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Savannah resident Mercy Taylor may now be in control of the South’s most powerful family of witches, but she’s struggling to master her newfound magic. Pregnant with her first child and still reeling from a heartbreaking betrayal, she just wants to be able to use her supernatural abilities without accidentally destroying dishes or blasting the doors off buildings.

We present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. A profile shows us not as we are seen directly but how we are perceived by a broader public. Profile-based identity is evident everywhere from pop culture to politics, marketing to morality. This book argues that the profile marks an epochal shift in our concept of identity and demonstrates why that matters. You and Your Profile blends social theory, philosophy, and cultural critique to unfold an exploration of the way we have come to experience the world.

To the uninitiated, Savannah shows only her bright face and genteel manner. Those who know her well, though, can see beyond her colonial trappings and small-city charm to a world where witchcraft is respected, Hoodoo is feared, and spirits linger. Mercy Taylor is all too familiar with the supernatural side of Savannah, being a member of the most powerful family of witches in the South. Despite being powerless herself, of course. Having grown up without magic of her own, in the shadow of her talented and charismatic twin sister, Mercy has always thought herself content.

These stories are a little bit of madness, brought to you by some of the best horror authors working in the industry, today, that wanted to show off their love for splatterpunk.

What happens when one of the country's most popular identities goes from reading the news to being the news? Olivia Law had always been the good girl. Great grades, perfect career, husband, house and hairdo. She'd learnt image was everything so she refused to look below the surface of her life...

This volume is part of the three-book Pulp-Lit Omnibus Collection of all the fiction writing of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. It presents the works of weird fiction which he ghostwrote or on which he collaborated with another author.

The Lord’s Prayer is a beautiful, subversive passage of words given to the church by Jesus. It forms our imaginations and—given time—transforms us. And today, we are in desperate need of renewed imaginations. Christians are living in a wilderness of secularism. In Liturgy in the Wilderness, Anglican priest D. J. Marotta shows how the Lord’s Prayer provides a framework in our secular age for understanding, believing, and living in light of Jesus Christ.

Keeping the body in shape becomes a necessity in these modern times. Vigorous exercises are not only performed for aesthetic purposes, but also for the physical health. If a person has a well-maintained figure, he has few health risks. It is not actually difficult to find time for weekly exercises. A good mindset is the key to reaching your goal successfully. Among the existing forms of psychomotor movements, yoga is the simplest and most efficient.

The sylvan witch, Zelata, sends Conan forth on a quest that will take him back along all the long, weary trails he once trod on his way to the kingship of the greatest of the Hyborian nations. Along the way he'll battle traitorous noblemen, crafty bandits, scheming merchants, bloodthirsty pirates, mysterious assassins from the East, eldritch vampires from the tomb, and powerful Stygian wizard-priests - and in the end he'll face an enemy called up from the land's nightmare-haunted past, an evil, ancient wizard.

When Blake Sunday, an actor well-known for his super-fluffy roles in made-for-television movies, comes to the small but bustling town of Hidden Springs, Missouri to film a Christmas movie, he knows immediately that it's where he wants to put down roots. His restless, energetic nature gets him sent on a coffee run where he steps inside Knick-Knack Patty-Cakes and meets its adorable owner. Declan Alexander is chubby and clumsy with wild, curly black hair that can only be tamed with a stocking cap, and has an unnatural obsession with made-for-TV Christmas movies…and Blake Sunday.

My Da wants to marry all his boys off, and he wants those grandbabies! But I'm almost debilitatingly shy around omegas - aside from my brother's boyfriends - to the point of really just not even wanting to try. Why be that uncomfortable, right? The problem is, I crave hugs and cuddling. I know it's probably not normal, especially given how shy I am, but I need them. So, I hire a cuddling service...and meet the omega of my dreams.

I'm not the best at picking men. I always seem to end up with jerks. Controlling jerks, abusive jerks, jerks that only want one thing. You name the jerk flavor and I've probably tas... okay, that wasn't where I was planning on going with that. When an obsessive ex won't leave me alone, I enlist my super-hot, super-interesting neighbor to protect me and end up going on a road trip I would have never expected in a million years.

Kent has been passed over for his brother by alphas more times than he can count. He still loves his brother, but he's sick of feeling like second best, and afraid to find someone significant because he can't stand the idea of them falling for Kade and leaving him behind...which makes the fact that he's in love with the alpha father of his brother's beautiful son Ricki ridiculous, and a bit of a nightmare. His life and Dawes's have become so intertwined between work and Ricky, Dawes's crazy omega father gets his feelings hurt if Kent doesn't call him Da.

At 47, I'm too old to be saddled with a toddler, no matter how stinkin' cute he is, though if anyone tried to take him away, I'd commit murder. And I'm definitely too old to be staring longingly at anyone like a lovesick moron, but especially the 23-about-to-turn 24-year-old nanny I've somehow acquired to take care of him. Every little thing he does, no matter how innocent, sends my mind into overdrive, and I have to run off to my friends to question if I'm overreacting or not.

I did what when I was sleepwalking? Archer is not your typical omega. In fact, aside from his need to protect his best friend, he's not really sure he has a nurturing bone in his body. Funny how his best friend happens to be an enormous alpha...whom he's absolutely crazy about. When Avery greets him one night completely naked and ready for action, Archer thinks his forever has finally started. And then he wakes up to a best friend who can't remember their night together because he was sleepwalking through the whole thing.

A quirky English chap with a taste for fine scotch, Dr. Phineas Templeton builds a time machine at the behest of his mysterious benefactor. His mission? To meet Jesus Christ Himself, and garner all of the fame, recognition, and accolades that writing an epic time travelogue would bring. Unfortunately for Finny, Jesus is actually a fellow time traveler, a hippie named Trent from Colorado in the future. While Trent explains that the past is fixed and immutable, Dr. Templeton realizes that he's made a horrible oversight in his calculations, and can't return to his own time period.

Aged Mother Jilo is wise in the ways of magic...but once upon a time, she was just a girl. 1950s Georgia: King Cotton has fallen. Savannah is known as the "beautiful woman with a dirty face," its stately elegance faded by neglect, its soul withering from racial injustice and political corruption. Young Jilo - fiercely independent, intelligent, and ambitious, but thwarted by Savannah's maddeningly genteel version of bigotry - finds herself forced to embrace a dark power that has pursued her family for generations, an ancient magic that may prove her salvation.

The church urgently needs to address the questions our society is raising about gender, identity, and morality. These questions are permeating our culture in media, entertainment, education, medicine, politics, and government. Influential voices are challenging God’s plan for human lives and society. Many sincere people are struggling to understand how to respond. In the face of radical claims and unprecedented confusion, it is imperative that the church provide biblical answers.

Ein Neuanfang – das ist alles, was ich will, als ich in das entzückende französische Dorf Val d'Issey ziehe. Bis ich am ersten Abend auf meinen neuen Mitbewohner treffe. Der Mann, dem ich in der Highschool das Herz gebrochen habe. Dabei habe ich mir geschworen, die Finger von Männern zu lassen. Zu tief sitzt der Schmerz, dass ich vor dem Altar stehen gelassen wurde. Doch Luca ist nicht nur attraktiv, charmant und lustig, er lässt auch nicht locker und versucht die Schutzmauer, die ich um mein Herz gebaut habe, Stein für Stein einzureißen.

Santa's helpers don't always dispose of bodies, but that's what Tucker Smith is doing right now. Specifically, the body of his own Santa - one of thousands worldwide - who was just murdered in an apparent random act of violence. Now, Tucker will have to somehow manage to deliver Christmas to his assigned region while he struggles to patch things up with his family, all while training the replacement sent to him by The Organization and trying to uncover the mystery of who killed Santa. And there's only five days left until Christmas.