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Natalie's barely legal and still a virgin...but hopefully not for long! In this steamy first-time romance, Natalie has been hiding a secret from everyone. She's been saving herself for one man. But, now that she's decided to tell him, Natalie has no idea how "he'll" react or what her father will do if he finds out.

This year we can look a little closer, dig a little deeper, and bring out longer lasting truths about the Christmas season. We can strip down the complexities and find the basic truths that will hold it all together; not just while the shops and stations play Christmas music and the stores have sales, but the truths that will hold it all together and make it applicable in our daily lives long into the days, weeks and months of the next year.

Improve personal relationships and professional exchanges with a proven technique to tell if someone is being deceptive. Drive Thru Deception is an audiobook of how to uncover deception using words instead of body language. It is the ultimate guide that liars don't want you to have. Through stories, humor, and dozens of practical tips, deception expert and human lie detector Laurie Ayers shows you a method to determine if someone is lying.

It’s never too late to discover your purpose in life! Do you want to live a more meaningful life? Unfortunately, something so simple can get complicated...really fast. With thousands of books and seminars available - all trying to give you the secrets to a more purposeful life - you might be asking: Is it really this hard to know who I am and what I have been put on Earth to do? No, it’s not. In Fortify Your Soul, Laurie Hayden Bergey takes you on an inspirational journey that is often humorous, always relatable, and consistently encouraging.

Eleven-year-old Bartholomew can’t go to school, play outside, or worst of all, make art - so he sketches in secret. After he meets the skateboarding painter Alexander DeVinci, they're yanked into another realm by a magical painting. Their own world is very different in comparison to Artania: a world with living paintings and sculptures. They soon learn that Artania is on the verge of destruction, and Bartholomew's art is the only thing that can save it. With both gods and goddesses at his side, Bartholomew braves battles, duels, and skateboarding escapes.

The new third edition of this best-selling book helps parents understand and organize the necessary medical and emotional components that accompany their child's surgery. In an easy to follow time line for events prior to and following a tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy, the authors provide reassuring and accurate guidance that eases the process for the patient and family.

What were Jesus’ final seven statements on the cross? How do they speak to your life today? In this audio retreat, award-winning New Testament Professor Sr. Laurie Brink tells you how to lift Jesus’ last words off the pages of Scripture and inscribe them onto your own life. An engaging retreat leader, Sr. Brink imparts wisdom that will uplift and edify your spirit.

After life is shattered by loss or a traumatic experience - whether big or small - it can seem impossible to heal or even move on. Deep down, you believe God intends good for you, but you just don't have the energy or strength to figure out how to move forward. Author Laurie Pawlik has been there, and here, she shares how she flourished despite multiple losses. Through practical tips and thought-provoking questions, she helps you take small yet powerful steps toward healing and letting go. She also offers insights and encouragement from the lives of strong women in the Bible.

Back home on her family's Texas Longhorn ranch, Grace Murray is busy preparing for her wedding. After a scruffy tattooed drifter saves her life, she takes on the mission of helping her savior, Heath Carter, find peace. The steady friendship and unconditional acceptance she receives from him encourages her to trade an old dream for a new one - a dream true to her heart. When she calls off her wedding, Grace is finally set free to fully love Heath. After a decade of military service, special forces veteran Heath Carter is living with war's tragic consequences.

What happened to philosophy in the 20th century? Laurie Calhoun has an answer to this question, but you are probably not going to like it - certainly not if you are comfortably ensconced in academia. That would make you one of “the experts” taken to task and whose “expertise” is unmasked in Theodicy. Theodicy is a radical work of metaphilosophy, which begins as a deceptively simple examination of the question: how would things be different, if perspectivism rather than absolutism were true?

One year after her husband is killed in action, Julie Ellis is back in her hometown and focused on raising her young son. Then Reagan Harrison bursts into her life - a cocky, charming linebacker who leaves her off balance.

By the time you finish this audiobook, you will know what to look for when picking out a puppy, the amount of responsibility involved in owning a dog, and how to prepare for the arrival of your new dog.

50 Things to Know About Being a Single Parent, by Laurie Hoffer, offers insights on the idiosyncrasies of single parenthood.

When a prominent Seattle businessman is found hanging naked in a dominatrix’s studio, lead detective Court Pearson is pressured to find a fast, quiet solution to the man’s death. Court’s investigation uncovers secrets within his own department and raises the ghosts that linger from the suicide of his wife - all details he fights to keep quiet as a leaker goes public. To make matters worse, his new partner resents his fast rise through the ranks as Seattle’s only trans male homicide detective, and his lead suspect begins to look like a target for murder.

Complemented by exquisite, colorful artwork, Dr. Zelinger skillfully crafts an easily relatable children's story using everyday situations around the oppressive concept of terrorism in the news. With masterful understanding of the child's world, new and frightening concepts are introduced carefully and gently with the child's perspective in mind. This pioneering guide helps children and parents face a critical, often avoided, topic with reassurance and calm.

This audiobook translates anxiety from the jargon of psychology into concrete experiences that children can relate to. Children and their parents will understand the biological and emotional components of anxiety responsible for the upsetting symptoms they experience. Please Explain Anxiety to Me (2nd Edition) gives accurate physiological information in child friendly language. A colorful dinosaur story explains the link between brain and body functioning, followed by practical therapeutic techniques that children can use to help themselves. Children will:

When is a suicide not a suicide? You Can Leave, a novel by Laurie Calhoun, portrays a dark, disturbing, dystopic world where dissenters are permanently silenced whenever perceived of as threats by ruthless sociopaths occupying the highest corridors of power. The narrator relays her experiences at the hands of “the new mob”, a coordinated network of operatives enlisted from all walks of life on a “need to know” basis to carry out what appear to be trivial tasks for enticing sums of money. Lost in the labyrinth of an insane bureaucracy run amok, the heroine charts her path to survival using the only available means: her capacity to think. But will that be taken away from her as well?

Mail carrier Louise Golden lives on the island of O'ahu and enjoys a friendly camaraderie with the people on her delivery route. When she notices Mrs. Santos missing from her home, Louise becomes concerned. As she questions neighbors in an attempt to learn what became of the elderly woman, Louise is pulled into a mystery involving abductions, car tails, a celebrity pool party, exotic dancing, smuggled Hawaiian artifacts, and, of course, murder.

Laurie-Ann Murabito has been sharing her beliefs and tactics on leadership with Fortune 500 companies and individual clients who want to implement her formula for success. The foundation of all her teaching comes from one simple phrase, "Leadership is not what you do; it's who you become."

Philippians has long been considered one of Paul's most personal and affectionate letters. The letter to the Philippians is filled with Paul's loving support and challenge that the community might be of one spirit and one soul, seeing in both Paul and in Christ examples of humility and strength through suffering.