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**In these nine globe-trotting tales, Mia Alvar gives voice to the women and men of the Philippines and its diaspora.A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century**From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar’s stories explore the universal experiences of loss, displacement, and the longing to connect across borders both real and imagined. In the Country speaks to the heart of everyone who has ever searched for a place to call home—and mark...

She was the wood. He was the flame. After this, they would be ash.A cruel twist of fate leaves Jasmine Hennessy stranded in a remote cabin with her worst nightmare—her ex-husband, James Roth, who she hasn’t seen in five years. He isn’t acting like the man she married, but did she ever really know him?One night together kicks off a series of events that threatens her freedom as Roth seeks vengeance on those who ruined him seven years ago. He’s determined to ...

My first year at the Dreadmore Academy. What can go wrong? How long do you have?The list of stuff that can go right is much, much shorter. I'm probably going to fail right out in the first week. I'm supposed to be a necromancer. That's right. You heard me. A necromancer. But I can't seem to do a thing to reanimate dead stuff. Not one bit.The next thing that's likely to go wrong? I'm shy. Painfully so. And I've been known to stutter. I'm a social catastrophe just waiting to ...

"Come to me, Lyla, and I’ll let your father live."Three years ago, Lyla Dalton fled from the glittering lights of Las Vegas and the ruthless man who rules the criminal underworld, Gavin Pyre. She created a new identity and has been living a quiet life, but that’s at an end. He’s found her and is bringing her back to where she belongs.As Lyla navigates through the dark secrets of her past, she’s forced to face a man who won’t accept no for an answer from the...

How to Stop Being a Naai is a brutally funny fictional self-help guide that follows Lucian's journey from toxic train wreck to . . . well, slightly less toxic train wreck. Through his relationship with his father, his failing relationship and tough life decisions, he develops a nine-step framework that progresses from self-acceptance to channelling your inner naai constructively. In other words, he'll try anything except go to actual therapy.

The series that brings dragons and witches together in the underground beneath a war-torn beach town in Texas continues.Worst. Senior. Skip. Day. Ever.Senior skip day. Things that can go wrong:An explosion renders your hometown into a war zone.Your twelve-year old brother vanishes.The place your brother vanished in is full of dragons.The guy that helps you find your brother is hot. But he has wings. And scales. Yeah, he's a d...

Enter Shadowbone Academy, where shadows come alive, the professors are dark gods, and humans battle for immortality.When I get locked in my local library overnight, I look on the bright side: I'm surrounded by smutty books, my backpack is full of snacks, and a cushion fort is calling my name. What I don't account for is the four powerful, breathtakingly beautiful, and lethally dangerous shadow warriors who crash my impromptu slumber party.Professors from Sh...

An empowerment manifesto for creatives, misfits, innovators, and disruptors from the star of So You Think You Can Dance and creator of Broadway's *Finding NeverlandA Unicorn in a World of Donkeys offers a playbook for living a creative and authentic life. Using her own story as a launching spot, and creative quizzes, charts, and lists to engage the reader in an interactive journey, Mia Michaels explores the experience of the unicorn in a w...

From award-winning author Mia Marlowe, three full-length historical romances with sexy alpha heroes and the independent women who figure out “how to” bring them to heel. How to Distract a Duchess, How to Please a Pirate and How to Vex a Viscount in one glorious romp of a book set!Book 1—How to Distract a DuchessThe widowed Duchess of Southwycke doesn’t give two figs for the ton’s opinions on propriety. She wants to be taken...

Believing in love was impossible especially when the person who was determined to love you the most hates you, despises you and hurts you. My own father swore to hit me everyday and after that I was confirmed that love didn't exist.It wasn't in my dictionary.Until he didn't walk in, he was light to my darkness, he was the bandage to my bloody cuts, he had picked me from the floor I had been thrown on for years...sometimes I wondered how one man can change you life completely.Teacher X Stud...

This collection includes all 12 books in the Kaleidoscope series.Black Tie: A CEO makes an offer for a new PA that may include more than just keeping his calendar. Little does he know his new PA does more than help him forget the past, she fixes it.Blue-Eyed Devil: A man offers his help to a woman desperate to fix her PC. When he accidentally peeks at her through the camera, he can’t believe what he sees.Firecracker Red

How does a sunshine coffee shop owner end up in a full-blown feud with the hottest grumpy doctor in town?And why do I suddenly want to kiss him instead of win?I open my café to make people smile. My new neighbor looks personally offended by happiness. We fight over parking spaces, shared walls, and one ancient electrical panel that keeps throwing us together whether we like it or not.Then the ancient electrical panel catches fire. The man I thought ...