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A collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, gathered by the editor of the New York Times bestselling anthology My Little Red Book. After hearing a harrowing coming-of-age story from her great aunt, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff started gathering stories...

Isabelle Ballantine has been fighting for independence since she was old enough to walk. Now that she’s finally out from under her father’s shadow, she won’t let anyone stand in her way. It’s tough living on her own, working in a bar and keeping her true identity a secret, but things start to look up when a sexy new stranger walks into her life. After working side by side for weeks, Izzy can’t figure out why he won’t make a move.

Bridgette Connor is a woman on the edge. Her career is in tatters, her relationship is doomed, and after an ill-fated pregnancy she terminates against her better judgement, she does the one thing she's always done best. She runs. Her car careens off the road, leaving her battered, bruised, and beaten. It is then that she meets the woman who will change her life. When the bloodied and broken Bridgette Connor collapses at her door, Alexis does the one thing she's always done best. She helps.

In what is Grace’s last case, she faces her biggest test yet. Amber, the young apprentice and Zach’s girlfriend, has gone missing. A strange man arrives at the Angelo guesthouse and requests their help to find her. All he knows is that she’s been kidnapped by rogue members of Amber’s family. Grace and the others will have to leave the comfort of their home town and travel to the city in order to find Amber and learn the dark secrets of her family.

Winter has arrived in Hemlock Cove, and the Angelo family of witches are hoping for a restful week in a cozy lakeside wood cabin on a luxury New England estate. But when Noah, their pet dog, digs up a bone, Grace and her family are plunged into a decades-old mystery: the disappearance of the former owner of the estate, Everett Goodman. But the bone isn’t the only puzzle Grace needs to solve. There’s also the matter of the strange groundskeeper, Eddy, who lives in the woods and barely speaks a word.

We know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of the story? With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes us on a mind-bending tour through each of the cosmos' possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, Vacuum Decay, the Big Rip and the Bounce. Guiding us through major concepts in quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory and much more, she describes how small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different futures.

In Victorian-era Louisville, the Home for Friendless Women is run by benevolent benefactors with one mission: to reform the fallen women who live there into pious mothers and wives through religious lessons and hard work. For Ruth, a college student who’s expelled after a campus sexual assault...

Grace Angelo, a witch and former cop, is looking forward to Hemlock Cove’s biggest occasion of the year: the Founders’ celebration. However, the party atmosphere is soon ruined by the discovery of a body in the old bell tower. To make matters worse, her friend and bookstore owner, Dario, has had one of his most valuable and rare books stolen from his exhibit. But it’s no ordinary book - it’s a powerful spell book.

Everything is quiet in Hemlock Cove - until Grace Angelo gets a call that shatters the peace. An old enemy, Callum King, has been arrested for murder and is calling in the favor that Grace owes him. He wants her to do the opposite of a lifetime: prove he is innocent. Not one to break a promise, Grace agrees to take on the case, but when she discovers powerful magic at play, things take a strange turn - especially when a mysterious owl makes itself at home at the family guesthouse.

After solving her last mystery, Grace Angelo is hoping to enjoy some relaxation in the coastal town of Hemlock Cove with her friends. But things are anything but quiet when the town’s two warring families, the Mannings, and the Kings, take their long-running feud to all new levels. To make matters worse, there’s still a killer on the loose and hints of dark magic wherever Grace turns.

When witch, and former cop, Grace Angelo decides to take a beach vacation with her friend, the last thing she expects is to get involved with another mystery. But when she explores the coastal town with her special dog, Noah, their walk is cut short when they stumble across a group of people dragging a dead body from the sea. Local detective Zach Jackson is soon on the case, and just as quick, Grace agrees to help discover what happened to the deceased - a local scuba diving instructor. The mystery deepens when a number of Viking artifacts surface and are sold on the black market.

Grace Angelo, witch and retired detective, is looking forward to a night of glitz and glamour. Her friend Dario, a local bookstore owner, has invited her to a prestigious book award event, but the celebrations are cut short when one of the winners is found dead. Hemlock Cove PD’s detective, Zachary Jackson, is quickly on the case, and it soon becomes apparent they have a murder on their hands. Grace agrees to consult on the case and recruits Dario to help.

When Grace Angelo and her family of witches reopened their guesthouse, they could not have predicted the consequences. Or that their first guest would turn out to be a powerful warlock. Soon, the warlock’s dark influence starts to spread, and Grace and her sisters will have to combine their forces if they’re to protect their beloved New England town of Hemlock Cove. Join Grace and her friends in this fun, riveting small-town mystery. For fans of paranormal mystery, cozy mystery, and witches.

The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families. On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble for a...

Brought to you by Penguin. A small town is transformed by dark magic when strange apple trees begin bearing fruit in this new masterpiece of horror from the bestselling author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents. It's autumn in Harrow, but something is changing in the town besides the season...

Marsh Canton, the scion of a wealthy Georgia family, spent four years fighting the war of a divided nation. When he returned home, he found his family gone and his way of life destroyed. Turning his back on his heritage, he struck out for the west, achieving notoriety as a stone-cold gunslinger. Now, reinventing himself yet again, he arrives in San Francisco to take over the saloon he won in a poker game.

Grace Angelo just can’t seem to catch a break. Just when she thought things were going well with her new love, Dario Donatelli, Grace is thrown a curveball when he disappears without a trace or message. At first, she wonders if he’s just ignoring her, but when she discovers the bookstore he owns hasn’t been opened for a while and he’s not answering his phone, Grace soon learns that there’s more to his disappearance.

After twenty years of the American Dream, this AADD afflicted heroine is suddenly alone, left to review where she went wrong. She has mastered her dread of expressway driving but can't sleep without the radio. She despairs that she cooked seven thousand evening meals but sometimes, she misses that awful deadening life. She thinks aerobics and weight training might be the answer but there has to be something more. She joins an Obesity Study to look for her inner self but it freaks her out.

In a time when magic rules the sea, she only trusts her sword. Abbey has always been an outsider in Holdgate. While the people of her adopted city dominate the seas with their weather-controlling storm magic, she prefers the work in her father's blacksmith shop - besting any foolish enough to question her skills with a sword.

When his mentor at Harvard University suddenly leaves for Washington, Paul Cattleman finds himself adrift in the wilds of academia. He's lost his fellowship position for the fall semester, can find work only in what he considers to be intellectual cesspits--schools that would brand the young history professor as forever unsuitable for the Ivy League--and is one thesis short of a PhD. Rather than doom his career, he takes a temporary job in Los Angeles, a city whose superficial charms signal an adventure.