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School psychologist Skye Denison reluctantly agrees to act as maid of honor in her California cousin's over-the-top platinum-style wedding - and is also expected to assist the control-freak wedding planner. But when Skye discovers the planner dead, just one week before the big event, Skye is suddenly working double-duty.

Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you're an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different - and terrible - ways to die.

Grandma Sal's Soup-to-Nuts Cooking Challenge is coming to town, and Skye Denison is entering. And though she can't solve the mystery of the perfect mousse, murder is another story. Because a cocky contestant has been found delectably drowned in a chocolate fountain....

Simone is trying her best not to think of what she’s lost. Diagnosed with MS, she awaits the results of another anxiety-inducing MRI. She’s just walked away from Connor, “a fixer” but possibly the love of her life. And nearing the holidays, the sights and sounds of winter in South Dakota only prick memories of better years gone by. Then, on a December morning at the university where she works, jarring gunshots pierce the halls. In a temporary safe place and terrified, Simone listens and pretends this will all be over soon.

Lucie Montgomery attends a Thanksgiving weekend party for friends and neighbors at Hawthorne Castle, an honest-to-goodness castle owned by the Avery family, the last great newspaper dynasty in America and owner of the Washington Tribune. During the party, Prescott Avery, the 95-year-old family patriarch offers to pay Lucie any price for a cache of 200-year-old Madeira that her great-great-uncle discovered hidden in the US Capitol in the 1920s. By the end of the party Lucie and her fiancé discover Prescott’s body lying in his wine cellar. Is one of the guests a murderer?

In The Glass and the Gift, Nora is scared to give her Primary talk because reading is hard, and standing in front of everyone feels impossible. But when Dad shows her that Heavenly Father’s help is like the air—always there, filling the spaces she can’t—Nora learns she’s never alone, and her courage even overflows to help someone else be brave too.

Wren Whitney lives a remarkable life. She is a child of Beverly Hills, growing up in boarding schools, on private jets, a life of extreme wealth and privilege. Wren lives for adventure. She is afraid of nothing. She says no to nothing. Her existence is a blur of escapades, outrageous stories, and the many men who love her. Wren has never been in love. She has said the words many times, but she has never meant them. I love you is the only lie she's ever told.

Faleeha Hassan became intimately acquainted with loss and fear while growing up in Najaf, Iraq. Now, in a deeply personal account of her life, she remembers those she has loved and lost.

North Americans are the world’s most prolific users of opioid painkillers. In On Opium, Zwarenstein describes her own use of opioid-inspired medicines to cope with a painful disease. Evoking both Thomas De Quincey and Frida Kahlo, she travels from the decadence of recreational drug use in past eras to the misery and privation of the overdose crisis today. Speaking with users of prescribed morphine, illicit fentanyl, and smoked opium, Zwarenstein investigates uncomfortable questions about why people use substances and when substance use becomes addiction.

The sky has always held significance for humanity, in both cultural and scientific terms. And yet we persistently pollute it with sometimes unnecessary light in our obsessive desire to chase away the darkness. This effectively switches off the stars, hampering our ability to enjoy one of the most inspiring sights nature has to offer to humankind. In addition, too much light is hazardous to both our health and that of the fauna and flora of this planet.

In just over a week vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery and winemaker Quinn Santori will be married in a ceremony overlooking what should be acres of lush, flowering grapevines. Instead they are confronted by an ugly swathe of slowly dying vines and a nursery owner who denies responsibility for selling the diseased plants. With neighboring vineyards facing the same problem, accusations fly and the ugly stand-off between supplier and growers looks set to escalate into open warfare.

Young Spyros spends his days fishing, octopus hunting, and dreaming of attending school like his best friend, Niko. When he encounters an elderly man on the beach after an accident, his whole life begins to shift and change. But who is this mysterious, saintly man, and why is his friendship so important? Take a short trip back in time to the Greek island of Corfu and discover the real reason for the mystery surrounding Spyridon's shoes.

In the UK it is is said that one in four people has a mental health problem. This means that three in four don't. This is simply not true. We all have our screwups. Maybe what we should say is that one in four people is currently experiencing some kind of mental health problem that is getting in the way of their day-to-day lives.

Fiona Maye, juge spécialisée en droit de la famille, est passionnée par son travail. Elle en délaisse son mari, surtout depuis l'affaire Adam Henry. Cet adolescent de dix-sept ans est atteint de leucémie, mais les croyances religieuses de ses parents interdisent toute transfusion sanguine. Les médecins s'en sont remis à la cour. Après avoir entendu les deux parties, Fiona se rend à l'hôpital. Mais la rencontre avec Adam s'avère troublante et, indécise, la magistrate peine à rendre son jugement.

Love Her, Leave Her is a new release from Hachette Audiobooks: Powered by Wattpad -- an innovative collaboration between Hachette Book Group and Wattpad. Your favorite online stories, now available in your headphones! In Love Her, Leave Her (Book II of Cheater. Faker. Troublemaker), newly...

Pure Land is the story of the most brutal murder in the history of the Grand Canyon and how McGivney's quest to investigate the victim's life and death wound up guiding the author through her own life-threatening crisis. On this journey stretching from the southern tip of Japan to the bottom of Grand Canyon, and into the ugliest aspects of human behavior, Pure Land offers proof of the healing power of nature and of the resiliency of the human spirit.

This short, science-based book will show you exactly why common eating habits are sucking the energy right out of you, and how to eat better so you can supercharge your days and live the high energy life you were meant to live!

As a young maiden in a small village, Vanya was expected to act a certain way. No longer could she run out into the fields or accompany men on their hunts. She was expected to stay within the confines of the village. So, when the opportunity to go along with a few men on an ermine hunt presents itself, she quickly jumps on the opportunity.

Do you often feel drained when spending time in public or with others? Do you somehow feel different from other people? Or do you get overly anxious for no apparent reason? These are just some of the symptoms that empaths and highly sensitive people are prone to feeling every day of their lives. Living life as an empath in modern society can be a real struggle for sensitive people. The constant bombardment of external stimulus and energy often leaves them feeling worn out.

Knall! Bumm! Peng! Ganz London freut sich auf das große Feuerwerk, das bald stattfinden soll. Doch dann werden plötzlich mehrere Kisten mit Raketen und Böllern gestohlen! Der Olchi-Detektiv Mister Paddock vermutet, dass die Diebe etwas Übles damit vorhaben. Zusammen mit seinem Team muss er unbedingt herausfinden, wer hinter dem Raub steckt und was die Gangster planen. Doch viel Zeit bleibt ihnen nicht.