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Ashlynne Barrow can see what most others can't-ghosts, spirits, portals to other worlds, and other people's thoughts. When the new neighbor brings fights, nightmares, and death to her block, Ashlynne must find a way to peer through the glamoury of a run-a-way Unseelie Faerie to restore balance and harmony to the French Quarter. With the help of her two good friends, a ghost who lives in her mirror, and a powerful Voodoo Spirit, Ashlynne must move quickly to set what went wrong to rights or run the risk of her neighborhood being taken over with the creatures that the Faerie has called in. ...

What's sexy about saving the planet? Funny you should ask. Because that is precisely - or, perhaps, broadly - what Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have spent many years bringing to light in their live art, exhibitions, and films. In 2008, Sprinkle and Stephens married the Earth, which set them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality as they became lovers with the Earth and made their mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment.

It’s your body.... It’s your mind.... It’s your choice.... If you’re reading this right now, you’re questioning how much you drink. Maybe you know you drink way too much, and you want to quit. Or maybe you’re just curious. You’re questioning whether you might be overdoing it a bit. No matter where you are on the drinking spectrum, you’re not alone. I’ve been there. And thousands of people inside the This Naked Mind community have been there, too....

Annabelle is the princess of Dunea, and that is all she has come to expect from her future. After the tragic death of her mother, Annabelle was raised in hiding—safe from the rebels who threaten from the North and the growing unrest in the kingdom as a decades-long conflict drags on. After rebels from the North murdered the beloved queen Ilenna, a young Annabelle was sent away from court to live under the protection of the Wallace family of Rosewood province. Safely tucked away at the remote coastal manor, Annabelle has spent the years of her youth in the sun.

Pia and her brother, Max, live on an isolated farm in rural Maine, and it’s the only life they remember. Their father says the only way for them to stay protected is to stay on the farm. Pia doesn’t question it. Pia’s entire world turns upside down when her father breaks his leg, and she must be the one to venture into town to make farm deliveries. And then she sees him. Felix, a boy who is both a stranger and somehow familiar, makes her question everything she thought she knew about herself, her past, and her family.

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.

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.

Chase is fed up waiting to meet the one. He’s 32 now, and he desperately wants a family. He grew up in Springville, Nevada and has watched all of his friends and brothers meet nice women and settle down, but why can’t that happen to him? He’s handsome. He has some money. But any woman he’s ever courted has ended up just not feeling right. Finally, Chase decides that if he can’t find the love of his life, then maybe he can buy her. He contacts a mail order bride service and soon they send him his blushing bride to be. Her name is Mary. She’s beautiful, smart, and easy-going. But ...

This is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some thirty years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and, at the same time, leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time—together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing.

Urban fantasy offers a diverse playground for some extremely powerful stories. Professional writer and editor Kerrie L. Hughes pulled some fantastic tales out of 14 top writers for this fifth installment of Fiction River. Set in urban lands from modern Portland, to a future Detroit, to a wild Washington, D.C., and ending the tour in London, these top writers take the idea of "Hex" and stretch and twist it into stories with a magickal grip on the imagination.

This easy-to-follow, 28-day program features a powerful seven-day jumpstart of high-energy green juices and antioxidant-rich minimeals designed for listeners to detoxify and lose weight without deprivation. Over the four-week program, listeners gradually increase their intake of whole, fresh foods while learning to crowd out unhealthy foods with nourishing juices and more balanced, healthy options.

The four popular Bondi Beach Love books in one boxed set. Beach House: Rosie Pemberton has her life mapped out, and her tarot cards agree. The cards take a turn, though, when her aunt leaves the old house on the hill above Australia’s Bondi Beach to champion surfer Taj Brown. Three months sharing a house with a pinup would test any woman’s self-control… Beach Music: Sally Smith is content with her life despite her twin sister, Sonia, telling her she doesn't have one. One dose of heartbreak was enough to do her for a lifetime, so she plays it safe. Until her twin meddles and then takes...

Sometimes past experiences make a person feel as if they will never know true love. LOVE KNOWS MY NAME features nine sweet Christian romance short stories from veteran and new authors. Enjoy stories of characters finding love at last. LASTING IMPRESSIONS by Wanda B. Campbell Working as an ICU nurse offers Kaymar Washington many rewards, but a cure for loneliness isn’t one of them. Patient Johnny Twenty-five changes everything. If only her patient wasn't comatose and knew she exists. DANCING ON THE MOON by Linda Leigh Hargrove Dr. Katrina Mason loves teaching college math. It's a rewarding...

In the shadows of Victorian England's stifling society, Clara feels neglected and abused in the arms of one person who should love her unconditionally. Her mother. A chance meeting with a homeless boy ignites a forbidden spark and their destinies intertwine in a tale of friendship, jealousy, and love in the pursuit of dreams. But amidst the darkest of circumstances, he turns his back on her. Clara goes in pursuit of true love but mixes with the wrong man who threatens to destroy the only person she has ever loved. Forever. When betrayal and tragedy strikes, will Clara’s unwavering love be...

Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she's lost her way. A medical school dropout, she's come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days.

The subject of my discourses I have called "The Laws of the Higher Life", because so many people in dealing with religion that has to do with the Higher Life seem inclined to remove it from the realm of law, bringing it into some strange region of arbitrary whim and results without endeavor, of failure without weakness.

Happily working on her family’s macadamia farm in the rolling hills of northern New South Wales, Dee Peters receives an enigmatic letter hinting of family secrets and the prospect of her inheriting a cattle station in the Northern Territory outback. Intrigued, Dee decides to stay on the station for six months while she attempts to make sense of the past. Ryan Carey has managed Wilderness Springs cattle station since his father died suddenly - the last thing Ryan expects is the arrival of a woman, and one who is keen to take over the running of the property.

Janvier 1946. Tandis que Londres se relève douloureusement des drames de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Juliet, jeune écrivain, cherche un sujet pour son prochain roman. La lettre d'un inconnu, natif de Guernesey, va le lui fournir. Juliet pénètre alors un monde insoupçonné, délicieusement excentrique ; celui d'un club de lecture au nom étrange inventé pour tromper l'occupant allemand. De lettre en lettre, Juliet découvre l'histoire d'une petite communauté débordante de charme, d'humour, d'humanité. Et puis vient le jour où elle se rend à Guernesey.

Ruby is done with jerks, dead-end jobs, and eviction notices. Everyone else she knows is finding ways out of this crappy neighborhood, so why can’t she? Since opportunities refuse to fall from the sky, Ruby makes her own. To hell with the little voice in her heart whispering about love. She never met a man she wanted to keep...then she met a gargoyle. Men were boring after all. Nick was a con, a thief, and a rogue. He couldn’t keep a dime in his pocket even if it was glued. Then, he met a ruby. Not one from the earth, but one of flesh and blood.

If you are going through hell... keep going... Wounded, defeated, and flung across the wilderness, Jade Crow and her peeps faced their worst enemy and not all have escaped....or survived. Separated from her friends, their fates unknown, and without her magic, Jade must discover her own heritage and unlock her true powers....or else her next fight with Samir will be her last. For Jade, life has come down to two choices....Level up. Or die.