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With the issue of the papal succession resolved, Saint Philia returns to Parnacorta to tie the knot with Prince Osvalt. As she prepares to be wed, her mother, Hildegard, tells Philia about her late father, Camil--how he used to be an apothecary, how he fell victim to the very same illness that claimed the life of Parnacorta's last saint, and how he had been working on a cure before he died. Finding proof of this nearly complete cure among Camil's papers, Philia decides to honor her father and Elizabeth by finishing what he started.

Leia's life is turned upside down after her younger sister claims she's a cruel villain. Leia's fiance breaks off their engagement, leaving her no choice but to throw herself into her saintly duties. But when confronted by the righteous Crown Prince Eric, she finds herself under his scrutiny. He's determined to suss out her true nature, but why does it involve living in the palace with him?!

Philia's family has produced saints for generations. It's no surprise that she's known as the greatest saint of all time--and set to marry the second prince, Julius. What no one expects is for Julius to call off the engagement, claiming that Philia's perfection makes her charmless and unlikable. To add insult to injury, Philia is packed off to a neighboring country in exchange for gold and resources, forcing her to leave her homeland!

Nobody likes being on agricultural rotation, and with this heat wave, it’s almost more than Ester can take. She’s itching for something she can’t put words to—something she has no memory of wanting. But then, she can’t remember much beyond the past couple of years. She’s sent to the husband archive for a cure, but the man she checks out comes with baggage: stacks and stacks of paper he calls “books.” What they teach each other may prove hard to forget.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick The New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds a family across the generations in “one of the most beautiful books of...

Twenty years ago, student Daisy Harrington went out for the evening and never came home. Her body was found a week later. The killer was caught. Case closed. Now, on what would have been her fortieth birthday, her five university housemates are invited to a weekend gathering. None of them want to go. But none of them can refuse—the invitation makes it clear that if they don’t attend, the past they’ve spent two decades hiding will finally come to light.

Philia's hope of wedded bliss is interrupted by the news that the pope, sacred leader of her faith, has passed--and that his will names her as his successor?! Together with her fiance Prince Osvalt, she heads to the neighboring nation of Dalbert, seat of the papacy, to investigate how this came to be. There, the duo finds proof of a conspiracy that tampered with the pope's will! Can they get to the bottom of this? Or is Philia's newfound happiness in Parnacorta doomed to be short-lived?

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Sold to a neighboring country by her former fiancee, Philia the saint has been hard at work protecting her new home—and the entire continent—from monster attacks. Just when it seems she might be in for some well-earned peace, however...magic-users across Parnacorta begin to disappear. A mysterious exorcist named Erza tells Philia that demons are behind the kidnapping—and that Philia is their real target! How will the too-perfect saint face this frightening new foe?

When a supposedly cursed traditional Japanese instrument arrives at the British School of Kyoto, strange things start to happen. A phantom geisha haunts the halls, a star student vanishes, and cryptic symbols appear across the campus.

In this sequel to A Study in Secrets that’s Only Murders in the Building meets The Westing Game, Meg must figure out the identity of the mysterious Mastermind to save her school and her friends. After winning a scavenger hunt with her new friends—Tana, Zane, and Ryan—Meg Mizuno is looking...

* Chosen as a 2020 Kirkus Prize Finalist for Young Readers' Literature! * A Malaysian folk tale comes to life in this emotionally layered, chilling middle grade debut, perfect for fans of The Book of Boy and The Jumbies. I am a dark spirit, the ghost announced grandly. I am your inheritance...

Charlie Whitmore has her life perfectly planned out. As a rising star at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, she's on the fast track to partnership. Until her beloved Aunt Beth dies and leaves her a small-town bookshop in Vermont. Oak & Ink Bookshop has stood in the heart of Leafwood Falls for nearly a century, beloved by locals. Charlie's plan is simple: assess the shop's value, list it for sale, and return to Manhattan. But Leafwood Falls has other ideas.

Join Shantini Rajah on a delightful manifesting journey that integrates spiritual and scientific concepts with simple exercises and tools anyone can use to attract their dream life.

Yang Mina, descended from a Japanese dragon god, was born with the power to travel through time, and has spent her life training to take her place in the Descendants, a secret organization whose purpose is to protect the timeline. But since moving to Seoul, everything is falling apart. Mina has discovered that the Descendants are corrupt, that her sister has been erased from existence, and that she can’t pass Calculus, which puts her mission to kiss the cutest boy in her year at risk.

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copyeditor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it.

Greetings from Monchac, Louisiana. Home to fifty-seven souls and the world's only floating stationery store! When Mila Breaux's LA dreams go up in smoke, she'll move her cozy lettering shop down to bayou country, and pile her pens and paper onto her late uncle's houseboat. But the discovery of human bones just feet from her new store will rock the foundations of the sleepy swamp town. It will be up to Mila and a quirky band of characters to get to the bottom of things before it is too late!

Leave your preconceived notions at home as you embark on a mind-bending journey with six of today’s most visionary authors. Brimming with humor and heartache, this collection of short stories maps the roads we took to get here and the paths that lie ahead. The present may be a gift, but the future and the past both come with a price.

Everyone knows the most stressful day of middle school is picture day! And that's exactly where this yearbook-worthy series opener begins: with reinventing yourself, drama, popularity, and the friends who see you through. Seventh-grader Viv never looks forward to picture day. It’s just another...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A breathtaking romantic fantasy inspired by Beauty and the Beast about a girl who paints the future and a cursed dragon lord, bound by love and deception in a plot to bring down the gods. From the New York Times bestselling author of Six Crimson Cranes!...