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Brexley's journey has led her to the most coveted object in the world. In discovering the Nectar, Brexley finds other secrets and truths she was not ready for, ones that destroy everything she has ever known, confronting a power within herself she is not ready to face. Magic is a balance. Things come at a cost. In saving lives, Brexley destroys her own power, cutting the connection with the infamous legend. When faced with devastating loss and destruction, the fabric of friendship, trust, and love are put to the test.

Seduced by the government’s offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of the twentieth century. Raban’s stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader’s dream strips away the myth—while preserving the romance—that has shrouded our understanding of our own heartland.

Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her cherished pet bunny. But after seven years of silence, Regina's brother, Ricky, shows up unannounced on her doorstep, along with his daughter, Jez—a peculiar six-year-old with an unnerving vicious streak—upending Regina's quiet life. It's clear to Regina that something terrible has happened, though the truth won't come to the surface easily. After all, Regina and Ricky lived a childhood fraught with secrets buried as deep as the fossils in the desolate landscape around them.

In C.J. Box's Badlands, the town of Grimstad used to be a place people came from but were never headed to. Now it’s the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and with drugs come the dirtiest criminals Grimstad’s new deputy sheriff Cassie Dewell has ever...

Scientist Jane Farrell's new discovery might just change the world—if she lives long enough to introduce it at the World Energy Conference. After intruders break into her lab and her home, she flees to her brother's cabin outside the tiny mountain town of Hope Landing, hoping to elude them. With his Knight Tactical teammates marrying right and left, former SEAL Patrick Olivetti's charmed life is losing its sparkle. No longer content to be the life of the party, the bachelor might have to re-think his choices. But all that stops when he finds a beautiful intruder in his cabin.

Milly's mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school. But Milly has secrets, and life at her new home becomes complicated. As her mother's trial looms, with Milly as the star witness, Milly starts to wonder how much of her is nature, how much of her is nurture, and whether she is doomed to turn out like her mother after all.

Beneath the serene facade of Twin Pines, an ancient evil waits in the shadows. For Emma Flowers, a troubled teenager grappling with her father's mysterious disappearance and her mother's overbearing nature, life has become a labyrinth of bad moods and unanswered questions. Then, after a night of bad storms, Emma finds her neighbor’s dog dead in the middle of the street. As the mystery intensifies, teenagers around town begin falling into coma-like, nightmare states. As the creature moves in on Emma, she begins to uncover the evil’s origins, discovering dark parts of her own past in the ...

In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found—and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands—lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Is it suicide or… sacrifice?

Four geologists and two mountain guides face the brutal beauty of West Antarctica eight hundred miles from the United States main base. Their search reaches far into the treacherous mountains of Marie Byrd Land. Over six weeks of living in tents and traveling by snowmobile, the team endures endless cold and furious blizzards. They cross ice fields and hidden crevasses, which one of the team learns about the hard way.

"A delightful Southern story extolling the deep bond of sisters, Lauren Denton’s?A Place to?Land?has a heartwarming tone as it unravels a 40-year-old mystery coming back to haunt a cast of small-town characters whose lives are entwined in Sugar Bend, Alabama." --New York Journal of Books...

In this awe-inspiring memoir, a woman attempts to restore land in the Blue Ridge Mountains, facing her own limitations while getting to know a breathtaking corner of the natural world. When empty nester Paula Whyman climbs to a peak in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, her plans for a...

Change. Sometimes it wells up from within and we enter gracefully. At other times, it is utterly choiceless and the past, present, and future get burned up in the most unforgiving flames. The seven skills presented in When Bad Lands help guide us through this challenging and rewarding journey. This is not a shortcut to clean up the surface or soften the edges. Rather, it is a mirror for courageously seeing ourselves with humor and heart.

One of the most popular role-playing properties in the world gets new life with this trio of horror novellas set in Vampire: The Masquerade's World of Darkness by three brilliant talents: Genevieve Gornichec, Cassandra Khaw, and Caitlin Starling The subtle horror and infernal politics of the...

One of Vogue’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of Parade’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of Esquire’s 15 Best Books of the Winter One of Bitch Magazine’s 17 Memoirs Feminists Should Read in 2020 One of Maclean’s 10 Books to Watch in 2020 “The memoir I’ve been waiting for: a...

La madre de Annie es una asesina en serie. El único modo de detenerla es entregándola a la policía. Pero aunque ya no esté cerca, Annie no puede sacarla de su cabeza. El secreto de su pasado no la deja dormir, incluso con su nueva familia y su nuevo nombre: Milly. Mientras que un equipo de expertos prepara a Milly para encarar a su madre en un complicado juicio, ella a su vez deberá de confrontar su pasado. Ahora puede ser quien ella elija ser... una página en blanco.

This was supposed to be a bit of fun, but she can’t get this sexy bad boy out of her head! Lynn meets Tom, a mechanic who drinks at the Australian pub when she works to pay her way through university. When they meet sparks fly, but she is shocked when things become serious. This was supposed to be just a bit of fun after all. The two of them are inseparable and all those walls she put up to protect her heart don’t seem to be doing their job anymore. He is closer than she is ready for and it is driving her crazy. So crazy that when he says he is actually an alien who has taken on human ...

Matt Braun's Spur Award-winning Dakota tells the compelling story of Teddy Roosevelt's foray into rugged Dakota Territory. Stunned by a Valentine's Day telegram, Teddy Roosevelt reached his Manhattan home just in time to watch death claim first his mother and then his wife on that dark day in 1884. Abandoning a promising political career, 25-year-old Teddy sought the healing solace of the Dakota Bad Lands.

An unforgivable crime. A murderous act of revenge. A killer with justice on their side. Once, the infamous Dahlia Rapist terrorised young women – and their parents alike – with his brutal acts of violence and sinister calling card. Today, Raymond Knox has shunned his former alias and is...

The Long Game ends, the Bad Wolf arrives. Ten years ago, Queer As Folk’s Russell T. Davies brought Doctor Who back to our screens after a lengthy hiatus. What followed was a journey into the mind of one of television’s premiere storytellers, a meditation on class and spirituality, and a work of wonder that built bridges across the Atlantic that has changed the course of our culture forever. Television Without Pity writer Jacob Clifton was new to the show and its core concepts when he began his weekly column writing about the show for an American, and eventually global, audience. But the...

Bestselling author Shaun Harmon used to be poor, now he’s a multi-millionaire, a boy from the Bronx made good. He’s got the money… the cars… a sexy new girlfriend, Chloe… and a huge home in Willows, New Jersey, one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country. But he’s quickly finding out that both the neighborhood and his sexy new girlfriend aren’t all they seem to be. They have secrets. Chloe is born and bred in Willows, a quaint town where nothing ever happens… At least that’s the way it looks from the outside. A LOT has happened here. For centuries, murder, deception, ...