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When the war-scarred Viscount Penrydd washes up in 1799 Newport minus his memory, Gwenllian ap Ewyas decides not to tell him he owns, and threatened to sell, the property she's made a refuge for her and other lost souls. Gwen found healing from her haunted past by making St. Sefin's into a sanctuary for the hurt and abandoned, and she'll do anything to preserve the place-including lie to the English lord who owns it until she can win him to ...

For fans of The Seven Day Switch, The Mix Up, and Freaky Friday, a body-swapping comedy about what it's like to see the world through another's eyes . . . Beth Barony is content with her middle-class, Middle America life. Really, she is. But she makes a tiny, secret birthday wish for more excitement in her life . . . and wakes up the next morning as Regan Forrester, a troubled young actor known for her rebellious smolder and empty head. What c...

An intensely imagined third collection from an author whose work has been hailed as "exceptional, " "extraordinary, " "uncanny, " and "refreshing, compelling, and moving." Urban is a "great storyteller" who writes "almost unbearably lovely prose." What unites the unlikely protagonists in these very different short stories is their search for refuge. In the opening story, "The Day of the Beheaded Barbie, " the reappearance of an old friend push...

The Necessaries: Stories is a collection of short tales that will introduce readers to a group of characters you can't help but fall in love with as they live outrageously through what we all do only to come out the other end with a better view of that which truly holds importance, to them.

If woman was already considered a baser being inmedieval English literary culture, then what explainsthe monstrous women--part-animal, ormagically-empowered--who function as typical romanceheroines? If the monstrous women simply dramatize theconventions of medieval misogyny, then why do so manyof them found dynasties, establish empires, and fillthe royal seats across Europe with their offspring? A closer look at the figures of Constance, Medea...