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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A delightful sampler plate of our national parks, written with charisma and erudition.”—Nick Offerman, author of Paddle Your Own Canoe From CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton, a behind-the-scenery look at his year traveling to each of America's...

>It looked like any other carnival, but of course it wasn't. The boy saw it from the car window, the tops of the large trailer rides over the parked trains by the railway tracks. His parents were driving towards the new mall and he was looking forward to that too, but the tracery of lights above the gloomy trains caught his imagination...Andy walks into Burleigh's Amazing Hall of Mirrors, and then he walks right into the mirror, becomes a reflection. Another boy, a boy who is not Andy, goes home with Andy's parents.

It’s all a big, fat lie. So many memes and well-intentioned talks tell us that we can have “good vibes only”. It’s a nice sentiment, but one that can undermine your entire life.We all want good vibes. We want to feel good, be happy, experience meaning and fulfillment. In order to do so, we need to chase those good vibes...but we also need to drop the “only”. See, the things in life that bring you the good vibes are often uncomfortable, unfamiliar, tricky, elusive, or effortful. Sometimes good comes easily, but often "good" requires just a little effort.

What did I do when I found out my new boss was my ex from college? I almost chucked my new career out the window, that’s what. He broke my trust in college when he broke my heart. We had a terrible breakup that gave me trust issues for life. Now, I am alone in the big city and rich, sexy Kit’s is the only familiar face in town. And he seems to be interested in relighting the flames of our relationship.

When Steven Dobrowski and his family move into their new home, strange things happen. At first, the hauntings perpetuated by the angry spirit are innocuous, but soon turn malicious and dangerous. Keisha - Steven's wife - insists the family move for the sake of the family's safety, but Steven's obsession with the spirit overshadows his judgement, and he refuses to turn his back on the house he believes he and his family deserve. As events unfold, eventually Steven is taunted by an entity that persuades him to perform evil acts on the ones closest to him.

Shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize Finalist for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year One of CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of 2024 The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime...

After an election upheaval, Dominic Cochrane decides it's time to leave his 20-year political staffer career behind. He opts to stay in a friend's converted waterside boatshed in a quiet Sydney backwater. The long-time neighbours take Dom into their fold, but his peaceful retreat is quickly upended as he becomes embroiled in a tragic mystery a family has never solved – 25 years ago a schoolteacher, husband and father, beloved by all, disappeared without a trace. Was it a walkout? An affair? Or was it foul play?

A man walking his dog stumbles upon trees that cause disappearances, death, and mania. The Trees Swallow People tells the story of the narrator and his dog, Diva, as they witness disappearances, mania, and cult worship caused by a paddock of supernatural trees in a public park in a small Irish village.

"Dream Life and Real Life" is a haunting short story about a little orphan girl in servitude to a cruel Boer family. One night, following a beating, she runs away and hides in a cave. But there she overhears three men plotting to rob and burn down the Boer's farm and kill the family. What should she do? Warn them, or let them burn to death?

A young woman has been murdered in River City. Police Detective John Tower is assigned to the case, but there are few clues to go on. As he digs into the case, he's soon picking up hints that this murder may not be the killer's first...or his last.

Nick Smart is fresh out of school, a wet-behind-the-ears jackaroo on a gap year. But at Palmenter Station, nothing is what it seems. Nick is about to discover there’s a lot of grey between black and white, between legal and illegal and between right and wrong.

From Southwestern Colorado to the Antarctic, from the Tree of Life to the depths of Hell, Rex Rian has written the most trying existential questions on life, love, and the separation of self and other into fiction. Follow Austin Davis and Taylor Shaffer as they work their way up the ladder of spiritual ascension and learn how to sacrifice themselves to save one another and the world at large.

In this short book, we’ve set out the rules of around 30 popular schoolyard games and suggested adaptions to make them inclusive for visually impaired children. They have been tried and tested by Maya and her friends. Our hope is that teachers, parents and kids will find this helpful and our suggestions, based on Maya’s experience, will lead to a lot of fun and laughter in other schoolyards.

Erzulie Murphy is many things. Beautiful, talented, seductive, and clever. She's had a long journey from the streets of Port-au-Prince to her successful tattoo studio on Miami's vibrant South Beach. When an old Haitian man visits her and asks for her help, Erzulie must find the answers to a mystery riddled with voodoo, intrigue, and murder! To prevail, she will awaken the demons from her past and the angels best left forgotten.

Dermatologist Harry Poe is in trouble. He's been abducted by Venezuelan thugs from his past and is poorly prepared for this level of violence. Sexy tattoos, illicit cosmetic surgery, and espionage round out book three of the Sunshine State Trilogy and may just mark the end of the career of the Skinvestigator.

In the second book of the Sunshine State Trilogy, dermatologist Dr. Harry Poe returns to force himself upon the detectives of the Miami Metro-Dade Police and help them investigate a murder mystery involving surfers, syphilis, and the state department.

Dermatologist and family man Doctor Harry Poe is dragged into a murder investigation and finds himself hip-deep in the unexpected world of illicit cosmetic surgery, tattoos, and flesh.

Girl Unknown by critically acclaimed author Karen Perry is a powerful new audiobook that 'Explores emotional danger with relentless, surgical accuracy." — Tana French, New York Times bestselling author of Into the Woods How quickly could the family we have created for ourselves unravel—and...

The president of the United States has been targeted for assassination - by his own handlers. The killing must look like the president's political opposition is responsible. Desperate to prevent the crime and the overwhelming outpouring of sympathy that will only further empower the real killers, the opposition turns to the only force that can stop it this late in the game - a mysterious hunter-killer team known as the Sleeping Dogs.

A letter penned in 1944 uncovers the powerful and heartfelt story of Helen Gregg, the daughter of Irish immigrant parents who grew up in the miseries of Hell's Kitchen during the Great Depression, and Clarence Raymond Stephenson, a young aspiring B-17 pilot raised in the small, struggling city of Ironton, Ohio. Fate brings them together in New York's Central Park in 1942. From the moment their eyes first met, they knew their lives would never be the same.