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Victorian England... When her murderous father escapes from an institution, a young girl is forced to flee to safety with secretive pickpocket Anna. Disguised as a boy called Viktor, and drawn into Anna's mysterious activities, she is catapulted into a strange investigation, and learns that Anna may be able to help her uncover the mystery of her mother's disappearance. As she and Anna find friendship, Viktor's disguise brings empowerment a...

Winner of Kirkus Award for Independent novels, Dorie LaRue's remarkable collection of short stories from the postmodern South bears witness to the complicated lives of its characters as willful and courageous, doomed and redeemed. This book is about mothers and daughters and fathers and sons in a new age of rapidly changing roles. The truths that are impossible to ignore, the pain passed between generations will take readers on a journey of ad...

A century of climate change has disrupted any sense of a global order, tangling the notions of a developed and developing world. In orbit and nearing completion after half a century of construction is the Tevat, an interstellar ark designed to grant a few thousand believers the chance to start anew on a planet several lightyears away. Funded by the richest man to ever live, the journey will require generations of inhabitants, the initial citiz...

The recently murdered Queen Nefertiti of Egypt stands before the gods in the Underworld. To be granted eternal life, she must convince them her life has been worthy. Should she fail, she will be consigned to oblivion. To prove her worthiness, she undertakes a review of her life - from the moment when, as a child, the gods assigned her the task of maintaining cosmic balance, to her turbulent forced marriage to Akhenaten, the one Pharaoh in Eg...

Those with power and authority work to keep it. Those without suffer or accept their fate. Joanna is at the top of the Gaia hierarchy, but she has survived loss. First the disappearance of her twin brother then the murder of her future wife.

The Hero of Mount Vere. The dragon slayer and protector of the realm from the monsters beyond the wall. That is who her husband is to be. He brings all the promise of salvation from the torments of her unhappy family, but all she can offer are secrets. Instead of a legitimate daughter to one of the most prominent Ducals, she is a secret illegitimate child. Not beloved like her sisters, but the scorn of her father's eye. A budding Mystic with...

Against a backdrop of unrest and unforeseen political change, a trio of bygone friends converge in San Francisco. Jonathan is haunted by his past and can't move forward. Kit, his former student, is disillusioned and in a slump. Milo inhabits the center-the axis of the triangle. Beneath his clownlike behavior and dazzling grin, Milo's tender heart and wisdom transforms those he loves. Larkspur will transport you back to the pre-digital 1980s....

Kate is a neuroscientist who covets logic and order, unless she's sleeping with her married lab director, and then logic goes out the window. So does her orderly life in Manhattan when she's fired over the affair and Kate's mother presses her to accept responsibility for her fifteen-year-old nephew, Teague, an orchid child who hears voices and talks to trees but rarely people. To salvage her career, Kate agrees to conduct a study in West Ire...

Brigid Humboldt is a high school teacher who has worked hard to fashion a predictable, ordinary life after an anything but ordinary childhood. When scientists turn on the Large Hadron Collider, Brigid, inexplicably, becomes the co ruler of, well, everything. She quickly realises that not only must she learn the ropes of a new and not particularly welcomed job, she must also try and work out just which of the apparently multitudinous dark force...

What is legitimized and normalized by the discrimination and institutionalized violence the de la Cruz family is forced to face? Miguelito might survive in his new adopted country, but at what price? The novel opens with the death of Manuel de la Cruz who is wasting away from dementia. He once was a henchman for the brutal Cuban dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. As he lays dying, he becomes lucid enough during the last minutes of life to be h...

When eight-year-old Bethany is kidnapped from her prairie home in the winter of 1870, her older brother James will stop at nothing to rescue her-even if that means traveling the dangerous Santa Fe Trail. At sixteen, James isn't exactly sure what it means to "grow up." He only knows that his mother blames him for Bethany's kidnapping, and he has to make things right. Overpowering his fear of the unknown, he launches into a quest for justice a...

Two uniquely disturbing tales of not-so-common and cuddly cats and dogs. Cats takes seven members of Montana's Lincoln County Sheriff's Department to the remote and abandoned Sweet Grass Psychiatric Hospital for a week of uninterrupted tactical training. The hospital was closed a decade earlier after a suspicious fire that swept through the top floors, killing staff and patients. The legend of a mysterious Catman settles into the long lore o...

He hates clichés. It's apparent in every dust-filled corner of his life. While he's pouring one too many drinks, hovering in the airless loop of his apartment to savor every bit of his misery, and pinching his bruised heart whenever memories flood forward, he's chronically blocked from writing his next novel. He hates taking the path most trodden. Overanalyzing everything as if it's a scientific experiment - too proud to take advice or to gr...

Binary Logic is the perfect merge of content and form-exploring concepts of literary genre with revelatory narrative. It is a collection of tales touching on relational dysfunction, the conflicts inherent in addiction and fear, and the legacy of female future time lords. The stories all create a bridge between the reckoning imagination and the spirit of free will and self-made destiny. Binary Logic quietly asks the question, "Where is the mind...

Fifteen-year-old Obie hates the word "artificial." It has to be the Most Misunderstood Word of the Year 2100. The media puts it in front of anything. They started with artificial intelligence and now it goes with housing, law enforcement, and in Obie's case, her heart. Just because Obie's vital organ was 3D-printed doesn't mean that she's fake. She's simply misunderstood, especially by Humanists. They think that artificial organ recipients l...

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Their final battle has come, and Chaos will not surrender. The danger and risks have never been more real for Claire. She has spent her adult life fending off his relentless attacks, and now only wants to protect those she loves, but in doing so, she places everyone at greater risk. Born of two sacred lines created by Carling, generations before, Aroha must face Chaos. Young, and unsure of herself, Aroha looks to her godmother for guidanc...

It started the day she heard Daddy slur, "She ain't mine. You had the nerve to name her Dawn. Look at her! You shudda named her Midnight!" Then Daddy left . . . for good. And the loving music that had filled Dawn's life went silent. That was the day that a "Midnight" Duckling appeared in the mirror, took up residence in her chest, and controlled her ability to breathe. That was the day she learned to recognize "leaving time" . . . her superp...

Lost and alone, they gave Tony a home and family. Now, the only parents he's known are gone, but their daughter survived. His graveside promise to watch over and protect her, becomes more than he bargained for. Forever a Watcher Taking to the shadows, living on the edge of his own life, and controlled by those he hates, Tony isn't sure who to trust. His promise, turned obsession, he finds himself drawn, by the sentinels, into her ongoing...