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The stakes are the highest they've ever been when fate decides now is the time for me to start a wild phoenix chase... I'm still not sure I'm meant to be Relic Keeper but the work is never-ending. What's on the agenda now? A call for help from Phoebe that sends me and my trusty sidekicks into action. The Emberflare phoenix clan is missing a very important relic. And while the circumstances are mysterious at best and nefarious at worst, the most important thing is that we retrieve it. And this is no ordinary knick-knack. It's the Phoenix Flame itself!

Rena Lipiner Katz grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust, believing that the price of her parents’ survival and her own birth was a life of sorrow and guilt. Lipiner Katz explores how her parents’ childhood trauma affected her emotionally and physiologically.

Prayed Upon is the story of one woman's escape from the abuse of a respected, church-going psychiatrist. Amy reaches out to Dr. Dolion for help with depression, but instead of providing healing, he leads her down a path of deception and betrayal. His office, which initially feels like a sanctuary, becomes a psychological prison from which Amy must fight to free herself. Prayed Upon, a true story depicts Amy's journey from victim to thriving child of God.

29 personal essays exploring mixed identity, belonging, family, racism, community and the paradoxical ways of being in the world Mixed people carry lifelong embodied knowledge about existing in non-binary, intersectional worlds. Mixed Roots presents 29 personal essays that complicate the...

Virginia Cross is a woman caught in the depths of grief and hatred from her late husband's family. Locking her emotions tightly, she controls her life. Then along comes Bridge Prather. A man almost fifteen years younger, he turns her world upside down. Are memories of her first love all she has left? Bridge doesn't seem to think so. He challenges, excites, pursues, and pressures her into new beginnings.

Branson, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain mecca of wholesome entertainment, has been home to countless stage shows espousing patriotism and Christianity, welcoming over ten million visitors a year. Some consider it “God’s Country” and others “as close to Hell as anything on Earth.” For Joanna Dee Das, Branson is a political, religious, and cultural harbinger of a certain enduring dream of what America is. She takes Branson more seriously than the light-hearted fun it advertises—and maybe we should too.

Realtor Noelle Collins has landed the listing of her dreams. Only caveat is, the house comes with a nightmare of a puppy. Desperate, she begs for a grumpy dog-trainer to take pity on her. Surely, under all those cowboy muscles, he has a heart, but she highly doubts it.

No matter what you have done, no matter what has been done to you, no matter how life may have locked up your joy, no matter what, you can be set free. To the extreme I was thrown down, I am lifted up; to the extreme I was rejected, I am embraced; to the extreme I was lost, I am found. My heart was set free by a God, who gives us everything the world cannot give. I thank him every day. This is my story.

With a zany cast of matchmaking brothers, a lovable chicken or two, and mercifully no more than a dozen egg puns, this feel-good romance is sure to lasso your heart.

Althea Thompson quit her CPA job to buy property in a small Colorado town with dreams of running a bed and breakfast. Unfortunately, the cabin turns out to be a money pit, and her handsome neighbor cowboy a burr under her proverbial saddle.

Cat's used to the carousel of part-time friends until she meets Will Henderson, the only son of a wealthy doctor. They bond over ice cream and pinky promises, and when August ends, Will vows he'll be back. Cat's not counting on it; things change, people do too, but when Will eventually returns to the marina, they quickly fall back into their easy friendship. Every year, Cat waits for Will to return to the marina for the summer, and every year their connection is tested as they wade the awkward waters of adolescence into adulthood.

With Christmas fast approaching, Bram Brown has his hands full trying to keep his family ranch afloat. He doesn't need the distraction of Stella McGivens, his sister's beautiful friend who's visiting for two weeks. As they spend time together, Bram realizes he wants Stella in his life, even as she pushes him away because of her past. Can he convince Stella she needs a cowboy for Christmas?

This book explains how to compose a concept analysis using Walker and Avant or Rodgers' Evoluationary Method. It is intended to serve as a reference for students composing concept analysis papers for their programs, as well as a resource for faculty members teaching the course or writing an article.

Who are Secret Agent Gals Hilla Rebay and Peggy Guggenheim? Just two beautiful real-life socialite art collector ladies who later founded the Guggenheim Museum, but first answered the call of duty, joined the FBI, and pretty much won World War II all by themselves. They steal Hitler’s and Stalin’s mojos and use a secret weapon brewed in St. Louis to put down the Great Indian Uprising. (Of course, you remember that, right?) They save J. Edgar Hoover and his quite handsome sidekick Clyde Tolson from treasonous double-agents of The Pigeon.

This question-and-answer ambulatory care nursing certification resource reinforces and highlights information you need to know in order to be successful on the examination.

Bareback bronc-riding champ Patrick Brown is used to winning. So when his long-time girlfriend Winnie breaks up with him, he sets out to get her back. As it happens, an accident wipes out her memory. Everyone thinks they’re engaged, anyhow, so why not just go along with it? After she gets amnesia, Winnie Stevens wakes to the startling discovery that she’s engaged to a ruggedly handsome rodeo star. As she rebuilds her life, Patrick and she slowly but surely fall in love all over again. But what if he isn’t everything he‘s made himself out to be?

From one sticky situation to another prickly one, Jon and Lina are back at it—stronger than ever. This time, Jon and Lina are tackling a mission that hits a little too close to home—the search for Alanna Foster, the last missing teen, aka “Cactus Blossom.” With undercover missions intensifying and the clock ticking, mistakes simply aren’t an option. But while they’re chasing serial wedding crashers, tracking down a friend’s cheating spouse, and racing against time, the real battle is unfolding behind the scenes.

Many of us experience heartbreak, abuse, and a variety of "unmentionable" challenges in trying to make our relationships successful. For many couples, these challenges are daunting, especially when your partner becomes someone you despise as much as you adore. If that happens, what do you do, and how do you take good care of yourself? That's what Do You Hate the One You Love? is all about, and though it's written primarily for women, men should listen to it, first to understand their partner better and then to learn a few lessons for themselves.

Cleo Ambrosia’s uncanny ability to read people has made her indispensable to New York’s power players. Behind the reputation of “human lie detector,” she’s built a career on perception, control, and never being caught off guard. A former figure skating prodigy turned executive coach, Cleo is sharp, strategic, and deeply practiced at staying composed. But when a cutting-edge tech firm hires her to refine their emotional intelligence strategy, she meets Dillon Whelan, the one client whose responses resist her instincts entirely.

Best-selling young adult crime novelist Lina Rivera is strikingly beautiful and can’t even purchase a scratch ticket without being carded. With her twins Luciana and Max beginning their freshman year of high school in the fall, she has never felt closer to understanding her target demographic: teenagers. But when the reviews of her newest release fall short and negative feedback taunts her from every angle, it becomes clear that teenage life in 2024 is nothing like her high school experience back in 1999—and people are starting to notice.