In this humorous board book, a parent’s little monster can do no wrong. Mama always loves her Little Monster, even when he is being quite the monster. A lullaby for every mother with nerves of steel, this sweet, funny read-aloud gem sings to the joys of a rambunctious child with a mind of his own.

An adorable reminder of unconditional love for little monsters everywhere "I'll love you even when treats are all you want to eat. I'll love you even when you get angry and stomp your feet I'll love you no matter what you do. Little monster, I'll always and forever love you " Told with Sandra Magsamen's signature message of love, this sweet and mischievous story reminds little ones just how loved they are... even when they act a little monstrous Babies and toddlers will love holding, touching, and reading this playful board book featuring soft, fuzzy monster horns, and laugh along as a range of colorful, boisterous monsters get into mischief on every spread. Perfect for Halloween or all year-round, this adorable book is the hands-on pick for any caregiver and their little monster

In Until I Find You, celebrated author Rea Frey brings you her most explosive, emotional, taut domestic drama yet about the powerful bond between mothers and children...and how far one woman will go to bring her son home. "Frey is a rising star in the suspense scene" - Booklist 2 floors. 55 steps to go up. 40 more to the crib. Since Rebecca Gray was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, everything in her life consists of numbers. Each day her world grows a little darker and each step becomes a little more dangerous. Following days of feeling like someone’s watching her, Rebecca awakes at home to the cries of her son in his nursery. When it’s clear he’s not going to settle, Rebecca goes to check on him. She reaches in. Picks him up. But he’s not her son. And no one believes her. One woman’s desperate search for her son . . . In a world where seeing is believing, Rebecca must rely on her own conviction and a mother’s instinct to uncover the truth about what happened to her baby and bring him home for good. "Completely captivating, utterly compelling...a must read!" - Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, authors of The Two Lila Bennetts

In this New York Times bestseller, brilliant detective Tandy Angel is meeting her lost love in Paris . . . but when he becomes more distant, she starts to question everything she knows. Is there anyone she can trust? After investigating multiple homicides and her family's decades-old skeletons in the closet, Tandy Angel is finally reunited with her lost love in Paris. But as he grows increasingly distant, she is confronted with disturbing questions about him, as well as what really happened to her long-dead sister. With no way to tell anymore who in her life she can trust, how will Tandy ever get to the bottom of the countless secrets her parents kept from her? James Patterson leads this brilliant teenage detective through Paris on a trail of lies years in the making, with shocking revelations around every corner.

“Is it true…that you pulled a lion from the ocean and fell in love with him?” ASLAN The sixteen-year-old boy named after a lion. A boy with his entire life ahead of him. A boy running from a terrible secret. All it takes is one awful night to change everything. One secret, one smuggler, one boat, one storm. And he wakes in an entirely different existence. Staring into the ocean-blue eyes of his twelve-year-old rescuer. NERIDA The twelve-year-old girl named after a sea nymph. A girl with lofty dreams and absolute faith that she’ll achieve them. All it takes is a bright, sunny morning to change everything. One boy clinging to wreckage, one sea cradling him close, one chance at keeping him safe. He’s illegal and unwanted. She’s stubborn and so sure. He’s lost absolutely everything. And she’s found the only thing she ever wanted. They begin as rescued and rescuer. Slowly growing from twelve and sixteen. He’s not allowed to touch her. She’s convinced he is the one. But as each day dawns on his illegal existence, Aslans’s secrets creep ever closer, the death he ran from hunts ever faster, and the darkness that he can’t get free of finally finds him. And it costs him… everything. A true coming-of-age story that spans a lifetime. This book deals with heavy subjects and is advised you check the Content Warnings on the Author’s website. Lunamare is a tangled romance that fans of The Ribbon Duet will love. Combining the beautiful drama of Nicholas Sparks with the brutality of dark romance, Pepper Winters has created a tale of soulmates, secrets, cruelty, and heart-wrenching love. Reviews 5 Stars - Tragically mind-blowing. THE book to read of 2023! - Melissa, Goodreads 5 Stars - Lunamare is in a realm of its own -- like no other love story that you will ever read. - Cyn, Goodreads 5 Stars - Fans of the "childhood friends-to-lovers" trope will most likely love this duet as this is one of the main tropes, but be warned, this is anything but a light, breezy read. In Lunamare, you'll also get vibes such as true soulmates, "touch her and you die," a life story, secrets, betrayal, longing, lust, coming-of-age, and truly forbidden love. - Annica, Goodreads 5 Stars - Pepper's ability to write something as beautiful as this, is breathtaking. Her character development and world building skills are unmatchable. Another Masterpiece. - Jennii The Book Addict 5 Stars - This is a journey everyone needs to experience. - Heather, Goodreads 5 Stars - One of my favorite reads of the year! - Betül, Goodreads

It’s only a transport, an ordinary escort mission to a normal, ally world. Routine escapes into the ether, though, when Caz sympathizes with his empyrean passenger’s harrowing circumstances. He’s a professional diplomat, ordered to complete the negotiated handoff and stay out of political traps. But explorers’ spirits aren’t so easily tamed. And Caz has always been fearlessly independent. Caspian Sheridan hasn’t gotten this far in life by avoiding risk. Preferring to leap into unknowns and figure out strategy along the way, he’s made a successful career out of mediating tough situations with level-headed tenacity and impeccable English manners. He’s managed to survive some of the most challenging diplomatic exchanges the FGIA has to offer and kept his stellar reputation intact. But nothing prepared him for escorting a wonderfully likable, exiled Nih’laiian dignitary back home to a palace bristling with intolerance. And when the truth suddenly shifts into something he never could have expected, he’s left blindsided by doubt. With authorities on all sides crying foul and several innocent lives hanging in the balance, the only thing Caz can do is jump in to help. He has to hope he won’t lose everything on a chance for redemption. Feeling like a complete failure, Uriberos Melandrach dreads arriving on Olm Caelora with every fiber of his being, despite the sworn duty he has to uphold as an imperial guard of the realm. His prince is stranded, in dire need of supplies, and Uri’s the only one who knows and can do anything about it. No matter the repercussions, he must go home. He must get help to Jen. He’s ready to sacrifice himself; he always has been. What he’s not ready for, though, is being tossed in the middle of the ambitious machinations he’s spent a lifetime avoiding. All he wants is to reconnect with his family, his people, the world he loves. Instead, he’s being used as a political pawn by the man he hates most, forced to assume another false identity to keep his loved ones safe. Though his heart urges him to fight and his soul begs him to resist, he’s stuck. He has far too much to lose this time. Allied against all odds, Caz and Uri can only feel their way through the treacherous web of greed with mutual trust and understanding. Despite their opposing cultures and backgrounds, they must come together to battle a common enemy in the name of intergalactic peace. If they fail, an alliance and an entire innocent world could be lost. If they succeed, though, they could find themselves on the wrong side of a royal execution. This work is intended for a mature audience and contains mature content. For a more comprehensive list of content tags, please see this book’s information page at the author’s website. Keywords: gay sci-fi romance, gay space opera, LGBTQ+ science fiction, mm gay romance, intergalactic travel, space exploration science fiction, future universe

Forgotten during the Stalin years, Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1885-1939) was rediscovered in his native Poland only after the liberalization of 1956, when his works came to play a major role in freeing the arts from socialist realism. This collection, the first anthology in English, presents Witkiewicz in the full range of his creative and intellectual activities. The Witkiewicz Reader includes excerpts from three novels; four complete plays; letters to Malinowski; and selections from aesthetic, social, and philosophical essays detailing Witkiewicz's theory of Pure Form, his metaphysical system, and his apocalyptic view of the fate of civilization.

The author has assembled a collection of 3,676 last words from a select group of individuals as they faced their approaching demise. This compilation illuminates a group of beings ranging from convicted criminals to the most holy. Some serenely committed their souls to a higher being while others railed against oncoming death. Many are famous, some are notorious, and others blur into a less well-defined subgroup. The majority of entries consist of final spoken words, but a few wills, epitaphs, diaries, and last letters are also included in this collection. A brief sketch of each person includes birth and death dates, country of origin, and a short biographical sketch. Farewells spoken after the turn of the twenty-first century ensure that this compilation has some of the most up-to-date material in this genre.