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How does a librarian from New Jersey end up in a convenience store on Vancouver Island in the middle of the night, playing Bible Scrabble with a Korean physicist and a drunk priest? She gets married to the wrong man for starters - she didn't know he was "that kind of Catholic" - and ends up in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She gets a job in a New Age bookstore, wanders toward Buddhism without realizing it, and acquires a dog. Things get complicated after that.

Nolan Brooks is off-limits. Sure, he's insanely attractive and funny, and I might have almost gone home with him one night to relieve a little stress. Big deal. It was all just a momentary lapse in judgment...just like the kiss we shared. He's my temporary roommate while I wait for my new apartment to be ready. That's it. He's doesn't do relationships, and he doesn't do attachments. So what if I have a crush on him? We'll only be there for two months. Surely I can survive that long.

Muscle weakness has left Grace Wagler with a broken body - and her childhood best friend has left her with a broken heart. She can hold her own in the timber camp (and do everything else the other women in Badger Creek can do), but in an Amish district where women outnumber men three to one, marriage is an unlikely prospect for a girl with bad legs. Ben Eicher just arrived in Michigan from Pinecraft, Florida. When his most recent shenanigans proved too much for his daed’s patience, Ben was sent to the Upper Peninsula to work in the lumber camp.

Lindie Wyse thinks an arranged marriage is the only way to preserve a future for herself and her unborn child. Josiah Plank is certain he’ll never love again, but he needs someone to care for his deaf eight-year-old daughter, Hannah. The two take on their arrangement tentatively at first but soon realize they are each in for more than they imagined.

We have your son. It’s the call that’s every parent’s nightmare. And for CIA analyst Jill Bailey, it’s the call that changes everything. It’s Jill’s job to vet new CIA sources. Like Falcon, who’s been on the recruitment fast track. But before she can get to work, Jill gets the call. Her son has been taken. And to get him back, Jill does something she thought she’d never do.

Are you looking to strengthen your relationship with God? Do you find yourself untangling the threads of what it is you really believe? Are you longing for a deeper connection to your spiritual side? Bunmi Laditan has been in your shoes. In the midst of her darkest days, Bunmi began writing down her deepest fears, hopes, dreams, and frustrations with God in the form of letters. The result of Bunmi's soul-searching journey is Dear God, a collection of funny, heartbreaking, and deeply insightful prayers that put words to the emotions we all feel.

When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a few caveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all, no girls. A harrowing incident years before left her a virtual prisoner in her own home, forever wary of the heartbreak and limitation of a girl’s life. Eleven years after they began fostering, Dahlia and Louie consider their family complete, but when the social worker begs them to take a young girl who has been horrifically abused and neglected, they can’t say no.

As far as Haven is concerned, there's just too much going on. Everything is changing, and she's not sure where she fits in. Her father is getting married to the local weather woman. Her sister, Ashley, is engaged to a man who's just...boring. And Haven, at 15, is nearly six feet tall and still growing. Then Ashley's old boyfriend shows up, sparking memories of the summer when they were all happy and everything was perfect....

Navigating racial identity, gender roles, workplace dynamics, and beauty standards, Mia Mercado's hilarious essay collection explores the contradictions of being a millennial woman, which usually means being kind of a weirdo.

For Spencer, Ellie has always been his rock. His stability. The one who was there for him in his darkest hour. But he's never thought of her as more than a friend...until now. And that's just inconvenient, since he knows what she wants, right down to how she takes her coffee. It isn't him. Ellie wants a stable life and a white picket fence, so she only dates guys who want that, too. She knows Spencer doesn't do relationships. And besides, high school is over, and he's about to be a US Marine.

Hercules must change his angry and mighty countenance to one of patience and perseverance. Despite the goddess Hera and King Eurystheus presuming the 12 labors they thrust upon Hercules are impossible, our hero accomplishes them, not only because of his strength, but also by using his intelligence, the advice of others, and the help of his friends. Too Much the Hero shows us that "who we were" doesn't stick to us; we can change for the better in our character - to a new and improved “who we are”.

She “became famous, finally, to herself,” Kathleen Flenniken writes. This is the kind of fame at the heart of most lives and at the center of Flenniken’s first collection, the winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Here “a little voice sings / from the back of the auditorium / of my throat. Aren’t all of us / waiting to be discovered?” The poet’s answer is sometimes grave, sometimes comic, but always tuned to the incidental music of daily life.

Anxiety and depression have their effects in the lives of different people, so much that it even goes even further to affect their health. Overcoming depression, trauma, and anxiety is a task and can be accomplished by the activation of what is called the vagus nerve. Roy Thornhill did a great job making even the most unaware person know about nervous systems diseases, to see what they are from the lay mans eye, what effects they have on our health, how to tackle them with the vagus nerve and a lot more.

Life for Alice Liddell should be normal. Work, family, and her general sucky life back at her parent’s house, working as a slutty elf in Santa’s shop. But from the moment Alice wakes up from a terrible fevered dream, nothing feels ordinary. With visions of strange creatures, an obsession with creating top hats until her hands bleed, and an inexplicable attraction to her married neighbor, Matt, she feels like she’s going crazy. When her illusions start to turn into full-blown hallucinations, her family feels they have no choice but to find her help.

Nach dem Erfolg ihres Debütromans taumelt die Autorin Chloe Watson in eine tiefe Krise, denn ihre zweite Erzählung wird von den Kritikern und der Leserschaft verrissen. Ihr Absturz in die Bedeutungslosigkeit ist vorprogrammiert, doch dann entdeckt sie bei einem Spaziergang die Leiche einer jungen Frau. Wäre das nicht der perfekte Aufhänger für einen neuen Roman? Auf eigene Faust beginnt sie zu ermitteln. Ein fataler Fehler.

Coraline, ihre neue Liebe Ron, ein College-Baseball-Spieler, Eugene, ihr bester Freund, und die anstrengende Ashley fahren gemeinsam Richtung Florida, um dort ihre Semesterferien zu verbringen. Doch mitten im Great Smoky Mountains Nationalpark streikt plötzlich der Wagen. Die vier Studenten sind gezwungen, in einem einsam gelegenen Haus zu übernachten. Als Coraline bei einer Séance Botschaften aus dem Jenseits empfängt, die vor Ron warnen, wandelt sich die Nacht in den Bergen zu einer mörderischen Odyssee.

Er hatte Susan fixiert. Ihr Oberkörper vornübergebeugt auf dem Tisch. Sie trug nichts als schwarzen Samt über Augen und Ohren. Sie war ihm ausgeliefert. Nicht das erste Mal. Und es gefiel ihr. Er sagte, er habe ein Geschenk für sie, nachträglich zum Geburtstag. Sie sagte, sie könne es kaum noch erwarten. Er schob ihr sein Glied in den Mund. Das sei noch nicht alles, ließ er sie wissen. Dann hörte sie hinter sich leise die Tür.

What if Alice Liddell’s story didn’t happen the way you think? What if it wasn’t Wonderland she fell into, but Winterland. This mad tale is dark, twisted, sexy, and nothing like the legend you know. After losing her job and finding her boyfriend/boss cheating on her with her replacement, 25-year-old Alice Liddell has moved back home to save money and regroup. She doesn’t think things can get worse until her younger, more responsible sister, Dinah, gets her a job as a Christmas elf.

Der heruntergekommene Jean Fournier wird von der Stadtverwaltung als neuer Friedhofswächter eingestellt. Zusammen mit den zwielichtigen Männern Ossip und Welitscho bewacht er das Gelände, auf dem sich auch die Gruft einer alten Fürstin befindet. Nach und nach findet Fournier heraus, dass hier etwas nicht mit rechten Dingen zugeht. Er fühlt sich von Tag zu Tag schwächer und macht dafür den Trank verantwortlich, den ihm seine Kollegen abends verabreichen. Fournier verfällt auf eine List und bleibt am Abend wach.

While traversing the universe in pursuit of adventure, profit, and pleasure, the characters in these stories are prone to explore the bodies of the neighboring life forms they meet as much as the planetary bodies. Greta Bowles explores just a few possible encounters and interactions between different species as they interact. The stories involve smuggling, marauding space pirates who enslave their captives, and official trade missions to other worlds.