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A Baker’s Dozen - A collection of 13 classic Christmas stories.

A collection of sweet, tender, poetic, beautiful, heart-wrenching, sensual love stories.

In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask how a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender. The authors consider the origins and development of the US nation and empire; the founding principles of belonging, nationalism, and exceptionalism and their lived reality.

Opfølgeren til "Grey fortalt af Christian" fortæller, hvordan Christian må dykke ned i de mest smertefulde steder i sig for at se, hvordan han blev den plagede, kontrollerende mand, som Anastasia forelskede sig i. Men Ana har forladt ham, fordi hans krav blev for voldsomme for hende. Christian kan bare ikke slippe Anastasia og kæmper med sine indre dæmoner for at finde frem til nye rammer for deres forhold. Hun på sin side hverken kan eller vil slippe begæret efter den unge forretningsmand, så kan Anastasia mon modstå fristelsen?

Parenting: You and Baby’s First Year Products is a one-stop guide for new moms and dads who want to set themselves up for success from the start. With so many baby products available, it can be really confusing and expensive to go through continual trial and error. On top of that, you are short on sleep, and you don’t want your baby to be a guinea pig for all kinds of products. I want to save you mounds of stress and hours of time by sharing the tools, tricks, and products that worked like a charm for us.

Doktor Johann Dolittle kann etwas, worum ihn viele Menschen beneiden: Er spricht die Sprache der Tiere! Und er versteht wie kein anderer ihnen zu helfen, wenn sie einmal in Not sind. Das weiß bald jedes Kind auch weit über die Grenzen von Dolittles Heimat Puddleby hinaus. Sogar bis nach Afrika reicht der gute Ruf des Doktors, so dass ihn eines Tages die Affen um Hilfe bitten. Als er sich mit dem Papagei Polynesia, dem Hund Jip, dem Schwein Göb-Göb und vier weiteren Tieren auf die Reise macht, beginnt ein tierisch turbulentes Abenteuer!

The process continues as Ms. Bennett tries yet again to prove herself to this mysterious employer. Will she be able to show herself worthy of such a coveted position as his assistant, or will she let her self-doubt, fears, and even his past cloud her judgement? Take a seat behind the desk for the second time, and ask yourself, can you handle The Interview: Part Two!

The man I hate lives next door. He must have just moved in, even though I never saw the moving truck. He's just as arrogant as I remember, mowing the lawn without a shirt and grinning like an idiot. When he catches me staring at him through the window, he winks. So cocky. He flirts with me like he never broke my heart. And then he tells me something that I just can't believe. We're married.

In the early 1960s, Hallowell, Maine was a sleepy small city on the Kennebec River. Dip Barrett runs a beer store where he socialized with local criminals and took bets for horse racing tracks around the state. Law enforcement agencies turn a criminal investigation into a hunt for a secret item. Phil, a local hoodlum, establishes unusual relationships. Forbidden and secret romances are revealed. Martha, a liberated seeker of sexual enjoyment, is harassed. People mysteriously rise from the dead.

Sci-Fi Shorts is a collection of classic science fiction stories from the golden age of space fiction. This group of six unabridged short stories by various authors covers such adventures as secret research projects, underground robot organisations, a subjugated Earth, getting trapped in the void, alien minds, and strangers from Jupiter.

Ryker finally told me what happened all those months ago. He explained his distance, his coldness. Now everything makes sense. I've been with Zeke for a long time now, and everything is exactly how I want it to be. I adore him. No, I love him. But there's a warning deep in my gut. Zeke is acting differently, and Ryker isn't the same either. It's the calm before the storm. I can feel it.

Zeke and I are finally together. Going from best friends to lovers is surprisingly easier than I thought it would be. We do everything together, and of course, the sex is fabulous. Everything is great until Ryker shows up. He says he needs to talk to me and I think I know what it's regarding. If my suspicion is right, he's in for rejection.

Ryker dumped me. Everyone warned me dating him was the wrong decision. But I did it anyway. Now that it's been three months I'm finally in a good place. I haven't started dating just yet but I know that will happen in time. Finally, I don't think about Ryker anymore. But when I have a dream about Zeke, a very inappropriate one, I start to wonder things I shouldn't.

My brother is an idiot. He won the lottery and invested all of his money in a run-down bowling alley. Since he's barely making it, he moved in with me. Great. Having him around the house isn't the worst thing in the world, but he does make a mess like nobody's business. My friends Zeke, Jessie, and Kayden keep me sane but there's only so much they can do. And it's definitely not the worst thing in the world when his old friend, Ryker, moves to town.

Volt is my best friend. And nothing but my best friend. Natalie and Sara keep telling me there's something more going on beneath the surface, but that's not true. Volt is a manwhore. A player. And a heartbreaker. We're better off as friends. At least that's what I keep telling myself.

In the early 1960s, Hallowell, Maine was a sleepy small city on the Kennebec River. Dip Barrett ran a beer store where he socialized with local criminals and took bets for horse racing tracks around the state. His business and the community are turned upside down when the body of a young man is found in the Kennebec River....

I'm called Sapphire to those that would bring about death and evil to an otherwise peaceful domain. It is a name that has earned me a modicum of respect and a hell of a lot of enemies. I know this shit. It's what I crave. Tonight's enemy better be cooperative. I'm really not in the mood to play around. Princess Arabella Gwin has a secret that she's been keeping from the members of her council and the inhabitants of her kingdom.

Ryker and I aren't exactly perfect. But I was falling for him - and falling hard. Every kiss. Every touch. Every embrace. Just made me realize this wasn't a fling. It wasn't even a relationship. It was so much more. I just hoped Rex was wrong about Ryker. Because I didn't have the heart to listen to him say those terrible three words. Told you so.

Plagued by nightmarish visions of apocalyptic battles and burning victims crawling across the desert sands, the slave girl known as Shanda has been trying to keep her growing gift hidden from her abusive master as she knows being able to see images of the future is a cursed gift carrying the King's ultimate punishment.

He wanted to honor his ancestors. Unaware that hunger, sickness, and deprivation were awaiting him, a young idealist departs the United States and embarks on a spiritual quest to West Africa. Repeatedly challenged by a world beyond his understanding and thrown into harsh, critical self-reflections, he is repulsed by the image of himself that Africa forces him to confront.