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Coach Damon Kilpatrick believes that he has finally found Ms. Right in sexy corporate executive Nichole Adams, that is, until he realizes that she is already in a relationship. Nichole Adams has been involved with police officer Deacon Miles for two years. When he's shot in the line of duty, she leans on her friend Damon for support. She arrives at the hospital only to discover that Deacon, the man she planned to marry, already has a wife. Unable to deal with his lies and betrayal, Nichole leaves him, but Deacon can't accept it. Obsessed with Nichole, he will do anything to keep her.

Dee Dee is as laid back, sassy, and cute as they come, but having two overprotective brothers like Jay and Bee, who have clout in the Memphis streets, makes finding and building a relationship seriously hazardous to a brother's health. Things move fast for Jay and Bee after hooking up with a new contact. All of the training that Jay was secretly putting Dee Dee through comes into play as Jay and Bee are locked up in the county jail for selling to an informant. The game is dominated by thugs until Dee Dee hits the scene.

Ra'Keeyah has million-dollar dreams. She's determined to come up, and she won't stop until she does. Nothing is going to stop her from getting the hottest clothes, the finest men, and money to burn. Easily influenced by her conniving girls Shayna and Quiana, Ra'Keeyah resorts to shoplifting, stealing married men's credit cards, and passing bad checks to get what she wants. Ra'Keeyah is struggling and has sunk to an all-time low when she meets Brick. He's a savvy, street-smart hustler who will surely take her young heart for a ride and make her want to change.

When Sierra Howell, a gorgeous female corrections officer, has an affair with a charming and manipulative prisoner, who is a dangerous criminal, her world is turned upside down.

You have to use what you got to get what you want. For Journey Clayton, this statement rings more than true as she struggles under the weight of her mother’s cocaine addiction. She learns from a very young age that family doesn’t offer as much help as she hoped they would. It’s not until she befriends Khalid, the son of a neighborhood drug dealer, who is trying to stay above the struggle himself, that she starts to believe there might just be hope...even for little girls in the ghetto.

After a long stint at desk duty, Phoenix Perry is dragged back into the limelight when a family member is found beaten and near death. To complicate matters, there are two dead bodies at the scene, and Phoenix’s cousin is the prime suspect. Can Phoenix find her cousin’s attackers and prove her innocence before the body count becomes astronomical? A nationwide chase ensues, involving shady editors, crooked literary agents, and a host of others. If you’re into suspense thrillers, this one is not to be missed.

Tia, Ton'ya, and Tammi are not only making moves in the game, but they're doing it in the bedroom too - and anywhere they need to get what they want. Tia is quick with her razor-sharp mouth, and she carries an equally sharp razor to slice a throat if need be. Ton'ya is loyal to a fault but will fight back if threatened. Tammi is the brains of the operation. They have collected more bodies than a Manhattan hooker working the lower East Side. What happens when the heart gets in the way of making money?

Big, bold, and beautiful are three adjectives that describe Erika to a tee. Named after her mother’s favorite soap opera vixen, Erika Kane is self-assured, headstrong, and opinionated. But she’s also unlucky in love. Whenever Erika thinks she’s found everlasting love, it always ends up being short-lived - literally. She has three dead husbands to prove the point, and it’s earned her the title “The Black Widow”. But just when Erika is about to give up on true love, she learns that, just like in the soaps, love sometimes shows up when you least expect it.

When Desa Rae Jenkins ended her tumultuous relationship with Roc, it seemed like the appropriate thing to do; but now she's second-guessing her decision. Roc moved away to Kansas City, leaving street life back in St. Louis up to the brothas who can handle it. He continues to live his life on the edge, though, and when he returns to St. Louis, Desa Rae shows up at his doorstep to reconcile. Roc is reluctant to go there with the one woman who ripped his heart from his chest.

A Lover's Embrace 2 by Skyy: Rayne has a new attitude. After taking six months to travel, Rayne is coming back to Memphis with a new job, a new love, and a new outlook on life. But coming home means coming back to the reality that she left behind. Can she stay strong in the presence of the man who turned her world upside down? Or will she fall back into the disastrous routine that made her run away to begin with?

Dylan Monroe, our favorite shopaholic, is back! She’s three months pregnant and madly in love with the father of her child, sexy heavyweight champion Angel. The only problem is the long-legged Victoria’s Secret model standing in the way of getting him back. If that weren’t enough stress, her Jack Daniels-loving mother, Candy, returns to stir up even more trouble. Unsure of how to face her future as a single mother, Dylan reverts back to the only thing she knows to comfort her pain - shopping!

Fabi und Co. wurden auf dem Meer von einem Kreuzfahrtschiff aufgegabelt, das sie nach Finnland mitgenommen hat. Dort sind sie so begeistert von den riesigen Wäldern und Seen, dass sie sich ein wenig umsehen wollen. Milo verirrt sich jedoch und landet in der sogenannten Teufelskirche, einer Felsformation mit großem Steindach. Hier scheinen Höhlengeister zu wohnen. Es dauert eine Weile, ehe der Fuchs und seine Freunde merken, dass die „Höhlengeister“ in Wirklichkeit zwei junge Bären sind, die sich im Dunkeln und mit hallenden Stimmen einen Spaß mit den Freunden machen.

In a distant land in the northern part of Africa, there is a quaint little kingdom that rivals the Wakanda legacy ruled by an African King with an iron thumb like a Yellowstone patriarch. Little does he know that a royal flower is about to blossom and upset all of his plans for eternal dominance and it all starts with an untold love story….

Reva Myles is a forensic memory analyst for the Bureau, trained to decode neural strands and expose deception. But when a crime scene memory shows her own face as the killer, Reva is thrust into a conspiracy that rewrites everything she thought she knew. Haunted by fragments of erased memories and hunted by a system she once served, Reva discovers a shadow organization that may hold the key to why she chose to forget. With the help of a rogue hacker and a buried backup of her former self, she must race to dismantle a weaponized memory system that threatens to erase identity on a global scale.

Die Ranger Akademie ist bekanntlich feindselig gegenüber ihren Teilnehmern. Vom Wetter, das innerhalb von Minuten von Hagel auf tropische Stürme umschlägt, über tödliche Steine, die nur wenige Zentimeter von den Köpfen der Auszubildenden entfernt abgefeuert werden, bis hin zu schlechtem Essen und salzigem Wasser, von den Drill-Instruktoren gebrüllten Obszönitäten und nächtlichem Geflüster über Versagen—alles auf der Insel ist darauf ausgerichtet, die Auszubildenden zum Aufgeben zu bringen.

Alea liebt es, Feenwesen aus sicherer Entfernung zu beobachten. Besonders beim Anblick eines bestimmten Feenmannes kann sie den Hass, der ihr in ihrem Dorf entgegenschlägt, für einen Moment vergessen. All ihrer Vorsicht zum Trotz, bloß nicht in einen Feenpakt getrickst zu werden, landet sie durch unerwartete Umstände im Feenreich. Schnell findet sie sich in einem Machtkampf zwischen zwei verfeindeten Feenkönigen wieder. Dabei ist ihr Feenmann an ihrer Seite. Wobei … ist er an ihrer Seite oder ist er viel eher für die Schwierigkeiten verantwortlich, die auf sie einprasseln?

De bijzondere Pippi Langkous is zonder twijfel een van de meest geliefde personages uit de Scandinavische kinderliteratuur en heeft een speciale plek in de harten van zowel volwassenen als kinderen veroverd. Het eerste verhaal in deze verhalenbundel onthult hoe Pippi in Villa Kakelbont kwam wonen en hoe ze vrienden werd met Tommy en Annika. In het tweede verhaal gaan Pippi, Tommy en Annika op een leuk schoolreisje en wordt Pippi bezocht door haar vader, Kapitein Efraïm Langkous.

Elaine ist zum Ranger befördert worden, während sie gleichzeitig ihre neue himmlische Heil- und Feuermagie entwickelt. Doch Kerberos, ihr Verlobter, der alles tun würde, um sie zurückzubekommen, wirft einen langen Schatten. Die gesamte Gesellschaft würde nichts lieber tun, als sie zu zermalmen und sie daran zu erinnern, dass sie ein Mädchen und ein Mensch zweiter Klasse ist. Endlos viele Dinosaurier streifen umher, auf der Suche nach leckeren Teenager-Snacks. Und nun wird Perinthus auch noch von einer tödlichen Seuche heimgesucht, die jeden Tag Hunderte von Menschen tötet.

On the last night of his life, Hyrum Smith folded down the corner of a page in the Book of Mormon and marked one verse: “I prayed unto the Lord that he would give unto the Gentiles grace, that they might have charity” (Ether 12:36). What does grace have to do with charity? How does receiving one lead to gaining the other? Scripture tells us that charity is a love that causes us to lay down our lives for someone. A greater love. A love that we must pray to be filled with. The pure love of Christ. What if charity is the outward expression of our inward understanding of grace?

BEING A LANDLORD is not always fun or easy. Everyone knows this. And it is even less alluring if you are dealing with difficult tenants, but landlording can be rewarding, enjoyable, and worthwhile. But I believe the most important aspect of being a landlord is understanding that landlording is not entirely the business of real estate, investing, and making money—it is all of those things—but it is also the business of people. Learning how to spot demanding or persnickety behavior can turn your rental business into a rewarding and profitable venture.