"One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate"--

Author, podcaster, and outdoor enthusiast Baratunde Thurston explores some of America's diverse landscapes, focusing on how these landscapes define our experience of nature.

"Near Death Experiences explores historical and present-day stories of NDEs. In addition to personal stories, the book relates scientific efforts to find the truth behind NDEs and whether they offer proof of life after death. Religious perspectives are also discussed in depth, including those from texts ranging from the Bible and the Quran to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as well as the possibility that answers might be discovered with the help of...

"Melvin Levin is dissatisfied-with his job, with life, with it all. He's too polite and too boring, and the monotony of his days is only broken when he has to clean up after his neighbor's frequently vomiting cat. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Under the thrill of potentially getting murdered, Melvin begins to feel truly alive again. The threat gives Melvin a sense of self-importance-someone wants him dead-and, ironically,...

"An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon--the rising number of unclaimed dead in America today--and what it says about the state of our society. For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters' fields--a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to avoid. Today, more and more relatives are abandoning their dead, leaving it to local governments to dispose of the bodies. Up...

"Morgan always knew her father, Owen, never murdered her mother...Finally he is set free, but they can no longer live in the house that was last decorated by her mother's blood. Salvation comes in the form of a tall, dark and notorious decorative granite tower on the Cornish coastline known only as 'The Folly'...At first the Folly is idyllic, but soon a stranger arrives who acts like Morgan's mother, talks like her mother, and wears her dead mother's...

"Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize in Economics. There's just one problem -he's dead. His four closest friends agree that the well-earned prize must stay within his grasp, and so they conspire to conceal Avishay's corpse until the committee's announcement. The potential of a glorious legacy for their late friend - and by extension, for them all - is a mere eight days away. What could go wrong? Their plan starts out simple: crank up the AC, take shifts...

"What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it"--

Returning home with her young son, Blue Shea, settling back into the community, is drawn time and time again to Enzo Castellari, her forbidden first love, and together they fight to find out the truth behind the destructive clash between their families to put the past behind them. Bluebelle Shea and Enzo Castellari are hardly more than children when they fall in love. Their families have been at war for years, and object. Hopeful plan for the future...

"On Día de los Muertos, a family prepares an ofrenda for their favorite furry family member, remembering all the ways that their beloved pet brought love and comfort to their lives"--