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Many books have dealt with sexual abuse scandals in the church and the role of pastoral care for survivors. Others have provided liberatory readings of biblical texts to support survivors of sexual violence. Surviving God takes a new approach, centering the voices of sexual abuse survivors while rethinking key Christian beliefs. Starting from experiences of oppression, beliefs that contribute to oppression are challenged, and new, hopeful, and healing beliefs take their place.

Faced with uncontrollable circumstances, from a change in market demand to a global pandemic, being self-employed can sometimes feel less like you're running the show, and more like the show is running you. But it doesn't need to be that way. Small business consultant, entrepreneur coach, and acclaimed portrait photographer Jeffrey Shaw - TEDx speaker and host of the popular The Self-Employed Life podcast - offers the essential manual on everything you need to be successful as a self-employed business owner.

A podcast about living, extinct, and imaginary animals!

Seventeen-year-old Maddie has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape. When she comes across the world of “thinspiration” websites, where young people encourage each other in their mission to lose weight, she quickly becomes addicted. Finally, she has found a place where she is understood and where she can belong.

Three women. Three lives under surveillance. Three chilling stories where being watched is only the beginning. The Watcher Collection pulls readers into neighborhoods that are too perfect, online fame that spirals into public destruction, and hometown memories that refuse to stay buried. As paranoia grows and hidden agendas surface, each woman must confront the terrifying realization that someone has been watching her far longer—and far more closely—than she ever imagined. Twisting through obsession, manipulation, and shocking betrayals, these psychological thrillers deliver relentless ...

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is the fascinating tale of Henry Higgins, a professor of speech and phonetics who takes on the task of teaching Eliza Doolittle, a lower-class flower seller, how to "act like a lady".

Erik's dragon lurks beneath the surface, only willing to emerge for one woman, his half-brother's widow. As the queen of the kingdom he's inherited, Erik will need her by his side in order to survive as the new king. After her tyrannical husband was killed, Marienne was finally set free, and she's determined not to repeat the mistakes of the past. As a sorceress, people have always sought her out for what she is, not for the woman she is. So why would Erik be any different? Except Marienne knows why and it's plagued her dreams for the past five years.

In mid-century Minsk, a hungry girl with nothing to lose discovers a chessboard—and a way to survive. Anya Volkova rises from back alleys and cramped rooms into the bright, merciless world of chess, where every win is watched, every mistake is punished, and being a girl is its own kind of target. As her reputation grows, so do the forces inside her: obsession, loneliness, and a private hunger she can’t always control. From frostbitten parks to international tournaments, The Queen of Minsk is a psychological story of ambition, addiction, and the quiet war between self-destruction and ...

One night. No names. Until Monday morning—when I find out my anonymous hookup is Baxter Young… one of my dad’s star players. My dad, who also happens to be the Icehawks’ head coach. My dad, who stood in front of the entire locker room and announced his daughter is completely off limits. Now every time Baxter smirks at me in a meeting, brushes past me in the hall, or corners me where no one’s watching, I remember exactly how it felt to come apart under his hands. We swear it won’t happen again. We lie. Because once you’ve been touched like that—kissed like that—you don’t ...

My Irish family has spent years rescuing women trafficked by the Polish mafia. I’ve been a protector. A defender. Saved countless women. A twist of fate puts a woman from my past directly in my path. When I discover she’s in danger, I’ll destroy anyone in order to save her, too.

For readers of Karen Russell, Maggie Shipstead, and Eowyn Ivey, an exuberant, highly imaginative epic about a family that settles, against all odds, in the far reaches of the Arctic and the unexpected industry that keeps them afloat for generations. In the far reaches of the Territory of the...

She went viral for being stalked—then watched as the internet turned her into the villain in a twisted psychological thriller about obsession, manipulation, and revenge. My name is Madison Hale, and someone is stalking me. Intimate messages. Personal details I’ve never shared. Photos taken without my knowledge. So I did what any smart influencer would do. I asked my community for help. I documented everything. Shared my fear. Let them see the evidence unfold in real time. I never told them to destroy lives. I never said anyone deserved to die. But when you have half a million people who...

Some kings rule in peace. Most must earn their power through strife and blood shed. Alliances secured and the enemy fully revealed at last, the end is at hand. Petra the matriarch stands at Victor's side, the women under her have spread out, each occupying more space, more authority, and more skill than ever before. And Victor, well, he finally has his generals, his soldiers, and his army ready. With the unexpected death of a close friend and one of Victor's strongest generals, he's reminded that Life is precious and so are the ones we love.

When phonetics tutor and linguist Henry Higgins meets Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, he makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can teach her to speak so well that she will be able to pass herself off as a Duchess at a society ball. Eliza agrees, seduced by promises of...

As kids, we had an unexplainable bond. One I don't think we even understood back then. Over time, the pull between us developed into something we could no longer ignore. We were reckless, we were impulsive, we were… everything. Until it all came shattering down. Now, he's a single father, and I'm the estranged best friend who's still hopelessly in love with him—Eli Barton, America's favorite baseball pitcher and the man I walked away from. What was supposed to be self-preservation may have turned out to be the biggest regret of my life.

She was born to shatter walls. The daughter of the Duke of Sutherland, Ian Stanford, Lady Jacqueline, has resigned herself to a life alone. Refusing to kowtow to standards set by the ton, Jacqueline wishes to focus her attentions on running her father’s cargo shipping business. Her father raised her to be fearless and curious, athletic and intelligent. Jacqueline can’t bring herself to marry a man who doesn’t accept her as the hoyden she is. He was raised to keep his feelings hidden, to maintain total control and never let anyone affect him.

Social and racial unrest in Faerie comes to a cataclysmic head when the reigning royals expel all supernaturals from the realm—save for the full-blooded fae. When tragedy strikes and Aurelia’s adoptive mother dies, the witches point their finger squarely at her. Eluding capture, she goes on the run, seeking rest and sanctuary from those who hunt her. But with all the undesirables of Faerie now running amok in the human realm there is danger at every turn. Despite her deepest reservations it seems there is only one man she can turn to, and he’s the last man she should trust—Grey.

It wasn’t stalking. Lane just did his best to make sure he was at the right place at the right time to watch the sexy, tattooed hunk get his coffee in the afternoon. The tattooed hunk who had to be straight, no matter how badly Lane wanted to imagine otherwise. He’d somehow collected a stalker. Wilder wasn’t quite sure what he was going to do about the admirer he’d picked up on his afternoon lunch break.

Garrett was at his breaking point. There were only so many times in a week you should have to see someone you were...attracted to...infatuated with...but certainly didn’t have a crush on. Doms didn’t have those. Especially on a customer who probably wasn’t even gay, much less a sub. Business 101 - do not flirt with a client. Wyatt was losing his mind. Hiding his obsession was getting harder and harder. All he wanted to do was kneel in front of Garrett and call him Master. But the sexy insurance agent never seemed to see him.

This duet of steamy dragon shifter goodness includes the first two books in the Dragon Kings of Fire and Ice series.