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Sisters of a Different Dawn is the tale of two women -- New Englander Sara Gray, daughter of a Methodist Episcopal minister, and an eastern Oregon Country Shoshoni, Umentucken. Both women strive to retain their individuality during a time when change threatens all that they had once believed to be truth. Set in the 1840s, Sara Gray and Umentucken have a common bond, Sara's brother Myram, who left their New England home years earlier to venture west as a trapper for the Hudson's Bay Company.

Madison is trying her best to escape a life of poverty. Young, innocent, and guarded. She’s finally getting ahead when she witnesses a murder outside the dance studio and finds herself in deep with a dark and dangerous criminal. Archer is smitten by Madison from the moment they meet. The protocol says to leave no witness behind but he can’t imagine hurting her. Against his best judgment he lets her go, but he can’t seem to get her out of his head. Like a stalker he follows her, making certain she doesn’t spill about what she’s seen.

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!

The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams is the “revelatory” (New York Times), “deeply empathetic” (New Yorker) true story of four teenagers attempting to escape the cycles of poverty, crime, and despair in 1990s Brooklyn by getting recruited to play college basketball. With poignant intimacy, Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of these young men, including the future superstar Stephon Marbury, who are among the most promising players in Coney Island.

Hazel is down on her luck, without a job or a place to live and things only get worse when she gets into a fender bender with a beautifully dark man named Myles. He’s supermodel gorgeous with dark hair and piercing eyes. She’s afraid, and worried. With no money she’s not sure how she’ll repay him. When he offers her a job at his club dancing, she doesn’t know what to expect, and she certainly isn’t prepared to fall for the man. What started as repayment soon becomes obsession, need, and want.

In 1980, I was thirty years old, and my son, ten, when we traveled to Guinea, then a closed country in West Africa. My fiancé was a geologist working in a diamond exploration camp in Baoule Valley, near Kérouané. During my time there I kept a diary. Once back in the United States, I wrapped the diary in a silk scarf and tucked it away. I had had planned to return to Guinea and the diamond camp, but life took me in a different direction. I didn't open and read the diary until autumn of 2023, forty-four years later.

Fed up with her self-imposed single life, successful event planner Sara Archer heads to a bar for a night of dancing...and bumps into Dylan Westcott, a high school crush she hasn't seen in years. Harmless flirting leads to a hot, completely uncharacteristic one-night stand. Dylan, a divorced, ex-military construction contractor, limits himself to casual flings - but he can't stop dreaming about Sara. And when his firm is hired to oversee the renovation project run by the Archer siblings, the two are unable to resist their explosive chemistry.

Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering 19th-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica’s glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita.

Online dating can be overwhelming. I know, I’ve been there. But through trial and error, I came up with proven and tested ways to find women you are interested in online and then meet them for real. No more endless conversations that go nowhere and no more struggling to get noticed. I will reveal the best dating sites and apps to use, regardless of the type of relationship you are looking for, whether that is just for “some fun” or to “find your soulmate”.

Dragonfly’s Question: A Novel of Hope and Sustainable Solutions What if the key to a better future lies in reimagining the way we live today? Tess has spent years building a life that aligns with her values—a life focused on sustainability, community, and creating positive change. But when her estranged, money-driven father unexpectedly visits her in Portland, Oregon, the clash of their opposing worldviews feels inevitable. To Tess, he represents everything she’s tried to leave behind. As they confront the challenges of their fractured relationship, their conversations uncover ...

Melinda and Rob MacCreadie have been married for nearly 30 years, but she is the worst wife for a hardworking Montana rancher, and she knows it. With their five children grown and finding love, Melinda is daunted by the idea of accepting newcomers into the family. She and Rob still hold a secret that dates from before the birth of their triplets all those years ago. Rob is such a fine man, strong and good looking and endlessly patient. He's wise, too, but is he right to insist that it's time to tell people what happened?

With unflagging courage, wit, and eloquence, Darcy shares what she calls her "fast-forward" life, a life in which she applies for disability, leaves her job, and plans her own funeral as well as meets and moves in with her true love, buys a house, and gives birth to her first child in less time than it takes most of us to accomplish even one of these things.

Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all. In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.

Smile! It’s picture day! Except maybe don’t smile, because there’s a glowing lost-and-found box that’s appeared in the cafeteria. Sure, coming to Strangeville Middle has been an adjustment for new kid Harvey Hill, but things seem to be going well. That is, until strange things happen that may or may not be related to a 50-year-old curse (if, of course, curses were real, which they definitely are not).

When God asks him to embark on an important mission, the headstrong Jonah has other ideas that lead him from the port of Tarshish to the belly of a whale. Is Jonah's faith strong enough to get him out of this mess?

We all want that special someone who's going to love us unconditionally, honor us, and accept us for just being who we are. Authentic love and connection are enormously powerful bonds between two people. Unfortunately though, if we've had more than our fair share of bad relationships through our lifetime. Then it can become easy to suspect there’s no right person, just many different alternatives of wrong.

Ever-faithful Noah is given an important task by God - build an ark and save the animals from the impending flood. With the animals aboard and the rain beginning, Noah witnesses the awesome power of God, and the great depths of His merciful heart.

Uriah Derick D’Arcy seems to all intents to be a literary pseudonym. Why no-one would want to take ownership of this story from its first publication in 1819 has been the subject of several conjectures. The only settled agreement is that it was written by a man and from there the trail runs cold until it was reprinted in 1845 and attributed to Robert C. Sands. But modern opinion now suggests that the true author was his fellow Columbia graduate Richard Varick Dey, a theologian, who’s religious career caused him to distance himself from the creation of this remarkable story.

Charisma and being social may seem difficult, but you can easily capture people's attention without acting like a fool or being weird. In fact, it’s much easier than you think.... Psychological research indicates that people form an impression of you within seconds that largely determines whether or not they'll like, trust, and respect you. Research by The Academy of Management also suggests that entrepreneurs' social skills - specifically charisma, plays an important role in their success.

Nachdem ihre Mutter nach einem schweren Autounfall im Krankenhaus liegt, müssen Tara und Kyle bei ihren Großeltern wohnen, die sie noch nie zuvor gesehen haben. May und Peter Folcroft scheinen zunächst warmherzig und ihr weitläufiges Haus am Waldrand wirkt idyllisch. Doch die Kinder werden das Gefühl nicht los, dass etwas sie beobachtet ...