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"Rakan's normal life has been turned upside down thanks to strangers from another world suddenly appearing in his backyard!"--Page 4 of cover

"A fierce, electrifying novel inspired by the true story of the first woman to be condemned as a witch in Ireland. In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared. Alice, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkenny, grows up watching her mother wither under the constraints of family responsibilities-and she vows that she will never suffer the same fate. In time, she discovers she has a flair for making money, and takes...

While working with his mother in food service at NASA, fourteen-year-old Ramon is about to witness either the greatest disaster or the greatest rescue in American history as something goes wrong with the mission of Apollo 13.

Lady Merry Ellison, seventeen, will go to any lengths to protect "The Ghosts of Farthingale Forest," a band of orphans from her former village who hijacked ill-gotten gold meant for the king, capturing the attention of Timothy Grey, the ninth child of a baron, who longs to perform a legendary feat and earn a title of his own.

"A startling and strange debut novel about a young girl's desperate choice to isolate herself from the world England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world,...

In 1271 Wales, Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal arrives at her childhood home of Wynethorpe Castle to use her spiritual and medical talents to heal a nephew who's fallen ill. When a murder occurs in the castle and her brother accused, Eleanor and her companions try to uncover the culprit.

At the small priory of Tyndal on the remote East Anglian coast, the monks and nuns of the Order of Fontevraud hope for peaceful days ahead now that Simon de Montfort has been defeated. When the young and inexperienced Eleanor of Wynethorpe is appointed as their new prioress, she faces extreme opposition from the other members of the priory. Things get even more complicated when a monk is murdered and Brother Thomas, a young priest with a troubled...

In early twentieth-century New York, Sacha Kessler's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship to the police department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime and, with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector that could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history.

A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.

"Salisbury, 1226. A young pregnant woman is found tangled in reeds in the river Avon, her identity a mystery. Grieving widow Ela Longespée is determined to succeed her husband as sheriff of Salisbury, and quickly takes charge of the investigation. She soon finds herself in the thick of a neighborhood scandal and a struggle to maintain her authority. With multiple suspects, can she identify the true killer?"--Page 4 of cover.