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Gabrielle has gotten a chance at what she wanted; Minos captured for her to do with him as she pleases. Once Gabby and her brother Broderick have their prisoner, plans don't go so smooth. Minos' sister is on the search for her brother and who has him hostage. A new high powered force steps in the way of Gabby and Brody providing a twisted change to everything. Gabrielle is stuck within her love for Minos and her urge to end his life. Broderick is caught between lust and the protection of his sister and a powerful man is determined to rule everyone and dictate the entire situation. FOR ...

Married and alone... These are the musings of an unfit Wife.

Leigha O'Brien has always been a dreamer and a bit different compared to those around her. This changes when she and her only friend Lindie visit fortune teller's Madam Love's home. Madam Love tells Leigha that her soul may end up tortured and there's only one way to fix it. Leigha is left literally trapped inside of her dreams trying to save her soul and each night that she sleeps she's opened up to a new life from her soul's past. Her dreams all have one common occurrence, a mystery man who is determined to capture her soul . With every reincarnation, her soul bounces through time ...

Evangelique is a shy, quiet fourteen year old girl who has spent her entire life in and out of foster homes. Awkward and unattractive, she doesn’t believe she’ll ever be part of a real family, especially since her own mother left her in the chapel of St. Barnabas Hospital in The Bronx at birth. She is sent to live with Gwen and Kendalyn Tripp; a loving mother and daughter who immediately take to Evangelique. They hope to bring the girl out of her shell and encourage her love of writing. Kendalyn is a member of a hip hop gospel group and is anxious for her new foster sister to ...

Emerson Isles has come a long way in a short time and is now one of television's highest paid actresses. Loved by her fans and the industry, Emerson was enjoying her success until a "friend" from her past threatens to expose a secret they share. Determined to protect the innocent, Emerson didn't expect to fall for stuntman Jacobi Janssen along the way. A good man who had no idea how their worlds really connected.

Floreciendo con Milli te trae conversaciones con expertos, sanadores y terapeutas que tienen algo poderoso que compartir. ¿Cómo centramos la sanación en nuestro movimiento por los derechos de nuestros vecinos, familiares, o queridos inmigrantes? ¿Qué herramientas podemos utilizar cuando necesitamos apoyo emocional? ¿Cómo reconoces estos síntomas en tu cuerpo? ¡Floreciendo con Milli te invita a ser parte de nuestra conversación y crear un espacio de bienestar mental y emocional para nuestra gente migrante!

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A Golf Book for Personal Growth, Focus, and Lifelong Fulfillment Looking for a meaningful gift for the golfer in your life—or for yourself? Mastering Golf and Life: A Journey to Fulfillment, Success, and Beyond reveals how the timeless wisdom of the course can empower you to succeed far beyond the green. Imagine a book that bridges the serenity of golf with the chaos of daily life. One that helps you cultivate patience, focus, and inner strength to overcome setbacks, grow with purpose, and align your mindset for success. This is more than a book about golf—it’s a guide to mastering ...

In Leon's fifth Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, the beating of renowned art historian Dotoressa Brett Lynch draws the contemporary Venetian police detective out of his warm and loving home and into the yearly onslaught of acqua alta, the torrential winter rains. Brett, an American who spearheaded a recent exhibition of Chinese pottery in Venice, lives with her lover, Flavia Petrelli, the reigning diva of La Scala. With his open mind and good sense, Brunetti finds himself more fazed by Flavia's breathtaking talent than by the nontraditional relationship between the two women. Brunetti's deliberate and humane investigation to uncover a motive for Brett's beating takes him to dark, wet corners of Venice and into a sinister web of art theft, fakery, and base human desires.

Tyesha Couvillier will never forget the rip-offs and brutal treatment she endured as a sex worker. So as the new director of the groundbreaking Lower East Side Women's Health Clinic, she'll take on the Ukranian mob and corrupt strip club bosses to stop local exotic dancers from being pressured into selling sex. And if she and her crew can pull off an elaborate heist, the evidence they steal could upend this vicious game - and give exploited women a chance at justice.

L'immensité de la steppe, l'avidité et la fatuité française précipitent la Grande Armée vers la défaite. Koutousov, en fin stratège, ne fait qu'accompagner la décomposition de l'adversaire. À la suite de plusieurs défaites dues à une totale impréparation, les Français n'ont d'autre choix que de quitter Moscou et de se replier dans le plus grand désordre, harcelés par des groupes de partisans, suivis de près par les troupes russes et abandonnés par leur empereur.

Teresa Barrera has finally moved back home after running away when she was 15. Things are better for her than they were then. She's out as a trans lesbian, has a good job, and is in the promising start of a new relationship. To top it all off, she's back in contact with her sister, who has completely accepted her. She's not ready to tell the rest of her family, but that's okay.

In 1984, as a New York City subway train made its way downtown, a white man named Bernhard Goetz shot four unarmed Black teenagers he believed were going to rob him.

When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?

Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly innocent request leads him into troubling waters. What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It’s a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give Unto Others, Donna Leon’s splendid 31st installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series.

Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers—or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services—are only ever reported on from a distance, using tired tropes and stereotypes, often depicted as boogie men and violent warlords.

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo. Why fascism was able to conquer only in those countries where social democratic or Stalinist parties blocked the workers and their allies from utilizing a revolutionary situation to remove the capitalists from power.

During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder. To do so, he calls on his knowledge of Venice, its culture, and its dirty politics. Along the way, he finds the crime may have roots going back decades—and that revenge, corruption, and even Italian cuisine may play a role.

Just as World War II threatens to break out, Mike Morrison arrives in Greece to collect his late wife’s inheritance. Hoping to quickly finish his business and leave before German troops invade, Morrison’s plans are derailed when he receives a letter listing the names of Greek patriots pretending to be German collaborators, a list Nazi strategists desperately need. With the outcome of the war hinging on Morrison’s ability to protect the letter, he embarks on an adventure across Greece in an effort to evade Nazi troops and keep the letter from falling into enemy hands.

Op die spogroosplaas Roosbaron in die Laeveld ontmoet privaatspeurder Beer Henning die eksentrieke eienares, Mathilda van Eck, wie se sewentienjarige seun Marnus presies ’n jaar gelede in verdagte omstandighede dood is. Beer vermoed Marnus is vermoor, en dat die motief hier reg onder sy neus is. En in so ’n geval is die moordenaar steeds op die plaas . . . en word ook Beer se lewe nou bedreig!