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The Desert Living Retirement Community is located smack dab in the middle of the Southern California desert, surrounded by windmills. Within this retirement community is a quaint little coffee shop running on a budget. Join the retirees in this quirky and comical short story as they spend their day drinking coffee and gossiping.

Cora Dillion thrives on control. After being abandoned and homeless on the streets, it had taken everything in her to climb back to a life she recognized. A self-proclaimed workaholic, she remains focused to prevent anyone from disrupting the existence she’s built for herself. When she receives a flurry of emails from a soldier, she realizes that the man pouring out his soul could be dangerous to her structured world...and her heart.

“I only desire your talent...” Twelve-year-old Lindsey McKay's biggest dream is to be a famous ballerina. But after moving to New York, she ends up at the Community Center with a teacher who’s a burly bear in tights. When she meets Madame Destinée, the teacher of a top dance school who offers her classes for free, Lindsey can't believe her luck. In exchange, she must perform in the school’s exclusive midnight shows, ones sure to make her a star. But something’s not right...

Covering all the major markets, such as options, forex, swing trading, day trading, and more, now you can unlock the secrets of the stock market and begin your journey to becoming a trading pro! Generate passive income, multiply your investments, and enjoy financial freedom with this powerful guide! Containing everything you need to know about trading, Stock Market Investing for Beginners is perfect for both the novice and the pro!

Harbor has come to Tasoca Texas to help her brother civilize the town by opening a school, but the first things she hears is that a mysterious person is acting the part of a Christmas angel in town. Harbor wants the children and townspeople to put their faith in God, not the Christmas angel. Drake can't understand why Harbor's brother would bring her to such a wild place, but he takes it upon himself to make sure she is safe each day. He isn't sure he agrees with her opinion of the Christmas angel until he see's her faith in God.

Shelby Anatoli grew up in Wolverton. She’s come to accept that monsters live - unseen - among the humans. But, when school groundskeeper Belmar Todjäger gets taken by one of these monsters, that’s not something she’s willing to accept. As they dig into the secrets and mysteries surrounding Craven Point - and their missing groundskeeper - they come face-to-face with merfolk, goblins, imps, a three-headed dog, and a shadowy town council member who will stop at nothing to get their hands on Mastermind’s Monsters Library.

When Emily Parker returns to her hometown after several years, she's reminded of the rolling hills and captivating quiet, the fond memories of growing up and one lost love. Years of relationships falling short behind her, she's finally happy on her own. So why, when she makes the turn into her hometown does she think of that one boy, that one relationship that only lasted the span of a summer but stayed on her mind over the years? Why have all other relationships paled in comparison?

When Emily graduates from Cal West University she discovers a career with great opportunity and status, the promise of something special with not one but two men, and friends and family at every turn. For Emily, things seldom stay the same for long: what challenges and choices will her career and relationships bring? Who's a friend? Who's a lover? And will the watchful eyes and opinions of everyone who means anything to her get in the way? Out of college and into the real world tests Emily's biggest choices so far.

After Emily's world is destroyed by lying and cheating, she returns to her hometown seeking solace and clarity but encounters nothing of the sort, only to return to Los Angeles and find her troubles exactly where she left them. Embarking on a new internship, she's poised and ready to go, but haunted by love and loss. Should she consider forgiveness? Or is there something better waiting on the other side of her grief?

When Emily Parker leaves her small hometown in the late 1980s for California West University, she thinks she has it all figured out. But when manipulation, vanity, and pleasure enter her life in the form of a whirlwind college romance, will she stay true to herself? Add the watchful eye of an older brother who also attends Cal West, friends who care too much, a strenuous class load, and part-time job, and throw in a young, interested professor. Emily’s path into adulthood challenges her at every turn.

Do you spend your days following your toddler from room to room, cleaning up their path of destruction? Do you feel like you’ve done everything within your power to keep them from destroying everything and anything that’s within their reach? Have you dreamed of booking a one-way ticket to Fiji? Ever have the desire to hide under the mountain of laundry that’s waiting to be folded and put away? This parenting thing ain’t easy! You’ve heard this before—parenting is the most challenging, stressful job there is, harder than any other job out there. As the parent of a toddler, you are laying critical groundwork and the foundation to be built upon for the rest of their lives. No pressure, right? There is so much information and advice out there on toddler discipline, it can actually be overwhelming. There are tons of parenting books, Pinterest boards and mommy blogs with tons of information. Being a busy parent—who has time to track down and weed through all that advice? Great news, you don’t have to! I’ve done the work for you. I was overwhelmed too, when I was trying to deal with my toddlers. That’s why I wrote this book, based on my own experience, as well tips from stacks and stacks of books I read about discipline for my own toddlers during those crazy years.

An introduction to the original Game of Thrones: the War of the Roses. King's Games, The Commentaries," brings to life the personalities and events leading to the fall of the last Plantagenet king of England, Richard III. In a series of historical and personal essays, the playwright condenses a lifetime of study into an easily understood overview of a tumultuous period of English history, as well as the creation of the modern verse play, King's Games, A Memoir of Richard III.

The Remarkable History of the Legendary Christmas Dragon: How an Innocent Young Dragon Found a Forever Friend, a Name, and became Santa's Pocket Alarm. ("No more Clement Moores!") This imaginative American fable for the Holidays confronts the mysteries of dragons, vampire bats, sea serpents, time travel and the North Pole with wry, heartwarming humor as the pleasant, ordinary lives of the citizens of a tiny Medieval kingdom are interrupted by an angry witch "vanishing" their beloved royal twins.

It starts when reporter Dorian Valentine discovers a horrific secret regarding the Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty (a critical peace agreement between the former Soviet Union and the United States): One side is cheating, and even worse - the cheating side holds the ultimate trump card. Brutally trained from birth to live, talk, and think like Americans, Russia has constructed the most dangerous network of secret operatives ever known - created for the ultimate trinity: Intelligence, Espionage, and Warfare.

Veteran pilot Clark Maxwell thought his fire bombing days were well behind him. But when Jerry Stein, Maxwell's friend and air tanker fleet-owner, calls at the height of the fire season to beg him to reenter the war, he doesn't hesitate. As the wildfires spread, whipped by massive winds and the federal forces arrayed against the fires reach their limits, hysteria and potential evacuation threatens the local population.

The passengers of Meridian Flight Six - delayed for hours and mistreated by rude and inept airline personnel - have been pushed to the edge. When Captain Phil Knight makes a forced emergency landing in war-torn Nigeria, abandoning his co-pilot to certain death, violence erupts inside the airplane as the enraged passengers attempt the first-ever commercial airline mutiny. But what they don't know could kill them.

Seismologist Dr. Doug Lam has spent years researching the Cascadia Subduction Zone. He published a theory that the unrelieved tectonic strain beneath the idyllic landscape of Cascadia Island could be triggered with modern construction processes - with catastrophic results. The paper was disregarded, even ridiculed, by his peers and by mega wealthy developer Mick Walker, who stands to earn millions from the construction of a luxury resort on Cascadia.

The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50 million Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year. Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who cares enough about our health-care situation to consider serious alternatives to the current system.

The "boomerang box," a high-tech computer program designed to save a plane experiencing flight trouble, is Dr. Ben Cole's baby. After a test run over the Gulf of Alaska goes awry, he suspects someone has sabotaged the plane's computer systems. And mysteriously, and almost simultaneously, April Rosen is horrified to learn that her father's plane has narrowly escaped a mid-air collision over the same patch of sea.

Art student Zuri can't wait to attend a showing at the local gallery from her favourite artist, Tyra Harris. Like Zuri, Tyra is a black artist and Zuri has been obsessed with Tyra's work for years.