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Banger and Mash knew something strange was happening when their peoples’ scent began to fade. Sweetpea the cat knew it too, but…you know…he just wasn’t that worried about it. But when their human vanishes into thin air right before their noses, they race to get help from the other dogs in the village, only to discover that EVERYONE'S humans have disappeared.

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. Longlisted 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize 'Transcends the boundaries of historical fiction' Books+Publishing DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a...

On her way to a weekend ski vacation, Natalie Locke is involved in a head-on collision on a snowy highway and finds herself traveling through the space between life and death, where she sees a Native American man who visited her rock shop earlier that day. Lone Eagle went to Locke’s Rocks in Albuquerque to find an important tribal artifact and return it to his father, Chief Looking Elk. Before the elderly chief passes away, he makes Lone Eagle promise one thing – to teach Natalie the ways of their tribe.

You think you know your world, right? Taxes, traffic, and the everyday routines that shape your life. It's a world where predictability reigns, where the only constants are corrupt politicians and the ever-looming specter of pollution. But then there's Olivia—a brilliant and determined scientist who suspects something else is below the surface. She firmly believes that the reality surrounding all of us is nothing more than an intricately woven computer simulation.

A deep-seated confusion guides the lives of domesticated humans, causing a crisis of planetary proportions. With all their fervor and devotion, the forest keepers summon the presence of the Great Mother to assist their human Under the guidance of a variety of creatures, Artemio embarks on a journey through the uncertain and bewildering paths of the Wild Spirit.

Awakening among the remains of a smoking forest, panic sweeps through the boy. All he knows is he does not belong. Not to the tribe whose lifeless bodies adorn the forest floor or to the hard-eyed, fur-clad warriors that surround him. And he knows that he hates the red-haired beast who gloats in his face. Called by a past he can no longer remember and driven forward by powers beyond his control, the half-witch, Du Mu, finds himself caught in the grip of the most powerful Cro clan to walk the Plains.

Lythe’s homeroom teacher is dead. Her angry ghost says she was murdered. The hidden ward in the teacher’s house is evidence the ghost is telling the truth and witchcraft is involved. When a witch takes the dead teacher’s place and offers to help Lythe develop her magic, the teenager is caught up in a high-stakes battle.

Kweku Ashworth is a child of the cataclysm, born on a sailboat to parents fleeing the devastation in search for a refuge in the Southern Ocean. Growing up in a world forever changed, his only connection to the events that set the world on its course to disaster were the stories his step-father, now long-dead, recorded in his manuscript, The Forcing. But there are huge gaps in the story that his mother, still alive but old and frail, steadfastly refuses to speak of. When he discovers evidence that his mother has tried to cover up the truth, he knows that it is time to find out for himself.

Un livello dopo l’altro, un’esperienza dopo l’altra, Silvano Rei si trasforma. La sua evoluzione non è graduale, ma si compie attraverso momenti violenti di introspezione e di esibizione. Vuole cambiare, vuole stare nel tempo, e cambiare la sua percezione delle cose, e con la percezione delle cose cambiare gli universi, come opere d’arte contemporanea, attraenti, incomunicabili. Rei non resta mai uguale: è necessario mutare per appartenere a un mondo, per comprenderlo e conviverci, anche se per poco. Ogni frame è una performance, e ogni performance è la vita.

Oriana emerges as the re-birth of Tara's evolution and biological mutations. She is now Mother Nature's warrior, messenger and illuminator. Her mission is to enlighten humanity into awareness and the urgent need to live with respect, care and harmony with all life forms. Her siblings, Link and Angie, are by her side in spirit and conviction, even as they experience their own life dramas. They're vigilant and determind to protect Oriana from capture at all personal costs.

Spirituality and urban living serve as a purposeful backdrop of Moment Before Creation, both “otherworldly” and deeply rooted in the saga of living in the ghetto. It’s a hypnotic tale that boasts good old-fashioned story-telling, Quantum Physics, “street smarts,” and wisdom of the ages. Engaging and wittingly original, Moment Before Creation promises to deliver on all that has come before it.

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent...

More than an engaging story, the 7-book Waldmeer Series is a doorway to personal and spiritual growth. Waldmeer is an idyllic coastal village with stunning natural beauty. It is a place of healing with its quiet, repetitive rhythm and has remained relatively undamaged by the outside world. The simple events of Waldmeer belie the far more complex events of the interdimensional worlds. These worlds meet and merge.

Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist for The Story Prize Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist for the California Book Award Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the New American Voices Award...

"Between Two Gates" is a compelling story of the spiritual realms, as Samuel uncovers the enigma of existence, from his mortal demise to a rebirth of understanding. The extraordinary potential of the human spirit is explored, and the enduring connections that love brings to transcend mortality.

The planet on which we live is “Mother Earth” and mother to all the planets. All planets are born of the sexual union of Sun and Earth. The Moon is a baby planet in the period of gestation, not born yet, and still connected to Mother Earth by umbilical cord, said to be the “Road to the Moon;” and recognized by astronomers as a magnetic or electric cord.

Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. What happens when his idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting.

Palmer Arnold, RECALL Program Manager, is on a mission to discover who murdered John Faust, the previous RECALL Program Manager, and his secretary Mary Smart. Palmer has a list of 718 missing servicemen from the Vietnam War that may be the reason for John’s death. He elicits the assistance of a National Security Administration analyst and friend, Marylyn Monroe.

Joe Slade is a detective with a hot lead and an existential crisis. Still seeking to escape his fictional existence, he and his mentor, Ellodrine, a wizard who suffers from reinterpretation, hunt for the artifacts that will open a way to the World Where the Books Are Written. The trail has taken them to the rugged frontier of the Old West. There, they will discover twisted plots and dangerous foes, who will launch them into a blurring journey through the genres.

In Through Time and Truth, follow Manny on an extraordinary journey from the brink of despair to the precipice of redemption. After a glitch in the machinations of life suspends him between existence and oblivion, Manny embarks on a surreal adventure through the higher plane. Faced with challenges, lessons, and the value of life itself, Manny must find a way back to the world he left behind. This whimsical and heartwarming tale explores the transformative power of redemption and the beauty of second chances.