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In this brand-new memoir, Rylan invites us deeper into his world to reflect on all the things he's learnt from a decade in the limelight, whilst also pulling back the curtain on his personal journey. Covering everything from fame and celebrity to mental health and identity, family and relationships to his love of reality TV, he recounts his life lessons with humour, candour and a huge amount of heart. From the moments that have shaped him to the mistakes that have made him, and the unusual pastimes that have obsessed him along the way.

Surviving and finding a safe place to lay her eggs is difficult for Hypsilophodon with dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex around. When she falls into a mysterious pool and finds herself on a modern farm there are still problems. Finally she finds a safe place to hatch her babies, but how can she keep thirteen baby dinosaurs safe and secret? When the farmer catches one - Hector - and plans to take him to the vet, it's up to Hypsilophodon and her fiesty daughter, Henrietta, to get him back.

Finnegan May has had an eventful time in Manhattan since she first moved to New York City. Her unique profession and quirky, bubbly personality endear her to everyone who meets her. While Finnegan and her detective bride, Jane, are on their honeymoon in upstate New York, Fin finds a lost dog. The little Yorkshire terrier becomes a mystery as everything seems to snowball around the women, causing Finnegan to think she just might really be a magnet for trouble like her family keeps implying.

When 22-year-old Attica Spark discovers a realm of magic she unknowingly came from, she stays in a manor with young heirs banned from their kingdoms while learning of her dark and twisted past. In the manor, Attica discovers a series of portals that lead her to a curious world mirroring her own mind and emotions. Down the rabbit hole she goes to discover a world beyond her wildest dreams.

Look Back in Anger focuses on the relationship between an educated but disaffected working-class young man, Jimmy Porter, and his equally intelligent but dispassionate wife, Alison, who comes from an upper-middle class military family. Having pushed back against her family so they could be together, Jimmy is now disillusioned by the class divide between them and constantly belittles her. Keeping the peace is their friendly Welsh lodger, Cliff. However, the arrival of Alison's friend Helena pushes the couple to breaking point. Can Alison and Jimmy ever reconcile?

There are so many things in life you can't explain. Like why isn't YOU spelt U? Why isn't WHY spelt Y? And why can just opening your mouth get you into some very BIG trouble? Clarice Bean is in non-stop trouble these days - almost as much as Karl Wrenbury, and he is the naughtiest boy in school. Clarice just wants to star in the school play and impress Mrs Wilberton in the spelling bee. But things aren't quite going to plan....

Stefan Lundquist exercises complete control in all things—professionally and personally. As a Shibari expert, he creates beautiful works of art on women's bodies with his ropes. But he makes sure they understand their physical relationship has an expiration date. Cassandra Myers knows she has to abide Stefan’s rules, but when she falls for him, she refuses to sign another contract. She tries to move forward, focusing on nursing school. When she discovers her new patient is the man she can’t stop thinking about, she's determined to help him recover while hiding her feelings.

At age 14, Claire Bidwell Smith - an only child - learned that both of her parents had cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one before she came of age compels Claire to make a series of fraught choices, set against the glittering backdrop of New York and Los Angeles - and the pall of regret. When the inevitable happens, and Claire is alone in the world, she is inconsolable at the revelation that suddenly she is no one's special person.

It’s nineteen years since they stopped speaking to each other, but now Morgan needs to contact her three best friends from school: Paige, Emily and Tiff. Her teenage son wants to meet his dad and Morgan can’t ignore his requests any longer. And Paige, Emily and Tiff all knew what actually happened back then. Even if that was what led to their friendship group falling apart, they’re the only people Morgan can think of who might be able help her find the man who disappeared without a trace before she could tell him she was pregnant.

1943. Lidia De Angelis has kept a low profile since Mussolini’s laws wrenched her from her childhood sweetheart. But when the Germans occupy Venice, she must flee the city to save her life. Lidia joins the partisans in the Venetian mountains, where she meets David, an English soldier fighting for the same cause. As she grows closer to him, harsh German reprisals and her own ardent patriotic activities threaten to tear them apart.

Fraternal twins Grayson and Remington Mann, CEOs of Black Diamond Records, run their business and personal lives with iron fists. As the Mann brothers’ personal secretary and a naive woman, Abigail Turner is off limits to them...or is she? Seeing the tempting woman every day at the office has been torture, but when they discover Abigail has a dirty little secret, Gray and Remi tear the no fraternizing policy page right out of their rule book. After all, they’re the ones who wrote it.

Twenty 10-hour programs to help you fall asleep. Each program begins with two minutes of gentle scripture narration accompanied by the sounds of gentle rain and soothing harmonic tones that continue for 10 hours. These sounds are non-repetitive. All of the audio was recorded and engineered by an award-winning sound designer. This is the second of several volumes of sleep aids with varying sounds. As you listen to the samples, you may choose for yourself which sounds are most pleasing to you.

Cambridgeshire - March 1939. As the clouds of war begin to gather in Europe, the Talbot family of rural Blackberry Farm will be torn apart, just as so many families all over the world will be. Life will never be the same again. Whilst in London, the Salmons family will feel the pain of parting and loss. Brought together by war, the two families become intertwined and, as the outlook looks bleak, they must draw on each other’s strength to fight through the hard times.

Retired Navy SEAL and current private-security operative Ian Sawyer never expected to have a wife, much less a child, but his beautiful Angie has changed all that. Her due date is only days away, and the anticipation of holding his child for the first time outweighs his anxiety. But a frantic phone call in the middle of the night is just the beginning of Ian’s nightmare. Forced to wake his brothers and teammates, he must leave his apprehensive wife’s side and fly halfway around the world to save the only other woman who could bring him to his knees—his mother.

Do you sometimes feel lost or disoriented in life? Does it feel like you are missing something despite all the stuff you own? If you answered yes then keep listening. This audiobook contains practical and actionable advice that is quick and easy to follow. For the first time in your life, you will gain the freedom to decide what you want and don’t want in your current living conditions. And through a proven action plan, eliminate all the junk from both your home and your mind.

Love or hate her, Harriet Osman is impossible to refuse. But someone in her life has finally snapped, leaving her face-down in a pool of her own blood. Harriet isn't one to die quietly though, and she is determined to reveal her killer before she does. Was it her devoted husband, Malek, with a violent past? Her best friend and lover, Victoria, with a deadly secret only Harriet knows? Or the new woman in her life, fellow school mum Karen? The one with an impeccable reputation ... or so she says.

In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends-career criminals with violent felony convictions-drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The weather was mild for late March in Kansas City; the sky was clear, and there was the pale remnant of a Full Moon that bore the dubious name of Death Moon, the last full moon of winter.

If someone was in your house, you’d know...wouldn’t you? But the Hunter family are deaf and don’t hear a thing when a shocking crime takes place in the middle of the night. Instead, they wake up to their worst nightmare: the murder of their daughter. The police call Paige Northwood to the scene to interpret for the witnesses. They’re in shock, but Paige senses the Hunters are hiding something. One by one, people from Paige’s community start to fall under suspicion. But who would kill a little girl?

Jase is a man with a forgotten past and an unsure future. Unable to return to the United States, he lives on the island of Caicos, spending his time sitting in a bar drinking, scuba diving for sunken treasure, and working as a mercenary of sorts. Brie has lived on Caicos since she was 10. After her father’s death, she took over his popular seaside bar, leaving no time for a love life. Her occasional hookups with Jase have been with no strings attached, getting involved in each other’s lives, nor letting their emotions rise to the surface.

As soon as you first see the house, a former hotel in a picturesque enclave of the Cypriot hills, you know this abandoned resort is the perfect home for you – with breath-taking views, a refreshing pool, and peace and quiet, away from the rest of the world. A place to recover and grow. But paradise isn’t cheap, and as the debts mount, you could lose everything you've worked so hard for. Until someone makes you an offer: to keep your home, all you have to do is take a life.