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Darby doesn't want to go home for the holidays, but a career fail sends her slinking back to the small town she always wanted to escape. No one there is especially glad to see the former mean girl--especially not her sister, Erica, or childhood best friend, Gregory. Darby is working hard to be a...

Kacey adores the metropolitan life, but when she gets away to help her sister during a family crisis and run her bakery, she falls in love with former classmate Drew. The problem: he's a small-town man, and she's a big-city woman. Is their love big enough to overcome such a major difference?...

Finally back home, Meiling finds that returning to her old life as the cursed princess is harder than she imagined. She’s told to rest and recover from her harrowing time in the enemy’s fortress and enjoy the week-long festival. She can’t. Not when Shang faces losing everything—including his life—because of her. She won’t rest until he is pardoned, but that is easier said than done in a world that still believes her cursed.

You’re pro-life. But can you explain why? You already believe in choosing life. But when the counterarguments are coming at you from every angle - legal, biological, medical, ethical, moral, philosophical, and biblical - how do you defend the pro-life view? And as you defend it...how do you speak with wisdom, humility, and compassion? Now more than ever, the times call for a balance of truth and mercy. There are good, wise, and thoughtful rebuttals of every claim made by pro-abortion advocates.

Anger. Betrayal. Exile. Isla always knew she would be queen. One day. But after the death of her mother, matriarch of the Southern Pacific merfolk kingdom, that day grew much closer than she was prepared for. Worse, to become a mermaid queen, she must marry. It is the only way to protect her kingdom. Forcibly betrothed to her childhood friend and father’s fiercest warrior, Isla is desperate for an escape - no matter the cost. But until she marries, her father is filled with a power his body cannot handle, and his control is steadily slipping.

Can Aderyn stop a hidden danger before it destroys those she loves? The quest to discover the truth about the legendary Fated One has taken Aderyn and her friends across a continent and back. They’ve faced monsters, evil humans, and dungeons that nearly destroyed them. Now, they’re ready for something different. A chance meeting with Aderyn’s brother brings them to the city of Finion’s Gate to compete in the Glory Games, where Owen fights a series of duels and the others compete in tiny dungeons, all for the applause of the crowd.

The tunnels are not the only terror Quinn will face next. The heirs have agreed to find Quinn’s attacker and decode the tome’s ominous prophecy together, but their new alliance is tested at every corner as they enter the underground tunnels. Hickory’s home in the Kobold city is an overwhelming maze of mystery, pixie dust machinery, and mayhem—and nothing compares with the challenge that awaits them in the next death-defying trial.

Quinn has always feared the Dryad forest--now more than ever. With severe warnings from the faerie queen and another trial fast approaching, Quinn thinks she’s prepared to trek through the dark forest, especially with Alys leading the way. But when the heirs face unexpected dangers before the Trial of Life even begins, they learn there’s much more to fear than the competition itself, and that they might need each other to survive it.

Sun Aranya just wants a stable job so she can care for her ailing grandfather. After years of relentless magic training, she has finally earned a city wardenship—only to discover on her first day that annoyingly handsome Shi Kai is laying claim to her position. There’s only one option: they’ll just have to compete for it. But while Aranya and Kai are forced to work together until one of them wins their competition, trouble brews in the empire. Whispered threats of enemy invasion abound, and magic-wielders are disappearing across the empire without a trace.

After accepting the responsibility of the Fated One quest, Aderyn, Owen, and their friends must travel north to the Repository, home to strange sources of knowledge. There, they will discover the next step on their adventure. It should be a straightforward journey, with no complications. But antagonistic traveling companions, an old man who knows more about Aderyn than he should, and countless vicious monsters stand in their way.

A new world. A lost hope. A choice that will define him. After his escape from the island of trash, Rodney faces unexpected challenges in the Lands of Luxury. Because of the scar on his face, he fears he doesn't belong in such a picture perfect world. Things go awry when he meets a man named Mr. Ottenfox who offers him the opportunity to make his scar disappear forever. But Rodney soon discovers Ottenfox isn't someone he can trust. How far is Rodney willing to go to make his scar disappear? Will he listen to his friends before there are dire consequences?

Deep beneath the Lonely Tor lies the Enchanterium, an ancient magical facility where Aderyn and her companions face challenges that test more than their abilities. When their quest leads them to this mysterious complex, they find themselves racing against time—and they're not alone. Another team of adventurers, driven by glory and ambition, is determined to slay the dragon that terrorizes nearby settlements. But as Aderyn's team delves deeper into the Enchanterium's secrets, they begin to question everything they thought they knew about their mission.

A camp kid who loves big words. A large dog of unknown origin. Together, can they find the dog’s home before he’s sent away for good? Ten-year-old Scout is reading a mystery novel when a dog springs from the forest and steals her dictionary. Then he eats it, page by page. And everything changes. Scout doesn’t want to like this dictionary-digesting dog. But somehow he works his way into her heart. Now she’s on a mission to find where he came from—before the camp director sends him to the animal shelter.

The knowledge gained in the Repository directs Aderyn, Owen, and their team to the distant, lawless city of Obsidian, in search of the next clues to the Fated One quest. Obsidian is dangerous for low-level adventurers, and the overland journey through monster-infested wasteland takes months. When they learn of a dungeon called Gamboling Coil that can transport adventurers instantly anywhere in the world, they leap at the chance. But nothing in the dungeon is as it seems, and it will take all the team’s skills to make it out alive.

At three in the morning, Detective Ame Bassette receives a panicked call from her sister Delphine who has just killed her drug-dealing boyfriend. Ame makes a snap decision—to risk everything to save her sister from spending life behind bars. Together, they go on the run, but quickly discover that some secrets will follow wherever you go.

Princess Meiling harbors a deadly secret. Her people believe her lack of magic to be a curse, so she has spent her life in the background, all but shunned from court. But she does have magic—and it’s the magic of legends. When the secret of her magic is threatened, she is forced to flee her home into the dangerous wilderness with nothing but a begrudging warrior as protection. Handsome and taciturn Tan Shangdi isn’t happy to have his career waylaid, but he will do whatever it takes to fulfill his duty and protect Meiling with his life.

Have you ever dreamed of having wings and taking to the skies? Enter a world of winged races locked in war. Most in Avian society never get a chance to mature and grow their white feathered wings and take to the skies. Most never get to master communication with their Scala, the semi sentient scales that cover their body and protect their race.

Isla has been queen for five years, but time has not made ruling any easier. It also hasn’t erased the guilt she feels over her part in the pain her people suffered. But as queen, she has more important things to worry about than her feelings and some gruesome flashbacks. She must atone for her sins and help the merfolk of the Southern Pacific heal from the wounds her mistakes left behind. Unfortunately, achieving that will be harder than she ever imagined.

Eleven months ago, Isla became the matriarch of her merfolk kingdom. Unfortunately, transitioning from being an exiled princess to being a queen is tougher than she anticipated. Isla is haunted by the trauma her mistakes have left behind, the sacrifice her father made, and the glimpse Anita gave her at a secret that had been buried for nearly 30 years. Only Anita and the secret she holds close to her heart can give Isla any measure of closure and make the road ahead clearer for Isla to grow as Queen

The Mozinskis experience music like no family you've ever met. Struggling musicians Vincent Mozinski and Grace Klinefelter marry in the early 1960s, drawn together by the shared ability to see the music they play. The two pass this unique skill along to their ever-growing family of musical prodigies: Clara, Ellington, Bix, Allegro, Thelonious, and Viola. After the children record a radio commercial for a local business, Vincent realizes the best chance of achieving his dream of musical stardom is with and through his children.