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Mona and Duncan used to be best friends. Now they can’t stand each other. Too bad that’s not a good enough excuse to miss their two families’ annual trip to the cabin. But things get really complicated when they accidentally drive through a wormhole together on the way. Look what playing nice and carpooling gets you. Now they’re stranded indoors by an epic storm and stuck in an alternate timeline where things are just slightly ... off.

Sleep-deprived moms and dads take note: The two women who help Hollywood's A-listers get their ZZZs share their no-fail, family-friendly solution to get any baby, toddler, or preschooler to sleep—usually within less than five nights. Pioneers in children's behavioral sleep, Jen and Jill give...

This compulsive novel wrestles with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death, and how to make a really good commercial. Told entirely through questionably obtained company emails, chat transcripts, TED Talks, training sessions, and more, this all-too-probable future pits emotionally intelligent AI against emotionally stunted humans.

You’ve read the books. You’ve led the teams. You’ve read about emotional intelligence. But now you’re ready for something more. Emotion Rules takes you past surface-level strategies and into the core of emotional wisdom: a framework for integrating heart + logic in every area of your life and leadership. In this robust and poetic guide, Freedman introduces 12 powerful Emotion Rules — principles that decode the deeper architecture of feelings so you can understand what they really mean and how to use them as allies in moving from success to significance.

Honor & Other Inconveniences She was trained for war. No one prepared her for love. Tess Caputo is sunlight through shrapnel—battle-scarred, brilliant, chaotic, potty-mouthed and adjusting to her new life on Civvy Street, awaiting medical discharge. A former Royal Navy Commander turned temp executive assistant, she thought she’d buried her past for good. But when her billionaire boss becomes the target of a corporate betrayal, Tess finds herself back in the fight. Conrad Barron isn’t just handsome and clever—he’s her boss. And the only man who sees her clearly.

Guilt is a powerful exploration of emotional intelligence, highlighting the complexities of guilt and the importance of empathy, understanding, and forgiveness. Join Xane and her bandmates as they learn to navigate guilt, set emotional boundaries, and find strength in their journey. This volume is a must-listen for fans of the series and anyone interested in the intricate dance of emotions.

The last 60 years of dietary advice, warning women to avoid fat, have actually worsened women’s health. If you’re approaching menopause, in menopause, or are interested in improving your health naturally, here is a book that explains the history of menopause, the evolutionary benefits of this life event, and how to eat the right foods to help you enjoy what should be the longest and most fulfilling part of your life.

In 1992, at the dawn of the age of technology, disgraced ex-game show host Manny di Martini schemes for a comeback with a deep-sea television special in the South Pacific. He quickly finds himself in over his head, attracting the attention of a cosmic being who will lead Manny to a television broadcast event much bigger than the entire planet bargained for: evidence of a slumbering alien in a ruined city at the bottom of the ocean. One look at the monster on TV, and humans collectively freak out.

A cunning Thief. A rebel general. One deadly game of revenge. After being spared execution by a mysterious masked handler—who both infuriates and mesmerizes her—Ines de la Vega is thrust into a world of rebellion and winged warriors. Her mission is simple: to score the biggest payday of her...

Centuries ago, a witch's curse doomed a pirate crew. Now, one woman's blood may be the key to breaking it. Forty-year-old marine archaeologist Elizabeth Tate didn't expect her midlife crisis to involve curses, pirates, or attempted murder. Her carefully ordered life unraveled when she discovered her husband's affair—and an even more shocking truth: she's descended from Maria Hallett, the infamous Witch of Wellfleet and lover of the pirate Black Sam Bellamy.

The monster in chains has the key to her past. But the real threat was never locked away at all. Dr. Hanna Nowack is a professional at keeping the world’s most dangerous men safely behind glass. But she’s never met a monster like Richard Hale. A brilliant, charismatic serial killer, Hale shatters Hanna's composure when he requests her by name. Their sessions spiral into a chilling, claustrophobic game of mirrors and manipulation as Hale exposes fragments of Hanna’s past—memories she’s buried and questions she never dared to ask about her husband’s death.

Dog trainer and search and rescue specialist Raine Stockton is trying to rebuild her life after a year she’d rather forget—one that included false arrest, public scrutiny, and more heartbreak than any small town should dish out. With her golden retriever partner Cisco by her side, Raine hopes the new year will finally bring peace. It doesn’t. When a frightened woman disappears, a battered dog is found abandoned, and a powerful outsider begins buying up land around the county, Raine is drawn into a case that hits far too close to home.

A deadly crash on the shores of a French abbey. A political conspiracy. A military lawyer betrayed. Captain Storm DeVries has been assigned to prosecute Major Skylar Diggs for joyriding twenty-eight souls to their deaths. She believes the Air Force has been too lenient with pilots who care more about their “Top Gun” antics than the value of human life. Storm is a general’s daughter and is just as loyal to the military as her father is. But there’s no doubt in her mind that Diggs is guilty. The question is whether she can prove it.

From the author of The Empress comes a sweeping historical novel and Cold War thriller that reimagines the fate of Frida Kahlo’s mysterious missing masterpiece as a Soviet secretary risks her life to save it. In postwar Moscow, Soviet secretary Olga Simonova is instructed to destroy a painting...

Reunited in old age, two former lovers confront the past and what could have been in this subtle psychological novel that upends expectations—from the acclaimed author of Your Steps on the Stairs. During their youth, Gabriel Aristu and Adriana Zuber lived a passionate love story that seemed...

After serving his country for twenty years, the retired Navy SEAL was footloose and fancy-free. He wanted to travel and reconnect with family. One of his first stops was to spend the summer visiting his brother and cousin. Three months in Whisper Lake, and then he'd be on to his next adventure. Nothing was going to derail his plans. Not even a stunning, smart, sarcastic Sofia Vergara look-alike who made him want things he'd never wanted before.

After raising twin girls as a single father and spending his days on construction sites, Ford was ready to live out his early retirement on his terms, which included solitude and fishing. So he ditched the big city, moved to a town the size of a postage stamp, and bought a house in the middle of nowhere without a neighbor in sight. His recluse plans hit a snag when the abandoned house down the road is suddenly inhabited by a woman who bears a striking resemblance to his childhood crush and her four kids.

Responding to distressing, uncontrollable events without blaming ourselves or others can be difficult, yet it is necessary if we are to find interpersonal harmony and, ultimately, global peace. To master this challenge, we must cope with adversity by understanding the psychological and social reasons why we blame, practicing forgiveness, responding stoically, nurturing a gentle spirituality, and perceiving ourselves and others with empathy.

“[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] deeply...

Well, Evie doesn't want to find out! Evie Jones is a widow of three years, with an eighteen-year-old daughter. Struggling to simplify her life and trying desperately to convince her daughter not to leave the nest. And her 'No Dating' rule is part of that struggle. So is selling her big house and moving into something smaller. To help with that plan, she hires a handsome contractor to complete her partially finished basement.