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When Becca takes a waitressing job on a cruise ship with the girl she grew up with, she is expecting an easy summer, sunbathing out on the deck and collecting a paycheck.

Jodi views himself as the upper echelon of Black men. Smart, successful, educated, and incredibly wealthy. He's got cars, clothes, and women, but that's where his problems begin. While he's supposed to be faithful to his longtime girlfriend, Sabrina, he figures what she doesn't know won't hurt her.

Christmas time is fast approaching at Mary Vale and newcomer Libby is ready to start a fresh chapter working alongside the Wartime Midwives. When she discovers that the local primary school is struggling, Libby rallies the midwives to band together and work with the local community. With the help of midwife Ada and teacher Margaret, Libby has a plan to save Christmas. But not everyone likes what Libby is doing, and local landlord Thorpe is hiding something.

Jez is soaring, on top of the world, Grammy in my hands. Women at his feet. But it's one woman he wants in particular. She is crazy, passionate, sexy, sassy...and she's embedded herself in his brain and in his heart. And what Jez wants, Jez gets, and nothing is going to stop him making him hers. But as they say: How the mighty fall! In a split second, his whole life comes crashing down around him.

Presenting the Lady is the second stand-alone regency romance story in The Lady series. Arabella, nearing the time she will be presented and have her first season, is a little zealous and gets into the type of scrapes that could easily cause a scandal. Her brother, the Earl of Sunningdale and her friend, the new Countess, do everything they can to keep her from inadvertently sabotaging her future. Follow the family as they feud, attend balls, hunt, and hatch scheme after scheme to get Arabella safely launched into society.

Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective - celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism. The book focuses on the network of writers and readers who gathered around Percy Bysshe Shelley and the campaigning journalist Leigh Hunt.

When Rachel and Kirsty meet on the ferry to Rainspell Island one summer holiday, they have no idea that such incredible adventures with the fairies await them! In this first book in the series, Rachel and Kirsty meet Ruby the Red Fairy at the end of the rainbow....

It's Kirsty and Rachel's last night at Camp Stargaze, but horrible dreams are keeping them awake! The girls know they must find Sabrina the Sweet Dreams Fairy's bag of dream dust. It's time to pay a visit to mean Jack Frost's Ice Castle...

When Louis Pasteur discovered the process of fermentation in the 1870s, he noted that, while most organisms perished from lack of oxygen, some were able to adapt and even thrive as 'life without air'. In this capricious, dreamlike collection, characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness, from suffocating relationships, religions and institutions to toxic environments and ecstatic asphyxiations. Both compassionate and ecologically nuanced, this innovative collection bridges poetry and prose to interrogate the conditions necessary for survival.

After thirty-five years of marriage, I was done! Children all grown and on their own left no more reasons to lie. We agreed to go through the motions one last Christmas before we broke the news. Then, an accident changed everything. And I found her secret journals. All these years I’d been wrong! But how can I get a second chance if she can’t remember our first? I’ll find a way to bring her back, And I’ll pray that she’ll forgive me. Because one way or another, I won’t rest until we’ve rekindled the love we should have known all along. *Book three in the Rekindled Love Series ...

Jasmine Whizzpaws' Rescue Race: Join best friends Lily and Jess in the magical land of Friendship Forest, where animals can talk! The wicked witch Grizelda has a nasty plan to take over the forest by forcing everyone out with a horrible bad-weather spell. Can cute little puppy Jasmine Whizzpaws help the girls defeat her and save the sunshine?

In June 1837, the eighteen-year-old Victoria wakes up to find that she is Queen of the most powerful nation in the world. But will she be queen in her own right, or a puppet controlled by her mother and the sinister Sir John Conroy? Can this tiny girl prevail against the men who believe that women are too hysterical to rule?

When a sexy neighbor moves into the neighborhood, Brad and Johnny (the town deviants) are eager to see how "friendly" she is. This mysterious and breathtaking stranger is every man's dream with amazing curves and a gorgeous face. After initially meeting this seductive hottie, they begin to wonder, just who is seducing who here? The boys soon learn the woman across the street who is seemingly out of their league might be naughtier than they could have ever imagined. Find out if the guys can seize the moment and make it a summer they will never forget.

Pirates, diamonds, and a multi-million dollar yacht. Sounds like a dream, right? More like a nightmare. A one-year trip around the world on a billionaire’s yacht, sounded like the opportunity of a lifetime. One year’s work for five year’s pay, turned into four years gone. So what do you do when you’re eighteen, pregnant, and the love of your life disappears? You go on as best you can. That’s hard enough. But what do you do when he returns scarred and broken, And trouble follows him home? You find the strength you never knew you had, And you fight for your family. We all may be ...

Every artist has his muse. Who he creates for, who he performs for. In my case, it’s the girl who broke my bleeding heart. Eight years on, it’s still her face I see when I look out into the crowd. Eight years on, she’s in every song I play and in every note I strum. She was my only love and my only heartbreak. And now, she’s back. With a secret that can threaten to teach me new meanings of pain. But I’ll be damned if I let her get away again.

Jack Frost has promised not to trouble the Rainbow Fairies again, but he didn't say anything about the Weather Fairies! Now he has stolen the feathers from Doodle, the weather-vane cockerel in charge of the weather. It's up to Rachel and Kirsty to get each of the feathers back from Jack Frost's goblins, with a little bit of help from the weather fairies: Crystal the Snow Fairy, Abigail the Breeze Fairy, Pearl the Cloud Fairy, Goldie the Sunshine Fairy, Evie the Mist Fairy

This audiobook narrated by Kristin Atherton provides a fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller—from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin.

Frances is an English graduate student bruised by a messy breakup. On the spur of the moment, she decides to volunteer at a farm in rural France with the hope that the change of scenery will help clear her head. The farm, curiously named Noa Noa, is owned by Paul, an appealing, enigmatic Frenchman. Frances is charmed by his easygoing ways and by the area itself, both welcome changes from the life she has known. Yet the more time she spends in Paul’s world, the more unmoored she begins to feel.

Raised in a progressive Muslim family in the shadows of the Himalayan mountains, where she attended a Catholic girls' school, Daisy experienced culture shock when her family sent her to the States to attend high school in a mostly Jewish Long Island suburb. Ambitious and talented, she quickly climbed the corporate ladder after college as an architectural designer in New York City. Though she loved the freedom that came with being a career woman, she felt that something was missing from her life. One day a friend suggested that she visit a Sufi mosque in Tribeca.

I just turned forty, my bakery and apartment are in flames, and my best friend is on vacation. In comes the cavalry. My best friend’s off-limits brother, Augustine. A master chef, with his own Gold Star restaurant. Not only does he give my daughter and I a place to stay, But he has a dream kitchen I can use until the bakery is remodeled. And the chance to create his Gold Star restaurant’s private-label signature desserts. But when I fake a marriage to scare off his gold-digging ex, Will he see the love behind the lie? Or will it ruin our chance at love? I found a true knight in shining ...