On a foggy Monday in 1986, the universe suddenly, without warning, bifurcated. Fast-forward to 35 years later: Felix Sayers is a culinary writer living in San Francisco of Universe A who spends his days lunching at Coconut Café and dreaming of penning an Agatha Christie-style mystery. But everything

Cassidy Kincaide runs Trifles & Folly in modern-day Charleston, an antiques and curios shop with a dangerous secret. Cassidy can read the history of objects by touching them and together with Teag (a hacker and weaver witch) and Sorren, a 600 year-old vampire, they get rid of cursed objects and keep

Never again......Christofer lives by those words while Cloe would rather die by them........Too many years living on the run, of always being seen as nothing more than a monster and a freak, has left Christofer cold and distant. He hates his life, his fate, but he's made promises and nothing on eart

*Bliss and Other Stories* represents the range of themes and concerns for which Katherine Mansfield is known. Besides the great number of marriage and couples narratives, this collection also includes "woman alone" stories about unmarried women exploring hopes, dreams, trials, and fears. Mansfield's

Blue Riley has wrestled with her own demons ever since the loss of her mother to cancer. But when she encounters a beautiful devil at her town crossroads, it's her runaway sister's soul she fights to save. The devil steals Blue's voice--inherited from her musically gifted mother--in exchange for a s

Murder in the holiday spirit It was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn't let a living baby be part of the town's living crèche. And some ladies were stretching

Reunited with her cousin Kelsey when a job offer returns her to the home of her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma, Logan risks everything to secure her cousin's happiness while Kelsey's celebrity and controlling parents threaten her efforts to live a normal life.

**From the author of _School for Sidekicks_ comes a witty and thoughtful middle-grade fantasy about the bonds of family and the strength of true friendship. ** Kalvan Monroe is worried. Either he's going mad or he really did wake up with uncontrollable fire magic and accidentally summon a snarky ta

*William Shakespeare is credited with inventing how many words?\** Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job description for library director Lindsey Norris. But when the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts their newest production of the Bard, she has no intention of leaving the stack

In 1987, there was legalized poker in Nevada and in one county of California. Author Jesse May was seventeen years old and already hooked. By 1996, poker could be legally played in casinos in over twenty states of the union and five countries in Europe. Legalization changed the face of poker, and as

"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of **Shiloh and Other Stories** when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Ke

An enthralling collection of short stories featuring favourite characters from Melissa Marr's bestselling WICKED LOVELY series. Dangerous promises and beguiling threats swirl together in a dozen stories of enchantments, dark and light, by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr. Uncanny and

**A LEGENDARY FAMILY** For generations, the descendants of the powerful telepath known as The Rowan have used their talents to benefit humanity. As human civilization reached out to colonize the stars, the family led Earth to ally itself with the peaceful alien Mrdini. Together, the two races have

Seeking to ease his loneliness, Owen sets out to meet his last remaining relative, someone he never knew because of an old family scandal. Hes trying to find his way in life, his path uncertain and his heart having been broken more than once. Suffering under a demonic curse that can never be lifted

SUMMARY: Murder in the holiday spiritIt was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn't let a living baby be part of the town's living crèche. And some ladies were s

Murder in the holiday spirit It was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring.. The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn't let a living baby be part of the town's living cr?che. And some ladies were stretching

Murder in the holiday spirit It was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring.. The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn't let a living baby be part of the town's living cr?che. And some ladies were stretching

A griffin with one life to live chooses to share it with a dark elf who matches every step she makes. Maki has lived and tried to love, over and over again. As a griffin, she is privy to the memories of all the griffins who have come before. Every moment of their lives until they died in defenc

"Has it ever occurred to you, Johann; the fact that we're fighting on the wrong side?" Austria, 1938 On the verge of the most devastating war of all times, four young men found themselves sharing a room in a flying school dormitory. A bohemian Berliner, a Flieger-Hitlerjugend member, a

_**"A**_** __ huge treat for mystery fans." --Peggy Ehrhart** _**You can't tiptoe when murder's afoot...**_ It's Bastille Day in Paris. The Happy Hoofers--Tina, Janice, Pat, Mary Louise, and Gini--are all set to kick off the _fete_ by dancing the cancan on a beautiful sightseeing cruise down the