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Jemma Braithewaite is dealing with tragedy, injury, and a desire for a different life. She's forced to make a heartbreaking journey to the Idaho Territory to take care of her orphaned niece and nephew. Just when she needs a friend the most, God puts Janine Hewitt in her life. The two women bond on their train ride from Chicago to Cutter's Creek, Montana. An unexpected invitation to stop and visit the Hewitt family in Cutter's Creek gives Jemma some time to ease herself and the children into life together.

Mary Pershing's quest for the perfect man to complement her elite status as the mayor's beautiful daughter has stalled. Embarrassed that her younger sister will be married before her, she feels lost. Practically hopeless. Her failure to find a worthy husband has dampened her spirit. Almost. Dante Holbrook hits the sleepy town of Cutter's Creek, and Mary's world is immediately brighter. The high society man from Boston was most definitely worth waiting for. Dante is handsome and successful with practically every other trait Mary desires in a man.

Truth can be stranger than fiction. Segments of this fictional tale were inspired by actual events in the news. Manipulation, persuasion, brainwashing, all the religions do it in one form or another. If it's one of the other faiths, you can see it. When it's your own, not so much. In fact, odds are you will emphatically deny it and become offended. Indoctrination from an early age, our way is the only way, door-to-door campaigns, isolation in a separate state or remote country, difficult to leave, control, tithing, penalties from shunning to getting your head cut off, these are all are ...

Annie Besant was a writer, lecturer, prominent Theosophist and women's rights activist of her time. She was a frequent contributor to various Theosophical publications of her day. This is a lecture of hers from 1913, where she speaks about universal consciousness, spiritual unfolding and personal psychic progress.

Bensin, a teenage slave and martial artist, is just one victory away from freedom. But after he is accused of a crime he didn’t commit, he is condemned to the violent life and early death of a gladiator. While his loved ones seek desperately for a way to rescue him, Bensin struggles to stay alive and forge an identity in an environment designed to strip it from him. When he infuriates the authorities with his choices, he knows he is running out of time. Can he stand against the cruelty of the arena system and seize his freedom before that system crushes him?

Annie writes tales about people who abuse positions of authority, do the inappropriate and the improper. There are abductions, murder, sexual misconduct, sex games and other naughty deeds, along with the occasional twist. At the end of this tale is a list other stories along with a brief description of each. Reverend Rob is a master manipulator. Due to inappropriate behavior, he was told to leave his original congregation, so decided to develop his own following. He has recruited vulnerable Kristin Koch as his number two. Her charming personality belies her true nature, narcissistic, ...

Discover the hidden power through repose. This is probably the only work that dissects the hidden power of rest the power that is inherent in everyone, the power that only a few thought exists! Common sense is dramatically challenged in this audiobook. The author states that if the body is perfectly adjusted, perfectly supplied with force, perfectly free and works with the greatest economy of expenditure, great success can be achieved.

In an ancient Wales that never was, the twin brothers Emyr and Idrys are cursed to live as hounds: Emyr by night, and Idrys by day. The twins believe they will be trapped this way forever, until they meet the fierce and curious Áine, a changeling woman born with fey blood and gifts struggling to fit into a suspicious human world. Áine unravels the fate of Emyr and his twin as all three of them fall in love. To free her lovers from the curse, she embarks on a journey to the realm of the fey where she confronts her own gifts and heritage.

Filled with inspirational writing, The Gathering Table follows this Iowa farm family through a year of gatherings that strengthen relationships, establish and deepen family traditions, and showcase God's gift of great food. With complete menus, easy-to-follow recipes, devotional readings, prayers, and plenty of inspiring and customizable ideas for everything from intimate family gatherings to larger community events, this book will become your go-to resource for entertaining and enjoying life-together!

I want to put before you, if I can in these three lectures, a certain view of the world, and of the way in which that world is guided and directed. As this meeting is a public meeting, there is one statement I think that I ought to make, which it would not be necessary to make, if it were composed of members of the Theosophical Society. It is important to remember that in the Theosophical Society we have no authority on matters of opinion.

Marion, la fille d'un jardinier du château de Versailles, a été choisie pour servir la favorite du Roi-Soleil, madame de Montespan. La marquise est exigeante et capricieuse ; il est bien difficile de la satisfaire. Heureusement, Marion possède un don rare : elle sait créer des parfums extraordinaires qui plaisent à sa maîtresse. Mais la Montespan a plus d'un vilain tour dans son sac. Bientôt, Marion découvre qu'un terrible complot se trame contre la reine... Une jeune héroïne maîtresse dans l'art des parfums vous conduira dans les coulisses du château de Versailles.

Creole gentleman Remy Pigeon has a gift - or a curse. He can touch objects and read the past from them. He prefers to stay away from trouble, but when an attractive red-head with a serious problem and a supernatural secret wanders into his house on a hot summer day, Remy knows that trouble has just found him.

Annie Besant was a writer, lecturer, prominent Theosophist, and women’s rights activist of her time. She was a frequent contributor to various Theosophical publications of her day. This particular piece dates to 1911, and she’s lecturing on Christ from an intellectual but still spiritual standpoint. She encourages us to engage in critical discussion regarding historical evidence, authenticity of records, and his nature and purpose. She also touches on the Buddha, Blavatsky, Gnosticism, the mysteries, the ascended masters, and so forth.

Have you ever lost weight only to gain it all back? Have you ever yo-yoed up and down on the scales? Have you ever dealt with the dreaded plateaus? Then you are among friends. Anyone can lose a few pounds. Many of us already have. The difference is that I am no longer like you.

When your dad is the head of the most notorious arcane crime family in the country, telling him no isn’t really in the cards. My rebellion has brought a war to our doorstep, and the last thing Savannah needs is my mob boss father in the mix. But if they find out my fiancé is dead? And the Alpha’s second killed him? Well, Theo’s bite won’t be able to save us.

Esto es tan incómodo. El mejor amigo sexy de mi hermano es mi nuevo jefe. Christian solía ser un nerd cuando éramos adolescentes. Pero ahora es un profesor terriblemente ardiente y un padre soltero. Me ha contratado como su niñera. La chica que siempre lo ha deseado. Es imposible mantenerme lejos de él. E ignorar la atracción cuando todo lo que quiero hacer es besarlo... y ceder ante algunas cosas realmente indecentes.

Mary grew up longing for information about the mother she never knew. Her brother could barely remember her, and their father numbed his pain with drink. Now aged thirty-seven, Mary has lived in the same house her whole life. She's never left Belfast. TJ, who's about to turn eighteen, is itching to see more of the world. But when his mother disappears, TJ begins to realise what he's been taking for granted.

Nach über 55 Jahren taucht Annie Ernaux ein in das Jahr 1958. Den Sommer verbringt sie in einem Feriencamp in der Normandie. Gemeinsam mit anderen Betreuern feiert sie Partys und genießt ihre Jugend. Und sie verbringt ihre erste Nacht mit einem Mann, eine erste sexuelle Erfahrung, die sie voller Scham mit in spätere Jahre trägt - und die sie fortan versucht zu vergessen. Annie Ernaux wirft einen Blick zurück auf das Mädchen, das sie einmal war. Doch sie schreibt auch über die Natur des Begehrens, über die Rolle der Frau und das Vergehen der Zeit.

Magic is real. Shifters exist. Trixie Russell knows this. Everyone does. But no one told her about the monster lurking in the basement of the dragon’s castle. Not until it was too late. Victor Petrov is ancient, and vampires his age should not lose control of their hunger. And yet that’s exactly the problem that landed him chained in a dragon’s dungeon. Then in walks a human female with cotton candy hair who smells like sunshine, her pulse a sweet melody in his parched ears, and the fragile thread of his control snaps. Again.

Audrey Lamont has happily devoted herself to family life for the best part of 40 years, but lately she's become aware that she lost herself somewhere between 'I do' and the weekly shop. Worse, her academic husband Simon has found time for romance–just not with Audrey. Feeling invisible to everyone, even herself, she flees to her aunt's home in rural France. While waiting for her sudden absence to spark a change of heart in Simon, Audrey finds solace in the charms of the French countryside and the company of her aged aunt and a cast of eccentric Bretons.