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Sunday Styles is a passionate romance novelist with a pretty comfortable career and a size fourteen swimsuit. Archie Macleod is a Scottish-American Broadway actor who has no trouble making friends, but who has a hard time finding love. When the two of them agree to join the ten-contestant cast of "Artisan's Isle," the hottest new thing in reality television, they quickly find that they're in for way more than they bargained for.

Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of trust in the clock.

The semiannual supernatural auction is a great way to get rid of valuable items, fast. I'm grateful I can use this opportunity to get rid of not only the Geysers: Volume 8, but the weird vortex compact I still haven't been able to open. My luck runs out when, before the auction starts, someone sets fire to the building. In fact, someone uses that fire as a cover to steal some of the more expensive antiques being sold at the auction. By the time Blake and several other officers arrive, it becomes clear that our thief might not be the only one stealing artifacts from the auction.

Renowned, middle-aged British stage star Hugh Davidson has had a rough couple of years, first falling desperately in love with a young American stage manager and then discovering that he has coronary heart disease. When he gets tapped to be the new Artistic Director at his favorite American theater company, he decides to make a new name for himself in the business, partly to soothe his injured ego and partly to convince Rachael Nightingale, his workaholic paramour, that she wants to spend the rest of her life with him. The problem is, Hugh doesn't really knows what he's doing.

When a volume eight of Geysers Journals falls into my lap, I'm left with a conundrum. Do I hold onto it and try to get the most money out of it I possibly can, shoring up my finances for at least a year? Or do I get rid of it as quickly as possible in an effort to avoid any more attempts on my life?

Magical break-ins abound...The two nearby stores owned by supernaturals are broken into. The Fix ‘n’ Find, my store, is not. What I have instead are suspicious magical handprints on the front windows. Combine that with a weird set of glasses that let the wearer see every type of magic and we have a serious conundrum. Luckily, my ex-fiancé Violetta, is a powerful witch and willing to help me figure out what could possibly be going on. Find out what some magical items and good old-fashioned spell work can uncover in the Spectacle Stealing Supernatural.

My life is one giant cycle of group deniability...As a magic-less son of a witch owning a store full magical objects isn’t easy. But with my unhelpful Rottweiler Bailey and a handful of supernatural staff, we’ve sold everything from elfin wedding china to a life-size dwarven statue we don’t like to talk about. Everything is going smoothly until a goblin customer starts coughing up a disgusting green goo. Little did I know as I watch that liquid spew from his mouth that his presence and that goo was going to send my life into a tailspin.

What would you do if you needed to take something from a classmate's bag in the middle of class without anyone noticing? How would you do it? Could you do it? This is the test that Aidan Fox finds himself facing one day after receiving a mysterious text message. But at Ridge Hill Junior High, nothing is as it seems, and this simple challenge leads Aiden into a world he could never have dreamed of.

Tex has been given an opportunity to move from New York to Seattle. His friends and family are encouraging him to take it, but he has already decided to decline the offer because that would mean leaving Memphis behind. Then, something happened. Whether it be fate or something else, Memphis came back to him. Tex’s first love is supposed to help him move on, but not even Memphis can bring himself to force Tex to let him go. Is it so wrong to want to spend forever with the person you loved most? Both hearts are begging to be unbroken.

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Mrs. Willy Nilly finds herself quarantined, along with the entire student body, when some very talented lice decide to invade her school. When the principal locks himself in his office, she realizes it is up to her to find help.

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Rachael Nightingale is a workaholic theatrical dresser in the middle of a failing marriage to an alcoholic. Hugh Davidson is the passionate, middle-aged British stage star internationally renowned for his incredible Shakespearean heroes. When the two of them form a professional partnership, it isn't long before things begin to heat up between them, and the magic of the theater threatens to break both of their hearts in more ways than one. Their attempts to turn a backstage tryst into a long-term love affair lead both of them to wonder: Was it only a showmance, or is it the real thing?

1929, Heroldsberg, Germany. Rolf might only be twelve years old, but he’s old enough to know that things have not been good in his country since the end of the Great War. Half of Germany is out of work, and a new political movement is taking hold that scares him. Every night, Rolf’s father and older brother, Romer, have increasingly heated arguments about politics at the dinner table. And when two members of the new Nazi Party, Hans and Nils, move to town as part of the Hitler Youth, Rolf is uneasy to see how enamored Romer is by their promises of bringing Germany to glory.

Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.

Gripping true crime meets romantic historical fiction when Lizzie Borden enlists the help of Sherlock Holmes to solve the brutal axe murders of her father and stepmother in their frugal Fall River home. A damaged dress, a missing axe handle, and several unexpected marriage proposals lead Holmes, Lizzie, and her host of admirers towards a violent twist of fate that shocks even the great Sherlock.

Weaving between preparations for his father’s funeral and memories of life on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, Obed Silva chronicles his father’s alcoholism—a lifelong love that ended only at his death at the age of forty-eight, having poisoned himself one Carta Blanca at a time. Addiction respects no borders; the havoc Silva’s father wreaked on his family not only followed them north, where mother and son moved to escape his violent drunken rages, but would make itself felt even from the grave.

True crime social media sensations and citizen sleuths Mercy St. Claire and Chizzy Williams are working themselves sick trying to solve DC's numerous cold cases. Meanwhile, retired criminalist Mark Thoreau is nursing a broken heart and a bottle of bourbon, and local reporter Tohru Iwasaki is serving as the inspiration for a mystery novel.

When true crime podcaster Mercy St. Claire's best friend Alice gets kidnapped, it plunges her into the terrible realities of cold cases in a broken America. She turns to her beloved professor, retired criminalist Mark Thoreau, to try and find Alice, but grief, passion, and a descending darkness of terrible truths push them to take comfort in each other while killers go free. Nobody has answers.

You never know what's out to get you. Though you might think you're safe from monsters and menaces, everyday objects can turn against you, too. A mysterious microwave. A threatening board game. A snowman that refuses to melt. Even your own heartbeat has its secrets. Thu-thump. Thu-thump. When you stop to listen, each beat sounds more menacing than the last.