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Nora Collins works at the Postponement Center helping parents coordinate the controversial cryonic preservation of their newborn babies. Sometimes a choice for medical reasons, but more often because of career or educational obligations, financial aspirations, or due to parental immaturity. Past child-bearing years herself, Nora secretly atones for past decisions by living a solitary life. She develops a questionable, borderline addictive, relationship with the frozen neonates, frequently watching them and communicating with them in their crypod units.

Every choice you make carries a consequence. What if your consequence was an unwanted pregnancy? Theresa graciously agrees to share part of her life for a biographical paper being written by two high school students. She surprises her unsuspecting interviewers with stories of a broken childhood, tales of love found and lost, and the strength summoned to make the hardest decision of her life.

All her life, Christa has hidden her powers from the world. Blending into a human city has kept her family safe so far, but she fears their luck is running out. The man ruling the regions built his kingdom and his reputation on the annihilation of Christa’s people. And now, he’s heading to her sanctuary. Mind and body shattered by the sadistic General’s unceasing torture, Alice longs for freedom.

Ashley Hope is an average Southern woman, happily engaged - until dark secrets from her past tear her life apart. On track to join the state police’s violent crimes division, Ashley is assigned to a case near her hometown: A female 22-year-old meth addict has been found murdered. Can it be the work of a serial killer?

Ashley Hope is an average Southern woman, happily engaged—until dark secrets from her past tear her life apart. Now a member of Tennessee’s state police’s violent crimes division, Ashley is summoned when victims are found murdered in a similar way within the same geographical area. In a mad race against time before the killer strikes again, Ashley must enter the killer’s mind and understand: What do these murders have in common? Where will he strike next?

Ashley Hope is an average Southern woman, happily engaged—until dark secrets from her past tear her life apart. Now a member of Tennessee’s State Police’s Violent Crimes Division, Ashley must enter a murderer’s mind and follow a serial killer’s mysterious trail of victims through toxic waste sites. But could Ashley be next?

Ashley Hope is an average Southern woman, happily engaged, her whole life ahead of her, until dark secrets from her past come bubbling up. She soon finds herself in a race against time to save herself - and her marriage - from her ex-husband turned serial killer, who will stop at nothing until he has her back.

Ashley Hope is an average Southern woman, happily engaged, her whole life ahead of her—until dark secrets from her past come bubbling up.

With a string of unsolved murders up and down the Mississippi River, the FBI assembles a task force, assigning their best Minnesota field agent, Grace Ford, to partner with an agent from their Louisiana office. Despite their culture clash, the two must work together to traverse the country cracking the hardest cases—and stop the next killer before it’s too late.

Angel is a small-town veterinarian with a horny secret. Everly is a stressed-out manager on vacation who just found a darling baby dragon. He knows they were made for each other. But a few things stand between them and true love, namely...

As the General teaches his new queen how to thirst for blood, a long-lost, powerful race scrambles to crown and accept a queen of their own, knowing if they wait any longer, they’ll be forgotten forever. One queen embraces her place in a cruel world. The other longs to recreate a world that accepts her people. Somewhere between the luxuries of being queen and the betrayals of those around them, both queens must choose: Forget the power coursing through their veins and lose themselves, or stand up against a kingdom that's hunted their kind since before they were born.

Narrated by 11-year-old Orla Gwen Gleason, Orla’s Canvas opens on Easter Sunday, in St. Suplice, Louisiana, a “misspelled town” north of New Orleans, and traces Orla's dawning realization that all is not as it seems in her personal life or in the life of her community. The death of St. Suplice’s doyenne, Mrs. Bellefleur Dubois Castleberry, for whom Orla’s mother keeps house, reveals Orla’s true paternity, shatters her trust in her beloved mother, and exposes her to the harsh realities of class and race in the Civil Rights-era South.

Ashley Hope is an average Southern woman, happily engaged—until dark secrets from her past tear her life apart. Now a member of Tennessee’s State Police’s Violent Crimes Division, Ashley is assigned a frightening new case: victims of a new serial killer are being found deep in rural country, a terrain that Ashley knows all too well—and to which she vowed to never return.

Ashley Hope is an average Southern woman, happily engaged—until dark secrets from her past tear her life apart. Now a member of Tennessee’s State Police’s Violent Crimes Division, Ashley is summoned when a serial killer’s trail leads them through farm country.

The General’s experiment worked, and he once again has the upper hand. Determined to reestablish his control in his kingdom, The General uses a new, unknown power to remove the threat to his crown. Oblivious to her husband’s manic slaughter, Cerynn seeks out her own people, longing to unite the Àraid and Rak and end the war. She’s forced to confront her own power-hungry decisions face to face as she steps into the Àraid world, and realizes she must pick a side once and for all.

After a prisoner begs for their life and is granted mercy by The General, his queen is forced to confront her rising jealousy. Jealousy over this prisoner lying for his favor. Jealousy over the mistress he obsesses over. Jealousy that everyone is more powerful than she is. The mounting need to prove her worth distorts the world around her, and blinds her to the powerful position her husband has given her. While the young queen grapples with this urgency to secure the crown upon her head, another kingdom slowly falls into decay waiting for their own ruler to step up and fight for them.

It’s been 10 years since Payton Thatcher’s twin sister died in an accident, leaving the entire family to cope in whatever ways they could. No longer half of a pair, Payton reinvents herself as a partner in a successful party-planning business and is doing just fine - as long as she manages to hold her memories and her family at arm’s length.

By exploring their inner and outer experiences, scavenger hunts, and a gigantic jar of jellybeans, listeners are engaged as the students’ time in the classroom overflows into daily challenges of life. Through engaging and promising lifelike encounters from bullies to four-legged companions, there are interesting lessons that are fictitious yet believable and many of which happened in a similar way. A diverse method of teaching social-emotional learning while fostering a growth mindset for all listeners.

It is my father’s fault that I love soccer so much. He doesn’t know much about girls, but as a former professional soccer player, we built a bond as he perfected my skills. My aunties have kept an extra eye on me since my mother died. I’ve avoided their insistence on dance classes that would take precious time away from my beloved girls’ soccer team.

These 16 short tales delve into realms of existential investigation, from dark horror and science fiction futures to fantastical flights of scientific wonder. Each story is a self-contained world of its own, a moment in time that illuminates a thought, a person, an experience or a curiosity.