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She’s off-limits, maddeningly gorgeous—and I’m in serious trouble. I didn’t get to be CEO of a billion-dollar company by making reckless decisions—or falling for my ex-fiancée’s little sister. But Vivi Richards, with her quick wit, dazzling smile, and that damn way she bites her lip when she’s focused, is difficult to ignore. Thanks to a significant anniversary gala, Vivi and I are working closely together. It's impossible to stay professional when she’s so close, her presence filling my space, thoughts, and every breath. Every stolen glance, every accidental touch feels ...

If your partner is a survivor of sexual trauma, they may experience anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, or feel triggered by intimate situations. And you may feel confused or unsure of how to support them. This gentle guide will give you the tools you need to help nurture intimacy and trust, and cultivate a secure relationship. In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, marriage, family, and sex therapist Megan Lara Negendank offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to support your partner.

When Finn and Rey find themselves on the run, they must work together to escape from the evil First Order. Listen as the action unfolds in this exciting Star Wars audio story!

In 2018, Diegane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the "Black Rimbaud," after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery, Diegane decides to search for T.C. Elimane, going down a path that will force him to confront the great tragedies of history, from colonialism to the Holocaust.

The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times, now adapted for younger readers. In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only 29 years old, Hinton knew...

Something inhuman is stalking the frigid Alaskan wilds, leaving unspeakable carnage in its wake. For bush pilot Alexandra Maguire, the killings stir memories of a horrific event she witnessed as a child and evoke in her the inexplicable sense of otherness she has long felt within herself but never fully understood...until a darkly seductive stranger with secrets of his own enters her world.

At 18, Corinne Bishop was living a life of privilege as the adopted daughter of a wealthy family. Her world changed in an instant when she was stolen away by the malevolent vampire Dragos. After many years of captivity and torment, Corinne is rescued by the Order, a cadre of vampire warriors embroiled in a war against Dragos and his followers. Her innocence taken, Corinne has lost a piece of her heart as well. But assigned to safeguard her on her trip home is a formidable golden-eyed Breed male called Hunter.

With a dagger in her hand and vengeance on her mind, Darkhaven beauty Elise Chase prowls Boston's streets in search of retribution against the Rogue vampires who took from her everything she cherished. Using an extraordinary psychic gift, she tracks her prey, well aware that the power she possesses is destroying her. She must learn to harness this gift, and for that she can turn to only one man: the deadliest of the Breed warriors, Tegan.

I don't tell anyone it's all falling apart. My little girl needs more than my divided attention—we both do. Someone to make us a family again. But with my billion dollar fortune, I can't trust anyone I date. Except maybe the one girl who wants nothing to do with me at all. Jessica Reynolds. Ten years ago, I broke her heart . . . Now she's back. My new secretary. The same sexy curves, sparkling humor, and gorgeous smile . . . with a new distrust in her eyes. I guess she's not over what happened all those years ago. The more I see of her . . . the more I think I'm not either.

James was no one special until he became an overnight millionaire. With his financial worries gone, he sets his eyes on a local waitress named Beth in hopes to explore a possible relationship. Then the world changed forever. After James narrowly escapes death, he takes refuge in his mountainside mansion with Beth and her attractive friend Claire. With fallout destroying the weather system and people going insane from an unknown neurotoxin, the world is more dangerous than it ever has been.

He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night---or this man---is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed---a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.

In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret for many long centuries, maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order—a cadre of Breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind alike—to stop Dragos, the power-mad vampire at the center of the conflict, before his push for domination can explode into catastrophe.

En abril de 2023, Byung-Chul Han viajó por primera vez a Portugal e impartió unas conferencias en Oporto y Lisboa. Días después ofreció, también por primera vez, una conferencia musical en Leipzig. La tonalidad del pensamiento nace de estas conferencias. La conferencia musical de Leipzig, «La tonalidad del pensamiento», que contó con la interpretación al piano de las piezas favoritas del autor, da título a esta obra y en ella Han expone los tonos y temas que atraviesan su filosofía y repasa la importancia de la música en su obra.

For journalist Dylan Alexander, it began with the discovery of a hidden tomb, thrusting her into the center of a gathering storm of violence and secrets. But nothing is as dangerous as the scarred, lethally seductive man who rises from the shadows to draw her into his world of dark desire and endless night. Fueled by pain and rage over a shattering betrayal, the warrior Rio has pledged his life to the war against the Rogues.

She’s the Mayor. I’m the Mistake She Keeps Making. Sylvia Beaumont is everything I’m not. Powerful. Polished. Uptight in heels and lipstick. I mix drinks, flirt for tips, and sleep in until noon if I want to. I wasn’t supposed to fall for the Ice Queen in a black dress and trauma eyes. But then she kissed me. And now? I can’t stop thinking about her. She says she’s straight. Says I’m a one-time mistake. But her mouth tells a different story when it’s on mine. We were supposed to be a fling. A forgotten night. Then she walks into my bar with her campaign team, and suddenly my...

In ADHD and Me, he tells about the next 12 years as he learns to live with both the good and bad sides of life with ADHD. Blake's memoir offers, for the first time, a young person's account of what it's like to live and grow up with this common condition. Join Blake as he foils bullies, confronts unfair teachers, struggles with distraction and disorganization on exams, and goes sailing out-of-bounds and ends up with a boatload of spiders.

After suffering the worst crash of his entire life and escaping death a dozen times over, Max Slater is finally making some headway on this whole staying alive thing. He’s found a place to live, resources to survive, power to keep from freezing, and a pair of fantastically beautiful women to help him stay alive. And keep warm during the brutally cold nights. But so far, they’ve just been scraping by. They need more: real guns, lots of bullets, a ship, and a real plan to escape this dead, frozen wasteland

Period Repair Manual is your guide to better periods using natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, and bioidentical hormones. It contains advice and tips for women of every age and situation. If you have a period (or want a period), then this book is for you. The second edition contains insights from Dr. Jerilynn Prior and an additional chapter on perimenopause and menopause.

A prizewinning, "riveting" (The New York Times Book Review) psychological suspense novel inspired by a true story about a couple in an insular French village whose lives are upended when a family of outsiders moves in. “Icy and chilling . . . In sharply drawn sentences, Sedira summons the...

She’s my professor. My neighbor. Twenty years older. Totally forbidden. Moving back home was supposed to be easy: finish school, get my life together. Falling for her? That wasn’t part of the plan. Sidney Wagner is fierce, brilliant, and heartbreakingly gorgeous. She’s the woman who lectures in my classroom by day and lives next door by night. And every forbidden look we share sets my soul on fire. She says we can’t. That the stakes are too high. But I see the way her gaze lingers, the way her breath hitches when we’re alone. We’re playing with fire, and it’s only a matter of ...