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It was like he had stepped straight out of my dream. He was even wearing the same clothes. I stood rooted to the spot as he walked right past me without even glancing my way. Susannah has a prophetic dream about a guy she has never met. She later sees him at school and learns that he is a new student. He awakens a power in her that she never knew she possessed.

Seventeen-year-old Haruna Catherine Mitsukai has three goals: 1. Be liked by everyone. 2. Graduate from Shady Glenn Academy (with Honours, of course). 3. Get accepted into UBC (along with Mani, the gorgeous, super-rich boyfriend) - and get out of Campbelton forever. Ryu Debiru has only one: Survive.

Can empty nesters find a second chance at love in the mountains of Colorado? After June Meyers' devastating divorce six years ago, she remained devoted to her children and their home in Ohio. Now her youngest child is off to college, and June faces her future with a mix of anxiety and excitement. The Walker Horse Ranch in isolated Peakview, Colorado, provides the perfect setting for Jeff Walker to hide from the pain of losing his wife to cancer eight years ago. He’s raised his sons and now his ranch and horses are his life. It’s just simpler that way.

The Pawn of Pharma is a story about corporate greed, business ethics, family loyalty, a search for purpose, and the excessiveness of the American pharmaceutical industry. Samantha Harmon, a recently hired sales representative for a multinational drug company, struggles to succeed in the extremely competitive American pharmaceutical industry. Living in the shadows of her widowed father, a high-level executive with the organization, she attempts to develop a career while caught up in a business environment where the players do not always have the public's best interest in mind.

The gateway to blissful rapture is open to all who desire. In this sultry sequel to Maura Burd's romantic poetry collection A Lover's Whisper, the passionate poetry in A Lover's Rapture explores the mystical bond of sensuality between harmonious lovers. Once enveloped by the alluring wings of rapture, enticing adventures do often abound.

The first time I saw Saxton Crawford we were in high school. He was the football star and I was just another invisible teenage girl. Now, he is a famous quarterback and the bane of my existence. And by bane, I mean his presence has brought back 10 years of secrets. Ones I'd thought I'd dealt with. The minute he walks back into my life I become that bumbling teenage girl all over again. I’m not having it! Even if the quarterback only has eyes for me. He's irresistible, too handsome for his own good, cocky, and carrying baggage no one wants.

Passion exists in us all, but it’s never more enrapturing than at the instance when it’s wielded into the bounds of love. Maura Burd’s poetry in A Lover’s Whisper reveals some of the deepest longings impassioned lovers share, inspiring listeners to ingest the desires of love’s consuming hunger.

Lysandra is the second book of a sci-fi trilogy, promising the listener a suspenseful and entertaining listen that will leave them wanting more. Interwoven through both books are themes of cloning, virtual reality, redemption, and vengeance. Lysandra is a genetically modified Magdalene who wants to be like any other teen living on Terra, but the unholy Church won’t leave her alone. After it tries using its ownership of her DNA to try to control her, there’s a nasty trial and some wicked turns through which Lysandra and the listener discover Lysandra’s hidden powers.

Is Ethan Smith friend or foe? Enemy or lover? After being left at the altar on her wedding day, big city financier Allie Strickland returns to her quirky hometown hoping for peace and quiet to get over her fiancé’s betrayal. But on the very first night, Allie’s nerves are shattered when an unexpected intruder breaks into the house while she’s taking a bubble bath. The intruder is devastatingly handsome, but she soon learns that he’s using a fake name and has old ties to Heartland Cove.

SWAT Officer Jesse Calhoun wasn't looking for love when he met Brie Carter. And at first, he thought they'd have nothing in common, but when a new side of her emerges, will she win his heart? Or will her secret destroy their relationship? Daughter of a billionaire Brie Carter was bored and looking for a way to spice up her life. When her friend offered a bet with a prize Brie wanted, she agreed, but she never counted on falling in love on the way. The problem is, how does she tell Jesse about the bet without losing him?

Told through a collection of insights from the author's own career, as well as advice from emerging and established healthcare leaders, Crush the Climb brings together diverse points of view into a handbook for students and early career professionals who aspire to be great healthcare leaders. Discover 11 lessons that will help you survive and thrive in the today's healthcare industry and crush the climb,

There’s a natural, safe, and inexpensive solution for many health issues. One used for thousands of years, dating back to ancient Greece. Much more than just a perfume, essential oils are powerful healing compounds distilled from various plants. By using these, you, too, can benefit from their health-giving properties.

This fun and educational book instills lessons about hard work, creativity, and determination to help your child get into the entrepreneurship mindset needed to turn a vision into reality. By creating a story and characters that your child can relate to and use as an example, they can listen to it and stay as engaged as they would be with any great children’s book. Children will be inspired as they learn how to become small business entrepreneurs. They will learn almost everything they need to know about the fundamentals of starting a business.

Despite their phenomenal decades-long success, the Harry Potter novels have attracted relatively little attention from literary critics and scholars. This book challenges that oversight, assembling and foregrounding some of the best literary critical work by scholars trying to move the needle on these novels to reflect their importance to twenty-first-century literary culture. In Open at the Close, contributors consciously address Harry Potter primarily as a literary phenomenon rather than a cultural one.

Michael Andrews and Gail Sommers have finally found the love that had eluded them for so long. But their romance has uncovered an ancient evil curse neither of them could have anticipated. It does more than bring down a plague on their houses - it unleashes something far more sinister that can destroy humanity. Now they must choose: battle the evil forces out to destroy them, or continue to meet in secret while the rest of the world burns.

Amarynn, a legendary warrior who hates everything she's become, desperately wants her existence to end. But there's one problem with that. She's immortal. She's also made a terrible mistake having given away the secrets of her immorality to Venalise Korr, a powerful mage capable of twisting that magic into something monstrous. Now Venalise has kidnapped Regealth, Amarynn's creator, and stolen the magical stone called The Gate – the key to everything immortal. Determined to right her wrongs, Amarynn enters into an uneasy partnership with the king's son.