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Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poetry as exemplified by Ariel. Beyond her writing, however, interest in Plath has also been fueled in part by the tragic nature of her death. As a result, a steady stream of biographies of Plath have appeared over the last fifty-five years that mainly focus on her death or contain projections of an array of points of view about the writer.

I was born to wear a crown, to obey my father’s command, to be a pawn on the blood-soaked board of war. But duty feels like chains tightening with every breath, and I have learned to live in shadows—sneaking into hidden towns, drinking, singing, pretending I am free for just one night. Then I met him. Ilian. The one man I should never have touched. His smile is my ruin, his hands my undoing, his love a fire that makes me forget the cold weight of my name. Every stolen moment with him fills the hollow places in my chest I thought would remain empty forever.

With Earth under invasion and no home to return to, Rinyv seeks refuge with her childhood friend, Minato Herman. Grateful for the Hermans' hospitality, she becomes their guardian, shielding them from the horrors outside. As weeks pass without help arriving, hope dwindles and despair tightens its grip. To make matters worse, a terrifying creature obliterates their sanctuary one night, thrusting Rinyv and Minato into a world filled with dangers.

In a world where predator shifters known as Shields are gifted with strength, endurance, and healing, she still stands apart. As the world’s only dragon-shifter, Delphine is more deadly than any Shield in history.

After defeating one of El-Bona's strongest lackeys, Rinyv wakes up on the remote island she and her friends had been searching for. But instead of finding her comrades, she is trapped in a brutal prison where mutants endure relentless training under a cruel regime. As Rinyv navigates this harsh new reality, a monstrous threat rises from the sea, ready to annihilate everyone on the island. The aliens also close in, determined to capture their queen—and this time, they’ll stop at nothing.

A sinister presence delights in Rinyv's torment, relentlessly pursuing and killing her after she turns fifteen. Now, having encountered death four times already, the girl is living her fifth life hoping to alter her fate and put an end to this endless cycle of suffering. As the terrifying age of fifteen approaches and chaotic events lead people down the path of despair, Rinyv can't help but do everything in her power to overcome her trauma and grow stronger.

As many as 2.5 million Americans suffer from ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia), devastating chronic illnesses that to date has no test for diagnosis. A lesser-known condition, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, considered to be a genetic connective tissue disease, affects every system of the body, particularly the nervous system. These debilitating diseases can be so difficult to properly diagnose that patients, often bedridden with pain, exhaustion, and many other symptoms, go through further hell when they are not believed that they’re sick.

Sage and Gavin have made it to Mystaira, but danger stalks them across the continent and in the shadows. The threats are mounting throughout Panchia. Nowhere and no one is safe. The Dark Born continue to rise, with the help of President Ranquer, laying waste to the land and tormenting their captives with unspeakable horrors. Their strange new power jeopardizes the fragile peace that has been built. Wave after wave of devastation hits the people of Panchia. The only way to save themselves is to find the insignia lost when Sage first plummeted into Felysia, dropping from a fireball from the sky.

STOLEN: LOVE AND LOSS IN THE TIME OF COVID • 19 is a raw and gripping diary account of the battle Jaeger’s dad endured with COVID • 19 in New York City. The narrative brings you into the heart of her family as they come to terms with his death and learn to cope with his absence. In flashbacks throughout the narrative, vignettes illustrate her dad in happier times–a doting father, an adoring grandfather, a man who always put family first.

In the dazzling realm of reality television, where love and drama entwine in a complicated dance as old as time, a groundbreaking series emerges that transcends the ordinary. The Love Demand is not your typical reality show. Lacey Fellows isn’t sure she wants to subject herself to further humiliation, however, on the off chance her girlfriend may agree to accept a second marriage proposal, Lacey reluctantly consents to participating in the new reality show. What she doesn’t count on is meeting a kindred spirit—one she can’t seem to shake from her thoughts.

Salad Days vacillates between youth-driven cultures of mid-nineties era Jersey and early aughts Portland. As the dual story unfolds, we witness the twenty-something protagonist, Ana, as she takes a crack at being an adult, navigating friendships and searching for intimate relationships, maintaining jobs and managing money. All the while, she does her best to repair a broken moral compass without an owner’s manual.

Meet Isa, a 16-year-old girl forced into a marriage with a repugnant war general. To escape her suffocating existence, she takes a daring step—cutting off her hair and fleeing through the grimy sewers, determined to start life anew as a boy. Isa's journey leads her to a group of rebels who mistake her for her deceased brother, Iden. As she grapples with her new identity, she discovers that not all men are the enemy. But the thought of revealing her true self to the rebel group sends shivers down her spine.

It tells the story of TayAri Unicorn Princess, an Egregore (just a fancy name for imaginary friend) created by Beth, and through a mixture of poetry and prose, how Beth copes with her various mental health diagnoses by interacting with TayAri in both Unicorn Land and "meatspace".

Inspired by the classic movie The Parent Trap, two adorable black kittens, Midnight and Onyx, play matchmakers for their human mothers, Mac and Carmen. Struggling with the complexities of farm life, Mac can barely believe her beautiful girlfriend, Carmen, has agreed to move to the drafty old farmhouse to live with her and her beloved Pops. When Carmen is forced to leave the farm to care for her ailing mother, Midnight and Onyx as well as Mac and Carmen must struggle with the difficult separation.

When Arnie refuses surgery for his bum knee, Laurel takes the family on a relaxing trip to the beautiful sunset coast on Lake Michigan to recuperate. Accompanying them are Arnie’s sixteen-year-old son, Sawyer, and things are made even better when their close friends Claire and Charles join them for a visit.

The Dunwhitty family is flying high until their carefully choreographed life falls apart during the 2008 Great Recession. Lisa's firm goes belly-up while Michael's shuts down after selling faulty heart valves. Desperate, Lisa insists they regroup by seeking refuge in rural Central Texas on land she inherits from a distant relative she barely knows.

War in Barria isn’t anything new. The tribes on the vast island country have been battling each other for decades, but this time is different. A leader has learned how to power his spells without ageing, the normal cost of casting magic. Headmaster Theodore Flax from Torr University of Magic has seen it for himself and knows once the leader has consolidated power in his own country his eye will turn west. He urgently needs to find Talented before war comes to them all.

Samantha Wilson is an award-winning freelance writer with a passion for being the voice of others. Despite vowing never to go back, she returns to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for an assignment. Her return awakens memories that force her to confront her sad and lonely childhood, including the violent attack she'd rather forget. Moving away and making a quiet, successful solo life for herself, leaving the life she knew behind cannot keep Sammie from facing her past.