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When building inspector Eric Vance dies in a workplace accident eighty stories above Chicago — killed by a pigeon, a frayed cable, and forty dollars' worth of budget cuts — he doesn't get the afterlife. He gets a job assignment.

A chart-topping comeback. A marriage the industry wants erased. A love that refuses to be managed. Ted and Soo-ah made it. Against every idol contract, every fan expectation, and every carefully worded Nova Entertainment press release — they got married. Quietly. Completely. Theirs. But quiet doesn't last long when your wife is one of Korea's most-watched K-pop stars and the industry has just decided your marriage is a brand liability. Now Soo-ah is back in the dorm. Ted is locked out of the building. Eclipse's comeback is hanging on a hashtag.

When Margaret Holt retreats to a quiet Cotswolds village after the death of her husband, the former Prime Minister, she expects peace, a neglected garden, and the chance to finally be herself. What she gets is a dead journalist, a detective who underestimates her, and a secret that reaches all the way back to Downing Street. Maggie spent thirty years watching powerful people from three steps behind. She noticed everything. Nobody noticed her. That was always her advantage. Dead Man's Bells is a British cozy murder mystery and the first book in the Mrs Holt's Mysteries series.

A literary mystery novel set in the small town of Hawthorne, where a mysterious confession reveals that an innocent man was imprisoned for a fire he did not commit. When Ruby receives an anonymous letter, she is drawn into a web of family loyalty, hidden evidence, and ten years of carefully guarded secrets. Themes include truth, justice, guilt, redemption, and the destructive power of silence. Suitable for general adult collections and book clubs focused on psychological mysteries and contemporary literary fiction.

Izzy Conner, twenty, steps out of a Chicago bunker carrying nothing but his mother’s final promise and a radio that still crackles with faint voices. Diana and Hannah Miller, sisters from Austin, Texas, emerge from their buried shelter with two bikes, a handful of supplies, and the stubborn refusal to let hope die with everything else. Three strangers. Three separate paths through a poisoned continent. One fragile thread: voices on a dying frequency, giving directions, warnings, and the only thing worth fighting for... someone to reach.

On a secluded island off the coast of Maine, a house stands where the fog never fully lifts. Drawn into its shadow, long-buried memories begin to surface—and not all of them belong to the present. The walls whisper. The past lingers. And something within the house refuses to be forgotten. Because some places don’t just hold secrets…they remember them.

After 2012. The world ended on December 21, 2012. Magnetic poles reversed. Continents drowned beneath mega-tsunamis. Tectonic violence fused Africa and eastern South America into a single, towering super-continent. Ash choked the sky for years. Civilization vanished under water and ruin.

Emily Peterson is the Great Witch, the most powerful of them all. Even she has limits. Defeating the Great Dark Witch pushed magical essence, the remnants of good and evil magic through space. Since both cannot be killed, trapping him was the only option. Now that he's gone, a new evil threatens life on Earth. Emily must stop the SHADOW from reaching the planet.

In a distant corner of the galaxy, on the planet of Xylon, where the skies raged with perpetual storms and the land trembled with ancient magic, the alien warrior, Lyra, stood atop the crystal spires, her eyes fixed upon the stars.

Roused from mind-slavery, a woman finds her life bloody and bleak. Her quest is revenge on one hand and identity and belonging on the other. Inspired by the classics of sword & sorcery and cyberpunk, Liam Q. D. Hall brings us into the depths of humanity with all the accompanying darkness and light.

Cherry, a young girl from the fictional british town of Armshurst recieves a strange parcel containing a pair of intelligent glasses, upon wearing them she becomes able to see creatures and more that were seemingly invisible before.