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I Never Dreamed There was a Rugged, Handsome Mountain Man In My Future… But in the Mountains of Montana, I get my Second Chance at love... and so does he. Rylie Mills’ life is about to change forever: A vacation fling becomes insta-love in the nth degree? I never dreamed this could happen to me. Ever. It was the last thing I ever expected, especially since I came on this mini-vacation telling myself over and over that I wasn’t here for any reason other than to relax and recharge I can’t shake the feeling that I belong in the city, not out here in the Montana mountains, and I have a ...

Fran Williams never intended to be a travel writer but circumstances made her life take a surprising turn. Now, needing to put the past behind her and desperate for a fresh new start, she finds herself assigned to attend an ancient Well Dressing event in a pretty tourist town as part of a group of journalists. On the hunt for some background information on the event for the travel article she’s researching and writing, she soon uncovers far more than she expected… There’s a mystery that needs solving – and fast! Keen to dive into a sleuthing adventure, Fran teams up with tourist ...

Myrna, Leonie, and Chrissy meet every Thursday to sample fine cheeses, to reminisce about their former lives as professors, and lately, to muse about murder. Decades ago, a vicious cabal of male poets contrived—quite publicly and successfully—to undermine the writing career, confidence, and health of their dear friend Fern. Now, after Fern has taken a turn for the worse, her three old friends decide that it’s finally time to strike back—in secret, of course, since Fern is far too gentle to approve of a vendetta.

Santa. Zombies. The HOA. Life in the suburbs isn’t all birthday parties and bounce houses.

What do Glazed Toddlers, Ventriloquist Farters, and The Tao of Poo have in common? Humor and writing! They helped create The Accidental Writing Lab. Author, Sheila M. Sullivan, invites us to see where and how she found the motivation to write. This is not exactly your traditional "how-to" or "self-help" book. No. This book lets us into the inner workings of one particular writer's life as she moved from San Francisco, California to Dallas, Texas and then to Fargo, North Dakota, and ultimately the Pacific Northwest over the course of months. All while attempting to complete the first book in...

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.

Tom is fascinated with bones, human bones. He wants to study them and gets his chance when Mr. Dukes allows him to dig in the vacant lot behind his store. What Tom unearths makes the neighborhood kids tremble with fear. "Ally ally oxen free!" These four little words can bring anyone out of hiding.

One day, Stan and Jan Berenstain were captured by a family of bears. It was a family of three - an overenthusiastic Papa whose high opinion of himself was exceeded only by his ability to do silly things (often placing himself in jeopardy from bees, skunks, low-hanging branches, whales, irate farmers, etc.) a wise, steady Mama with a firm grip on reality, and a bright enterprising little boy cub.

Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.

Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep. Though Maud dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is. The truth is, ever since Maud was a girl, death has seemed to follow her....

-Extraordinary encounters. Unexpected humor. Endless challenges. Life-threatening diseases. Unthinkable trauma.- Welcome to STAT: Crazy Medical Stories as told by the healthcare professionals themselves. From peculiar conditions and mysterious ailments to remarkable recoveries and perplexing medical mysteries, Stat: Crazy Medical Stories, draws from real-life accounts. Each chapter unveils crazy medical cases as narrated by the healthcare professionals themselves. The stories take you on a captivating journey across various disciplines, including general medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and ...

Join Nate the Great and his trusty companion, Sludge, in solving the greatest mysteries a boy could search for. In this collection, Nate hunts down a lost grocery list, a favorite stamp, a genius pet, a beach bag, a yucky valentine, second base, and an evil, book-destroying monster.

A marvelous collection of Poems and Short Stories from Robert E. Kearns - Award Winning author of Hy Brasil: Island of Eternity, Crabb, Carnivore, Freedom is For the Few, Ossuary, Embers and A Donnybrook Affair. In this work Kearns provides us with thought provoking poems, and an array of incredible stories. . Now with a Five Star editorial review from Readers' Favorite, Poems & Short Stories Vol. 1 is the perfect introduction to the author's work, which can be cherished over and over.

A collection of stories: The Possessed Printer Blues: A woman buys a printer at a yard sale. The Long Day Sun: A photography student helps out a friend. Savory Taro Pudding: A short nightmare based on true events. Billionaire Babies: It turns out you can't trust billionaires. Bath Salts Vampire: Teen girls with low self-esteem + a drug dealer who thinks he's an ancient vampire. What could go wrong?

From Award Winning and Best Selling Author Duncan Whitehead, comes a short story with a twist........ When two old friends, bound together by their love of growing fruits and vegetables enter the same competition, how far will they go to ensure victory? A charming story with more twists and turns than a tomato vine. From the Author A short story with a twist. How far would you go to win? How important is something that seems so trivial to others, but paramount to you? We all have a breaking point....but some are more fragile than others. This book is short and sweet. Set in a small English ...

From the bachelorette bash to a private dance, my son's best friend is about to show me a whole new side of wild! I expected a wild night at my best friend's bachelorette party in a male entertainment club. But I didn't expect to find my son's best friend dancing on stage in a thong. He was always flirting with me when my son wasn't looking. One thing led to another, and I found myself sitting in a chair, enjoying a private dance before the real show later that night. If you love older women get their sexy on with a younger man, then you definitely want a taste of Candy! Buy now.

It's been years since Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith introduced the world to the Cinderumpelstiltskin, Little Red Running Shorts, Chicken Licken, and the rest of the hilarious cast of characters in The Stinky Cheese Man. In this audio edition, listen to some really off-the-wall fairy tales, including "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", "The Really Ugly Duckling", and "Jack's Bean Problem".

"The Mortician's Daughter& other short stories" is the first collection of short fiction by "Life in the Lion's Mouth" novelist James R. Dubbs. From the author's telling of love found at the exact wrong moment in The Mortician's Daughter, to the Kafkaesque tale of a man's attempt to purchase a movie ticket in Chimera, to the comedic turn of hard-boiled Private Investigator Buzz Schlomer in Penguins Can't Fly, this eclectic collection of stories explores the human condition with pathos, imagination, and a sly, whispered satire.

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); and what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow").

Sir Malcombe managed to maintain a veneer of respectability, but he was not an honorable man. Rumors about his shady business dealings abounded. His family was hardly bereft about his untimely demise. But there was one small problem. He had often bragged about squirreled away assets. Where they? He left no clues. They searched and searched but found nothing. What to do? If only they could ask him. But how? Lady Eleanor suggests a séance with her dear friend, a world-renowned medium. Can they reach Sir Malcombe? Will he divulge his secrets from the other side?