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Ellie “Scaredy Bat” Spark is a tween vampire that loves solving mysteries, but is afraid of...everything. She's afraid of spiders, clowns, and deep water, to name a few. And her pesky sister Penny never lets her forget it. But with a little courage and help from her friends, Ellie just might achieve her dream of becoming a real detective.

Owen Easton needs to get a life. Between family obligations and running his bar, he doesn't even have time to date. To make matters worse, his sister-in-laws are pregnant—all of them—his niece keeps asking where babies come from, and his mom signs him up for tango lessons because she says his Latin hip action isn't up to snuff. So when the beautiful barista next door offers to help run the family bar so he can go to a bachelor party in Cabo, he leaps at the chance, until he breaks his number one rule: never ever mix business with pleasure.

Teagan Bianchi has survived a road trip with rambunctious toddler twins and a large mutt named Garbage Disposal. She clings to a tattered scrap of hope that moving into her late grandmother’s house is the best way to repair her failing business—and the sad shreds of her life—after the man who promised her forever lost everything they had. But she’s barely arrived when she finds herself face to face with her teenage crush, now an irresistible man—who still happens to live next door...

Ebook on Actor Orlando Bloom

In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Cool, took on their most exhausting challenge yet – climbing Everest for the British Red Cross to highlight the environmental challenges mountains face. It would be harrowing and exhilarating in equal measure as they walked the fine line between life and death 8,000 metres above sea level.

When interior architect Elsie Dodd discovers her musician husband hiding his drumstick under the backup singer’s dress, she files for divorce and moves back to her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Determined to get her life back on track and reboot her career, she enters her house into Modern Marvel Magazine’s Portland contest, where the winner will receive a coveted showcase boutique downtown. Only when she arrives home, she finds an uninvited and unwelcomed guest playing goldilocks in her shower—naked.

A candid and beautifully written wrinkles-and-all meditation on the middle years, with all their dilemmas and challenges.... In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a 50-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth and experience? The Middlepause offers hope and heart. Cutting through society's clamorous demands to work longer and stay young, it delivers a clear-eyed account of midlife's challenges.

This book is a guide for clinicians and laymen who run bereavement support groups. The group process described in this guide runs for 8 sessions. The book includes theory and activities which will help group members work through their loss and hopefully reach the stage of acceptance.

Shards of a Broken Mystery: Restoring Hekate and Our Divine Feminine Soul records the real-time unfolding of the relationship between the author and an ancient Titan Greek goddess, Hekate: denigrated, discarded, and all but forgotten during the rise of the patriarchy in millennia past. The work could be called a psychoactive memoir as minute after minute seeds and grows a sense of inner process.

Valeria Valle is a twenty-three-year-old barista with a college degree, a tiny apartment, and a mountain of debt. When she runs into an old friend, she proposes a way for Valeria to solve all her money troubles, by becoming a sugar baby. Out of desperation, she caves and goes to an exclusive party to meet a potential sugar daddy. Valeria tells herself she is only doing it for the money, but when she sees Enrique Allende smile, she knows she is a goner. Publisher Note: This steamy romance contains elements of power exchange.

Ebook on Actor Channing Tatum

A tale of sacrifice, passion, and torn allegiances, Book 2 of the 'Fluttering Wings' novella series is unique for readers who enjoy complex relationships and characters who are pushed to the limits of their emotions when faced with the challenges of a war-torn world. Lili Clément, a skilled seamstress in Occupied Paris during WWII, finds solace in her work at ‘The Perfect Stitch’. But when she discovers an injured stranger in her apartment, her world is turned upside down. As she nurses the mysterious man back to health, an undeniable bond forms between them, yet before Lili can fully ...

Beth Anders is just fine with her single life. Why mess with the heart when it isn't broken? Being alone means never dealing with hurtful ex-girlfriends or parents who have shunned her for being gay. Being alone has its perks - she's just fine on her own. Or so she thinks until the young, vivacious, and sexy Toni Vincent enters her life. In one moment, Toni quickly unlocks Beth's heart, and the two women plan a future together. But when Beth learns that Toni may not want the same type of happy ending she had in mind, fate steps in yet again to steal her happily ever after.

When Miranda is offered a position in her father’s prestigious medical practice, she jumps at the offer and moves with her partner Chelsea into her father’s rental home. Tenant after tenant has fled the rental home but Miranda and Chelsea scoff at the suggestion of paranormal activity, sure that all of the strange and unsettling occurrences shadowing the house can be explained. Miranda and Chelsea are determined to help but is the house driven by a force too strong to overcome?

McKenna Berney is a lucky girl. She has a loving family and has been accepted to college for the fall. But McKenna has a different goal in mind: Much to the chagrin of her parents, she defers her college acceptance to hike the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia with her best friend. And when her friend backs out, McKenna is determined to go through with the dangerous trip on her own. While on the Trail, she meets Sam. Having skipped out on an abusive dad and quit school, Sam has found a brief respite on the Trail, where everyone’s a drifter, at least temporarily.

Firsthand stories of my times with Hollywood giants like Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Debbie Reynolds, Nick Nolte, Pavarotti, Johnny Miller, and more. I was only 14 when I began working with some of the biggest names in sports and show business. It was with the help of these stars and others that I began my singing and concert production career. For years, I lived the ups and downs of a life as an A-list “one percenter” and then, nearly overnight, I was stranded alone with just $1.27 to my name.

Emilia está preocupada porque aún no sabe atarse los cordones y además está por empezar primer grado. Pero muy pronto, y muy cerca, descubrirá un secreto maravilloso, de esos que cambian la vida de los niños (y también de los grandes). El secreto de Emilia nos propone enfocar nuestra atención en el presente, con amabilidad y curiosidad. Cuando los chicos registran sus sensaciones corporales, emociones y pensamientos, pueden elegir mejor cómo relacionarse consigo mismos y con los demás.

For eight years, Ama has been on the run and out of reach from the people who destroyed her life. Staying detached and moving quickly is all you can expect as a merchant-class woman with unnatural passions, even in the neglected areas of Gascony in the 800's. But now a village that needs her skills, and more importantly, a woman who wants her heart, is trying to break through those walls. If they do, Ama is convinced disaster will follow. And if she learns the whole truth, Ama will lose her as well. Lesbian romance 18+

La situación es la siguiente: estoy enamorada de Reggie Flynn.¿Las pegas? Veamos. A) Él está casado. B) Él ESTÁ CASADO. C) Lo habéis pillado, ¿verdad? Él está CA-SA-DO y yo fui demasiado cobarde como para ponerme en pie el día de su boda y gritar: ¡yo sí tengo un motivo! ¡Estoy enamorada del novio! Nop, no hice nada de eso. Me limité a berrear y a… ¡azotar a su tío Bob! y ahora tengo que tragarme mis sentimientos y quedarme en este purgatorio millennial llamado Friendzone… Ay. Menudo castigo… ¿¿¿Por qué a mí??? ¡Si soy buena gente! Ay, Reggie. ¿Por qué tenías...

Personal Organizing Coach Marin Rose argues that we're all in a toxic relationship with our stuff and that we've got some serious thinking to do before we can expect to make lasting, positive change. In this book, she explores the common emotional barriers to people reducing consumption and ownership, from personal feelings of anxiety, guilt, and regret, to our faith in the omnipresent American illusion that stuff is a direct path to happiness.