A captive, wrathful Siren.A cursed ex-pirate drowning in agony.An artifact that could mean salvation for both if they can survive a journey to Hell-and each other.Vengeful Siren Zephra would give away hundreds of her bewitching kisses-and probably a few stab wounds-if it meant escaping human captivity for her ocean home. After six years trapped behind glass walls in a curiosity lounge, she sends out a cryptic call for help, offeri...

Olympian Brenna Battle once had the fire. Now, she’s just burned out—and burned by love. She’s ready to retire from competitive judo and pursue a new dream in a new town, with her biggest supporter, her recently divorced little sister, Blythe. But on their first day in town, Blythe falls for local sleaze-bag reporter, Ellison Baxter, and their small-town welcome is stained by Baxter’s murder. The weapon—Blythe Battle’s hair brush.In this fast-paced, fun cozy mystery, Brenna, the pr...

"In the Family Way bursts with the complexity, drama, and warmth of Call the Midwife, but set at the canasta and kitchen tables of 1960s suburban America. This timely, timeless novel captures not only the reproductive horrors of that era but also political awakening and a kind of nostalgic hope: it's a changing world, and Roe, behind us now, was glimmering on the horizon then. Laney Katz Becker so beautifully reveals that where there are women's hardships, there is consol...

Jannika Peterson arrived in Grangeton, New Hampshire, with a broken heart and a new job managing the local bookstore. She has a gift for pairing readers with the perfect books, but her matchmaking skills don’t extend to her love life. Love doesn’t stand a chance against her well-protected heart.Eighteen years ago, Lee Thompson was Jannika’s summer camp counselor, and Lee has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the unusual name. Still healing from her wife’s sudden death, Lee ho...

Former Olympian and Arizona native Brenna Battle’s crazy dream of running her very own judo school for kids in tiny, historic Bonney Bay isn’t exactly off to a great start. She has a grand total of one student signed up, but she’s determined to succeed even if it means going door to door. Brenna’s search for judo recruits takes her inside the infamous haunted Reiner House, where she befriends a confused old man named Harvey, and finds herself at the scene of the second murder since her arr...

Eleanor Kingston is a freelance investigative journalist by day and a vigilante by night, leaving black rose in the wreckage of rescued trafficking victims. When she uncovers the truth behind her mother's death eighteen years ago—murdered by the same criminal organization still operating in the shadows—she launches a systematic dismantling of the empire that destroyed her family.Armed with a team of unlikely allies and a willingness to operate outside the law, Eleanor pursues justi...

Two weeks from retirement, Martian homicide detective Rex Caulder catches one last body in an alley — a dead man whose veins glow with something that isn't a drug. It's Whisper: a nanotech compound engineered not to get people high, but to switch off the human capacity to want. And the trail leads straight to Caulder's missing daughter. To reach her before she's erased for good, one burned-out cop has to tear through his own department, a corporate empire, and fifty years of a pla...

Four retired friends set out on the road trip of a lifetime, planning a year visiting America's national parks. What they get instead is a murder they can't ignore.When Maggie—a sharp former defense attorney—and her husband David, a retired history teacher, roll into the small town of Ashwood, Oregon, they're just looking for a place to rest. But June Holloway, desperate and worn down by five years of not knowing, asks them to look at her daughter Sarah's cold case file. Sarah disa...

Knowledgeable and in-depth look at the practice of mediation.Well-written and easy to read.-NC Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin (ret.),Founding Dean of High Point University School of LawThe Practical Mediator lives up to its name.A gold mine of analysis, advice, and wisdom.-Joel Shapiro, Chief Circuit Mediator,U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit...

Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride.What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York has grown to become a global celebration of LGBTQ culture. In the 50-odd years since the original protest, and what is now widely accepted to be the first Pride march – Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1970 – Pride events are now attended by millions each year, celebrating how far we've come, re...

Co-authored by Laney Sammons, a leading expert on the Guided Math framework, this essential classroom resource helps teachers successfully plan, organize, implement, and manage Guided Math Workstations. These effective and easy-to-implement workstation tasks help students practice, review and maintain mathematical concepts and skills during Guided Math Workshop. By implementing Guided Math Workstations, grades 6-8 students will develop a deep conceptual understanding of math, acquire compu...

Unexpected sparks fly and a back seat gets put to good use when a small-town sweetheart falls head-first for her ride-share driver.I’m supposed to be dating. Doing my level best to find The One™While I try to give all the guys on my dating app a fighting chance, I might accidentally be falling in love with my ride-share driver instead.Between disaster first dates and getting stood up and ghosted, I’ve become friends with one of the only car service ...