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Urban fantasy offers a diverse playground for some extremely powerful stories. Professional writer and editor Kerrie L. Hughes pulled some fantastic tales out of 14 top writers for this fifth installment of Fiction River. Set in urban lands from modern Portland, to a future Detroit, to a wild Washington, D.C., and ending the tour in London, these top writers take the idea of "Hex" and stretch and twist it into stories with a magickal grip on the imagination.

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind...

For anyone who ever loved All Creatures Great and Small, Annie England Noblin’s newest novel—about a big city vet transplanted to a small Wisconsin town—is pure delight as we meet aging alpacas, stump-tailed cats, goats in tutus, a vagabond border collie named Kevin, and the people who...

Cynthia Kent is a burden. She's tried to help her sister and brother-in-law, but most of her efforts have ended up in disasters of varying degrees. She's depended on their charity for too long and it was high time she started taking care of herself. But how? Tyler Shelton is a widower with two young children. As the sheriff, raising two children alone while handling his important job has pushed him to the breaking point. He's taken everything one day at a time, but his family is suffering and they need help. Tyler is used to giving help to others, but not asking for it.

Riley thought moving back to Hibiscus Harbor would be a fresh start, a safe haven for her and her young son, Nicholas. But the past she’s trying to escape has followed her, and the stalker who believes Nicholas is theirs won’t stop until they get what they want.

With the help of her new companions, the path Kansas follows leads to more knowledge of the ever adapting famished. The team finds help in unlikely places, meeting more survivors, and discovers the possibility of a new beginning. When the team experiences a devastating loss, Kansas struggles to keep her humanity from fading and distorting like that of the surviving society around her. It begins with knowing who to trust and who to leave behind.

Every version of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".

Annabelle is the princess of Dunea, and that is all she has come to expect from her future. After the tragic death of her mother, Annabelle was raised in hiding—safe from the rebels who threaten from the North and the growing unrest in the kingdom as a decades-long conflict drags on. After rebels from the North murdered the beloved queen Ilenna, a young Annabelle was sent away from court to live under the protection of the Wallace family of Rosewood province. Safely tucked away at the remote coastal manor, Annabelle has spent the years of her youth in the sun.

This summer, they’ll learn that home is where the heart is. Somerset Lake is the perfect place for Trisha Langly and her son to start over. As the new manager for the Somerset Cottages, Trisha is instantly charmed by the property’s elderly residents and her firecracker of a new boss, Vi...

A young woman deep in debt due to her student loans is finishing her first year of teaching. Her subservient nature has captured the attention of some of her students. As they reach age eighteen and graduate, three of them join forces to plot her sexual exploitation. They set her up to look like a predator, then manipulate her for their own nefarious pleasures. Excerpts: They put me into fake pornography, then used that and drugs to get me into the real thing, lots of it. The School Board would terminate me if they saw any of it. It wouldn't matter to them that they are all consenting ...

When Mia relocates to the quaint town of Hibiscus Harbor, she seeks a fresh start, leaving behind a cheating ex and dreams that seemed out of reach. She recently started a new job as a temporary receptionist at the exclusive Hibiscus Harbor Country Club, owned by Ian Gallo. When her boss’s secretary asks her to fill in as Ian’s plus one for a charity gala, she can't resist the opportunity to make some extra cash.

When your dad is the head of the most notorious arcane crime family in the country, telling him no isn’t really in the cards. My rebellion has brought a war to our doorstep, and the last thing Savannah needs is my mob boss father in the mix. But if they find out my fiancé is dead? And the Alpha’s second killed him? Well, Theo’s bite won’t be able to save us.

Annie Besant was a writer, lecturer, prominent Theosophist and women's rights activist of her time. She was a frequent contributor to various Theosophical publications of her day. This is a lecture of hers from 1913, where she speaks about universal consciousness, spiritual unfolding and personal psychic progress.

SpongeBob and Patrick Star are the best of friends until their annoying neighbor Squidward decides to interfere. But Squidward's plan to split up best friends might backfire on him in a big, hilarious way!...

Would you like to be healthier and feel better? Would you like to lose weight in the process? Would you like a simple guide and a cookbook to make it easy to follow? Plant-based diets are finally beginning to get their deserved recognition. Following a whole foods plant-based diet is a sure way to achieve a healthy lifestyle that leaves you feeling energized, nourished, and satiated after every meal, when done correctly.

The film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger. Winner of four BAFTAs 2006, including Best Film, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Screenplay – Adapted and the David Lean Award for...

This is a collection of 26 essays on a variety of theosophical, spiritual and esoteric subjects by some of the most notable and prominent names in the history of theosophy. Compiled specifically with the student in mind.

Fun, bright, and playful, power pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood genre of music. From its heyday in the '70s and '80s to its resurgence in the '90s and '00s, power pop has meant many things to many people. In Go All the Way, today's best and brightest writers go deep on what certain power pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them. Whether they love or hate it, Go All the Way is a dive into the Beatles-inspired pop rock of the last five decades.

Sit! Stay! Speak! author Annie England Noblin’s novel takes one woman starting over, adds an aging pug named Teddy Roosevelt, and proves the power of a well-baked dog treat. All she wants is a settled-down life. What she gets is a dog—and a whole new normal . . . There he stood in the...

This boxed set includes Annie Boone’s last four books in the best-selling Cutter’s Creek series. All books in the inspirational historical romance series are sweet, clean, and wholesome. Annie Boone stories included in this set: Love Conquers All, Perfect Timing, A Pure Heart, and Committed. The Cutter’s Creek Series is written by four different best-selling authors. Each author’s books are a stand-alone series within the Cutter’s Creek world.