While picnicking in the park, kids gather around and eat all different types of food.

"Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"--

Building a perfect body takes hard work, dedication, and sacrifice. Especially if that body isn't yours. The Black Friars are real! And one of them is dogging Shane's footsteps as he and his friends head south in their search for Talia. To escape the dangers of the wilderness, the group takes refuge in the idyllic little town of Bludorf, where it appears all are welcome. Even Fregold, the elf-lord who has rejoined their party, doesn't draw undue attention....

We are here on planet Earth with a job to do... The most important job in the history of this planet. This is the message from Archangel Metatron, said to be God's scribe and the 'king' of the angels. In this book, Archangel Metatron acknowledges the desecration of planet Earth and people's strife, sorrow, fear and unease. Through more than eighty channelled messages, he gives reasons for how this has arisen and explains how we can all -...

"The doors of the Inn at Gloucester are always open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life. Its owner, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, welcomes them with no questions asked. Until two strangers arrive for a temporary stay and a longtime resident starts looking over his shoulders. There's another newcomer in town who puts the Inn under surveillance. When the surveillance turns into a series of attacks. Robinson launches an...

"Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Her mother has just passed away, her brother is newly married, and now that the Great War is over, she has been asked to give up managing the estate she helped to run when the men all joined the army. It is suggested to her that she become a governess. But first, she will act as caretaker to Mrs. Fog, an old family friend who is convalescing at a seaside resort. Constance is soon swept up in the social whirl...

"Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed...

A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when slut-shaming, fat-shaming, and revenge porn were all considered...

"The distant future. Humanity is ruled by the godlike Dawn and her Triangulan allies. Her Golden Swarm keeps the garden world of Prithvi safe. Her nephew's Red Fleet secures the rest of the Nine Worlds. In the depths of the system, her regents-the Charioteer of Daitya, and the Huntress of Himenduh-bolster her authority with their own fleets, their own armies, and their own power. So it has been for three thousand years. But, of course, nothing lasts...