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A Wizard of Earthsea
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The first novel of Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Earthsea Cycle. "The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." (Neil Gaiman) Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance. With stories as perennial and universally beloved as The Chronicles of Nar...
Graceling
Discover the Graceling Realm in this unforgettable, award-winning novel from bestselling author Kristin Cashore.A New York Times bestseller * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Winner * Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, and BCCB Best Book of the Year“Rageful, exhilarating, wistful in turns" (New York Times Book Review) with “a knee weakening romance” (Los Angeles Times). Graceling is a thrilling, action-packed fantasy adventure that will resonate deeply with anyone trying to find their way in the world.Graceling tells the story of the vulnerable-yet-strong Katsa, who is smart and be...
The Stricken
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A 2025 Reading the West Book Award Nominee“The Stricken will keep you guessing with new twists on every page.” ―Rosalyn Briar, USA Today bestselling author“[A] unique, page-turning tale.” ―Foreword ReviewsWhat if our spirits walk to another life while our bodies sleep?Every day in Clara's world, a dark cloud descends upon her town. The storm comes like clockwork, erasing everyone’s memories. Everyone except Clara. But after Clara’s father mysteriously disappears, things change. The Diviners, captive souls who feed off memories, come for her. With the help of a mysterious figure, Clara escapes the Diviners and flees to Khalom, a city in a parallel wo...
Romance Your Brand
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For the first time ever in print, Zoe York breaks down how she plans a series—something she has done ten times over. Romance Your Brand is an adaptation of an intensive four-week course, now available to authors everywhere. This book covers:• high-concept pitches• taglines and blurbs• world building and casts of characters• writing the first book in a series• finding comparable series and covers• how to write towards future marketing• and why ALL OF THE ABOVE should be considered before you write a single word
A River of Golden Bones
From bestselling author of the romantasy sensation The High Mountain Court comes A River of Golden Bones, the first riveting, enchanting novel in an all-new romantic fantasy shifter trilogy, whichbegins a journey of self-discovery, romance, and adventure for a young heir as she/they comes out of hiding to save their sister from a malicious, powerful sorceress and her dangerous sleeping curse.A sleeping curse. A fallen court. A secret twin.Twins Calla and Briar have spent their entire lives hiding from the powerful sorceress who destroyed their kingdom...and from the humans who don't know they are Wolves. Each twin has their own purpose in life: Bria...
Abeni's Song
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IN DARKNESS, A SONG CAN LEAD THE WAY. BEWARE WHICH ONE YOU LISTEN TO.Abeni's Song by award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark is the enchanting beginning of an epic West African and African Diaspora-inspired fantasy adventure for middle-grade readers about a reluctant apprentice to magic and the stolen villagers she sets out to save.“Lush and magical.” ―KWAME MBALIA • “Astonishing.” ―MARK OSHIRO • "Abeni's story will sweep you away." ―AMANDA FOODYOn the day of the Harvest Festival, the old woman who lives in the forest appears in Abeni's village with a terrible message:You ignored my warnings. It’s too late to run. They are coming.Warriors with burning b...
The Universe Explained with a Cookie
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Did you know that the number of atoms in a cookie is about the same number of stars in the universe?Geoff Engelstein tackles the big questions of the universe and how it works using the sweet and simple chocolate cookie as guide. By exploring what goes into the cookie―the ingredients and the steps―we learn about how everything works, from the tiny world of subatomic particles to galactic clusters.Topics include:The Big Bang Explained with Chocolate ChipsQuantum Mechanics Explained with Milk and CookiesChaos Explained with VanillaAnd more!Filled with fascinating facts and laugh-out-loud moments, it's a richly visual and deeply fascinating scientific ...
Necrobane
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"These books are addictive and I can’t wait to see what Aelis and the gang get up to next.”―C. L. Clark, author of The UnbrokenHundreds of skeletons.One Necromancer.No wine in sight.Aelis de Lenti, Lone Pine's newly assigned Warden, is in deep trouble. She has just opened the crypts of Mahlgren, releasing an army of the undead into the unprotected backwoods of Ystain.To protect her village, she must unearth a source of immense necromantic power at the heart of Mahlgren. The journey will wind through waves of undead, untamed wilderness, and curses far older than anything Aelis has ever encountered. But as strong as Aelis is, this is one quest she can...
Alien Earths
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"Kaltenegger's breezy narrative style invites you to experience with her the challenges and joys of being a scientist on the frontier of discovery." ―Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History"Horizon-expanding... [Kaltenegger] has something of Sagan’s knack for eliciting wonder." ―The Times"A superb testament to the scientific virtue of curious wonder." ―Wall Street JournalFor thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic dista...
My Favorite Plant
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Kincaid gathers a sparkling selection of new and beloved poetry and prose about each author’s favorite flora.The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays and poems on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and gardeners who write.Among the contributors are Daniel Hinkley on hellebores; Marina Warner, who remembers the Guinée rose; and Henri Cole, with the poems “Bearded Irises” and “Peonies.” Ian Frazier pulls weeds in “Memories of a Press-Gang Gardener,” and Michael Pollan defends a gothic cousin of the sunflower in “Consider the Castor Bean”; Ken Druse sta...
Children of Dune
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Book Three in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All TimeThe Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities—making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides.Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia’s rule is not absolute. The displaced House Corrino is plotting to regain the throne while the fanatical Fremen are being provoked into open revolt by the enigmatic figure kn...
Feral Self-Care
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“Mandi Em offers new ideas of how to ‘liberate your unique, authentic, untamed self,’... readers will love this guide to living your life in a more feral manner.” —Book RiotDitch the green smoothies and reconnect with your authentic self using this wellness guide that taps into nature and helps you live your wildest, freest life.It’s time for a new type of self-care. No bubble baths. No yoga. Just some truly wild—truly effective—ideas and activities that are good for you and your overall wellness. It’s time to get feral!Feral Self-Care is loaded with self-care ideas that will actually help nourish your soul and make you feel good. Each entry covers ...
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her journey from living paycheck to paycheck to creating a multi-million-dollar business that offers a compassionate alternative to capitalism • Includes no-nonsense life and money advice, from negotiating pay and building credit to putting home ownership within reach"Madeline's life is unique yet wildly relatable...Readers will be thoroughly engaged, as every hardship comes with a lesson that Madeline skillfully shares with us. A thought-provoking, mind-tingling reading experience."—Mercury Stardust, the Trans Handy Ma’am and author of Safe and SoundImagin...
L.A. Outlaws
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Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Marietta, her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion to steal beautiful things, the vanity to invite the media along, and the conscience to donate much of her bounty to charity. Nobody ever gets hurt - until a job ends with ten gangsters lying dead and a half-million dollars worth of glittering diamonds missing.Rookie Deputy Charlie Hood discovers the bodies, and he prevents an eyewitness - a schoolteacher named Suzanne Jones - from leaving the scene in her Corvette. Drawn to a mysterious charisma that has him off-balance from the beginning, Hood begins an inte...
Gap Creek : The Story of a Marriage
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A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club PickYoung Julie Harmon works “hard as a man,” they say, so hard that at times she’s not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better.But Julie and Hank’s new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what to fear most―the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate th...
Shadow Song
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Thirty-eight years after falling in love with beautiful Amy Lourie, a wealthy Jewish girl, while working as a waiter in the Catskills, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy, a rural Southerner, returns to the Catskills and once again encounters Amy. 60,000 first printing.
Ghosts in the Cemetery II: Farther Afield
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Travel to ancient cemeteries of the U.S. and France to meet night spirits. Captured digitally at sundown, sun up, and by the light of the full moon, their beauty and eeriness is astounding. Shown are full vaporous apparitions with ghost stories connected with each of the featured cemeteries helping to explain who the ghosts are and why they appear hundreds of years after they were buried. You will be drawn into each photograph as though you were standing there – seeing what the photographer saw and was feeling when the photograph was taken. Thousands of ghost hunters go out looking for ghosts. Now see them through photographs and discover the secret...
Stars and Smoke
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An Instant New York Times bestseller!*This paperback edition features a bonus scene and a full-color tip-in with swoony Winter and Sydney art!*He's a secret.She's an agent.This mission might just be impossible.A smoldering enemies-to-lovers novel about a global superstar and a hotshot young spy on a collision course with danger―and romance. This electric new series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu is perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Ally Carter.Meet Winter Young―A global pop sensation, with a voice like velvet and looks that could kill.Meet Sydney Cossette―An agent in an elite covert ops group, and an ice queen whose moves are a...
Rule of the Aurora King
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Full of pulse-pounding action, steamy enemies-to-lovers romance, and glittering fae magic, the epic second installment of the Artefacts of Ouranos series is perfect for fans of romantasy favorites like A Court of Thorns and Roses and Fourth Wing.“I am not his conquest. I am not his to claim. I am my own castle.”Freed from the golden clutches of the Sun King, Lor now finds herself in the hands of Nadir, the Aurora Prince. Convinced she’s hiding something, he’s willing to do whatever it takes to make her talk. But Lor knows the value of secrets—she’s been keeping them her entire life—and she’s not letting hers go without a fight.When Lor and Nadir tea...
Seeking Haven
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Seeing the dead is nothing new. But when a killer from beyond the grave attacks, can she survive long enough to discover her true legacy?Boston. Drew Harlow is starting over. Short on trust after one betrayal too many and determined to put chaos behind her, the supernaturally sensitive young woman has enrolled in art school. And though she’s never feared spirits, she’s shocked when she is attacked by an enraged specter out for her blood.Barely escaping with the aid of a ghostly friend, she’s disturbed by a dream about her gran that drags her back to her haunted hometown and the guy she thought she was over. But when a witchy shop proprietor reveals ...
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
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An Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerA GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick"Adeyemi has sparked magic once again." ―The New York TimesThe stunning sequel to the worldwide phenomenon Children of Blood and Bone is now available in this deluxe paperback edition with gorgeous spray-painted and stenciled edges and an exclusive excerpt of the earth-shaking Children of Anguish and Anarchy.After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could’ve imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too.Now, Zélie...
Poisoner's Ring
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A modern-day homicide detective is working as an undertaker's assistant in Victorian Scotland when a serial poisoner attacks the men of Edinburgh and leaves their widows under suspicion.Edinburgh, 1869: Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she’s not housemaid Catriona Mitchell―even though Mallory is in Catriona’s body―and Mallory is now officially an undertaker’s assistant. Dr. Duncan Gray moonlights as a medical examiner, and their latest case hits close to home. Men are dropping dead from a powerful poison, and all signs point to the grieving widows… the latest of whi...
Plus Size Cardis to Crochet
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Its hard to find patterns for plus-size gals and harder still to try to edit patterns to create a flattering fit. Plus-Size Cardis to Crochet is a detailed crochet pattern booklet that includes stunning cardigan patterns designed to flatter plus-size ladies. Patterns include: Ribbon-Yarn Jacket, Alpaca Applique Cardigan, Silk Scoop-Neck Cardigan, Pocket Cardigan, and Bright Stripes Cardigan. Abbreviation key included.
Alfred's Book of Monsters
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Trick or treat?With nods to Tim Burton, Edward Gorey, and Neil Gaiman, this humorous picture book about a Victorian boy obsessed with monsters presents a dark and appealing world, created by debut author/illustrator Sam Streed.In the graveyard, between stone monuments for forgotten souls, lurks the Black Shuck. . . . Its one blood-red eye burns with an undying rage.After reading about the slimy Nixie, the angry Black Shuck, and the creepy Lantern Man in his beloved Book of Monsters, Alfred decides to invite the monsters to teatime with his crusty old aunty, who thinks monsters are an improper obsession for a respectable young boy.
Chic & Simple Chunky Knits
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Bring the hygge home with these chic and cozy chunky knits.This book shows you how to use jumbo knitting needles and crochet hooks, or just your hands and arms, to create fun, trendy accessories for yourself and your home. Even if you're a beginner, this book is for you. Chunky knitting uses thick yarn, so it's easy to work with without worrying about being too precise. Although the knitting is quick and easy, the results are charming.This book includes a wide variety of accessories, with 23 different projects, including: * Up your infinity scarf game with a comfy cable knit neckwarmer * A loose-knit beanie that's both cute and practical * Multiple ...
Handcrafted Metal Findings
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Metalsmiths reveal new findings in jewelry trends! Following up their best-selling book Handcrafted Wire Findings, Denise Peck and Jane Dickerson give jewelers more techniques, more (and different) findings, and more inspiration. Handcrafted Metal Findings features 30 step-by-step tutorials for metal findings that require only basic jewelry-making skills. Working with precut metal blanks and thin-gauge sheet metal, Denise, Jane, and several contributing artists have created great-looking findingsâ head pins, bead caps, bails, charms, connectors, cones, and more--all without a lot of effort. All the metalwork can be done with basic tools--no saws, no...
Creating Wire and Beaded Jewelry
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With this easy-to-use guide, jewelry designer Linda Jones shows readers how to create stylish pieces of their own, with just three pieces of equipment and the minimum of fuss. This book includes: * 35 simple-to-make projects, including jewelry for weddings and pieces based on classical designs * Ideas for fashionable designs using just wire, which is flexible and easy to fashion into a variety of shapes, and simple beads * Step-by-step instructions to guide crafters through each project, along with creative ideas to spark readers' own designs Anyone eager to make heirlooms will welcome the simplicity and ease of these projects, making Jones's guide ...
Ardulum: First Don: A Space Opera Novel
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Ardulum. The planet that vanishes. The planet that sleeps.Neek makes a living piloting the dilapidated tramp transport, Mercy’s Pledge, and smuggling questionable goods across systems blessed with peace and prosperity. She gets by—but only just. In her dreams, she is still haunted by thoughts of Ardulum, the traveling planet that, long ago, visited her homeworld. The Ardulans brought with them agriculture, art, interstellar technology…then disappeared without a trace, leaving Neek’s people to worship them as gods.Neek does not believe—and has paid dearly for it with exile from her home for her heretical views.Yet, when the crew stumbles into an arme...
Wandering Souls
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Drew's final year of high school should have been fun. It should have been carefree. It would have, if not for the accident that took the life of her boyfriend, Shane. Now, it's all she can do to keep her head above water. But Drew can't shake the feeling that something was missed.Move forward. Let go. There's no way Shane could've survived. That's what her best friend Piper keeps telling her. Except, if Drew can see the dead, why can't she see Shane?Drew embarks on a mission to uncover the secrets of Neptune Point, the scene of Shane's accident. As she digs into the mystery, she exposes unexpected darkness that has been buried for too long. But som...
Real Food for Cats
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Kitties deserve to dine in style, too! This collection of 50 simple, veterinarian-approved recipes will have your cat rubbing your ankles faster than you can say “can opener.” Each easy-to-make meal is nutritionally balanced and emphasizes all-natural ingredients; a few are even designed to satisfy both the cats and the people in your household. Patti Delmonte considers any individual needs or dietary restrictions your furry friend might have, including diabetes and impaired kidney function. Keep your cat healthy and happy with delicious gourmet meals.
Mulch It!
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Weeding. Watering. Soil improvement. Frost and heat protection. Wouldn't it be wonderful if these gardening and landscaping chores could be simplified with one easy method? They can! This book is a reader's guide to the gardener's secret weapon for healthy, carefree and beautiful gardens and landscapes - mulch. Advice on every kind of mulch and on how to use mulches on everything from landscape plantings to vegetable gardens makes this the one book that gives readers everything they need to know to use mulch most effectively.
How to Buy the Right Plants, Tools, and Garden Supplies
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Are you confused by all the choices when you visit a nursery? Do you get sticker shock when you see how much that nice little shade tree costs? Let Jim Fox, a nursery professional with over twenty years of experience, show you how to become a savvy garden consumer and get the most for your hard-earned landscaping dollars.How to Buy the Right Plants, Tools, and Garden Supplies will arm you with a wealth of knowledge! You’ll learn how to determine if a plant is healthy, how to choose the right size, how to correctly read the plant tag, how to choose the best tools and supplies for your needs, and how to confidently recognize a well-made tool. In addit...
Blood Ink
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Demon-hunting stuntwoman Lee Striga takes on the dangers of the Big Easy in this second Lilith urban fantasy full of “vivid settings, interesting characters, and action galore” (Charlaine Harris, New York Times–bestselling author). Having killed her last producer, stuntwoman Lee Striga’s next film shoot takes her to the voodoo-soaked bayous and haunted back alleys of New Orleans, where sinister supernatural figures stalk the streets . . . In a dark corner of the French Quarter, an arcane tattoo artist is using his clients in rituals that will open an inter-dimensional gateway for a demon god from beyond the stars. Each tattoo is imbued with life—and...
Wireworkers Companion
Spiral Bound
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A welcome addition to a best-selling series, The Wireworker's Companion is a complete resource for wireworking techniques. Masters Denise Peck and Jane Dickerson act as your trusty guides, providing an abundance of inside knowledge and visual how-tos to ensure wireworking success. Jane and Denise first explain in-depth the fundamentals of tools, materials, and wire-wrapping, and go on to explore more advanced techniques, such as how to create texture and patina on wire pieces, how to work the ever-popular chain maille technique, and even how to take on basic metalsmithing. In a convenient pocket size with spiral binding, The Wireworker's Companion i...
50 Really Exotic Pets
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Think cats and dogs are for the birds?It's time for something more exotic . . .Whether you're already an exotic pet owner or you're thinking about becoming one, here is your one-stop guide to owning such unusual household pets as lizards, snakes, frogs, newts, spiders, and insects. Increasingly popular, these creatures offer low-maintenance, low-allergy, space-saving alternatives to traditional pets. This practical and accessible handbook covers more than fifty of the most popular amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrates available from captive-bred stock and offers care requirements, handling advice, breeding information, photographs, and more for ea...
The Black Song
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A matchless warrior is pitted against a near-God in the second epic installment of the Raven's Blade series.It has long been our lot in life, brother, to do what others can't.Vaelin Al Sorna was known across the realm as the greatest of warriors, but he thought battles were behind him. He was wrong. Prophecy and rumor led him across the sea to find a woman he once loved, and drew him into a war waged by the Darkblade, a man who believes himself a god--and one who has gathered a fanatical army that threatens all of the known world.After a costly defeat by the Darkblade, Vaelin's forces are shattered, while the self-proclaimed immortal and his army co...
Melmoth
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent—soon to be an Apple TV+ Series“Masterful...scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding.”—The Washington PostIn Melmoth, Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, a mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe for centuries, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters—and now, it is heading in our direction.It has been...
The Good, the Bad, and the Furry
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What's the perfect dog for you? It depends on your lifestyle. Are you a couch potato or an athlete? A city slicker or a suburbanite? Do you suffer from allergies? Are you paranoid about security? With The Good, the Bad, and the Furry, author Sam Stall offers the inside poop on the world s most popular breeds and describes which ones are right for you. Stall has consulted with dozens of breed rescue groups to learn the best and worst perks, quirks, and personality traits of more than 100 different dogs. You'll learn that, contrary to what you see on Frasier, Jack Russell terriers make terrible apartment dogs (they have tremendous energy and need plen...
Give Way to Night
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The second book of the Aven Cycle explores a magical Rome-inspired empire, where senators, generals, and elemental mages vie for power.Latona of the Vitelliae, mage of Spirit and Fire, is eager to wield her newfound empowerment on behalf of the citizens of Aven--but societal forces conspire to keep her from exercising her gifts, even when the resurgence of a banished cult plots the city's ruin. To combat this threat, Latona must ally with Fracture mage Vibia, the distrustful sister of Sempronius Tarren.While Latona struggles to defend their home, Sempronius leads soldiers through wartorn provinces to lift the siege of Toletum, where Latona's brother...
Demons of Good and Evil
Rachel Morgan will learn that the price of loyalty is blood in the next Hollows novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison.Rachel Morgan, witch-born demon, suspected that protecting the paranormal citizens of Cincinnati as the demon subrosa would be trouble. But it’s rapidly becoming way more trouble than even she could have imagined.While Rachel and her friends may have vanquished the trickster demon Hodin, his mysterious associate known only as “The Mage” is eager to finish what Hodin started, beginning with taking down Rachel’s power structure piece by piece.With her world falling apart, Rachel desperately needs help. But with a...
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