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Of course Morgan Williams is grateful to her great-aunt for bequeathing her half ownership in a seaside cottage in Maine—but there’s a catch. To claim it, she has to spend four weeks onsite. That’s a tall order for an advertising professional who rarely takes off four days, let alone four weeks. As for the other stipulation…that she volunteer for a camp for troubled kids run by her co-heir…what is that all about?

Clare Randall is thrilled to receive a bequest from her great-aunt. With her bank account on fumes since tragedy upended her life, a cash infusion is just what she needs. But she’s not as thrilled about the strings attached to her legacy. In order to claim her inheritance, she has to work as a nanny for six months for Dr. Adam Wright—a widower she’s never met who lives more than a thousand miles away. What was Aunt Jo thinking?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Clay Adams isn’t equipped to deal with two traumatized children—but deserting the niece and nephew entrusted to his care isn’t an option. So he needs to find help. Fast. Sought-after nanny Cate Shepard seems like the solution to his problem. But while she’s moved by the children’s plight and their floundering uncle, her own issues could make the job difficult.

Dans la taverne d'un port de la mer Noire, Ismaël, un petit garçon juif doté d'une voix et d'un sens de la poésie hors du commun, chante les douleurs et les joies des truands, des prostituées, de tous les misérables qui se retrouvent dans le bouge. Un soir, un poète déchu et ivrogne, qui fait couler à flots l'or et la vodka, écoute le gamin et en est subjugué. Il l'offre à sa maîtresse, riche veuve désœuvrée, qui s'entiche de l'enfant.

Sergei managed to lay his hands on the Divine Avatar of Savior, which brings with it the kinds of new abilities other players can only dream of. Still, it's not the right moment to relax and go with the flow. Two of his friends have been captured; the third one is being kept hostage while Sergei is forced to procure the Elixir of Power.

What I Wish I Knew is dedicated to giving women information and a path to find purpose, healing and joy. It is to give women power and permission to move inward to find their inner compass while also actively making changes that will allow them to thrive. In our first season, we will focus on issues surrounding the menopausal transition. I will share my own personal challenges and what I wish I knew.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maia ha interrotto gli studi a Parigi e si è trasferita con il suo compagno a Milano dove fatica a trovare la sua strada. Gloria, invece, è un'influencer di successo. Le due ragazze intessono una relazione intensa e complicata che vive nel mondo virtuale a cui Gloria appartiene e che consente a entrambe, per la prima volta, di vedersi per ciò che sono realmente.

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.

Hiding out from the paparazzi while her family does damage control, Fiona and her royal guard, Westley, are snowed in at her family’s holiday home. While she’s always been in love with Wes, she’s never admitted her affection for him, fearing she could lose the only person she trusts. In a twist of fate, Westley has been harboring the same forbidden feelings.

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.

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.