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While all of my friends are starting college, I've decided to travel to Europe and see more of the world. I have a flexible itinerary and enough money to last me for three months. Then I find out that my dad's best friend, Alex, lives in Paris now...and I've been invited to see him while I'm there. I'm not sure it's a good idea, considering I used to have a big crush on him. But maybe this is meant to be.

A lady walks into a bar. Isn't that the way it always starts? Bad joke or not, this is what my life had been reduced to. How does one begin again over the age of forty? Instead of China, as was the customary gift for your twentieth anniversary, my husband decided to serve me with divorce papers. Literally that very day. Instead of citing irreconcilable differences, he informed me that not only did he have a girlfriend, but she was pregnant.

When my boyfriend Josh and I break up, I decide I’m going to get over him as soon as possible. Then I learn that our break-up wasn’t what I thought...and I set out to give him a piece of my mind. But instead of telling off Josh, I find myself being comforted by his dad. And this time, I can no longer ignore the attraction I’ve always felt for this hot older man.... But will Josh’s dad give me what I desire?

Miley Thompson, a young budding Witch finds herself at the Mercy of a Council of Wizards, accused of having used black magic. Luckily, She has a wizard on her side. Thomas Anderson, professional wizard. Miley is put under Thomas's apprenticeship and is forced to move in with him at the tender age of 18. That's when the heat turns up, and a secret she's long held in her heart for Thomas begins to manifest.

Do you want to get a good listening in, but only have 10-15 minutes? Want a full scary story but don't want to read for days and days? This short thriller is for you! Are urban legends real? After being teased about a scary urban legend of The Lady on the Road by her older brother, a teenage girl drives to her friend's house on a Friday night to hang out. After leaving her friend's house, she decides she's going to prove to her brother that The Lady on the Road urban legend is just that.

Do you want to get a good listen, but only have 15-20 minutes? Want a full scary story but don't want to rlisten for days and days? This short thriller is for you! On a class field trip to go camping, a bunch of students are told a scary story about a boy in the woods and his mother. When they get to the camping spot, everything seems normal. Until it's not. The story can't be real though...can it?

After her brother goes missing, a girl decides to go looking for any help she can get. She turns to the deep dark web, but she ends up getting more than she bargained for.

After four years of allowing the dust to settle, Ruby can no longer deny the flicker of curiosity that comes with tempting danger again. She refuses to deny the burning pleasure that once came at the unyielding hands of a sick, sick man. She knows now what she must do to feel alive again: It is in a club where wealthy men go to have one-night stands with submissive women where she finally faces it all. In his hands now, Ruby cannot resist Secret Liaisons’ owner Nathan Holloway.

Deborah's career is at a dead end. After a splashy debut with her first novel, she's languished as a freelancer, her potential unfulfilled. But the death of an elderly aunt provides unexpected source material, as she and her family discover journals and letters that bring to life a colorful and shocking past.

In this insightful history course, you will take a deeper look at Abraham Lincoln's powerful presidency and the war that shook America 150 years ago. Presented by award-winning professor Dan Monroe (PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), these lectures brim with fresh insights. Raised in Kentucky and Indiana by a father who did not value education, Lincoln had only one year of formal education. Rented out for day labor by his father, the young Lincoln gained insight into the injustices of slavery and would go on to become a self-educated lawyer.

New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Isle of Palms in this addition to The Beach House series to tell the poignant, charming story of two women, one summer, and one very special beach house. When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of...

The Rough Riders is the story of the First US Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Theodore Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened Southwestern frontiersmen and privileged Northeastern college graduates and how it trained in Texas before sailing southward through the tropic seas toward the unknown.

Now you can listen your way to a top score with this new TOEFL Course. This course covers everything from leading test taking skills and strategies to a high-yield review of Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing portions of the TOEFL. This course is packed with main takeaways that are easy to remember and are key concepts for the TOEFL. This powerful TOEFL Course was created by expert TOEFL tutors and teachers who know the test and all its variations inside and out. The authors also know and share the very best ways to prepare for the test.

There are few tests as important as the SAT. It controls your admission to top colleges and universities. Now you can vault to the top of the class with this new SAT Course. This course covers everything from leading test taking skills and strategies to a high yield content review of the verbal, quantitative and analytical writing portions of the SAT as well as a review of the top 500 SAT vocabulary words.

Official GRE Prep has everything you need to prepare and excel on the GRE! There are few tests as important as the GRE. It controls your admission to top schools and graduate programs. Now you can vault to the top of the class with this course. This course covers everything from leading test taking skills and strategies to a high yield content review of the verbal, quantitative and analytical writing portions of the GRE.

The Official TOEIC Prep Speaking Strategies audiobook has everything you need to prepare and excel on the speaking section of the TOEIC! This powerful audio course was created by expert TOEIC tutors and teachers who know the test and all its variations inside and out.

The Official TOEFL Prep - Speaking Strategies audiobook has everything you need to prepare and excel on the speaking section of the TOEFL! This powerful audio course was created by expert TOEFL tutors and teachers who know the test and all its variations inside and out. Also included is an audio review of the top 300 TOEFL vocabulary words. This section teaches you how to master proper spelling, pronunciation, definitions, and synonyms/antonyms through the use of unique audio exercises.

The Official IELTS Prep Speaking Strategies audiobook has everything you need to prepare and excel on the speaking section of the IELTS! This powerful audio course was created by expert IELTS tutors and teachers who know the test and all its variations inside and out.

As travelling salesman Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard - as if it were armor-plated - back, and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments, on top of which the bed quilt could hardly stay in place and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.

When up-and-coming model Rachel went to a party full of industry executives, she was hoping her life would change. But she did not expect this. At that party, she met the gorgeous, golden-eyed Shawn who swept her off her feet and into his bed. In the end, Rachel's life did change drastically that night, she became pregnant.