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When rockstar Jett Savage ditches his glitzy LA wedding, he doesn’t just run away. He sprints back to his roots in Willowbrook and straight into the quaint bed and breakfast owned by his first love, Aria. Their rekindled romance sets their small-town souls ablaze, but big-city obligations aren't ready to release Jett just yet. Enter the jilted Bridezilla with an ultimatum that will either shatter his newfound happiness…or his career.

Tylia Coder has joined the resistance after her ejection from the Labs. Yet, if the Farrows discover she’s still alive, her family and friends in both the GEOs and the Greens will be in terrible danger. What’s more, her supposed death only spurs on the bitter rivalries. The Rejs ramp up their attacks on the Labs’ sky transports, their leader so desperate now that he doesn’t care who gets hurt anymore.

I may be a preppy piccolo player who should know to stay away from the drumline badboy, but then again, what graduating senior ever just did what they were supposed to? Cy Simmons is my next door neighbor and the biggest crank in the school. Rumor has it, he tried to kill someone at his last school and got away with it, which is how he managed to stay in drumline and not end up in juvie. Despite his devastating good looks, his less than winning personality has everyone at arm's length. But I have a hard time believing a person who creates the beautiful haunting music that serenades my ...

Sensible Kevin O’Rourke does not believe in ghosts, in love at first sight, or in the happily-ever-after type of love. Instead, he is convinced only hard work, dedication to family, and self-sacrifice will bring contentment. When he meets Aileen O’Keefe on the steamboat trip from Saint Louis to Fort Benton, Montana Territory, his world is turned upside down as quickly as she nearly tumbles into the Missouri River. After spending a few moments in her company, he knows his life will never be the same.

Glade Io is a trained killer. Marked at a young age as an individual with violent tendencies, she was taken from her family and groomed to be a Datapoint—a biotech-enabled analyst who carries out the Culling. She is designed to identify and destroy any potential humans that threaten the colonies: those marked as lawbreakers, unproductive or sick. But when she’s kidnapped by rogue colonists known as the Ferrymen, everything Glade thinks she knows about the colonies, and The Authority that runs them, collapses into doubt.

Tylia Coder is the bridge between worlds. Born of the GEOs underground, she’s one of only two known victors of the Acceptance trials - a survival contest that promises to prevent infection from the GM virus that nearly wiped out humanity, decades ago. Now with precious antibodies in her blood, she may finally hold the key to finding a cure.

Welcome to "Artnautin’s magickal World" – a delightful podcast about Creativity & Witchcraft! Hosted by Ramona, also known as Artnautin, a practicing witch for 20 years and currently an Art Witch, this podcast is your enchanting guide to magical and spiritual tips for everyday life. Join me as I share insights from my creative business "Artnautin" and explore the mystical path I personally walk. This podcast is especially inviting for witches and spiritually-minded women. Let’s be creative together – that's my motto!

Desert Town is dark crime fiction for those who have a taste for the perverse and violent. It was made into a major film, Desert Fury, starring Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott and Mary Astor. It’s the story of seventeen year old Paula Haller’s transition into womanhood as she defies her mother, Fritzi’s dominance. Fritzi runs the small town of Chuckawalla including the Purple Sage casino and saloon as well as a bordello or two.

Ramona Koval has been praised as a master of the interview genre, renowned for engaging writers in conversations that are incisive, provocative, and often funny.In this new collection, Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers, she shares the most fascinating interviews from her 2005 book Tasting Life Twice, along with brand-new ones with some of the most important writers of our times.

Glade Io is torn between two worlds. She’s a trained killing machine - selected by the ruthless Authority to be a Datapoint, a tech-enabled agent of the state who eliminates threats to the human colonies throughout the solar system in the Culling. But her time among rogue colonists called the Ferrymen has convinced her that The Authority has far more sinister plans in store, and all the justifications they fed to her are lies.

Committed...to living a life she desires with the man she loves, Clarissa Sullivan continues to teach poor immigrant children and to agitate for the vote for women as she awaits Gabriel's return to Boston. Will her stepmother leave her in peace, or is her life about to change again in unforeseen ways?

On the brink of extinction, being human means more than just surviving. In Lib's world, it's dangerous to deviate from the norm. In fact, for someone who doesn't live up to the Artificial Intelligence's standards, it's practically a death sentence. Lib learns this the hard way when she wakes up in a barren wasteland, with her memories erased, and only one thought lodged in her mind: "It's all my fault." Lib is a Glitch - an imperfect human component of the utopian world called the Norm.

Clarissa Sullivan dreams for more from life than sipping tepid tea in stifling parlors in Victorian Boston. She defies her family's wishes, continuing to teach poor immigrant children in Boston's West End, finding a much-needed purpose to her life. As a suffragette, Clarissa is considered a firebrand radical no man would desire. For why should women want the vote when men have sheltered women from the distasteful aspects of politics and law?

Glade Io is a rebel. Having fled with her younger sisters to live among the Ferrymen, she knows there is no going back now. She is committed to the cause of overthrowing the brutal Authority, and she trains her new comrades in the art of combating Datapoints like herself - those tasked with the Ferrymen’s destruction.

Many people, both in and outside of the church, have misconceptions about Adam and Eve in the garden, as well as miss the rich symbolism of Eve as the mother of all living and a woman's representation in the tree of life symbolism. Because of cultural overlays onto this allegory, societies have twisted and lost the lessons - and template - for consecration in marriage and the eternal divinity within womanhood, as well as the measure priesthood plays in the entire narrative.

Every small town has one unsolved case that haunts its memory, festering for generations below the surface. Over sixty years ago, Daisy Doe was murdered and discarded outside Pineville, Alabama, buried without a name or anyone to mourn her loss. When Star Cavanaugh's father tried to solve the case, he too was killed. Now a cold-case detective with resources of her own, Star is determined to get to the bottom of both crimes. But to do so, she’ll have to face an entire town locked in corruption, racism, silence, and fear—and the same dangerous killer who took two other lives.

Born into privilege but expected to use her advantages for the good of others, Senator Nancy Ruth has led an uncommon, unconventional life. Like Nancy herself, this book is rich in surprises and contradictions about a remarkable woman who used her privilege to support social change and the battle to better women’s lives.

Niamh O’Rourke Ahern knows she should feel shame. Regret. Remorse. Anything but the deep relief filling her to the depths of her soul. What kind of woman is she to rejoice at the death of her husband? What woman yearns for another’s touch as her husband’s casket is being lowered into the ground? In the end, she knows it doesn’t matter, for she will always be alone. No man will ever fully earn her trust again.

There is nothing more important than the time we spend together, learning to see the world through each other’s eyes. From counting constellations to imagining shapes in fluffy clouds to hiking great canyons or jumping into the ocean, the special moments between a mother or father and their child are some of the most memorable and precious in our lives. Inspired by the majesty of nature all around us, I Loved You First is a gently whimsical celebration of parental love and a companion to Jenna and Barbara’s New York Times bestselling children's books Sisters First and Love Comes First.

There are more important things than first kisses. Like section chair. And scholarships. My rival literally has every advantage. If I have to break his heart to win, who would blame me? I want nothing more than a music scholarship to college, but it's not guaranteed. When our section chair leaves for a new school, giving me one last chance to try out, I know this is my moment. Or it would be if Tristan Scorzi, the flakiest guy in band, didn't inexplicably decide to try out as well. He doesn't know it, but it's on, because if I can't get him to blow his try out, it's basically a guaranteed ...