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The Last Car Home
Nora Ellis has built a workable life from deadlines, motherhood, and carefully managed expectations. After a disastrous blind date and a late ride on a historic San Francisco streetcar, she meets a guarded operator whose sharp humor keeps colliding with her need for honesty. Across work, friendship, parenting, grief, and modern dating, every choice asks what she is willing to call love—and what she refuses to lose to keep it.Open this volumeThe Space Between Houses
Ten-year-old Owen lives mostly with Mom and visits Dad at a new apartment forty-five minutes away. While both parents concentrate on rebuilding their separate lives, Owen quietly carries missed promises, adult messages, and a frightening suspicion that the divorce was somehow his fault. In a vivid dream world between two distant houses, a lantern-bearing Fox and a nest-building Bird help Owen find the words to tell the truth: a child can love two parents, live in two homes, and still remain entirely whole.Open this volumeStar Trek: The Farline — No Safe Course
Fresh from Starfleet Academy, a young Trill ensign joins a Defiant-class vessel being refitted for frontier rescue work. When neglected settlements and a former Starfleet engineer seize the ship's experimental shield network, every lawful course carries a human cost.Open this volumeThe Children Who Dreamed North
Five children in five countries grow up with impossible private experiences. As war, migration, surveillance, and family secrets draw them toward a black lake in upstate New York, they discover a shared face, a shared birth second, and a mystery older than human history.Open this volumeThe Road to Rain City
After a hawk takes the mother who kept them safe, four young kittens leave a ruined Montana mountain town carrying only an old photograph and her stories of Seattle. Their westward journey crosses burned cities, wild rivers, and reawakened forests, testing what they owe one another and what it means to stay brave when the world is both cruel and beautiful.Open this volumeSmoke over Bywater
In the occupied Shire, a young mapmaker named Tobin Bramble discovers a hidden road network while struggling to be understood by neighbors who value his gifts more readily than his differences. His choices through resistance, recovery, friendship, and public heartbreak determine what kind of adventurer crosses the final threshold.Open this volume
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