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When Rick and Maizie's home is invaded and their three-month-old daughter is kidnapped-possibly by a wealthy, well-connected man with a good reason to want to take revenge on Rick-they call on Maizie's long-deceased grandmother, Fannie, to help them from beyond the grave, setting in motion a search that takes them all the way from the US to Dubai and back again.

In this gorgeous, full-color modern guide, home entertaining expert Joseph Marini offers up guidance on modern hosting etiquette, creating a prop closet, working with flowers, and making simple but beautiful food for your guests—while at the same time exploring the vulnerability involved in opening one’s home to others, and why doing so with authenticity is so important.

In this suspense thriller, identical twin sisters Anjali Murphy and Riah Arora are reunited in their thirties after being separated at birth, only to find themselves caught up in a deadly con game that tests the fine line between sisterly loyalty and rivalry. One sister wants the money; the other wants to be free. Which one will win?

Millie Jackson is determined to cross paths with her first crush—fifteen-year-old global pop music sensation Rory Calhoun—but without a driver's license or a credit card, she can't even manage to get tickets to his concert. How far will she go to make her celebrity-crush dreams come true?

The bride, the groom, the toast, the explosion . . . What should be a joyous occasion for Sean and Emma turns lethal in this third installment of the Sean McPherson series.

Hired by the Golden Dawn to illustrate a deck of tarot cards, Pamela, a London-born empath with second sight, wants to keep the power of her creation out of the hands of her nemesis, magician Aleister Crowley, who desires to use her cards for his evil purposes.

Wannabe artist Miranda Blair is named the sole heir to the estate of her estranged grandmother, Gertrude, but as a prerequisite she must spend a hundred days at Gertrude's New England cottage. The handsome next-door neighbor seems determined to turn Miranda's resented countdown into a purpose-driven season of possibilities; will she discover her true colors and ensure a paint-worthy future?

When Lucie, a smart and sassy girl from NYC, meets Pierre, a dashing Frenchman, at a grad school party in 1973, she abandons her PhD program to run off with him. It's the start of the sexual revolution, and she doesn't intend to miss a thing. They first land in Mexico, then marry and settle in Paris to live the dream. But not long into their marriage, Pierre becomes an intolerant critic of her wifely imperfections; Lucie just can't seem to measure up to French standards. Instead of settling into her new life, she balks at French customs. As planned, she has their baby son in 1976, but far from succeeding in settling her down, the baby highlights her inability to depend on Pierre and precipitates a meltdown. Finally, she makes two friends, young mothers she's met at the playground. When one of them tries to commit suicide, Lucie panics and considers returning to the U.S. but fears the impact on her young son. An English-speaking women's writing group sets her on the right path. Ultimately, those women help her realize what she truly needs and wants out of life: to be a mother, a career woman, and a writer.

A sweeping work of historical fiction, Seventh Flag is a Micheneresque parable that traces the arc of radicalization in modern Western Civilization-reaffirming what it means to be an American in a dangerously divided nation.

The first book of its kind to dig into the rich ethnic dance tradition of Hawaiian hula, The Natives Are Restless is a high-touch volume with stunning photography, archival material, and illustrations that will make hula come alive for any reader.

After learning that she inhabits a world where mirrors are portals to another dimension in which an ancient evil lurks, infecting us through our reflections, eighteen-year-old Alice, along with her three best friends, must battle gods and demons to protect mankind—and save her true love¿s soul.

Ever since a wormhole opened and ushered vicious dragons into the world, Ayanna Grace, a seventeen-year-old Black girl, has been surviving in an abandoned subway system—a place where medicine and water run short and dragon attacks are imminent. Now, she has to do this while feeling torn between two young men: her childhood friend, Richard, and a new member of her community, the mysterious Jackson.

With each chapter focusing on stories from the seminal periods of a lifetime¿motherhood, childhood, relationships, work, and spirit¿A Story That Matters provides the tools and motivation to craft and complete the stories of your life.

After losing her job and fiance the day before her thirty-fifth birthday, people-pleaser and rule-follower Allison James decides she needs someone to give her some new life rules-and fast. But when she embarks on a self-help mission, she realizes that her old life wasn't as perfect as she thought-and that she needs to start writing her own rules.

When her husband is kidnapped by ruthless gold miners, frontier woman Briar Logan is forced to accept the help of an emotionally damaged young man and a famous female horse trainer. On her quest to save her husband, she discovers that adventures of the heart are almost as dangerous as tracking down lawless killers.

When a recently engaged Manhattanite learns that her first great love has been diagnosed with ALS, she is faced with the impossible decision of whether a few final months with her ex might be worth risking her entire future. A fast-paced emotional journey that explores whether it's possible to be equally in love with two men at once.

Nine-year-old Abigail Tarkana has a problem: her witch magic has finally come in, but it¿s different¿and being different is a problem at the Tarkana Witch Academy. Together with her scientist-friend Hugo, she face off against sneevils, shreeks, and vikens in a race to discover the secrets about her mysterious magic.

Twelve-year-old Leon is among a group of 120 boys sent to New England in the 1870s by the Emperor of China as part of a Chinese educational mission. Once there, he falls in love with baseball, even though he's expressly forbidden to play. The boy's host father, who's recently lost his own son in an accident, sees and cultivates Leon's interest, bringing joy back into his own life and teaching Leon more about America through its favorite sport than any rule-bound educational mission could possibly hope to achieve.

When Angel Ferente-a teen with a dysfunctional home life who has been struggling to care for her sisters even as she pursues her goal of attending college on a swimming scholarship-doesn't come home after a party on New Year's Eve, her teammates, her coach's church, and her family search the city for her. The result changes their lives forever.

A hairbrush vanished. The piano played. A bed moved out from the wall. But when a workman was pushed and hissed at by something invisible on the stairs, Jeanne Stanton began to take the idea of a ghost seriously.

Three life-scarred people are brought together to confront each other thirty years after the brutal crime that shattered their lives.