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Miranda returns home to spend what might be her last Christmas with her father. Hoping for a quiet holiday filled with memories and forgiveness, she agrees to housesit for a couple she’s known all her life. But the peace she expects never comes. Instead, a secret admirer begins leaving her handwritten notes, each one with two names and a simple message: choose one to receive a gift. Miranda believes it’s strange but harmless. She’s wrong. Each name she chooses marks a life to be taken, and every “gift” comes wrapped in guilt and blood.

Charlotte Sauvin has always seen the world differently. At home on 33 Place Brugmann, in the heart of Brussels, her father and her closest friends and neighbours – the Raphaëls from the fourth floor, and Masha from the fifth – have ensured her secret is safe. But when the Nazis invade Belgium, and Masha and the Raphaëls disappear, Charlotte must navigate her new world alone.

Adrian DeLuca is one of Brynn U’s star hockey players. And in a college town like Brynn, California, playing for the Ice Dragons is almost like being a mini-celebrity. So, when Adrian’s first crush comes back to town, he can’t help but flaunt his new celebrity status in front of the older man.

Eye-opening and candid, David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon. 'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' – Daily Mail 'Brilliant' – Telegraph David Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960 with his revolutionary photographs...

Hollywood vs. The Author is a collection of non-fiction anecdotes by authors who’ve had the pleasure of experiencing the development room firsthand - some who have successfully managed to straddle the two worlds, seeing their works morph into the kinds of feature films and TV shows that make them proud, and others who stepped blindsided into that room after selling their first or second novels. All the stories in this collection illustrate the great divide between the world of literature and the big or small screen.

Trapped in one of the last territories where omegas have no rights, Astra only has two options: to be auctioned off to the highest bidder or to try to become one of the prized Jewel Omegas. When Astra’s best friend is forced into an arranged marriage, they decide to have one night of freedom by sneaking out to attend a night parade. Only, Astra never expects to meet an Alpha, let alone a demon Alpha who lights his soul on fire. Maven is a Prince of the Fourth Kingdom of the Demon Realm, and he is bored.

After losing the only family I’ve ever known, all I want is a fresh start. What I get instead is the most gorgeous man I’ve ever seen, claiming he’s some kind of magical tracker. And now, he’s telling me that not only am I a witch, but that I come from an elite coven. A magical family who have been searching for me for years. Oh! And did I mention I just walked in on him and all his glorious tentacles? Yup. Merry Christmas to me.

Zachy doesn't mean to be naughty, and with Christmas coming up, he's doubling his efforts to be good, despite nagging feelings that it's much too late for his efforts. Will this overly excitable little finally find the Daddy of his dreams beneath the tree, or will Santa skip Zachy's house again this year, and leave him with nothing to celebrate.

Sweet Home, Strange History: An Irreverent History of Alabama pulls no punches and spares no sacred cows. With sharp humor and plenty of grit, it dives into the contradictions that make Alabama unforgettable: pride and shame, resilience and stubbornness, politics that stumble, and football that redeems it all. From Creek mounds to cotton fields, from George Wallace’s finger wagging to Nick Saban’s trophies, this is Alabama in all its messy glory.

Set in Northfield, an understaffed military psychiatric hospital immediately before the NHS is founded, Walking Wounded is the story of a doctor and his patient: David Reece, a young journalist-to-be whose wartime experiences in Burma have come back to haunt him violently; and Daniel Carter, one of the senior psychiatrists, a man who is fighting his own battles as well as those of his patients.

Jerry Blaze brings back a haunting and spicy story of love, lust and shock! After a successful breakout from a prison transport, an inmate named Shiloh and his young lover, Hayden, go on a blood-soaked rampage on the people that broke them up. However, not all is what it seems and secrets will be revealed before the final act of vengeance is served. This novel will leave you breathless as you follow the exploits of two men on a mission of revenge!

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Literary Fiction and Classics “Wonderful reading.” —Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel—a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle, told in the singular voices of the...

When nineteen-year-old Elara returns to her grandmother’s ridge house in the Appalachian hollow, she finds more than heirlooms waiting. A sycamore tree as pale as bone stands watch, a cracked pocket watch stops at 10:17 each day, and a ledger filled with rules whispers what it costs to live here: Kin before names. Bread before bargains. Never pay in leaving. The hollow keeps storms, secrets, and sometimes people. If you feed it heels of bread and speak plain, it will mind its side of the fence.

The hive is not dead. Though Celia and Ambrose sever its first heart, the silence spreads deeper, twisting roots into the soil of the village itself. As suspicion turns the townsfolk into enemies, the pair must descend into tunnels no one dared enter, where skulls whisper and memories bleed. To destroy the hive, Celia must sacrifice more than her life—she must sever her dearest memories. But in Graysmire, love and grief are bound, and what is cut away can never be reclaimed.