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Have you met Roxy Reinhardt? Roxy believed that life never gives you more than you can handle. But when she's fired from her wage-slave job, bullied by her co-workers, and her boyfriend abandons her, she decides she’s handled quite enough. Eager for a change of scene, Roxy heads off to New Orleans and embarks on an adventure that challenges and transforms her as she invests in a culture that is far and away different from anything she has experienced before.

As Elijah’s bakery swarms with excitement, camera crews, and the possibility of Roxy's friend winning a coveted spot on a TV show, his unpleasant rival for the job goes missing. When the rival is found dead in a dumpster, Roxy wants to learn more. . She can’t help but be curious when another death rocks her part of the city. But police quickly close the case with a flimsy excuse that raises eyebrows. And color Roxy skeptical. Determined to uncover the truth, she starts asking questions, but the cops aren’t talking. Not even when another body bites the dust.

Roxy Reinhardt always played it safe. But when her secure and stable life crumbled to pieces she packed her bags, grabbed her cat, and moved to New Orleans. But as the new owner of the Funky Cat Inn, a newly-refurbished guesthouse in the Big Easy, she's starting to wonder if she bit off more than she can chew. With the help of her quirky new friends, Roxy is determined to make her business venture a success.

Roxy believed that life never gives you more than you can handle. But when she's fired from her wage-slave job, bullied by her co-workers, and her boyfriend abandons her, she decides she’s handled quite enough. Eager for a change of scene, Roxy, with her white Persian cat Nefertiti, head off to New Orleans.

When famous psychic Meredith Romanoff visits New Orleans, getting wrapped up in another mystery is the last thing Roxy would have predicted. Too bad the spirits had other plans. Roxy finds herself invited to join in a spooky séance but when the lights come up, Meredith has left the land of the living. And to make matters worse, Roxy’s friend Dr. Jack is arrested for her murder. When he asks Roxy to help clear his name, she finds herself confronted with yet another puzzling case, along with a gaggle of quirky suspects.

Emancipating from foster care and struggling to move forward from her traumatic past, 18 year-old Brewen's got no family and nowhere to go. Her best friend, Destiny smuggles her into her dorm room and her heart. Dissociations, a boyfriend who reeks of deception, Brewen risks home and friendship to guarantee Destiny's safety. To save Destiny, Brewen must save herself. To save herself, Brewen must save Destiny.

Allie Krane is heavily pregnant when she and her husband flee urban life after a rash of eco-terrorism breaks out in their city. They reinvent themselves as the proprietors of a northwoods fishing resort, where they live in relative peace for nearly two decades. That is, until two strange children arrive by canoe. Like the small ecological disasters lapping yearly at their shore, have the problems of the modern world finally found Allie, her husband, and their troubled cypher of a teenage daughter?

I come from a long, extensive family of vampire hunters. I moved to Harrisonburg, Virginia to take care of my little sister, also a vampire huntress. But trouble calls me on speed dial and I discover a string of murders in town at the hands of a vampire. This isn’t a normal vamp, though. He’s playing with dark magic, something I’ve never dealt with before. On top of that, there’s a wolf pack in town and their alpha, Tyler Perkins, has fallen head over heels for me. To make matters worse, my sister dies at the hands of the vampire. Could my life get any more effed up?

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A bomb explodes in a small town square on a Sunday morning, leaving three bodies behind - including one of the terrorists. Criminal investigators Payne and Letham must bring the perpetrators to justice...before the next bomb goes off. As a seasoned investigator for the Caliza County Sheriff’s Office, Sarah Jo Payne knows that most crime is exactly what it appears to be.

For years, I’ve been planning my escape. Preparing for the day when I could leave home and never look back. But when the moment came, it didn’t happen like I had planned. I didn’t pack up my car and drive away, watching my old life disappear in the rearview mirror like I had always envisioned I would. Instead, I ran — quite literally — as fast and far as my feet would take me. I didn’t know where I was going, only that I had to get away. And that’s when he found me....

They say everything happens for a reason - that there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel. For the longest time, I didn’t think that was true. I had stumbled around in the dark for so many years that I didn’t think I would ever find my way out. But when I finally did, it came in the most unexpected way. Miles Hollins had been my brother’s best friend for as long as I could remember. We didn’t like each other much growing up. Or rather, we couldn’t stand each other.

Party girl. Art thief. All around bad girl. It's what all the newspapers call socialite and heiress Kate Sparrow. It's all untrue. Kate's been set up, and she's following the orders of the FBI to get the real criminal, her father. She'll have to put up with her sister, the wedding fiasco, and her own fears that someone is after her, trying to stop her to get what she needs to prove her innocence.

Raised in foster homes, 18-year-old Chloe Henderson hopes for a sunnier future with boyfriend Trace Rodriguez and the child they're expecting. On what Chloe thinks is a Sunday outing, Trace pulls up to a convenience store in a rundown San Francisco neighborhood. Chloe is horrified when he robs the store and kills the clerk and a customer, ADA Roy Walker. Afraid of losing the one person who's ever loved her, Chloe helps Trace escape and becomes an accomplice to an appalling crime.

Every Sunday Savannah Ray gets an email from her dead dad. She doesn't know how the emails work but she's finally ready to start looking for answers. To find those answers she has to go to the one place she swore she'd never set foot in after he died - Haunted Valley, the amusement park. Once there and on the hunt for answers she is distracted by the charming Dallas and falls hard for him. When the answers she finds aren't what she expected and Dallas betrays her, Savannah must make a choice.

Timely, insightful, and heartbreakingly honest, Grace Leigh’s first novel offers a fresh new voice to examine friendship, love, identity, and what it takes to find your way when it feels like you’re completely adrift.

Selfiebear: We Are Perfect encourages children to appreciate their unique qualities and to unconditionally accept themselves and others. The lovable character Selfiebear make the book attractive to children.

SELFIEBEAR HAS TWO FRIENDS reinforces the important concepts of SELFIEBEAR: WE ARE PERFECT, to which it is a standalone sequel: Children should appreciate their unique qualities, and they should unconditionally accept themselves and others. Yet in SELFIEBEAR HAS TWO FRIENDS, Selfiebear is joined by Reflections, a female character. Together, they encourage children to accept others–including people new to their family or group of friends–regardless of gender. Entertaining illustrations and lovable characters make the book attractive to children.

In "Are You Done Being An Asshole?" Kit fearlessly navigates the turbulent aftermath of Chris' infidelity, offering a candid exploration of the pain inflicted and the path to redemption. With unflinching honesty, Kit recounts the tumultuous journey they embarked upon together, confronting the wreckage of betrayal and the daunting task of rebuilding trust.