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It's time for Peppa and George to go to bed, but they aren't sleepy at all! Mummy and Daddy Pig must tell them a bedtime story about the adventures of a character named Georgie Pig, and then another story about Peppa the Pirate!

Annie Hyman Pratt's family business, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, consisted of 7 domestic "mom and pop shops" when she took it over. In just 7 years' time she scaled it by more than 1x, turning it into an international brand of 7+ stores before leading the company through a highly successful sale. Two decades later, Annie Pratt is a top-tier business consultant whose client list of 5+ companies and entrepreneurs includes Hay House, Jeff Walker, Gabrielle Bernstein, Susan Peirce Thompson, Erico Rocha, and Christian Mickelsen.

Kendall Holiday spends her Friday nights exactly where she wants to be: with her head buried in a spicy romance novel while she works the graveyard shift at her university's library. She knows she could join her friends for a weekend of drunken debauchery and college parties, but she likes her alone time, so she tells herself she isn't hiding when she gets lost in the pages of fictional love stories. But that all changes when Vincent Knight, captain of the basketball team, turns up with an injured wrist, a sour mood, and a pressing need for poetry recommendations for a class he hates.

Sarah Wheeler knows what she wants. Marriage and children are not part of her plans. She’s seen too many marriages fall apart. The last thing she wants is to be a statistic. As for children, Sarah doesn’t see herself as the nurturing type. She’s content helping her mother run the Key Lime Garden Inn on Captiva Island and working as Director of Community Relations at Southwest Florida’s Outreach Center. Work leaves her with little time for romance—until infuriating, charming, and intriguing Trevor Hutchins distracts Sarah and throws her off balance.

Life for Kansas was perfect until the day the world changed. She has been hiding out for four years in solitude. It's the only way to survive. The only way not to draw the living dead. Helping a small group of people, she learns the new world might not be what she assumes. Venturing out of her refuge and comfort zone, she meets Rudy, who helps her find a greater purpose. She realizes that the world has moved on without her. Only it's not what she expects.

Across the US, student activists are exposing a pervasive cover-up of sexual assault on college campuses. Every day more survivors come forward. But other survivors choose not to. We Believe You elevates the stories the headlines about this issue have been missing - more than 30 experiences of trauma, healing, and everyday activism, representing a diversity of races, economic and family backgrounds, gender identities, immigration statuses, interests, capacities, and loves.

A young woman has a split-personality. She also leads a double-life. Allison Jones appears an average homemaker with typical domestic issues, doting on her husband and kids. She is also Samantha Smith, a kick-ass secret agent. Her sometimes-meek nature allows others to take advantage of her. Things are just the opposite when her domineering side takes over. The conflicting personalities can be confusing. Is she submissive or dominant? Naughty Housewife delves into the erotic adventure/romance genre. Intrigue and plot twists make this tale about a seemingly ordinary spouse a fast-paced, page...

Alex's dream of becoming an artist is on the brink of collapse, trapped in a marriage where his wife demands his total obedience. Lured into a humiliating form of chastity, he finds himself in a secluded mansion in Marin County—a place where the line between dreams and nightmares blurs, and forbidden desires take center stage. In this mansion, Alex is set on a path of erotic trials and transformation, challenging his understanding of pleasure, submission, and his own sexuality. Surrounded by mysterious figures, he is pulled into an erotic venture that tests the limits of freedom and restraint.

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Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument and dreams of owning a music store in America. He and his eleven-year-old son, carrying little more than the accordion, travel to New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynching mob, but his instrument carries Proulx's story as it falls into the hands of various immigrants who carry it from Iowa to Texas, from Maine to Louisiana, looking for a decent life.

Just about everything Sloane Cabot knows about her past is a big old pile of malarkey. Couple that with the blank spot of how her family died, and she needs answers, like, yesterday. But when a man shows up dead on her family’s grave, she knows it somehow has to be tied to that fateful night a year ago.

Covering her life and sixty-year career from Sonny & Cher to show-stopping solo performer, award-winning actress, fashion icon, and beyond, this is a glorious retrospective of one of the world’s most enduring entertainers, Cher. Featuring a foreword by Cyndi Lauper!

Haphephobia—the intense, irrational fear of touching or being touched. Cain Goldberg has let that fear control him without question, but Luca Díaz is the submissive that makes him reconsider who is really in control. After the traumatizing events during a BDSM event at a private vineyard in Napa, Luca Díaz is ready to let go of the pain of his past to experience the euphoric surrender to his Master. However, welcoming that vulnerability through pain is never easy.

Recovering from a broken heart and coming to terms with her family history, all sorceress Jade Crow wants is to resume running her comic book store and gaming with her friends. With a town full of strange wolf shifters, a 150-year-old peace accord hanging in the balance, and the justice who broke her heart back in her life, Jade's plans go out the proverbial window.

" Le Pentagone, un bâtiment qui compte cinq façades et cinq niveaux au-dessus du sol, explose avec tout ce qu'il contient, six cent mille mètres carrés de bureaux réduits en poussière ardente par le flash lumineux et thermique initial. L'arrivée quasi simultanée de l'onde de choc fracasse les murs. Les vingt-sept mille employés périssent sur le coup. ". Un État voyou lance un missile nucléaire sur le Pentagone. Dans les soixante-deux minutes qui suivent, le monde s'embrase dans une réaction en chaîne écrite à l'avance.

A young woman deep in debt due to her student loans is finishing her first year of teaching. Her subservient nature has captured the attention of some of her students. As they reach age eighteen and graduate, three of them join forces to plot her sexual exploitation. They set her up to look like a predator, then manipulate her for their own nefarious pleasures. Excerpts: They put me into fake pornography, then used that and drugs to get me into the real thing, lots of it. The School Board would terminate me if they saw any of it. It wouldn't matter to them that they are all consenting ...

In the quaint river town of Geneva, Illinois, Kelly Clark comes home to re-start her life after a horrific divorce. She settles into the apartment above Chocolate Love, her sister’s specialty dessert shop in the historic district of Geneva. Things start to look up when she reconnects with an old flame, Jack. Just when it looks like she is getting her life on track, she stumbles over a dead body in the kitchen of Chocolate Love. Has her violent past followed her home to Geneva?

Get your kids settled for long car journeys with this collection of 25 entertaining animal stories. These calming stories will keep the whole family occupied and stop any whining whilst you are trying to drive. Perfect for families to listen to in the car, in the airport, on the train or on the way to your next family adventure!

The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most revered spiritual and philosophical texts in Hindu tradition, forming a part of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata. It is presented as a dialogue between Lord Krishna and the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, moments before the start of a great war. Arjuna, faced with the dilemma of fighting against his own relatives and teachers, is overcome by doubt and despair. Seeking guidance, he turns to Krishna, who serves as his charioteer and divine teacher.

A one-night stand. A sexy firefighter. And a surprise that changes everything. Grace Foster, a feisty accountant with a streak of dating disasters, has no intention of finding love as the maid of honor at her best friend’s wedding. But one reckless night flips her world upside down. Paired with the infuriatingly handsome best man, Kane Barrett, she’s prepared for battle—not romance. Kane, a firefighter and arson investigator, is a hometown hero and Hibiscus Harbor’s most eligible bachelor. Settling down isn’t in his plans.