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I place my tiny, newborn baby in the box. A ‘safe haven’, they call it, for unwanted babies. She’ll be warm, someone will find her soon. She’ll be cared for. But not by me. I will always want her, but I can never be her mother. And she can never know why.

Quitting nicotine is a healing process. For many people, smoking has become a part of their daily habits, which can make quitting for health or personal reasons even more difficult. But you don't have to let that deep compulsion get the best of you again. By sharing her own story of smoking dependency and recovery, author Karen Casey's impactful quit-smoking book will help you find your strength to flourish without ever needing a cigarette (or e-cigarette) again.

Nearly getting killed in a mudslide only reminds me why I hate the mountains. I'm uninjured, but my car is wrecked, there's no way I can get into town, and there's no reception here. Maybe it's karma for putting this trip off. I haven't been able to bring myself to visit since Pa's funeral. And then there are the painful memories that still haunt me of my first love and heartbreak.

“Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?” wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history’s ghosts, marginalized and dispossessed due to their gender and class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, flesh-and-blood people with stories to tell.

Zwei junge Frauen in New York, eine große Liebe und eine zauberhafte Botschaft: die neue unkonventionelle romantische Komödie von Casey McQuiston. Die New Yorker Studentin August glaubt weder an Hellseherei, noch an die Art von Liebe, über die Filme gedreht werden. Und ganz sicher glaubt sie nicht, dass ihre WG voller liebenswerter Nerds daran etwas ändern wird – oder gar ihre Nachtschichten in einem Pancake House, das seit den 70er Jahren Kultstatus genießt. Doch dann ist da in der U-Bahn plötzlich Jane – die ebenso schöne wie unmögliche Jane.

It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a 30-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) - a devout Mennonite farmer - might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy's life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa's truth.

Malfus's past has finally caught up with him. He's a renegade, an outlaw, a necromancer. Now he's a prisoner. He's been captured by Inquisitor Deza, to be tried, tortured, and executed for his crimes. But they're ambushed by half-hyena marauders, forcing them to take refuge with a heavily wounded battalion already under siege by the monsters. Deza only cares about his mission. But another assault by the marauders would be a death sentence for the battalion. The only option remaining is to free Malfus and to raise an army of the dead.

Hi, I’m Casey - mom to four amazing daughters, life coach to girl moms everywhere and proud member of the ’Put It On the List’ club. Over the last 23 years of being a girl mom, I’ve learned some mindset strategies, relationship skills and parenting tools that have quite literally changed our family. One might even say saved. And now I’m on a mission to help you do the same: parent with calm confidence, restore relationships and build a family future. If you’re ready to release the anxiety and create a family culture of peace, you’re in the the right place.

The pandemic has rapidly accelerated the rate of trends that were already occurring: flexible working environments, omnichannel retail and banking, innovative digital experiences, telehealth and e-learning. And the widespread acceleration of cloud adoption is no exception. In a time where supply chains were disrupted and business models were forced to change, technology and business leaders turned to cloud services to support their rapidly evolving needs. Organizations stopped asking, “Should we move to the cloud?” and now find themselves facing instead: “Cloud happened. Now what?” To ...

Benji: Crafting swoon-worthy happily ever afters is literally my day job. Being a quirky introvert with an overactive imagination, underwhelming social skills, and a few pounds overweight, I'm no leading man. My best friend, though? He's total cover model, call the plumber because I just flooded my basement material. He's also outgoing, charismatic, free-spirited, and basically the best guy ever. I may know romance, but I'm no dummy when it comes to reality. I'm nothing special. And the truth is, a guy like Darren would never fall for someone like me.

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Casey McQuiston meldet sich zurück mit der heißesten Romanze des Sommers! Queere Märchenprinzen, heiße Urlaubsnächte und eine waghalsige Wette – diese Kulinarik-Reise steckt voller Überraschungen! Theo ist Barkeeper und angehender Sommelier mit einer langen Liste von Liebhabern. Kit hat als der unangefochtene Sexgott seiner Konditoren-Schule den Abschluss gemacht und backt nun in einem der besten Restaurants in Paris. Vier Jahre nach ihrer Trennung scheint es für beide eine großartige Idee zu sein, die damals geplante Kulinarik-Reise durch Europa doch noch anzutreten.

Sometimes you meet someone and you just know they're going to mean something to you. That's what happened with Col Langdon. Sure, he's a cranky, uptight New Yorker who seems strangely immune to my serenading, but he's been living rent-free in my head since the night we met. I'm the king of casual. But with Col . . . it's different.

Charles Knight returns to the United States after seven years traveling the world. He embarks on two concurrent professions: one as a major investor in a small pharmaceutical company, and the other as the head of a black market drug-smuggling and distribution operation. Charles has to sort through the legal and illegal, moral and immoral, and right and wrong as he navigates the war on drugs and the crony pharmaceutical industry.

Too many of us think we have to have it all together in order to live a meaningful life. Instead of feeling put together, we end up feeling inadequate, overwhelmed, and exhausted as we try to figure out how to do it all. Author, business owner, and mom to three Lara Casey has been there, too. In Cultivate, she offers this grace-filled advice: we can't do it all and do it well, but we can choose to cultivate what matters. Written as part encouragement anthem and part practical guide, Cultivate offers wisdom from God's Word alongside lessons Lara has learned in her own life—and in her garden.

She didn’t notice the corn stalks shiver a few feet to her right. By the time she looked up, the man towered above her. In a single movement he wrapped one thick hand around her waist, the other he clamped over her mouth, muffling her screams. Detective Clara Jefferies has spent years running from her childhood in Alber, Utah. But when she hears that her baby sister Delilah has disappeared, she knows that the peaceful community will be shattered, her family vulnerable, and that that she must face up to her past and go home.

Lily Frazer would do anything to save the Frazer Center for the Arts - even take on the infamous billionaire Calder Cunningham. When Lily breaks onto the Cunningham estate, she only wants to find and reason with Calder. (All right, all right, she wants to punch him in the face, too, but that's Plan B.) As it turns out, the arrogant billionaire is willing to give her the money he promised, but there's a catch: she must win it from him. And the games he has in mind aren't exactly... innocent.

Was wäre, wenn... Liebe die Welt verändern könnte? Der Kronprinz und der Sohn der Präsidentin. Als seine Mutter zur ersten Präsidentin der USA gewählt wird, wird Alex Claremont-Diaz über Nacht zum Liebling der Nation: attraktiv, charismatisch, clever – ein Marketingtraum für das weiße Haus. Nur auf diplomatischer Ebene hapert es bei Alex leider ein wenig. Bei einem Staatsbesuch in England eskaliert Alexʼ schwelender Streit mit dem britischen Thronfolger Prinz Henry. Als die Medien davon Wind bekommen, verschlechtern sich die Beziehungen zwischen den USA und England rapide.

Louisa Cunningham and Ward Brannon are on a mission: to escape the mess (and the families) they left behind. But life on the road is more difficult than either of them expected. Out here, there might not be any rules, but there are also no longer any secrets...and nowhere to hide from each other.

Lana Caldwell, die quirlige Assistentin im S.T.A.R.S.-Team, ist tough, ehrgeizig und hat oft eine ziemlich große Klappe. Doch ihr Herz sitzt am rechten Fleck, und das lässt sie sich regelmäßig von muskelbepackten Männern brechen. Als Lana die Hoffnung auf Prinz Charming schon beinahe aufgegeben hat, tritt überraschend der sympathische Matthew in ihr Leben. Zwischen den beiden entwickelt sich eine Beziehung voller frecher Sprüche, Leidenschaft und Romantik. Doch urplötzlich werden sie einer Bedrohung ausgesetzt, die Lanas Traum zum Platzen bringen könnte.