Mavi has a second chance in life teaching at a remote boarding school recently reopened 60 years after it was closed. She’s not the only one running from her past, from the government that arrested her mother. The school is also running from the rumors around it’s original closure. About the sickness that swept it’s halls. As the weather turns cold, the house begins to morph and change, practically falling down upon the heads of its occupants, and the new students begin to complain of weird things happening at night. No one would question it if the staff wasn’t given a weird set of rules when they first arrived - no one is to leave their rooms at night. So who is visiting the girls? And who are the others Mavi is warned about? And why are there only nine girls when there’s meant to be ten? Compelled to help the girls and to figure out about her missing student, Mavi breaks the rules which tumbles her into the truth behind the school’s reopening.
Read MoreIn the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism. - IMDB
Read MoreLiving in the shadow of her mother’s past, Immanuelle tries her best to abide by the rules of her society. But as the other girls grow into themselves and are marked as brides, Immanuelle still feels different. Then one day, walking home from town with her goat, the worst happens. She goes into the forbidden Darkwood where she stumbles onto the very thing that haunts it - the witches. And these witches have a gift for her. The diary of her dead mother. A diary that spells out a curse. When the first curse is bestowed upon her home, Immanuelle tries to find a fix that just ends up leading her down to a path of questioning the society she was born into.
Read MoreWhen Enola Holmes-Sherlock's teen sister-discovers her mother missing, she sets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord. - IMDB
Read MoreAddie Larue just wants to live. To live beyond the borders of her little town. She can’t imagine living and dying in the same few square miles that her family and friends have done for generations. So when the night of her wedding arrives, she makes a deal with a god from the dark. A god that promises her life, but with a twist. She will never be remembered. For 300 years, Addie walks through life, always having a first meeting, but never being remembered beyond leaving the room. She steals and lies and fights to leave the tiniest impression of herself in the world until the day that she’s finally remembered by a boy in a bookshop.
Read MoreAfter an au pair’s tragic death, Henry hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. - IMDB
Read MoreHolland can’t stop listening to the subway performer. She’s even named him, floating down the steps every time that she knows he’ll be there, riding the subway when she doesn’t need to. Then her friend drags her to a bar and she sees the same man on stage. Could her actions be seen as stalking? Fate decides to bring them together anyway when she’s attacked in his subway station and then her uncle is desperate to find a replacement musician for his Broadway play. Holland wants to save the day more than anything, so when she finds out that the man in the station is actually undcumented, she offers a marriage proposal to help him and to save her uncle.
Read MoreThe peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves. - IMDB
Read MoreNo one knows what Kiera does with her free time. They don’t know that she’s created an online video game that’s over 500,000 strong. They don’t know that she’s created a safe gaming environment for black people. And they don’t know that she’s scared when one of the gamers winds up dead over a dispute about the game. As the news travels the world, bringing awareness to the very real fact that her game may be discriminating, Kiera struggles to show that she’s just wanting black people to feel like themselves for once. But then an unknown entity threatens to bring down everything that Kiera and the game stand for.
Read MoreAn insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. - IMDB
Read MoreLeila Tūs Salvatíraas, Savior of Thessen and magical Queen of Her realm, is worshiped by all. Except Her father. He wants Her dead. The Sovereign’s Tournament—a centuries-long tradition designed to select The Savior’s husband—is days away, but Brontes’s plan to overthrow his daughter ignites, shifting the objective of the competition from marriage to murder. With the help of Her sisters and some unexpected allies, Leila must unravel Brontes’s network and prevent Her own assassination. But as the body count rises, She learns the deception runs far deeper than She imagined. When She finds Herself falling for one of the tournament competitors, Her father finds himself another target for murder.
Can Leila save Herself and Her beloved, or is their untimely end—and the corruption of Her realm—inevitable?
TRIGGER WARNINGS: This book contains graphic violence, sexual situations, physical abuse, adult language, and references to suicide. - Goodreads
Read MoreA teenage sorceress named Nimue encounters a young Arthur on her quest to find a powerful and ancient sword. - IMDB
Read MoreSometimes it seems like Usagi is hopeless. Sure, she's good with healing herbs, but she's the granddaughter of the leader of a prestigious ninja village and she's such a klutz that she's never made it out of the kiddie class. Finally frustrated with Usagi's lack of progress, her grandfather sends her to marry a local lord and have lots of ninja babies. But the lord has no interest in her or her child bearing potential! After years of goofing around, Usagi is finally determined to reach her goals--she's going to become a ninja and capture her true love's heart! - Goodreads
Read MoreRon Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events. - IMDB
Read MoreSold to a debtor’s ship to pay off her family’s debt, Amaya is almost free when she makes the decision to defy her captain and save a man from drowning. That act of rebellion costs her her ticket off the ship. Jumping overboard to escape her debtor’s life, the man she saves offers her the one thing she wants more than freedom - revenge. The pair team up together with plans to take down the same man that has ruined both of their lives. Disguising herself as a Countess in hopes of becoming friends with the man’s son, the son soon discovers his own secrets, ones that he hopes he can use to save his sick sister. That is until Amaya and his world tangle together in a spectacular fashion.
Read MoreFred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster. - IMDB
Read MorePainting may seem like the best career for an extremely talented artist like Isobel, but not when your clients are the dangerous faerie who will try anything to trick you. Still, they need humans to do craft. Isobel takes great care with each of her clients, making sure to use their payment to protect her family. That is, until she angers one of her most important clients, Rook, by painting him as she sees him. Rook will not have it. Kidnapping her in the middle of the night to stand trial for her crimes, they end up far from their intended destination, realizing that the very thing Isobel painted, is the truth that lies beneath Rook’s glamored skin.
Read MoreThe story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancée's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home. - IMDB
Read MoreFour years…. It’s been four years of Fable scraping together whatever she could with her own two hands, trying to survive since she was dumped on the shores of Jeval with nothing but a wicked scare down her arm and a plan to find the man that put it there, her dad. All she needs to do is survive a little longer while she dives for gems that can bring her the coin she needs to buy passage off the island. It looks like she might do just that until the men on the island stop ignoring her and want what she scrounged together. Being chased off the island, Fable runs to the one ship she knows, a ship that’s always traded with her, begging for passage to finally start the search for what’s owed to her - a place on her father’s ship, the most notorious trader. A man with a reputation that follows him everywhere.
Read MoreEarly 1970s. Four strangers check in at the El Royale Hotel. The hotel is deserted, staffed by a single desk clerk. Some of the new guests' reasons for being there are less than innocent and some are not who they appear to be. - IMDB
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