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Is a little white lie a problem if it empowers your dream? Meet Idealist artist Lidia Lundon who lies to her wife to get her own NYC gallery and conspires with Dennis Gavin, accountant, internationally recognized ceramicist, and serial killer? Plagued with writer’s block and PTSD, Rachel Allen is distracted by discovering the owner of a 1937 teenager’s diary and unraveling a wealthy family’s murderous secrets still in play.

In this book, Ruth C. Forde, Nina L. Hayden, and Mary J. Ottmann-Bass open their hearts to share their most intimate prayers, which will move and inspire you. As you listen to this book, they encourage you to engage with the heavenly beings in the Kingdom Realms to discover the blueprint and destiny scroll Yahweh has for your life.

While on a fly fishing vacation to Andros Island in the Bahamas, narcotics detectives Dix and Petersen discover their fishing guides were killed when a sudden blast of gunfire fractured their speedboat, Gray Ghost. Local gossip has it that Gray Ghost went to the ocean floor with a hundred million dollars’ worth of cocaine in the hull. Dix and Petersen, against their better judgment, are drawn into helping their island friends even though it could cost them their careers. Leads are chased down in the Bahamas and Miami.

Red-haired El Casey is a project manager a few years into her career who never seems to have enough money and desperately desires a promotion. Her boyfriend, on the other hand, seems to skyrocket in his career endeavors, as does El's entrepreneurial food truck king brother, Jack. After years of commiserating with her female friends, El meets PJ, Empowerer of Women, when they are seat mates on a flight to Florida, and El's life is forever changed.

On the wall before him, in the dimness of the room, a great circular screen glowed opaquely, awaiting his touch: a doorway into time and space, a doorway to beauty and deadly peril and everything that made livable for him a life that had, perhaps, gone on too long. The shadows leaped backward into three-dimensional vividness that wavered for a moment and then sharpened into focus upon a desert landscape under a vivid crimson sky.

Chances are, if you're a manager in most any organization today, coaching has become an integral part of your responsibilities. And there's no more effective approach to coaching than Action Coaching.

A bite-sized podcast for those who want to take care of themselves in the relationship they have with their mothers, who want to experience that relationship differently, and not be miserable in the process.

A historical fiction, short story retelling of Erik Thorvaldsson (Erik the Red), his banishment, his son Leif Erikson, and the trouble they faced. This will be the first in a series, following the family into new lands and new settlements, and adversity all along the way.

Mexican Dinosaur is a poetic offering from C.L. "Rooster" Martinez and Write About Now Publishing. The collection of poems is a metamodernist take on the changing economic demographics of his San Antonio barrio, the confusion and desire to flourish within a hyphenated American identity, and the force of gravity that the push and pull of culture from both sides of a Mexican/American ethnicity has.

In this paranormal fantasy romance, 14-year-old November Atwood and her twin cousins discover an ancient box buried in the shadows of the old Danvers Asylum. This sets in motion the final elements of a blood bargain signed more than 300 years in the past when Salem was a sleepy village - and witchcraft was a hanging offense.

Kim lived and hung out on the most dangerous blocks that Brooklyn had to offer. She was a part of a wild-ass crew and to top it off, her brothers were nothing to fuck with, and the whole hood knew it. Kim and her girls were the popular chicks. Every guy wanted them, and every female wanted to be down with them. With all of the hood popularity came nothing but drama and sticky situations. These girls all try hard to keep themselves out of the dangerous mix, but you know how the saying goes: "What goes around comes around".

Les Isles Anciennes : une contrée magique et dangereuse, où sagesse et vertu devaient sans cesse en découdre face à la sorcellerie malfaisante des immortelles forces des ténèbres. La paix précaire qui s'y était établie menaçait de prendre fin, sous le poids toujours croissant des rivalités entre l'infâme roi Casmir et Aillas, souverain de Troicinet. Et, dans ces bruits de guerre et de souffrance, Madouc, la jeune et malicieuse princesse réputée fille de Suldrun, détenait à son insu le secret de l'ultime victoire.

You would think that after 16 years of attempted co-parenting, even the worst situations would be better. How is it that most other single moms in your life have managed to make it through the trenches? Yet, here you are still dealing with "Daddy Deadbeat". Over the years, you've done all you can to create a functional co-parenting situation and a sense of balanced love and stability for your child. Still, you can't seem to win from losing.

When Lou Wandsworth ran away to France with her teacher Mike Hughes, she thought he was the love of her life. But Mike wasn't what he seemed, and he left her life in pieces. Now 32, Lou discovers that he is involved with teenager Chloe Meadows. Determined to make sure history doesn't repeat itself, she returns home to confront him for the damage he's caused.

You love your family. They make you feel safe. You trust them. But should you? When 15-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes missing in the middle of the night, his mother, Claire, blames herself. She's not the only one. There isn't a single member of Billy's family who doesn't feel guilty. But the Wilkinsons are so used to keeping secrets from one another that it isn't until six months later, after an appeal for information goes horribly wrong, that the truth begins to surface.

Cassandra was a realist, she had little faith in what she could not see or could not be proven. When she mockingly casts a spell to prove magic did not exist, she finds herself far from where she stood moments before. Jaxon was one of the Stregori; those that cannot be touched by magic. He was tasked with finding men and women of magical ability and assigning them to be trained. His world is completely turned upside down when he crosses paths with Cassandra. He had never met a sorceress who denied she had the gift.

For over a decade, the Lancasters were celebrity royalty, with millions tuning in every week to watch their reality show, Living with the Lancasters. But then an old video emerges of one of their legendary parties. Suddenly, they're in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons: witnesses swore they'd seen missing teenager Bradley Wilcox leaving the Lancaster family home on the night of the party, but the video tells a different story. Now true crime investigator and YouTuber Tom Isaac is on the case.

Here lies the dilemma: You need to keep on doing cardio consistently. However, for whatever reason, you just can’t bring yourself to actually enjoy the process. Well, it’s true when they say that it might just not be for everyone. Although, you might also be approaching it in the wrong way. If you can make a few tweaks in your approach to cardio, you might end up loving it, and it’ll also love you in return. Learn more about the secrets of unlocking the powers of cardio training here.

15 years after The Pipeline II, Amy and her friends are now fighting the real enemy. When she first began her fight for the Pipeline, she had no idea how far it would take her. As they continue to uncover the truth, they find out just who the real enemy is and how far they will go to complete their mission. Can Amy and her friends stop them before it's too late, and do they really want to know the whole truth?

Une épopée fantastique et romanesque où l'on retrouve aussi de l'exotisme, de l'aventure, de l'humour. Lorsque lors d'une mission d'exploration scientifique, l'un des vaisseaux de la Confédération Intergalactique s'écrase sur un monde encore non répertorié, seuls quelques membres de l'équipage survivent au crash. Ils découvrent alors les Erians, un peuple ailé et dépourvu de technologie. Sarah est humaine et médecin de bord. Elle croise le chemin de Nixx, le chef Erian des Terres de l'Ouest.