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Portraits of generations of family members line a great hall in the lavish home of the Pentlands; a wealthy upper-class family who were among the first settlers in the fictional town of Durham, New England. Members of the family desperately try to keep their prestigious reputation alive while the world around them is changing. This classic novel by Louis Bromfield was published in 1926 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1927. His perspective of the social norms of his day is as relevant in today’s world as it was then, and his rich language shines just as bright.

The start-up gaming company I work for likes to push boundaries, including adult ratings, no limit on in-game partners, and some moderately graphic depictions of all the different ways to get down and dirty with two or more people. Given that I’m inching my way toward 40 and my experience in the bedroom is limited to a couple of less than attentive ex-boyfriends, I'm not sure I can pull off the realistic designs that are expected of me.

The 19th addition of this annual anthology exhibits a collection of short fiction from award-winning Southern authors and rising stars including Edward P. Jones and Silas House. Each story’s derivation is explained in an illuminating note from the author following the rich and entertaining tales.

As a woman you have a unique opportunity to stand out as a leader. With only 24% of senior leadership positions in the global workforce held by women, it's easy to feel like you're fighting a losing battle. But not anymore! World Dominating Leadership for Women provides you with the strategies and action plans you can use to inspire your team, skyrocket your results and lead from the heart, and with strength.

Working from home and managing remote workers presents significant issues we do not want to talk about or admit. The challenges for the work-from-home employee include dealing with distractions and lower productivity. In this audiobook, I share how I successfully ran a home office, how I found work-life balance, and how I helped my work-from-home employees become extremely productive.

Choices Unchosen is an audiobook of 55 sentiments that helps and benefits listeners who are looking for a deep insight to resolving underlying issues within themselves and their environment. The author and narrator Calleey Horizon shares with her audiobook listeners some thoughts and other enlightening insights that could be applied in their daily lives.

Progressive Waveline is an audiobook of 65 sentiments that helps and benefits listeners who are looking for deep insight to resolving underlying issues within themselves and their environment. It also benefits individuals who are looking for different paths in their life's journey. It might also awaken some individuals who have lived their lives in limited ways, as Progressive Waveline's sentiments might assist them in broadening their outlook in life.

Once upon a time in Atlanta, Georgia, I was invited to a backyard bbq party. I used my cell phone app to order a private ride to the party. I arrived really late at this really big house on a hill after most guests had already eaten, drank, smoked, played games, and had heightened out at whatever else was taking place. As grilled wings normally find me, I went straight to the backyard from the car and was pleasantly surprised at such a warm greeting from new friends and the level of love and respect that was shared.

Children learn a lot through “play”, and for this reason, it is shown to improve their memory. By learning the Bible through trivia, children get the best of both worlds by learning and reinforcing it by having fun!

Smart, determined, and beautiful; college student and art model Nell seemed to be the girl who had it all. A passionate relationship with one of the art students leads to an unplanned pregnancy that threatens to change everything, though, and she must build a very different life than she envisioned.

Alliteration is the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words in a sentence to create more vibrant sentences, poems, or prose. In this book, we’ll review every letter in the alphabet with a silly sentence to repeat and practice (or simply listen to quietly before bed)! 

Islandia had been without a High King for a generation. Eloy, the last High King, embarked upon a journey shrouded in mystery after a cryptic warning found from a long lost prophet promised a return of ancient dark forces. Eloy had placed the rule of Islandia and the five kingdoms in the hands of his closest friend, King Richard. After 30 years most have long since stopped looking for Eloy's return or the darkness foretold. Many under Richard's rule have grown discontent and jealous of his appointment.

A teenaged Natasha Takana seeks to decode the remainder of the hidden DNA code that became the basis for a new religion reviving creationism. Her quest takes her on a voyage to a parallel dimension to learn the fate of the creators’ civilization. The conflict between the warring factions is rekindled, sweeping Natasha into the middle of it in a pursuit that crosses the boundaries of worlds and time.

A woman plunges into consciousness in the midst of what seems like someone else’s life, sending her on a quest to discover who she is and to craft an identity that makes sense within her current circumstances. As she digs into the mystery of her life, she uncovers a top-secret government organization plotting world domination and a clandestine vigilante organization dedicated to destroying it and is caught between these warring factions. 

Are you interested in drawing? Do you want to impress your friends, colleagues, relatives, and loved ones by sketching charming figures? Are you curious about sketching stylish and attractive Manga Do you want to be an expert at drawing Shoujo Manga? If so, HowExpertsPress presents for you How to Draw Shoujo Manga! A step-by-step guide makes its listeners perfect at drawing Shoujo Manga.

Confidence is a significant life skill necessary to achieving any level of personal or professional success. Yet confidence is often an elusive characteristic. Most people believe that you are born with confidence - either you have it, or you don't. Lack of confidence holds many people back from even trying to reach their goals or achieve their dreams. What if there was a way for you to build your confidence? What if you could learn how to believe in yourself so you could leverage all your skills and talents? What if you could make a difference in your community or become a leader within your organization?

You don't get to be my age without seein' and hearin' about some very interesting things in this life. Take for instance, the rather mysterious legend clouding the figure of Johnny Durango. As mean a soul as you might hope to encounter, Johnny wasn't so much a criminal as a mercilessly independent soul who always got what he wanted from life, and fiercely challenged anyone who made the mistake of gettin' in his way.

Working in the medical field can be quite poetic, it can also be very funny. This book combines both to deliver what everyone says is the best medicine, but no doctor has ever written a prescription for: a laugh!

When physicist Jacob Newman is pulled from his family, his job, and his whole life to investigate a strange vessel discovered at the bottom of the South Pacific, he finds evidence of time travel, along with implications that a judgment day against mankind is imminent. But it isn't until he cracks the time travel technology and uncovers a startling link to his own family history that he undertakes a dangerous mission back to 1924 to kill Adolf Hitler and undo a horrific episode of Earth's violent past.

A hard-driving designer seeks acclaim by developing a Middle Eastern museum only to discover the project’s real value is not what she imagined.