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Always Greener is an exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother, who she feared as a child and only in adulthood came to understand. Born in rural Australia, Dolly Russell becomes a successful businessperson, mother and troubled wife. Then came the depression, bankruptcy and World War I. Yet, in a way, those disasters freed her. They allowed her to use her intelligence and ambition to make a space for herself in a man’s world.

Inside the vehicle at fault, Jennifer Ashby survives with barely a scratch. In the wreckage of the second, the occupants are not so lucky. Jennifer’s good character helps her escape jail, but she is traumatised. Desperate for a change, and with her marriage buckling under the stress, she convinces her husband Jon to move to the beautiful but wild Daintree region, far away from family and friends. As Jon spends long hours at his new job and Jennifer makes plans to absolve her lingering guilt, cracks begin to form in their idyllic new life. Will the shadow of their past continue to haunt them?

Ceremony is a collection for those on the cusp of becoming. It is a reminder that we were not meant to fit into this world perfectly, but to live in such a way that might forge a path all our own. It is a reminder that we are one with each other and nature itself. It is a reminder that we contain within us the latent potential of every future possibility we can conceive of. It is a reminder that we often must release what is not ours in order to receive what is, that we are all born with a unique imprint to leave upon the world, and that self-love is not an infatuation, but a homecoming.

Seeds Planted in Concrete is Bianca Sparacino's raw testament to the beauty that is found within the contrasts of life. Speaking truthfully about the intricacies of both love and loss, Sparacino's first collection of work will speak to the very depths of those who hear it, inspiring a will to love and live. This collection is a manifesto of the journey every human being takes throughout life - an assembly of words that celebrates the resilience of the human heart through stages of hurting, feeling, healing, and loving.

In a future dystopia, Zia Alexander lives in crumbling ruins playing the world's most illegal and addictive virtual reality game. After the loss of her mother, she plays the game for her shot at freedom. Zia discovers a map that leads to Lemuria—a real fantasy world full of dragons, wicked faeries and assassins where her mother is alive, and two princes try to win her heart.

GIFTS FROM THE CATALOG (A Novella) Through a series of unusual events, a girl from St. Louis finds herself on the train leaving St. Louis and heading into the hills of Arkansas—a place that seemed like a foreign country. Reason told her she should turn around and go back where she belonged, but where did she actually belong? The Rock Island Line stretched on with Rosalie aboard the locomotive. Would the tiny town of River Bend be the final stop? CABIN OF THE CARVER (A Novella) Only old Granny Nelson was old enough to remember the mysterious circumstances surrounding the tiny log building(...

The powerful story of a girl struggling to figure out her estranged brother, a new love, and her own life just as wildfires beset her small California town—perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Kathleen Glasgow Seventeen-year-old Caprice wants to piece her family back together now that her older...

Control is the ultimate illusion. And she has perfected the art of the lie. To her high-net-worth clients, she is Aura: a blank canvas, a perfect reflection, a fantasy tailored to their specific, secret hungers. To the Architect, she is a soft place to land. To the Judge, she is the ruthless prosecutor. To the Tech Billionaire, she is a simulated girlfriend. But when the hotel door closes and the transaction is complete, Aura disappears. In the sterile silence of her apartment, she opens The Client Book. Here, she is the curator.

Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It's 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the only survivor when his helicopter is shot down. A Catalog of Birds is the story of a family and a community confronted with a loss of innocence and wounds that may never heal. The legacy of war and its destruction of nature is seared onto the memories of a small American town.

Before a moment becomes a memory, hold it close. Moments to Hold Close is Molly Burford’s first poetry collection. Burford’s words encapsulate and express all facets of the human condition, including how to love and live a full life embracing the moments that matter.

In essence, this story is about how a certain person was searching his bookshelf for something to read and in the end found a book, which turned out to be the source, from which it is possible to obtain absolutely any kind of information about absolutely any person. Meaning, information to the smallest particulars and details about what his or her qualities of personality are, how he or she lives, what he or she really wants to achieve, what he or she hides, and much more.

"Când sunt prost dispus, ceea ce mi se întâmpla destul de des, din varii motive, rasfoiesc culegerile de perle de tranzitie ale lui Radu Paraschivescu. Comicul enorm, la limita dezastrului (logic, lexical, gramatical, cultural), al acestui monument de brambureala si impostura valaha are efectul paradoxal de a ma întrema. Avem, carevasazica, resurse de umor (fie si involuntar), avem înca resurse de vitalitate animala din care, cine stie, vor rasari, cândva, si florile gingase ale normalitatii!"

Welcome to the Cryptid Catalog! Your place where creepy parents and strange kids can learn all about the things that go bump in the night together! Every other week Korina and Killian open the Cryptid Catalog to explore all that the world of the paranormal has to offer!

Evan has spent the last decade trying to forget senior year—the panic when Faith Flynn disappeared, the lies she told the police, the secrets she still plans to take to her grave. After graduation, she couldn't move away fast enough, but divorce has forced her back to her dreary hometown. As if living with her parents at almost thirty isn't punishment enough, she's welcomed home with messages from Faith. Or, at least, someone claiming to be her. Fiona has been receiving similar messages from Faith, her twin, the one everyone believes she murdered in cold blood.

Does creating a successful backlist catalog seem impossible? It's not! The Prolific Writer by M. L. Bullock will provide you with over twenty foundational blocks for building your own ladder to success. These aren't just suggestions or possibilities. This book provides the steps Monica used to write over a hundred books and create worlds within worlds that fans love. With a successful backlist, you can create worlds of fun for readers and create for yourself new revenue streams. Make the most of your writerly accomplishments and build a backlist you'll be proud of. In this book, Monica will...

Her dream came true and ruined everything. Emily Benoit left her small ranching community in Idaho to become the art director for a large New York City department store. In the process she broke her heart, as well as Devlin Camp's, the love of her life. Emily's back for Christmas and there are no tidings of comfort and joy from Devlin because he can't begin to forgive her. Besides, he's gotten married. Emily knows too well what she gave up but getting it back is impossible.

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