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Part memoir, part meditation on resilience, The Stoic Rider is the true story of a woman who traded burnout for Bonneville and fear for freedom — proving it’s never too late to change your line, ride with intention, and come fully alive on the road and within yourself.
If there was one thing that Ponderosa had learned in life, it was that everybody loved backflips. If you could do a backflip, you were automatically cool. No questions asked. So, when Pond began eighth grade and things started to go downhill, she decided that would be the thing that would save her.
When poorly and lonely William names a scruffy, one-legged pigeon Jack, he doesn’t just find a friend — he finds the courage to imagine, explore, and heal. Together they travel the world from his bedroom window… until it’s time for William to fly solo.
A bright Tanganyikan girl called Redemption finds unexpected humour on the tropical island of Zanzibar until revolution and the threat of conjugal slavery separate her from the man she has grown to love. A tale of betrayal, courage and salvation.
If phobias therapist Dr. Darla Kay Shepard wants to keep her therapy practice from folding, she must learn to face her fears of spiders, public speaking, and romantic rejection--which is easier said than done when she falls for an intellectual sexpot with a Ph.D. in tarantulas and scorpions.
After being sent to an academy for people with extraordinary abilities, a boy with no memories of his previous life is confronted with a girl seemingly connected to his mysterious past and the people hunting her and must choose whether to save her, for she might be the key to understanding his past.
Haunted by dreams of a long-dead queen begging for forgiveness, a fearless village girl journeys into a forgotten kingdom — where echoes of a prince’s forbidden love may hold the key to her fate.
Since humans first came to Western Europe we've enjoyed a temperate climate due to the Gulf Stream, but it's now weakening fast. Paradice is set in 2037 when the crucial AMOC current suddenly flips, pitching a couple who've bought their dream Scottish Highlands cottage into an Arctic winter.
After Marley Luck is swindled by the King of Westwind, she vows to do anything she can to remove him from the throne, even if it means sending the kingdom into chaos in the process.
Diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, Elena Russo's looking for answers. A discovery about her late father leads Elena to India where she tracks down the place he had his future read to him from an ancient Nadi Leaf. But what good comes from knowing your future? Can Elena find her way to healing?
When a summer intern with a traumatic past accidentally strands her team in a magical world, she must face arrogant mages, hide from dragons, and, above all, she must guard her heart against the perfect guy who is promised to someone else.
Fabricated follows an ambitious retail buyer who lands her dream job at a famous fashion firm. She gains behind-the-scenes access to the company’s foreign factories and stumbles into a conspiracy. If exposed, it would shine light on inhumane conditions, dirty secrets, and the high cost of fashion.
Some stories end in fire. Others begin with it. Scarlet has tasted love, loss, and the agony of being reborn. To end centuries of bloodshed, she must return to where it all began—and decide who lives, who dies, and whether to burn the world that built her… or become its god.
Following his mid-life crisis as a gifted writer, Robert is stuck in a dead-end job with a dream to leave. But when he falls in love with a girl with a debt, Robert is thrown into the world of a notorious double-dealing syndicate.
In a desert city built on biotech and vice, a dying bounty hunter hunts a missing socialite—his ex’s future sister-in-law—only to uncover a resurrection cult, a deadly drug, and the release of his estranged father, whose past crimes may finish what illness began.
