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No matter what people tell him, Jedda Wright is convinced he's nobody's hero. He's made his mistakes and paid dearly for them over the years. Suddenly freed from his past, he's forced to find his way in a world he hardly recognizes. He's written himself off as a lost cause and pushes away any chance at love. Has he been punished enough to be worthy of his redemption, or when given the chance, will he make the same mistakes again?

Zombies - as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily-ever-after. A vaccination gone oh so wrong and a huge portion of the world’s population was turned into zombies. Reagan Willow is forced out of her home when her parents become casualties of the horrid Zombie Apocalypse. With the help of her best friend, Haley, they’ve become experts on surviving the dangers of a world thrust into chaos and decay.

Making a fresh start in a new part of the country is challenging, but fate and good fortune lead young single mother Josie Waterhill and her six-year-old daughter to a cozy Midwestern town right on the river. There, Josie can raise Zoe away from the violence of the life she once knew and make a new home in the historic tea house where they've been invited to stay. The tea house seems too good to be true - that is, until Josie's elderly landlord Myra welcomes more guests.

When a young woman is found strangled to death and left on a park bench in Santa Rosa, California, Detective Eddie Mahler and his Violent Crime Investigations (VCI) Team are called to the scene. The crime immediately flashes Mahler back to two unsolved homicides - young women who were also strangled - that took place at this same location a couple of years earlier. His inability to find evidence against the man he knows was responsible for their deaths has haunted him since.

The only thing Hana loves more than a good cuppa is finding a delicate porcelain treasure to add to her collection. She's usually on the hunt for teacups, but when she spots a rare wolf figurine at a local yard sale, she knows it's her lucky day. Hana also knows the wolf is valuable and tells the seller that he's charging too little for it. His reaction is peculiar - he says he received the wolf from someone he doesn't trust and just wants it out of his life. While Hana is inspecting her new prize, she finds a tiny microchip attached to the bottom.

After two years in Credence trying to fade into the background, Della Munroe is sick of being invisible. She's ready to take back control - to live a little. Hell, she's ready to see what all this dating fuss is about. And if that means she has to download Tinder and date every guy in Colorado, then she's up for it. After her first disastrous attempt, she decides navigating online dating would be better with a wingman, and there’s no better person for it than Tucker Daniels.

When author and podcaster Polly Campbell got tired of her hoodie smelling like pizza and her days being clouded by midlife over-exhaustion, emotional burnout, and boredom, she decided to get off the couch and reclaim her core energy. But could this burned-out, chronically ill, middle-aged mother of a teen rediscover her vitality? Yes. And so can you.

Poland, July 1944. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationalists. To Maria’s shock, the local Resistance unit is commanded by her older brother, Tomek - who she thought was dead. He is now a “Silent Unseen”, a special-operations agent with an audacious plan to resist a new and even more dangerous enemy sweeping in from the East.

In Sisters of Mokama, Jyoti Thottam draws upon 20 years’ worth of research to tell this inspiring story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be the same.

When the woman running the big regional dog show calls out sick, dog groomer Suz Holden is asked to take over. But it’s too much for her to handle by herself - considering the president of the kennel club, Olivia Weiner, criticizes her at every turn - so she calls in her best friend, Kari Stuart, for help. A long, stressful day goes from bad to worse when a local breeder is found dead, and the murder weapon seems to incriminate Suz.

When Marcella Raines' twin brother dies, she honors his request to be buried at sea, never expecting the violent storm that swamps her boat. Although she's gravely injured - and still emotionally damaged from her recent divorce - Ella fights to survive. Zephyros Martius is the Supreme God of the West Wind and Spring, but being the strongest Anemoi hasn't protected him from betrayal and loss. Worse, he's sure his brother Eurus is behind it.

Corilan is happier on Organic Earth (OE) than she ever could’ve imagined. She’s bonded to Earthos and raising their family, but something is wrong in the schools. Things begin to occur that have never happened in OE before. She’s afraid they have crossed beyond the tipping point and that their idyllic life is gone forever.

Nina Kasai is hiding dangerous secrets. She keeps them buried by living the picture-perfect life she's constructed: a thriving career as a business executive, a beautiful home in a posh Boston suburb, and a handsome, successful husband. Everything is as it should be, except…It all begins to unravel when Nina’s father, the powerful businessman and philanthropist, Phillip Copeland, asks her to campaign on his behalf in his bid to become Governor. But Nina stubbornly refuses.

Everybody knows Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee”, but who was she, really? In this haunting and evocative novel, Christopher Conlon imagines a life for one of literature’s most renowned characters. Hers is a chronicle even more thrilling, doom-haunted, and tragic than Poe himself could have conceived, for, here Annabel Lee tells her own story in her own words...for the first time.

She fought the zombies. She survived the virus. But will the dark side of humanity take her down for good? Jen Reed found love and purpose in the apocalypse. When the zombie virus mixed with an experimental serum in her blood, she also discovered the power to control the undead. But when the shadow government vows to use her abilities to takes down its enemies, she and her remaining friends become easy targets.... Desperate to escape government agents and former allies out for blood, Jen's only hope may lie in exposing the nation's leaders for who they really are.

A runaway train of zombies carries the only cure. Can Jen save the serum before a devastating crash? While a zombie army gathers in the west, virus outbreaks threaten the east. Mankind’s one hope is an experimental serum that Jen must get to a research hospital within 24 hours. There’s just one problem…the zombies on the train. The clock is ticking. Can Jen save mankind's last hope and stop the train before it crashes and destroys the one remaining vaccine dose?

I just wanted to have some fun.... It all started when I moved into my new apartment in Brooklyn and met my neighbor, Olivia. We became fast friends and so when she had to go out of town on an emergency work trip, I agreed to give her brother her keys so he could look after her dog. And then I met him. Her brother was Carter Stevens and he was sex on legs. He was a banker by day and a musician by night; arrogant, handsome, with the most tantalizing smile I’d ever seen. When he invited me to his show, I couldn’t say no.

After escaping Alaska, Jen Reed finds herself stuck in the middle of a zombie war. With one lone outpost remaining between the undead hordes and civilization, the pressure is on when she realizes the virus is mutating...To make matters worse, she discovers a renegade army commander’s plans for controlling the zombies and marching on Washington. Can Jen stop the commander, warn the government, and keep from becoming zombie chow all at once?

Jen Reed survived the zombie outbreak with a little luck and a lot of sarcasm. Now hundreds of miles away, she joins a government scientist studying the virus, but the pathogen finds them and soon they’re up to their necks in hungry walking corpses. To survive, they must travel through a zombie-infested city to catch the last plane out before the government drops a nuke to stem the epidemic. Can Jen overcome a ticking clock, relentless zombies, and her own smart mouth to get out of the city before it's turned into a radioactive crater?

The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought them there - paths on which they still seem to be traveling.The Silk Road is Davis' most explicitly allegorical novel and also her most profound vehicle. Its revelations are ravishing and desolating.