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I never saw Noah Weston coming. He swept into my life like an unexpected storm, but soon, he was everything to me. Until tragedy struck. One day, I was planning the rest of my life with my soulmate, and the next, I was picking up the pieces of a love so strong, it broke me apart. It took three years to put myself back together.

Read by a full cast. Nick Brooks's Promise Boys is a trailblazing, dark YA mystery about three teen boys of colour who must investigate their principal’s murder to clear their own names. For fans of Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds, and Karen McManus. 'Thrilling . . . Promise Boys will stay with...

Raven was dead; at least, that's what the world thought. Now, she's not only been found alive but thrown into what is referred to as the world's most sadistic reality game show. There are two hundred and forty-nine other contestants, but only five will be announced as winners.

Vampires had taken everything from Quinn Hogan during the war. She had spent her entire life hiding from them. The last thing Quinn wanted in life was to be matched to one. Each human was required by law to enter the draft. Her name was randomly picked for submitting her blood sample. Then Quinn matched with a vampire. Now she was being shipped off to some random vampire who would probably bleed her dry. As the warden of Northwest America, there was no time for Velika Riskel to take a mate. One look into Quinn's hazel eyes and all of that changed.

Miles Morales as Spider-Man is a coming-of-age tale of a smart, affable teen coming into his power. From his reluctance to becoming a super hero to his desire to help others, to the rocky balance between his school life and super hero responsibilities, Miles is always at the precipice of making tough decisions—choices whose consequences are as weighted in his personal life as they often are for the survival of the world.

There are many rules to follow as your mom’s guest at the company holiday party.

Billionaire Damien has always dreamed of being a father.... But after his long-term partner cheats on him, all his dreams suddenly disappear! Amber is feeling the exact same sentiment, although only in regards to her soul-crushing debt. And surrogacy might be the only answer to her financial woes! She agrees to bear Damien’s child in exchange for more money than she could ever imagine. The plan was to keep it all business and not to over complicate things. But they never expected to be attracted to each other!

Betrayal has a bitter taste. It needs to be sweetened with a heavy dose of revenge. Before he was the Host, he was just a man in unrequited love, trying to keep his promises. Raven isn't done escaping death. She isn't done with this country. She isn't done with this game. And she isn't done with doing what she does best. Being underestimated. The game isn't over, but as it nears the end she starts to fully question. Why are the winners never seen again? Why is the Host so familiar? And what exactly does 197 want from her?

After a terrifying stunt gone wrong leaves her plummeting into the tops of forest trees, a shaken Darcy Lott is dispatched by her Zen master to a remote monastery in California's redwood forest to face her worst fear—but also to deliver a message. This monastery has its own secrets. A student has disappeared and is feared dead.

Set among the wistful Victorians of San Francisco, the second installment of the Darcy Lott series finds stuntwoman Darcy once again plagued by murder. Recently returned to San Francisco to assist her Zen teacher in his new zendo, Darcy cannot shake the pain of her brother's disappearance. When she spies him on the roof of the zendo, she hurries to catch him—and finds him gone.

Nick and Paula DeCello are getting divorced in seven days, even though they love each other dearly. His overprotectiveness has finally become too much for her, and there's something painful locked deep inside him. Desperate, Nick takes the advice of a quirky, old fortune teller to find his wife's "heart craving."

San Francisco stunt double Darcy Lott specializes in creating the illusion of serious danger. But when her lawyer brother calls and asks her to wine and dine a mysterious client, the danger is no illusion. Darcy takes an instant liking to the client, Karen Johnson, but there are too many unanswered questions. Karen claims to be getting a divorce, but Darcy’s brother Gary doesn’t handle divorces.

Harmonious Jade is one of the deadliest women in the legendary time that is the Second Age of Man. Chosen by the Unconquered Sun himself, she has been remade into a demigod whose bow can fell whole companies of men. With that exaltation, however, have come echoes of ancient memories and a sense that she must use her gifts for some greater purpose. Chasing these phantasms of a past life and the trail of the demonic cultists who raised and betrayed her, she comes to the trading city of Nexus.

"The girls are worried about Lauren. She’s saying things that are scaring them.” These two text messages from my best friends began a chain of events that led to us being blindsided by suicide. Our 14-year-old daughter made her attempt at ending her life in our bedroom and succumbed to her injuries seven hours later. My bright, beautiful, talented, brave, funny, and serious daughter was gone. No one saw it coming.

Katherine Itacy was born deformed and, by the age of four, had developed both a dangerous spinal disorder and an incurable disease. Yet, 13 years later, she'd amassed five state and eight national high school championship titles in track and field. She went on to compete in the Division I NCAA Championships and, later, to graduate fourth in her law school class. By 25, she was operating her own law firm and by 29 was serving on three boards of directors for civil rights and criminal justice nonprofit organizations.

Zelda swore off men, trading romance for her six beloved cats. She never even allowed a man to get “over the finish line” before swearing off them for good. She wants real love and has never found it. When her favorite kitty gets stuck in a tree, hunky fireman Lance shows up to save the day, dripping in sweat and built like a corn-fed dream come true. His firm hands and smoldering stare make her question her vow of chastity... and soon, he’s rescuing her in ways she never imagined.

Alyssa, 22 years old and still a virgin, replies to an ad’ looking for a surrogate for the older, rich and powerful billionaire businessman, Brett Wolfram. She is whisked away to his mysterious mansion in a far off land to be prepared for natural impregnation. There, Alyssa is indoctrinated into the seductive world of the werewolf, and becomes caught up in a centuries-old blood feud between Wolfram and his younger, incredibly handsome brother, Sal.

Beauty for Ashes: Life Lessons in Verse is a redemptive journey told in three parts; the pain of trauma, the struggle to heal, and the beauty of overcoming. With more than 50 captivating poems, you’re sure to find several that will inspire you to push past your pain and seek healing for yourself. Written with raw emotion and told with a biblical slant, these are poems about real-life women who found the courage to keep going. Get lost with them in their ashes, struggle with them through their in-between, and come out on the other side of their beauty.

Is it possible to move on once you have lost the love of your life? That's the question that Misha was harshly confronted with when she lost the love of her life, Emmett, just a month before their wedding. In an instant, her world was rocked, and life as she once knew it changed drastically. She vows to herself to never be open to love again, in fear of ever having to go through the type of pain she had to endure behind Emmett…until she met Emanuel.

A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black...