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Welcome to Infinity Dreams, a novel-in-stories about dreaming your life, living in dreams, and the permeable limbo we insist on calling reality.

You Belong Here offers a new framework that allows each of us to define how we want to be seen, heard, and valued on our own terms so we feel a sense of belonging in any situation. Further, it serves as a launchpad for organizational leaders and culture builders to create safe spaces for individuals to show up as their authentic selves. Listeners will explore our four identities: Our Lived Identity is made up of the aspects of our identity we inherit when we are born into the world.

Claire Pedersen and her husband are relocating from NYC to the Catskills—they have found a terrific deal on a property in foreclosure. The house has been in April Ives’s family for three generations, but the single mother of three children from two different fathers needs the money. Claire and April are instantly antagonistic, but the sale proceeds, and renovations begin. Soon after, Claire’s husband develops an erotic fascination with Anna, a young member of a nearby religious community called The Eternals. Two marriages—and one pregnancy—swiftly and dramatically end.

Two women meet on a train. Each is running from a deadly secret. When one disappears, the other decides to take her place—for better, or for worse. A CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Jae-Young has just left everything she’s ever known, not that it was much: her thankless job, her infested...

Two enemies-to-lovers, one unforgettable summer escape… Jia Chung is living the dream…until she gets fired from her job, yet again. With her mom breathing down her neck to move home, she needs an escape, fast. When Mimi, her beloved grandmother, invites her to spend the summer in Palm...

This audio study guide for The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the family life cycle, the spoken and the unspoken, and the inadequate American narrative about the Vietnam War. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

In the sleepy town of Townsend, Washington, there was an act so gruesome that no one would ever be the same. What heinous crime do I speak of? Skylar Torres thinking she could pull off a crop top with that pudgy body of hers. Oh, did you think I was going to say my murder. Well, I thought it was more sensational than anything else, but the real scandal was who killed me and why.

“Working Mothers Inspiring Others” is a collective shoutout to all the fierce, unstoppable women who are rewriting the rules of what it means to be a working mother.

Snow and Rose live together in their cozy cottage, entranced by each other's love, when an invitation to King Otto's wedding sends them out of their safe haven, and on a perilous journey to his castle. Once they arrive, Rose is drawn to the court life of her ancestors. The feeling of home helps re-ignite the magic within her. Meanwhile, Snow seems to find dead bodies and loneliness wherever she goes. Her silence drives her further into madness. When the castle’s secrets rise to the surface at last, the two girls must decide if being true to themselves means letting go of each other.

June Hur, critically acclaimed author of The Silence of Bones and The Forest of Stolen Girls, returns with The Red Palace―a third evocative, atmospheric historical mystery perfect for fans of Courtney Summers and Kerri Maniscalco. To enter the palace means to walk a path stained in blood...

The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alienated, technology-mediated lives of restless Asian and Asian American women today. A woman escapes into dating simulations to forget her best friend’s abandonment; a teenager begins to see menacing omens on others’ bodies after her double eyelid surgery; reunited schoolmates are drawn into the Japanese mountains to participate in an uncanny social experiment; a supernatural karaoke machine becomes a K-pop star’s channel for redemption. In every story, characters refuse dutiful, docile stereotypes.

To find her true home, she must face her deepest fear. Fighting to survive is a way of life for 17-year-old Everly. After years living on Seattle’s streets, she is so close to finding a home and saving her best friend from losing her life to drugs the same way her mom did. But when Everly breaks her number one rule to save an enemy, her carefully-laid plans are derailed when she’s kidnapped to the land of Faery. According to the mysterious stranger who saves her life, the portal won’t reopen for six weeks.

After 28-year-old Lyft driver Erica Westfield learns her pop star sister is dead, the last thing she wants to deal with is a stupid hacker threatening to delete her sister’s Facebook profile. Let alone a hacker who brings up Bloody Mary. Since childhood, when Erica and her sister played the classic game of Bloody Mary one night, she has been haunted by the shadows Mary sent after her through the mirror. They’re always nearby, waiting for the right moment to pull her through to a void somewhere far beyond the cosmos.

After her father's death, Snow shuts herself away in her grief cluttered chambers, but she is plagued by more than painful memories. She will never be safe unless she forgets how her father really died. At last, she escapes into the woods with nothing but a small knife. Rose leaves the sleeping village she grew up in for the first time in search of her missing grandmother.

A collection of one-acts by the Pulitzer-winning playwright, including Close the Book, Suppressed Desires, Tickless Time, Woman's Honor, The People, and Trifles.

From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. As the dutiful second-eldest...

For ten years, Anne Lee told herself that Frederick Nam was her past. To save her father from bankruptcy, she dropped out of UC San Diego to pursue an acting career in Korea. Anne had to stop Frederick from following her and ruining his future. Breaking up with him was the best way she could love him. After Anne left him, Frederick spent years loving her, missing her, and hating her until he decided to live his life for himself. He followed his dream and became a firefighter in Culver City. He didn’t need romance. He had his work and his friends.

They say youth is fleeting, but what if you could fake it for a little while longer—even forever? It’s possible thanks to the Crown Serum. As the twentieth anniversary for the world’s only legitimate wrinkle wonder cure approaches, newspaper reporter Goldie Hays lands an interview with its elusive maker, Sarah Crown. Too bad Goldie’s dealing with a broken heart at the same time. And to think, it was only a month ago on her fortieth birthday that she was saying “I love you” for the first time to her much younger boyfriend.

A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Glamour, LitHub, New Scientist, The Nerd Daily, Library Journal, and more! Doppelgängers, corporate intrigue, heartbreak, betrayal, and the harsh permanence of the border: Sublimation is a thrilling and provocative debut for fans of Severance that asks...

Why are so many people unhappy at work, if they choose the work they do? After teaching as a professor at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Ivey Business School in Canada, Bryan Hong shares his observations based on hundreds of conversations with his students before and after graduation.