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One year later, Silverstone is trying to forget what happened. Rosalie, however, simply can't. Especially not when she's attacked in her own home. Now, the threats are greater than ever, and Rosalie has no choice but to fight back. She'll have plenty of help, but will it be enough? In this riveting follow-up to Teressa J. Martin's debut novel, follow Rosalie as she faces even greater threats and challenges. She'll meet new and exciting characters and be pushed to her limit. You won't want to miss it!

Aw, the gracious days of the ranchos. Days when pastures were running with beef, lamb and pork; forests and plains with antelope, deer, bear, and elk; and streams crowded with salmon and trout. The adjacent sea and beaches yielded fish and shellfish. Ducks, geese, and sandhill cranes flew in skeins over chaparral where quail and partridge teased fox, coyote and cougar...and the grizzly ruled over all. The California Cocina traces the recipes of early Californians and those who clamored there for her gold. Journals and diaries offer insight into how things were done, food prepared, and ...

After living in an orphanage most of her life, Claire’s whole world is about to change. After she meets Vincent and the other members of the Blackwoods Coven, she discovers a realm of magic that she thought only existed in her dreams. Just as she gets accustomed to her new life, a new arrival flips the coven upside down.

Two disparate souls, a young Iranian woman with a promising nursing career, and an American collegiate athlete seeking a career in the intelligence field, meet by happenstance. Realizing their mutual passion to serve others, the two connect intellectually and romantically, not knowing they are both connected to secrets that will force their worlds to collide and reveal truths unknown to not only both of them, but also the world. No Borders for Truth explores love and loss within family and country, and the richness of the great people of the enduring nations of Iran and America.

A dog who gets hold of the wrong end of the stick; a horse who beats the odds; a wasp who discovers a sting in the tail. This is the stuff of The Animal Parables. Each tale features an animal who finds that things turn out to be quite different from how it imagined and profound life lessons are learned along the way.

A family is fractured and troubled. The grandfather is terminally ill, and it is not a convenient time to die. His business practices are convoluted and corrupt. He seeks to bribe God to buy his way out of Heaven.

Beau Boone, starving, with half a left leg, at the end of his rope, falls off the train in the hell-on-wheels town of Nemesis. But Mr. Pettigrew intervenes. Beau owes him, but does he owe him his very life? Can a one-legged man sit shotgun in one of the toughest saloons on the Transcontinental? He can, if he doesn't have anything to lose.

A conversation with the ineffable, Gorb in the Schizocratic Linguiverse is the literary equivalent of a psychotropic drug. Follow Gorb the Floovian down the rabbit hole of various minds in an attempt to understand a race of aliens who are as alienated from one another as they are from the rest of the cosmos.

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living a life like most people can't. Awaken the Entrepreneur Within is about awakening that little child within you who had all of those creative thoughts and dreams - that part of you that believed that when you grew up, you could achieve anything you put your mind to.

A repressed and fastidious Satyr from the lower classes dreams of wealth and success among the decadent sorcerers of southern France. Set within the Lovecraftian Eldritch Demimonde, and filled with elder gods, monsters, and fairytale creatures that live alongside the modern world.

If you're ready to thrive in sports and life, The Balanced Athlete will show you how to train smarter, think stronger, and live better—starting today.

The Frog is a fine swimmer, so good that he attracts the admiration of the local tadpoles, who beg him to teach them how to swim. But teaching is all he ever does - the tadpoles never learn, and he himself finds he no longer has the time to do the swimming he loves. This story shows how codependency and pride can hijack life.

Hi, I'm Augustus J. Martin. I am a high school student in Portland, Oregon. I am very much a liberal, and many Progressive causes are near and dear to my heart. However, I have concerns about the stubborn dogma adhered to by other liberal Progressives. Each episode of this podcast consists of me taking on a movement, organization, or belief within the American Left, explaining why the cause is important, but also why the effort is problematic.

Hi, I'm Augustus J. Martin. I am a high school student in Portland, Oregon. I am very much a liberal, and many Progressive causes are near and dear to my heart. However, I have concerns about the stubborn dogma adhered to by other liberal Progressives. Each episode of this podcast consists of me taking on a movement, organization, or belief within the American Left, explaining why the cause is important, but also why the effort is problematic.

Red Pill or Blue Pill ? Wanna get out of the real Matrix ? Then, work on yourself ! Try to get free of your mental cage and give birth to a new You, like a Phoenix. This podcast is about YOU. It’s about US. It’s about MANKIND. Episodes of about 10 minutes on a regular basis, rythm will be adapted to listeners’ feedback.

One-Eyed Jacks, a quintessential western. The only film directed by the iconic actor Marlon Brando. Not a financial or critical success at the time, however now with attention rekindled by a re-master by Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese my belief it's one of the finest westerns ever made is fortified by the most film knowledgeable in the industry. The film is not listed among the top 100 westerns by my peers in Western Writer's of America. I take umbrage with that conclusion, as it's at or near the top of my list.

Thrilling tales of despair litter the countryside of Rustle County, where children have been disappearing for hundreds of years. This collection of terrifying short stories details the odious occurrences that have haunted Boltsville for generations. Follow Sheriff LeBuff and his affable deputy, Officer LeBlanc, as they try to piece together the dark mystery.

Last year, on New Year’s Eve Suzanne Curtis was shot. She survived. But her life has been a blur for almost a year; wanting to forget everything that has unfolded since meeting her criminal father, discovering her mum had lied to her, and knowing that her and Detective boyfriend Thomas Giles can no longer be together. With 2019 almost behind her, there’s a virus spreading the globe affecting the lives of everyone, but Suzanne is only focused on her New Year’s resolution of finding her midnight gunman … even if it means breaking some lockdown rules. Her journey is spiritual, ...

Three men, two very different sisters, and not enough jobs. After the death of their father, Helen and Julia Andris find themselves with no income and university studies to finish in subjects that have little use in the modern world. Their family is a jigsaw of highly contrasting and frequently clashing personalities. And the men they fall in love with have work and family problems of their own. C J Martin reinterprets Jane Austen’s beloved Sense and Sensibility for the twenty-first century. With evocative settings in urban and country Australia, careful crafting of plot and an empathetic...

Do you want to increase sales, rise to the top of your game, train yourself or you employees in customer relations? The counter person, the telephone person, the delivery person are the keystones of a successful business. The customer is the ultimate boss. Oscar Rudnick, who arrived a teenager from Russia and built a ranching and meat packing empire, was fond of saying, "The customer is not always right, the customer is not always wrong…but the customer is always the customer." I don't know how it could be better said. Unless as by the fella who founded the world’s largest chain of ...