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Seventeen-year-old Tayla Jonas longs for a simple life, but after a traumatizing family loss, she is forced to be both mother and sister to her cousins while caring for her mentally unstable aunt. Moving to her grandma's quiet town of Cody, Wyoming, Tayla finds some normalcy with her quirky green-activist friend, Chel, who wastes no time converting her to vegetarianism.

Ridley Larsen is everything you want in a friend. She's tough as nails, she's fiercely loyal and she's smart as a whip. But she can be a harsh critic, which has put her position with the Magic Misfits on the rocks, even as the threat of the group's longtime enemy Kalagan looms large. Ever since his recent appearance in Mineral Wells, the kids know that a showdown with the vicious magician is imminent. They must first deal with a series of odd instances and random attacks, though, all of which they use to bring themselves closer to discovering where Kalagan may be hiding.

An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherley had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks.

Most people are standing in their own way. Most people let their negative thoughts distract them from the possibilities. Most people don’t even try to take control. But you’re not most people, are you? Mind Hacking Secrets will quickly have you seeing a new perspective. You’ll realize that not only do you have the power to direct your mind, you can use that power to direct your life.

A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in Pakistan. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a girl can go from pauper to princess or princess to pauper in the mere seconds it takes for her to accept a proposal. But Alys Binat is resolute she will not marry. This warm and witty tug-of-love between mothers, daughters and rich, eligible bachelors is a fresh take on Jane Austen’s original.

Invitation compiles the first four episodes of Harbingers, each following a different character. Four strangers with gifts they don't understand soon realise pockets of darkness are emerging throughout the world. Whether it involves a mysterious house, the unexplainable death of animals around the world, or an otherworldly little girl, each puzzle they solve brings them closer to the ultimate explanation of what's happening. But will they discover the truth in time?

Seventeen-year-old Tayla will never forget Beast's fiery-venom spreading through her body like an infection. Now, with her best friend Chel's help, she must find a human true love before the last petal falls from her enchanted rose or the full moon will transform her into a wolf forever. But Tayla never expected that her biggest obstacle would come from inside - a wolf presence threatening to take her very soul.

Theo, our scruffy, big-hearted, and quick-witted heroine, is not so much down on her luck as delivered luckless into a culture where the winners and losers have already been decided. Her adventures in getting over take her from San Francisco to New York City, from dyke bars to telemarketing outfits, casinos to free clinics.

Twenty-one year old, Jessie has been working at the coffee shop to save for college. While she knows better than to get involved with the customers, she can't help herself when it comes to the sexy and highly charismatic Senator Jeff Morrow. Despite their casual daily flirtations, she realizes that Washington's most eligible bachelor is way out of her league and would never be seriously interested in the young virgin from the coffee shop. Or would he?

With her mother shut away with grief, and her aunt busy tending to her, Tamara is lonely and bored and longs to return to Dublin. When a travelling library passes through, Tamara is intrigued. She needs a distraction. Her eyes rest on a large leather bound tome locked with a gold clasp and padlock. With some help, Tamara finally manages to open the book. What she discovers within the pages takes her breath away and shakes her world to its core.

Night after night Elena, Matt, and Tima wake at exactly the same time, with no idea why. It's messing up their lives - so they venture out into the dark and find each other. That's when they realise their astounding power: they can communicate with animals. Something is happening over on the industrial estate, something which is emitting sounds that only they can hear, and it's killing any winged thing that crosses its path. There's nobody to fight it but themselves!

A missing sister. A broken heart. A whole lot of trouble... Rilla is getting married. Except she isn't. She's running away - from her confused fiancé, Simon, her big mad family, and the memories nipping at her heels. Her sister Rose would know what to do in such times of crisis. But the trouble is, Rose is the crisis. She disappeared years ago, and Rilla's heart went missing, too.

Imran was having a day in his life when he stumbled upon a secret message. Inadvertently. Now that he is involved, he cannot step back until he has solved the mystery. In apparently unrelated events, Imran has to find a pattern and a criminal.

Equipped with a burner phone and a new job, Cassie Peters has left her hectic and secretive life in New York City for the refuge of her hometown of Mammoth Lakes, California. There, she begins working again with Yosemite Search and Rescue, where a case she worked a decade ago continues to haunt her.

Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge.

The Imran from Shikral is back. He has discovered a gory conspiracy against his own country. And he will not settle until he has crushed it.

Imran knows he is walking to his death but he is determined to fight it. Alfansay gets beaten in his own den and he prepares a dangerous field. Imran’s actions will blow you away.

Little Inni loves all animals, especially cute little puppies—and now she wants to get one! That's when Mama and Papa take her to an animal adoption centre. Once there, Inni wants to take all the puppies home—after all, they're so cute and adorable! But then she sees the scruffy-looking, floppy-eared Bobo. And her heart is set! She has found her new best friend!

Why are books so powerful? What do the books we read make of us? And what does the vanishing of public libraries say about us? These stories are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us, how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once, how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.

Sleep geek Tara Youngblood has been on a quest to help people sleep better since 2007. After struggling with insomnia, she decided it was time to find a lasting solution. Now, join her as she shares her plan to practical sleep management - a plan that heals. In Reprogram Your Sleep, you will learn: how to recover from a dysfunctional circadian rhythm; how to reset your habits and hone in on what really works for you; how to time your activities, eating, and cognitive load to reset your circadian rhythm; and more.