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What is love? For Deb, that was one of many life questions she hoped to answer when she left home for college. She was pretty enough to get guys' attention, but she wasn’t sure if she wanted to be around them. She simply wasn’t sure who she was or where she fits in. Yet one wild, passionate, crazy weekend answered all of those questions and more. And it all started with the sorority costume party.

On Dee Branch’s first date with Johnnie Oliver, a fourth-generation funeral director, she knew she was in for a unique relationship when he had to leave “for just a minute”—and he came back to the car with a corpse. Over twenty years later, Dee was still in love with her charming...

Welcome to Mythic Cove, where weird is a way of life. A few months after learning she’s a witch, Lily Ravenwood is finally beginning to settle into life in Mythic Cove. In fact, things would be downright normal if not for: the werewolf detective whose gruff voice and warm eyes make her heart flutter, the gorgeous playboy vampire whose charming smile is only enhanced by his fangs, the fact that many of the townsfolk seem to think Lily is cursed, and the trouble she’s still having when it comes to controlling her magic.

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Ten great chapters from our women speakers from our various Steeling the Mind Conferences!

After the death of her fiancé, Catherine Johnson, a New York schoolteacher in 1902, travels to Nebraska to teach in a one-room school. When violence erupts in the sleepy town, Catherine saves deaf stable hand Jim Kinney from torture by drunken thugs. As she begins teaching Jim to read and sign, attraction grows between them. The warmth and humor in this silent man transcends the need for speech, and his eyes tell her all about his feelings for her. But the obstacles of class difference and the stigma of his handicap are almost insurmountable.

Tension and family holidays go together like eggnog and candy canes. When lawyer Anna brings her boyfriend Jason home for the holidays, it's a recipe for family drama. Her parents have high expectations for her fast-track future. And those don't include her hooking up with a kennel worker suffering the results of traumatic brain injury. With a lousy memory and a shaky past, Jason knows he's no prize. But what he and Anna have together is priceless.

Since the car accident that caused a traumatic brain injury, Jason has fought to regain his memories and the ability to organize thoughts and control emotions. His promising future shattered, he works as a night janitor in an office building and clings to routine to make it through his days. New lawyer Anna breaks down one evening after fumbling her first court case. Self-doubt brings her to tears in a deserted stairwell where Jason finds her and offers comforting words. From this unexpected meeting, an unlikely romance begins.

Saki has always followed the Blossom girls' house rules: Thou shalt prank the Dudes, thy beautiful fraternity neighbors, all day, every day; thou shalt not lose thy heart to them: no fraternizing with the arch-frat-enemy.  Easy enough, right? Minor complication one: Saki gets warm all over whenever she sees Picasso, the dark-haired, hyper-sensual painting student with bright grey eyes, over there in the Dude den. Minor complications two through five: Picasso is head-over-heels for Saki, has an obsessive personality, and craves working her up. He brushes up against her.

As the drums of war begin to beat louder on the continent, 17-year-old Jeannie McIver heads to the wilds of the Scottish Uplands to start life as a Land Girl. Jeannie soon falls in love with life on the busy Scottish hill farm. She even finds her interest piqued by the attractive Tam, the son of the neighbouring farmer. But even in the barren hills, they can't avoid the hell of war and Jeannie's idyllic life starts to crumble.

With political instability on the rise and the next financial collapse around the corner, gold begins to make headlines again! The gold and silver prices are headed to all-time highs! Precious metal stocks may be one of the most profitable and safest investments you may make during these turbulent times.

"Vinterbørn" foregår på fødeafdelingen på Rigshospitalet omkring nytår 1975. Her flettes vidt forskellige kvindeskæbner sammen. De kommer fra forskellige dele af samfundet, fra forskellige familieforhold og med forskellige værdigrundlag. Men på hospitalet ophæves forskellene, de bliver klædt i ens hospitalsskjorter og har alle lige svært ved at sove i den kølige hospitalsnat. "Vinterbørn" er en bog, som fortæller om et bestemt sted på et bestemt tidspunkt - Rigshospitalet i vinteren 1975-1976, men den fortæller også om noget almenmenneskeligt.

Assassination can be a messy business, especially if you’re having a bad day. Dan Jones is the ultimate problem solver, the hitman for crime boss Fliss Bauer. Fliss has a rival, Kalindra Dallin. She runs a particularly unpleasant planet. Dan is told to arrange her demise. It’s just another job; until a random event means that it all goes horribly wrong. To save his skin, Dan is forced to try again, only this time he has to work with a partner. He doesn’t want to but it’s the only chance he’s going to get; if he wants to put things right.

Four years ago, race car driver Tracey Bradshaw almost died in a horrific crash. Now scarred inside and out, she's making a comeback, but her team is plagued by a series of "accidents."

For as long as she can remember, Kugy has loved to write. Whimsical stories are her passion, along with letters full of secret longings that she folds into paper boats and sets out to sea. Now that she's older, she dreams of following her heart and becoming a true teller of tales, but she decides to get a "real job" instead and forget all about Keenan, the guy who makes her feel as if she's living in one of her own fairy tales.

The emotionally powerful, remarkably perceptive story of the life and death of a beloved cat - told from the cat's point of view. A song of acceptance and bravery that will pierce the heart of anyone who has ever felt close to an animal.

Carol is at a concert when something happens to the main band that's supposed to play; instead the opening band was asked to play in place of them. They kicked ass. When it was all over, Carol, seeing their tour bus, knocked on their door to ask if she could use the bathroom as the others are all full. She had gotten soaked with beer and really needed to change. When she enters the bus, she doesn’t realize they can see right through her soaked top. The boys in the band start making plays for her, and she decides to take them back to her hotel room.

Julie Fraser, Hollywood's newest "it" girl, arrives on the red carpet to more than just the flashes of the paparazzi's cameras. A sniper's shots leave her bleeding and in the line of fire. Her life would be over if it weren't for the bodyguard who comes to the rescue - taking a bullet in the process. Troy Mills, a P.I. working undercover, couldn't stand by and watch an innocent woman die, but now he's torn. How can he tell her that he's not a bodyguard, but a P.I.? A P.I. hired to prove that Julie is sleeping with the movie producer he's pretending to protect.

Mrs. Helen Ryan the young beautiful wife of Dr. Herbert Ryan is shopping in her favourite grocery store, when a sordid episode from her past slams into her. You see, as college juniors seven years previous, she and three friends took their spring break in Las Vegas, working the two weeks as high priced call girls. Her working name had been April Showers and now, someone behind her, someone she dared not look at, is calling her April. In a panic, she rushes into and hides in the ladies room.

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