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Rachel Hayden is restless. After watching her best friend find real happiness, she can’t help feeling that something is missing in her life. When an unexpected opportunity drops in her lap, she takes a leap of faith and heads to Texas.

From his first meeting with organic farmer Christine Turner on a rain-slicked highway, Police Chief Dale Lewis is intrigued. But Oak Hill’s newest resident wants nothing to do with men in general—and lawmen in particular. Which is fine by him. Troubled women are trouble. Yet when Dale discovers she’s been wronged, his passion for justice compels him to help. As their paths begin to cross, Dale’s five-year-old daughter falls hard for Christine. And he’s not far behind.

1985. Gun Barrel City, Texas. Police searching for missing Fire Department captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly tended garden of Beets's wife, forty-eight-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasn't long before investigators unearthed the terrible truth. As Betty Lou's sordid past emerged, so did her chilling trail of marital violence.

In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama, aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered.

When her photographer fiancé is killed in an act of violence overseas, journalist Caroline James goes home to grieve, regroup, and take a job as editor of a local newspaper—all while dealing with a boatload of guilt. In no way is she ready for her fiancé’s brother to show up almost two years into her new life.

An old man looks back on a chequered life, concealing truths he will not reveal until the end. Fire in the Blood starts quietly, lyrically, but then races away with narrative twists and surprise revelations. A young man, newly married, is found drowned in the mill stream; an old man is more concerned about the repayment of a debt than with his young wife; a young woman asks Silvio to plead her case; no-one is quite as they seem.

Eine bitterbös-humorvolle Familiensaga: Um sich bei der Erzählung über die eigenen Familienverhältnisse nicht in Lügen zu verstricken, lässt Irene Dische lieber ihre resolute Großmutter Elisabeth Rother, genannt "Mops", zu Wort kommen. Und schnell wird klar, dass Großmama Elisabeth, für die ihr jüdischer Mann zum Katholizismus konvertierte, kein Blatt vor den Mund nimmt. Eine komplexe Saga über eine deutsch-amerikanische, jüdisch-katholische Familie und ihre eigenwilligen Familienmitglieder.

Gruff and tough, Edward Giordano’s success as an elite Special Forces soldier doesn’t carry over to his personal life. Emotionally scarred from a painful childhood, he’s built a wall around his heart that he lets very few penetrate. Audra Lorenzo, a first-year school teacher, is on a road trip with her niece during the holidays. A storm that was supposed to pass, instead crosses her path. Lost, with her GPS cutting in and out, her car skids off a road, down an embankment, and into an icy river. Everything goes black.

Companion to the First Hebrew Primer is designed to accompany the popular text The First Hebrew Primer. The audio companion presents an accurate pronunciation guide for students with little or no previous exposure to Hebrew. Together, the book and the audio companion enable students of Biblical Hebrew to master the language of the Bible.

Impossible Motherhood is a heartrending and ultimately triumphant testimonial told by a writer looking back on her history of addiction. Abortion has never offered any honest person easy answers. Vilar's dark journey through self-inflicted wounds, compulsive patterns, and historical hauntings is a powerful story of loss and mourning that bravely delves into selfhood, national identity, reproductive freedom, family responsibility, and finally motherhood itself - today, Vilar is the mother of two beautiful children.

100% of marriages that end in divorce are cited for "irreconcilable differences." Things that brought couples together are now tearing them apart. Simple occasional frustrations have morphed into everyday fights causing complex fractures. Marriages are miserable, families are affected, and the equation for a marriage made one is elusive. In Two Equals One, Jimmy and Irene Rollins introduce you to a solution that is counter-cultural to a society that encourages you to give up, to not give your spouse any more chances, or use pain as permission to step out on your spouse.

My name resounds across the Universe, attracting lots of unwelcome attention. I am the Unconquerable. The Demi God. The Death Bringer. And strangely enough, now that I am at my strongest, many Players seek to test my limits.

Amity Whitford dared to stake her own claim on the endless plains of Western Kansas. She built her homestead, Dove's Nest, with her bare hands. But the ravages of the sun and drying winds took their toll.

Skandar Smith siempre ha querido cabalgar sobre un unicornio. Tener la suerte de ser uno de los pocos elegidos para criar uno y convertirse en su jinete. Establecer un vínculo irrompible con él y competir juntos para alcanzar la gloria. Ser un héroe. Pero justo cuando su sueño parece estar a punto de hacerse realidad, los acontecimientos toman un giro muy peligroso. Un misterioso jinete llamado El Tejedor roba el unicornio más poderoso de la isla y, mientras la amenaza se acerca, Skandar descubrirá un secreto que podría hacer estallar su vida en mil pedazos.

Kids love to ask questions, and this collection has the answers! Full of fun facts about astounding animal varieties, habitats, and abilities of favorite members of the animal kingdom, each second has more for kids to learn! The easy-to-understand answers will keep kids wanting to learn more. This 5-book collection includes Birds of Prey, Sharks, Wild Cats, Wolves, and Predators.

Kids love to ask questions, and this collection has the answers! Full of fun facts about astounding animal varieties, habitats, and abilities of favorite members of the animal kingdom, each second has more for kids to learn! The easy-to-understand answers will keep kids wanting to learn more. This 3-book collection includes Snakes, Lizards, and Crocodiles.

The legendary seal which was keeping the Horsemen of the Apocalypse under lock and key has been broken. Planet Earth is engulfed in a surge of natural disasters which have already claimed thousands of lives. While Sergei is getting ready to fight back, traveling across worlds to learn archery from the powerful giant Vill, the horsemen's minions also come awake, ready to take on the mythical Guards of the Interworld Network in the name of their dreadful masters.

I’ve read enough sexy romance books to know that when a knock comes at my door at three in the morning, with hot mafia men on the other side, things are about to get spicy. They say they’re here to take me as collateral for my missing husband’s debt, but when they find him dead, now I have to pay the debt. Maybe that means I'll be a mafia wife to the grumpy crime daddy, Tommy? Too bad he can't stand me.

¿Qué pasaría si...? es un libro de divulgación científica en el que se recopilan algunos de los mejores posts así como otros nuevos elaborados a partir de las preguntas del blog de Randall Munroe, en el que responde a los lectores haciendo uso de sus conocimientos científicos y matemáticos.

Hoogsensitieve mensen hebben een rijke innerlijke belevingswereld en ervaren alles intenser. Prikkels van buiten, maar ook van binnen: je eigen gedachten en emoties. Deze podcast gaat over allerlei aspecten van omgaan met hooggevoeligheid, omgaan met gedachten & emoties en leven in het hier & nu (mindfulness). Elke aflevering bevat praktische tips of oefeningen die je direct kunt toepassen in je dagelijks leven. Want zelf ervaren is zoveel waardevoller dan theorie :-) Ga naar https://irenelangeveld.nl/hsp-mini-cursus/ voor nog veel meer tips, oefeningen en gratis meditaties.