I'm starting life over in Dogwood Grove.I left my rich husband and bought an old farmhouse with a wraparound porch, amazing views of the mountains, and only a twenty-minute walk from Dogwood Grove. It will be hard at first to be a stranger in a new town, but I have a solid plan: smile and make lots of friends.And it was going great until my ex canceled all my credit cards. Now I'm broke, stuck with an old, rundown house, and all alone.Until I meet Parker, a...

Vampire heir Cassian Virelli has survived centuries of politics, hunger, and carefully managed cold. Then his body betrays him. Human blood, the one thing he was built to need, becomes poison. Eleven days of starvation later, pride is all that is keeping him upright.Food scientist Lila has a lab that glows at two in the morning, a grant hanging by a thread, and a habit of staying late with formulas that should not work. One unstable batch turns gold. One desperate stranger drinks i...

Hey Sis: Reclaim Your Crown - 52 Weeks of Inspiration and Strength for the Woman Who KnowsHer Worth is a yearlong inspirational devotional and poetry collection created to encourage,empower, and strengthen women through faith, wisdom, and self-reflection.Organized into 52 weekly readings, the book combines original poetry, heartfeltencouragement, Scripture, and practical life lessons that remind women of their God-givenidentity, purpose, and value. E...

Reality and fiction merge into a grandiose flight of fantasy when Harriet Sparrow, a young writer suffering from hysterical amnesia, wanders through a stream of lucid dreams believing she's both author and protagonist of her favorite books and movies to replace memories too painful to remember.

Although the theory of well-posed Cauchy problems is reasonably understood, ill-posed problems involved in numerous mathematical models in physics, engineering, and finance can be approached in a variety of ways. The authors structured these approaches, identifying three main strategies for dealing with ill‑posed problems: semigroup methods, abstract distribution methods, and regularization methods. Semigroup and distribution methods restore well-posedness, in a modern weak sense. Regulari...

As a young girl, Cristien witnessed her mother slip from reality, her suffering shaped by trauma and interpreted as mental illness by a world that mistook pain for pathology-answering distress with institutionalization and heavy medication.Women, Madness, Whiteness is a fiercely intimate and incisive exploration of the cultural, social, political and intergenerational roots of mental illness. As an adult, Cristien became a politicized therapist, movement organizer, and spo...

The fourth edition of Uptime introduces an updated and expanded framework for achieving sustainable reliability and asset performance in an increasingly complex, data-enabled operating environment. Building on the proven foundation established by earlier editions, this new edition extends the original Uptime Pyramid of Excellence beyond maintenance best practices alone, positioning reliability as a strategic organizational capability that supports operational excellence, risk redu...

Nineteen original horror stories exploring ancient sites, uncovering forgotten histories and prising open the tombs of the past, from award-winning authors and editors Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi.Perfect for fans of Ellen Datlow.Unearthed digs beneath these crumbling structures to reveal their archaic pasts, and their darkest secrets. Featuring the best modern writers of horror and dark fantasy, these stories explore the caverns and the c...

Thoughtful activities to inspire connection, conversation, and dignity in dementia care.People living with dementia deserve engagement that is respectful, meaningful, and rooted in who they are. Through the Years continues a beloved series with a carefully designed collection of questions and activities that help caregivers and adults with memory challenges connect through shared memories and conversation. Dementia care leaders Cynthia R. Green, PhD, and t...

Friendship Takes Effort is a practical, research-informed guide for adults who want to keep meaningful friendships strong through busy seasons, changing priorities, distance, and life transitions. Brenna V. Zeller explains why adult friendships often fade quietly rather than ending in conflict, and why even caring people can drift apart when work, family, caregiving, and everyday responsibilities take over. With an empathetic, realistic approach, the book helps readers understand the psych...

Every ignored request leaves a record.A chef covers a funeral dish she should have served. A hotel auditor keeps extending a dead guest's stay. A debt clerk receives proof of payment from a person who died before the company existed. Across nine linked stories, receipts, ledgers, contracts, photographs, charts, keys, and blank index fields become the instruments of a supernatural accounting system.The dead do not always ask for revenge. Sometimes they ask to be witnessed. S...

Everyone in town remembers the book club. Almost no one remembers finishing the book.The community reading program was supposed to be simple: choose a novel, host a few conversations, prove that the library still knows how to bring people together. Instead, the town is left with half-read copies, overconfident volunteers, nervous trustees, and a public event that is already on the calendar.Nora is brought in to make the whole thing look intentional. Pippa sees a chance to t...