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"In a crowded genre, The Gift of Dragons manages to remain unique. Adelaide is a hero who chooses her own fate, but more importantly, recognizes her mistakes. And while Elias appears a typical dashing prince at first, he was far more than expected. The admirable world-building provides a beautiful backstory, and I couldn't get enough of it." - Erin Swan, author of Bright Star --When the prince Adelaide seeks to overthrow tries convincing her that the legendary dragons exist and need help, Adelaide must decide where her true allegiance lies before the kingdom shatters.Ever since the Gyndilians murdered her sister, Adelaide has plotted a rebellion to overthrow the king and prince who failed to protect them during the attack. Following her across the country is a stranger - not just any stranger, but the prince she's hoping to overthrow - and Adelaide's plans begin to collapse. But Prince Elias has his own dangerous secrets - secrets connected to the dragons that once lived in the land. If he can't earn Adelaide's trust, there may never be any peace for Adelaide, her people, or the dragons. In The Gift of Dragons by Rachel A. Greco, the fate of two species rests on the tip of a dagger. Can Adelaide overcome her prejudices and thirst for revenge to do what's best for her people before rage and sorrow consume her?

College student Christopher Fairchild, the son of a white billionaire, disappears, and is next seen being savagely tortured in a video that surfaces online. When it comes to light that he planned the incident as a sacrifice of atonement for America's racial sins, the news detonates a bomb that rips through a country already rife with demonstrations and social unrest.Blood at the Root tracks the fallout from Fairchild's video through a lush universe populated by drug dealers, priests, police officers, civilians, and a talking pretzel bag. With the city on the precipice of chaos, the lives and livelihoods of individuals come under threat, forcing them to go to extremes in the name of self-preservation. The novel explores the human capacity for endurance in a society haunted by the ghosts of George Floyd, Andrew Goodman, Clementa Pickney, Erik Salgado, Breonna Taylor, Daunte Wright, and so many others.Humble in the face of the magnitude and complexity of the violence he confronts, Ciahnan Darrell questions rather than proclaims, conjuring images with a poetic intensity that renders Blood at the Root an incendiary and gripping novel of power, pain, fear, and triumph.

They say first love lasts forever.Intelligent, beautiful, and self-assured, Emma Dickinson has bright dreams for her future-for she's determined to follow in her father's footsteps and become a doctor. When she meets Patrick McCarthy, she immediately falls for the charming high school quarterback, who's also a local celebrity in their small town of Bemidji, Minnesota. They embark on a whirlwind romance, and Emma believes this will be a bond that can never be severed. That is until December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor...It's 1968, and Emma has been separated from the love of her life for fifteen years now. Though she still harbors a deep resentment toward Patrick, she's never gotten around to divorcing him for one reason or another. Deep down, however, she knows the real reason is that she can't give up hope that the loyal, romantic, and sweet man she married will return to being the person he once was-before life's disappointments and a tragic injury irrevocably changed him. But when Emma receives a call from her daughter, informing her that Patrick's been shot, along with his famous senator cousin Eugene McCarthy, she travels to the hospital in Atlanta-and down memory lane, reliving the heady days of their blossoming relationship and when their marriage spiraled out of control.A lyrical, moving, and unforgettable novel, Tholocco's Wake reminds us of the power of first love and how it can shape us-for better or worse.

A darkly humorous novel about the trappings of generational wealth and the human cost of ambition The White Birch Hotel in the city of Tuffty Town teems with poorly kept secrets: exiled governments negotiating banished royals and messy revolutions; detectives tapping phones and trailing spies; paramours leaving tell-tale signs of furtive assignations in unlocked suites; captains of finance hatching plans in the grey haze of the smoking bar. We find among this clamour Henry Huvvy: bon vivant, boulevardier, and mainstay of milieus both refined and ragtag. But when the lure of unattainable love drives him to build, with questionable tactics, a new empire of opulence, the fate of an erstwhile princess is set against his own. White Birch introduces a vividly rendered cast of characters into a world at once familiar and delightfully uncanny.

Combining a captivating romance with a cast of all-too-human characters, Hilah Roscoe's The Sweet Shrub Inn is an unforgettable tale of love, loss, family, and Southern charm.In less than twenty-four hours, young therapist-in-training, Cora Graham, is dumped by her boyfriend in Chicago and notified that her estranged father is suffering from early onset Alzheimer's. It's been years since Cora has visited the small Mississippi town of her birth, and the wounds she suffered there still ache. Two years earlier, at her best friend's wedding, she finally made her feelings known for Jensen Mabry, the town heartthrob, only to be turned down.Despite her anxieties at seeing those who played such an integral role in her flight from home, Cora returns to discover her ill-tempered father has purchased the old Sweet Shrub Inn, which she must renovate and sell to pay for his increasing medical costs. Though Jensen offers to loan her the money through his family's construction company, something feels amiss. Has reuniting with her long-lost love in a town that holds so many ghosts clouded her judgment? Or is there another, more suspicious reason for his kindness?As she navigates her rekindled passions and her father's terrifying illness, Cora must face her heart's ultimate dilemma: should she return to her old life in Chicago or stay in a town she's learning to love again?

A few months before high school graduation, Moira Levinson is summoned to an old-fashioned soiree where she discovers what's underneath the surface of Orleans Parish: a secret organization called The Society where members have wielded supernatural powers for generations while they maintain close control over the city. Moira's twin sons, Carson and Sebastian, grow up in the shadow of The Society in Orleans Parish without ever knowing its true nature; the twins struggle at the onset of adulthood to establish themselves. Carson attempts to become a screenwriter in Los Angeles, which seems more like an organized crime ring with each passing day while Sebastian loses control of his own narrative while teaching high school theater at a private school in the Parish. Meanwhile, Carson was sent away for a reason, and as he becomes aware of certain abilities he carries with him in Los Angeles, he realizes he must return to the Parish before a dangerous rival takes center stage.In Orleans Parish we experience the mysteries of New Orleans and the toxic hierarchy of Los Angeles: a story of sibling rivalry, the perils of LA intern culture, the disappointments of post-college life, and the pressures of living up to one's preordained potential.

How far would you be willing to go...for permission? Set in the crime-, riot-, and earthquake-racked Los Angeles of the 1990s, Permission tells the story of a screenwriter on the brink of success, derailed by a destructive marriage that drives him into a breakdown. Medicating his condition with a bottomless plunge into prostitutes and cocaine (his unlikely vehicles for self-analysis and personal revelation) he uses what he learns - and the new relationship he finds in this underworld - to come to terms with his nature, and to change his life. Comic and horrific, shockingly explicit yet tender and lyrical, Permission is more than a sex-and-drug-fueled fever dream -- more than a portrait of LA, the movies, and of a marriage. Rather, Marc Kristal's uncompromising, unforgettable first novel is about the ways in which we create identities that let us overcome and hide from our fears, what happens when those selves crash into their limits - and how the worst sort of chaos can lead, in the end, to the best outcome.

REV UP YOUR ENGINE, TURN UP YOUR AM RADIO, AND TAKE A SPIN INTO THE 1960s. CRUISE DRIVE-IN RESTAURANTS, PARK ON THE LAST ROW OF DRIVE-IN THEATERS, AND ENJOY POP MUSIC ALONG THE WAY. GRAB A FRONT-ROW SEAT TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN GREENSBORO, N.C. AND LEARN SOME INTERESTING TWISTS OF HISTORY. BUT, IF YOU ARE A MALE BETWEEN 18 AND 26, KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE OVER YOUR SHOULDER. YOU JUST MIGHT BE NEXT ON UNCLE SAM'S LIST FOR AN INVITATION TO VIETNAM. "Through a combination of anecdote and reflection, this coming-of-age story tells a lot about how attitudes and thinking about race changed during the last years of segregation and the first flush of desegregation in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bill Slawter's memoir, the work of a decade, makes often charmingly personal and immediate what many have read in headlines and history books. Episodes from R & B concerts and the Vietnam era, barbecue pits and hamburger joints, road trips and beach weekends provide rich background and context while demonstrating how racial etiquette, understandings and relations began to alter." David Moltke-Hansen, Past Director of UNC-Chapel Hill's Southern Historical Collection and Founding Co-Director, Cambridge Studies on the American South "In the spring of 1963, I was 17 years old. The Crystals and I were on a nationwide tour with Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, The Drifters, Dionne Warwick, Dee Clark, Solomon Burke, and other recording artists. There were four of us girls in The Crystals at that time. We had recently released 'Da Doo Ron Ron, ' our hit song about a boy named Bill. One of the first stops on the tour was Greensboro, North Carolina. It was a welcome beginning to a long road trip during uncertain times. In Sit-Ins, Drive-Ins and Uncle Sam, the author has vividly captured the experience of that night." Dolores/Dee Dee Kenniebrew, The Crystals

We take our memory for granted. Dementia will steal it in ways most of us could never imagine.Winter Solstice by Diana Howard burrows deep into the heart-rending poetic journey of a daughter trying to love and help her mother who is slowly losing her memory.Through poems and vignettes written over a period of 15 years, the reader will enter a world of denial, confusion, shame, fear, humor, sacrifice, patience and love - finding solace and empathy with an experience many of us go through, yet struggle to find words to describe.

The heart always tops the head. Or does it?In Heartheaded by Constantina Pappas, society solely revolves around what Zodiac sign each individual is born under. Everything from where one can live, to whom one can spend the rest of their life with is determined the minute they're born. Fifteen-year-old Cancer Coral Ray never had an opinion regarding the love restriction until now.She has fallen madly in love with an Aries named Deimos Polnz, and finds herself at high tide. Cross elemental relationships are illegal, but no amount of laws can prevent her emotions from running wild. She knows the situation she's about to get herself into could result in her being locked up for many years, but her heart is willing to risk it for the guy she loves most. There's something about him that draws her nearer that she's longing to explore. However, her consciousness keeps holding her back.In this story, we experience firsthand what it's like for a teenage girl to undergo this internal tug of war that not only strains their mental health, but also the relationships in their life.

A cherished interracial friendship under threat. A creepy imposter conjured from the past. Where do you turn when you don't know who to trust? Fourteen-year-old Annie Cahill has been subjected to her father's rage one too many times. When she accidentally drops a glass milk bottle and chips the white porcelain surface of the kitchen sink in her father's brand-new suburban house, he erupts in fury and gives her the beating of her life.The next day, crying bitter tears, Annie sets out to look for a place of her own. Exploring a steep, rocky wash that ascends a nearby mesa, she finds the perfect place: an abandoned lean-to sheltering the entrance to a shallow cave. She names it "Annie's Place."All is well until Annie discovers that a destitute Black girl by the name of Clydeen has taken over her secret hideout. Longing to make friends with someone her own age, Annie welcomes the traumatized girl and risks everything to provide for her. Stealing from her family's larder, Annie is perpetually aware of the dire consequences she will face should her violent, racist father get the slightest whiff of what she's up to.Against all odds, Annie and Clydeen establish an unbreakable bond - or so they think. But as their time on the mesa comes to an end, old fears, suspicions, and misunderstandings resurface, and their hard-won friendship begins to unravel.Until . . .. . . from out of nowhere, a bizarre stranger invades their secret encampment. Why has this stranger come, and what will it mean for Annie and Clydeen? To find out buy a copy of the book today. Dive into an engrossing tale of a forbidden friendship arising in the midst of the white supremacist ethos that existed in the early years post-World War II.

When Letty Marquez discovers an elegant-but-decrepit Victorian mansion not far from school, she and her friends decide to keep it a secret and make it their own.As the Vietnam war escalates, the nation reels from protests, riots, and a drug epidemic. Letty and her friends pit themselves against forces that want the land beneath the house. At the same time, boys, friends, and permissive American culture constantly clash with Letty''s Mexican upbringing and her Catholic religion. In A Very Fine House by Rose Molina, we experience the turmoil of an era where political awareness and social change engulf the lives of young people struggling to come of age. Interwoven in this difficult phase of life, culture clashes exacerbate the struggle in the search for an identity. The story sheds light on these complex issues with both humor and warmth.

Learn the reasons why your company always seems to be playing compliance catch up!Chasing Corporate Compliance by John C. Vescera explains why compliance programs fail to accomplish what was intended and provides guidance on how to develop a strategically proactive compliance program rather than being trapped in a continuous loop of reactive maintenance.This book provides on the job application, not just theoretical discussions. It draws on the experience of a compliance officer who worked through the compliance chaos at many organizations and emerged as a leader in bringing companies into alignment with regulatory expectations and best industry practices.