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Marlon Peterson grew up in the 1980s amid routine violence of the crack epidemic. He spent his childhood preaching the good word alongside his father, a devout Jehovah's Witness.

There's a big problem with the forest roses, magical roses that are very important because they are the first food for newborn hippogriffs.

Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City.

Maeve loves her job at a senior care center. Gage, who works with Maeve's brother-in-law, loves Maeve with all his heart.

A gorilla with a deadly secret. A leopard struck by tragedy. A gazelle cast out of her herd.

After her hand is amputated following a tragic accident, Rachel Cooper suffers vivid nightmares of a woman imprisoned in the trunk of a hollow tree, screaming for help.

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to refugees, in this collection of original and never before published poems.

As SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer prepares to celebrate her daughter's birthday, she learns of a theory that connects the dots on a constellation of killings.

As American women began to reject Victorian propriety, authorities feared that "oversexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects.

On an Outer Rim moon, Captain Malcolm Reynolds ends a card game the lucky winner of an old map covered in mysterious symbols. The former owner insists it's worthless.

The iconic superhuman endurance runner shares the hard-won wisdom and lessons he's learned from thirty years of competition as he embarks on his toughest challenge yet, the Western States 100.

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable, except as a decent stopover for ships traveling throughout the Galactic Commons.

When a scandalous murder shocks London high society, seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seizes the opportunity to prove herself, despite the interference of Mr.

Doctor Henry Jekyll, on a quest to liberate our inner demons from the constraints of our conscience, unleashes ancient and primal forces buried deep within us all.