Something lives underneath the desert. And it's hunting. It was a peaceful day filled with thoughts of leaving home for college and poking around a scrap yard outside of town until Serenity Johnson comes face to face with a nightmare. Caught miles away from home when a giant beast attacks from under the desert sands, Serenity barely escapes with her life. But her fight is just beginning. With each attack, her despair grows until she finds Patch, the town drunk. He claims to understand the nature of the creature and is willing to help but, at every turn, someone is there to stop Serenity from accepting it. Tired of being treated like a child and under threat from a secret government agency interested in capturing the beast, Serenity soon finds herself as they key to their plans. Refusing them isn’t an option. A pawn in a much larger game, there appears to be no way out until Patch offers a solution. If he’s right, Serenity’s life will change forever. There’s only one way to save everyone in town, including her family, but she will have to give up everything she knows and loves. Fans of big monster horror will love this frightening tale.

This bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar E´douard Louis is both a searing j'accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his fatherHighly acclaimed for The End of Eddy, E´douard Louis in Who Killed My Father rips into France's long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French—at the minimum—of negligent homicide. "Racism," he quotes Ruth Gilmore, "is the exposure of certain groups to premature death." And Louis goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father—barely fifty years old, he can hardly walk or breathe: "You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death." It's as simple as that. But hand in hand with searing, specific denunciations are tender passages of a love story between a father and son badly damaged by shame, poverty and homophobia, but...

Enticed by the Highlander (The Moriag Series)

The shroud is lifted and truths too disturbing to believe are unveiled when an explosion at the town hall traps Tj under a pile of rubble as the walls of the building rain down around her. When the dust settles Tj is left wondering if you can ever really know another person or if the armor you see is simply an illusion created to conceal the lies that are buried beneath. While Tj struggles with the duplicity of someone she'd previously held dear, she is also forced to deal with the fact that two popular residents are dead with four others in the hospital clinging to life. As the remaining town council members struggle to rebuild from the ashes of what was lost, Tj commits to helping Roy find the individual responsible for this horrific event while trying to juggle an important life decision. - - - - - - - - - - - - - THANKSGIVING IN PARADISE by Kathi Daley | A Henery Press Mystery. If you love one, you'll probably love them all....

Impossible to put down and full of twists and turns you won't see coming! I loved this fabulous debut novel.' Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Nine Perfect StrangersHow can a child disappear from under the care of four playgroup mums?One Thursday morning, Lexie Parker dashes to the shop for biscuits, leaving Bella in the safe care of the other mums in the playgroup.Six minutes later, Bella is gone.Police and media descend on the tiny village of Merrigang on the edge of Canberra. Locals unite to search the dense bushland. But as the investigation continues, relationships start to fracture, online hate messages target Lexie, and the community is engulfed by fear.Is Bella's disappearance connected to the angry protests at Parliament House? What secrets are the parents hiding? And why does a local teacher keep a photo of Bella in his lounge room?What happened in those six minutes and where is Bella?The clock is ticking...This gripping novel will...