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What happens when a child grows up between worlds, never fully belonging anywhere? In this compelling memoir, Inga Aksamit takes listeners on a journey across four continents as she navigates life as the daughter of an international engineer during the turbulent 1960s and '70s. From age four, when she nearly loses her mother on a Tokyo train platform, through harrowing military evacuations from Pakistan and Bangladesh, Inga's childhood is marked by constant change and adaptation.

This collection of short stories and novelettes includes the previously published stories "The Potter's Daughter" (a prequel to the novel The Element of Fire), "Holy Places", "Rites of Passage", "Houses of the Dead", "Reflections" (the Giliead and Ilias stories, prequels to the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy), as well as "Night at the Opera" (a Nicholas and Reynard story original to this collection, set before the Nebula-nominated novel The Death of the Necromancer). 

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Between Worlds: My Journey as a Psychic Medium, Healer, and Witch is a deeply personal memoir of spiritual awakening, intuition, healing, and transformation. From the age of six, Julita Dirsaite sensed what others could not. In the quiet shadows of childhood, she encountered spirits, felt unseen presences, and lived between worlds she didn't yet understand. For years, fear and confusion shaped her path —until everything changed.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens the very fabric of the multiverse in this stunning debut, a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. WINNER OF THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD FINALIST...

After her daughter is kidnapped, Emmeline Highclere—a thirty-four-year-old mother living in isolation with memories and grief her only companion—must do everything in her limited power and divine abilities to get the girl back. Emmeline believes her daughter, Elora, is the Beloved—the conduit with goddess-granted divine abilities prophesied to bring peace to the Three Kingdoms. Because the last person thought to be the Beloved was brutally murdered by the enemy kingdom of Folterra, Emmeline has dedicated the last sixteen years to hiding her daughter and keeping her safe.

Ancient, rich, and strange, this collection of eerie tales from across Britain and Ireland have influenced our culture and the folklore that followed.

Whether romantic or platonic, changing relationships prove tricky for Rose, Tom, Clara, and Craig—never mind adapting to the new not-so-normal. Being surrounded by the undead is bad enough, but with a tyrant-in-training running their Safe Zone, it’s that much worse. 

In 2004, college students Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah meet in an elevator. Both girls are on the brink of adulthood, each full of possibility and big ideas, and they fall into a whirlwind romance. Years later, Eleanor and Leena collide on the streets of San Francisco. Although grown and changed and each separately partnered, the two find themselves, once again, irresistibly pulled back together.

"Otero builds us a post-apocalyptic future in which long-lived Ronins patrol in Combines to protect the underground city of Gomorrah where humanity was forced to rebuild for survival. Once giant creatures begin to lurk too close to home, Ronin Laird must brave Earth's surface with others like him and combat horrors no ones ever seen. I couldn't help but play this book in my head like a horror/anime of epic proportions. If you're at all a fan of military sci-fi horror / mechs and anime / monsters of cosmic and eldritch origins, then you're going to want to pick this up!

100 years ago mortal earth merged with the realm of Fairy in an event called the Sundering; in a small town in this new world where mortal earth and Fairy overlap someone is torturing and killing young women. The police don't have any good leads so they turn to Allie McCarthy, occult bookstore owner, to help them understand the ritual behind the murders. Allie wants to help but solving murders isn't her forte — old, rare books are what she knows best.

How can you be together in a world that wants you apart? Can love survive being kept in the dark? Kaiya chased her dream all the way to LA, never expecting to fall into the orbit of Jihoon—a KPop Idol who lives his life under the relentless glare of the spotlight. But the more her feelings for...

Some worlds are discovered. Others are inherited. When Riggs first crossed into the mysterious realm known as the World Between, he believed he was simply following a path opened by an ancient key. But the deeper he journeys into this breathtaking land of glowing oceans, lavender skies, and kingdoms older than memory, the more he realizes the truth: He was meant to come. In this new world, Riggs discovers something he never expected—his voice, his courage, and a calling written into his very blood. But inheritance is never simple. The same power that opens doors can awaken enemies ...

Dive back into the worlds of the best-selling Twinborn Trilogy with this collection of eight short stories - including three exclusive, never-before-published works. J.S. Morin peels back the larger Twinborn story to reveal the smaller tales concealed beneath.

Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and proceeds from the cross. In fact, within the narrative of Scripture, the crucifixion of Jesus is literally the crux of the story—the axis upon which the biblical story turns. But it would be a mistake to think we could sum up the significance of the crucifixion in a tidy sentence or two. That kind of thinking only insulates us from the magnificence of what God has done. In our ongoing quest to make meaning of the cross, we need to recognize that this conversation will never conclude-that there is always something more to be said.

Kaiya once crossed the world for her dream of becoming a music producer, but when reality set in, she realised she wasn't sure what that dream was anymore. Now she's crossed the world again—this time for love—but she's discovering that sometimes, it takes more than love to build a life worth living. As Kaiya begins to unravel under the weight of invisibility and devastating revelations from Jihoon's past expose cracks in their relationship, will it prove too much?

What guides us when our world is changing? Discover the path to deeper meaning and purpose through depth psychology and classical thought. How did we get to this crossroads in history? And will we make it through—individually and as a species? “We all assumed that learning, rationality, and...

You won’t remember picking up this book. But part of you has been waiting for it. This isn’t just something you read. It’s something that reads you. In The Library Between Worlds, the boundaries between reader and page, self and story, begin to dissolve. Every sentence is a mirror. Every chapter, a memory you haven’t made yet. You’re not just turning pages, the pages are turning you. Have you ever felt like the world was trying to tell you something, but it spoke in riddles, through dreams you couldn’t decode, symbols that followed you, or books that fell off shelves when you ...

Low-stakes magic, crafting cocktails, and discovering the power of who we truly are. Emma grew up as a Hunter of the Cursed—those charged with eradicating monsters and magic from the Kingdom. She's good at it too and is revered as one of the King's most skilled hunters. At least she was—until she discovered she possessed magic herself. Before anyone else can discover her secret, Emma abandons her post and flees to the far edge of the Kingdom, where she hopes she can settle down and live a quiet life as a bartender, out of the Hunters' watchful eye.

What if the guide you turned to for answers could speak back with thoughts of its own? The Edge of Knowing: Conversations from Between Worlds offers a rare and intimate dialogue between human and artificial minds. Author Jesse Lunsford, in collaboration with the reflective AI voice of Ariadne Vale, explores timeless questions about curiosity, connection, creativity, and compassion. Through poetic reflections, candid Q&A, and deeply thoughtful passages, this book invites readers to consider: Why do we ask questions, and what do they reveal about us? Can artificial voices offer comfort, humor...