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What do an elderly bisexual woman, a young biker, a suicidal gay man, a grieving widow, and a child with cancer have in common?They all died and struck up a conversation with the same woman. Death Wish: Tales from Eternity takes you were you may not want to go, but where we are all ultimately going: The Great Hereafter, heaven, eternity, the-place-after-this.We all end up in the same place, or do we? The answer lies somewhere between "yes," and "not exactly."

On her fifteenth birthday, Emerson Page finds herself amid chaos in Times Square on New Year's Eve.Like her deceased mother, a renowned anthropologist, Emerson is a Starlighter-she has a strong internal light that she can call into her hands and use as a tool. Now, trained to use her gift, she is ready to leave her home in New York City and find the treasure her mother died trying to find-a book written by the muses of Greek mythology that holds the secret to limitless human creativity.Emerson's grandmother, who went missing when her mother was a child, re-emerges with the information about the book's location. The book of the Muses is in the land of the faeries below Dublin, Ireland that's rooted in Celtic mythology and operates nothing like her own world. Emerson discovers she's not the only one who knows about the book's whereabouts. One of her family's closest friends betrays her and sets out to find and take the book for himself. Now they're locked in a race to reach it first.With her two closest friends and her service dog, Friday, who helps her manage her PTSD caused by the tragic loss of her mother seven years earlier, Emerson falls through levels of the underworld below Dublin. They face physical, mental, and emotional struggles on their journey that push every limit they have. They encounter magical beings from Celtic mythology and convince them to help them reach the faeries in the hopes of persuading them to give Emerson the book.

A century of climate change has disrupted any sense of a global order, tangling the notions of a developed and developing world. In orbit and nearing completion after half a century of construction is the Tevat, an interstellar ark designed to grant a few thousand believers the chance to start anew on a planet several lightyears away. Funded by the richest man to ever live, the journey will require generations of inhabitants, the initial citizens accepting that they will be sacrificing their descendants to a life aboard a spacecraft in which they can never leave.The affluent and virtuous Pri Gosal is among those chosen believers. However, after sanctioned launches of passengers onto the Tevat are halted, Pri will be forced to discover just how far she is willing to go to in order to leave this planet behind.

The Sun God does not love. He is benevolent and cherishes his subjects, ushering in the morning each day, but he is untouchable. That's the story Alaric Shina has heard since he was a child. It's something he's never questioned. When he's chosen as tribute for the annual offering ceremony, Alaric is ecstatic. Meeting a god is an honor bestowed upon so few. After a chance encounter leaves him alone in the Sun God's presence, Alaric is trapped in the Temple of the Sun, at the whims of a powerful yet beautiful god. Alaric begins to learn the truth about the mysterious figure from his childhood stories, a darkness that enshrouds the shining god.A story of lost love and finding new life in chance meetings, Unbreakable brings together two unlikely people who challenge the idea that immortals and mortals can never intertwine.

Those with power and authority work to keep it.Those without both suffer or accept their fate.Joanna McMillin may be at the top of the Gaia hierarchy, but she has survived loss. First the disappearance of her twin brother at the behest of her own mother then the murder of her soon to be wife, Judy. Offered a chance to make a real change in the world, she must choose to bend her ideals to save her brother and get revenge or continue living in her moral glasshouse and watch injustice prevail. Scott has never had many choices in the worldwide matriarchy, but now he has met the Scion of one of the world's greatest families. Can he convince her that he's more than a means to her end and find a way to turn his nightmare existence into a brighter future? Their choices will lead them down the path to something has hasn't been possible in almost a millennium, a partnership between females and males.

The recently murdered Queen Nefertiti of Egypt stands before the gods in the Underworld. To be granted eternal life, she must convince them her life has been worthy. Should she fail, she will be consigned to oblivion.To prove her worthiness, she undertakes a review of her life - from the moment when, as a child, the gods assigned her the task of maintaining cosmic balance, to her turbulent forced marriage to Akhenaten, the one Pharaoh in Egypt's long history who set out to tear that balance apart.Her marriage becomes steadily more difficult as Akhenaten's obsession to legitimize the worship of only one god throws society into chaos. Nefertiti assumes more and more of his duties, at a time when simply having a woman in charge is itself viewed as an upset of the cosmic balance. But Nefertiti's greatest challenge arises as she fails to produce a male heir to preserve the dynasty. As Akhenaten turns in desperation towards Nefertiti's beautiful young daughters to birth him a son, Nefertiti must balance the future of Egypt and the weight of her royal responsibilities against her love for her daughters.

Winner of Kirkus Award for Independent novels, Dorie LaRue's remarkable collection of short stories from the postmodern South bears witness to the complicated lives of its characters as willful and courageous, doomed and redeemed. This book is about mothers and daughters and fathers and sons in a new age of rapidly changing roles. The truths that are impossible to ignore, the pain passed between generations will take readers on a journey of adventure sometimes tragic and sometimes absurdly funny.

"There is a vampire in Amiens!Forced to flee her home when her life is threatened, a young girl disguises herself as a boy called Viktor, finding herself alone and vulnerable on the streets of Dover. She encounters secretive pickpocket Anna, who offers protection and the chance to escape the rigid confines of her life.Yet Anna is not all she seems. As the two struggle to navigate a turbulent friendship, they are catapulted into a strange supernatural investigation. A family's reputation is on the line after a vampire attack, and Viktor is forced to confront a very different reality to that which she has known. As her narrow world opens up, Viktor has to establish a new persona against the backdrop of citywide vampire hysteria, whilst battling her own personal demons and trying to unravel the mystery of her new companion.

The Hero of Mount Vere. The dragon slayer and protector of the realm from the monsters beyond the wall.That is who her husband is to be. He brings all the promise of salvation from the torments of her unhappy family, but all she can offer are secrets. Instead of a legitimate daughter to one of the most prominent Ducals, she is a secret illegitimate child. Not beloved like her sisters, but the scorn of her father's eye. A budding Mystic with the ability to read emotions on objects. Not to mention her ailing mother and two half-siblings that rely on her support.Yet she suspects her husband has secrets of his own. Will their secrets tear them apart or bring them together?

Against a backdrop of unrest and unforeseen political change, a trio of bygone friends converge in San Francisco. Jonathan is haunted by his past and can't move forward. Kit, his former student, is disillusioned and in a slump. Milo inhabits the center-the axis of the triangle. Beneath his clownlike behavior and dazzling grin, Milo's tender heart and wisdom transforms those he loves.Larkspur will transport you back to the pre-digital 1980s. Be sure to grab a few coins for the phone booth, a cassette player for your tunes... and don't forget your map.

Brigid Humboldt is a high school teacher who has worked hard to fashion a predictable, ordinary life after an anything but ordinary childhood. When scientists turn on the Large Hadron Collider, Brigid, inexplicably, becomes the co ruler of, well, everything. She quickly realises that not only must she learn the ropes of a new and not particularly welcomed job, she must also try and work out just which of the apparently multitudinous dark forces that surround her is trying to plunge the planet into an eternal pit of torment.With the assistance of her new age parents, an officious spectral administrative executive and a regretful warlock with a deep and abiding interest in 80s cafe food, Brigid uncovers secrets about the liminal worlds that exist above our own. Is it just her own life that she has never been able to understand? Or is the very nature of existence far more bizarre than she could have ever imagined?

Kate is a neuroscientist who covets logic and order, unless she's sleeping with her married lab director, and then logic goes out the window. So does her orderly life in Manhattan when she's fired over the affair and Kate's mother presses her to accept responsibility for her fifteen-year-old nephew, Teague, an orchid child who hears voices and talks to trees but rarely people.To salvage her career, Kate agrees to conduct a study in West Ireland where hostile townsfolk rebuff her study of their historically high rate of schizophrenia and a local chief Druid identifies Teague's odd perceptions as the gift of second sight, thrusting a bewildered Kate on a trail of madness, magic, and armed rebellion that leads to her own grandparents, who were banished as traitors from the same town.When a confrontation with the chief Druid endangers Teague's life, Kate lands at the intersection of ancient Celtic mysticism and 21st century neurodiversity, where the act of witnessing old wounds can heal suffering in both past and present - even hers, if she can accept the limits of science and the power of ancestral ties.

When eight-year-old Bethany is kidnapped from her prairie home in the winter of 1870, her older brother James will stop at nothing to rescue her-even if that means traveling the dangerous Santa Fe Trail.At sixteen, James isn't exactly sure what it means to "grow up." He only knows that his mother blames him for Bethany's kidnapping, and he has to make things right. Overpowering his fear of the unknown, he launches into a quest for justice and redemption. James will face vagrants, criminals, and even the law to hunt Bethany down-but his internal obstacles may prove more threatening still. Will he find her before it's too late?The Dark Prairie is an introspective adventure that will grip readers with its rich imagery and vivid characters. Provoking readers with its poetry and perspective, this earthy and often humorous story is sure to captivate.

What is legitimized and normalized by the discrimination and institutionalized violence the de la Cruz family is forced to face? Miguelito might survive in his new adopted country, but at what price?The novel opens with the death of Manuel de la Cruz who is wasting away from dementia. He once was a henchman for the brutal Cuban dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. As he lays dying, he becomes lucid enough during the last minutes of life to be haunted not just by the spirits of his victims, but also by the orisha deity Oggúm of the Afro-Cuban religion known as Santeria. Although the story focuses on his son Miguelito, the trajectory of Manuel's life is also explored. Specifically, his complicity with torture prior to the Castro 1959 revolution, his counterrevolutionary terrorist activities after the change of government, his fleeing from the island, his acts of murder, and his abusive attempts to make his sensitive son Miguelito into a macho. Miguelito's story begins with being an "illegal immigrant," living in the shadows of whiteness. We explore his life growing up in the slums of New York City, the toll poverty takes on immigrant children, the violence he encountered for being a Latino, lessons he learns from a gay neighbor on how to be a gentlemen during his first date with Silvia, the juxtaposition of going to a Catholic school by day and worshipping African gods by night, and his ultimate success within the academy as a professor, even though he was never accepted as an equal by his white colleagues.

Two uniquely disturbing tales of not-so-common and cuddly cats and dogs.Cats takes seven members of Montana's Lincoln County Sheriff's Department to the remote and abandoned Sweet Grass Psychiatric Hospital for a week of uninterrupted tactical training. The hospital was closed a decade earlier after a suspicious fire that swept through the top floors, killing staff and patients. The legend of a mysterious Catman settles into the long lore of Sweet Grass Hills, intensified by the enormous clowder of cats that has populated the hills. A clash between reality and myth is about to take place on a very uneven playing field.Dogs examines a world where conflict resolution is taken to a deep, dark place on Maine's Stryker John Island where Trent Aress has moved his wife and twin sons. Trent has left behind his high-stress Washington world as a lobbyist to establish a resort of the remote island. But his dream is not met with the enthusiasm he expected. The reserved islanders, especially his neighbor, Abe Carver, do not appreciate his plans to turn their island into a resort. While the islanders are content to let their feelings come through in words, Carver answers back with his pack of wild dogs that patrol the property line. Trent's response is a pack of his own. But no one can control a rogue weapon. The arm's war escalates to the level of MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction.

He hates clichés. It's apparent in every dust-filled corner of his life.While he's pouring one too many drinks, hovering in the airless loop of his apartment to savor every bit of his misery, and pinching his bruised heart whenever memories flood forward, he's chronically blocked from writing his next novel. He hates taking the path most trodden. Overanalyzing everything as if it's a scientific experiment - too proud to take advice or to grow up. But he can't help himself.Tempted with second chances but reluctant to reach out from his cocoon, will he ever get over himself, shed this façade of dissatisfied dread, and recover an authentic life?

Many generations have passed since Carling first faced Chaos' rage. With each incarnation, his desire to find and claim her gifts grows.Claire is just like any other 17-year-old, or so she thought. No stranger to tragedy and heartache, she finds comfort in her great-uncle and guardian, and her best friend, Adam. Her life is settling into a happy peace. Until one night everything she knew and trusted is turned on its head.Spirited away in the middle of the night and thrust into a world of family secrets and hidden magical abilities, Claire discovers she's not just any teenager and she's being hunted by her best friend's father. Claire must learn to harness her awakening gifts before an ancient evil finds her.Can she master her Abilities before Marcus finds her?

A few months after Bobby O''Malley joins the army to pay for his college education, he learns that his father is dying. O''Malley returns home to see his father one last time and bury him. Afterward, he is forced to put off his mourning, so he can continue his new role as an infantry soldier. In 1985, during a decade of excess, that role means mostly falling in with the wrong people and drinking to dull the pain of loss. Along the way, O''Malley makes some friends, falls in love with a married woman, and learns a secret about his father that changes his life.

The Realm of Dragons is in peril from hidden plots and conspirators, which threaten not only the crown, but the dragons that are at the very heart of it.Teagan Loinsigh, long ago banished from her magical home of dragons now lives on Earth. Her dreams and memories of the great creatures are put down to fantasies and an overactive imagination. Until one day she comes across a creature so unlike any other in the land she lives in. A baby dragon.Muniath Magaoidh, a Dragon Warden fallen so low by a failed mission, must be brought back from his despair to retrieve what is lost.Scetis Mordha, alone in the world since he was a child. Finds himself in the middle of intrigue and conspiracy against The Realm of Dragons.Tying them all together is a dragon. Not just a dragon but The King of Dragons.Can these four save The Realm of Dragons?