An instant *New York Times* bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman—the spellbinding prequel to *Practical Magic*. *Find your magic.* For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the

For centuries the women of Aronsdale have lived freely among the green and misted valleys. Creatures of exotic beauty and sensuality, they possess powerful skills of enchantment...and young Allegro is no different. But her life--and Aronsdale's independence--is threatened when Jazid nomads invade, c

**A *New York Times* Notable Book of the Year** **A *Publisher's Weekly* Best Book of the Year** Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia--a world where Derrida rules, love is a "complicated id

### Amazon.com Review Rudy Baylor, a new law school graduate, once dreamed of the good life as a corporate attorney. Now he faces joblessness and bankruptcy--unless he can win an insurance case against a heavyweight team of lawyers, a case that starts small but mushrooms into a frightening war of n

Still on Romulus in pursuit of his goal of reunifying the Vulcans and Romulans, Spock finds himself in the middle of a massive power struggle. In the wake of the assassination of the Praetor and the Senate, the Romulans have cleaved in two. While Empress Donatra has led her nascent Imperial Romulan

Katherine Spence has always dreamed of having her own speciality bakery. But her life’s work is put at risk when an arsonist threatens to take it away. Grayson James, the investigator, finds himself intrigued by the sweet baker. But he can’t afford to lose focus on the case. Tragedy strikes a matc

Hi! I'm Daisy Dreamer and my totally true imaginary friend Posey and I are going on a winter adventure! Oh, and you're totally invited, too! I love snow days! I mean, who doesn't? But do you know what's better than a snow day? A snow day in the World of Make-Believe! Obviously! But do you know wha

_'Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on for ever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Hard to say what I mean by that. You look back at all the endless years when you never had that thought. I am doing that now as I write the

A cursed lineage. A secret magic. A destiny that neither one of them could have predicted. When Elkliss Keep is rampaged by her sinister Uncle Simeon, Lysandra lost everything she had ever known or loved within a heartbeat. Destiny catapults her into a life she could never have foreseen; a

Cela fait maintenant trente années que l’on tente de percer les mystères de la Zone X, ceinturée par une frontière invisible, où tout signe de civilisation a disparu. Douze expéditions, toutes tragiquement inutiles, ont été supervisées par un organisme gouvernemental tellement secret qu’il en est qu

**Long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. An Amazon Best Book of November and one of the _Evening Standard_ 's Books to Read in November** **** **"Colvin never slowed down long enough to write a memoir. Now, thanks to Hilsum's deeply reported and passionately written book, she

The Dreamland team used stealth, raw nerve, and technology to defuse a nightmare on the other side of the world. But now the darkness is racing toward America at blinding speed. With more than two dozen nuclear devices unaccounted for, the global masters of terror have set a catastrophe in motion—a

The dialect, lore, and flavor of black life in the nineteenth-century South is portrayed as it appeared to Georgia-born Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus's "Legends of the Old Plantation."

Cheaters tells nine short stories, each discussing a different shade of infidelity in today's times when societal norms are still the same-archaic. However, the urge to explore and experiment amongst the youth is at an all-time high. This friction, if not handled well, could lead to unexpected roads