Elias Brandt has been the Binding Goaltender of the Saskatoon Frostbacks for seventeen years. The contract he signed at nineteen guarantees the team a place in the playoffs and takes something back every season - a joint, a year of his life, a piece of whatever it is that keeps a body warm. He is thirty-six now. He is not going to see forty. When the Frostbacks trade for two new defensemen, Elias assumes they're the contract's next meal. Tarvo Sild has runes stitched into his laces and kno...

Riley Cho wakes in a hospital bed and learns her roommate didn't make it out of the dorm fire. The only adult who believes it was set is Detective Isa Mora, who treats Riley like a partner instead of a witness. Together they build a case against a beloved teacher. But every piece of proof Riley brings back is slightly off — a timestamp moved by minutes, a photograph that isn't the one she found. Riley starts investigating the detective. What she uncovers is a decade of cases shaped to fit ...

Adam Cross is a careful man. He files his taxes early. He remembers birthdays. He keeps his wife's journals in a row on the top shelf.When Beth goes missing, the police search the mill, the woods, the surrounding fields. They find blood in the workshop. They find Beth's handwriting in a dozen notebooks. They find a wife who seems to have had an affair, a plan, and a very dark interior life.What they cannot find is Beth.Adam says the journals are fiction. Adam says h...

Ninety days. Three executors. One locked estate. Odette Sinclair inherits a billion-dollar empire and a sentence: live at Blackthorn for three months with the Voss brothers — the men who ruined her — or forfeit everything. She thinks she's a prisoner. Then the power goes out, a note in her dead father's handwriting appears, and Odette learns the truth. The Voss brothers aren't her captors. They're the only thing standing between her and the man who killed her father. As the estate closes i...

Elias Brandt ist seit siebzehn Jahren der bindende Torhüter der Saskatoon Frostbacks. Der Vertrag, den er mit neunzehn unterschrieb, garantiert dem Team einen Platz in den Playoffs – und nimmt jedes Jahr etwas zurück: ein Gelenk, ein Jahr seines Lebens, ein Stück von dem, was einen Körper warm hält. Jetzt ist er sechsunddreißig. Er wird die Vierzig nicht erleben. Als die Frostbacks zwei neue Verteidiger verpflichten, geht Elias davon aus, dass sie die nächste Mahlzeit des Vertrags sind. Ta...

Neunzig Tage. Drei Testamentsvollstrecker. Ein verschlossenes Anwesen. Odette Sinclair erbt ein Milliardenimperium – und ein Urteil: Lebe drei Monate lang in Blackthorn mit den Voss-Brüdern, den Männern, die sie ruiniert haben, oder verliere alles. Sie hält sich für eine Gefangene. Dann fällt der Strom aus, eine Notiz in der Handschrift ihres toten Vaters taucht auf, und Odette erfährt die Wahrheit. Die Voss-Brüder sind nicht ihre Entführer. Sie sind das Einzige, was zwischen ihr und dem M...

A reflective non-fiction work for general adult readers examining the psychological and emotional dimensions of personal finance. Explores how childhood money narratives, fatigue, comparison, and identity shape financial decision-making. Not a prescriptive guide; focuses on self-awareness and recognition around money and choice. Suitable for adult general and psychology collections. Subject headings: personal finance psychology, financial wellness, money mindset, decision-making, self-awar...

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The ice never lies.It doesn't care about your legacy, your fear, or the fifty-four years of history pressing down on your shoulders. It's cold, hard, and completely unforgiving — and every player in this book had to find out exactly what they were made of when they stepped onto it.Legends of the Ice is a cinematic journey through twenty of the most extraordinary stories in professional hockey history. Not statistics. Not box scores. Moments — the half-second before everythi...

You have been living inside this man's decisions your entire life without knowing his name.The church on your street. The legal tradition that protects your rights. The city that preserved every book worth reading through a thousand years of darkness. The idea — radical when it was introduced, so embedded now that we have forgotten it was ever introduced — that what you believe privately is your own business and not the state's. These things did not arrive by accident or evolution ...

There are subjects in history that were not merely discouraged—they were buried, restricted, and deliberately kept from the wider world. The Forbidden Arts is a deep and unflinching exploration into those hidden practices, drawing from centuries of recorded accounts, secret manuscripts, and real testimonies of those who came dangerously close to knowledge that was never meant to be widely understood.This book does not deal in fiction or exaggeration. Instead, it examines the docume...