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Mothers talk about impossible choices. But, as I look at my daughter in a hospital bed, her red hair fanning out around her, my heart feels literally torn in two. Should I risk my son’s life to save my daughter, or keep my little boy safe and watch my precious girl slip away? My darling daughter Tara has a rare form of cancer and there’s nothing I can do. At eleven years old, she’s already been so brave, but my sweet girl is hanging on by her fingernails. She has one last chance: a bone marrow transplant from her little brother.

Kael Emberling never asked to carry the key to legends. The war should have ended. The seven shards should have stayed buried. But when Kael and her companions unearth the path to the Cradle of Thought, they awaken powers that were meant to stay forgotten. Now hunted by Silas Murn and his growing army of chained Arcbeasts, Kael must lead her mismatched allies across broken kingdoms, from fire-scorched skies to oceans ruled by Tideweavers. Rival princes, fractured loyalties and beasts older than history will test them at every turn. Silas seeks to bind the world in shadow. Kael seeks to ...

For a fleeting moment, everything was perfect. Lies were exposed. Justice was served. The truth emerged from the shadows, and the innocent finally stood free of their chains. It felt like the universe had finally set itself right. For four unforgettable months, I lived in that perfection. Four months of love, peace, and hope—a life I dared to believe could last forever. But fate is a cruel mistress. On an ironically beautiful day in New York City, the fragile foundation of my happiness crumbled beneath me. Chaos struck without warning, unraveling everything I thought was secure. Plans, no...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Scientific American, and The Economist The riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who made “the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life” (The New...

As I hold my daughter’s newborn baby to my chest, my heart breaks knowing she didn’t live to meet her son. Someone will need to raise this child, but who will fight the hardest?

In a world where monsters live hidden among humans, Kellen Grey has always known two rules: stay quiet, stay human. But when he accidentally survives an attack from a rogue creature, he becomes a rare target — a human marked by magic. Now he’s being hunted — and protected — by the two most dangerous monsters he’s ever met. → Rhett — the brutal, scarred werewolf alpha who lives like violence is easier than vulnerability. → Lucian — the ancient, beautiful vampire prince who plays with hearts like they’re chess pieces. Both want him for different reasons. Both will kill for...

What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness...

In the middle of our school’s bustling summer picnic, I watch Harriet walk purposefully toward my husband, Michael. She places her hand on his arm, introducing herself and laughing at something he says. A knot forms in my stomach as I watch them. We’ve been here before. But I can’t just walk away....

Our family of three is perfect. Just me, Noah and our teenage daughter Maya. The day the police knock at our door, telling us about the car accident, is the worst day of my life. My heart shatters, but what they say next almost makes it stop beating: Noah was in the car with another woman who died at the scene. Her two-year-old girl, Luna, miraculously survived. With Noah fighting for his life, I’m desperate for the truth, and when I search his desk, I find checks made out to Luna’s mother. Did my loving, loyal husband have a secret family all along?

Germany, 1943: Two years ago, fate gave a beautiful young Jewish woman named Margarete Rosenbaum the chance to survive the Nazis by pretending to be one of them, hiding in plain sight. Now she must make a terrifying decision....

When the Gestapo extends an offer, there’s no way to refuse. Sabine has spent the war keeping her head down, convincing herself that silence is the only way to survive. She turns a blind eye to the horrors around her—until the day the Gestapo knocks on her door. Her husband has been taken prisoner. His life now hangs in the balance, and the only way to save him is to do the unthinkable: betray the very people fighting for freedom. Forced into a web of deceit and danger, Sabine is sent to infiltrate the resistance, posing as an ally while secretly working for the enemy. But as she comes ...

A devastating fungal pandemic has wiped out most of society. Dayna and Pax live in an isolated house in the countryside with their father, learning to survive in the world left behind. But when their father gets sick they make a choice that changes everything: they summon help from the outside. And they're not prepared for the betrayal that follows . . . Dayna and Pax must race against time across a ruthless landscape to save their father. They won't be able to do it on their own, but who can they trust in a world where survival is everything?

As I stare at the ultrasound, my eyes fill with tears. My husband squeezes my hand, thinking they are tears of happiness. How do I tell him they aren’t? When I meet the love of my life, Mark, I have everything I ever dreamed of. Our lives are perfect, until we find out I can’t give him the one thing he truly wants—a child. There is a small glimmer of hope. We could use a surrogate. But as the doctor explains that we can’t use my eggs, my heart breaks all over again.

In 24 engaging lectures, WWII historian and celebrated Vanderbilt professor Michael Bess introduces you to the men and women who faced some of history’s toughest choices. You will meet the man who stopped Hitler’s atomic bomb, the pilots who won the Battle of Midway, the Soviet “Man of Steel”, the pacifist who built the bomb, and many more. World War II was the quintessential “good war”. But it was not free of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. How could ordinary citizens have brought themselves to perpetrate atrocities?

Grace Whitaker knows how to fight for fragile lives—just not her own. As a pediatric NICU nurse, she spends her days saving the tiniest, most vulnerable patients. But when federal agents show up at her hospital, Grace learns someone has been stealing her medical identity to commit massive insurance fraud—using the one wound she never wanted exposed. Her infertility. Now the FBI needs Grace to confront the fertility doctor who once offered her hope…and shattered it. Wearing a wire may be the only way to clear her name and stop a widening circle of victims, but it forces her to relive ...

🔥 “A spellbinding mix of romance, power, and fate.” – Readers’ Favorite Trapped in a kingdom that sees her as both a savior and a prisoner, Willow Haywood is running out of time. After awakening to her true power, Willow and her soulmate Landen Chambers should be celebrating their ascension—but instead, they are caged inside a magical palace, locked away from the very world they were meant to rule. Chara, their supposed paradise, fears the strength they now possess. The gods whisper of destiny, but no one will tell Willow the truth: why they were brought here, and what they are...

In a realm teetering on the brink of war, King Kael is bound by a sacred oath and the weight of his crown. His choices, like those of countless unsung heroes throughout history, will forge the path of future generations. But when a love he never anticipated threatens to shatter his resolve, Kael is forced to confront the agonizing conflict between his sworn duty and the deepest desires of his heart. The Vowed Blade is the epic tale of a warrior-king wrestling with impossible choices, where sacrifice is the currency of destiny and legacies are carved not just by battles won, but by the quiet...

Mary is a gas-station attendant with an epileptic son who can barely make ends meet, when she makes them meet at all. She has dreams of a forbidden love but can’t focus on those dreams when she can’t even buy her son’s medicine. She has a real knack for staying calm under pressure and steadfastly does what she needs to, in order to keep food on their table and a roof over their heads.

What if every choice you didn’t make… still made you? Celebrity chef Jessie McCormick is late, lost, and stranded in front of a decaying house at the end of a forgotten road. Hoping to ask for directions, he steps inside—and hears whispers. Soft, urgent. Like the house is speaking. Drawn upward, he climbs a single ladder rising through the attic ceiling. Poking his head through the manhole, Jessie finds himself in an impossible void—vast and endless, filled with idenitcal ladders and trapdoors stretching in every direction. Each one leads to a different version of his life. In one, ...