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Lexi Kent-Monning's debut novel, The Burden of Joy, is an incessant dagger to the heart. After Lexi's husband leaves her on Valentine's Day to join a commune that time forgot, her home stops belonging to her. Instead, she discovers a parade of dead animals, a man who turns her blue eyes green, true love in equal parts cocaine and MDMA, and a revolving door of solitude. In the end, Lexi must ask herself, is her craving to nurture virtuous or he...

A fable for all ages of how Rufus Fox leads a group of city Animals to celebrate Christmas to understand it, transforming himself and Animals not usually friendly into a family by discovering love for one another is at the heart of Christmas.

Magic breeds misery Augusta fails to hold her family together, despite her magical gift for binding. Her cracked world breaks wide open the day her father decides to declare her vanished mother dead. Retracing the steps her mother took before fleeing promises to heal Augusta . . . or reveal the wrongness at the heart of her magic. Luella loves her home of farms and fields amid swamps-but her magic ensures she finds every lost thing. One too ...

Ablation is an elegy to Stegeman LeMay's mom, who died in 2020, and, simultaneously, a love letter to Stegeman LeMay's young daughter. The book was written in the liminal spaces opened by birth, death, and trauma. It contains poems, hybrid text, images as windows and thread as a form of healing. The book's materials coalesce and surface, waves washing along the thresholds of control and chaos, form and formlessness. These thresholds become poi...

Jean loves to dance on ice. Her family doesn't. When a neighboring town hosts a skating competition, Jean wants to prove dancing on ice is just as good as regular dancing. A book about being true to yourself

Jean loves to dance on ice. Her family doesn't. When a neighboring town hosts a skating competition, Jean wants to prove dancing on ice is just as good as regular dancing. A book about being true to yourself

Across Astral Realms, book #1 in the Astral Alliance series, is a space adventure for young adults. Branded as a pirate, collared like a dog, chained to a wall at night, and isolated as a prisoner on a journey to another planet, could the situation get any worse for thirteen-year-old Megan Willis? Much worse. Megan's parents have been sentenced to death, and now she is speeding away through a space-fabric wormhole, unable to try to save th...

Confucius sits in his chair. A mute uncle utters his first word in decades. A talking potato is sworn to confidentiality. These are stories written with Liang Wern Fook's left hand. All authors write with this hand, coaxing out left-handed stories from a right-handed reality. Liang has been writing with his right hand for a long time, but in this thought-provoking collection, he has returned to his left, crafting stories that surprise even his...

Frances Thomas was born in Wales, where she now lives, having spent many years in London. She has written various books for adults and children, including a biography of Christina Rossetti. She has won the Welsh Arts Council's Tir na nOg prize four times for her children's books. She has also written two 'poetry journals', A Bracelet of Bright Hair and Dancing in the Chequered Shade. Her most recent work is the Girls of Troy quartet, published...

On Christmas Eve, Mrs. Claus is usually alone as Santa delivers toys to children around the world. But this year, she finds herself with a mischievous puppy who brings endless adventures to her night.¿

La Sra. Claus siempre pasa sola la Noche buena mientras Santa Claus reparte los regalos a todos los niños del mundo. Sin embargo, este año, conocerá a un travieso cachorro con el que vivirá una noche de interminables aventuras.

Across Time and Space Book 6 of 7. Time to go home - ready or not. Jon is an accidental time-traveller. He's lived as a nobleman, as a refugee and most recently, in the supernatural Mountain of Glass. None of those places are home - which is the place he desperately wants to avoid. But he'll have to return to the world of the distant future. It's a place where people's worth is determined by the Creature they're pledged to, and after a life...

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SAND ROSES is a tale of resistance, sisterhood and the shameful past of two colliding nations. This extraordinarily immersive narrative thrusts its reader into the Algerian city of Bousaada during the 1930s and the story of the Nailiya dancers.

There are not many books that empathize with people who feel lost and hopeless at the holidays and then earnestly desire to help them towards finding new hope. Too often in books about this time of year, there is an assumption that everyone at Thanksgiving and Christmas is happy, excited, and faith-filled. By writing it creatively through the lens of A Christmas Carol, whose main character is known to so many people as one who makes this spiri...

All he wants for Christmas is her.Dave Richardson's life hasn't turned out the way he thought it would. He never expected to slink back to his hometown of Rochester two years ago and take a bartending job, nor did he expect he'd still be tending said bar. Everyone thought he would achieve great things. Hell, he'd believed he would achieve great things. But when Vivian Walters walked into his bar, wearing that dress, on a random Wednesday nig...

Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks always found a way to tell his story. He was one of the first rappers to record songs through a prison phone in the early '90s (much to the dismay of his jailors). His untimely death in 2004 left a wound in the Bay Area hip-hop scene that's never quite healed. This is the complete story of how Mac Dre became one of the most important rap stars on the West Coast, told through the eyes and voices of those who witnessed his ...

Die beiden ersten Herzöge von Sachsen-Meiningen waren besessen von der Idee, mit Hilfe von alchemischen Prozessen Gold herzustellen. So verlockend die Vorstellung unermesslichen und unversiegenden Reichtums auch war: Die Versuche kosteten Unmengen Zeit, Geld und Reputation. Immer wieder nahmen die beiden Fürsten zwischen 1680 und 1724 Alchemisten unter Vertrag, die sich als Scharlatane entpuppten. Den "Stein der Weisen" fanden sie nicht, nur A...

Molly the Beagle is broken. She knows it, and soon everyone else will too. Molly has been abandoned by a cruel owner, left alone to fend for herself in the streets. She is hurt, she is hungry, and most of all Molly is unloved. She tries to make friends but everywhere she goes, she is turned away, treated harshly, told to leave. When all hope is lost, Molly meets her miracle... a girl whose very special gift is just what Molly needs to see the ...

The game of cat and mouse had lasted a week and covered many miles before Rogue Bishop tired of it. His pursuer was Rory Ballinashawn, a cowboy who was unwilling to accept graciously his defeat by Bishop in a game of poker.