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When a pregnancy following years of infertility ends in late miscarriage, Margo Kerber sinks into a depression-one that leads her, when she encounters a briefly unattended baby, to commit an unthinkable crime.

When David's determined search for meaning and independence drives him to decide to live in an isolated New Hampshire cabin inherited from his recently deceased grandfather, his girlfriend's dark past and his family's long-buried secrets prove to be the greatest tests of his resilience.

When the Rayson family leaves the East Coast for the gathering anarchy of Berkeley, young Alice Rayson embraces the moment in a place that's fast becoming a cultural ground zero--and for a girl, that's no Summer of Love.

When the floor matron at the dance hall where Henrietta is working as a taxi dancer turns up murdered, she is persuaded by the aloof Inspector Clive Howard to go undercover to help find the killer¿even as they try to withstand their growing attraction for one another.

It's 1937. Jane has left her pregnant mother with a man she hates, left her father for dead in an irrigation ditch, remade herself as a man, and gotten a job as a copy boy. And everything's getting better-until her father turns up on her newspaper's front page in a picture that threatens to destroy the life she's making.

Light Ahead for the Negro (1904) is a novel by Edward A. Johnson. Written while Johnson was working as an assistant U. S. Attorney in North Carolina, the novel is a groundbreaking work of speculative fiction and Afrofuturism from a pioneering African American politician and lawyer. ¿I glanced through the floor but the earth was almost indistinguishable, and was disappearing rapidly. There was absolutely nothing that I could do. I looked up again at my friend, who was clambering up rather clumsily, I remember thinking at the moment. [¿] Involuntarily, I closed my eyes for a moment. When I opened them again, he was gone! My feelings were indescribable. I commenced to lose consciousness, owing to the altitude and the ship was ascending more rapidly every moment. Finally I became as one dead.¿ The son of an abolitionist applies to work at a school for African American children in Georgia. In June 1906, he joins a wealthy friend on a flight from New York City to Mexico, boarding an experimental airship at a West 59th Street pier. When an instrument failure sends them spiraling into the upper atmosphere, the narrator loses consciousness. One hundred years later, he lands on a lawn in Georgia, awakening to discover a utopian society in which anti-blackness has been completely eradicated. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Edward A. Johnson¿s Light Ahead for the Negro is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

A funeral takes the place of a wedding when the fiancé of a prominent attorney is strangled in their home. Psychologist Dr. Pepper Hunt probes below the surface of the perfect couple's life to uncover a series of unsolved crimes with a direct link to the murder.

Grim Tales (1893) is a collection of seven horror stories by English writer Edith Nesbit. Noted for her work as an author of children¿s novels and stories¿especially her beloved Bastable and Psammead Trilogies¿Edith Nesbit crafts tales of wonder, mystery, and terror for children and adults alike. Grim Tales, one of the author¿s early works, is a collection of tales of horror aimed at an adult audience.In ¿The Ebony Frame,¿ an impoverished journalist receives an unexpected inheritance from his Aunt Dorcas, a wealthy widow. With a sizeable fortune and a furnished home in Chelsea, he settles into a life of comfort. Early in his stay, however, he discovers on the wall a mysterious frame, which he had never seen before in his frequent visits. Jane, his aunt¿s housemaid, informs him of the frame¿s recent purchase, and sends him searching for its original contents in the house¿s attic. He finds a strange set of portraits. In one, he quickly recognizes his own face. From the other, a beautiful woman stares out, her eyes strangely familiar. In ¿John Charrington¿s Wedding,¿ a best man describes the mysterious events leading up to his friend¿s day of marriage. After witnessing John promise to his fiancé May that, if necessary, he would return from the grave just to marry her, the narrator is filled with a sense of dread about the approaching wedding. As the day approaches, and as John mysteriously disappears, his best man wonders if the promise he witnessed was not, in fact, a prophecy too terrible to imagine.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Edith Nesbit¿s Grim Tales is a classic of English literature and horror fiction reimagined for modern readers.

A Ring of Truth is the next exciting installment of the Henrietta and Inspector Clive series, in which Clive reveals that he is actually the heir of the Howard estate and fortune, Henrietta discovers she may not be who she thought she was¿and both must decide if they are really meant for each other.

Laura is a student in Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. Her work on exoplanets - planets orbiting other stars - is largely unnoticed by the scientific community. However, it attracts the interest of a secluded elderly Russian astronomer, Professor Kasparov, on the basis of his own research thirty years ago. He tries to contact Laura and her supervisor, Julia, but dies in mysterious circumstances.In the attempt to find out more about Kasparov's old data, Laura and Julia travel across the globe. During their journey, science becomes entangled with poetry, while astronomy gets embroiled with mystery. They face a dark pattern of strange accidents and deaths. Their quest for clues gradually becomes a frantic pursuit through some of the most fascinating and deadly environments.Will Laura and Julia uncover the truth? The whole truth? And... will they survive to tell the world?