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You're about to listen to my naughtiest F/F collection yet! These stories include first time, bisexual, age gap, femdom, FFF, FFFM, dommes/butches, workplace-vacation, and straight girl romance. Listen in for the wettest female encounters you've ever heard!

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.

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.

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.

Sailing around the world on a luxury cruise would seem to be a very "worldly" thing to do. But the year was 1977, the ship was the Queen Elizabeth 2, and world cruising was just getting started. During the three-month voyage across the Caribbean, South America, South Africa, India, south-east Asia, and into communist China, author Christine Darg and her husband Peter encountered people and places from a now fading memory.

The debate between science and religion is never out of the news: Emotions run high, fueled by polemical best sellers like The God Delusion and, at the other end of the spectrum, high-profile campaigns to teach "Intelligent Design" in schools. Yet there is much more to the debate than the clash of these extremes. As Thomas Dixon shows in this balanced and thought-provoking introduction, many have seen harmony rather than conflict between faith and science.

In 1949, during her junior year abroad in Paris, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bought several inexpensive paintings of Marie-Antoinette by a little-known 18th-century female artist. She also had a romantic relationship with Virginia vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery’s French grandfather - until recently, a well-kept secret. Seventy years later, Cricket Delacroix, Lucie’s neighbor and Jackie’s schoolfriend, is donating the now priceless paintings to a Washington, DC, museum.

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.

Dr. Bacon interviewed nearly 100 Super Couples to discover whether extremely happy marriages were a matter of fate or formula. Did they get lucky, or was "super" something that could be learned? Her surprising findings inspired a turnaround in her now happy and fulfilling marriage and have led to the same for thousands of other couples. Seekers who delve into The Super Couple will access this formula, glean fresh insights to the "six faulty assumptions" that often lead to marital failure, and embrace a practical and inspiring redefinition of love.

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.

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!

Combien de temps encore le destin s'acharnera-t-il sur Sylvie de Valaines ? Non content de lui avoir pris sa mère, de l'avoir jetée dans les griffes de Laffemas - le bourreau du cardinal de Richelieu - qui l'a mariée de force avec l'un de ses amis et l'a violée, il s'affaire à l'éloigner de son François de Vendôme... Pour la mettre définitivement à l'abri, François décide de la faire passer pour morte et l'emmène à Belle-Isle avant de rejoindre son bataillon.

London, 1934. Doreen Bates is working in the same office as E, an older married man. They strike up a passionate affair and Doreen records it all in her diary - secret midnight walks, countryside escapades and stolen moments of intimacy. But Doreen longs for a child with E. Despite all the taboos at the time and against the wishes of E, Doreen gets pregnant and is amazed when twins are born during the war. However, Doreen faces an uncertain future - will E ever leave his wife and join his new family?

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.

Unar dreams of greatness. Determined but destitute, she escapes her parents’ plot to sell her into slavery. Now she serves in the Garden of the goddess Audblayin, ruler of growth and fertility. But when Audblayin dies, Unar sees her opportunity for glory—at the risk of descending into the unknown dangers of Understorey to look for a reincarnated newborn god. In its depths, she discovers new forms of magic, lost family connections, and murmurs of a revolution that could cost Unar her chance…or grant it by destroying the home she loves.

Olivia Wallace has a birthday curse…or so she thinks. It was a broken heart on her 16th, a car accident on her 21st, pneumonia on her 30th, and a fall down a flight of stairs on her 35th. There were Ohio blizzards on her 38th, 39th, and 40th; and six days before her 45th, she lost the love of her life to a heart attack. Numbing grief stole that birthday and a couple more to follow and, on the morning of her 48th birthday, she received the call she'd dreaded ever since losing her mom so many years ago…