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In 1972, deep in the Appalachian wilderness, a bus carrying Catholic schoolgirls and their nun chaperone, Sister Lucy, is lost and stranded in the foreboding woods of West Virginia. The travelers are cut off from civilization, isolated in hostile terrain. The forest harbors dark secrets, and they are not alone. A clan of cannibalistic mountain men, grotesquely disfigured by generations of inbreeding, lurk in the shadows. Driven to the brink of extinction by their own sterility, they hunt for outsiders to sustain their bloodline, focusing on the busload of women they believe can save them.

Clara Colby—widowed mother of a fourteen-year-old daughter—inherits her grandmother’s farmhouse, fifty acres, and the Burton Grayson Memorial Animal Shelter. Uprooting herself from Chicago to rural Wisconsin wasn’t easy—but how hard could it be to run an animal shelter? Harder than she imagined. When Clara finds the shelter’s most devoted volunteer murdered inside a dog kennel, police arrest her father for the crime. Now Clara and her identical twin sister must uncover the real killer before an innocent man is sentenced to life in prison—and their family is torn apart.

Jasmine’s family home is like a forgotten memory, it’s time worn walls echo secrets from boxed pictures shown to her by Grandma Bessie. It is both sanctuary and prison where her grief clings like the accusatory notes she receives. The loss of her parents in an auto accident causes a deep void that she attempts to fill with lies and aberrant sexual behavior. The fear of discovery forces her on a journey. A path woven with secrecy, longing, love, spiritual, and historical discovery. With the fragile promise that truth not only sets you free, but it heals.

Brilliant, unconventional college senior Trace Pennington has eked out an impoverished, solitary, but highly functional existence in the years since she ran away from her abusive home. But when Trace finds love with a much older man, her life is upended and she's forced to face herself and her past.

Nina Frost, a graceful figure skater at the pinnacle of her career, faces an unexpected spiral: a failed drug test that jeopardizes her lifetime of dedication and dreams. As she grapples with the harsh glare of public scrutiny and shadows of doubt, Nina’s plight is more than just clearing her name—it’s a fight to preserve her very identity. Dmitri Volkov, a renowned Russian hockey player, skates a fine line between the adoration of fans and the weight of personal expectations.

They were known as the Killing Times, when serial murder reached epidemic proportions.... A woman named Jaguar tries to rehabilitate these killers by establishing a telepathic link with them and divulging their worst fears. But now she's about to face the most challenging subject of her career: the ultimate assassin, a dangerously disturbed woman who will teach Jaguar the true meaning of fear.

Lexi Miller restarted her life five years ago and has been living a regimented routine ever since. With a great job and a best friend who tries everything to get her to break-out of her boring life, it’s not until her birthday present arrives at her door, opened by a stranger, that things finally start to get interesting.

Politicians, economists, and Wall Street would have us believe that limitless economic expansion is the Holy Grail, and that there is no conflict between growing the economy and protecting the environment. Supply Shock debunks these widely accepted myths and demonstrates that we are in fact navigating the end of the era of economic growth, and that the only sustainable alternative is the development of a steady state economy.

The themes of shared experience, the relationship of human beings to one another throughout time, and the ultimate power of place are explored in this poem by one of the most revered American poets, Walt Whitman. Its setting of NYC is dear to narrator Diane Havens, a native New Yorker, a Brooklynite.

The next breakout star in the grand tradition of Southern literature! A debut that introduces the most charming, mischievous, unforgettable heroine since Scout Finch. Possum Porter has had it with change. First she lost Mama, leaving a hole nothing can fill. And now, instead of trying to return to some kind of normal, Daddy's sending Possum to school. A real school, where you have to wear SHOES. Where some Yankee teacher will try to erase all the useful things Mama taught Possum during their lessons at home.

Most brides have some anxiety over their wedding, but not too many have to worry a dead person might spoil it. Detective Maddy Wimsey is looking forward to her handfasting to Caius. Mostly. She’s simultaneously on edge and can’t wait. About the only thing capable of going wrong is her catching a homicide investigation complicated enough to push back the date.

When Corey James Parker gets bitten and is transformed he is required by vampire law to register at his local chapter. He does not. And now there’s a contract out on him.

"Wesley Hunt was always considered strange." And so this quirky, offbeat short story by the witty and wonderful Canadian author and actor Robert Jadah begins. Wesley's odd behavior, however, is accompanied by unique abilities in regard to discovering hidden treasures. His kind of Easter egg hunt is not the one you'd likely expect.

In 1772, angry Rhode Island colonists set fire to a British ship, sparking the American Revolution. Taxation without representation was a motivator. So was the vengeful, man-eating mermaid who had it out for the commanding officer. That was then. This is now. Mermaids, or merrow, still hunt in Narragansett Bay, but these days they keep a lower profile. At night, centuries-old Nomia seduces smutty frat boys, lures them into icy waters, and feeds them to her voracious kin. By day, she and her half-breed daughter attempt to blend in at the coastal Village Playground.

Beautiful eighteen-year-old Barry Brennan couldn't forget. A year ago, Ned Kramer, her fiancé, had died in a hunting accident. Her grief threatened to overwhelm her - until the night her car careened off an icy country road and struck a handsome stranger. Naked and helpless, he seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. Stripped of speech and memory, his recovery would begin only when Barry roused him from his coma, took him home to her family, and urged him to recall his name. She would be bound to him by a love deeper, more compelling, than any she had ever known.

Twin Falls Academy — a seething hub of overprivileged trust-fund babies and indulged elite — and my new alma mater. I’m an orphan. I am the unwashed masses that they can’t stand and they never miss an opportunity to grind that message home. Especially Rosalie Evers, the queen bee who rules with a manicured grip wrapped around the throats of everyone trapped beneath her. But I don’t care what they think. I’m just doing time at Twin Falls until I can get back to California for college.

Anti-hero and functioning alcoholic Evie McFagan enters into a dark agreement with her estranged brother, Richard. Their family history has driven Richard to destroy creatures within a world hidden from us all. Richard wants Evie to join their murderous family business. As the siblings journey North to the wild coastline of Maine, Evie must decide where her loyalties lie—with her strange nefarious family ties? Or with the man who loves her unconditionally?

This is the coming-of-age story of a sensitive, whimsical girl, with an over-abundant curiosity about everything from the power of touch to reincarnation. Determined to live an extraordinary life, Sephe seeks a path out of ordinary suburbia into the world of acting and true love. When her flirtatious superpower leads her into a den of wolves, she must learn to differentiate her allies from the wolves that will devour her, leading her to wonder: Why is punishment the reaction to her sexuality?

Trevor Vaughn loves his job, his women, and his bachelor lifestyle. Sadly, for him, all of that might change when Davina Daniels walks into his office pushing a stroller. The problem is that Trevor doesn’t have any idea who Davina is. After she explains that he is the baby’s father, he finds himself clueless as to what to do next. After begging for her help, Davina and Trevor begin to form a friendship that will bring them together in time for their friend’s wedding and a single night of steamy romance.

What's Worth Learning? addresses the central question of general education. For learners facing a complex, unpredictable, and dangerous future, it asks and answers the question: What knowledge is absolutely essential for every learner? In simple, jargon-free language, the book explains why the "core curriculum" in near-universal use in America's classrooms was poor when it was adopted in 1893 and why it grows more dysfunctional with each passing year.