Seattle. The near future. A dark force infects humans and takes over their minds.Seventeen-year-old Marci is a hacker. The best in the city. Ever since she can remember, her mind has been under attack, but lately, it’s getting worse. A dark force overrides her and makes her do awful things. Her mother and best friend believe that she’s a rebel child and that she meant to race her bike with the cops hot on her tail.She wasn’t in control. Someone else was.

Bianca is a Trove. Her blood is so powerful it allows vampires to stroll in the sunlight.She lives a life of masquerade parties, governesses, and flirting with eligible men like the handsome thief, Nyro Stonehelm, who openly defies the vampire King and Queen.Soon a visit from the King brings Bianca face to face with a terrible reality—her father has gambled away everything, and still owes the King’s Court more. To set an example, the King executes her fathe...

From a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing fawning, an often-overlooked piece of the fight-flight-freeze reaction to trauma—explaining what it is, why it happens, and how to help survivors regain their voice and sense of self.Most of us are familiar with the three F's of trauma—fight, flight, or freeze. But psychologists have identified a fourth, extremely common (yet little-understood) response: f...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Seven-year-old Chula lives a carefree life in her gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside her walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar reigns, capturing the attention of the nation.“Simultaneously propulsive and poetic, reminiscent of Isabel Allende...Listen to this new author’s voice—she has something powerful to say.” —Entertainment Weekly**When her mother hires Pet...

In an age when "survival" shows permeate the media, noted northern traveller Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. Wilson knows better than most how to live in the woods. As park ranger, canoe guide, outfitter, trail builder, and environmental activist, he learned from firsthand experience that nature can neither be beaten or tamed.Trails and Tribulations takes the reader on a journey with the author throu...

“Thoft’s gripping sequel...A quirky and empathetic heroine, a fast-moving plot, and a surprise ending make this a winner.”—Publishers WeeklyFirecracker P.I. Fina Ludlow returns in the next hard-driving entry in the acclaimed series by Ingrid Thoft.It’s been a couple months since Fina’s last big case—the one that exposed dark family secrets and called Fina’s family loyalty into question—but there’s no rest for the weary, especially w...

Cupcakes have been a huge craze in the last few years and now you can make delicious and professional-looking cupcakes at home! Inside are more than fifty recipes for delicious cupcakes—decorated with icing, sugar balls, and pearls—to suit every occasion. Step-by-step photos teach you how to decorate your delectable desserts with homemade frosting, a variety of sprinkles, and hand-rolled marzipan flowers. Recipes include: Berry cupcakes Marshmallow cupcakes Sports ...

I will be transformed into something beautiful, but at what cost?”My name is Samantha, but I prefer Sam.I’m ordinary, which is fine. It’s just I want to be ordinary somewhere else—not here in this small town, living with my too-busy-to-care parents.But ordinary ends the day Greg Papilio—a dark-haired, blue-eyed hottie—saves me from a mysterious, magical stranger who blows up my car and swears he’ll be back to finish the job.Turns out, I’m no...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a flash fiction story. It is only 1,200 words long.This is the unofficial epilogue to The Marriage Agreement. For those of you who wanted Laura's mother to get her happy ending, this one's for you!

All my life, I’ve trained to kill shifters, and now I’m one of them.My parents were murdered by wild packs, but the Lux Academy saved me and raised me among other orphans like me. They taught me about the shifters’ cruelty and how to destroy them.But everything changes when the Academy turns on me, and I escape only to get captured by the packs.They think I’m a shifter and an alpha, no less. They want me to lead a powerful group of sexy werewolves, ...

Ingrid Law delivers another heartwarming story about the magic of friendship and the power of family in this companion to her Newbery Honor winning SavvyGypsy Beaumont has always been a whirly-twirly free spirit, so as her thirteenth birthday approaches, she hopes to get a magical ability that will let her fly, or dance up to the stars. Instead, she wakes up on her birthday with blurry vision . . . and starts seeing flashes of the future and past. But when...

Everything has changed. I’m a Skew, a supernatural, but what type?Ten days ago, Jacob Knight waltzed back into my life and screwed it all up. Still, I helped him track the heir of a powerful werewolf family, and that was a win, but now I don’t know which way is up.My reality has shifted, pun intended. I’m not who I thought I was, and the changes are more than I can handle. As if that wasn’t enough, a new drug is ravaging my city, including the customers at ...