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Today's writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American email, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran Constance Hale is on a mission to make creative communication, both the lyrical and the unlawful, an option for everyone. With its crisp, witty tone, Sin and Syntax covers grammar's ground rules while revealing countless unconventional syntax secrets that make for sinfully good writing.

Welcome to The Blue Spruce Coffee Shop Where the Java is Hot and the Murder is Cold Blooded The Blue Spruce coffee shop in the heart of Myrtle Lake retirement village does a bang-up business all day long, keeping barista Charlie and owner/grandmother Carla on their toes. Local eccentrics like a former Broadway dancer, a famous landscape painter, a dotty psychic, and a mischievous sea captain pop in to share tall tales and ribald jokes, much to the delight of their over-caffeinated neighbors. But this happy crew gets the shock of their lives when Fritz Caulfield, a lovely man and horrible ...

Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder - a world where women weave illusions of magnificent beasts, carousels take you back in time, and trapeze artists float across the sky. Bound to her family's circus, it's the only world Cecile Cabot knows until she meets a charismatic young painter and embarks on a passionate affair that could cost her everything. Virginia, 2004: Lara Barnes is on top of the world until her fiancé disappears on their wedding day.

Helen Lambert has lived several lives-a young piano virtuoso in 1890s Paris, an actress in 1930s Hollywood, a rock star in 1970s Los Angeles - only she doesn't know it. Until she meets a strange man who claims he's watched over her for centuries, bound to her from the beginning. At first, Helen doesn't believe him. Her life is as normal as any other modern career woman's. Then she begins having vivid dreams about ill-fated love and lives cut short. Caught in a curse, Helen will be forced to relive the same tragic events that ruined her previous lives.

Practical psychic/soul lessons and empowerment. Join Constance Messmer as she shares her experiences and expertise in all areas spiritual and mystical. It is with the senses of your soul that you are better able to navigate your life and world, bringing fullness into everyday living. Learn skills to enhance your connection to yourself, others, our world, and the higher realms. For best results, listen chronologically. These cumulative self-help sessions are meant to empower you to live fully alive by discerning and honoring the deeper truths of your own soul's awareness'. Thanks for Tuning In!

The Brothers Karamazov tells the stirring tale of four brothers: the pleasure-seeking, impatient Dmitri; the brilliant and morose Ivan; the gentle, loving, and honest Alyosha; and the illegitimate Smerdyakov: shy, silent, and cruel. The four unite in the murder of one of literature's most despicable characters - their father. This was Dostoevsky's final and best work.

A Pig Familiar, a Fairy, an Alligator Shifter and a Witch Nann, that's with 2 N's, has inherited an old heirloom of a house, along with a pet pig familiar who talks through the radio and likes to steal toilet seats. Nothing strange there. After moving in she becomes fast friends with an alligator shifter and a fairy who works as a mechanic. The Vampire club meets upstairs above her book store. Little do they know that the ghost of a French vampire occupies the same space. And she's not found of the sounds emitting from their bodies. ***Join Nann and friends as they battle sea hags and ...

Two Witch Sisters, a Civil War Battlefield, and a Sarcastic Cat Mazie deals with the ghosts of a Civil War Battlefield where she it a tour guide. Juggling with tour groups and the dead can be exhausting. But when the ghosts witness a death, will they be more help than hindrance? Join Fern, Mazie, and Moody, their kitty familiar, as they dive into supernatural and mundane murder mysteries. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two.

British airman Dym Ingleford is convinced that the young German prisoner, Max Eckermann, is his brother Anthony, who was kidnapped years before. Raised in the Nazi ideology, Tony has by chance tumbled into British hands. Dym has brought him back, at least temporarily, to the family he neither remembers nor will acknowledge as his own.

Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. “Good girls don’t make scenes,” people warned her. And while she spent most of her childhood suppressing her bold, emotional nature, she found an early outlet in local community theater—it was the one place where big feelings were okay—were good, even. Acting became her refuge, her touchstone, and eventually her vocation.

Everything you need to know about self-care - especially for Leo!

In Tibet: History, Culture, and Religion, Professor Constance Kassor, will show you the real, multi-dimensional Tibet and its people who live on the “Roof of the World,” the highest and largest plateau on Earth. In 24 fascinating lectures, you will learn how Tibet’s history was shaped by kings and kingdoms, power struggles, religion, traditions, wars, peace, and the lifestyles that developed in response to living on the world’s highest plateau.

Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution.

A Botanist Witch, a Spirit With a Flair for the Dramatic and a Deadly Coven Join Ivy and Private Investigator Everett as they battle deadly covens, paranormal sea creatures, and the ghost of a flaming drag queen. Read the complete six book series. This Complete Six Book Box Set includes these books: Brewing Up Trouble Brewing the Midnight Oil A Storm is Brewing Back to the Brewing Board Brewing Up the Wrong Tree Brewing Down the Hatches

The Complete Six Book Hocus Pocus Witch Mystery Series Join Celestial Meadow as she battles against magical and mundane forces to help solve murders in her quaint town. She's a witch with a knack at candle making, but she can also brew up some kick ass spells when need be. Her friend Dakota, male witch in training, has a harder time with his spells, but he's trying. And shapeshifter detective, Nikoli, brings the power as well as the gentle when it comes Celestial. This Box Set Includes these books: Spooks and Spells Freaks and Felons Crooks and Crystals Graves and Goons Brooms and Brains ...

Complete Seven Book Series Sam is an earth witch who concocts smoothie potions for whatever ails you. Her friend Tessa is a spicy and ferocious fire witch who owns the local diner. Phineas and his pet rooster Chuckles are regular customers. Join this motley crew as they solve murders and combat evil forces along the way. This is the complete seven book series for the Happy Blendings Witch Cozy Mystery Series including these books: The Potion Commotion A Pumpkin Potion Explosion A Drop in the Potion A Notion of a Potion A Deceptive Potion A Formidable Potion A Risky Potion

Everything you need to know about self-care - especially for Gemini!

Fired from her job as editor-in-chief of a New York fashion magazine, Zora Hughes travels to a South Dakota Indian reservation. She hopes to find answers to lifelong dreams her psychiatrist calls genetic memories. Zora dreams of a female ancestor who fled life as a slave and was aided in her journey to freedom by a Sioux warrior who would become her husband. On the reservation, Zora meets Captain John Iron Hawk who aids and sometimes hinders her in her quest to find answers to the murder of her forebearer.

As Professor Constance Kassor reveals in the 10 illuminating lectures of Religious Lessons from Asia to the World, the incredibly complex and diverse faith systems of Tibet, China, India, and other Asian countries offer believers and nonbelievers alike a number of important teachings and ideas that can help us become better people - and live happier, more fulfilling lives. Designed as a fascinating sampler of ideas from different traditions, Professor Kassor invites you to learn from Buddhism’s four sublime states.

Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows the career of Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists on a demonic quest for societal breakdown. They are consumed by their desires and ideals, and have surrendered themselves fully to the darkness of their "demons". This possession leads them to engulf a quiet provincial town and subject it to a storm of violence.