When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of "the African"--Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Rootsspeaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.

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Ever since Annie's mother died she has been nursing her elderly father in her home, tending to his every need, and she is devastated when the inevitable happens and he too passes away. However, she is able to console herself with happy memories of a man who was always there for her and was perhaps the only man in her sixty-three-year life who never let her down. So when an inconsistency of wedding dates leads her to question every memory she holds dear, her whole life is shattered by the discovery that the man she spent her whole life looking up to was not her real father.As Annie tries to negotiate the grief, anger and betrayal that she is experiencing, it falls to her eldest daughter, Suzie, to pursue the truth and delve into the controversial family past, hidden in secret letters, dusty war records and a neglected headstone. As Annie becomes less and less able to cope, the pressure for Suzie to deliver an explanation rises and she can only hope that the truth is enough to...

Rose and her men are under attack. Does she have the strength to protect them, or will she and her loves be the first to fall in a battle against an unknown enemy. Returned to the Phósopoi, Rose thought she found a safe place with her Kladí. But with one of theirs attacked and now in a coma, they’re desperate to find an answer that will bring him back to them. Secrets will be revealed, and Rose will once again be called upon to test what she thought she knew about herself, and her men. A new adult, whychoose romance featuring one tough heroine and six sexy men with special abilities.

Caroline Lockhart was a 20th century American journalist best known for writing Westerns, based in part on her own life experiences in places like Wyoming.

A tale of two mothers, each desperate to protect her child. But only one of them can succeed. And only one of them knows why.—-The Bone Roots is a salvic-folklore inspired fantasy that explores how far a mother will go to protect her child…It’s been 40 years since the Fox took Kada’s brother. Though she ran and kept herself hidden, she fears it may be stalking her again, this time to steal her daughter.Every year, Vedma Kada gives thanks to the bone roots – those that belong to the child-bearing tree who gave Kada her desperately-wanted baby, Secha. Kada lives her life in service of the bone roots and the goddess Zemya, but they cannot keep her daughter safe. Not when Secha’s emerging powers, both mysterious and brutish, threaten to out her for who she truly is…Meanwhile Sladyana, a rich noblewoman, has spent the last fifteen years searching for her missing...

Follow the river Liss to the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, and meet two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death. “Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath.” In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family. There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than the family’s latest daughters, Esther and Ysabel, who cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees. But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favor of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters’ bond but also their lives will be at risk…

When a turbulent storm raises an island from the sea, Dew, a lost traveller searching for her missing people, finds herself stranded near the idyllic village of Rosecloud. In this new and changed world she meets Demi, the sole human living in Rosecloud, who has pledged to defend her friends against a deadly horror that stalks the streets at night. With the island threatening to sink beneath the waves again, Dew has little time to convince Demi to overcome her deep mistrust of humanity, a fear that has since hardened with its mysterious disappearance. Can the two girls work together to uncover the island's dark secrets and save Rosecloud from the threat it faces? The Hearts Beyond Our Roots is a creative, illustrated fantasy story about friendship and growing up, over 70 unique illustrations.

Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the villainous (or perhaps just misunderstood) ‘killer plant’ in fiction, film and video games. 
Step within to marvel at Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s giant wistaria and H. G. Well’s hungry orchid; hear the calls of the ethereal women of the wood, and the frightful drone of the moaning lily; and do tread carefully around E. Nesbit’s wandering creepers… 
Every strain of vegetable threat (and one deadly fungus) can be found within this new collection, representing the very best tales from the undergrowth of Gothic fiction.

Book 2 of The Shifter Chronicles.From the Back CoverIf there's one thing Warlock Marcus Shifter hates it's the Delwinn Council, the governing body of the magical community. Between the grudges many on the Council harbor because he walked away from magic, and his suspicions that someone is working to undermine a twenty-year peace with the non-magical Normals, they really don't get along.  Marcus has spent months hunting the traitor, infiltrating the Council and helping with "menial tasks" like repairing unstable rifts in the fabric of reality. But when he accidentally thwarts an assassination attempt at Delwinn HQ, the Council does the unthinkable: they appoint him the poster child for the peace movement. Now Marcus has to not only figure out how to control his resurging powers but also navigate the potentially fatal waters of fame. Between the growing number of protestors, news-hungry paparazzi, and nightmarish beasts hounding his every move, he'll need more than a camera-ready smile to uncover the traitor and keep the peace.  And don't miss Undead Chaos, available now!

The myth of Persephone (and Hades), narrated by herself. There is nothing that regards me, despite this being my story. What is told is about the passion of my husband, the desperation of my mother, of my father’s decision. It speaks about the suffering of the mortals and of the rites once followed, so that what happened would never again be repeated. There are stories that run parallel and in contrast, they recount suggestive details, but anything about me, of what happened to me, it seems they knew too little. And yet this was my story. This is not the story of Hades, the lord of the Underworld, of the souls of the dead and of all that grows underground. Nor is it the story of Demeter, Mother Earth who, in the world of research, was her only daughter, lost in the darkness of Erebus; and certainly, it is not a story about Zeus, who allowed all this to happen, until the mortals forgot, as a result of their own mortality, what they had to do. They are also here in this story, but it is not their story. It is mine. It is the story of the goddess of spring and the queen of the Avernus, the strife between the two worlds, until that suffering forced me to make a choice. Almost nothing is known of what this means, for everyone. At least it made the world what it is.  This is because I am the queen of the flowers and roots. I am Persephone. Genre: FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology Secondary Genre: FICTION / Fantasy / Epic Language: Italian/English

From New York Times and USAToday bestselling author Jean Brashear comes the first book in a new Gallaghers series, The Gallaghers of Sweetgrass Springs: Jean Brashear writes with warmth and emotional truth. The depth of her understanding of human nature marks her as a writer to watch. ~Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Margaret O’Brien’s life is about to change. Growing up in the small town of Grace’s Cove, Margaret never knew that she was different. She didn’t understand why people were unnerved by her ability to see what others could not. When her mother explains that she is special, gifted, her world shifts forever. Desperately wanting to be normal, Margaret is determined to seal that part of herself away. It seems as though she might succeed – until Sean Burke steps into her life. Sean is an apprentice on a fishing boat and is pursuing his dream of running his own fishing business. Tales of the fish pulled from the rumored-to-be-enchanted cove are legendary across Ireland, and Sean is determined to learn its secrets. What he doesn't expect is to be blindsided by his love for Margaret. Helpless to stop loving Sean, but unable to confess to her shameful secret, Margaret must face the truth about herself – or run away from it forever. From New York Times Bestselling author, Tricia O'Malley, comes a new romance series set on the rocky shores of Ireland.

"Just like you can't know when you'll die, you can't tell how long we've lived."A multigenerational commune in a walled estate, the Colony has been a fixture in the small Pacific Northwest town for over a hundred years. When Sammy O'Doul impulsively trespasses, he watches a strange ritual, where an old woman is dug up alive from the forest. Before he can escape the grounds, he's surprised by Walt, a strangely simple old man, who tells him that the scene is not what it appears. With the help of his friend John, Sammy learns the surprising secrets of the Colony and its peaceful members and helps to defend it from both human enemies and the forces of nature.Cover art by Chesley Award-winning artists Cory and Catska Ench.

A Wild and Captivating Ride from Bestselling British Author James Forrester:"A whale of a yarn...a winner for any reader who loves historical, action-packed novels." —KirkusYour Choice. Your Faith. Your Fate.1564: Catholic herald William Harley, known as Clarenceux, guards a highly dangerous document. It's a manuscript he'd rather not have—destruction and death have followed in its wake. But things get much worse when the document is stolen, and he plunges into a nightmare of suspicion, deception, and conspiracy. As England teeters on the brink of a bloody conflict, Clarenceux knows the fate of the country and countless lives hang in the balance. The roots of betrayal are deep and shocking, and the herald's journey toward the truth entails not just the discovery of clues and signs, but also of himself.In this brilliant new Elizabethan conspiracy from the internationally acclaimed author of Sacred Treason, faith and fear...

Morgan Matson meets Maggie Stiefvater in a story that will make you believe in friendship, miracles, and maybe even magic. Cottonwood Hollow, Kansas, is a strange place. For the past century, every girl has been born with a special talent, like the ability to Fix any object, Heal any wound, or Find what is missing.To best friends Rome, Lux, and Mercy, their abilities often feel more like a curse. Rome may be able to Fix anything she touches, but that won't help her mom pay rent. Lux's ability to attract any man with a smile has always meant danger. And although Mercy can make Enough of whatever is needed, even that won't help when her friendship with Rome and Lux is tested.Follow three best friends in this enchanting debut novel as they discover that friendship is stronger than curses, that trust is worth the risk, and sometimes, what you've been looking for has been under your feet the whole time.