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Tis the season... for losing your job... for getting scammed... for falling in love? Self-proclaimed workaholic, Jemma Jones finds herself jobless twenty-five days before Christmas. With a push from her overly optimistic best friend and a pinch of fate, she does what every rational person would do. She impulsively books a last-minute, insanely overpriced flight to Paris, of course. The next thing she knows, she’s at an airport, dodging a man dressed as an elf when she runs into a very handsome but frustrating Frenchman named Luca.

It’s the summer of 2006 in Academy Award Winner Jamie Lee Curtis’ Letters From Camp, Season 2, and Mookie has reinvented herself from the "extremely annoying" and "overly personal"—their words—investigator who alienated the rest of the camp. Now she’s…well, she’s not sure yet, but it’s going to be cool beans.

Inspired by true events and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Melanie Levensohn’s A Jewish Girl in Paris is a powerful novel about forbidden love. 'This beautiful, heart-wrenching novel examines the harsh realities while remaining hopeful and celebrating resilience and love.' -...

When the world falls apart, the beast rises.As the end times creep forward at an agonizing pace, residents on Alaska’s remote Patmosa Island must save themselves and each other. Assailants commit a serious crime and put Sierra Forester’s life in danger. Can Austin Martin and his neighbors rescue her before it’s too late? Or will Austin lose the love of his life? Russia, reeling from the devastation of two failed wars, inaugurates a new president. Before the day is over, an international assassin moves to take her out.

Izzy Beswick is a typical high school senior. Well, except for the incident with Sondra and the fact that Izzy doesn’t remember exactly what happened. Luckily, Izzy and her dad inherit a house from Izzy's Gran-gran in East Gate, Connecticut. The timing seems perfect. Plus, her childhood crush lives in East Gate, so how bad could it be? Soon after moving, strange things happen, and Izzy learns of rumors surrounding her late relative. Nearly everyone in town believes Gran-gran was a cursed witch, including her new friends: Jessa, Tahlia, and Margo.

After surviving a terrifying experience in the Canadian wilderness, Grace Winslow struggles with a deadly disease. At the same time, new concerns fracture the group of persecuted saints. Some consider leaving for perceived safety deeper in the forest. Meanwhile, Maxwell Flynn finds himself drawn to Grace’s selfless character and charming personality. At any other time in history, he’d fall head over heels for her. But the world has never seen times like these, and he needs to keep his focus on providing for - and protecting - the fragile group hiding in the woods.

It’s the 22nd century. The galaxy has opened up to humanity as a hyperactive beehive of stargates and new technologies, and we suddenly find ourselves in a vast playground of different races, environments, and cultures. There’s just one catch: We are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain.

As the nation slowly crumbles around her, Sierra Forester returns home for a wedding - and finds herself in the center of an FBI investigation. She discovers her university friends are not who she thought they were…and they’ve left her in a perilous predicament. A quiet, reclusive stranger has moved to the tiny Southeast Alaskan island she calls home. Can she trust him? Or anyone? Meanwhile, Russia and China have launched hybrid warfare against the United States. A sleepy administration is slow to respond. Will they wake up in time to save the country?

Beatrice “Bea” Ku is sure this is it. The moment she finally receives her hard-earned promotion at the Seattle law firm where the young Filipina American attorney has toiled for five years. She can’t wait to tell her parents—and Allegra, her annoyingly perfect childhood friend. So when her boss betrays her, again, promoting a male colleague instead, she’s so angry she could kill. Bea tries to suppress that anger, just like her anxiety. But she’s branded “too emotional,” dredging up old memories from high school and her unhealthy coping mechanisms.

A major earthquake, followed by a mega-tsunami, might swamp Russia and China’s war on the United States. Suspected of collaborating with the enemy, Sierra Forester needs a safe place to hunker down until she can clear her name. Austin Martin might be able to help…or he might be the source of even greater problems. If he risks his life to protect her, can either survive?

It’s the summer of 2007, and Mookie Hooper returns to Camp Cartwright with a huge secret: This is going to be her final summer at camp. So this has to be her best summer yet! Without anything to investigate, this is finally Mookie’s time to be a camper. She’s going to spend time with her buddy Carter Ruben-Rubens, finally make it into the inside of an inside joke with Fanny and her bunk, and possibly attempt a contact sport. The only thing that would put the summer over the top? Getting her first kiss. But that seems fairly unlikely since Squirrel Girl isn’t exactly anyone’s first crush.

On a remote island in Southeast Alaska, Sierra Forester and Austin Martin join with friends to rebuild their lives following a mega-tsunami that destroyed their small town. But troubles are brewing and conflicts arise as the remaining population of the island attempts to live together in a crucible. Meanwhile, in China, Mao Wu Ying tries to pick up the broken pieces of his life after suffering a tragic loss. He keeps his eye on the sky, watching for the blazing tail of an incoming American missile. As he considers his future, he faces choices that will determine his eternal fate.

Following the nuclear war, Austin Martin struggles to adjust to his new role on the tiny Alaskan island. He receives good news about his family, but it triggers dissent and confrontation in the community. Will he be able to unite the group, or will he need to leave? And what will Sierra Forester do when he makes his decision? Meanwhile, Russian Major General Ivan Orlov returns to work in Siberia. His country has suffered terribly from the war, but its military remains strong.

The mastermind manipulates his allies and adversaries. On their remote Alaskan island, Sierra Forester and Austin Martin get shocking news… a foreign warship has entered the Inside Passage and anchored in sight of their community. Why have the strangers arrived? How can a group of starving Americans fend off an international enemy? Meanwhile, aggressive Chinese moves on the ravaged Alaskan territory stun and infuriate Russian President Marina Orlova. Her country had historic ownership of the state, and publicly intends to reclaim it.

While attempting to rescue a young orphan, Maxwell Flynn becomes separated from his brother and the rest of the small group of persecuted Christians. Grace Winslow, distraught at the loss of Max and Jonah, is forced to make a tough decision: stay with the group, or go search for the two missing members? Since they lost their sanctuary camp in the Canadian wilderness, the group’s struggle for basic survival grows more challenging by the day. Where can they hide? How will they find safe water? When will they have their next meal?

In the summer of 2005, Mookie Hooper—think Diane Sawyer in a training bra—investigates a girl who went missing from Camp Cartwright, while confronting the budding anxieties of tweendom.

As the world darkens, predators grow bold. In Russia, kidnappers abduct President Marina Orlova’s daughter. Can Marina and her investigators find the young girl before she is harmed? Or will they capitulate to the wolfish kidnappers’ outrageous demands? In Alaska, Austin Martin and Sierra Forester’s engagement joy is short-lived. Tragedy strikes the Forester household on Christmas morning, and all appears lost. Was the calamity an accident? Or did a villain cause the devastation?

In the far reaches of the Pacific Northwest, three best friends spend a day at the lake…but only two come home. Ten years later, Delia Albio is tormented by the mystery of what happened to fifteen-year-old Zee on the lake that day. When she receives an email from Cara, the remaining friend in the trio, she can’t resist the pull of the “life-changing” news in the message. Delia, hopeful for answers, travels home to see her old friend. But Cara is gone by the time she gets there, setting off another mystery.

After the war in Israel, the world is reeling, and Wu Ying finds himself in the center of it all in the Holy Land. Conflict simmers over the desolate Temple Mount. Religious Jews are determined to rebuild their temple, while the world’s Muslims are intent on stopping them. Things get worse as a global power void is created after Russia and her Middle Eastern allies crashed and burned in the first Gog and Magog war. One man will come out on top… but who will he be?

In the aftermath of a global war, the survivors on an isolated Southeast Alaskan island struggle to cope. But as Sierra Forrester and Austin Martin piece their lives back together, a new danger sails into their harbor. Can the islanders defend themselves from well-armed, trained and hungry interlopers?