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Happiness. This is probably the most sought-after emotion in the world and yet somehow, despite our abundance of wealth, increase in health and freedom from tyrannical oppression it seems to have grown more elusive. We have confused our quest to find inner peace with our desires for success and financial gain. Again and again the world transmits a message that if you work really hard you will become really successful and from there happiness will be a by-product that just follows naturally.

Subjects include being a person of influence, values beyond validation, and life choices and balance.

When a mysterious toy soldier arrives on her doorstep and announces it's here to test Archie's loyalty, witch Astra Arden can't help but laugh. After all, it's not every day that a plastic soldier shows up claiming to be sent by the goddess Athena. As they work to unravel the clues surrounding the toy soldier's arrival, ominous forces gather and Astra races against time to uncover the truth—and they realize that this might not be as funny as they thought.

Isabeau Steelhaugh is unlike any other young lady of 1871 London—by day she is an aristocrat, by night a lab experiment. After escaping her insane mother at CinderElla's ball, Isabeau’s wolflike traits remain a secret until her sister is kidnapped. Now, Isabeau will stop at nothing to get her back. Even trust a secretive enemy. Commissioner Basil Traverson meticulously follows the Dangerous Mutant Directive: remove any mutant dangerous to society. When Isabeau is arrested, Basil offers a deal: He will help find Aurelia…if she will act as bait to lure her mother out of hiding.

Being a teen of the '90s is tough. For a teenage outcast like Joan Goyer, "tough" is nowhere near the plane of descriptions of her life as a werewolf. Fresh out of high school and set for college, Joan's summer becomes a nightmare of a vacation when a murder takes place in her backyard. Targeted as a suspect, Joan must partner up with her creepy yet attractive neighbor, who is also a suspect. Proving her innocence would be the challenge, but to trust someone who is blurred between friend or foe...this is a suicide mission.

Annaelise Theiss is the daughter of a German winemaker, Count Karl Theiss, and of a former Parisian aristocrat, Louisa Guerlain. The young heroine, Annaelise is torn between her mother's allegiance to the new French Regime and her father's influential thinking towards the New Enlightenment from German philosophers and the American Founding Fathers. Espionage and spying againt the emperor are everywhere.

You won't be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in this book, but all, familiar or not, leave unanswered questions behind them—from Cleopatra to Ruth Ellis, from Boudicca to Bonnie Parker, from Lady Caroline Lamb to Moll Cutpurse, from Jezebel to Ava Gardner. The risqué, the adventurous and the outrageous, the downright nasty and the downright desperate—all human (female!) life is here. Wicked? Misunderstood? Naïve? Foolish? Predatory? Manipulative? Or just out of their time? Listen and decide.

Desperate for a change, Hayden Summers takes a trip to New Orleans for Thanksgiving. Surrounded by the city’s beautiful culture and amazing food, it doesn’t take long for her to become obsessed. However, nothing prepares her for the sexy, tattooed redhead that is Elysia Maynard.

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to burning questions. In over 50 pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic.

Kallie Collins, veterinarian and animal communicator, hopes to enjoy a day of riding with friends until a bay mare shows her a vision of a terrified woman. A second horse adds his images of cloaked figures walking through shadow-filled passages. The visions the two horses share lead to the discovery of a shallow grave near the stable, plunging Kallie into a deadly mystery.

Hensley and Bianca are two sexy futas who desperately want to have a baby. The only way they can is to find a beautiful woman to impregnate. Enter Zania, their gorgeous best friend from college. Zania has lusted after the couple for years, envious of their love and passion. Once chance encounter at a restaurant, and they offer her everything she wants and more, in a night full of thick surprises, and hot and heavy romance. Everyone always called them the Terrific Trio - let's see if they can make a terrific baby.

Tina is excited about her all-girl vacation, but when she and her friends go to a nude beach, she gets turned on enough by exposing herself that she misses her husband desperately. Imagine her surprise when she finds out he’s there! The plan was always for him to meet them, but now he’s a day early, and that means she gets a chance to enjoy what she craves. The one thing she didn’t think about was how incredible it would feel to sleep with her husband while all her friends knew exactly what was going on!

When Astra Arden returns to Forkbridge, Florida, she's not sure what to expect. But her mother, the high priestess of the goddess Athena, is beginning to relax, her three sisters are becoming more at ease with her, and even her divine talking owl, Archie, is settling in. Things seem to be going well until Gloria Fisher comes in for a reading. Gloria suspects her alcoholic husband, Will, is cheating on her, but Astra soon discovers that the "divine logic" behind the situation is much more complicated.

Colin is a beast. Lily is a beauty. When Lily Hackman offers herself up in her father's place, it's a bargain Colin Davenport can't say no to. But when Lily proves to be headstrong and fiery, did the beast of the underworld get more than he bargained for?

Since my divorce and moving to the States, I only practice martial arts to blow off steam, but when my mentor is murdered by a shape-shifting vampire, I'm on the hunt for the monster that killed him. My pursuit leads me to the Shadow Council. The ruling body of the supernatural world. As if that isn't strange enough, a forgotten God wants me to train a new breed of hunters, to prepare for the impending war.

In a world overrun by zombies, breathing, living friends are hard to find. Would you risk your life to save them? Nurse Alissa, her friends, and her cat Archer fight their way through a zombie-infested state to get to the safety of her mountain cabin. It offers sanctuary as well as new challenges as all the routine commodities of the modern world are now luxuries. Soon they find a new enemy to fight - cabin fever. The most exciting thing that happens to them is meeting their neighbor Chris and his dog Shithead. Bored people do stupid things.

Attempts to get Stacie in the holiday spirit fall flat when Santa’s elf finds herself in a shooter’s crosshairs. With another shooting, initial theories go up in smoke and the search is on for the true motive. Stacie avoids her own stressors following up on the shooting and murder. Faced with relationship turmoil and a killer on the loose, Stacie embraces her "bah humbug" perspective as she seeks to identify the culprit.

Oboist Sara Baron agrees to cat-sit for a childhood friend, but instead of being greeted by a meowing fluff ball, she walks into a ransacked house and stumbles over her friend’s dead body. Frantic, she runs next door and enlists the help of a mysterious stranger who knows more than he admits.

When the dear friend of the town’s beloved innkeeper is murdered, sleuthing couple Emily and Henry Fox don’t hesitate to step in. Something’s fishy regarding the property the victim recently purchased. The previous owner wants it back, the neighbors want it vacant, and the next of kin who stands to inherit the property is missing! Meanwhile, Henry and Emily’s daughter Maddy may be in grave danger.

I’m not intimidated. My boss sent me to deep backwoods Vermont to get Garland McGrumpypants—I mean McGuinty, to sell some of his lucrative landholdings on Silver Mountain. And I need this commission.