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Thrust into a world 116 years in the past, Adrienne Phillips must decipher the enigmatic words of her dying grandmother. "Butterfly; Go to Henri. The woman in pink." With the help of a can-can dancer and a castaway caught in the past, Adrienne attempts to solve the riddle. The answer lies in a well-known painting by Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge: The Dance.

Emily is running. Escaping a past haunted with memories, attempting to create a clean slate. Leaving virtually all she has behind, her last dollar gets her to nowhere USA. Taking a job as a waitress, she delivers the very finest Vinny's Roadhouse has to offer. There she finds normalcy, happiness, and a sense of belonging like she has never experienced. Until one day, a forgotten diary reminds her that she is running, and she cannot hide forever.

Welcome to the busy, industrial port city of Steamkettle Bay, the second-largest city in all of Industralia. It's filled with manufacturing factories, airship docks, inventors, artists, and lots and lots of streetwise, clever kids. It's a warm Saturday in the summer of 1872, and somewhere in Steamkettle Bay, bad things are happening. Can Paisley Pockets and Christopher Cogan stop a crime in progress? They may be just a couple of kids, but where there's a will, and some smarts, there just might be a way.

Seven Thin Dimes takes listeners to the heart of what family means, and the value of the things in life that money cannot buy. Select memories of Janet Roberts' childhood visits to her grandmother's house in McDonald, Pennsylvania, are captured here in this engaging, thoughtful memoir. A collection of essays, it was originally written as a gift to the author's family following the death of her grandmother, Esther Masquelier, and was never intended for publication.

Spacewing Engineer Skye is activated for a secret engineering mission from the Council involving the desert planet, Vorian, a system that exists deep within the space territory of the Drekynn Empire. After her activation for the mission, Skye is shocked to discover that her ship has docked with the spacecruiser, CSS Artemis. She's never been aboard a cruiser before, nor has she worked with others for an away mission to the surface of a planet.

Emmy is a 30-year-old stuck in a dead-end job she hates, but life takes a pleasantly unexpected turn when she wins a contest to own and operate a chocolate shop in northern Minnesota. When she leaves the big city for a fresh start (despite knowing nothing about business or candy making), fun, romance, and little mystery follow. Will her new business succeed? Will the cute guy from the store next door add to her sweet rewards, or will he only be a disaster-level distraction?

One afternoon, while Ben and Jenny play in the garden, Ben notices a pair of extremely hairy legs belonging to a huge creature hiding in their hedge. Just as they investigate, they are called in for tea. From that moment on, the pair attempt to determine what the creature is.