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Even when you're not expecting it, love can find you. The flames of passion can ignite so quickly that all of the impediments to love can seem immaterial. They're not. Overcoming differences in age, sexual orientation, social status, and familial expectations is daunting, but if it's right, love will find a way.

When my parents mysteriously disappear, leaving me to raise my six crazy, younger siblings, my dreams for college are dashed. It gets worse when someone sends a slew of monster assassins after me and my family. Their untimely arrival is followed by three devastatingly hot Fae assholes who stalk me. Too bad for them, I'm not the docile type they're used to commanding. I might want to screw them, but I have no intention of joining the trail of broken hearts and bodies in their wake.

Managing Millennials for Dummies is the field guide to people management in the modern workplace. Packed with insight, advice, personal anecdotes, and practical guidance, this audiobook shows you how to manage your millennial workers and teach them how to manage themselves. You'll learn just what makes them tick - they're definitely not the workers of yesteryear - and how to uncover the deeply inspirational talent they have hiding not far below the surface.

"Pascendi Dominici Gregis" is a papal encyclical letter promulgated by Pope Pius X on September 8, 1907. The pope condemned modernism and a whole range of other principles described as "evolutionary".

Two mortal enemies. One hot, fated love. The dominant wolf shifter never thought I'd fall onto his doomed planet. When I do, he thinks it's the best day of his life. It's the worst for me. I escaped being a breeder to a cruel king, only to have my spaceship crash on the arena where nine clans fight to the death to claim me. I flee the ship, but Antonio tracks me down. He f--ks me, believing I'm his mate, but when he finds out who I truly am - a leopard princess whose father slaughtered his family - he looks at me with hatred. Yet he can't let me go. His body craves mine too much.

Nick Fairfax believes that his romance with Lord Bane Dunsaney is over. Bane has chosen revenge against Nick’s family over his love for Nick. And Bane’s secret - that he is the guardian of a tiger spirit - has also caused a wedge between them with Nick still in the dark about Bane’s true nature. Can they overcome these seemingly insurmountable problems and find their happily ever after? Cursed: Beloved is the third and final book in the Cursed series.

Four children by her father. Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse. In March 2009, Joseph Fritzl was sentenced to life in jail for the systematic imprisonment, torture and rape of his daughter, Elisabeth, over 24 years, fathering seven children. The case shocked the world. But just a month before, the story of Australia’s own house of horrors was emerging in a Victorian country town.

Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He’s sick of being haunted by his family’s past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high school. Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents’ expectations are stifling. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended by the strange new boy in her class, the arrival of unearthly fireflies, and an ominous crack spreading across the town of Fairbridge.

This podcast looks at everything through the eyes of a Gen X Family! My Mom and Dad (along with me, Gen Z kid) talk about everything. You will get a very good look at the Gen X take on things, that's for sure! **** Our 'INTERVIEWS' have moved! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/genxtalks-interviews **** Didn't say it was right. Didn't say it was wrong. Just said you'd get to hear it. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gen-x-talks1/support

Being a teen is stressful. Whether it’s school, friends, or dating, the teen years are full of difficult changes - both mentally and physically. The Mindful Teen offers teens a unique mindfulness program based in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) designed especially for teens to help manage stress, navigate volatile emotions, and improve communication skills. Teens will also learn simple, practical, and easy-to-remember tips they can use every day to reduce reactivity and handle stressful situations effectively.

James was no one special. That all changed when he became an overnight millionaire. After building a mansion and leaving his past life behind, James is finally free. Living in a massive home on top of a large mountain range has perks, but it doesn't help with crippling loneliness. With his financial worries gone, he sets his eyes on a local waitress named Beth in hopes to explore a possible relationship. But the world was about to change forever.

The four mighty, smoking-hot warriors had wanted to use Cass Saélihn as the weapon to kill the Olympian gods, but they fell for her instead. Now all they want is to protect her. So they hide Cass in the magically glamoured Academy, the only safe place for earthlings. But Cass won’t cower or run from danger. She sets her own rules and stands her ground, no matter how her blood heats for her alpha mates. She’s determined to take the fight to the gods, not as a weapon but a leader.

Prince Finrael Ravenspar must defy his father’s will and cross back to the Kingdom of Rirea to save his beloved King Rohan De Clare from the undead. Finally together again, Finrael and Rohan desire only to be with one another and enjoy their newfound love, including attending the royal ball to celebrate the kingdom’s alliance against the Death Mage Marikoth. But ancient prophecies and present enemies are working to destroy both Rirea and the Fae Empire. Will their combined power be able to stop the world from being turned into a graveyard?

#1 MINDSET + HIGH PERFORMANCE PODCAST FOR HIGH ACHIEVING PAGEANT WOMEN . Do you sometimes struggle to believe in yourself, despite having big, audacious goals? Have you ever felt alone, because you’re the only one in your circle dreaming as big as you are? Do you desire a deeper, more fulfilled life spiritually, mentally, and professionally, without the dreaded + seemingly never-ending “motivated vs totally burned out” cycle? Do you desire to know Jesus at a deeper level, want Christ-centered goals in line with His will for you, but don’t know where to start or who to trust? Do you ...

Yearnings is the penultimate chapter in the “I Found My Heart In San Francisco” series. We’ve traveled along with Jamie, Ryan, Mia, Jordan, a boatload of O’Flahertys, a smaller number of Evanses, and a huge supporting cast for seven years of their topsy-turvy lives. Now, as we speed toward the end of the series, we find Jamie and Ryan at yet another turning point. Is it time to add a member to the clan?

Dr. Hanscom believes that each human being has a deep drive to thrive and give back. This force is frequently compromised by chronic pain, which has been documented to have a similar impact on your quality of life as terminal cancer. Life becomes one of survival.Through his own personal ordeal, he discovered that chronic pain is curable by systematically using established medical practices in a self-directed manner. The key is connecting to your own healing capacity.

A riveting, visceral memoir of a Southern Black man growing up Christian and his journey of faith. Follow the provocative memoir of a Black Christian born in the Deep South during a racially conflicted era in the US—a conflict that still lingers today—and his incredible story of faith, purpose, and spiritual path that spans life and death. Battered by racism and discrimination even from within the church, Nathaniel Arnold found himself questioning God’s truth and love.

After a successful undercover operation ensnared an MS-13 gang leader in a high-profile human trafficking investigation, the case is picked up by the feds, and Fairfax County Police Detective Sergeant Kiki Diaz prepares for a complex federal trial in Washington, D.C. The ordinary way to get from her townhouse in Fairfax to the courthouse downtown is via the Washington D.C. Metro, but this journey turns out to be anything but ordinary.

In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem. Using his extraordinary gifts as a teacher and storyteller, Kendi helps us recognise that everyone is, at times, complicit in racism whether they realise it or not, and by describing with moving humility his own journey from racism to antiracism, he shows us how instead to be a force for good.

Emiliano and his sister Sara have successfully fled organized crime in Mexico, illegally crossing into the United States. But now, Sara is in jail, and Emiliano's reunion with their father in Chicago is more awkward than celebratory. When Emiliano is falsely accused of a crime against a missing local girl, it sets off a tense and dangerous race to find her, before he can even "find himself" in this new place he must call home.