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The Happy Holidays Players-a renowned acting troupe-is coming to town and Hemlock Cove is bursting with excited residents who want parts in the winter festival. That includes the three Winchester matriarchs, who are vying with one another for top billing. Bay Winchester doesn't care about the pageant, but she's more than happy to sit back and watch the shenanigans. That is until her husband Landon Michaels calls with a request for her help. It seems there was a prison break twenty minutes away ... and more than a handful of inmates are on the run. Bay, Landon, and Hemlock Cove Police Chief Terry Davenport make up their own search party. What becomes apparent fairly quickly, however, is that some of the inmates are magically enhanced. By whom, though? Each subsequent battle results in a tougher takedown, and as Bay delves deeper into the mystery of a guard who may have helped the fleeing inmates, she finds herself entrenched in a fight to the death. Bay and Landon are looking forward to their first holiday season as a married couple. They're desperate for some downtime and holiday cheer. To get it, they're going to have to survive a magical onslaught that seems to be pointed at their family more and more with each passing day. Bay might be able to call the dead to battle for her, but this is a war between the living ... and both sides are going to go down fighting. Here comes trouble. There's no going back.

Bay Winchester has battled ghosts, shades, poltergeists ... and sometimes her own family. It's the latter giving her fits now. Well, and Hemlock Cove's younger set of course.Bay thought the worst was behind her when she modified the memories of four tempestuous teenagers bent on stealing magic and wielding it in a tyrannical manner. Unfortunately for her, when one of those teenagers ends up dead behind the inn her father owns, things start to spiral.The girl's death is ritual in fashion, bloody runes painted on the trees, and Bay can't wrap her head around exactly what has happened. Then things get worse when dark figures start appearing in windows, black ghosts threatening Bay and her family at every turn.Between the horror haunting Hemlock Cove and the annoying presence of Bay's former boss and his current fiancée, who just so happens to be a distant relative, Bay has her hands full ... and that's before her cousin Clove's baby starts displaying a rather interesting skillset that is going to force accommodations within the family.All Bay wants is a little break to plan her wedding and look forward to happily ever after with her fiancé Landon Michaels. What's she's going to get is a whole lot of trouble.Bay's growing powers are drawing in a new element of evil. It's going to take everything she has - and a little help from Aunt Tillie - to fight the ultimate battle. Survival isn't a given but Bay is determined to make it to her big day.No matter what.

Bay Winchester is living the high life. She's engaged, owns her own business, and is undergoing a magical transformation, complete with growing powers at every turn. All that changes when a local teenager goes missing at a festival and nobody knows who took her.The girl's friends saw the abduction but the description they provide doesn't match anybody in town. The only other witness is Marcus, her cousin Thistle's boyfriend, and he was seriously injured in the attack and can't provide additional information.Bay is determined to solve the case, although she's not sure where to look. On top of that, her normal partner in crime is otherwise engaged, which means her mother has decided to tag along for the ride.Bay is the sort of witch who is willing to put herself on the line to save those who need saving. Unfortunately, this time around, the answers she finds only lead to more questions. On top of that, her great-aunt Willa and cousin Rosemary have arrived in town out of nowhere and they seem to be harboring their own secrets, and it's something that could change the entire trajectory of Bay's life.The Winchesters are loyal, and it's going to take all of them working together to solve this one. It seems new magic is afoot, and whoever is wielding it is deadly.Magic, mystery and mayhem are about to collide. Batten down the hatches. The Winchesters are about to take you on a wild ride.

Roald Dahl meets Eva Ibbotson in this hilarious middle grade debut * "Fifth-grader Rupert Campbell lives in a world that combines Roald Dahl’s Witches and Louis Sachar’s Wayside School. Readers will banish themselves from the ordinary world to finish this book in a flash." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review Rupert Campbell is fascinated by the witches who live nearby. He dreams of broomstick tours and souvenir potions, but the closest he can get to a witchy experience is sitting in class with his awful teacher Mrs. Frabbleknacker, who smells like bellybutton lint and forbids Rupert’s classmates from talking to each other before, during, and after class. So when he sees an ad to become a witch’s apprentice, Rupert simply can’t resist applying. But Witchling Two isn’t exactly what Rupert expected. With a hankering for lollipops and the magical aptitude of a toad, she needs all the help she can get to pass her exams and become a full-fledged witch. She’s determined to help Rupert stand up to dreadful Mrs. Frabbleknacker too, but the witchling's magic will be as useful as a clump of seaweed unless Rupert can figure out a way to help her improve her spellcasting—and fast!

Witches are descending on Hemlock Cove and the town is gearing up for mayhem. Bay Winchester is ready to cover the event for her newspaper, and is excited to see faces she hasn't interacted with in more than a decade.Then the unthinkable happens.The local blacksmith shop catches fire and Bay and her cousin Thistle risk death to try and rescue the owner. Unfortunately, they're too late, and the man is unable to be resuscitated. Not only that, but it wasn't the fire that killed him. No, he was murdered.Bay can't shake the feeling that something bad is about to happen. Harbingers of the feathered variety are filling the sky ... and threatening attack. Dark magic is at work, and someone is plotting multiple deaths.It's up to Bay and her family to save the day, and they have to do it before cousin Clove gets married on the summer solstice. It's a big day for the family, and a big moment for Bay. She's the center of attention as the clock ticks down, the weight of the world on her shoulders.The Winchesters won't sit back and wait for a fight to come to them, they'll go after the fight ... and this is no exception. As death comes calling, they will answer.Sit back and enjoy the ride. Love, marriage, death, and destruction are about to collide. You won't want to miss a thing.

A collection of more than fifty stories about witches from around the world. There are tales of banshees, crones and beauties in disguise from China, Siberia, the Caribbean, Armenia, Portugal and Australia. The characters featured include Italy's Witch Bea-Witch, Lilith, Kali, and Twitti Glyn Hec. Alluring women, enchantresses, wise old ladies and bewitching women: they are all here and ready to haunt, entice, possess, transform, challenge - and sometimes even to help.

"Witches" is a fully illustrated history of witchcraft and the black arts, written by the well-known authority on the occult, Colin Wilson, and illustrated by the established artist Una Woodruff, who also has a particular interest in the subject and a special talent for portraying atmosphere in her excellent artwork. Witches are discussed and revealed in this book from the earliest times with the Witch of Endor and Merlin through medieval witch cults to the modern day faith healers and wart charmers. All aspects of the subject are covered - including witch trials, black masses, spells, voodoo, covens and rituals, psychic powers and possession, earth spirts and werewolves. -- Book jacket.