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Jessica Channing's big-city life should be more exciting than 60-hour work weeks and popcorn nights with her girlfriends. She has worked hard fulfilling her role as a child prodigy and graduating college years before her peers. She's the good girl, the brilliant girl. She is also dateless. Jess's rigid, predictable life upends when she visits a small town to deal with a relative's death. Long-lost memories come crashing down on Jess's world when two men, the Blackard brothers, seem to lure her in.

Are you ready to learn faster, see things in a different perspective, or become more emotionally intelligent? What does it take to take all factors into account that contribute to a problem, a case, or a question? Critical thinking is the answer, and this audiobook is the way to develop that skill. We’ll take a look at the mystery of good reasoning, the processes that take place when people do this, and what the effects are. Special attention in this audiobook is given to emotional maturity and intelligence.

After a mop flight to the forest, Cordelia discovers that the small towns she has heard about, aren’t lacking any problems. Not long after she arrives at her tent, a person goes missing, and curious as the young witch is, she follows the leads and the clues to find out who is involved. Along with her cat, the county’s sheriff, and others, the search for the missing person becomes a tough one, and a dark, older witch, becomes an obscure threat to her integrity. Follow the story of Cordelia as she struggles with ethics, psychos, and kidnappings in a remote village in the woods.

A Witch from the east meets the west. Cordelia Haggins is a young witch who has nothing but good intentions. She moves into a small place with her cat, Panther, only to find out that the peaceful town she expected, has a number of secrets. A corpse alongside the shore is all she needs to understand that her support will be useful. With her magic, and with the help of a detective, she finds herself hunting down suspects and interrogating various individuals to uncover the truth of what really happened, and why.

Innocence snatched away by hands of betrayal and violation of her youth. Silenced through fear, guilt, and denial Taquayasia suffers alone. Jailed by the acts of those close to her she loses self-love, self-worth, and self-confidence. Tortured by her thoughts manifested into self-destructive behavior, unhealthy relationships, and mental spiral.

An Off-White Christmas features a dozen stories all set on or around Christmas, though, with little to no clear religious emphasis. Instead, these stories explore life changes and choices and chaos in times of heightened drama, when family and friends and life partners merge to form cohesive units, happy or otherwise. The stories range from a gambling spree in Las Vegas to a caravan traveling to Baraboo; from a teepee hotel in Kentucky to a retro movie theatre in Arizona; from a jolly Santa lookalike to a frustrated Dickensian actor; from students to retirees.

This book will keep you entertained! You will discover fun and interesting facts you probably never knew existed! If you've ever shivered at the idea of eating tarantulas, or wondered why medieval kings have such odd nicknames, you'll enjoy a trip round the world of weird facts with this fascinating book. From weird food to odd funeral customs, from explorers who got lost to misleading translations, the book contains hundreds of intriguing trivia facts.

From the powerhouse Mind Body Green calls 'the Brené Brown of Wonder' comes a self-help book that will reframe the way we look at ourselves and the world and help us reach our full potential. Wonder is what we're born with. Worry is what we learn. Now is the time to return to wonder.

A practical guide to taking those dreams and visualizations and making them real, Exercising Your Imagination will help you accomplish more than you ever believed possible. Author Steve Rae delivers a collection of stories, each with a message to encourage and entertain.

Wanda wants nothing more than to escape the oppressive upbringing of life with her abusive foster mother. Miss Cassaundra manipulates the system by bringing lost children into her home-turned-whorehouse and collecting the money. Wanda knows what it’s like to be abandoned and has no doubt Abby is Cassaundra's next case.

The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, the United States, and the emigration in-between.

1979. President Carter was in the White House. Three Mile Island. Odd-even gas rationing. Pink Floyd released “The Wall.” The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister of the UK. The Iran Hostage Crisis. And disco…lots of disco.

Skyler Little is a successful, happily married psychoanalyst who is devoted to her husband and committed to providing her patients with the best Christian counseling possible. Skyler cares about her patients, but maybe a little too much when she finds herself drawn into their personal lives of adultery, abuse, emotional turmoil, and destruction.

Just friends. That's all we are. All we ever were. But when I finally let myself go - let myself really feel - the only thing I want is him.

In 1635, Madeline Pike, along with nearly 30 other passengers, set sail from King's Road, Bristol, England, for New England aboard the Angel Gabriel, but just as the final leg of her journey was in sight, the ship surrendered to a fierce hurricane. Madeline was thrust into a violent ocean amidst powerful winds and rough waves as the ship sank out of sight. Just as she is about to give up hope, a handsome young man comes to her rescue.

What do you do when the world falls apart and the devil takes up in a high-rise office in the Midwest? You become a private detective who finds and collects negotiated souls for the devil; at least, that's what I did. Or that's what I thought I did. Turns out, you can't really trust the devil after all.

Caroline Bishop leaves war-ravaged Charleston behind to be a mail-order bride for a man she’s never met. Meeting handsome Adam Larsen, a man who makes her pulse race with a single glance, along the way seems like a cruel twist of fate, especially when she learns he lives in the same small town she’s headed to.

Five Charleston women desperate for marriage minded men and the chance to rebuild their lives after the Civil War answer an ad in the Grooms Gazette. Charity Kingston has to get out of Charleston or face life working in a brothel. But the past follows her to Angel Creek, Montana, revealing her Irish temper and the brothel owner’s demand for payment of her debt.

Dead Inside is an audio drama that follows Detective Sarah Elsher on a mind-bending thrill ride. Follow Sarah as she uncovers dark secrets of corruption and crime within her city and police department. Can Sarah track down the suspects before it's too late?

She didn’t know her life would change forever that day. She only knew it was cold, and something was not quite right about the room she was walking into. She couldn’t escape - every fiber in her being was telling her to run, yet she had nowhere to go and no one to turn to. She could only sit and watch someone take their last breaths. She made her choices and knew they weren’t all the right ones.