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As any listener of desire and romance can appreciate, this is a collection of sensual poetry. Written from the mind and heart of a African-American Woman artist exploring what intimacy, body, and sex-positivity means in relationships and society. Come explore the crevices of what it means to love and be loved.

The demon who scarred my face is dead. But my nightmare lives on. I’m back in Portland, the city of my attack, and things just keep getting weirder. And not in the quirky way this place is known for. My mentor is sensing strange energies, and when we investigate, demons appear. And my scars react too. I’m convinced the reaction is all in my mind, PTSD from coming face-to-face with a general of Hell. With the help of my friends, I do my best to work through it. Because what I should really be concerned about is how demons are crossing into the human realm more frequently.

A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting...

Just as unsettling news is revealed, Mattie Jackson is drawn back into a salacious merger that attempts to suppress her intensely stimulating relationship with her lover Kyle Bruno. During this unwelcome merger, Kyle may find escaping the drug cartel’s fixation on him an impossibility. Joining with his most hated enemy may be his only means to an end. Mattie begins to feel her blissful elation with Kyle is being threatened, and there’s only one certain course to follow.

Ashley M. Ratcliff got a crash course in collecting the broken pieces of her once easygoing life and building something beautiful with them when her health suddenly declined. At the age of 33, in the middle of her Jesus Year, Ashley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis-an autoimmune disorder for which there is no cure. In the year that followed, depression and anxiety, on top of the grueling symptoms of her MS, sought to sideline Ashley, and she found herself clinging to God closer than ever before.

Dagon has been summoned. The dead have risen from their graves. And whilst cultists, researchers, and the might of the military try to oppose him, Dagon’s power proves to be formidable. However, there is one final, slim opportunity to save the world from being eaten by Innsmouth’s returning elder god. A dwindling band of heroes fights against the inevitable apocalypse in this concluding story from Ashley Lister’s series of dark tales from Innsmouth.

The author of National Book Award finalist Everybody Looking presents a poignant novel about a teenager reckoning with her family’s—and her home town’s—secrets. “A tender, poetic story about what it’s like to experience loss and learn to continue living anyway.”—Bookpage...

The Elven Kingdom is a sham; the Queen put in place through rules meant to humiliate and destabilize her people. Born and raised in ways similar to cattle, Elves are fully aware that they are destined for a life of servitude. Clarissa had always followed the laws - studying hard, honing her skills, and perfecting her natural born talents in preparation for the day she'd be sold and her new life would finally begin.

"Author Ashley Woodfolk's voice is clear and bright, making this a pleasant listening experience." - AudioFile Magazine This program is read by the author. Inspired by the life and quotations of former first lady Michelle Obama, Opening My Eyes Underwater is a collection of essays by bestselling...

In the new Republic of Texas, guns are the law and nothing is forgiven. Bluebonnet Andrews is on the run across the Republic of Texas. An accident with a gun killed her best friend, but everyone in the town of Blessing thinks it was murder. Even her father - the town’s drunken deputy - believes she did it. Now, she has no choice but to run. In Texas, murder is punishable by death. There’s no one to help her. Her father is incapable, and her mother left the state on the last flight to America before the secession.

Welcome to Barksdale, where all the dogs strive for perfection. Every shopkeeper claims to be the “best groomer” or sell the “best biscuits.” And at Barksdale Academy, the pressure is on for one pup to be named Best in Show. Duke’s cousin Coco, a French bulldog from Paris, is visiting for the K-2 loyalty exam. During this exam, the Underdogs and their classmates will participate in a field day event against a rival school.

My name is Josephine Butler, and I am the goddaughter of the most powerful gypsy king in all of North America, and I have never felt more powerless in my life.

Events in Innsmouth are moving to a climax. The Esoteric Order of Dagon are determined to bring about the end of the world with the summoning of the Elder God: Dagon. The order’s leaders refuse to acknowledge the repercussions of their act. And they are determined to make the seas boil and the dead rise as they prepare for Armageddon. But one fearless lecturer from Innsmouth University understands the impending perils. He believes the Esoteric Order can be stopped. And all he needs to do is to help three dangerous individuals escape from Sefton Institute for the Criminally Insane.

Making excellent money as a paid speaker is not about how well-known you are. Instead, it’s about how you package your speech and present yourself. In Speak Your Way to Cash®, entrepreneur and professional speaking coach Ashley N. Kirkwood takes you behind the scenes and unlocks the secrets to landing high-paying five- and six-figure corporate speaking contracts using her firm’s proprietary P.A.I.D. Method™.

Ashley Hales invites us to a more spacious life. Contrary to what we've believed, the spacious life is not found in unfettered options or accomplished by our hustle and hurry. The life we crave is found within the confines of God's loving limits. Ashley helps us recognize that when we live within these boundaries, we discover a life filled with purpose, joy, and rest. This is the spacious life - finding true freedom within the good limits given to us by our good God.

Yoga is an ancient practice that brings many benefits mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Incorporating yoga into your daily life can help with building and restoring a lifestyle that is meant to improve your well-being through breathing, dieting, meditation, and even through sleep. Lifetime Yoga will introduce you to the history of yogic practices, chants, poses, eating habits, and more that will bring you to a better state of mind than you were ever in.

Try a kick in the butt and if that doesn’t work, a shove between the shoulder blades. It’s not that I wanted to remain training with Gallean in the Shadow Realm - I’d sell my mortality for a chance to find Alaric - Caer just gave me the push I needed. But upon my arrival back to the Earthly Realm, Breas, my loathsome bloke of an ex, kidnaps me and throws me in a cell. Talk about bad timing.

An excavation at a newly discovered kurgan, an ancient burial site, in Innsmouth uncovers some disturbing surprises. A senior archaeologist dies. A nefarious cult take advantage of the discoveries to further their own cause. And before long, a team from Innsmouth are travelling halfway around the world to find the relationship between their excavation and a long dead secret that yearns to rise from its grave.

Kate McGuire has loved her brother’s best friend for years - an older guy who didn’t know she existed, and whose smoking-hot girlfriend could punch her into next week. But now Kate’s 18, and Quinn Haley is girlfriend-free and looking at her like she’s outside the friend zone. Everything is working out perfectly - until she receives a surprise diagnosis, one that may prevent her from ever having sex.

Jean-Paul Sartre said, "Hell is other people." But he was only half right. Hell is the other people who work in the offices of Raven and Skull. After a week of horror and upset, six colleagues from the Raven and Skull offices get together in the pub to exchange stories and decide which of them has had the worst week.