In the blistering heat of Muscat, Oman, five days can change everything . . .It's been five long years since Olivia Stevens first started working on Block 19-a coveted oil concession worth millions. When she and her team of American oil executives arrive in Oman, everyone anticipates finalizing the deal, and Olivia expects a career-defining success. Instead, she finds herself caught in the middle of a dangerous power struggle that quickly turns into a game of perilous corporate sub...

Buxton sits along the eastern side of the Saco River in northern York County. The Saco was instrumental in the town's establishment, as early settlers moved up the river from the towns of Biddeford and Saco and settled on the river's bank at Salmon Falls. Buxton's inhabitants powered their mills from the river and other local tributaries, and the town's early villages were located near these mills. Buxton presents vintage postcards of the riverside villages of Salmon Falls, Union Falls, Ba...

A Children's Guide written FOR CHILDREN!Help your youngsters enjoy their visit to Santa Fe.See, hear, taste,smell, touch, and enjoy the essence of this special city at the End of the Santa Fe Trail!Simple, child-like, black-and-white drawings with a touch of color bring to life the "feel" of old Santa Fe . . . warm adobe walls . . . rough Navajo rugs . . . bright red chile ristras . . . gleaming Pueblo pottery . . . strutti...

When the ever-cautious Val Locklier moves cross-country with her son for a secure job, everything she’d planned unravels within the first week. After Val reluctantly agrees to rent an apartment from her best friend’s brother, an unexpected chance at an elite filmmakers’ mentorship ignites fresh hope for a dream career. But as Val’s community begins to expand, so do her insecurities, especially those heightened by her growing attraction to a certain friendly landlord.Pastor Miles Mc...

Short stories are the poetry of prose. Mistakes, in a novel, can be buried. In a short story, they stand out like roaches on a sugar cookie. Short stories are precise, cut to the bone, every word a necessity. A novel may go far afield, but a great short story requires unbelievable restraint. Not many authors develop that control. Libby Fischer Hellmann has the hand of a master. Take it from a guy who knows her well: Libby is a nice girl. But she writes noir with a savvy edge honed on the h...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"The Changing Dust" by James Bennett"Thirty-Two Tumbling Teeth" by Neil Williamson (reprint)"The Rituals of Bathing" by Libby Cudmore"Into the River" by Clara Madrigano (reprint)

On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her.So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Decades later, the family is lured back to Cuba by the promise of untold ric...

The book provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about "wattles", a large clade of over 1000 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Acacia, most of which are native to Australia. It examines the biology, ecology, evolution, and biogeography of wattles in their native ranges, including the evolutionary forces that have driven past speciation and adaptation to diverse environments, the conservation status, uses and human perceptions of these species. It considers the differe...

Molly McKenzie's bright personality and on-trend fashion and beauty advice have made her a major social media influencer. When her manager-turnedboyfriend tells her of an upcoming audition to host a makeover show forAmerica's underprivileged youth, all her dreams finally seem to be coming true. There's just one catch: she has little experience interacting with people in need.To gain an edge on her competitors, she plans to volunteer for the summer at a transitional program f...

Reluctant socialite Coraline Baxter longs to live a life of significance and leave her mark on the world. When her local suffragette group asks her to climb Mount Rainier to raise awareness of their cause, she jumps at the chance, even thoughshe has absolutely no climbing experience. If she can do it, any woman can do it. And after her mother issues an ultimatum—that Cora marry the man of her mother’s choosing if she fails—Cora must do it. But she can’t do it alone.Noted mou...

Two voices. One story. A chance to rewrite their future.Sophie Wilder returns home to California with nothing more than a failed Broadway career and a geriatric cat. Stuck working at the family winery with her egotistical brother and desperate for a way to revive her acting dreams, she takes a side gig as an audiobook narrator with Fog Harbor Books. But getting mixed up in the life of her reluctant sound engineer was never a part of her plans.August Tate is...

A mysterious song in the forest … a discovery in war-torn France … a journey toward hope.The trenches of the Great War are a shadowed place. Though Platoon Sergeant Matthew Petticrew arrived there with a past long marked by shadow, the realities of battle bring new wounds—carving within him a longing for light, and a resolve to fight for it.One night, Matthew and his comrades are enraptured by a sound so pure, a voice so ethereal, it offers reprieve—even if only for a momen...