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Journalist Rebecca Grant provides us with a never-before-seen look at the changing landscape of pregnancy and childbirth in America—and the rise of midwifery—told through the eyes of three women who all pass through the doors of the same birth center in Portland, Oregon. In remarkable detail and with great compassion, Grant recounts the ups downs, fears, joys, and everyday moments of each woman’s pregnancy and postpartum journey, offering a rare look into their inner lives, perspectives, and choices in real time.

The Sinclairs aren't gone, and they've just awoken an ancient evil - one whose job is to put mortals to sleep forever. But Liv Beaufont is never going to allow that to happen, not while she lives and breathes. Unfortunately, there are many who want this Warrior dead. She's not concerned though. Liv's main priority is to find the Mortal Seven. First, she needs to locate a hidden castle, pass a hundred obstacles, fix a broken heart, and learn how to do something she's never done before.

Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work for corporations in exchange for product; the girls obsessed with cosmetic surgery who will do anything to look like women on TV; and those teens simply obsessed with admission into a name-brand college.

Best friends Evie, Krista, and Willow are just trying to make it through their mid-twenties in New York. They're regular girls, with regular looks and typical quarter-life crises: making it up the corporate ladder, making sense of online dating, and making rent.

The winged woman lowered her face as it filled with desperate longing and horrible resignation. "I understand." She raised her eyes to Cain. He could see her tears pour upon her face. "I am so sorry that you had to endure this intrusion of my hell into your perception. Forgive me, I will not hold you here." She turned around and started to walk away.

When Cecilia Lapthorne’s 75th birthday celebrations take an unexpected turn, she seeks solace away from the festivities and escapes to Dune Cottage – without telling her family where she’s going. Lily Thomas, a struggling artist, has secretly been staying in the unoccupied cottage. When Cecilia discovers Lily during a late-night visit, an unexpected bond forms between the two women. Then Cecilia’s grandson, Todd – and Lily’s unrequited crush – shows up, sending a shockwave through their unlikely friendship.

Most don't know that love was built on a foundation of stories . . . but what would happen if those stories were erased? When a demon, bent on destroying love, travels into the past, his goal is to erase history. And with it, the most passionate love stories of all time. The result isn't hate. It's indifference. That's love's greatest enemy. Indifference. Can Paris Beaufont recreate the stories that built love's very foundation? Can she make them even better? Or will lovers forget the tales that inspired undying love?

Paris Beaufont has a way of making really great friends. And also really dangerous enemies. Agent Ruby has gone rogue, fleeing the Fairy Godmother Agency. With his cover blown, he has nothing to lose. Now he’s got only one mission. He’s taking down the Fairy Godmother Agency, the current Saint Valentine, and Happily Ever After College. However, there’s someone who has a fierce love for the fairy godmothers and won’t allow anyone to destroy her new home.

When Anna St. James graduated college with a business degree, she never expected to find herself running a boarding house on a small island off the east coast. Now, settled into life as owner and landlady of the Moon River Boarding House on Frostfall Island, Anna couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. Most of the time, Frostfall is a charming island with a busy fishing boat harbor and town that attracts summer tourists. But occasionally, quite occasionally, if that’s a phrase, there’s an unexpected murder. Without a dedicated police force, the locals look to Anna to solve crimes.

Love is on the rise, but not everyone is happy about it. Some stand to gain when hate reigns. The fairy godmothers are challenged in new ways when social media breaks up lovers all over the world. To overcome this new challenge, Happily Ever After College is going to have to do something drastic.... They will need to evolve. And fast. Getting rid of outdated curriculum and traditional thinking to progress into the modern world won’t be easy. However, if true love is to be saved, then a new evil must be discovered and erased.

Liv Beaufont is on a dangerous mission involving werewolves when she finally feels like she's conquered evil - until an old nemesis comes back to haunt her.

When her father fails to appear for lunch at their country estate, Martha Beale knows something is wrong. The family's faithful dogs discover Lemuel Beale's hunting rifle by the river, but there is no sign of the millionaire financier. Refusing to believe he is dead, his daughter - and sole heir - begins a discreet investigation with the help of the mayor's aide, Thomas Kelman. But Philadelphia in 1842 is a dangerous place for a female, especially a 26-year-old single woman.

It's been a rough month for Kendra. Her boyfriend and sidekick, Jeff Hubbard, P.I., has gone missing—right after they decided to move in together. It sounds like a case of cold feet until they find his car, submerged and bloody, in a canal. Kendra's panicked inquiries lead her to Jeff's Aunt Lois, an ex-pole dancer and full-time eccentric, who had taken her dog Flisa, a sweet-natured Akita mix, to a company that promised to clone the pup. But poor Flisa never made it out alive. And then, one of the cloners is murdered.

It was just supposed to be a regular Thursday afternoon...and then he saw her. Sitting in seat L214, one seat over from his at the baseball game, right next to her douche of a soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend. An impromptu kiss for the kiss cam, and Jax knew his life would never be the same. Five years and a tour in Afghanistan later, Jax is back stateside running his own private security firm, Iron-Clad, with his best friend. He isn't the man he used to be...but Megan isn't the sexy and sweet though sheltered 22-year-old he left behind, either.

In fiery redhead Stella Stonewall's new world, magic and shape-shifters are everyday life. Scales, sorcery, shifters - no big. Stella has learned that she's descended not only of dragons but of something more, too. She struggles to keep this rare form a secret, even from her closest friends. Stella turns to her mentor, Rowan Gresham, for help. The charming but enigmatic Gresham forms a plan to improve her troublesome public image. The problem? The plan revolves around betraying the only family she has left.

Bondage & Breakfast was a safe place for couples to explore BDSM - until an arsonist almost destroyed it. While the inn is closed for repairs, owner Gabe McConnell allows injured firefighter Olivia Watterson to stay and recover as a favor to a mutual friend. His attraction to her is unexpected and intense - but there's no way she's strong enough for the type of play he demands from a sub. When she arrives at the inn, Liv is shocked - and intrigued. Her unanticipated obsession with the sexy, skilled Dom makes her all the more impatient with her slow recuperation.

Knit me into a cocoon. Help me eat a burrito. Pretend to be a chair at my dinner party. Wrestle a Komodo dragon. Race me in a lobster suit. Author Kelly Mahon posts absurd gig ads online and shares the conversations she had with the brave souls who wanted the job.

A novel about Catholic girls poised - hilariously- on the brink of going all the way, Virgins recalls in aching detail what it was like to be an 18-year-old Catholic high school senior...in the '50s. This book contains the rules and regimen, hijinks and longing of that time.

Liv must choose between a decade of servitude or being that much closer to finding out who murdered her parents after she strikes up a dangerous partnership.

The implausible truth: Over one billion people in the world are hungry and over one billion are overweight. Far from complete opposites, hunger and obesity are in fact different manifestations of the same problem: It's increasingly difficult to find and eat nutritious food. By examining the global industrial food system using the deceptively simple template of a classic American dinner, We the Eaters not only outlines the root causes for this bizarre and troubling dichotomy, but also provides a blueprint of actionable solutions.