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Frances—you can call her Frankie—was not a happy baby. She was born amidst chaos, to two loving but unprepared parents. On a beach. In a storm. No wonder she’s always had a temper. And you know what did nothing to quell her anger? Dying dramatically in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town. As a ghost, it’s not so easy for Frankie to hide her rage, especially when suspicious visitors to her ruined home seem to have a keen and ominous interest in her.

Caroline wants a new start. Her sister took off for her own reasons a year ago and found this place called Chance. She's not too sure if she'll be safe there, but the town and its people have their charms. Plus they engage in some very special relationships that seem to provide a woman with constant protection and love. It's hard to resist the charms of such relationships, or avoid the rules of the town that keep women safe.

In Runaway Bride, a bride flees her wedding and finds herself in Magnolia Beach working for the mysterious town hermit. In Married by Monday, Amanda has to marry in order to inherit Shell Cottage...out of options, she asks Chase, her ex from so long ago. And in You and Me Forever, a supermodel with a big secret wants a chance to be normal, but secrets never stay secret in Magnolia Beach.

Myka Williams has never fit in with her peers, and although her adoptive parents are loving and supportive, she feels most at home alone in the woods. When she's offered a full scholarship to Knight's Academy in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, she takes the opportunity for a fresh start. She soon learns that Knight’s Academy is more than just a school. Within the stone walls of the institution, humans and vampires are mixing, and their offspring are going unnoticed.

Missy Ann is a survivor, but the fear is not so easily forgotten. She just can't seem to get over it, and trust becomes something she is incapable of. It may take the care and compassion of two men that saved her that dreadful day and their brothers who know heartache and loss, and who yearn to fill that hole in their heart they thought would remain empty forever. The Connelly men will do whatever is necessary to help heal the woman they've learned to love.

Are you ready to change your life, step by step? A sedentary lifestyle can jeopardize your well-being in more ways than you can count. Walking has shown to offer amazing benefits to your overall health and wellness. Moreover, it is considered among the best forms of workout that everyone can take up on the spot. Get up off the couch and start walking!

This audiobook seeks to take the listener on a journey. Starting with the history of the violin, it moves on to offer various lessons and techniques to help those new to the violin learn to play the instrument. It also seeks to teach something new to those already seasoned in violin playing.

AI is a present reality: we live at the threshold of an AI-dominated era. AI is more than a Technology wave. In the 21st century and beyond it is the very core source of power that fuels politics, business, and society: our minds, our work, and our homes. AI also rewrites the rules and forces us to lose no time in rethinking fundamental questions of our humanity. Our human brains will soon be required to adapt at hyper speed to a new paradigm of omnipresent machine intelligence. We all have to deal with both its opportunities and threats in a conscious manner.

"Shattered Rainbows" is a profoundly moving and powerful narrative that explores the devastating impact of rejection and the transformative power of love and acceptance. Through Jamie Lynn's eyes, we witness the heart-wrenching journey of her brother Alex, whose coming out shatters their family but ultimately leads to healing and understanding.

Olivia Sudjic is the author of Sympathy, a debut novel about obsession and the uneasy relationship between technology and intimacy. The book is already gaining cult status for its striking originality and gorgeous prose, and Olivia has been heralded as a major new literary talent by everyone from The Guardian to Elle magazine.

Set amid the backdrop of the massacre of Greeks and Armenians after World War I, a deeply affecting family story of love and survival infused with the rich historical detail and emotional power of Sisters of the Resistance and The Women in the Castle.

When Milla is invited to a reunion in the French Alps resort that saw the peak of her snowboarding career, she drops everything to go. While she would rather forget the events of that winter, the invitation comes from Curtis, the one person she can't seem to let go. The five friends haven't seen each other for 10 years, since the disappearance of the beautiful and enigmatic Saskia. But when an icebreaker game turns menacing, they realise they don't know who has really gathered them there and how far they will go to find the truth.

Seventeen-year-old Aria is bored of her small town and dreams of a life filled with excitement and adventure. She’s about to learn the meaning of “be careful what you wish for”. After a chilling encounter at the local summer fair, Aria is ripped from her normal life and dragged through the Veil into the Fair Realm by a strange, silver-eyed boy and his band of fairy soldiers. They believe she is the legendary Fair Queen, the subject of a prophecy that promises to unite the war-ravaged realm and bring an end to the centuries-long conflict between the Five Kingdoms.

Gwénola est une collégienne qui ne lâche sa tablette que pour embêter Bébé, son vieux chat. Elle ne sait pas que Bébé est en fait un dragon qui a le pouvoir de passer entre les dimensions. Parmi les mondes dans lesquels le chat-dragon voyage en quête de croquettes, se trouve l’île au ciel de glace. Ses habitants sont grands comme des souris sur deux-pattes et ils craignent tous le Grand Dragon. Tous, sauf un jeune garçon: Eochaid.

Les mots des autres m'ont nourrie, portée, infusé leur énergie et leurs émotions. Jusqu'à la mort de mon frère, le 14 octobre 2015 à Montréal, je ne voyais pas la nécessité d'écrire. Le suicide d'Alex m'a transpercée de chagrin, m'a mise aussi dans une colère folle. Parce qu'un suicide, c'est la double peine, la violence de la disparition génère un silence gêné qui prend toute la place, empêchant même de se souvenir des jours heureux. Moi, je ne voulais pas me taire.

All Violet Wallingford ever wanted was to prove to her parents she's got what it takes to make it big in the world of fashion. With two weeks to submit her best designs, there’s no time to spare for a guy who fell from the sky in the middle of a hurricane, especially one who thinks he’s from medieval Scotland. Violet takes him in during the storm. But once it’s over? This hot Scot is on his way back to wherever or whenever he came from. So what if Duncan McTavish is charming, handsome, and kind?

Lucia Monte is on the run from an old-fashioned arranged marriage and a sexual assault. She winds up in a town called Pearl, where compassion and honesty are a way of life, and protecting all women and children are priority. It's the holiday season, and she's never experienced anything so magical. Gabrielle, Lucifer, Salvatore, and Maxwell are brothers living in their parent's old house they renovated. They're just trying to survive when they each meet a new, young woman in town.

Are you worried about your English skills? Do you want to sound like a native speaker each time you open your mouth? Overcoming your accent, mastering the vocabulary, the grammar and the pronunciation can be challenging, depending on your native tongue.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many animals had to fend for themselves because their owners lost them or were unable to care for them. In Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned, Cathy Scott documents her experience working with the Best Friends Animal Society triage center to rescue lost animals and reunite them with their owners. Over 200 stories describe dramatic and challenging rescue cases with details about the rescues, the examinations, treatment, and follow-up care by the selfless volunteers who worked to save beloved best friends.

There's an epidemic of horny young students from Oxford getting it on in the musty confines of one of the city's vast libraries, and it's the bored and frustrated librarian's job to stop them. One day, however, when the librarian comes across a fornicating couple in a dark corner, she chooses to secretly watch them instead, and completely aroused by the experience, she sets about finding a man to make her own erotic fantasies come true in the classic literature section.