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"Once, Dan flew amongst the stars as a decorated Fleet Officer. Now destitute, he sleeps on the streets of Gleam, trading his body for a drug called Haze that dulls the pain of what he's lost with nothing left to his name but a battered knife, a damaged mind, and a past he can't escape. But he is given a rare second chance when former comrades track him down and make an offer that he never expected. Across the galaxy, the invisible lanes of faster-than-light...

"Reminiscent of the beloved novels by Mary Kubica and Jodi Picoult comes a chilling portrayal of a son's addiction and its harrowing effects on both him and his mother from New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole. There comes a time when offering your life for your child's doesn't work, when you realize that it'll never be enough. The cold needle in his warm vein was a welcome comfort to my son at first. But then it became the monster that...

"The next powerful chapter in Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller's beloved Bell Elkins series sends readers headlong into the thick of a mystery as young as today's headlines -- but as old as the mountains that hold these lives in a tight grip. How far would you go for someone you love? Would you die? Would you kill? After a three-year prison sentence, Bell Elkins is back in Acker's Gap. And she finds herself in the white-hot center of a complicated...

After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.

"When her newborn son, Providence, is taken by CPS, eighteen-year-old Bri Marshall is determined to do whatever it requires to get him back-with or without Providence's father. But hurdles like drug addiction complicate the process. Bri never expected to sink this low. What will it take to hold her baby in her arms again? Thirty-nine-year-old Laura Gambler, facing the big 4-0, is managing new challenges with her own children when she's asked to take...

"New York Times bestselling author Julia London returns with a story about forgiveness and second chances perfect for fans of The Wedding People and The Husbands. After forty-two years, Lorna Lott is ready to learn where she's going with her life--even if it means revisiting all the places she wishes she hadn't been. It'll be fine. Probably. Maybe"-- Provided by publisher. The impact of a person's addiction on family is traumatic and all consuming....

"Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives--or before they are found out. Relying on the island for sustenance and answers--bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious...

"At twenty-eight years old, Eli "Berg" Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn't push through--until a concussion leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town to seek space and time to recover, but soon finds himself breaking into homes in search of pills. Addled by addiction and chronic pain, Berg meets Alejandro, a reclusive master boatbuilder, and begins to see a...

The first three novels in the series, featuring a physician in the British countryside who knows all too well that death isn't always from natural causes . . . This three-in-one murder mystery collection, written by a former practicing physician praised for her "great characters" (Peter Boon, author of Who Killed Miss Finch? ), includes: Death by Appointment Dr. Cathy Moreland needs time to heal, having recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder...

When middle sister Ara lands in jail, her responsible twin Josie, fading rockstar sister Emma, and estranged mother Bertie must each confront past wounds and shifting roles as they navigate addiction, ambition, and the fragile bonds holding their fractured family together. "Josie may be the youngest sister, but she takes care of everyone. She is the left-brained scientist to her twin sisters' right-brained artistic chaos. She makes sure their rent...