"From the beloved cookbook author Julia Turshen, a queer love story set in your new favorite town, Sungold.
Frankie doesn't quite know what to make of Paige, who's just moved from Brooklyn to her quiet Upstate New York hometown with all the pressed-clothes polish of a city girl. Paige, with her eight-year-old son in tow, is seeking refuge from a rocky relationship and is equally thrown by Frankie: Why can't she stop thinking about this eternally single, charming, gay vegetable farmer? And could the attraction she's feeling grow into something more?"
"From award-winning writer and photographer Rhonda Fleming Hayes comes the perfect guide to help you evaluate, redesign, and right-size your garden space as you age—to make gardening easier, more sustainable, and perennially fun!
In Garden for Life, Rhonda Fleming Hayes brings a lifetime of gardening experience, research-based advice, and collective wisdom to older gardeners who are looking for inspiration and practical strategies. This delightful comprehensive guide presents new techniques and tools to make gardening less strenuous, and highlights plants that 'multitask' to make a garden more sustainable—for both the gardener and the environment. It also advises on how and when to ask for help to lighten the load so we can focus on the life-enhancing aspects of spending time in the garden.
Garden for Life reminds us that gardening is a simple way to answer the human need to connect with nature, a craving called biophilia, while highlighting its many proven health benefits. Gardening offers a low-intensity workout with a variety of natural movements, provides a sense of purpose while nurturing a meditative state that decreases stress, fosters improved nutrition and better brain health, and grows social connection and community. In short, gardening is excellent for health and longevity!
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'I love the message of Garden for Life because it’s not about doing less and giving up what we love. It’s about gardening smarter.'—Joe Lamp'l**"
"Tabitha Greene grew up all alone, shuttled from magical academy to magical academy with no rhyme or reason. She never stayed in the same place for more than a matter of weeks. Ever.
That all changed when she moved in with her uncles to help them run the Weal & Woe Bookshop in the Square, a hidden magical neighborhood in Minneapolis. Now her uncles make her breakfast to start every day, her neighbors greet her whenever she passes them, and she has friends who mean the world to her, and she to them. She even found a brother she never knew she had.
All that, and a little dog too. What’s not to love about that life?
But all of that is threatened when the father she’s never met moves into the Square and opens a business of his own. The Shop of Wonders, where the proprietor knows just what item every customer never knew they always needed. People flock to shop in his store.
But when one customer turns up dead after leaving the store, Tabitha can’t help suspecting the last man to see her alive. Even if implicates her father.
No, scratch that. Especially if it implicates her father."
"Tabitha Greene knows more about magical theory than any witch and most of the wizards of her world. She thrives at research and tweaking the writing of spells to best suit their casters. A lifetime of thinking she possessed no magic forged such skills in her. And she excelled at her chosen craft.
Then she learned that the magic she possessed wasn't too weak. It was too powerful.
Too uncontrollable.
Too forbidden.
Basically, it was pure chaos.
No, literally, it was pure chaos.
But attempting to wield uncontrollable magic is nothing compared to dealing with her magical family. And her extended magical family keep coming out of the woodwork.
And with them always come fresh murders. Whether she clears her family's name, or proves their guilt, Tabitha Greene won't stop until the crime is solved and justice is done."
"Disaster struck. Someone caused it. And now they want Alex Hawke to clean it up. After a forced vacation, Alex returns to his ship expecting progress on the refit—not a call from the Ninhar Confederation’s Ministry of Defense. A planetary climate system has failed on Lynxeen, a volatile colony world that relies on strict environmental controls. The people need relief. Fast.
As an Accredited Auxiliary, Shepherd Security Services is tapped to lead the largest convoy operation Alex has ever seen. But running escort is only part of the job. The climate system didn’t just fail—it was sabotaged. And someone powerful doesn’t want that truth uncovered.
With his team split between planetary investigation and convoy defense, Alex faces his most complex mission yet. As new alliances form, public perception twists out of control, and five hundred ships fall under his command, he must prove once again that leadership isn’t about power… it’s about people.
Duty, disaster, and the making of a legend.
Lynxeen raises the stakes and expands the universe—perfect for fans of space opera with heart, humor, and tactical grit."
"Tabitha Greene feels blessed by so many things she lacked before. Friends, including a new boyfriend. Family, including a brother she never even knew about. And now she knows her job in the Weal & Woe Bookshop remains hers even when her uncles return from their trip abroad.
She learns more every day about her innate chaos magic, training with her brother and his magic of order. Even Houdini, her little black dog that is secretly a dragon, learns more about his own ancestry when the perfect book finally turns up.
But all of that happiness ends when one of her closest friends is found comatose in his apartment. And beside him lies his equally comatose black Siamese cat, Miss Snooty Cat. Tabitha refuses to rest until she learns just who would harm her friend.
Perhaps someone who knew the secret of Miss Snooty Cat?"
"Tabitha Greene knows more about magic than most. She might not be able to cast a workable spell to save her life, but she has read every magical tome and text in existence.
Or so she thought. But then she hears of another book. A rare volume delineating an even rarer type of magic. A type of magic that just might be Tabitha’s real calling.
But when she tracks down the magical bookseller who owns the only known copy, she finds only a dead shop owner and no sign of the book.
Maybe a random robbery gone wrong, but Tabitha doubts it. But either way, if she wants that book, she has to find the murderer first.
With the help of her friends, she intends to do just that. But if the thief who stole the book killed the bookseller in order to hide the truth the text contained, Tabitha and all her friends face a dangerous threat."
"Alex idolized her grandfather. When she discovers he wasn't the man she knew, she fears what her future will hold.
Alex’s werewolf gene triggered years after her beloved grandfather’s death. He left a letter sharing how to survive as a werewolf to guide her. But old articles documenting violent attacks and a mysterious key to an unknown lock turn up in his belongings. Alex is driven to seek answers about her grandfather’s secret life.
With Ben as her co-pilot, Alex sets out on an impromptu road trip. The pair find themselves retracing her grandfather’s steps, navigating the folklore of a feared cryptid, and fleeing a deadly stranger aiming to bring their road trip to a grisly end. Can Alex gain understanding of her grandfather's past, or will she be doomed to repeat it?"
"Tabitha Greene loves her new life. Working at her uncles’ bookstore, hanging with her friends, cuddling with her dog Houdini. When he allows it.
Everything would be perfect. If only she could control her magic.
But her bad luck with spells plagues her, setting off random sparks and triggering too many accidents. Her friends support her in her attempts to get it all under control. But her other neighbors around the Square display much less patience with having an actual jinx around. Especially as they plan the biggest party of the year.
When Tabitha’s bitterest nemesis turns up dead, no one thinks she did it. At least not intentionally. But not even Tabitha is sure she didn’t cause it by mistake.
The only way to be sure? She and her friends have to get to the bottom of what really happened the night of the party. Even if it means that Tabitha’s worst fears come true."
"No one knows more about every branch of magic than Tabitha Greene. She devoted years to studying the most esoteric texts, hunting down the most obscure source materials, and deciphering the most cryptic ancient scrolls. But her career in academia hits a dead end when no wizard will take her on as an apprentice.
Just because, despite being descended from two long and prestigious lines of witches, her attempts to actually perform any magic always fail. Often spectacularly.
But no more college means no more dorm life. And no magical skills means no real job skills, at least, not in the witchy world. And a life spent moving from school to school every few months was a life without real friendships. She finds herself alone with nowhere to go.
Then an uncle she barely remembers offers her a summer job, running his bookstore over the summer. The Weal and Woe Bookstore, located in a magical pocket world within a block of buildings just north of the old Mill District of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Not exactly the pinnacle of all her hopes and dreams. But it’s just for one summer, right?
Or so Tabitha tells herself. But unbeknownst to her, the Weal and Woe Bookstore is about to change her life."
"Having escaped yet another closing trap, Scout Shannon finds herself on a snowbound mountaintop far from civilization. With assassins eager to kill her, laying low on an alien world is the smartest play.
But wherever Scout goes, trouble follows. And a hamlet in the mountains gets far more remote when girl assassins destroy the only means back to civilization.
Now Scout and her dogs face a long, cold climb back to the frozen star port city, her only guide, a girl whose sister Scout killed when fighting for her life. Can she get to safety before the girl learns the truth about Scout? And what secrets of her own is this strange girl keeping?
This is the fifth book in the complete six-book THE TRAVELS OF SCOUT SHANNON series."
"Galactic Central, a collection of floating cities in a vast, manmade, planetless cloud. Scout Shannon longed to see it since she first heard of it. This place long represented her shining future.
But in her less shiny present, she reaches it by smuggling herself aboard a cargo ship and hides in the lower sewer-like levels of the most opulent of the floating cities. Teams of girl assassins still hunt her. Worse, her friends are in danger and don’t even know.
Scout has to save her friends, because saving her friends means saving her entire planet from enslavement to the Tajaki trade dynasty. Caught between two sides of that dynasty, with a mysterious third party desperate to remove her from the galaxy, Scout is in way over her head. But with her friends, she just might see a path to victory for all of them.
This is the sixth and final book in the complete six-book THE TRAVELS OF SCOUT SHANNON series."
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