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When Bex Band started an online community, Love Her Wild, she positively changed her life and the lives of many others in ways she could never have imagined. That click of the mouse was the best thing she ever did! Love Her Wild is now one of the biggest outdoor communities in the world, winning multiple awards, receiving international recognition, and taking thousands of women on adventures. Bex Band also made a dream career for herself in the process—running a community built on passion and a drive to make a difference.

It's time to explore and build new, positive relationships with food, moving away from restriction, deprivation, and obsession with body image. The Intuitive Eating Plan provides you with the information and steps necessary to heal your relationship with food and accept your body's beautiful intuition.

On Memorial Day afternoon, the skies above Carthage, Missouri, brighten suddenly as if the sun explodes. Seconds later it's gone, and no one knows what happened. Normal life resumes. BBQs continue, and kids play in backyards. No one notices the screams coming from one backyard. It doesn't just happen in Carthage; it happens all over. While delayed, the aftereffects of the event are brutal to all those who were exposed to the flash, and horrifying to behold. Those not exposed, like Alana Cross, are helpless to do anything. All they can do is witness humanity self-destructing.

Trapped somewhere between life and death, demigod Cyril has lost the ability to communicate with his love. But not before giving her valuable lessons in magic, as well as his blessing to move on without him. Coming to terms with Cyril's absence isn't easy, but Linden is doing her best to honor his wishes. Until she receives an unusual request from Moreaux, an estranged member of Cyril's family.

Lily Wilson moved to Maine in search of the man in her dreams, but she meets someone who's so much more. Victor Veilleux opens her eyes to a were-bear world she could have never imagined. But evil she's not prepared to deal with lurks beneath the surface of her new storybook life. Victor Veilleux has plans to rule the Northeast Kingdom, and he'll do whatever it takes to win. Convinced the tattooed girl is destined to produce the heirs he needs, he forces Sierra to fulfill his destiny.

When Elaine complains she missed enjoying the touristy aspects of Paris during her infamous visit, Xavier, Marco, and Sebastian quench her curiosity by bringing Paris' finer points of interest to the doctor's New York penthouse.

Rogue wizard Josiah Quinn never met a rule he wouldn’t break. Even though he knows he’ll face plenty of backlash from both good and evil, he braves the fires of Hell to spring Satan’s captive daughter. But before they return to their lives, he’s got to track down the missing pieces of her soul.... As he attempts to unite the fragmented spirit of the succubus by his side, Josiah has one little problem: a power-hungry wizard aiming to rule the underworld.

Beth’s life is in shambles. Recently released from jail after a car accident that took the life of a crossing guard, Beth finds herself in the middle of a bitter custody battle with her soon-to-be ex-husband, one that she can’t possibly win given her husband’s legal connections, and her own troubled past. Adding to the turmoil, her mother, who she hasn’t seen or spoken to in years is now in the hospital after falling down the stairs.

Christmas has come to Fern Valley, and the town's decked out with enough glitter and sparkle for a month's worth of celebrations, each more over-the-top than the previous one. The idyllic setting, filled with laughter, carols, and sweet treats, is shattered, along with some of the decorations, when the current wife and the ex-wife of a big-cat showman have a knock-down, drag-out fight in the center of town. Jules Keene, owner of the Fern Valley Glamping Resort, tries to keep peace among her guests and with the town council, but it turns into a catastrophe when Tabbi Morris winds up dead.

The local residents of Cedar Bay come to Kelly's Koffee Shop for breakfast, lunch, and lots of gossip. Kelly serves it all up as she works to solve the murder of the high school Homecoming Queen. The townspeople can't believe what has happened in their sleepy little Oregon seaside town. She identifies five prime suspects, but which one did it?

At 14, Kate Collins ran away from home. Ten years later, her mother has disappeared without a trace. Faced with no other choice, she returns home. Kate is convinced her stepfather is responsible, but he is a highly decorated police officer. Who will take her accusations seriously? Banished to a small country town after reporting his city superiors for corruption, Detective Riley Munro is never going to accuse the town's recently retired police commander of murder. But Kate's fear and distress seem genuine.

Shades haunt the woods surrounding the Winters' house, and they share a goal: Getting Sami past her parents' impressive defenses and luring a defenseless child into the wilderness so they can harness her burgeoning powers. Zoe will do anything to protect her only child, but when the face of evil finally reveals itself, she finds the dangers of the past threatening her happy future. Can Zoe and Aric keep their only child safe? And as Sami comes of age, will she prove to be stronger than either of her parents ever envisioned?

Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of writing about dying languages, like your mom, you and I saved one instead?"

Orah and Nathaniel return home with miracles from across the sea, hoping to bring a better life for their people. Instead, they find the world they left in chaos. A new grand vicar, known as the usurper, has taken over the keep, and is using its knowledge to reinforce his hold on power. Despite their good intentions, the seekers find themselves leading an army. And for the first time in a millennium, their world experiences the horror of war. But the keepmasters' science is no match for the dreamers, leaving Orah and Nathaniel their cruelest choice.

You Don't Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way covers a lot of topics that teens need and want to learn about, from sensitive areas like sexual abuse, pain, and hard times, to issues like understanding how to deal with peer pressure and making the right choice about drugs. Like a favorite aunt, Laya Saul encourages her listeners to use challenges as stepping-stones. Although it was written with teens in mind, the book is finding its way into the hands of listeners spanning generations! The wisdom is practical, timeless, and helpful.

Zoe Lake is engaged - even she can't believe it. Aric Winters, the man of her dreams, has slipped a ring on her finger and asked her to pledge her future to him. She's ready - kind of. When death and destruction explode - literally - Zoe has a decision to make. Old enemies die hard, and it seems the path to happily ever after winds through Covenant College. Zoe swore she'd never return to the campus that shaped her, but if she wants tomorrow, she has to put yesterday to rest.

Courtney Jennings has had a crush on Jared Vachon since they first met. She may have painted a few images of him too; so when she sees him jogging she takes a moment to notice his - ahem - artistic lines. The flash of a gun interrupts her muse and makes her take action to save his life, using a side of herself she didn’t know existed.

Cyril is weary from weeks of traveling the Scottish moors, but his luck takes a turn when he rescues a battered and broken child. To express his gratitude, the boy's father offers Cyril a night of carnal indulgence with his eldest daughter. Cyril graciously accepts, looking forward to a night of sexual release to ease the loneliness of his travels.

Seamlessly shifting between the speculative and the blindingly real, balancing the bizarre with the subtle brutality of the mundane, A Manual for How to Love Us is a tender portrait of women trying their best to survive, love, and find genuine meaning in the aftermath of loss. In these unconventional and unpredictably connected stories, Erin Slaughter shatters the stereotype of the soft-spoken, sorrowful woman in distress, queering the domestic and honoring the feral in all of us.

Without the protection of his guardian angel, Josiah’s body is deteriorating. Remiel is on the cusp of victory in Hell, and Heaven is divided. The irreverent half-angel’s only hope of saving himself and all of humanity rests in finding God before it’s too late. But since when has he ever given a damn about saving the world? No, this is personal, and Josiah will stop at nothing to find God, even if it means going alone. He’ll crisscross the globe and leave no stone unturned in his search. Nowhere is safe, no one too sacred to interrogate. Not even the dead.