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Linda Kelleher, or Lilou, faces a dilemma. She is a regular Pittsburgh girl, growing up in the beautiful Shadyside neighborhood. She looks up to her older sister, tries to meet her mothers expectations and loves to study math with her father. Only something is never quite right. No matter how hard she tries to lead a regular life, the world of sorcery and magic has a claim on her: Lilou comes from a powerful family of witches.

Wiser Now tells the story of a single woman whose poor judgment leads her to become involved with a man whose priorities diverge sharply from her sheltered upbringing.

Three locked rooms. Three impossible crimes. One determined sleuth. Miranda Abbott is back in a new mystery from the bestselling authors of I Only Read Murder and Mystery in the Title The famous are descending on the town of Happy Rock. This time, the stars are not of the screen but of the page...

When their helicopter is shot down in the Alaskan wilderness, Li Yuan and Eugene are captured by a sadistic warlord. They are taken to an arena, where they will be forced to fight plaguers in gladiator-style events. Eugene won’t stand a chance in the arena. In an effort to keep him alive, Li Yuan strikes a perilous bargain with the warlord. In the chaos of the helicopter crash, Aston manages to escape. Desperate to save his captured family, he sets out on foot to free them from the warlord’s vicious sport.

This book shares two true stories that show how medicine can change a person’s life in very different ways—and how the difference often comes down to whether someone is truly listened to. The first story is about a young child whose life took a sudden turn after a medical accident. Instead of finding ways to help him heal, doctors decided to follow their own idea about what would be “best,” without asking or giving him a choice. They changed his body and told his parents to raise him in a completely different identity. As he grew up, nothing felt right.

Lilou is a witch. Now what? Having been initiated into the craft by her French grandmother, Lilou returns to Pittsburgh without a plan. Magic is of little help when dealing with a divorce. Nor does it help in her everyday job as an accountant. The only lifeline to her magical abilities is Josh, Lilou’s house-elf or a domovoy, as he likes to be called. Josh leads Lilou on a journey of self-discovery and helps her understand the parallel universe of household helpers.

A chilling message from the capital drags Emily Slate out of safety and back into the storm, to confront her greatest threat yet. After receiving a devastating call, Emily and Zara are forced to return to D.C. to confront the conspiracy that has splintered the FBI and put their lives at risk. But the city of magnificent intentions hides more than just political secrets. Two agents, sidelined like Emily, are found dead under suspicious circumstances, signaling the sinister forces at work are escalating their plan.

The most unusual love story you will ever experience.

If you try to ignore it for too long, magic might just catch up with you. What happens when everyday life collides with the generational memory of witchcraft? Lilou learns it the hard way. After choosing accounting over witchcraft, Lilou is finally at peace. She earnestly leads a normal life: she is a wife, a mother, and an ambitious employee at a prestigious firm, trying to break the glass ceiling. Only the occult is all around her. During a moment of crisis, Lilou meets a domovoy, a hobgoblin who lives in her home and claims to protect her from harm.

Sun, sand and champagne. It sounds like the perfect vacation, until the disappearances started. Local women are vanishing from the Caribbean island of St. Solomon and no one seems to know why. Even worse, the local authorities aren’t doing anything about it. Determined not to let these disappearances get any worse, Special Agent Emily Slate goes undercover for the first time since her life was turned upside down, determined to find out who could be behind it all.

After spending months tracking down the mysterious person sending her letters, Emily finds herself face to face with the one person she never thought she’d see again…her mother. The only problem is her mother is dead. What started out as seemingly nothing more than a practical joke has turned deadly serious as Emily tries to grapple with the secrets of her family’s past, secrets that refuse to stay buried. And it seems the more she fights, the more she digs herself in deeper. Cut off from everything she knows, Emily struggles to bring the truth to light.

Special Agent Emily Slate is a woman on a mission. Someone is sending her letters written in her dead mother’s handwriting, and she’s not about to stop until she finds out why. But when she receives a mysterious phone call from town where she grew up, Emily doesn’t believe it’s a coincidence. After all, where better to start tracking down the person who wrote the letters than in her own hometown?

In the seedy underbelly of the nation’s capital, a drug deal gone wrong ignites a firestorm which threatens to pull the entire city into a gang war. Special Agent Emily Slate, still investigating the possibility she may still have living family is brought in to help determine who is killing criminals and why. Someone is looking to position themselves as the new leader of the criminal underworld. The only question is who would be so brazen? And can she stop the backlash before innocent people are caught in the crossfire?

Allegra Gordon knew there was much she could learn from Faith Hale. From the moment she met the esteemed writer and feminist icon on the campus of New York's Abigail Stone College, Allegra understood that Faith would be a force in her life, one that would wrench the best work from her and encourage her to lay her soul bare. The relationship that evolved would simultaneously be the most liberating and most shattering Allegra ever encountered. And it would change both women in profound ways.