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Sometimes love finds you.... Amateur matchmaker Cassie Roberts has only one wish - to help her best friend find a husband. What she doesn’t realize is that sometimes love doesn’t come easily and that destiny is impossible to predict. When her efforts don’t bear fruit, she considers abandoning her fledgling career. Until she makes one last attempt. Finding a Husband is a short story full of quirky humor and the promise of a happily ever after. Set in Blenheim, in New Zealand’s sublime South Island - the gateway to the award-winning wineries of the Wairau Valley.

Forty-four-year-old Ruby Evans doesn’t want to be a "leftover girl". But finding a "forever man" is proving impossible. Suddenly single after 20 years of marriage, her husband is the only man she has ever slept with. But the one bit of security that she always thought she’d hold onto for the rest of her life is brutally ripped from her. Humiliatingly and cruelly made an ex when her husband trades her for a younger model, Chanel Zest, a longtime friend and motivational life coach, comes to Ruby’s rescue.

My life was spiraling out of control. The day I found myself at an intersection waiting for a bus, I knew I’d hit rock bottom. Rather than board, I intended to step in front of it and end all the misery in my life. Fortunately, one faint spark of hope kept me on the sidewalk that day. Then I met Brad. Psychologist turned life coach, his direct, no-nonsense approach nearly drove me out of his office on the first visit. But wise and patient mentoring over time guided me in unlocking one of life’s greatest paradoxical truths: The gift in the wound. My world changed.

If you are reading this, then you already know that the Montessori educational method can introduce your child to a brave new world of opportunities and benefits. However, did you know that there are more than 100 Montessori activities for toddlers that will help your boy or girl think out of the box?

Past love and passionate obsessions. What will you do when love flies back into your life? Oliver Hart is used to getting what he wants. Single, 35 and a committed bachelor, he plays by his own rules. On a personal quest to catch a rare, elusive, and very valuable butterfly, he's unwittingly distracted by a former flame, Ruby Diaz - a woman who callously abandoned him eight years earlier. Deciding he wants to reclaim the beauty as his own, in his mind, it's as good as done. But Ruby is not his for the taking.

When a lonely young American woman inherits a painting, she discovers her whole life was a lie. Desperate for the truth, she goes in search of her true identity. The painting is her only clue. But everyone is determined to keep its secret past repressed, including Vitaliano Rossi, the Italian gold tycoon, unnaturally suspicious of her motives, who wants the painting vanquished. How can she discover who she really is and convince him that his love means more to her than gold?

Still reeling following her malicious sacking, family therapist Lily Rose is feeling rejected and low in spirits. Even worse, she’s broke. The last thing she needs is more money woes. Which is exactly what happens when she collides with billionaire water magnate Leonardo Ermenegildo Bressolini’s mint-condition Lamborghini. Having found a place to retreat from the madness, greed, and malevolence of his ex-wife, the last thing Leonardo wants is complications. But he is a man in need of a housekeeper. And Lily Rose owes him. Big time.

Here’s an invaluable life lesson, free of charge: Creating a better life for yourself isn’t as difficult as you believe. Balance your Life doesn't follow the same copy/paste formula that litters the self-help sections of your local bookstore. In this book, you will find a trusted guide on your journey to a better life. You will find a mentor who will give you the peace of mind knowing each step you take will be in the right direction. You will find a close friend who encourages you on this path toward personal fulfillment.

A modern romance. Can a man find love after tragedy? He can, if two determined women wish it to be so.

Sometimes the end is just the beginning...Viticulturist Joey Harper's organic vineyard is under siege from neighboring landowners with chemical sprays, wanting to turn a fast profit, and someone purchasing large tracts of land under incredible secrecy. Venetian winemaking tycoon Tomasso Rivetti has it all: a loving family, good looks, and a considerable fortune. As a final battle draws close, Joey and Tomasso are drawn irresistibly together. And while they succumb to the heat between them, they both know there can be no tomorrow...

When their world crashes, will their love meet the test? A woman who flees from love and a man who can’t keep it. These two lonely people couldn’t picture a life where love ever stayed. A legacy of painful secrets and wounds unspoken. Set in New Zealand, The Lightkeeper's Lover is a beautifully moving story of love, loss and betrayal, and what we have to do to heal our hearts. A delightful mystical romance with a dream-like quality that weaves fantasy and myth into everyday life.

Still reeling following his unexpected divorce, billionaire tech guru Jonathan James has returned home feeling disillusioned and low in spirits. The last thing he needs when he flies home from London to New Zealand is complications. When a baggage mix-up leaves him with nothing but a suitcase full of stilettos, lush lashes, and Dolly Parton-like wigs, he goes in search of the owner. He quickly discovers that all is not as it seems as his life takes off in a hilarious and unexpected direction.

Grace and her brother Zach were always fighting. Recently, though, they started getting along. Then, a car crash changed everything. Zach was in a coma. Grace feels like she’s lost a part of herself. Will Zach ever be the same? Will their chance to build a lasting relationship be lost?

In this self-help book influenced by the power of thought, Allen discusses mind over matter and how each person is responsible for everything that comes into their life - good or bad. But, if people are patient, they can remake their own lives by themselves.

When Peter Fisher sets out for school one morning, he has no idea trouble is stirring in his hometown. With the unexpected arrival of his new Candonite friends from Maple Town, Peter and Lina have extra help saving their beloved town and loved ones from the clutches of the one villain they had hoped they would never see again.

BELLYACHE: A Delicious Tale by Crystal Marcos is a literary feast for ages seven and up. In the vein of Roald Dahl's best-loved adventures, Marcos offers a mystical, character driven escapade that intertwines strands of reality with a larger-than-life fantasy world. When Peter Fischer sets out to help his grandfather at Papa's Sweet Shop, he will quickly learn that sneaking sweets and covering up his sugar-dusted tracks will have major consequences.

In 1865 a group of Quantrill's Raiders attempt to rob the Colby National Bank in central Texas, but their efforts are thwarted by a single undercover Texas Ranger who brings the gang to justice frontier style. The ranger, thought to be from Ft. Laramie, leaves town however before he can be properly thanked and without his true identity revealed. Speculation abounds. Who is the Laramie Kid? Is it Wilfred Alexander? Moses Sheridan? Sheriff Sweeney? The Lone Ranger? Judge Bastion?

The fall of Cennetig mac Lorcain in 951 AD in a battle against the High King of Eirinn, Congalach Cnogba, began the succession of three of Cennetig's sons to thrones. Latchna followed his father as King of Thomond and less than three years later, Mathgamain mac Cennetig assumed the throne when Latchna was killed. Mathgamain and his brother, Brian, defeated Ivar of Limerick in 967 AD in the Battle of Sulcoit and Mathgamain took the title, King of Cashel.

Brooke Callahan's life might not have been perfect, but it was pretty much what she had expected. She was successful, she was admired, and she had a reputation for being a tough defense lawyer, even for her pro-bono cases. Her father was the well-respected and often feared Judge Callahan. Her mother, Amy Callahan, was a successful hostess in the politically influential circles of Cook County, Illinois.

A raiding Norse pirate rapes a young girl in 9th-century Connacht, Ireland, and leaves her for dead. Shamed by her pregnancy and wanting a life without the label of Norse for her child, Ceara makes her way south to Ceann Coradh. She is befriended by a couple who run an inn and recently lost their only son in a battle with the Dublin Norse and treat her as they would their own daughter. Ceara tells her new family about a frightening dream she had while traveling to Ceann Coradh.