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Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn't exactly on Ruby Wax's agenda for 2022 - writing about it wasn't either, but here we are. These days, trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world makes life incredibly difficult, especially if you're struggling with your mental health. While searching for inner peace and equanimity amidst global chaos, Ruby realises that, ultimately, the most challenging gauntlet we all must face is ourselves. I'm Not as Well as I Thought I Was is Ruby's most honest and raw book to date.

*Depraved Demons is a 15k+ word long steamy short in a fantasy setting with a scorching ending!* A human would have to be either foolish or desperate to seek out and strike a deal with a demon. One thing was certain:Indra was desperate. After setting out on a journey to save her village, Indra barges in on the intimidating Ladon—a fiery greater demon who rules over Castle Laewaes. Between his enormous height, forked tongue, devilish wings and wicked tail, Indra finds it difficult to concentrate on the task at hand. When convincing the demon to accept her proposition proves harder than she...

Firefighter and mercenary Marat Azarov thinks he’s being noble when he rescues a beautiful slave woman from certain torture. Alas, she turns out to be more than she appears and does not appreciate his interference. In an attempt to redeem himself - and perhaps win her regard - he concocts a plot that even his grenade-flinging colleague Striker deems unwise.

In one vast and sparkling city, everyone can fly. Almost everyone. A few, nicknamed leadfeet, are sentenced by a trick of nature or fate to forever spend their lives closer to the ground. But one night, a girl named Gurl - a leadfoot, an orphan, a nobody - discovers that she can do something much better than fly. She can become invisible. This amazing power will help her uncover the secret mysteries of the city. But even with her newfound talent, Gurl can't seem to hide from a giant rat man with a taste for cats.

Pensé que había dejado mi pasado atrás. Volver a Spruce Crossing tan pronto nunca estuvo en mis planes. Pero cuando mi madre se retira abruptamente y me deja a cargo de la panadería familiar, no tengo otra opción más que enfrentar el pasado. Mientras lucho por demostrar mi valía al pueblo y ocupar el lugar de mi madre, me enfrento a otro dilema: Christian Hargrove, mi novio de la secundaria. Los viejos sentimientos resurgen, y Christian y yo nos encontramos atraídos el uno por el otro una vez más. Pero Christian debe decidir entre una oferta que podría cambiar su vida, y nuestra ...

Every story needs a villain. I need an escape. From the fear. From the pain. From the creeping shadow that’s hung over my life for as long as I can remember. What I don’t need is a husband. Not that my parents want to hear it. Every three years, the young eligible men and women in my community gather in Citrine Cove to party, flirt, and leave the island with a fiancé on their arm. Falling in love optional. The last thing I want is to participate in this sham. Especially not alongside the boy who tricked me. The boy who dumped me. And the boy who tortured me. Love is not in the cards ...

Ben loves baseball. He loves the lines of diamond-shaped field and the dome of the pitcher's mound. What Ben doesn't like is reading. Ben has dyslexia, which means letters and sounds get jumbled up in his brain, and then the words don't make sense. But when Ben starts looking at reading like he looks at baseball, he realizes that if he keeps trying, he can overcome any obstacle that comes his way.

Coming home to Spruce Crossing was supposed to cure my writer's block, but I never expected to find inspiration in Lucas Swanson. As I help breathe new life into his small-town bookstore, I find myself falling for the brooding bookshop owner. His hidden depths awaken something in me I thought was lost. But just as things start to fall into place, a twist of fate challenges everything we've built. With Christmas approaching and unexpected feelings blooming, I'm faced with a choice I never saw coming.

Single mum Ellie is shown a missing person post on Facebook. It’s of her three-year-old son, Tyler. But he’s right there, holding her hand. Surely this is some kind of prank – she knows her friend Louise can go too far with her jokes sometimes. And Ellie is used to the other mums gossiping at the school gates. But now the other parents are questioning whether Tyler is really her child. Ellie does everything she can to prove the post is fake, but the longer it goes on she knows it is malicious. Who would do this to her? And why?

This bundle is a comprehensive guide to managing and healing psoriasis, designed to help those who suffer from this chronic skin condition to live happier and healthier lives. The bundle includes audiobooks that cover a range of topics, from the basics of psoriasis to more advanced strategies for managing and even reversing the condition. You will learn about the causes of psoriasis, common triggers, and the different types of psoriasis.

Monsters exist. I know because I became one. My ordinary life shattered the night I was claimed by the Alpha’s touch. Vincent, with his dangerous allure, unlocked a primal magic within me I never knew existed. But our passion has unleashed more than an insatiable desire for his touch. An ancient evil now haunts me, craving the power pulsating within my veins. The Vampire Lord’s war could tear our world apart, drowning us in darkness. I'm left wondering - could our destined bond unlock a force mighty enough to reshape the universe? Vincent's love is both my armor and my fatal flaw. If I ...

White tears possess a potency that is rarely acknowledged or commented upon, but they have long been used as a dangerous and insidious tool against people of colour. Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep 'ownership' of their slaves, through centuries of colonialism, when women offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, in which tears serve as a defense to counter accusations of bias and microaggressions, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression.

Seventeen years ago, different dreams pulled Simon Mizrahi and Lana Kai apart. But when Lana takes a position as a chef back in Manhattan, her apartment search puts her right in her ex-husband’s path. Music teacher Simon is also hunting for a new place to live, and when Lana proposes they be platonic roomies, well...it’s not the worst idea he’s ever heard. A sunny uptown two-bedroom sounds far more appealing than the cramped, noisy space where he’s currently struggling to work. Still, Simon has seen firsthand that Lana’s a flight risk, so he agrees on a trial basis.

When Kali travels deep into the winding Orc caverns, will the Orc King turn her away, or give her what she desperately needs? Obscene Orcs is a series of steamy monster short stories. All installments can be enjoyed as stand-alone titles.

Neurologist Helen Chang Frobisher is on a mission to ban hockey from Portland to prevent the kind of concussive brain injury that plagues her father. Oregon Wolves player Adam Magnus is desperately trying to secure his career and his retirement despite the team's dismal record. But while the two spar in public over the future of a sports franchise on the brink, in private, they battle an impossible attraction. When their no-strings-attached fling turns into the real thing, Helen and Adam must decide what's really important to them.

Written by sex educator and body-positivity advocate Ruby Rare, Sex Ed is the practical and fun guide to sex that you've always wanted - but never known how to ask for. This is the information you should have been taught at school: a no-holds-barred roadmap that covers everything from how the brain is the most important sex organ and how to communicate what you want to yourself and a partner, all the way down to the messy stuff - solo sex, orgasms, touching, kissing, blow jobs, cunnilingus, anal play, lube, toys, kegels.

I was a reckless prince, addicted to pleasure and self-destruction. Sent to a military camp to reform, I never expected to find my forbidden fated mate. I dream of claiming her, marking her as mine for all eternity. Training under her, I discovered a rare power that I never knew I had. But our bond made us targets of a witch coven, determined to destroy us. Captured and facing our mortality, I realized the depth of my love for her. I vow to become a man worthy of her heart. With treachery in our midst and danger at every turn, can I be the man she deserves? Can our love redeem my past and ...

Love can be many things–all-consuming, fleeting, vengeful, selfless, toxic, uplifting, and always, a core part of the teen experience that leaves an indelible mark. This enchanting, genre-crossing anthology delivers something for every listener with unique characters, global settings, and a dazzling mixture of myth, historical, speculative, and contemporary fiction.

If you’re trying to break into freelance writing, you can’t get anywhere without a strong pitch. A well-crafted story pitch is your chance to prove that you’re the person for the job. This guidebook will help you land your first dream assignment and kick off your career as a freelance writer so that you can make money doing what you love.

College roommates, Sally and Jessie once again decided to wait until the last minute to study for their Statistics exam. After hours of staring at a boring book without any understanding of what is going on, they both decide they need to do something to help clear their mind. The result is something they both would have never guessed.