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Sara O'Neill is on the run, and her family's abandoned old colonial home in rural New Zealand is just the sanctuary she needs. The house needs repair, but it's safe from the abusive husband she left behind. Unfortunately, a dangerous presence is haunting her new home, threatening her chance at peace.

Narrow escapes and bold decisions define the life of teenager Morris Schnitzer. Fleeing from Nazi Germany before the onset of World War II, Morris ends up in the Netherlands only to watch the country be invaded by the Nazis. With his father’s warning to never set foot in a concentration camp...

As soon as I graduate, I am leaving Vegas because I am tired of my father's criminal antics. I won't let him use me in his con games any longer because, at some point, it will come back at him tenfold. When it does, I don't want to be around. He's either going to end up in jail or worse, he'll end up dead.

Everything I thought I knew about my life is a lie. My mother revealed a terrible, dangerous secret in her last letter to me. But with her death, any chance of knowing the truth has disappeared. I’ll have to do whatever it takes to find out for myself.

Astra Arden had never expected to come back to Florida—let alone embark on a new career with a talking owl sidekick and a goddess who knew when someone was about to die. But when Alice Windrow, a philanthropic young woman from the small town of Forkbridge, comes to her sister Ami for a card reading, Astra's life takes a turn for the unexpected.

Hensley and Bianca are two sexy futas who desperately want to have a baby. The only way they can is to find a beautiful woman to impregnate. Enter Zania, their gorgeous best friend from college. Zania has lusted after the couple for years, envious of their love and passion. Once chance encounter at a restaurant, and they offer her everything she wants and more, in a night full of thick surprises, and hot and heavy romance. Everyone always called them the Terrific Trio - let's see if they can make a terrific baby.

Have you ever spent all day looking after your baby or young child—and ended up feeling that you have 'done nothing all day'? Do you sometimes find it hard to feel pleased with what you are doing, and tell yourself you should achieve more with your time? Maybe it's because you can't see how much you are doing already. In this unique and perceptive look at mothering, Naomi Stadlen draws on many years' work with hundreds of other mothers of a wide variety of ages and backgrounds.

With the king gone, the veil fell. Thrusting Carnage Crossing into a fresh hell. A city of the dead. A town built by demise. Torn apart by the livings’ whim to exorcise. The lineage was tracked, and followed to a royal heir. The fact she had a pulse, a shocking affair. Whisked through death’s door with grisly splendor. Her reign will begin, when ties to the past sever. Yet secrets slither in, with a venomous bite. Threatening to destroy all, when they come to light. Will the truth revealed bring peace to the dead? Or unleash the Corpse Queen to come for your head?

All of London is abuzz about the newest scandal: Poison Pen Letters. These letters, written anonymously, are plaguing the upper classes and include highly personal and damning information that could ruin numerous reputations. And guess who happens to be investigating them? The highly irritable Inspector Grant Stirling. Just as ornery and difficult as he’s always been, it seems I can’t stop crossing paths with the cantankerous man. When my closest friend, Lady Caroline Ashmore, receives her own detestable letter with allegations that are too lewd for respectable eyes, I decide to get involved.

It’s Over Now is an honest and deeply personal account of Karrine’s life-changing and challenging circumstances. It will touch your heart, and will leave you filled with hope. After being abandoned by her mother whilst she lay sleeping, Karrine was raised by a queen—her great-grandmother. The queen of her life instilled invaluable life lessons and taught her the true meaning of love. However, as life unfolds, Karrine faces unimaginable loss and pain. She is dealt blow after blow, and must fight to save not only her family, but her life.

Peaceful Mickleburgh is the perfect English market town - or so it seems. In fact, it is a perfectly constructed façade, having successfully hidden the secrets of its inhabitants for generations. But the casual murder of a man trying to prevent an act of vandalism shatters the genteel appearance. Parents are forced to consider whether their children could be involved, friends avoid each other's eyes and partners word their conversations carefully. Somebody in the community is close to the murderer - someone with a past that threatens to resurface, bringing damage and devastation to a whole community.

Day by day, our community shrinks as people leave for the outpost, and I look over my family with worry. Hope is dwindling, along with our supplies. We turn our eyes to the North, and wonder if this is the day we abandon the remnant of the old lives we tried so hard to hang on to. We wonder if this is the day we join the Walk.

Poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing."

Molly’s fisherman father makes her a little dinghy and teaches her to sail. Soon Molly is scudding over the waves, with a pod of dolphins leaping all around. She helps the dolphins when one gets tangled up in a fishing net. But what will happen when it’s Molly who needs help?

Jeanie and her husband want to do something sexy, but she never imagined it would involve her taking lewd photos with another man! Her husband is excited as he watches and clicks away, and as for Jeanie, she’s never had interracial experience at all. The penetration is just supposed to be for the pictures but Jeanie experiences a whole lot more. When she’s with the bull, she’s completely at the mercy of her arousal.

Tina is excited about her all-girl vacation, but when she and her friends go to a nude beach, she gets turned on enough by exposing herself that she misses her husband desperately. Imagine her surprise when she finds out he’s there! The plan was always for him to meet them, but now he’s a day early, and that means she gets a chance to enjoy what she craves. The one thing she didn’t think about was how incredible it would feel to sleep with her husband while all her friends knew exactly what was going on!

An old cold case bears a striking resemblance to a murder that occurred in Hallow Haven weeks ago, and now it seems that history is repeating itself in more ways than one. The police have a main suspect, but Sadie has her doubts. After a conversation with her familiar, she uncovers a new branch of her family tree that could change everything. The truth is about to come out, and it could spell trouble. Could she finally find out where her parents have been all this time?

I was told once my big mouth would get me into trouble, But I didn’t expect the hottest man I’d ever seen to hear me confess my severe lack of…bedroom antics. When I throw myself into the chilling sea, he thinks he’s rescuing me from embarrassment but there’s always…always more. I should resist Mason. But the demons in his eyes call to mine. And how I can I resist the dark promises he makes?

Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and the micro-aggressions, she’s thrilled when Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events cause Nella to become Public Enemy Number One and Hazel, the Office Darling. Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: Leave Wagner. Now.

Cam likes me. He’s asked me on a date. It’s kind of unbelievable. He could have any girl he wants, yet his eyes landed on me. Can this be real? Do I go for it?