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Ready to handle difficult conversations with confidence and ease? Do you dread tough discussions, fearing they’ll spiral out of control? Struggle to express your needs without sounding aggressive or making others defensive? You’re not alone. Many adults face these challenges, but the good news is that effective communication is a skill you can master. Difficult Conversations Made Easy equips you with proven strategies to navigate tough talks, manage conflict, and build stronger connections. Master the art of starting difficult conversations without triggering defensiveness.

He demands absolute control because it’s the only thing holding him together. Sabine joined Vire Industries to build a career, not a scandal. She knows exactly how the world looks at interns who get too close to the boss, and she has fought too hard to let a rumor ruin her future. But one evening—one gala where she stood by his side—changed the trajectory of her life. Grayson Vire is a paradox. In the boardroom, he is a predator—cold, calculating, and terrifyingly efficient. But in private, he is a man haunted by demons few can understand. He craves ownership, yet recoils from the ...

Maggie Gerber - one of the founding members of the Good Buy Girls - loves her quiet life in St. Stanley, Virginia. But all that changes when Sam Collins, her old flame, moves back to town as the new sheriff. On top of that, Claire Freemont, a librarian and the newest member of the Good Buy Girls, starts acting utterly strange. When Maggie goes to visit her the next day at the library, she finds the body of a very dead man. Turns out the man is someone from Claire's past.

Omegas are meant to follow the rules. To choose the right Pack. To keep the balance. I did the opposite. I don't want them. They don't want me. I'm only using them to get to the Alpha I can't live without. He might not be my scent match, but he's the only Alpha I trust. The only one who truly knows me. But something unexpected happens . . . the Pack decides to help me. At first, it's just survival. A way to get what we all want. Me long gone and their life back to the way it was. But somewhere along the way, emotions tangle, lines blur, and maybe, just maybe . . . I don't want to leave.

Any fantasy can become a reality when magic is involved...Jimmy Calavan’s greatest passion in life is the World of Magic, a hyper-realistic online game where he spends hours slaying monsters and seeking treasure as a beautiful, magical warrior named Fae. He’d give anything for the chance to actually live there, even though he knows that’s just a silly fantasy...But when a limited-edition replica of a magical scroll from the game appears at his door one night, Jimmy discovers that sometimes fantasies come true...

When Rick, a high-powered, rich financier, unexpectedly arrives at the gates of heaven and is denied entry because of the self-centered way he lived his life, all he wants is a second chance to make up for past mistakes. He’d always intended to be more generous and kinder to people - he was just planning to do it in his golden years. When the angels give him the chance to go back to Earth in a young, fit body and prove the truth of his intentions, Rick eagerly accepts. Getting to be young all over again while keeping all of his accumulated wisdom sounds like a great deal.

Discover how each figure of the nativity can lead your family closer to Christ this Christmas season. Learn the tradition of the tinkling bell, whip up a batch of French cocoa, create a tender mercy tree, and find ways to make your gift giving more meaningful as Celebrating a Christ-Centered Christmas guides you through seven meaningful traditions inspired by the nativity setting.

He’s a Scottish laird sworn to the Queen. She’s an English heiress on the run. In a divided land, their love is treason. When Alexandra Graham rides into enemy territory to rescue her stolen horse, she finds herself imprisoned in the dungeons of Scotland’s most forbidding stronghold. Fierce, proud, and unrepentant, Alex refuses to bow—even to the intimidating Earl of Bothwell. Tasked with keeping order on Mary Queen of Scots’ perilous border, Michael Cranstoun lives by duty and law. But when he meets the fiery Englishwoman, everything he believes is tested—his honour, his ...

Edward’s transformation into the hot little minx, Chloe, hasn’t changed the fact that he still needs to show up for his temp job, so he borrows some of his neighbor Addison’s too-tight clothes and heads into work. Little does he know that Connor Drake, the powerful owner of the firm he was assigned to, has a “special assignment” as his personal assistant marked down for all young, hot girls that migrate through. Chloe can’t afford to lose this job if Edward doesn’t want to lose his apartment, so she’ll need to put up with a lot from Connor.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Marriage Lie comes a riveting exploration of grief and guilt in the wake of one family’s shocking loss. When former DC journalist Abigail Wolff attempts to rehabilitate her career, she finds herself at the heart of a shocking conspiracy...

A Queen betrayed. A midnight escape. A love lost in the shadows of power. Scotland, 1566. Imprisoned in her own palace and reeling from the brutal murder of her most trusted servant, Mary, Queen of Scots, faces her most perilous hour. Surrounded by rebel lords—and a husband whose betrayal cuts deepest—her only hope lies in a desperate flight into the night. With her loyal lady-in-waiting Margaret Carwood, a wary pageboy, and a king she no longer trusts, Mary flees Holyrood Palace under the cloak of darkness. But escape is only the beginning. As political tensions escalate and the cracks...

THE SOLDIER'S K-9 COMPANION A chance to finally heal With the help of a four-legged friend. Struggling with PTSD, retired Navy SEAL Luke Adams hopes getting a service dog will help him finally get his life back. Fortunately, his best friend’s sister, Destiny Johnson, runs a K-9 farm where she...

In the early dawn hours of September 8, 1939, 10-year-old Dina Frydman sits at her bedroom window, watching storm clouds blacken the horizon. Nightmares have kept her awake all night. She hears a distant rumble as the tanks roll into Radom. The Nazis have conquered Poland and nothing will ever be the same. Dina and her family prepare for the worst. But they could never imagine what the worst would be.

When Belle Boggs' "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine and an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show. In that heartbreaking essay, Boggs eloquently recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around her - the emergence of 13-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual gorilla pregnancy at a local zoo - for signs that she is not alone.

Each night, as the world grows quiet, worries drift from sleeping minds and settle softly into a winter forest. Luma, a gentle forest fairy, gathers these worries in her silver vial. As she moves through moonlit paths, whispering valleys, frozen streams, and the peaceful Crystal Basin, each worry is transformed into a glowing snowflake that rises into the stars.

Best friends Seth and Noah set off for the ultimate spring break Mexican vacation. But an ill-advised nighttime jaunt to some off-limits ancient Mayan ruins puts the guys face-to-face with an incarnate Mayan goddess. She’s powerful, gorgeous, and pissed off at all the people who keep exploring her temple and taking her sacred objects. Fed up with thieves, she punishes Seth for the intrusion by transforming him into her own image - a ravishingly hot Mayan maiden - and tells him that he can’t have his old body back until they recover her sacred statue from the thieves who took it.

I was raised to be a prize for the elite. Groomed to smile, to serve, to be everything an Alpha could want. Every step I take is measured. Every word, rehearsed. And Choosing Day is meant to be my reward. Instead, I'm dragged from the Omega House by a stranger. Terrified. Powerless. I thought this was the end. Then they came. An Alpha guard who once watched over me in silence. A tattooed biker who smells like smoke and freedom. His Packmate, rough and sharp with eyes that see too much. A broken fighter with pain carved into his skin. And a Beta whose calm voice steadies the chaos inside me.

I'm pregnant with my ex's brother's baby. The plan was to avoid anything related to my ex-boyfriend Jacob Cane by leaving my hometown of Braven Bay. But fate had other plans. I crossed paths with his older brother, Nate, in the Windy City. Nate is a former Marine and firefighter with forest green eyes and an incredible body. Nate is not only in the same city as me, he's also my neighbor. And... He doesn't like me. He holds animosity towards me from years earlier when fate first brought us together. It doesn’t stop the electricity we both feel. As we become closer, Jacob's sense of ...

I can’t believe I agreed to go to this silly, gender-swap Halloween costume party dressed like a sexy female witch. And even worse, my friend, Chelsea, is dragging me to a stupid fortune teller. What a scam. Magic isn’t real. What, is she going to turn me into a real sexy witch? Hah! Yeah right.

When Albert Green donates the last $20 he has as a gesture of goodwill to a funny old man beside a mysteriously decorated tree, he's blessed with the chance to make a single, magical Christmas wish! He closes his eyes and wishes for the one thing he's wanted more than anything else in his whole life: to experience life as a woman. That night, the three spirits of Christmas appear to him in his dreams and work a holiday miracle on his sleeping form.