill her, she begged God in desperation to give her more. And he did. But first he took her through a trial so debilitating it almost destroyed what little faith she had. He let her go deaf.

Setting out on foot with nothing more than some soon-to-be worthless cash and a little advice from a trusted teacher, Alex, Quinn, Josh, Cooper, and Dara walk through a burning city that has come to a halt. The devastation they see as they make their way out of the city is a small part of the horror that the nation will become. As the days go by with no food deliveries and no water flowing from taps, civilization will start to crumble and it will be survival of the fittest.

Far from the Imperial throne of Terra a religious zealot rises up to challenge the authority of Emperor Tigranes. The task of subduing the rebellion before it grows out of hand falls to a disgraced imperial noble, Andranik Haduni. Exiled from his family and trapped within the confines of the Frontier Corps can he and his outgunned tank crew stop this challenge to imperial power before it sets the galaxy on fire?

If something ails you, Charlie Kingsley likely has a tea to fix it. So when Charlie witnesses a young woman faint on the side of the road, she has no choice but to offer her services.

Unfortunately for Ike Krane, his parents had a wicked sense of humor. So, early on, he decided to embrace his challenges rather than run from them, which is how he become a ghost hunter and ended up visiting Redemption, Wisconsin. The problem—trouble seems to follow Ike just as it did his fictional predecessor.

When Charlie agrees to accompany her friend Claire to her late grandmother's reading of the will, she assumes she is simply there for moral support. She doesn't expect things to get so...strange.

You’re looking over your shoulder, thinking someone’s watching. You’re checking the doors are locked, spooked by a noise. You’re running through the woods, convinced you’re being followed. You’re being stalked. And they won’t stop until you’re theirs.

Ashley and Maya wish they could take back the hurtful things they told their parents before the deadly car crash. Two years later, the young orphans try to make the most of their new life with their lonely aunt. But the remote lake house in upstate New York doesn't feel like home without their mother's touch. When the girls discover a Ouija board in the dusty attic, they think they've finally found a way to tell their deceased mother how they really feel.

Cora never dreamed of returning to her old life, but with her kingdom at stake and her brother's life on the line, she has no choice but to reclaim her former title. Yet with new changes come new dangers, this time in the form of scheming royals with cruel politics. If she can play their games, she just might keep her crown. But can she say the same for her heart?