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Claire Blanche can bend reality. She still can't get through Monday without reheating her coffee.She can reshape matter, read minds, and coax fire from her hands - but none of that pays the bills, fixes her sleep schedule, or makes office life less exhausting. Claire has built a small, ordinary life around her powers, held together by three friends, bad coffee, and the agreement that nobody asks too many questions.Then the Whisper starts to fail.The invisible signal...

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a turn-of-the-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes—and thousands more—to the American plate.*“Fascinating.”—The New York Times Book Review •“Fast-paced adventure writing.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Richly descriptive.”—Kirkus • “A must-read for foodies.”*—HelloGigglesIn the nineteenth century, Ame...

Sexually arousing, liberating, and elegantly prosed, Shades of the Past is a novella that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.Sienna, who suffered from her abusive father, has recently traded the habitual southern summers for New York’s new edges. She met a wealthy venture capitalist, Grayson, and reunited with Ethan, who had suddenly disappeared from her life.Sienna and Grayson are both haunted by their pasts. Sex becomes their...

"Once a bustling town of bakers and dreamers, Icing Sugar Town now slumbered under a blanket of moss and morning glories. Its centerpiece was the Marshmallow Clocktower, its face frozen at 3:14 (the time of the last human’s departure), its bell tower home to a family of squirrels who stored acorns in the clock’s gears. The town’s cottages, shaped like oversized cupcakes with frosting-colored roofs, leaned drunkenly against each other. Weeds grew through cracked stained-glass windows th...

In 1897**, George Washington’s diary and other irreplaceable artifacts from the American Revolution were stolen from the Library of Congress, setting off an inquisition by the Secret Service and a sensational trial that threatened to unravel America’s national library.**In the late nineteenth century, the Congressional Library in the Capitol is bursting at the seams. Its chief librarian, Ainsworth Spofford, presides over a chaotic collection of books and documents ...

What does it take to manage a workforce that isn't human? The Chronicles of Aigent Catburger - raw_aigents "Name" {catburger}is the definitive historical record of a groundbreaking and perilous experiment: one human, known only as catburger, attempting to build a complex software project from scratch using nothing but a team of autonomous AI agents.This is not a story about tools. It is a story about a new kind of team, where each AI agent possesses its own uniq...

In this collection of short stories, diverse characters, including an obese baker, an eczema sufferer, and a vegetable vendor, each find themselves mired in the quagmire of life. They endure mockery, illness, and expulsion, crushed by the weight of work and debt."Water droplets rolled down the curled veins of the leaves, pooling into tiny puddles at the bottom of the plastic basket. Among the wilted leaves, a few yellowed ones hung listlessly, like elderly soul...

Epic, emotionally charged, and rich with speculative depth, this tale weaves legacy, sacrifice, and the courage to thrive in imperfection into a spellbinding saga that soars above the ordinary.In Stitches in the Clouds, Leah Starfall battles to safeguard her airborne homeland, Sky City, from Shiver—a sinister, shadowy force that invades minds and taints magic. As chaos swirls through the floating spires, Leah confronts twin horrors: her brother’s harrowing...

In the whirlwind of modern life, Chinese mythological beings shed their divine aloofness. Whether adapting to human society or steadfastly clinging to their principles in the face of adversity, they redefine legend through the clash and fusion of worlds.The gluttonous Taotie, banished to Earth, becomes the star of a weight-loss reality show. After accidentally ingesting a satellite fragment, Taotie gains a profound understanding of the perils of excessive greed and...

For over a century, parents have been told a convenient lie: that teenage rebellion is a biological inevitability. This foundational myth, born from G. Stanley Hall's 1904 concept of "storm and stress," has provided the ultimate alibi for generations, framing adolescence as a natural disaster to be endured, not a relationship to be nurtured. This book dismantles that fallacy piece by piece. It travels from Hall's academic pronouncements to anthropologist Margaret Mead's groundbreaking disc...

When a sibling dies, society enforces a rigid, unspoken hierarchy of grief. Parents and spouses are placed at the center of the tragedy, while the surviving adult sibling is often relegated to the role of forgotten mourner—a piece of structural support expected to be strong for everyone else. This phenomenon, known as disenfranchised grief, affects over sixty percent of Americans by age sixty-five, yet it remains a profoundly isolating and unacknowledged experience. In "When Your Sibling D...

A relentless voice of self-doubt lives in your head, but what if the conventional wisdom for evicting it is completely wrong? The modern wellness industry offers platitudes and positive affirmations, yet the critic remains. Why do these methods fail so spectacularly? Author and journalist Daniel Stone launches a deep investigation into the true nature of this internal antagonist. The book reveals that the inner critic is not a character flaw but a sophisticated piece of ancient survival ha...