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At 17, Karen Chen has already achieved what some girls can only dream of - and it's only the beginning for her. The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, she began figure skating at five. Ten years and many grueling training sessions later, she won a bronze medal at the 2015 US Championships after sustaining a nearly career-ending ankle fracture a year earlier. In 2017, she became the US National Champion, winning gold twice and receiving the highest score ever recorded for the short program at the US National level.

Through poetry, prose, and the compassionate encouragement you would expect from someone who knows exactly what you're working through, Sparacino is here with the words you need. The Strength in Our Scars tackles the gut-wrenching but relatable experiences of moving on, self-love, and ultimately learning to heal. In this book you will find peace, you will find a rock, you will find understanding, and you will find hope.  

After a long, cold, and snowy winter it looks as though spring may be arriving early in North Harbor. Sarah Grayson is busy at her store, Second Chance, and she's looking forward to an afternoon break from the hustle and bustle, tagging along to an open house with her friend, Detective Michelle Andrews. But it turns out the house has a haunted history, and when a ghost hunter is found dead on the premises, Sarah knows the best way to arrive at a solution is by looking into the not-so-dearly departed.

Babies could learn how to cook; they could learn how to sew; they could learn to drive baby cars to and fro! From running barber shops to styling everyone in the latest diaper fashion, just think of all the chaos babies could cause if we let them loose in the library! Books can teach us anything we want to know. Can we really trust babies with that power?

It's time to embrace your inner crone! Tap into the wisdom of age and learn how to take up space, do as you please, shake off expectations, and live life on your own terms. If you've been looking for permission and encouragement to stop clinging to youth and propriety, The Crone Zone is here to help you step into your full bog witch power.

Fifteen years after her troubled daughter Julie ran away from home, Beth Sawyer stumbles across a newspaper photograph of an up-and-coming teen golfer, who not only shares her last name, but also looks just like her daughter. Sky Sawyer couldn’t possibly be her granddaughter—or could she? With her sort-of-functional life sinking into a full on mulligan—and let’s not get started on her soon-to-be-married ex-husband—Beth meets Barry, a fellow golfer who she accidentally hits with her golf ball and who might just be Mr. Right.

Sun (check). Fun (check). Friends (check). Tortures of junior high (on hold!) Get ready to jump into summer with Lizzie McGuire in A Very Lizzy Summer and A Totally Hottie Summer! A Very Lizzy Summer It’s summertime and the living is sweet. Well, it’s gonna be if Lizzie finishes at the top...

Jessie, a starry-eyed girl from rural Texas, moves to New York City and soon finds herself living in a multi-million dollar penthouse as the nanny to four children and a seven-foot pet lizard. With Jessie’s help, this incredibly loving family stays connected and close. This collection contains...

Ciao, Lizzie! After suffering complete and total humiliation at her junior high graduation, there’s only one thing Lizzie wants to do—leave the country! Luckily, she’s off on a class trip to Rome, where she meets hot Italian pop star Paolo Valisari. Lizzie’s in heaven. Even better, it...

Life just got a whole lot better for fans of the hit Disney Channel show, Lizzie McGuire. In My Very First Way Cool Boxed Set, the first four volumes of the novelizations are collected. And, lest you think four volumes means only four episodes, think again. Each book comprises two related...

You can’t choose your family or your destiny or your legacy. But once upon a time, a woman named Ava St. James had tried to build happiness upon the remains of her broken heart. For better or worse. Decades later, the Bakers are headed for a perfect family vacation. A full month at a house by the lake; the house passed down from a mysterious aunt no one ever talks about. Love and good intentions aside, what begins like a relaxing vacation turns into a nightmare as each of the Bakers’ nerves slowly but steadily begin to wear away at the edges.

Brought to you by Penguin. "We had a chance, and we were going to hold onto it with both hands." THE NEW TEAR JERKER FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A THOUSAND BOY KISSES AND A THOUSAND BROKEN PIECES . . . Seventeen-year-old June Scott has always dreamt of becoming a novelist. To write...

In this electric horror novel from the author of The Insatiable Volt Sisters, an exhausted mother thinks her newborn might be a monster. She’s right. Thea’s third pregnancy was her easiest. She wasn’t consumed with anxiety about the baby. She wasn’t convinced it was going to be born...

Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room—her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own room instead, and her wild baby brother, Max, moves into the room she already shares with her clinging sister Pearl!

Seventeen-year-old Phoebe was never interested in her birth family. But on the cusp of her high school graduation, her adoptive mother, Greta, insists on a visit to meet her biological parents and siblings. The encounter is a jolt, a revelation that derails Phoebe. With the help of her best friend Luna, Phoebe runs away—as far as their friend Patrick O’Connor’s chaotic home, where she hopes to go unnoticed among his thirteen siblings. What begins as an adolescent rebellion soon spirals into a whirlwind of transformation and self-discovery.

Still grieving his toddler’s death, Detective Dan Brennan of the Philadelphia P.D. returns to the force and is assigned to investigate a socialite’s fatal fall down her mansion’s staircase. But the open-and-shut case is turned on its head when the victim’s daughter alleges her mother was murdered. Her evidence? The dead. The vintage photographs of past murder victims displayed on the mansion’s walls have told her so.

From the New York Times bestselling author, a gripping psychological thriller about a woman whose attempt to shake up her life may cost her everything. Bold and adventurous in her work as owner of one of Manhattan's boutique interior design firms, Kit Finn couldn't be tamer in her personal life...

From three-time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer L. Holm, a chilling but heartfelt story of a girl being raised in a compound who doesn't understand how isolated and unusual her life is...until she must encounter the outside world.

Nurse Nellie Lester thinks she can escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit manor on a desolate Michigan island. She’s convinced the island holds the secret to her family’s murky past. Soon after her arrival, the frozen body of the prior nurse is unearthed. Haunted nightly by a ghostly presence, Nellie is convinced the nurse’s murder and her father’s fate are connected and dives into the mystery.

‘Chilling’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Tom Ripley, eat your heart out’ NPR ‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN A chilling, captivating novel about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charming, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school. Who is Francis...