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Dear Ida, My boss is an egotistical, arrogant, cuff link wearing jerk. I wanted nothing more than to throw my badge at his face and walk out the door. But the heat of the moment took over...We went too far...and I liked it. Maybe I should just leave the city and change my name to spare myself the embarrassment. Stop me now before I do it. Please. Royally Screwed in the City, Piper

The true antidote to loneliness, this audiobook will teach you the secret to building meaningful relationships and the importance of authentic connections in a lonely world. Is it possible to have hundreds of followers on social media but still feel isolated? To live in a city of millions of...

Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighbourhood. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. If she can just outshine her fellow intern at the city radio station, she may have a chance at landing a job. In the meantime, Hana pours her thoughts and dreams into a podcast, where she forms a lively relationship with one of her listeners. 

Lynn is tracking a dangerous, wounded animal, which turns out to be a big, sexy alien instead. And he's the hottest guy she's ever met. Coto's trip to Earth takes a dangerous turn. He is attacked and injured. The only high point is the courageous woman who tends his wounds. Coto desires her, and he will never let her go.

After my husband left, all I wanted was to find myself again. Turns out that's a lot easier said than done when my chronic pain has me canceling plans and everything I try reminds me of my inadequacies. Things only get worse when my attempt at exploring submission is a total disaster. But hope comes in the form of my stoic, stunning vampire friend, Blair. She offers to teach me, giving me a space to safely explore a side of myself I've kept locked away. It's meant to be platonic. Just one friend helping another. So then why can't I stop imagining what it would be like to take things further?

Izzy Gallo has never been described as a member of the weaker sex. She's a woman who doesn't take shit from anyone. Growing up with four older overprotective brothers has hardened her, making her a force to be reckoned with. Against the wishes of her two brothers, Joe and Mike, Izzy takes a weekend trip to Bike Week in Daytona and turns her world upside down.

Silver is a beautiful liar. She's human. And a fierce killer of fae. She marks her kills on a silver vambrace so everyone can see her savagery and stay away. As long as she keeps protecting humans and hiding the true reason for wearing silver, her loneliness is of no consequence. Shade is sinfully attractive. He's a vampire. And the most hard to resist. From the Queen's bed to The Order, he uses the power of sex to get what he wants. They all succumb, and they all fall short of harmonizing with the darkness in his soul…until he finds the one woman who resists his every charm.

There’s the best of the best, and then there’s me, the best of the best of the best. I'm a soldier, a Special Forces operative with over a hundred successful missions behind me - or at least I was until a mother and child died on my watch, and I forced myself into retirement, promising I’d never put innocent people’s lives at risk again.

Juggling two jobs is nothing new for registered nurse Hillary Glenwood; she’s been doing it for most of her adult life. However, her carefully controlled life runs completely off the rails when she recognizes the new neighbor coming to the rescue. As a hacker, Radar Jansen hasn’t always used his expertise in the most respectable ways, until he came to work for PASS Security. While walking his dog one night, he sees a familiar woman rushing into a dangerous situation. His training kicks in.

Jahrelang hat Emilie de la Martinières darum gekämpft, sich eine Existenz jenseits ihrer aristokratischen Herkunft aufzubauen. Doch als ihre glamouröse, unnahbare Mutter Valérie stirbt, lastet das Erbe der Familie allein auf Emilies Schultern. Sie kehrt zurück an den Ort ihrer Kindheit, ein herrschaftliches Château in der Provence.

Tala, Alex, and the rest of their friends are safe for now, but they know the Snow Queen is still out there. They have to be prepared for when she eventually attacks—and they all decide to do so in their own way.

Simone Heng shares the wisdom of her work as a human connection specialist to explain seven ways you can address common feelings of loneliness and isolation. These include meditation and breathing techniques, different ways to be a good listener, finding commonalities, sharing vulnerabilities...

Enemy witches Iraya and Jazmyne have each achieved their darkest desires. For the former, the doyenne who killed her family is dead. For the latter, the crown has been won. For both, their treacherous alliance is over—until a hidden evil rises from their last adversary's ashes, forcing them to join forces once more to defend Aiyca and their respective orders. Laying claim to the island of Iraya's birth right and the bloody crown Jazmyne wears, this mysterious assailant is rearing monsters in the name of war. A war neither Iraya or Jazmyne are prepared to fight.

My past: I was 18 when I first gave away my heart. A love so profound, I didn't understand it. My present: I never had to prove she was mine until he makes an appearance. Tall, dark, and older...

A haunting and incendiary tale about a woman who moves with her fiancé to a small town to try to mend their fractured relationship, but finds herself having strange visions, and stranger attractions, to the ghost of the previous owner... Tina knows that her six-year relationship with her...

Vier Menschen, die alles zu verlieren haben. Und eine Woche, die ihr Leben für immer verändern wird. Vier Persönlichkeiten der Buchwelt stehen im Fokus des Literaturpreises des Jahres. Rivalitäten brechen aus, geheime Abmachungen machen die Runde und jede Bewegung könnte sie alles kosten: Karriere, Ruf, vielleicht sogar mehr. Während draußen der Applaus tobt, lodert im Hintergrund ein Krieg, der live gestreamt und von Millionen Klicks und Kommentaren befeuert wird.

The spectrum of all of human life, as portrayed in the poem, will unfold with breathtaking variety, drama, thought, and beauty: In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood, where the straight path was lost. The process of listening to Dante’s Comedy is a journey into not just literature but into the mysteries of human nature and its capacity for unhappiness and happiness, folly and wisdom, rejection and wonder over the miracles of creation and existence.

Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and Sophie feels left behind as they all start to go their separate ways. She's overshadowed by her best friend, Grace. She's been in love with Finn for as long as she's known him. And she's about to meet Rory, who's suddenly available to her online. At a party, what was already unstable completely falls apart and Sophie finds herself obsessively scrolling social media, waiting for something (anything) to happen.

There are many reasons I should have handed in my resignation the day I met my new boss, Hudson Case. First off, he's the reason I lost my first waitressing job. Secondly, he's gruff, grumpy, and another inconvenient g-word... gorgeous. And to top it off, he's my good friend's dad. Oh, and did I mention, he's also my new roommate? Yeah, we'll get to that in a sec. It all started when I begged my friend to get me a temp position working as her dad's admin until my big move at the end of summer. Little did I know, her dad was the same jerk who callously fired me from my previous waitressing gig.

Rani Shah is everything I can't have—too young, too sweet, too innocent. Not to mention, she's my late wife's sister and my son's nanny. So when she asked me to kiss her, I should have refused. When she begged me to touch her, I could have turned her down. When she coaxed me to take the one thing she's never given away—her virginity—a better man would have walked away. Should have, could have, would have... But I didn't.