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A stunning and heartbreaking new novel from Jamila Gavin MBE, the bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya. England, 1937. Gwen, Noor, Dodo and Vera are four very different teenage girls, with something in common. Their parents are all abroad, leaving them in...

In the shadow of war, Reza and Zahra have been married for exactly three weeks when their fragile new love is torn apart. As Saddam Hussein's forces invade Iran, Reza —a poet who dreams in verses of Hafez —is drafted to the frontlines, leaving behind his bride and the jasmine-scented garden that was meant to be their sanctuary. What follows are eight years that will test whether love can survive separation, trauma, and the crucible of war. In their modest home, Zahra transforms waiting into resistance.

This spicy romance bundle is a holiday romance box set featuring seven of my hottest romance stories with holiday themes from Christmas to Saint Patrick's Day. Check out the full title list before grabbing the book, but if you enjoy very steamy holiday romance stories with strong Black female leads, interracial romance books with chemistry, and addictive books that you can binge in one sitting, you will love this series.

*A Next Big Idea Club December 2023 Must-Read* Podcaster Jamila Souffrant shows how to skyrocket your savings, blast through debt and ultimately accelerate your unique and truly epic journey to financial freedom and independence Our fast-paced world prioritizes the productive...

As the title implies, this anthology of ten (mostly) short stories was written through the years, but also across time from the past to the future. Explore a world ravaged by climate change centuries from now where humans are forced to live in underwater dome cities in Salt of the Earth. When Flora makes it to the surface she’s surprised to find that there are people up there alive and well, but equally surprised when she learns that they also have in their possession weapons of mass destruction.

Written in various styles, multiple points of view and across a plethora of genres, these ten short (and some not-so-short) stories will have you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions as you listen. Some are intense, some are funny, some are profound, others are outright strange, but they’re all memorable in their own right.

This dark and steamy romance collection brings together the Water and Fire signs of the Zodiac in a binge-worthy bundle. You get more bang for your buck with these bundles, and if three books at once isn’t enough, you can grab six books in the series within one juicy volume. If you crave off-the-charts spicy interracial romance, books about interracial relationships, twisted passion, high-heat happily-ever-afters, and diverse stories, this six-book saga will keep you hooked until the very last word.

Innermost is a collection of both free-verse and fixed-verse poetry written over a period of half a decade about every emotion felt inside the human heart. These poems will transport you to a whole other world within the innermost depths of the human soul.

The day that Anderson brought a gun to school was the day Aly's life changed forever. Her fellow classmates were murdered right before her eyes as her former best friend embarked on the deadliest high school massacre since Columbine. Now, nearly two years later, Aly sets foot in the halls that nearly cost her her life for the first time since the shooting, ready to face her demons.

"He could make any woman crazy, and he relished pushing me to the edge of glory and then teasing me until my release sat firmly in his control." An American SEAL falls in love with a black woman adopted into a Russian family under strange circumstances. Their interracial love shakes the city of Moscow and has consequences around the entire world. Standalone within a series. No cliffhanger and guaranteed HEA. This is book four in a 10-book-series.

Soul Speaking is a collection of emotional poetry straight from the soul. Every human emotion from love to hate, joy to grief, celebrating newfound friendships to healing from toxic people, is captured in these free verse poems. Whether these words haunt you or heal you, their beauty, depth, and power will certainly never leave you.

Six dangerous country boys in 6 standalone spicy romance novellas -- a collection you will NOT be able to put down. This dark and steamy romance book set brings together the Earth and Air signs of the Zodiac in a binge-worthy bundle. You get more bang for your buck with the bundles and if 3 books at once isn't enough, you can get six books in the series within one juicy book bundle.

This bundle contains two spicy romance stories starring irresistible men with BIG INCHES.

April Fool’s Day has always been the most cursed day of her life… April’s two mean-girl best friends never let her forget she’s the single, plus-sized member of the group.

An affirming and sex-positive guide to working with sex workers: uncovering clinical biases, creating safe spaces, and dismantling the whorearchy. Therapy fails sex workers. Despite the wide range of sex work--from street-based to OnlyFans--clinicians too often focus on what they think sex...

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama. It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever...

Getting laid before the big game should be easy. Chicks at Laguna Grove dig hockey players...except the one woman Jayce wants. His African American lab partner, Makeba Winston.

Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on “fixing” and “filling” academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing.

CHUCK - My father’s African American CFO thinks she’s my boss. I’ll have her bent over her desk begging for more before she knows what hit her. If anyone finds out about my intentions with her, I’ll be out on street and shipped off back to London. But I can keep a secret…I bet she can too with these come-hither brown eyes that she can’t keep off me. Nobody says no to Chuck Banks. It’s only a matter of time before she’s MINE.

Most women would be grateful to have a smoking hot country boy rescue them from a raging inferno. But not Andi. Dylan broke her heart five years ago and the last thing she wants is to owe a debt to the shredded 6'7" firefighter who threw her over her shoulder like she was weightless. He has a past. A child. A baby mama on the loose. More drama than she can handle. And...he broke her heart.