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In near-future Baltimore, scientific breakthroughs in genetic engineering promise to cure the incurable. But these new technologies are not without a dark side. Powerful criminal organizations thrive on peddling illicit genetic wares, waging an underground war unlike any the city has ever seen.

Small-town girl Hazel Lynn Morgan has survived the dull farm life in Ohio by letting her imagination soar. Reading has been her savior, and yet, escaping the quiet life as a mail order bride could be just the excitement she’s looking for. But the Texan cattle rancher she’s intended for has a secret that could ruin everything and a friend who could be their making...or tear them apart forever.

Wesley Baker has brought more than just his hopes with him to Iron Creek—he carries his half-broken heart in tow. Once, he had traveled to meet the woman he hoped to marry, only to discover that her existence had been a con. Since then, Wesley managed to pick up what was left of his life and shattered heart and find his way to the small town of Iron Creek, where he hopes to establish a bakery of his own. Wesley is determined not to make the same mistakes again—but as those around him continue to find love through mail-order brides, Wesley decides to risk his heart one last time.

Two centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was foraged, hunted, or caught in the wild. Today, so-called “wild foods” are becoming expensive luxuries, served to the wealthy in top restaurants. Meanwhile, people who depend on wild foods for survival and sustenance find their lives forever changed as new markets and roads invade the world’s last untamed landscapes. In Feasting Wild, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild foods.

She thought God had forgotten her, until a pastor reached out from Wyoming and offered her a brand-new life. But can she let go of the memories she left behind to love again? Missy Stanton believes her life is over when her husband, Tommy, dies in a tragic work accident in the railyards of Boston. Alone in the city with no family and worse prospects, she turns to the Matrimonial Times in a moment of weakness. There, she meets Pastor Jack Tibsdale, who offers her a home in a place in Birch River, Wyoming, in return for her hand in marriage.

This audiobook is designed for beginners who are clueless about the law of attraction. It provides a non-repetitive daily step-by-step guide in manifestation just for you so you can absorb and practice it. It works because it only takes one hour of your time each day.

Following her mother's death, Emily Watson is determined to learn more about her history. She had never met her father, but when she finds letters between her parents, she’s filled with a yearning desire to learn more before taking further steps forward in her own life.

For Carl Hennigan, Iron Creek is more than just a town—it is a chance. His chance to start over. To live a life of his own. To teach and do what makes his heart happy. As Carl settles in Iron Creek, he can’t help thinking that his new life wants for nothing—except perhaps somebody to share it with. Just as Carl is about to take the chance and advertise for a wife, he finds another listing from a young woman. Her replies intrigue him, as does the fact that she keeps her full identity hidden. But could there be more connecting them than Carl realizes?

For the most part, Geoffrey Drayton is content with his life in Iron Creek. Having thrown himself into work since the death of his wife, Geoffrey is now the most popular carpenter in town. But the life of a widower is a lonely and empty one. After watching so many of his friends find happiness with mail-order brides, Geoffrey decides it is time for him to take a chance—and advertises for a bride of his own.

After suffering a permanent injury from an ambush and losing mobility of one of his legs, Andrew Cable has lost all hopes for a happy future for himself. Now, as he is forced to rely on his mother and his brother, Jonny, to care for him, Andrew doubts his life could be any more pathetic. But when Jonny advertises on his behalf with hopes of finding him a mail-order bride, Andrew realizes that he was wrong. The woman seems just as determined to escape her own situation in life. So, he decides to help her do just that—while also giving his brother a taste of his own medicine.

Unfinished Business focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. Faced with the regular stuff of life - work, aspiration, marriage, age, divorce, bereavement - his ordinary plight is sharpened, becoming increasingly urgent. Having lived in a modern condition, confusing pleasure with happiness, wanting the dream to deliver, what do you do when you notice the shadows begin to lengthen on the lawn?

Falling in love with a young pop singer is the last thing successful songwriter Jill Griffin ever imagined. Since the tragic end of her marriage, the 40-something single mom had all but abandoned hope for a love story of her own. Then, boyband refugee Ben Fein walked into her life and stole her heart. Jill wants to take things slow, keeping their relationship out of the glare of the media.

Logan Monson is satisfied with his life in Birch River. His business as a blacksmith is thriving, and he has settled well into his home…. The only thing he is still missing is a family to share it all with. As many around him find partners and love of their own, Logan decides to follow their example as well.

Connect with the present moment in each movement. Award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows listeners that fitness can be mindfulness. She teaches listeners how to bring meditation and mindfulness into any activity by incorporating centuries-old techniques. Studies show that both exercise and meditation reduce anxiety, stabilize blood pressure, improve mood and cognition, and lead to a deeper self-relationship and wisdom. Movement is medicine, and meditation is medicine. Let's combine the two with exercise as meditation.

Our goal is to help breastfeeding mothers, or mothers who wish to breastfeed, build their self-confidence and learn to trust their feelings and their baby. That way, they will be able to make informed decisions related to breastfeeding their baby without stress, they won't have regrets, and won't stay with the feeling that they failed.

Arthur Phillips talks to Audible Editor Gina Pensiero about music, memory, and his upcoming book, The Song Is You. Arthur Phillips is the best-selling and award-winning author of Prague, The Egyptologist, and Angelica.

A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast—and died young. But her final scam—embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund—is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora. And while she wants nothing to do with the cash, she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box: a book about Mirror House—the place where Meredith engineered her final deception and a set of newspaper stories about an unsolved murder that occurred there thirty years ago.

Immigrant Millionaire: The Story of One Asian Woman Obsessed to Succeed in the Land of Opportunity by Kelli Nguyen-Ha.

In 1870, Hazel Lynn Morgan was a girl right on the verge of becoming a woman. She lives in a small town on a farm in Ohio, where nothing new or exciting ever happens. She has survived this long by reading books about exotic places and using her imagination, or what her Ma has termed, her “Magical Thinking”. Will a simple mail-order bride ad placed by a cattle rancher in Texas named Heath Key change Hazel’s life for the better? Or will the secret that Heath is hiding threaten to ruin both of their lives?

When everything you know and believe is telling you "no", do you have the strength to listen to the true voice of your heart? Far away in Iron Creek, stagecoach driver Nelson Gustavson is fighting his own loneliness and places an advert for a bride. As replies flood in, he begins to fear that he’ll have to settle for someone, or search hard to make a connection. That is, until he finds Bronwen’s letter, a blunt and honest reply that he feels compelled to respond to. As Bronwen and Nelson connect through their letters, she feels his warmth radiate through his honesty.