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First love that will either save her...or cost her everything. In this YA romance that blends Everything, Everything with All the Bright Places, Elle must decide which fate she’s walking into with Ozzy. Elle Bloome lives on lockdown—an ankle monitor, an overbearing mother, and dreams far too big for her tiny, over-controlled life. Ozzy Foster is free to roam but spiraling fast, trapped with an explosive father and a bipolar diagnosis he keeps trying to outrun. Their connection begins with a single note in Elle’s Little Free Library and erupts into the kind of love you’d tell your ...

Great things can be accomplished when like-minded individuals gather. There was a time when only in-person gatherings existed. Today, we can gather virtually, a testament to the power of human innovation. This new way of gathering inspires us to make changes that will leave this world a better place. However, how we communicate and do business in this fast-paced digital world can frequently feel impersonal. Gone are the partnerships built on handshakes and friendships built on warm hugs. This trilogy of anthologies explores the stories of thirty-six individuals who've found their way to ...

From the depths of the Big Thicket, emerge five authors, drawn together by their passion for storytelling and their unique abilities to frighten innocent children and old women. Their Redneck Voodoo style of storytelling will carry you on journey through twelve tales, each written beneath the pines of East Texas. Inside this delightfully creepy collection of tales, readers will find the following twelve tales: Scarecrow Sheriff, Dog Murderer, and Blackbirds, by Tim Bryant. In the Forest, by Dawna Bowman Flowers. Flowers, by Blake Heath. A Teller of Quietus, and Wife in a Box, by David ...

Do you sometimes think about the current habits you have and feel that they need to be changed? I am sure that this is something all of you have done at one point in time or the other. Forming new habits is very similar to the process of meditation—do you know why? Well, during meditation, you will often be advised not to let your mind wander and keep yourself centered. This is why you are asked to focus on something. It’s the same with habits. It can be an arduous process—the moment you try inculcating a new habit, there will be many obstacles that come your way.

By reading this book, you’re adding to your leadership toolbox. Each cadet leadership story is a hammer, screwdriver, or a duplex rabbet plane. And no, we did not make that last one up! You’ll be thanking yourself later for having read this book when you have all the tools you need to face any leadership challenge life can throw at you. After all, taking the time to build your character is always one of the best investments you can make. So make it!

In Where the Wind Wills, D. Flower soars with the eagles while trekking in the Himalayas, she meets with a famous healer in Brazil to prepare for a year in Africa, and dances with dust devils while living in a grass-roofed hut in Kenya. She learns the Maasai tribal ways while documenting ancient sacred ceremonies, crawls through stinging nettles in Rwanda to look into the eyes of mountain gorillas, and flirts with death on the Omo River in Ethiopia. All the while navigating on one of the toughest roads -love.

Private investigator Eddie Naku is hired by attractive divorcee Kathryn Higuchi on Maui to investigate the murder of her sister, Suzette Higuchi Bordeau, wife of a well-known criminal defense attorney. She was gunned down in a shopping center in the Upcountry region of Pukalani. What seems like a routine case for the ex-police detective turns into a complex murder mystery as Naku uncovers a web of lies, deceit, arms trafficking, infidelity, seduction, betrayal, and more murders as he tries to solve a deadly crime.

On Tuesday, May 9, 1893, seven-year-old Emma Werner was the victim of a brutal and lethal attack in Chicago, Illinois. The dreadful murder came at the start of the city's much ballyhooed 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair. It coincided with the heinous crimes of ruthless serial killer Herman Webster Mudgett, who went by the name H.H. Holmes and built a hotel called the World's Fair Hotel to house and profit from the Fair visitors needing a place to stay.

Welcome to Pairs Well With… Life doesn’t always follow a script—and this podcast is all about what happens when it doesn’t.Hosted by Serena and Sheila, two longtime friends, business-owning women lawyers, with a shared love for deep conversations and fresh perspectives, Pairs Well With… is a space for honest, entertaining, and inspiring stories about reinvention, transitions, and whatever comes next. Whether you’re shifting careers, navigating relationships, becoming an empty nester, starting over, or simply figuring things out—we’re right there with you.Each episode, we dive ...

Real Talk: Men, Divorce & Rebuilding is a podcast for men navigating life after separation, heartbreak, and major life transitions. Through honest conversations and real stories, we explore divorce, co-parenting, rebuilding confidence, finding love again, and growing into better fathers, brothers, and husbands. This is a space where men are heard, supported, and reminded they’re not alone. Whether you’re newly divorced, years removed, or still healing, this show exists to help you move forward with clarity, strength, and purpose.

Spirit and Scrutiny explores spirituality with both openness and discernment. A podcast for seekers who believe in the unseen — but still ask thoughtful questions.

Marjorie Dean is all set for a fantastic year at Sanford High, especially with her best friend coming for a visit. But when jealousy starts to bubble beneath the surface, her plans for a perfect year may be at risk! (ashleighjane)

1718. Bath, North Carolina. The notorious pirate Blackbeard has terrorized the eastern coast of the North American colonies for years. Lieutenant Robert Maynard is dispatched from Virginia to bring an end to the dread pirate’s reign of terror but is surprised to find that Blackbeard is engaged in a desperate battle against an otherworldly enemy. Elias Marshall, a local navyman, joins Maynard in his mission to stop the growing threat of Blackbeard and his crew. The pair musters a final assault that pits them against not only the scourge of the Carolina coast, but also something dark and ...

The appearance of a perfectly formed rainbow on Saint Patrick's Day mesmerized the residents of Richview, North Carolina. When a local couple catches sight of the anomaly, they're startled to discover that the terminus of the vibrant phenomenon leads into a nearby cornfield. What begins as an unbelievably lucky encounter that could change their fortunes forever devolves into a hellish fight for survival when an ancient entity emerges to act on a centuries-old curse.

Barbara the sexy bookstore manager dominates the female staff and customers in this aggressive lesbian fantasy that explores power and control.

After the Sun is prematurely converted into a red giant as the result of an energy experiment gone awry, mankind is forced to flee the inner planets in hopes of finding refuge through the research of strange organisms living beneath the surface of Jupiter’s sixth moon, Europa. No one could have predicted what would be discovered over the course of a journey that sees three outcasts plumbing the very nature of the universe itself.

Fixing a glitch ends the possibility of an alien ever realizing his destiny. He resurrects her from her scattered memories. The only trouble is that she is a prime image of his dark but gifted side. One sustains mysticism, and another promotes prosperity. On the way to standardizing the earthly state, he ends the bodily dependency of the human species.

Mass Murder in the Sky: The Bombing of Flight 629 is a 7,063 word historical true crime piece about mass killer, Jack Gilbert Graham. It tells the shocking story of hatred, revenge, mass murder, terrorism, and a bizarre dynamite bomb Christmas gift that brought a plane down in the Colorado sky more than half a century ago, killing all forty-four passengers and crew, and the intense investigation that resulted in bringing the killer to justice and paying the ultimate price for his brutal crimes.

A short story satire for our times Young Billy Hoeksma, future governor of Michigan, is age six. He skips away from school one day in the early 1970s, urged on to steal a Playboy magazine. Young Billy heads off to the drug store in the wrong direction. He gets lost. When Billy is reported missing by embarrassed school authorities, his wealthy father, the rising right-wing business and political figure William "Will" Hoeksma, Sr., fears the boy’s been kidnapped. He orders his private security team – headed by the enigmatic Vietnam veteran Wilbur Tuttle – to find his son. And so the ...

Blacks are among the most conservative ethnic groups in America. Somebody needs to tell them that, because as a group, we aren’t voting like it. Most Blacks I know are concerned with basic common-sense issues like crime, inflation, the economy, taxes, school choice, vaccinations, etc.