Horacio is a Uruguayan soldier, grandson of slaves, the lighthouse keeper on a tiny island in the South Atlantic. He is poor and suffers from ill health. To fulfill his dream of giving his daughter a future, Horacio joins the UN's peace keeping forces in the land of his ancestors, the DR Congo.

A woman walks through a virtual reconstruction of the destroyed streets where she and her lover used to live. A young man trades away his youth, and something of himself, in the plasma extracted from his blood. A clone addresses her dead, doubled 'self' as she tries to understand her personal history. In these uncanny stories of virtual reality, biotech, data surveillance and communications technology, Black Mirror meets M.R. James: unsettling perspectives...

This book was written to inform readers, Christians, and non-Christians alike, about how the Lord will go before you in times of grave illness, turmoil, and diseases. He'll always see you through the thick and thin of everything. If life has knocked you down with storm after storm, get ready to pick yourself back up and give your problems, illnesses, trials, and tribulations to the Lord. Build a relationship with God through His word. God is on top...

"When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the...

An ancient prophecy, now an outlawed myth. Secrets, long kept, that can kill. A young girl who was never meant to be born. Tereka Sabidur's life has never been fair. Her brothers always went unpunished while she was mocked and abused. When her mother's rages escalate into violence, the truth of Tereka's parentage is revealed, and Tereka and her father end up on the street. Undaunted, Tereka seeks to put her shattered life back together. But she...

Award-winning author Amy McNamara explores the emotional fallout after a girl cuts ties with her best friend. Perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Jennifer Niven. Evie and Emma are inseparable. Two halves of a whole, they balance each other until Evie makes a flip decision that gets Emma in serious trouble. Feeling the sting of betrayal, Emma freezes Evie out. Evie is full of regret, desperately sorry, sad, and-for the first time in her life-entirely...

After discovering that her nemesis is none other than her friend, Lexi must live to fight another day. But now he knows that she's a witch. Can she survive long enough to her abusive step-father face justice, or are her days numbered? And can she carry on alone, or is there someone out there to help her?

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"It’s July 1921, "flickers" are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of Hollywood with hopes of making it big in the burgeoning silent film industry. At first glance, Hollywood in the 1920s is like no...