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Kat Denton is a woman running away from her past. For 16 years, her life has been a living hell as Jimmy, the man she fell in love with as a teenager, becomes ever more abusive. Vowing to protect her unborn child from Jimmy’s violence, Kat flees the traveller camp that has been her lifelong home, escaping with just the clothes on her back and a photograph of her parents. Kat, along with her baby girl, Lucia, starts to build a better life. But when she starts to investigate what really happened to her parents, Kat uncovers dark secrets....

Imprisoned by Master Ben and serving out her punishment for betraying him, Caroline is now a pleasure slave. It seems like her torment will never end. That is, until Caroline discovers Master is getting rid of her, and each session is an audition for a potential new owner.

Madison, a healer, is running from the venomous were-snakes when she rescues and heals a werewolf pup under attack by a troll. Soon the pup’s werewolf pack finds her...and she is drawn to the pack’s charismatic and alluring Alpha leader, Alex. Madison swore off love long ago, but the more time she spends with the werewolf pack, the harder it is to push Alex away.

In My Life with Helen, listeners learn for the first time what was going on behind the scenes after Helen’s fall from grace and how Diane struggled to come to terms with the media frenzy that followed. Maybe, things do happen for a reason. That’s for the listener to decide. There’s no denying that Helen was a force to be reckoned with, but more importantly, she was human, flaws and all.

The Victor's Heritage is book two of The Jonah Trilogy and rests upon the spunky personality of teen Corrag, who is on track to receive the Augment brain implant that will connect her to the Cloud and thus to the knowledge base of the world. But this goal about to be derailed, thanks to her association with a boy who is a veteran of war - and who offers quite a different perspective of their world than the one she's been raised with.

Have you been looking for a new job, city, or house to make you happier and still feel the same a few months after you get it? If so, then maybe it's time to try a new approach. Author and Career Happiness Coach, Vicki Morris, is here to show us that we have the power to be happy now within ourselves in the present moment. All we have to do is change our mindset and a few daily habits.

Warming up is extremely important for athletes in all stages of life, and yet it is often the most neglected portion of a work out, simply because it can often become repetitive and boring. This book aims to put the fun back into warm ups by getting athletes moving in new and unexpected ways.

Nancy Jane Moore wrote her first flash fiction many years ago when everyone in her writing group decided to enter a contest for one-page stories. None of them won, but she got hooked and has been writing short-shorts ever since. Her first project for Book View Café was posting a free flash fiction every week for a year. Some were reprints, others older stories that needed one more revision, but quite a few were written in the week they went up. This 52-story collection includes most of those stories and a few new ones as well.

Bret Harte is best known for his stories of the pioneering days in California, so this humorous parody of English Gothic novels is a delightful departure. Harte sets his unlikely tale in Regency England with all the cliches and plot conventions present in abundance. The two main characters Lady Selina and Edgardo hide their amoral pasts from each other, unaware that they're a perfectly suited couple. In the mix are mysterious villains, dark secrets, past scandals, forbidden romance, hidden panels, murders, ghosts, all ending with the requisite deus ex machina conclusion.

Living for others seems to be the rule of nature. Thus begins the story about Willy, a selfless willow oak tree, who gives his unconditional love to all without discrimination. With every breath he does nothing except do good unto others. He tolerates the heat and the cold and happily forgives even before it is asked for.

An anthology of 113 original poems inspired by Taylor Swift songs, from a powerhouse group of contemporary poets - including Diane Seuss, Amanda Lovelace, Hollie McNish, Richard Siken, Ilya Kaminsky, Joy Harjo, Lang Leav, Paul Muldoon, Maggie Smith, Jane Hirshfield and Yusef Komunyakaa. For poetry lovers, this one-of-a-kind anthology is an unparalleled collection of new work from some of the most lauded and exciting voices in contemporary poetry.

August, le roi corrompu, est mort. Lore, nécromancienne et ancienne trafiquante de poison, vit désormais à la cour auprès du nouveau souverain. Ensemble, ils comptent bien éradiquer la corruption qui gangrène le palais et aider le peuple de Dellaire. Mais ces projets ne sont pas du goût de tous : les nobles sèment la discorde, l'empire kirythéen frappe à la porte du royaume et les anciens alliés de Lore s'éloignent. Même Bastian a changé.

Âmes sensibles, s’abstenir ! The Foxglove King est le premier volume d’une saga de dark fantasy dont vous ne sortirez pas indemne. Plongez dans une atmosphère Renaissance façon gothique, aux côtés de Lore, nécromancienne chargée de déjouer un complot.

He cried so loud. He cried so sad. During his birth, his mother almost lost her life trying to save his. There were so many complications that some people said he would have been better off if he had been still born, rather than to have lived. He was an ugly baby. He cried a lot when strangers held him. They outwardly scorned him, and they secretly abused him. A big brown medicine ball worn over his bulging naval caused him to be cut off from his little friends much of the time. He grew up in a kind, loving, and faithful sharecropper family. But he saw suffering in his family early.

Evangeline Tinker has always been as spooky as hell, and the best fortune teller this side of the Mississippi. But not even she can hide her passionate history with a notorious outlaw when he comes back to find her in order to finish what they started - from a past life. Yet there's a reason she left Virgil Hollow once, because a love like that can consume your whole soul.

Schwitzen im Proberaum einer Moskauer Rockband. Ehemalige Sowjetrepubliken, die Kabardino-Balkarien heißen. Ein Stripclub an der Wolga. Techno Clubs, in denen nichts zufällig passiert. Und das Krankenzimmer eines Moskauer Hospitals. Diane Hielscher diskutiert auf Kinderspielplätzen über die Postmoderne, tanzt mit Jugendlichen am schwarzen Meer, trinkt in dunklen Bars und fremden Wohnzimmern. Nebenbei erlernt sie die Feinheiten der russischen Vulgärsprache - während im Kaukasus gerade der Krieg ausbricht.

Guided meditations are a way to let go of your worries for the moment and bring you back to your true, authentic self. It helps realign the chakras of your body to their natural state of vibration—where you can live more fully, love more abundantly, and react in a peaceful state of mind. Your mind, body, and spirit are the essential parts of you—you are God’s precious gift to the world, and there is nothing more beautiful than a soul in the state of peace.

Ils sont quatre, héritiers de leurs clans... Ils doivent s'unir pour survivre. C'est l'heure de l'affrontement final. Au cœur des cités dévastées, l'ordre est donné de traquer les derniers humains. Mais au milieu des ruines encore fumantes, plusieurs voix s'élèvent dans un but commun : désobéir. En trahissant la parole donnée au Conseil, Maya, Bregan, Nel et Wan deviennent les ennemis de leur communauté. Désormais, ils ne peuvent plus compter que sur eux-mêmes.

L'adrénaline fait battre notre cœur à tout rompre, nous donne les moyens de nous dépasser et nous fait ressentir les choses à 100%. Jehb a parcouru le monde, visité les sites les plus impressionnants et a fini par poser ses valises dans la "capitale mondiale des sports extrêmes" : Queenstown, en Nouvelle-Zélande. Depuis près d'un an, il y croque la vie à pleines dents, réalisant ses rêves les plus fous. Sur ces terres, il a enfin l'impression d'avoir trouvé un endroit où il se sent bien.

Some are brand-new and ready for the world, whereas some are old and kept in closets and only worn in the privacy of homes. Tammy Jones takes on a new way of sharing the precious gems of knowledge and morals she has gathered along the way. Jones lets her poetic spirit flow freely as you get a glimpse of her journey. Journeys can be tiresome, especially if they're not our own, but journeys can also inspire and yield a wonderful sense of fulfillment.