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In Seattle, 1935, a young girl right out of high school, falls in love with a glamorous older man, entering into a world of elegant gowns, cocktails, and dancing. But when he grows more controlling and violent in his pro-Nazi group, the Silver Shirts, she runs away with the help of an actor (Max)...
When two postpartum witches curse their wellness-obsessed town’s 'skinny juice' out of spite, they accidentally unleash a chaotic mother magic that allows them to rebuild the community support they never had, because a town that starves its mothers eventually starves itself.
Before the body count rises, her newfound powers are needed to find a man who’s controlling vengeful skeleton ghosts and messing with the minds of her magical neighbors. And also, to stop an evil entity from killing again. Without ruining her manicure.
A Royal Navy submarine captain risks everything to save Tess, a teenage girl with a dangerous gift. As nations hunt her and nuclear tensions rise, their fragile but deepening bond becomes the one thing neither power nor politics can control.
Two boys who meet on a playground and make a childhood pact that evolves into a life of crime and revenge.
A high school swimmer needs to overcome his obsession with sex (or lack of it) to succeed personally and athletically. With the help of his friends and a psychiatrist, he tries to find his sexual identity on his journey to winning a swimming scholarship at an upper-crust school
If another version of you warned that your life was about to be sabotaged, would you listen? Berlin author Elena Kugel receives an email from “Elena 12,” claiming to be her from a parallel universe. She ignores it until her unpublished manuscript appears under another name. As her past is erased and...
In Walking Over Wet Paint, a guarded, emotionally reserved editor in vintage togs collides with a charming oncologist in the wake of her mother’s terminal illness, forcing both to re-evaluate their emotional defenses, past patterns, and ideas of permanence.
In 1936 Seattle, an actor is having the time of his free-wheeling life, until he meets the woman of his dreams, who won’t let anything get in the way of her acting career. When her twin brother turns up dead, together they unearth a horrific set of murders, and a perpetrator who is untouchable.
I feel like a cabbage, there must be more to life than home, children and domesticity? The NHS was calling me back after ten years, but who would want to be a nurse? So here it is, the bare and naked truth of nursing. Bums, boobs and basic truths.
Blending genre, autobiography and blatant falsehoods into a damning tell-almost-all, 'Let Us Consider An Ugly Soul' is one wayward author's half-baked reconciliation of a lifetime of error with his dueling idolatries of James Joyce and J.R.R. Tolkien. (ft. YHWH)
Nat’s ‘long-dead’ father is alive and hiding in plain sight. Finding him is all Nat ever wanted, but it will be far more dangerous than she imagined.
When poorly and lonely William befriends a scruffy, one-legged pigeon he names Jack, he doesn’t just find companionship, he discovers the courage to imagine, explore, and heal. From their bedroom-window adventures to the moment William must finally fly solo, their friendship changes his world.
John Hopkins, a young Irish-American, believes he is worth more than his humble upbringing, so he tries for a job working for George Pullman, industrialist, who is building a futuristic city for his workers. At first, the two men hit it off, but when Pullman’s workers try to unionize, the two men...
When a soldier impersonates his dead friend to uncover the truth behind a 15-year-old murder, he never expects to fall for the friend’s sister, or to be drawn into a dangerous web of smuggling, revenge killings, and village secrets that could destroy them all.
In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, a Puritan mother is falsely accused of witchcraft after her cuckolded husband learns the baby she’s carrying isn’t his.
When a bitter and lonely magpie named Sorrow spends his days booing other birds, an unexpected friendship with a cheerful magpie named Joy teaches him that life is better when shared.
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