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After Alice Dreger's live tweeting of her son's abstinence sex ed class went viral, Dreger was asked by many parents how she had managed to raise a 14-year-old so comfortable talking about sex - comfortable enough even to challenge sex ed teachers when they presented misinformation. The Talk is a response to those questions.

Prophetic ministry is one of the most controversial and confusing, yet one of the most crucial ministries in the body of Christ. In 1 Corinthians 14:1, the Apostle Paul told the Corinthian Christians to "... eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy." Prophecy is one of the seven primary motivational gifts listed in Romans chapter 12; and one of the five ministry gifts listed in Ephesians chapter 4.

Brianna bears a deadly secret: she’s not the princess she is pretending to be. If the prince finds out, her life will be forfeit and her country plunged into war. But there is more to the icy prince than meets the eye, and Brianna slowly unravels the secrets of his dark past while surviving in a strange culture. However her goodness and wit will only get her so far. Terrifying beasts stalk the border and a murderer is at work in the town. They know the truth of Brianna’s identity and will stop at nothing to destroy all she has fought for.

A bundle of five audiobooks from the Enchanted Souls series: Moonlight, Tour, The Secret of the Glow, Return to Crested Valley, and Forever. Listen as Dove Camden discovers her destiny.

While the jury is still out on how technology affects social skills, one thing is undeniable: being social is a crucial life skill for expressing what you mean and building relationships with others. After all, without strong social skills, you’d often get misunderstood, miss out on making great friends, and prevent others from realizing how awesome you truly are! Here is the good news: Communication skills are a learned skill that can be taught, practiced, and mastered.

In this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men’s stories. Smart and accessible, thoughtful and heartfelt, Bolin investigates the implications of our cultural fixations, and her own role as a consumer and creator.

Dove and Jackson are madly in love and together they set out on tour together with different roles: Jackson as the famous pop singer who is back from hiatus; Dove as a journalist covering his tour, but also his secret girlfriend with a mysterious necklace. The tour presents a lot of rigors that threatens their new relationship, from the paparazzi, to a manager that disapproves, and kidnapping. Will their love be able to survive all these?

Everything Polly does, she does for her son Louis. Leaving her abusive partner, struggling to overcome alcoholism: she will do whatever it takes to keep Louis safe and happy. Then Polly meets Ben. After years of heartache, could Ben give Polly the happiness she thought she'd never find again? Ben himself is struggling with acting as guardian to his orphaned niece Emily, and he and Polly bond over trying to be good parents. Just as Polly thinks her life may be turning around, the unthinkable happens. When her new life balances on a knife edge, will she be able to stay strong for Louis one more time?

Lizzy promised her best friend Casey that she would help him with his dream of making films. Well the day of the shoot comes around and Lizzy is trying to handle her driver license problems and still make the shoot on time. When she's pulled over, she knows she'll need to do something drastic to avoid an arrest and make it to the shoot. In this case, drastic means her first anal sex, and the gangbang sure is rough!

Passion runs wild as Nathan and Stella continue their illicit 'no-strings attached' meet-ups, but as Stella begins to fall for Nathan, his jealous side rears its ugly head. After a misunderstanding threatens to end their relationship once and for all, can Nathan move past the ingrained behaviors of his past and learn to trust Stella, the only woman to ever tempt him to consider a 'real' relationship?

Finding herself in the middle of LA with her best friend, Cait, Allie is determined to have the holiday of her life. But still reeling from the admission of the relationship between her boyfriend, Hollywood hunk Sean Phillips, and his costar Savannah Hilton, it's not going to be easy.

Allie is feeling the strain of trying to cope with the realities of dating a Hollywood star, but every time she thinks things are back on the straight and narrow with Sean, Savannah Hilton returns with a vengeance. Can they beat the pseudo-glamour of Hollywood and make it as a couple? Or will Allie be forced to give up her love and return to the UK?

In a New York Times review of Alice Notley’s 2007 collection In the Pines, Joel Brouwer wrote that “the radical freshness of Notley’s poems stems not from what they talk about, but how they talk, in a stream-of-consciousness style that both describes and dramatizes the movement of the poet’s restless mind, leaping associatively from one idea or sound to the next.” Notley’s new collection is at once a window into the sources of her telepathic and visionary poetics, and a memoir through poems of her Paris-based life between 2000 and 2017, when she finished treatment for her first breast cancer.

There's the lost. There's the missing. And there's the taken. She asked me once if we had any secrets, and I shook my head. 'No secrets between us', she said. 'No' I answered. 'Never ever.' In a Durham hotel at dawn, celebrated preacher Tristan Snow is murdered as he prays. None of the other guests - not even his daughter, his wife, or her sister - saw or heard anything. But then again, they each had a motive for murder.

Inseparable through university, Eva, Benedict, Sylvie and Lucien graduate into an exhilarating world on the brink of the new millennium. Eager to shrug off the hardships of her childhood, Eva breaks away to work at a big bank. Benedict stays behind to complete his PhD in physics and pine for Eva while siblings Sylvie and Lucien pursue a more bohemian existence

Castle Heights is an ordinary looking London tower block...from the outside. But within the drab walls, things aren’t quite so innocent…or safe. Experience the disturbing events which take place on one fateful night as 18 writers bring you 18 stories–one set on each floor. From monsters to killers, the supernatural to the bizarre, these interlinked tales will have you desperate for escape as you make your way up Castle Heights from the ground floor.

If you feel that you are stuck in a rut in your life, this book will help you start your journey to achieve a millionaire mindset by also empowering your mental health. Success comes with small steps, and through tools such as habits, routines, tracking journals, sleep patterns, and more, this book will help you understand and break down the different components that lead to success.

On an otherwise ordinary day, in a small shrimping village off the coast of South Carolina, a boat goes missing. The entire town rallies as all are mobilized to find the lost vessel. Throughout the course of one day, flashbacks of Bud Morrison, the captain on board, and Carolina, his wife, reveal the happier days of a once-thriving shrimping industry juxtaposed with the memories of their long term marriage.

The turn of the 20th century saw radical developments in all art forms and particularly in poetry. The first volume of this series features the work of nine significant poets whose careers cover the period from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.

Tutti sanno che "Nick e Charlie" sono la coppia perfetta, semplicemente inseparabili. Ma adesso Nick sta per andare all’università mentre Charlie rimarrà al liceo e tutti si chiedono se continueranno a stare insieme. Che domanda stupida: sono Nick e Charlie, santo cielo! Eppure, mano a mano che il giorno della separazione si avvicina, anche loro iniziano a chiedersi se il loro amore sarà abbastanza forte da sopravvivere. O stanno solo rimandando l’inevitabile? Perché si sa, quasi mai il primo amore dura per sempre…