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Woolworth's Five and Dime is a magical place to work at Christmastime, but will it also be a place to fall in love in 1881? Maggie Larson works the lunch counter, where she befriends a girl whose father delivers milk. Hattie Scott learns her favorite customer is Timothy Branson and a threat to her brother's job. Essie Hensley doesn't need money, but welcomes the challenges of working a job where she meets a minister and six little boys who inspire Christmas wishes. A job is the only thing orphan Lizzie Miller needs, but she can't pass up an invite to a bookkeeper's family Christmas.

Years have passed since Myla Lewis last fought gladiator-style in Purgatory's Arena. Now, she’s fighting again, only this time in Hell. And the stakes have never been higher. The demon King of Hell, Armageddon, has kidnapped Myla and Lincoln’s young son, Maxon. Myla knows that a war against Hell will cost millions of lives, so she devises her own plan, involving a small attack team and a secret entrance to Hell. Will Myla save Maxon, or will her child - and all the after-realms - fall to Armageddon?

A collection of Rosetti's most well known and loved poetry. Alongside the famous beauty of Rosetti's 'In the Bleak Midwinter', 'Goblin Market' is a deceptively simple poem. The story of two sisters and their temptation, punishment and redemption, written in Christina Rosetti's characteristically songlike poetry, is easily passed over as a fable or fairy story. But there are several layers more to discover in this most intriguing of poems.

Are you stuck in a cycle of putting things off, only to find that delay leads to missed opportunities, regret, and feelings of spiritual unrest? Delay to Decay is more than a book about time management—it’s a transformative journey into understanding the profound spiritual impact of procrastination.

Between school, two jobs, and trying to get into NYU film school, Bailey Banfield has zero time for a social life. But then she meets Alex in her express lane at the grocery store, and their secret friendship becomes the only place she can breathe. She refuses to complicate that with more. No matter how charming Alex can be. When Bailey decides to film outrageous promposals for her NYU application, she enlists Alex's help to plan an over-the-top, epic promposal to someone else. Too bad the only prom date Alex wants anywhere near Bailey is him.

Nora Reid believes scientific laws control everything, even love. With her grandparents' epic first kiss story cemented in her brain, Nora develops a hypothesis she's determined to prove: for each person in the world, there is exactly one other person, and at first kiss, they'll experience an immediate and intense reaction. But after four years of zero-reaction kisses, she comes up with a new theory: maybe that pesky crush on her stunningly hot best friend Eli Costas is skewing her results.

Sixteen-year-old Tatum Elsea is bracing for the worst summer of her life. Trapped under her stepmother-imposed house arrest and her BFF ghosting her, Tatum pours herself into the assigned community service. With a helpful push from her fellow community service member, Abby, Tatum fills her time at homebuilding her covert graphic design business, right under her stepmother’s nose. When a cute cello-playing client sweeps Tatum off her feet, she’s left breathless and eager to get out of these four walls.

He was perfect. At first. The summer before senior year, 17-year-old Chloe starts an internship at a local newspaper. While on assignment, she meets Kieran, a quirky aspiring actor. Chloe is smitten with Kieran's charisma and his ability to soothe her soul, torn over her parents' impending divorce. As their bond deepens, Kieran becomes smothering and flies into terrifying rages.

This book is a how-to manual that teaches you every step of the process to printing 20 popular sublimation projects and 3 bonus projects that I adapted. You will find instructions on how to print sublimation t-shirts, tumblers, key chains, koozies and much, much more.

The mayor of Chicago has announced a plan to round up the city's supernatural beings and put them in camps. With her due date looming, Maddy's best move would be to lay low for a while. But not everyone is willing to respect her privacy. Hounded by tentacled monsters, a rogue shape-shifter, and a tenacious blogger, Maddy turns to her most powerful ally, her uncle, Daharan, only to find him missing. Just when it seems like things can't get any worse, Maddy gets an invitation in the mail - to Lucifer's wedding.

Lady Viola Oberbrook only wanted to forget the ill-fated early morning duel that took the lives of two young, wealthy, promising men of the ton and sent her fleeing for her father's country estate. Eight years later, she has her life in order: a fulfilling business, a few trusted friends, and no plans to return to London society. What she doesn't expect is to come face to face with her past.

Miss Laura Haver is a spinster and a seamstress ... and a woman bent on revenge. After her brother was killed while seeking the identity of a notorious French smuggler, Laura suspects the smuggler's true identity is none other than the wealthy and commanding Keefe Leighton, Earl of Hamilton. How to capture such a rogue? By arriving at his estate and claiming to be his bride, of course. But her plans go awry when Hamilton arrives and discovers her ruse ... and does everything in his considerable power to make her his bride in truth!

When the planes hit the Twin Towers, Christina Ray Stanton’s life changed forever. As the new dawn of terrorism began, the Manhattan resident and her husband fearfully witnessed the impact just six blocks away from Ground Zero. As toxic dust spread into the air, the Stantons boarded a boat off the island and into the unknown.

In this ode from parent to child, Christina Perri teams up with New York Times bestselling illustrator Joy Hwang Ruiz to turn her hit song "A Thousand Years" into a tender reminder that a mother's love is forever. A child ventures out into the world, one bold step at a time, as her mother looks on, both of them brave in embracing change and steadfast in their ever-evolving love.

Dana broke up with a very wealthy obsessive sociopath who becomes a stalker. He cannot deal with someone saying no to him. But Dana has moved on. She starts to get serious with her new man, Lucas. They love each other, but both of them are nervous about revealing secrets that would allow them to go deeper as a couple.

Two years after the death of his wife, Aubrey Hendricks is still weighed down by grief. He can’t focus on anything beyond working at the family farm, First Light. At the urging of a friend, he takes a step toward resuming a normal life and reopens the bakery his wife once ran. He places a help-wanted ad in the local paper, and to his surprise, an applicant shows up the next day.

Growing up can be tough, and sometimes, you just need a big sister to help you through it. In Believe in You, the six Cimorelli sisters share their experiences and accumulated wisdom on everything from dating and friendship to faith and family....

En charmerende engelsk playboy. En kvinde som endelig har bestemt sig for at nyde livet. Og mange hæmningsløse møder. Andet bind i "Beautiful Bastard"-serien. Sara er lige flyttet til New York for at komme sig over sin utro eks. hun er opsat på at nyde livet og have så mange uforpligtende affærer som muligt. Så da hun møder den uimodståelige og sexede englænder Max på en natklub, skulle det egentlig bare være for en enkelt nat. Men Max får hende til at smide hæmningerne på en måde, hun aldrig havde drømt om, og snart er han ikke længere et flygtigt møde, men hendes Beautiful Stranger.

Successful financial analyst Michael Walsh leads a picture-perfect life that anyone would envy - unless they caught a glimpse beneath the surface. Haunted by failed relationships and self-doubt, Michael harbors a soul-deep loneliness that no number of casual hookups can fulfill. So why can’t he stop thinking about his New Year’s fling with a man whose quiet desperation matched his own? Barista Stewart Jenkins has an abysmal track record with relationships, and no matter how hard he tries to keep things tightly under wraps, his life is spinning out of control.

Born in a small town in the desolate reaches of Western Texas and shaped by her girlhood in an industrial wasteland on the outskirts of Dallas, Bonnie Parker was a natural performer and a star student. She dreamed of being a movie star or a singer or a poet. But her dramatic nature, contorted by her limited opportunities and her overwhelming love for Clyde Barrow, pushed her into a course from which there was no escape but death.