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A legend reborn. Flame in the Hollow is a haunting paranormal romance where The Legend of Sleepy Hollow burns as brightly as a jack-o'-lantern on All Hallows' Eve. When the serious and stoic Odette Fournier arrives in Sleepy Hollow to take over the schoolhouse once run by Ichabod Crane, she has no interest in ghost stories. But the tale of the Headless Horseman proves impossible to ignore. Especially when she has an experience she can't explain away.

Beneath the fog of San Francisco lies a hidden world of ghosts frozen in time. Bound to the limits of the city by the bay, and unable to move on to the hereafter, are the souls of Jack and Lilith, two siblings who lost their earthly lives in the Great Earthquake of 1906. Now, after a century in the shadows, Jack and Lilith’s world is rocked again as barrier between the spirit world and the living world begins to unravel. With the help of Charlie, the one living child who can see them, they must fight to save their city and their souls from a force so dark it can only be seen at night.

Still, Maine is the raw, restless record of a solo journey to Portland, Maine—cobblestones and all—written by a woman who knows this city holds something no other place on earth can give her. In poems that move between wry humor and aching grief, every step of the trip is measured not in miles, but in tears, laughter, and the kind of longing that doesn’t have a clean ending.

Eleven extreme-horror authors explore whether Satan invades the innocent, or simply gives the willing permission to become what they already are. Evil doesn't always arrive with horns and fire. Sometimes it whispers. Sometimes it tempts. Sometimes it wears your face. Across eleven unflinching...

Some ghost stories wait for the right summer to come alive. Blackshore, Nova Scotia, is known for its pirate history and urban legends. Children vanish. And every spring + summer, legend says a pirate rises from the caves to collect his due. Autumn Quinn never believed in the towns folklore—until the spring of 1997, when she was taken. She came back alive. But she came back marked. Something crawled out of the dark with her.

Before vampires and werewolves became legends… there were the Ancient Ones. Long before kingdoms ruled the world, an ancient civilization lived beneath the Crimson Moon—powerful, united, and dangerously close to something buried beneath reality itself. Then the fracture began.

Blink is a collection of poems exploring the relationship between time, language and emotion. In one breath, we describe aeons of complex existence; in another, we delve into the richness of our most private thoughts and feelings. In a life which seems limited by the constant ticking of time, is...

Broadcasting Into the Void is a philosophical dialogue in ten parts exploring a question that has quietly organized the history of artificial intelligence: what if certain human minds have always been running on a different architecture? Moving through a gallery of five historical figures, Alan...

One pinch of adventure, a dash of friendship, a sprinkle of mystery and a HUGE spoonful of magic . . . Jamie Oliver, bestselling author and internationally renowned chef, delivers the perfect recipe for a page-turning children's fiction debut! Billy and his friends know that Waterfall Woods is...

A sweeping historical love story set in Australia during World War I. Newlyweds Ruby and Jimmy Hawkins are sure their love will survive the trauma and tragedy of war. Amid the desperate battles raging in Gallipoli, Jimmy dreams of the future they planned together. In Sydney, Ruby reads his romantic letters full of love and longing. But as weeks slip into months, Ruby must forge her own new life. When she takes a job at a city timber merchant's yard, she is thrown into a man's world fraught with complications.

Italy, 1917. Australian journalist Rebecca Quinn is an unconventional woman. At the height of World War I, she has given up the safety of her Sydney home for the bloody battlefields of Europe, following her journalist husband to the front line as a war correspondent in Italy. Reporting the horrors of the Italian campaign, Rebecca finds herself thrown together with American-born Italian photographer Alessandro Panucci and soon discovers another battleground every bit as dangerous and unpredictable: the human heart.

Inspired By...The Bible Experience breaks new ground in the presentation of the Bible. Unique among audio presentations, this is a captivating performance of the Bible (Today's New International Version) by a stellar ensemble of today's top-name actors, musicians, clergy, directors, and award-winning producers.

Aisling bears scars that whisper of a past she cannot remember and a destiny she cannot escape. Each mark burns with a hidden power, binding her to a legacy older than the kingdoms themselves. As visions of war and wings of gold haunt her dreams, Aisling is drawn into a world of ancient magic and buried secrets. To survive, she must uncover her lineage as the last heir of the goddess Danu, master the divine scripts etched into her soul, and decide whether she is meant to save this world… or remake it. Enemies close in from every side, but the greatest danger may lie within her own heart.

THE STORY IS EQUAL PARTS DOWNTOWN ABBEY AND WARTIME ACTION , WITH ENOUGH ROMANCE AND INTRIGUE TO MAKE IT 100% NOT- PUT- DOWN-ABLE. Australian Woman's Weekly A tale of espionage, love and passionate heroism. Inspired by true events, this is the story of how society's 'lovely ladies' won a war...

Some love stories start with a meet-cute. This one started with a migraine, a bottle of water, and Finn Walker telling Alex Archer, to her face, that she's a real tight-ass. He just didn't know it was her. Studio founder and creative director Alex Archer has spent her entire life proving she's enough. She's white-knuckled her way to the top through sheer determination and unyielding control. But her ADHD diagnosis five years ago rewrote everything she thought she knew about herself, and now corporate betrayal and family pressure are threatening to finish the job.

Osephine. I built my life on love and loyalty. The perfect wife, wearing a Property Of patch like proud armor. I happily ignored illegal deals and never asked too many questions. For six years, it was everything I wanted: a home full of memories, a family of my own, a love worth protecting. But when a stranger shows up at the Vipers MC clubhouse with secrets that belong to my husband, everything starts to unravel. A past I knew nothing about shatters the façade of my fairy-tale life. Now I’m left wondering if my marriage will survive or if I’ll end up repeating my mother’s life after all.

When a mischievous kappa decides to teach humankind a lesson in gratitude, his theft of the Dragon King’s sacred Tidal Jewels unleashes a catastrophic tsunami upon Japan. What began as a prank to remind mortals of divine blessings becomes a tragedy that shakes heaven and earth. Now, haunted by guilt and forbidden help from the gods, the kappa seeks redemption in a single, selfless act—calling forth the celestial kirin, bringer of justice and hope.

ABIA AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 - HIGHLY COMMENDED LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 A SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 'MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021' 'In this novel, the project of living is...

The year is 1859 and the goldfields are filled with diggers -- and danger! Orphaned twelve-year-old Tigg is the Bandicoot Bushranger, the youngest bushranger on the Ballarat goldfields in 1859. When a robbery goes wrong, Tigg must flee in disguise as one of the tens of thousands of Chinese men...

Weaving together memoir and cutting-edge science, Mothership is not just a queer coming-of-age story. It's a deeply researched account of how coral reefs and a psychedelic tea called ayahuasca helped Greg heal from complex PTSD—a disorder of trust, which makes the very act of bonding with someone else panic-inducing. From the tide pools in Florida where he grew up, to Indonesia's Raja Ampat archipelago and the Amazon rainforest, this is his search for wholeness when talk therapy and pharmaceuticals did little to help.