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After 13 years of not talking to his grown-up son, Joey, New Yorker Silas gets worrying health news, meaning the coming holiday season might be his last chance to make things right. A job onboard the Crown Atlantic Holiday Wonderland Cruise finds him bound for Florida in the company of 3000 gay men—and one woman.

Sadie Alden has been invited to the South Coast to investigate a murder and it’s a welcome change of pace given the chaos of the past few weeks. Hope Falls is a small town at the bottom of the main island, isolated by the cliffs that surround it and unwelcoming to outsiders. Sadie’s familiar tries to warn her that it won’t be all sand and sunshine, especially when they’re surrounded by murder suspects, but at least she can leave the werewolf drama behind for a couple of days.

The heart is the best guide. Unless, of course, we ignore it… Carla Bellini is eager to open her upscale B&B on Martha’s Vineyard, leaving no time to search for a soulmate—they only exist in novels anyway. Plus, the only man she’s ever desired is the one she’s bossed around for the past year, and he’s just told her he’s had enough of her whims. Oops. Work is brimming, and Damian Foster should be happy.

When Stacie Maroni is mistakenly abducted, she fears for the life of the intended victim. The young woman, who worked at the same company as Stacie, soon turns up dead. With the kidnappers afraid Stacie could identify them, threats lurk around every corner. Add the victims two friends and a tech company with a dance-oriented employee program. A quick lesson in the jitterbug provides more clues as Stacie navigates the twists and turns of the murder.

My husband and I are experts in sensory deprivation, and we are just about as expert in the world of BDSM as we could be. When we decided to put the two things together, it ended up being the most intense experience I could imagine. Not only did I have my first anal sex, but I did so while bound to the bed and completely deprived of sight, hearing, and speech!

Everything changes when Lilou is given her most important task: to keep a frightened little boy, Eliot, hidden safe in her farmhouse. All alone in the world, Eliot refuses to speak as he clutches his treasured children’s book close to his chest. Inside is a beautiful story of stars, planets and the night sky. But why is this innocent child the one, among thousands, who Lilou must save?

Late one night, three women share secrets. They barely know each other, but they all know Jamie Lawrence. They know what he's guilty of. And they agree something must be done. But as their plan spirals out of control, they begin to doubt themselves...and each other. Then Jamie is found dead. And suddenly everything is at stake. As lies are unravelled and truths exposed, two urgent questions emerge: who is really guilty? And who will have to pay?

Using her bakery and expertise, Madeline Flynn helps the sheriff’s twin nephews with their cookie sales - until strange things happen at the community center where they sell them. With a puzzling death, vandalism, and a nasty scam, the danger on their doorstep can’t be ignored. Maddie is once again whisked up in an investigation that will take all her sleuthing skills. Gran, a posse of girlfriends, plus Big Red, her faithful Maine coon, won’t let her do it alone.

This collection contains Book 1 - Undercurrents, Book 2 – Drowned Voices, and Book 3 – Emergence.

Astra Arden never expected to find murder at a self-help festival organized by a secretive sect. But when an unexplained storm cuts off all communication with the mainland, she realizes she'd better solve it—and fast. When Astra Arden agreed to join her best friend on a camping trip to a private tropical island, she had no idea what was in store. But when the four-day festival looks like it's run by a warring self-help cult, and the island seems to be claimed by a mysterious goddess with a hidden agenda, Astra soon finds herself in a whirlwind of intrigue and secret agendas that she can’t ignore.

Actor Dylan Conner is furious. Not only has he been left out of his child’s life, the baby boy has been given another man’s last name. Determined to be a better father than the sorry guy who’d left him and his mother, Dylan fights to ensure a significant place in his son’s life. Unfortunately, his bad-boy reputation overshadows his good intentions. Only one woman in this small town sees beyond his Hollywood image. And he’s falling for her. Too bad she’s the custody mediator.

Balancing direct language with a suggestive “aslantness,” Nye probes the fragile connection between language and meaning. She never shies from the challenge of trying to name the mysterious logic of childhood or speak truth to power in the face of the horrors of war.

L. E. L. was the pen-name of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838), a “wild and wayward girl” whose outspoken poems about love, hypocrisy, social injustice, religions, and death were discussed and debated avidly during her short life, but lost favor afterwards as Victorian notions of propriety became dominant. This wide-ranging collection includes 60 of her most characteristic poems.

At thirty-six, Naomi Watts had just completed filming King Kong and was trying to start a family when she was told that she was on the brink of menopause. It is estimated that seventy-five million women in the United States are currently dealing with menopause symptoms (dry itchy skin, raging...

Judaism, Fourth Edition presents the basic beliefs of the Jewish religious heritage and highlights the different manners in which these traditions can be upheld. Both Orthodox Judaism and the religious practices and movements within Reformed Judaism, including Reform Judaism, Conservative Judaism, and Reconstructionist Judaism, are explored in this fascinating book. The book is published by Chelsea House Publishers, a leading publisher of educational material.

Sara Baron’s dream job as a professional symphony musician is threatened by a medical affliction. She returns to her hometown in upstate New York to receive physical therapy and hopefully recover enough to resume her career. While playing duets for the opening of the town’s new community center, lights go out and a gunshot echoes through the reception area. The building contractor, a man with no shortage of enemies, is dead. Her duet partner and childhood friend begs her to help find the killer when her father, Sara’s old chemistry teacher, is at the top of the suspect list.

But Elijah Weinstein is wrong for Yves in all the right ways. The kinky, pretty boy and his filthy, delicious mouth has burrowed his way under her skin and she isn’t sure how can or if she wants to get him out. And he believes in her talents and supports her dreams… seems a little too good to be true. When they begin to explore her submissive and kinky tendencies, their feelings for each other become more intense, she fears that she is falling into old patterns, losing herself in him.

Ten-year-old Pinchas is separated from his parents and twin sister when they are deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek. As Pinchas is sent on to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries his best not to be noticed, to...

Do you remember the Christmas story about the chain-rattling ghosts who taught life lessons? Well, how about a Yule tale involving a beachfront mansion, multiple Greek gods, an Orphic priest, and a kidnapped divine panther? Witch Astra Arden expects a quiet holiday with her family and persnickety owl, Archie. She does not expect a Dionysian priest on the Ardens' doorstep bringing news that the Greek god's beloved panther has gone missing. Even worse? Dionysus is accusing his sister—the goddess Athena—of the prank, causing a divine argument that threatens to ruin Astra's holiday.

Twenty-One and Ready for Action is the hot new series from Brittany Spears that tells of a 21st-birthday party that goes absolutely crazy for the two birthday girls and three of their friends. With five hot college girls, six guys, and a night on the town that starts at a strip club, what could be sexier? It’s certainly going to be a night these girls will never, ever forget! In this episode, Mary thinks about how now that she’s finally 21, she’s going to go all the way. She’s going to go all the way a whole, whole lot!