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Home-decorating expert Melissa Michaels invites you to experience the peace and joy that come from a well-balanced life that nurtures your home and soul throughout the year.

Affirmations are key to self-love and improvement, they’re meant to give you a mental image of your potential and success! They’re designed to carve a path for you to follow that leads to a life filled with positivity, gratitude, acceptance, confidence, strength, and more!

Natasha Miller takes you along on her journey as she breaks free from a troubled, abusive childhood, overcomes the trappings of transiency, and harnesses her sheer grit to build a multimillion dollar entertainment production company while raising her daughter as a single parent. Bogged down by the daily grind, Miller sought an alternative. She shares the transformational inner work she did to grow her confidence and independence as well as the strategic, practical steps that enabled her to activate profits, optimize her systems, and become a leader with intention.

Although the Arabic world is as diverse as any other region, customs and traditions endure. Injustices continue. And then there is Laila. Trapped in a marriage to a man she finds physically revolting, Laila begins to realize secret truths about her sexuality, about her very identity as a modern Jordanian woman. “Good” Arab women may have occasional lurid fantasies about dominating men in bed … but Laila actually finds the strength to do it. And when she dies suddenly in an encounter with a lover, the stakes for the survivors become a matter of life and death.

Midnight, June 13, 1942: Peter Burger stands on a foggy beach, ears primed as a submarine hull scrapes the sandy sea bottom. He has endured seventeen months in a Gestapo prison and seventeen days on a Nazi U-boat only to have landed on American shores with six boxes of explosives and no escape. After slipping into New York City, Peter finds himself at a massive military parade where he meets Grete Baum, a German-Jewish refugee grappling with loneliness and loss. Grete is drawn to Peter’s brooding vulnerability, and the pair instantly bond.

When Sam walks into work on Monday morning, she thinks it's just going to be an ordinary start to an ordinary week. But one quick and tense exchange is all it takes to change that. When her more than slightly passive-aggressive, hot-this-week-and-cold-next-week colleague randomly hurls a racial slur at her, Sam's previously comfortable life immediately turns into one filled with stress and anxiety.

After the death of her mother, plus size beauty Alison Smith is left all alone. But instead of wallowing in her loneliness, she decides to go on an adventure to find her long-lost family! But to her surprise she also finds one other person in the process, the tall and handsome Thai billionaire Yut Tang! At 30, it’s time for Yut to settle down - but love has always been optional! That was until Yut saves a woman from being attacked on the streets! Yut is enamored by the beautiful and talented Alison...But her innocence has been scaring him away from getting closer to her!

Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) was a German film director and animator best known for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was released in 1926 and is the oldest surviving animated movie. (It came out a full 11 years before Disney’s Snow White!) As a little kid, Reiniger loved reading fairy tales and fell in love with puppetry. At school, she learned about paperschnitte, or papercuts, which helped her create her signature style of silhouettes. She grew up to make more than 40 films throughout her long career.

Every time March McIntyre runs into Beau Harris, the sexiest and most eligible bachelor in all of Nashville, it’s like he’s an entirely different person. When March stumbles upon his secret, she realizes that not only could it expose the insanely sexy music icon for who he really is, it could also rock the entire world of country music to its core. Or…maybe it could be her ticket to stardom instead.

Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query "is he musical?" become code, in the 20th century, for "is he gay?" Why is music so inherently queer? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in music’s intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener. Glitter Up the Dark traces the history of this gender fluidity in pop music from the early 20th century to the present day.

Lash by bloody lash, the she-devil from Dallas would get her revenge.

Anatomize is a series of hymns to the human body and its machinations. Procedural in how it works through the original concept, this book examines the body through the naming and examination of its parts and their transcendental workings. Like Victor Frankenstein of Mary Shelley's novel, Dennerstein creates a vibrant living being from the fragments lying about the laboratory.

After getting reassigned from the North Pole by a jealous Mrs. Claus, misfit elf Holly Hopewell is sent to work in the worst place imaginable - The North Pole Emporium Department store in Mistletoe, Oregon. The elves call it Mistletoe Row, a place so devoid of joy and Christmas spirit, that many a curly-toed folk has lost their poor mind working there. But just when Holly thinks things can’t get any worse, the store’s manager, who also happens to be Mrs. Claus’s nephew, is found murdered in his office.

« Michel, l’indien, tu l’as en toi. » Elle a prononcé ces mots dans un murmure, comme une confidence. Comme on dit un secret. Jeannette, fille d’Almanda et de Thomas Siméon, parlait peu de ses origines innues. Pourtant, cette femme toujours vêtue et coiffée avec soin a vécu le quotidien des chasseurs de la forêt boréale jusqu’à sa rencontre avec celui qui allait transformer son existence.

An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction, Send for Me moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family.

When a woman receives an unexpected positive pregnancy test, abortion often seems like the best or only option for a fulfilling future. Unplanned Grace beautifully challenges that myth, equipping listeners to support abortion-vulnerable women with a love that values life in every way.

Die Edition Edelste Erotik präsentiert in Volume 8 sechs heiße Höhepunkte aus dem großen Sortiment erotischer Romane der Autorin Valerie Nilon. Die breite Vielfalt erotischer Fantasien sorgt für eine kurzweilige Lektüre, die fasziniert, manchmal provoziert, die meisten Leser erregt, aber auf jeden Fall bestens unterhält. Immer mit dem Anspruch intelligenter und sorgsam recherchierter Geschichten und Charaktere.

They’re snowed in together, but what he’s hiding could tear them apart. When a sudden Montana blizzard leaves Julianne stranded and helpless in her office building, she assumes she is about to spend the cold night alone. But after a rugged cowboy, Hank, risks riding through the storm to save his horse and finds shelter at her work, the two have no choice but to tough it out together.

Three years have passed since the devastation of Golyna. Anna, once the maker of immortals, continues to fight the evil she unwillingly created through her rune-carving magic. Secreted away in an isolated mountain monastery, she works as a teacher to young scribes, guiding them toward runes that foster peace rather than endless war. So when the tracker who murdered her brother comes to Anna’s redoubt, begging for his eternal runes to be undone, Anna agrees to grant his wish on one condition - that he aid her in rooting out the remnants of Volna, a genocidal regime....

A short poetry collection, tales of dark, and light. Includes the story poem, "The Binding Book", a tale of one woman's demise into a dark fate. This is a collection of mostly good old-fashioned rhymes. Some are dark, with a gothic feel, some are fun, and others are character and story driven. An easy listen collection. A few of these poems have previously been published in other collections.