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Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill Subs Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of interpersonal relationships. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. Edition Editor: Kate Bocassi Corporate Head: A man embraces his submissive desires while navigating the corporate world. Eleven Things I Have Left Now That My Daughter Is Gone: Promise leaves her drug-addicted prostitute mother behind so she can go to ...

This perfect soldier could have any woman in the castle. So why is he obsessed with the shy and forgettable junior chamberlain? Once nothing more than a castle maidservant, the painfully shy Ismay Geddes has worked her way up to the lofty heights of junior chamberlain. It’s a prestigious position for one so young, and she’s completely focused on the job. No distractions. Especially not the gallant and popular soldier, Tavish MacWilliam. The other maids might endure restless nights on account of his heroic physique, but Ismay is above that sort of nonsense, thank you very much. Until he ...

A shiralee is a swag, a burden, a bloody millstone - and that's what four-year-old Buster is to her father, Macauley. He takes the child on the road with him to spite his wife, but months pass and still no word comes to ask for the little girl back. Strangers to each other at first, father and daughter drift aimlessly through the dusty towns of Australia, sleeping rough and relying on odd jobs for food and money.

During the Victorian era the publishing of magazines and periodicals accelerated at a phenomenal rate. This really was mass market publishing to a hungry audience eager for literary sustenance. Many of our greatest authors contributed and expanded their reach whilst many fledging authors also found a ready source for their nascent works and careers. Amongst the very many was ‘The Yellow Book’.

We all long for the perfect marriage. Implicit trust, unspoken understanding, deep talks, fits of laughter, passionate intimacy, shared commonalities, and spontaneous adventures are just some of the joys of marriage. It begins with learning about who you both are in Christ, about His specific and complete love for you individually, and putting in action the particular scriptures designed to keep you and your spouse on track to the marriage of your dreams.

Get ready to laugh out loud at Strangeville Middle School, the wackiest (definitely not cursed) school ever! This hilarious new series is Sideways Stories from Wayside School for a new generation! Smile! It’s picture day! Except maybe don’t smile, because there’s a glowing lost-and-found...

I don’t know how it happened. One moment I was standing outside the diner fumbling with my car keys, and the next a bag was placed over my head and I was put in the back of a car. Who would want to kidnap me? I’m a nobody, a good girl, just doing my best to make ends meet. Afraid for my life, I beg and plead until I come face-to-face with my captor. Ace is a brute of a man with strong hands, green eyes, and a dark smile that makes me weak in the knees. Everything about him screams DANGER. It’s all kinds of wrong to look at him and get swoony, but I can’t help it.

Hollywood's hottest property, Camilla Page, has just wrapped up the shoot of her latest movie, and she's chosen an exclusive Barrier Reef island resort as the setting for her surprise wedding to Australian cameraman Jimmy Ryder. K.C. Gordon, successful romance novelist, eagerly accepts the invitation to what promises to be the most lavish of affairs, but K.C. soon realizes the tropical paradise is also home to venomous snakes, some of them human, one of whom will strike to deadly effect.

If you are like most entrepreneurs, the idea of finally writing your book is what scares you the most. But imagine what it will feel like to tell your family and friends that you are a published author.... Everything is laid out in step-by-step directions, so you can easily follow the process and have your own book written in seven days or less!

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the North American male author whose time has now come again.

On a glittering night of destiny, a cat star is born. The Majestic Kennels, home to the famous cats of KittyTube, welcomes a new kitten, Angel Persian. Angel is eager to follow in the footsteps of her famous mother and father and become a Kittytube sensation. You'll be there when Angel aces her first screen test. She opens her eyes - what will she see? She shivers - and charms - her way through her first snowstorm. Will Angel become a water cat, a piano cat, or something new? Will this tiny kitten find her courage, and her audience on KittyTube? Will she have what it takes to win?

Real Leaders C.A.R.E. by Morgan Pierse is more than a leadership manual; it's a passionate call to cultivate caring leadership in a world that desperately needs it. The author, Pierse, draws from three decades of global experience to question the idea that leadership is about titles and advocates instead for the power of genuine care. Pierse demonstrates how leaders evolve through clarity, alignment, determined focus, and engagement through influential personal anecdotes from the rugby field to international boardrooms.

¿Qué haces cuando tu jefe, que aparentemente te odia, se ofrece a fingir ser tu novio en la boda de tu hermana? La primera vez que vi a Callum Whitaker supe que sería mi perdición. Arrogante, despiadado y malditamente sexy, el hermano mayor de mi mejor amiga me trata como si me odiara. Y ahora, tras perderlo todo en España, me he convertido en su asistente personal. Maldita ironía. Lucía Vidal lleva dos años protagonizando todas mis fantasías. Ahora la tengo donde siempre he querido: en mi empresa, bajo mis órdenes. Pero cuando menciona que necesita un acompañante para una boda ...

Audiobook number three of the Lost Colony Uprising Trilogy. Max and Snow come face-to-face with the opposing forces who will stop at nothing to maintain their power by suppressing the truth.

Everyone thought college sweethearts Bex Holmgren and Hayden Archer were headed for the altar...until a tragic accident sent young Bex running from a future she wasn't ready to claim. But when she's offered her dream job at Archer Brewing, Bex can't pass up the chance to reconnect with the big, crazy family that once welcomed her with open arms - and the one man she's never stopped loving. When he returns home after a year in France, Hayden is less than thrilled to find his ex-girlfriend working for his family's company. He's finally moved on.

¿Y si tu jefe temporal se convierte en tu tentación permanente? Elena Acosta necesitaba poner tierra de por medio tras pillar a su novio con otra. Manhattan y su hermana parecían el refugio perfecto... hasta que se cruza en su camino Alexander Sterling, un guapísimo y autoritario CEO con dos gemelas traviesas que necesita una niñera ¡ya! Lo que empieza como un trabajo temporal para salvar las navidades se convierte en una montaña rusa de emociones. Entre desastres culinarios, normas rotas y dos pequeñas diablillas decididas a hacer de Cupido, Elena descubrirá que bajo la fachada de...

With the talents on display the most difficult task is choosing only ten. Their virtuosity, their craft and ambition scare belie the difficulties that society places upon most women. Their words cannot be denied, their literary heritage is safe forever.

In gaslit Victorian England, reputation is everything—and Lady Cynthia Burrows has perfected hers. A flawless hostess. A dutiful wife. A paragon of the beau monde. Until her husband is found murdered and Cynthia becomes the most scandalous suspect of the Season. With society sharpening its knives, Cynthia turns to the formidable Blair family—rumoured witches who move through polite society with dangerous ease to help clear her name.

Kate Cavendish is stuck in a rut. That is until a former colleague contacts her and offers her a chance to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a successful photographer. But with her focus pulled in all directions by her children, her pregnant sister, her newly dating mother, and the nagging worry that her husband might be having an affair, Kate is filled with self-doubt. Then, as the countdown to Christmas begins, and memories of her own childhood resurface, Kate’s anxiety deepens—both personally and professionally. Can she move on from past events and rebuild her future?

Why I Run is my story of fighting depression. Listen about this unique experience from someone who experienced it firsthand, as this audiobook has not been written by a doctor or a therapist. My story is honest, bold, and most of all truthful. This audiobook runs walks you through the thoughts and feelings of a depressed man who has beaten himself up for most of his life. It takes you to the edge of where the darkest thoughts and actions are to times of true depression and heartbreaking desperation.