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Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County Sheriff's department in Bone Gap, Tennessee, ex-Marine Brynn Callahan faces her first official homicide. On a cold February morning, a lone cross-country skier stumbles across the mutilated body of a young woman. Sent to investigate, Brynn is shocked when she recognizes the victim as a fellow Traveller, Maura Keene. Maura held a solid standing both within the Travellers’ insular community and among the settled townspeople - a fact that makes her murder all the more disturbing to Brynn, who also straddles the two worlds.

This collection of 22 short stories by the author of Daughter of Hounds and Alabaster firmly established Caitlín R. Kiernan as one of the preeminent voices in dark fantasy today. Through a cycle of interconnected narratives, Kiernan unflinchingly explores a surreal world where the fantastic and the mundane are never separated by more than the insubstantial thickness of a shadow.

Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist! The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II—from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name Verity In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first...

Even in the fortress of the night watch there is no safety to be found. An indomitable power is stirring, and it has set its awful gaze upon the young Warden, Lillin. Where can she run when the world is crumbling beneath her feet, and the ones chasing her are far more powerful than she can ever hope to be? The struggle might be hopeless, but Lillin is a Warden of Will, and she will not be beaten down. Even if she must march headlong into the abyss, she will do as she must to gain the strength she needs to win.

Becoming a warden was an almost insurmountable task that pushed Lillin down a dark and winding path, but all of her training did little enough to prepare her for what was to come from beyond the walls of Black Mark. An insidious force moves, taking shape in the shadows and it rides on the winds of madness and misery. Lillin must struggle with her own lack of control over her abilities if she wishes to make a stand, but against such a terrible force, can anyone truly hold their ground?

Steve Spaneas doesn't have a clue. Who'd have thought that the woman who stumbles her way into his gym, looking and acting so very much like a street person off her meds, is really a CIA case officer whose memory has been obliterated by experimental drugs used by some very bad people? And seriously, who'd have thought that her attempts to untangle the few clues she's got would lead him right into her world of spies and counterspies, death and deception--and holy cow, stockpiled nuclear weapons?

Across the Azkhantian steppe, warrior women ride to battle against foes both human and supernatural. From the world of The Seven-Petaled Shield come four fantasy tales, originally published in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword & Sorceress. Prophecy links a mother and daughter in an unbreakable bond. A young woman defies tradition to become a shaman. When twins are magically divided, the survivor searches for the other half of her soul. A warrior woman discovers that to wield a magical blade dishonorably carries a heavy price.

The stories in this anthology range from quietly strange to ambitiously speculative. Humans transform into cosmic energy or sentient algae. A man wakes up in a new body in a world with continents cut out, months absent from the calendar year, and souls misplaced. Students at a high school regularly vanish without a trace. A woman descends into the depths of the ocean and encounters all-knowing creatures who may have the answers to her deepest questions.

Welcome to the Threndoren wedding. Raven is there with Chui by her side, along with all of Brighton. But who is that with William Moss? No time to figure it out. The dragons grow restless, and the dogs start barking—An ominous sign. The "I do's" are broken up by giant frogs crashing the ceremony and attacking the guests. Murphy is ready with her axe, fighting them off in her wedding dress. Is there enough of the shrinking potion to take care of the rest? Raven needs to find a solution before the next creature to morph is something more deadly. She seeks out the alchemists who may have a plan.

New creatures in the kingdom are magically mutating—and attacking legionnaires. Fortunately, Raven and her dragon have Chui Welby on her side and an entire division of elite legionnaires approved to use battle magic. How hard could fighting off a few new monsters really get? The island kingdom of Malenspire has agreed to the exchange of foreign guests. It's just her luck that Raven and Leander are assigned to chaperone the Malendesh newcomer—who turns out to not be so new.

Raven Alby's first foreign diplomatic mission was a success with her familiar and dragon, Leander by her side. But now that the WarMage is back, funny things are happening with the land she calls home. Lomberdoon is showing strange new signs of life. Just like her old warrior grandfather, Connor predicted. It's not just magical ore and deadly dragon diseases anymore. Now, the plant and wildlife are changing years after magic's return. Including . . . giant killer rodents. Maybe the sea serpents knew what they were talking about after all.

Raven Alby and the STAR force have an important decision to make. Will they help the citizens of Malendesh and their king prevent a military overthrow? Or will they return home and prepare for war? It's an easy choice. Raven and the red dragon, Leander run toward a fight—not away. They stand with Malendesh. And if they can free the magically enslaved sea serpents filling the waters around the island, even better.

The king knows Raven killed his son and he doesn't want revenge. He wants help finding an heir to replace him. What kind of twisted plot is this? If she doesn't help him, Raven can't complete her most important mission. But there's something else going on here. The Malendesh army are using the dangerous, magical ore to hide and abuse their sea serpents during war exercises. The foreign military's up to something dark. Has their king noticed?

How can Raven and Leander stop a war with a distant kingdom? First try to make nice. When that fails, bring along your fire-breathing dragon. Raven is still serving in her kingdom's special forces. Her latest mission is a special request to restore peace and return the prisoners of Malenspire. The island kingdom is far away and Raven has time to think about telling the king she was responsible for his son's death.

Finding happiness is the best revenge. From the outside, it seems 36-year-old Tess Campbell has it all. A happy marriage, a successful career as a novelist, and an exciting cross-country move ahead. Tess has always played by the rules and it seems like life is good. Except it’s not. Life is a bitch. And suddenly so is Tess. When Tess discovers the truth about her marriage, she decides it’s time to live the life she’s always wanted, despite what her family and snake of an ex-husband expect of her.

One single moment changes everything. In one breath, you can have it all. A split-second later, it can all disappear. That was me. I had it all. Then, in a cruel twist of fate, it was taken from me. A beautiful life gone in a flash. But he was there. He was there to pick me up when I fell, to protect me. My savior. My rock. He was just a stranger. Just a selfless stranger with a face I'll never forget. Can't forget. Won't forget. And like everything else, he just disappeared as if he never existed. I have to find him. I need to find him.

Using inquiry and original translations alongside traditional rune poems and sacred art, Wild Soul Runes invites listeners to develop their own wisdom connection with the runes through practice. The book is based on the premise that all of us possess the ability to receive divine information through rune practice. Rather than telling the listener what the runes mean, author Lara Veleda Vesta shares an interactive practice for listeners to discover the unique ways the runes speak to them.

Among the Irish Travellers living in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, no one forgets and no one forgives. And as former Marine MP Brynn Callahan finds out when she returns home, it's hard to bury the past when bodies keep turning up....

Life is good for Katie Coyle. She's delighted with her new position as a professor of Irish literature and history and enchanted by the old cottage on the cliff overlooking a beach that she now calls home. But she can't shake the feeling that something - or someone - else calls the cottage home and that in the night, echoes of an anguished voice calling for help haunt the beach below. 

Anna Goodrich is a 28-year-old artist in New York City, out on a Friday night in the city when she gets the call that her uncle has suddenly died. When she returns home to mid-coast Maine for his funeral, she faces all that she left behind when she left seven years earlier. The pain of her own mother's death, the fractured relationships with her father, and her first love. The life she had built for herself in New York - the art world, her boyfriend, her roommate who is also her best friend - allowed her to forget the grief and hurt she had left behind in Maine.