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Margot is on a quest to uncover and reassemble an ancient—and cursed—vase, with the help of a boy who went missing in 1932, because it's the only way to put back together her broken heart in this stand-alone adventure rom-com, perfect for fans of What the River Knows and The Lost City. The mythical Vase of Venus Aurelia hasn't been seen since 1932, but Margot Rhodes is determined to change that. Drawn by the vase's supposed magical properties, Margot embarks on her school's archaeological trip to Pompeii.

When Barb Baker's life starts to get weird--weird in a way that might give her a chance to right some wrongs--it's a chance she has to take, no matter how odd.

Knowing what people think feels more like a curse than a blessing to Kathy van der Laan. After all, how do you deal with discovering your employer is a pervert, your father's replaying scenes from the car accident that killed your mother, and suspecting the guy ahead of you in the department store to be the reason for the latest amber alert? Unable to explain the source of her knowledge, Kathy reduces her interactions, sends anonymous tips to police and tries not to remind her father about a loss they both can't get past.

Unless there is snow on the ground, never speak their name aloud.The more they eat the hungrier they become, and they are starving. They were meant to stay undisturbed, their dismembered limbs scattered, frozen under the permafrost, but as is always the way, the greed of industry has unburied them once more.

This YA title features Adrian Yates, who expected his summer would involve sharing Slurpees with his best friend Zoomer and pretending not to hear his dads' whispered fighting. And that's exactly how it was going, until the night Sorel appeared in the graveyard by Adrian's apartment. Sorel gets Adrian in ways no one else has; the fact that he's not technically alive only makes things exciting. But Sorel can't always control his otherworldly behaviour, and Zoomer's worried he might be hiding something.

National Bestseller. A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this "incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic" (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. "A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic." - Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, PopSugar, Polygon, The Globe and Mail, She Reads.

"A masterpiece of supernatural horror." - The Washington Post. "An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience." - The New York Times (Editors' Choice). One of Time and The Atlantic's Ten Best Novels of the Year - One of The New York Times's Ten Best Horror Books of the Year - Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award - Good Morning America Buzz Pick.

The daughter of a legend finds the love of a lifetime in this passionate, heart-wrenching installment in J.R. Ward's #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Nalla, the blooded daughter of Zsadist, has led a sheltered life. Protected by her father and the Brotherhood, kept away from the deadly war with the Lessening Society, she is chafing against the walls of the very safety that has ensured her survival.

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself. "Narrator Susan Dalian viscerally conveys the gruesome body horror while deftly capturing the lush imagery." - Library Journal. "This brilliant novella is not to be missed." - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review. You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth.

This program is read by the author. Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings , which harnesses the creeping paranoia of Rosemary's Baby and the urban horror of Salem's Lot , set in an exclusive New York City residential building. "This is the horror book of the year." - Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2023 - Paste Magazine Ana and Reid needed a lucky break.