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Inspired by a true story, the best-selling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944, people in the French Resistance helped him escape to safety.

If you’re already questioning the medical establishment and you’re looking for alternatives to drugs that often address the symptoms rather than the disease, these are the books for you.

Today’s modern poker rooms are certainly run better than many poker rooms were years ago. But there are still a large number of issues that need to be addressed which should help to produce good games that will allow cardrooms to maximize their business, and at the same time will be beneficial to the players. To accomplish this, poker room managers will need to understand certain concepts that will help to produce good games. And good games attract players. This includes regular players, some of whom are highly skilled, and recreational players who still need to win often enough so that ...

Few in the small, remote town of Tibbetts, Connecticut, even remember the estate and the insidious events that took place years earlier. Struggling with writer’s block and a tight deadline for his new novel, David Pragmore suggests a retreat away from Hartford to his wife, Susan, in order to find fresh inspiration. The publishers want David’s new book to shine in the horror genre, so when David reads about the odd manor with a haunted past, it seems like the perfect place to recapture his muse. But David and Susan quickly discover that some stories aren’t meant to be told.

Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field.

Her midlife should be bursting with calm, not the chaos of feuding children and a rampaging dragon. Ginny Smyth's life just got traumatizingly tangled. The beleaguered 40-plus genie had enough on her plate thwarting a deranged dragon shifter from incinerating her enchanted island sanctuary. The absolute last thing she needs is for her warring children to magically appear from thin air and become the center of the perilous danger. With ominously menacing threats plunging her eclectic mix of friends into an ever-increasing torment of despair, Ginny is once again thrust into the volatile debt ...

Age really is just a number… It’s time to keep falls and muscle weakness at bay with a much better number to revitalize your senior years: 60 gentle exercises! People always talk about what age brings with it… weakened muscles and bones, a strength that drains with every passing day, and a balance that fades away with the sands of time. But nobody talks about the biggest loss that hurts deeper than a flesh wound: The loss of your liberty. Your mundane – the everyday you hardly spend a minute thinking over in your youth – becomes a weight that drags your spirit down, keeping you ...

With her dreams of being a wedding dress designer suddenly over, Arianna Bell isn't expecting a holly, jolly Christmas. That is until her high school sweetheart, Connor Gallagher, returns to town and she finds his mere presence still makes her pulse race. But soon he announces he will be her opponent in the upcoming mayoral race.... Hot-shot attorney Connor Gallagher has something to prove. He's tired of playing runner-up to his high-achieving brothers. So when the opportunity to enter the campaign comes up, he takes it. Even if it means running against the only woman he's ever loved.

Legions of regular folk are angry at us for having what they cannot. It's up to me to lead the magi and sort out this mess, but I'm not alone. Sophia's position as headmaster of the academy will come in handy, and Misty...well, she's still a hot goth babe. And then maybe we can get back to the shop. Battlebabe Blair and ginger Frenchie Charlotte still haven't seen it.

During life, everyone experiences difficult struggles and pain. The relief from this pain can come when either we recognize that we are only human and make an appropriate change for the better or when another person helps us recognize it and encourages us to make that change. These two phenomena are called self-compassion and compassion and are great powers that people possess to make life better. They are the first steps to take toward a healing process that results in one being able to enjoy and share all the wondrous experiences that life has to offer.

Escaping the chaos of my past was supposed to be simple. A fresh start in a secluded mountain town. No noise. No drama. No danger. But Silverpine Ridge has its own secrets— Shadows that move when no one’s looking, Howls that echo through the trees, And eyes I can feel on me, even when I’m alone. Then there’s Lucas Arden. A man who walks through the woods like he owns them. Broad shoulders. Storm-gray eyes. A presence that demands attention. He’s danger wrapped in denim and leather— And I can’t seem to stay away. Lucas says he’ll protect me. But his warnings are sharp-edged, ...

William and Emily Broadmoor are in dire straits when the economic implosion puts a severe dent in their small home-renovation business. When all hope seems lost, William is approached by a man with an unrefusable offer - the chance to fix a dilapidated stone mansion in Maine. Initially, the details of the offer seem too good to be true, but with nowhere else to turn, William and Emily decide taking a look can’t hurt.

Pensé que mudarme aquí mantendría a mi familia a salvo. Pero el peligro que dejamos atrás no se compara con la oscuridad que habita en estos bosques. Tras un divorcio desastroso y años de anteponer mi carrera a mis hijos, necesitaba desesperadamente un nuevo comienzo. Una cabaña tranquila en el bosque de Vermont parecía el lugar perfecto para reconstruir lo que habíamos perdido. Pero la paz que tanto anhelaba no duró mucho. Todo comenzó con los aullidos en la noche. Las marcas de garras en los árboles. La extraña sensación de que algo —o alguien— nos observaba. Entonces ...

I thought I knew who I was. But uncovering the truth about my bloodline changed everything. When my father died, I inherited more than just his estate—I inherited secrets. Dark, dangerous ones that led me straight into Liam’s path. Liam Donovan. A man who exudes power, danger, and raw magnetism. He’s the Alpha of a hidden world I never believed existed, a world that ties to my family’s legacy in ways I’m only beginning to understand. I didn’t come looking for him. But now, I can’t seem to stay away. Being with Liam feels like fate pulling me closer. But the deeper I fall for ...

Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900 - a time when many Americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the world - Feather Crowns is the story of a young woman who unintentionally creates a national sensation. A farm wife living near the small town of Hopewell, Kentucky, Christianna Wheeler gives birth to the first recorded set of quintuplets in North America. Christie is suddenly thrown into a swirling storm of public attention. Thousands of strangers descend on her home, all wanting too see and touch the "miracle babies."

Elicia has made herself a little unpopular with the other wives in the neighborhood, flaunting her perfect body, dressing like she was in a porn production. One wife decides she's had enough and arranges a little surprise for both Elicia and the other wives. Surrounded by a group of men Elicia believes are the other wives' husbands attending a neighborhood swingers party, she's blindfolded and in over her pretty little head.

Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, 14-year-old Isabel was born with the gift and curse of "seeing farther". When drought and war grip the backlands, her brother Isaias joins a great exodus to a teeming city in the south. Soon Isabel must follow, forsaking the only home she's ever known, her sole consolation the thought of being with her brother again. But when she arrives, she discovers that Isaias has disappeared.

The most essential truth about growing new habits - habits that can actually transform you into a millionaire - is to initially act like it. Act like the thing you need to be. When you start acting successful, success will deal with itself - regardless of whether you don't feel like you're succeeding.

¡Todos nos encontramos intentando y no abordamos el tiempo limitado que tenemos durante el día! A menudo encontramos que se desperdicia tiempo en la cocina, haciendo recetas que toman una gran cantidad de tiempo, incluyen ingredientes difíciles de encontrar o requieren métodos de cocción que se consideran para siempre.

Fresh out of school, architect Cooper Anneveinen tends bar by night and chases small clients by day. He sees what lies hidden underground. The unexplained, wild images complicate his life and drive him to seek medical help - but not even antipsychotic drugs make him "normal". Ash Ravenna talks to water, and water sometimes obeys his wishes. Using his gift in a pollution clean-up effort, he hires Cooper to help with an old industrial property by the river.