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Before now, a corset used to be to a fashion staple for women. The corset has made a surprising comeback and has gained worldwide acceptance - cheers - thanks in part to personalities like Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Dita Von Teese, Jessica Alba, and Jennifer Garner. The female folks are dressing up with the goal of remodeling their physique and cinching inches from their waistlines. This practice is commonly called "waist training", and it's done to enhance beauty and sex appeal.

Adopted by a loving owner of a children's home, Gloria still had a lot to overcome. She had a terrible secret she didn't want anyone to know that explained why her face was droopy on one side. She was kept out of school to protect her from bullies, but she wanted to learn to read more than anything in the world. She felt she had no one to turn to until a magical unicorn named Sir Louie befriends her. Can he help her learn to love and accept herself?

This play, which bears an alternate title of What You Will, was written in about 1602. Twelfth Night has always been one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, and many adaptations have been made for film and musical theatre.

Filled with humor and inspirational essays, this meticulously researched book strikes at the heart of intolerance. Only through meaningful and heartfelt discussions with conservative Christians can hearts and minds change, and this book by Darren Main will help you start the conversation. It is an indispensable tool for supporters of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, as well as Christians striving to be more compassionate and understanding.

Discover how to relieve stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and fear. Are stress and anxiety constants in life? Does anger explode for little or no reason? Is depression ever-present and does happiness seem like a distant memory? Sadly, for many, these are common problems. The way modern life is lived, with the demands placed on our personal and working lives, can often seem overwhelming. But there is a solution to it.

Haroun became infamous throughout 12th century Europe for his skill at combat, only rivaled by his notoriety as the land's favorite killer-for-hire. Haroun's actions have gained him everything he's ever desired. But after years of killing without question, he begins to follow his conscience after meeting Gabriella. Gabriella of Mordo, daughter to a powerful ruler, was to be married to a stranger, but has shunned the life of a lady, instead studying warfare and combat with the goal to fight in the Crusades.

Santa's Christmas schedule has run into a major problem - all his reindeer, even the heroic Rudolph, are too ill to fly. However, a promising solution to Santa's dilemma is offered from an unlikely source - the eccentric elf Melvin.

At the opening of this late Shakespearean drama, Polixenes, the king of Bohemia, has been the longtime guest of Leontes and Hermione, the king and queen of Sicily. When the time comes for Polixenes to leave, Leontes urges him to stay longer. At first Polixenes refuses, but soon he yields to the entreaties of Hermione. His rapid change of mind convinces Leontes that the two are lovers and that Polixenes is the father of Hermione's unborn child.

A small town girl from the Midwest is carried away by her "Prince Charming" to the super charged canyons of modern New York City. Warned by her uptight advertising executive husband to beware of strangers, the newlywed cannot repress her small town upbringing and instinctive innocence. She eventually befriends many of the offbeat and quirky tenants in her apartment building and enters into their complicated and sometimes tragic lives.

Troy Utter is a successful man who can afford exotic tastes - including an appetite for controlling his "pet" Puppet, a beautiful submissive. Most of the time, Puppet tries to behave and Master doesn't have to punish her. It's just that lately, the Master works hard and Puppet gets bored. Upon seeing two male gardeners making out, she gets hot. She shows herself off to all the gardeners, including a female one, whom she fantasizes about. Master is not happy with his pet's behavior.

This story is pure erotic sci-fi and centers around a dickgirl by the name of Alpha. If you don't like dickgirl stories you should avoid this one, it is intended for the growing "Fan Fic" section of the public. It is also a short story. I'm telling you this because I'm trying to gauge whether or not to write a follow-up. If I find some interest in the story I will write a couple more.

Twenty-year-old college student Jessie Heller wants to go on a Eurotrip with her friends. She needs extra funds though, and responds to a flyer for a pet-sitting job. The job and the pay seem perfect, and the pet owner who interviews her, Troy Utter, is nice. Jessie can’t believe her luck. Things begin to unravel on her first day, however. When she arrives at her employer’s home, charming Mr. Utter’s pet turns out to be a female named Puppet, bound up and kept in a closet!

"The Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of his 12 favorite Holmes stories.

Arthur Conan Doyle once remarked that The Adventure of the Speckled Band, first published in 1892, was his best Sherlock Holmes story. In it, a young woman, Helen Stoner, consults Holmes about her ill-tempered stepfather whom she suspects had some part in the death of her twin sister, Julia. She fears her stepfather has the same plans for her: he has forced Helen to move into the mysterious and disturbing room in which her sister died under suspicious circumstances.

Evan Hawks was told to do his job and avoid the dumb door. And he almost succeeded. When a careless accident somehow bridges parallel universes, he's left with a lot of questions...and a beautiful woman who insists it's 1978.

Raymond Kidd is a time traveller. Only he doesn't want to be. He has no say in when or where he goes, or to which time. Plus, he has to die to do it. In The Flaw in the Fabric, the first book in Jim Lindsey's trilogy A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls, a shortcut through a cemetery during a hurricane takes Raymond Kidd the long way around through another century and another identity. In 1860 Halifax, he's ship's captain Oliver Cole, just released from the madhouse.

Rose Gallagher always dreamed of finding adventure, so her new life as a freshly-minted Pinkerton agent ought to be everything she ever wanted. Only a few months ago, she was just another poor Irish housemaid from Five Points; now, she’s learning to shoot a gun and dance the waltz and throw a grown man over her shoulder. Better still, she’s been recruited to the special branch, an elite unit dedicated to cases of a paranormal nature, and that means spending her days alongside the dashing Thomas Wiltshire.

In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family. Her father’s father had taken his own life; so had her mother’s. Over the weeks and months that followed, grieving and in physical pain, Patterson kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold?

How is it that the toxic personality of one individual is allowed to impact the lives of so many? How is it that unrestrained destructiveness and ill-gotten gains are never called into question, and their purveyors never suffer any consequences? Certainly, such behavior did not start with just one person or the family before them. It most certainly has to have begun all the way back amid a contaminated culture—in part, from an Appalachian aristocracy.

Often considered to be Ibsen's most popular play in his lifetime, The League of Youth caused fighting in the streets, with conservatives claiming it was an attack on their party and liberals claiming it was an attack on theirs! A thought-provoking comedy that's sure to feel shockingly familiar. Unusually for Ibsen, this play has a lot of humour and a more-or-less happy ending.