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Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She's often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean 11 years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid.

A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt’s The Unwritten Book explores the broadest sense of ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the forest, the towering library of all those books we’ll never have time to read or write. Hunt, like a mad crossword puzzler, looks for patterns and clues.

Ruth and Nat are orphans packed into a house full of abandoned children run by a religious fanatic. To entertain their siblings, they channel the dead. Decades later Ruth's niece, Cora, finds herself accidentally pregnant. After years of absence, Aunt Ruth appears, mute and full of intention. She is on a mysterious mission, leading Cora on an odyssey across the entire state of New York on foot. Where is Ruth taking them? Where has she been?

In these marvelously inventive stories, Samantha Hunt imagines numerous ways in which human lives might be altered by the otherworldly: an FBI agent falls in love with a robot built for a suicide mission; a young woman unintentionally cheats on her husband when she is transformed into a deer; two strangers become lovers and find themselves responsible for the resurrection of a dog; a woman tries to start her life anew after the loss of a child but riddles that new life with lies.

The X-rated monologues coming from next door are keeping Rafe Moore up at night: and all he really wants is some sleep. How's he supposed to decompress from his EMT job when his sultry neighbor and her explicit fantasies have his blood pressure spiking?

In the great tradition of Southern literature, the fiction of Breece D’J Pancake brings us down to Hades and acts a road map to disasters that the oppression of poverty can wreak on a life.

The Invention of Everything Else is a luminous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young hotel chambermaid. Louisa, obsessed with radio dramas and the secret lives of the hotel guests, first catches sight of the hotel's most famous resident on New Year's Day, 1943, and is determined to befriend the strange man.

The outfit was ridiculously revealing. Still, food writer Gina Thomas needed a disguise for the costume party...just so she could sneak into divorce lawyer Mason Scott's office and steal a few photos to save her sister - the trouble magnet. However, the costume seems to bring out the naughtier side of Gina. And Mason can't keep his gorgeous eyes - or his hands - off her!

Bodyguard Ely Berringer's job was simple: find the missing woman. But there's nothing simple about smokin'-hot tattoo artist Lydia Hamilton… or the fact that they once shared a wickedly sexy night together. And once he finds her in Montana, he realizes that one night with Lydia was definitely not enough! Lydia's been trying to sort out the sale of her childhood home and ranch. But lately there's been a rash of nasty incidents—break-ins, damaged property…just enough to convince Ely that he needs to stick around....

His touch was stronger than memory… She should have died. Instead, firefighter Erin Riley fought her way back, losing nearly a decade of memories—her much-loved career, her friends and her lost love. Now she's starting over. But the dark, intense gaze of fire marshal Bo Myers haunts her days…and her erotically charged nights.

Danger is bodyguard Chance Berringer's first, last and middle name. Protecting celebrity chef Ana Perez—a hot little firecracker with a mouth to match—for two weeks in Mexico is more vacation than job. Just keep his eyes on her, and his hands off. How hard can it be?

U.S. Marshal Joanna Wyatt has to make her witness protection detail work even though the witness doesn't know he's being protected. Posing as a down-on-her-luck waitress at Ben Callahan's Texas roadhouse, she'll be able to keep a close eye on the man, which is no hardship. Falling into bed with the insanely sexy former navy SEAL with the rodeo swagger and whiskey-colored eyes is not the problem. The problem is he doesn't believe he's a target!

Jodie Patterson's posh bakery is all about satisfying cravings. Her signature aphrodisiac cookies have been flying off the shelves...and giving Jodie some delicious ideas of her own. Behind his owlish glasses, Jodie's business partner, Dr. Dan Ellison, is the male equivalent of the Naughty Professor. Jodie is more than ready to indulge her fantasies with this wolf-in-geek's-clothing as long as they set some ground rules: sex is sex, business is business, and nothing will change.

Who says girls don't need eye candy? Bliss magazine is proud to bring you 12 months of smokin'-hot guys! Our Sexiest American Heroes calendar will feature one heart-stopping hero after the next - including our very own Texas Ranger, Jarod Wyatt, with his intense chocolate eyes...and a backside that would make Michelangelo weep for an eternity.

On the night of a leap year's strawberry moon, a magical kitchen emerges, and desserts come to compete in the prestigious Coconut Cup! Desserts must dive into dishes of cream, sprint across marshmallow hills and ultimately swim through a canyon of custard to prove which pudding is best. But who will win, and what is the recipe for success?

Freddie and Fifi are two fashionista flamingos who decide to open a fashion boutique and style other animals on the Savanna in fluffy pink feathers. The outfits they create have silly results and calamitous outcomes, teaching the valuable lesson that we are perfect, just the way we are!

Join Your Spiritual Big Sister Besties, Sam Harper and Natalie Hunter, as they discuss the ins and outs of navigating life, love, and their spirituality in this material world.

Lulu is a lobster who yearns to become a champion dancer. However, after a dramatic experience at the prestigious "Shell We Dance Contest", she quickly realises that to grow into her ambition, she is going to have to moult out of her shell. Leaving behind what she knows and exposing herself to her greatest fears, terrifies her, but after an inspirational interaction with a hermit crab fashion show, she learns that sometimes change can be necessary to unlock life's greatest adventures!