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If Hanna Rockwell isn't married by the time she reaches her 30th birthday, she will lose her home, Rockwell Place, and her entire inheritance. Hanna's mother and brother, who also live at Rockwell Place, are desperately afraid they're going to lose their home and allowance. Their constant nagging at Hanna to find someone to marry has driven her to challenge them. "Start planning the wedding, Mother. And Will, you find the groom. And I'll get married on my 30th birthday!"

Former FBI Special Agent Darcy McClain and her sidekick Bullet, a giant schnauzer, are in Taos, New Mexico, when they stumble upon a flash drive in an arroyo on the property she’s inherited. The drive belongs to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Darcy pockets it and hikes to the adobe on her land. There, she finds a pregnant teenager, Rio, searching the house for the drive, since it’s a possible clue to the whereabouts of her missing fiancé Johnny, who works at LANL. Rio is frantic to locate him. In a strange coincidence, Darcy learns Rio is the daughter of a family friend, and bound by this bond, she agrees to help the woman find Johnny.

Michael Devlin returns to Ireland for his brother Thomas's funeral, to find that he is even more of an outsider than he imagined. Curiosity about the life and death of his brother leads Michael to unearth a history shrouded in secrets and lies, and results in an unwanted dilemma for him. Love, regret, revenge, and murder conspire to test his ideals.

Everyone has adventures and misadventures. They can range from a mild speed bump to life-threatening situations. In the past three quarters of a century, Pat Moore has experienced more than his share of the latter. He has survived five parachute malfunctions, nearly gotten decapitated, fallen from a fast moving truck, escaped from an apartment fire, almost gotten hit by a train, and was trapped in a cave. We're told that cats have nine lives. By his count, he's used that many. What follows is a recap of some of his more foolish adventures.

The podcast that explores the Civil War, what led to it, and the world the Civil War created. From ”Black Confederates” to Reconstruction, the Lost Cause to the rising power of Black voters after the war, this podcast examines some of the most controversial issues of the mid-19th Century-and today! Your host, Patrick Young, is the author of The Immigrants’ Civil War and The Reconstruction Era Blog. He is Special Professor of Law at Hofstra University.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Toby's Room, a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: How exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door to Toby's room.

Joey looks for another home when he doesn't feel like cleaning up his messy room.

Journey Of The Successful Adviser is created for you - the adviser, the entrepreneur, and those aspiring to be one. If you're looking for inspiration, education and empowerment to help you keep moving toward your goals, whether you're on the way to work, on the way home, or during your 'down time', James McCracken brings you real-life stories of triumph and tribulation from many of today's most inspiring advisers and entrepreneurs. Each episode ends with the PD ROUND, where guests share nuggets of wisdom for you, Adviser Nation!

Patricia Doran is an author and educator with decades of experience successfully teaching students from diverse backgrounds, ages, learning abilities, and learning disabilities, particularly individuals who have been told that they are dyslexic. She is an expert in explicit, systematic phonics instruction via direct instruction.

Felisan, Governor of Alpinon, recalls the battle in which he and Jharan were certain they would be slain. On their way to Glenhallow, Eliani and her kindred must pass the battlefield at Skyruach, site of the greatest ælven conflict centuries before. As she and her kin listen to her father, Felisan, tell of the battle, she ponders the difficult decisions she must make when they reach the city where Turisan awaits her. Must she accept and use the mind speech she shares with him? Should she agree to his request that they hand fast? Either way, her life will never be the same.

She had encountered violence in her own childhood but became emotionally resilient and fearless, until her life turned into a struggle when she met a man with a fatal attraction for her. Robinson was kidnapped, chained, beaten, sexually abused, and controlled by this man’s remorseless evil nature. She was desperate, broken—a woman who knew she would not be rescued after she found his arsenal of illegal weapons.

Pat Duke, the beloved narrator of the smash hit Swamp People on The History Channel, shares a hysterical and thought-provoking collection of punchlines, one-line zingers, observations, and advice on a variety of topics.

Christmas Hemming, a newly freed slave, lived to be 110 years old. In 1885, he used cash to purchase 640 acres of land in North Florida (Suwannee County). Hear about his incredible journey and how his decedents have lived and worked his homestead for more than a century. The author, Pat Hines, is Christmas’ great-great-great-granddaughter. She is on record in Florida as having the only African-American Century Old Pioneer Farm.

One Father’s Day, three fathers, and four children. Will the real dad, please stand up? It’s never too late to be a father—or is it? Christian Andersen is looking forward to spending his first Father’s Day with his blended family. But Father’s Day becomes more complicated than Christian or Joy, his wife, could have ever imagined, when the biological fathers of his adopted children threaten to ruin his special day. But he depends on God to guide him through the journey with a surprising outcome. A Christian Father’s Day is a romantic Christian novella that celebrates fatherhood ...

Pat and AJ are a married couple who have crisscrossed the USA entertaining audiences for decades! Pat works full time as a clinical social worker, while AJ continues to be one of the many women in radio. They are raising a teenage son on the autism spectrum in a house full of animals in Tucson, Arizona!

When a teenaged cancer patient relapses, she starts journaling to cope. But she’s not the only one. Musicians, scientists, athletes, politicians, activists - even a saint - give her courage based on their life and death experiences. Full of whimsy and hope: Magic Diary is a one-of-a-kind 21st century history book.

Follow Lumos, an adorable facility dog, as he helps a child through getting stitches. Facility dogs are specially trained to help kids through medical experiences—from lifting spirits, motivating movement, modeling the power of play, and more.

Michael from the mountain clans has a gift - he can hear dragons. A birth defect has made it difficult to speak and he can't walk; his body is wracked with spasms. But if his people - and the dragons - are to survive attacks by the lowland Qing d'Hai empire, he must somehow bridge the gap between his dragon riding clans and the dragons. If he doesn't succeed, both the dragons and the mountain clans will meet a terrible fate.

An abandoned forest resort should have been paradise for a creature like Ishmael. Isolated from civilization, so far removed from human eyes, Ishmael could have reveled in his true nature without threat of discovery. But he had been abducted, drugged, and marooned there without a word, sent into exile by the cryptic Wyrd Council. And he's not alone. In this unholy quarantine, Ishmael is just another mouth to feed. And he's no longer the apex predator.

Molly Snow arrives in the coastal town of Surfbreak to research its past. It was here that one brave explorer ventured long ago - and here that he died. Molly wants to know what happened to Alfred Aowl... and why the maps he drew of the region depict places that don't exist. But her interest in Aowl and his feud with the Indians resurrects dark forces only a shaman could understand.