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Billionaire app developer Brooks Larson lived his life on the light side. Everything was the potential butt of a joke and he never dealt with baggage. He had enough of his own. When he meets Leah Andrews, the fellow godparent to their mutual friends’ baby, he can’t help but be intrigued. Even more so when he finds out the ultimate good girl is expecting a little bundle of joy herself.

She wanted no berserkers, no rage issues, and absolutely no “muscle mountains.” 🚫🪓❄️ Officer Isla Navarro signed up for Monster Dating Agency half as a joke, half out of frustration with human men who treated her badge like a fetish or a threat. Then she matched with Rurik. 💘❄️🪓 Seven feet of Frostborn barbarian. Runes that blaze when he rages. And a double-headed axe he refuses to put down. One trial date. One ice barbarian. And an order she can’t refuse. Now she’s stuck with a monster who: • Freezes the ground just by walking across it ❄️ • Calls her ...

Ihr ganzes Leben wurde Fei auf ein einziges Ziel vorbereitet: Siwang, den Kronprinzen des mächtigsten Reiches der Welt, zu heiraten. Prinz Siwang ist seit Kindheitstagen Feis bester Freund und würde alles für sie tun, doch Fei will nur eins: frei sein. Als sie die Chance bekommt, aus dem Palast zu fliehen, trifft sie ausgerechnet auf Yexue, den geheimnisvollen Prinzen des verfeindeten Königreiches. Mit seiner gefährlichen Magie der Nacht könnte er der Schlüssel zu Feis Freiheit sein – und vielleicht noch viel mehr.

If you've always wanted unshakable inner peace but your moods keep hijacking your life then keep reading… Are you sick and tired of feeling like an emotional rollercoaster? Have you tried endless self-help hacks and "positive thinking" but nothing seems to work for more than a few weeks? You see, mastering your feelings doesn't have to be difficult. Even if you've tried suppressing every "negative" thought, you can achieve emotional liberation without numbing your true self. Here's just a fraction of what you'll discover: The 7 psychological keys to emotional resilience that actually work...

Three dangerous matches. Three monsters who don’t play safe. Three romances that change everything. Over 1,000 pages of high-heat monster romance as the Monster Dating Agency leaves playful chaos behind and steps into survival, obsession, and bonds forged under pressure. This box set includes three linked standalone romances where desire collides with danger—and love means choosing a monster who could wreck the world for you. Wrecked by the Barbarian ❄️ A Frostborn barbarian. A human cop on a mission-date she never asked for. When rage, runes, and a rift-spawned beast collide, one ...

If we're seeking more happiness in our lives, it can be challenging to figure out where to start or what habits to change. But with this workbook from UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, based on cutting-edge wellness research and the center’s wildly popular "The Science of Happiness" course and podcast, listeners have a new resource for finding fulfillment and meaning in their everyday experiences.

'In the realm of Patricia Highsmith and Gone Girl' Chelsea Bieker 'A masterpiece' Carmen Maria Machado ---- You want to know who did it, but that was never the question. Or, it was never the right one. Birdie Chang doesn't know much about Whidbey Island, only that it is far. On the ferry, she...

Der Plan war einfach; Anton Koslov verführen, damit mein Vater den Mord an meinem Bruder rächen konnte. Ich sollte Anton für das hassen, was er Maxim angetan hat,aber je mehr Zeit ich mit ihm verbringe,desto mehr erkenne ich, dass er nicht das Monster ist, für das mein Vater ihn hält. Ehe ich mich versehe, habe ich mich in ihn verliebt. Er hat keine Ahnung, wer ich wirklich bin oder wer mein Vater ist. Unsere ganze Beziehung basiert auf Lügen. Ich muss Anton die Wahrheit sagen. Und ich bin kurz davor ... als ich entdecke, dass ich schwanger bin.

If Audible was a bottle of milk, then the cream of comedy would rise to the top. In this series of live showcases, Audible puts the spotlight on some of the established stars and emerging newcomers of the stand up scene. Expect hilarious, unadulterated, stand up fun from the masters of laughter.

My life was beautiful. I used to dream, set goals but then came a loan that can’t be paid. It’s even more than my life and dignity so here I am now, compelled to comply with the agreement. I belong to him now and he owes me now, owns everything I have and I have to cooperate else my family will be troubled. I am breathing but there is nothing left to live. I am alive but my independence is lost. I can't recall the time when I was happy, when I used to smile. Now all I have here is darkness and locked emotions, and all I remember is rules & punishment. I am on the edge of losing my mind,...

Diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) at 12, Kira believed she could never backpack away from everything that kept her stomach pain in check. But 13 years later, she hiked the entire 211-mile John Muir Trail — in the face of a debilitating flareup, a breakup, and a gut-wrenching parasite. Kira's (mis)adventures overcoming chronic pain among the breathtaking Sierra Nevada helped her rediscover everything her body was capable of. And in the highs and lows, the beauty and pain, the perseverance and regret, she came to understand true resilience. All to inspire you, the reader, to ...

I wasn’t supposed to break up with my boyfriend of two years at my birthday party. I definitely wasn’t supposed to lose my virginity that same night or do it all over again the next morning. I wasn’t supposed to move in with the three men that drive me insane—while also making my panties wet—after I’m kicked out of my apartment. And I really shouldn’t be falling for them.

Vaccine hesitancy in America didn't begin with the uproar over the mRNA vaccines for Covid-19. The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries saw resistance to a wide variety of vaccines. In Unvaccinated Under God, Kira Ganga Kieffer shows that debates over vaccine safety and mandatory vaccination were about more than diseases or injections. Kieffer argues that vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. should be understood as religious expression—not as the product of scientific misinformation.

Faith changed her name to escape a life she never chose. Now a second-grade teacher in small-town Idaho, she’s traded runways and deadlines for quiet mornings and snow-dusted streets. Life is finally her own—until Adam Peters walks into her classroom. But Adam’s heart is still guarded, and Faith’s secrets could shatter everything. In a town blanketed by snow, falling in love might be the one risk neither planned to take.

Are you living with chronic pain, illness, or both? Have you struggled to maintain or even consider pursuing an intimate, romantic relationship? Managing chronic health conditions is difficult on the best of days, and the added complexities that come with love and companionship can feel overwhelming. In the Second Edition of Aches, Pains, and Love, still the only book of its kind, clinical counsellor and chronic illness survivor Kira Lynne offers compassionate and practical guidance and wisdom for navigating relationships while living with significant health challenges.

Join comedians Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard - McLean as they explore a shared passion, serial killers. Each episode the pair will talk all things murder and macabre and have a right laugh doing it.

If you've always wanted to feel energized, balanced, and fully in control of your body but hormonal chaos keeps dragging you down — then keep reading… Are you sick and tired of waking up exhausted, battling mood swings, unexplained weight gain, and brain fog so thick you can barely string a sentence together? Have you tried cutting carbs, taking supplements, following every wellness trend on the internet — but nothing seems to work for more than a few weeks? You see, balanced hormones don't have to be a distant dream reserved for the lucky few. Even if you've spent years being ...

Alexis hat sich in Sparta den Ruf einer unbarmherzigen, gefährlichen Kriegerin erworben. Das verlockt nicht wenige Männer, ihr Glück bei Alexis zu versuchen. Kharon und Augustus, die beiden düsteren Götter der Unterwelt geben sich jede Mühe ihr zu gefallen. Doch auch Alexis attraktive Mentoren Achilles und Patro sind sich auf einmal sicher, dass sie und Alexis füreinander bestimmt sind. Es sieht so aus, als müsste zwischen den Göttern wählen – aber ist das wirklich eine gute Idee?

She wanted a little chaos in her life. She didn’t expect it to come with so many limbs. 🌊🦑 Willa just wanted to survive LA’s art scene, and keep her heart safe from complicated men, and monsters. So when her best friend finds love through the Monster Dating Agency and loneliness starts whispering in her ear, Willa lets her psychic instincts take the lead. At worst, it’s a weird date. At best, a great story to tell her friends. On her ABSOLUTELY NOT list? No deep-sea types. No drama. And absolutely no tentacles. So obviously... She’s matched with Orrik Blackwater. Owner of The ...

🎃 She Never Wanted the Crown. She Definitely Didn’t Want Him. 👑 Emma Raynor—infamous “Pumpkin Girl”—just wanted to survive her hometown’s cursed harvest festival without another viral disaster. Instead? A prank gone wrong. A vine-wrapped crown. And now she’s bound to the most possessive monster in folklore: The Pumpkin King. She has three nights to choose: 🕰️ Accept her fate—and a dangerously obsessed harvest god 👻 Refuse—and risk losing her soul... and his He’s ancient. He’s obsessed. And now, she’s his Queen. He calls her Queen—and means it Knows ...