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Food truck entrepreneur and blooming amateur sleuth Billie Halifax is excited that Sea Glass Island is hosting the annual late fall bridal convention. She has big plans to proudly display her new bakery truck at the event, hoping to gain gaggles of new customers. Her excitement wanes, however, when she discovers a woman's body on the beach. Sensing something suspicious, Billie dives into investigating and comes to the quick conclusion that not everyone on the island is there for a good reason.

Wanting to escape the city for a quieter life to start a family, Danielle and Malik buy a fixer-upper in a small town. Despite being warned about the feral dogs in the neighborhood, the couple takes in a stray begging for shelter one night. The dog is friendly and immediately takes to Danielle. All seems to be falling into place, except something is off about their new dog...

Being small is the worst! No one ever picks me for their sports team and my feet hurt from standing on my tiptoes all the time. There can't be anything good about being small...right? Being Small is a book about a little girl who is scared to go to school because she's the shortest kid in the class. She talks about all of the reasons that being short is a challenge, but her mother presents to her funny and unique advantages that only she has because of her height, instilling self-confidence in her.

Shelli Hoffman is about to embark on the final step of her undergraduate degree: the internship. She has a nagging feeling that something isn't quite right, but she has no idea what's in store. When a student goes missing, Shelli thinks she knows what happened. In searching for answers, she winds up kidnapped. Police Chief Melissa Sullivan has enjoyed the fact that Layton, Minnesota, is a small, quiet town. Well, ever since that serial killer. When a girl goes missing, and soon after, a college intern, Melissa must track down the clues. Can she save them in time?

Love is in the air when Hollywood arrives in Mermaid Bay, and the town may never be the same. Fans will do almost anything to get a glimpse of the actors or a chance to be an extra in the Love Channel's "My Coastal Valentine." Crowds flock to the cozy beach town from all over and business is booming for Christmas shop owner Jade Hicks, until the body of a testy reporter is found in one of the actors' rooms. And if murder isn't bad enough, someone tries to kill the show's star, hunky Raphael Allard.

When six friends make a pact not to let love get in the way of their careers, the No Brides Club is born. But could meeting the right man at the wrong time cause them to break their vows to each other? Brooke Collins thought she had everything she wanted. Since relocating from her small town to work as an Oncology Nurse at one of Manhattan’s most respected children’s hospitals, she’s worked hard to make a life for herself in the big city. When a life-threatening emergency takes place back home, every choice she has made in the past three years is suddenly called into question.

Paislee Grimes thought she had it all figured out - solve a huge historical mystery, secure the mayor’s recommendation, and ride the success of her forensics project straight to the college of her dreams. If only cracking the case on all these murders and grave robberies wouldn’t take up so much of her time!

Paislee Grimes’s quaint Connecticut town doesn’t mess around when it comes to holidays - and her family takes Halloween even more seriously than most. But this year, something is very wrong on their once-quiet streets. Bodies are piling up, and Paislee is desperate to piece together clues that point to a killer with a connection to a recent not-quite-solved murder - and a connection to Paislee herself.

When animals from all kinds of life; from house animals, to tame animals, to wild ones gather around a Christmas tree to celebrate this festive season.... They all must decide to decorate the grand Christmas tree with one item each, which means something to them. But when one awkward animal decides for something unexpected, things start to spiral out of control.

Raised in the sleepy Connecticut town of Pine Grove by an undertaker and a coroner, Paislee has seen more than her fair share of death, and she’s right at home amid the morbid and macabre. She’s happy enough to spend her last months before college cobbling together a history of the place she loves most and studying the lives of the people buried in her backyard, but when the body of a classmate turns up face down in the lake, it’s Paislee’s time to shine.

Billie Halifax is not only new to Sea Glass Island, Florida, but also to the food truck business. After her late grandmother left her a non-functional fleet, Billie packed up and headed out on a new adventure, ready for anything. Or so she thought . . . Her first task is to find a manager for the initial truck, so she narrows it down to three potential candidates from a local culinary school. They'll show off their skills and she'll pick the best of the best for her first truck, Taco the Town. Billie's off to a bit of a rocky start.

Archaeologist Lisa Donahue and her physician husband James Barber hope their delayed honeymoon in Egypt will be a peaceful trip in an exotic setting. Instead, their Nile cruise is overshadowed by rumors of a deadly disease. After James recognizes the symptoms of smallpox at Karnak, he is recruited as a medical officer by the Center for Disease Control.

Fulfilling a prophecy that was revealed in a dream is the hardest reality! Elizabeth has gone through so much lately with her mother's passing. Now she lives with her aunts and she has begun to have nightmares. Only her nightmares are not nightmares at all, but spirit walks. Elizabeth never knew she belonged to a family of witches that dates back centuries. It is believed that she is the strongest one of all. She never knew her father was alive or that she had a twin brother. Now she must learn about a world she never knew existed.

Lucy: The Pumpkin Patch Bunny is about enjoying the fall weather and finding the perfect pumpkin.

Lucy: The Hiking Bunny is about going out and having a summer adventure outdoors.

Lucy: The Easter Bunny is about going out and making new friends in unexpected places. Just like Easter bunny tradition, Lucy hands out colorful eggs.

Completely surprised by the anniversary gift of a divorce, the floundering 42-year-old Cate impulsively moves to the mountains above Palm Springs. But after arriving at the 19th-century cabin she inherited, she is astounded to find it haunted by the spirit of a sexy lumberjack. Swallowing her skepticism to go all-in on accepting the supernatural, Cate attends the taping of a ghost-hunter show. But with the cohost dying in a freak accident and whispers that it might be murder, she’ll need her swoon-worthy specter’s otherworldly assistance to solve the suspiciously spooky mystery.

April and her family have returned to the place where her nightmare began. It’s bad enough that she feels trapped by a building, a virus, and the upcoming winter, but the indistinguishable whispers in her head hold her captive, as well. For April, remembering is reliving the events in her life every day - good and bad. When she discovers that the voice in her head is Cecil’s, she turns to her parents for a solution.

Climate disaster–induced fugue states, mutinous polar bears, support groups for recently displaced millionaires, men who hear trees, and women who lose their wives on environmental refugee resettlement trips. In these dispatches from a weirding world, the absurd and fantastic are increasingly indistinguishable from reality. Exploring this liminal moment, Ashley Shelby's collection of climate fictions imagines a near future that is both unnervingly familiar and subversively strange.

Eve Doucette finally almost has it all. She's free from her mistake of an ex-husband and just landed her dream job: project manager for a new City Hall and drafter of the final design. That is, until a handsome architect sweeps into town to commandeer her blueprints. Famous architect Matt Brison is unsatisfied with his mundane life in Toronto. When the mayor of Halifax asks him to spearhead his City Hall project, Matt jumps at the opportunity. There's just one problem: the feisty and beautiful project lead, Eve, who isn't exactly thrilled about her new "coworker" hijacking her design.