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Emma Carlisle built the perfect life in Boston—successful career, surgeon fiancé, everything mapped out. But when unpaid property taxes force her back to Redemption, Alaska, she has one goal: sell the family house, settle the debt, and escape before the past can destroy her again. She didn't count on Luke McGuire. Luke never stopped loving the woman who vanished without explanation fifteen years ago.

When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation of dark secrets in this twisty, atmospheric thriller—from the author of the “poignant, riveting” (Wendy Walker, author of Don’t Look for Me) Everything We Didn’t Say. Mother and daughter...

The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave-labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Loet Velmans was 17 when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies - now Indonesia - where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave-labor camps.

After a 20-year separation, music legend and business mogul Jay Linfield, begins a desperate search for the only woman he has ever loved. After exhausting conventional methods, he hatches a plan with a slim chance of success to draw her back to him. But life’s challenges threaten to keep them apart forever. They must overcome obstacles on the journey back to love, a lifetime in the making. He soon discovers there are some things money cannot buy.

Francis has two childhood encounters that shape his life: one with God and the other with Dee Dee Ramone. When his life falls apart in adulthood, Francis, feeling betrayed by God, turns to his other spiritual mentor, emerging as that rarest of beings, a middle-aged punk rocker. A love letter to punk rock and the spiritual power of music, Long Way Back rocks through grief and tragedy toward a new beginning for Francis and an ending sure to make even the hardest of hardcore punks cry.

When a reporter for the Washington Post sees a group of wounded, half-starved, black troops disembark from a helicopter in Cu Chi during the height of the Vietnam War, he senses a story, but receives no cooperation from the army or the soldiers. The men, mostly noncombat, are the remnant of a squad sent on an illegal mission to Cambodia as punishment for their participation in a race riot at Cu Chi base camp. Led by a battle-fatigued sergeant, they fall under enemy fire. Their leader inexplicably disappears, leaving the ill-prepared soldiers to fight the jungle and enemy on their own. ...

Returning with her newest poetry book, beloved poet Courtney Peppernell (Pillow Thoughts) combines storytelling, poetry, and prose in a uniquely inspirational way. Filled with heartfelt anecdotes and insightful messages, The Way Back Home is a tribute to rebuilding our lives after loss. When a...

This program is read by the author and includes clips from her testimony, a Trump rally, C-SPAN, CNN, and ABC News. The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was...

The summer before her senior year of high school, Laney Jacobs and her best friend jump from a six-story beachside cliff in an attempt to impress their boyfriends. Laney rose from the water. Her friend did not. Six years later, when Laney’s troubled mother’s memoir hits the bestseller list airing the family’s destructive secrets, Laney is forced to relive the trauma, this time in the public eye. To escape the scrutiny, she seeks shelter at her estranged grandmother’s seaside inn.

You wait until the house is quiet. The dishes are done. The lights are low. The world finally stops asking things of you. And then the craving comes. Not just for food — but for comfort. Relief. Softness. Silence. Escape. You promise yourself it will be different tonight. But the pantry light flicks on again. If you secretly binge eat at night and wake with shame in the morning, this book was written for you. After the Craving is not a diet plan. It is not willpower coaching. It is not another voice telling you to try harder. Instead, it is a gentle invitation back into the Light. Pairing...

Three starred reviews! In this “beautifully executed victory lap” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) to Jason Reynolds’s award-winning and New York Times bestselling Track series, meet Coach as a boy striving to come into his own as a track star while facing upheaval at home. Before Coach...

The Elephant Road Book Four of The Namib Frontiers Series After the devastating loss at Kazungula, Elbereth cannot yet return to Swakopmund. Instead she finds a fragile refuge in Nata, near the shimmering vastness of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, where flamingos, game, silence, and distance become the first landscape large enough to hold her grief. There, in a small and out-of-the-way B&B run by Anne-Marie and Barry, she begins the slow, unwilling work of continuing. A book left quietly on her table by John Young becomes the first sign that grief may be shared without being spoken over. As ...

From the author of Little Broken Things, a “race-to-the-finish family drama” (People) following a mother who must confront the dark summer that changed her life forever in order to reclaim the daughter she left behind. Juniper Baker had just graduated from high school and was deep in the...

FBI agent Cora Pratt came to Storyville searching for the crazed Postcard Killer. A killer that has taunted her all over the USA. When she arrived in this quiet town, nothing could have prepared her for the supernatural mysteries that would unfold. Orphaned as a young child, Cora did not know about her family’s background. Let alone her shocking connection to this strange place. Until now, the truth of her unusual past has been kept secret to almost everyone. But as the end draws near, it’s now time for Cora to learn of her special purpose.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A SYDNEY TAYLOR NOTABLE BOOK Perfect for readers of Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman, a sweeping historical fantasy that follows two teens on a journey through the Far Country, a Jewish land of spirits and demons. For the Jews of Eastern Europe, demons are...

In Clark Howard’s Living Large for the Long Haul, the renowned broadcaster examines our new paradigm through the eyes of those whose financial portfolios have beaten the odds, and those whose economic situation has gone off course. Through these fascinating personal accounts, listeners uncover amazing opportunities and smart decisions, finding advantages in bleak times for lasting payoffs in the long run.

A drive home from the airport turns into a harrowing, dystopian nightmare in the action adventure horror episode Wrong Turn, a riveting new short story from James J. Caterino the author of Night Skies, The Anti-Matter Girl, Time Travel Stories, Fantastic Stories 3, and much more.

On a dusty hilltop, Jesus once kick-started his church with a ragtag group of fishermen who called themselves "The Way". Within a remarkably short time, The Way became the world's most influential religious faith. Against impossible odds, that group of nobodies astonished the world. Two thousand years later - by any measure - Christianity is retreating on all fronts. The Way has lost its way. In The Way Back, media and marketing experts Phil Cooke and Jonathan Bock take a hard look at Christians today and reveal that we, as a salesforce, have lost our faith in our product. 

“When you know, you know” is how Piper had rationalized her rushed engagement when she broke the news over the phone. Now, only a few months later, Jane is packing her bags and heading west to partake in festivities leading up to her cousin’s wedding.

Brought to you by Penguin. The new novel from the author of The Flip Side! Three friends. Two summers. One chance to find the way back to you . . . When Simon Brown reconnects on Facebook with his first love Sylvie - the French pen pal he never actually met - he is determined that this time...