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In 2008, after recovering from a few years of hard drinking and harder drug use, after building back up a life as a successful and happy New York writer, Eva Hagberg woke up dizzy. She spent the next five years searching for a diagnosis, a treatment, and most of all an answer. In February 2013, an MRI revealed a mass in her brain. A blood test revealed an elevated tumor marker: A sign of cancer. And that’s when the second journey started - one grounded in physiology, in steadily rising marker numbers, and in the brutal invasion of a brain biopsy.

When you start to feel worried or overwhelmed, mindfulness is a powerful way to stop that anxiety in its tracks. This guide to mindfulness for teens shows you how to stay calm and focus on the moment, so you can clear your mind and take control of any challenge.

Café owner and amateur sleuth Everly Swan, like every Swan woman before her, is cursed in love. The only problem? She’s head over heels for Detective Grady Hays, who doesn’t believe in magic of any kind. Grady wants to build a life with Everly, but before she can say “I do,” she needs to take care of this curse once and for all. And luckily, the quirky inhabitants of Charm, North Carolina, are up to the task!

For historical anthropologist Cara Tucker, the chance to spend a sabbatical semester on a remote country estate—with full access to its vast library and centuries-old journals—is a dream come true . . . until a series of strange incidents begin to turn her dream into a nightmare. Someone, it seems, does not want anyone diving into the past and unearthing old ghosts. Sheriff Brad Adams has seen his share of suspicious activities during his law enforcement career, but what's happening at the isolated estate is out-of-pattern in his quiet, rural Missouri county.

Sheldon, Bryce, and Corrigan ruled their school until a killer wanted to rule them. A year later and they're all back. Bryce is the local celebrity jock. Corrigan’s running a fraternity and Sheldon's hiding from all drama. However, she's quickly pulled back into their social world and accidents start happening. With the killer killed, who's trying to hurt Sheldon this time? Or maybe it's someone closer than she wants to admit?

After fifteen years as a Coast Guard search and rescue specialist and a stint at headquarters, Lieutenant Craig Cole hopes to quietly finish out his career in his new assignment as commander of the Coast Guard station on Nantucket. But there’s nothing quiet about his clash with feisty red-haired charter fishing boat captain Katherine MacDonald, who does not appreciate a safety citation from one of the new hotshot commander’s underlings. As she and the commander go head to head, sparks fly … in more ways than one.

"The reigning queen of STEM romance."—The Washington Post An Indie Next and Library Reads Pick! Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on...

Scott Walsh has landed the biggest job in the history of Walsh Construction—and he doesn’t intend to blow it, despite the complications in his life. And now there’s a new distraction—widow Cindy Peterson, whose young son keeps showing up on his construction site. His hardline approach to the boy’s trespassing, however, does not endear him to either mother or son.

After uprooting her teenage son from their small town home and moving to the big city, single mom Tess Lockwood discovers he’s fallen in with a gang of troublemakers at school. Soon she finds herself paying a visit to the principal’s office. Ex-cop Mitch Jackson is a man on a mission. He’s determined to help all the teens at his school—but Bruce’s mother touches a place deep inside him, giving him another reason to get involved in the boy’s life…and to rethink his decision to write off romance.

Clay Adams isn’t equipped to deal with two traumatized children—but deserting the niece and nephew entrusted to his care isn’t an option. So he needs to find help. Fast. Sought-after nanny Cate Shepard seems like the solution to his problem. But while she’s moved by the children’s plight and their floundering uncle, her own issues could make the job difficult.

Everly Lancaster always dreamed of leaving behind her hometown in rural Illinois, but her new life running a burgeoning start-up in Chicago leaves little time for friends...or a vacation. When a massive snowstorm hits, Everly's mother urges the workaholic to come home for Christmas, but she hesitates to return to the life that she tried so hard to escape. Searching for other holiday plans, Everly tasks her assistant with booking her a cruise - an ideal escape.

The Librarians and the Pot of Gold is an original audiobook based on the hit TNT television show The Librarians, by New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox. For millennia, the Librarians have secretly protected the world by keeping watch over dangerous magical relics. Cataloging and...

In college, Griffin McCray and his four best friends had their lives planned out. Griffin and Luke Gallagher would join the Baltimore PD. Declan Gray would head to the FBI, and Parker Mitchell would go on to graduate school as a crime scene analyst. But then Luke vanished before graduation, and their world - and friendships - crumbled. Now Griffin is a park ranger at Gettysburg, having left life as a SWAT-team sniper when a case went bad.

Can a reclusive artist help a man who’s lost and adrift find his way home? Broken, empty, and alone after a cross-country search for answers, Keith Michaels takes refuge with reclusive artist Jill Whelan after a sudden squall strands him on Orcas Island. But while she offers him a place to wait out the storm, she wants nothing more to do with the stranger who’s invaded her turf.

Being crew is walking between two worlds. One world is normal: Prom. Parties. College. Those are the concerns they worry about. In our world, we deal with other situations. Cops. Drugs. Brawling. That’s a typical day for us. But what if it wasn’t? What if there came a day when you stopped? When you considered letting your enemies win? When you didn’t fight back? When you chose a different path? First I lost my family. Then I got the Wolf Crew. I couldn't lose them too. But what happens when Cross, Zellman, and Jordan keep going...and I don’t?

In the darkening days of autumn, a murdered journalist's body is discovered in a remote region near the Canadian border. Before she was found, Anne Marie Johnson had been writing an article about a canine research program that uses trained dogs to track scientific data. She was last seen with a man named Reeve Landon, whose chocolate Lab was one of the subjects of the piece. Now he's the prime suspect. Back in the FBI's regional office in Montana, investigator Ali Paige is not officially assigned to the case since the crime was committed outside federal land.

From the outside, Rebecca Wright had an enviable life, and she enjoyed that envy. She had a beautiful house, handsome husband, and a no-limit credit card. What she didn't have was empathy. But, it's never too late in Middle Falls. A lesson that isn't learned in one lifetime can be learned in the next, or the next. Rebecca may need every chance she can get.

Fahima Deeb changed everything seven years ago when she triggered the Pulse, imbuing millions of people with otherworldly gifts like flight, telekinesis or superhuman strength. She thought that would herald the end of the hostilities between those with abilities and those without, but it instead highlighted a new problem: there is someone behind the scenes, able to influence and manipulate these newly empowered people into committing horrible acts against their will. Worse still, that shadowy figure is wearing the face of Fahima's oldest friend, Patrick Davenport. 

When the daughter of a high-profile businessman disappears from an exclusive girls’ boarding school, Police Detective Cate Reilly is tapped for an undercover assignment. It doesn’t take her long to realize that beneath its veneer of polish and wealth, Ivy Hill Academy harbors dark - and deadly - secrets. But the biggest shock of all? The only man she ever loved is also working at the school.   

Ex-con Nathan Clay is determined to build a new life on Nantucket—one he hopes will someday include a wife and family. However, it will take a special woman to overlook his tainted past. But BB owner Catherine Walker could be that woman. When she hires him to do carpentry work, the green-eyed beauty and her endearing six-year-old son quickly capture his heart. As he repairs the walls within her house, the ones around her heart begin to crumble—and his hopes for a happy ending soar.