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Acadia Powers nearly lost her faith at an early age due to what she saw as the hypocrisy of her parents’ generation. In college - where the novel begins - she meets and falls in love with Peter O’Neil, who is fervent in his faith and wants to share the good news with the world. Despite serious doubts about her ability to survive as a preacher’s wife, Acadia finally agrees to marry Peter. The two embark with high hopes on a new life in Sugar Sands, Alabama, where Acadia takes a position as a high school teacher while Peter becomes pastor of a small church.

After serving in the CIA with distinction and now battling a debilitating disease, Stewart Masterson is “rewarded" with detention in an assisted living facility. Longing for his late wife, his memory failing, Masterson escapes on the road navigating his way to find happiness with his daughter in Washington, DC. But, ruthless intelligence agencies start tracking him in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. They are desperate to extract what he knows or shut him up forever.

Spuki und Tante Felicitas bewohnen seit einigen Hundert Jahren eine Burg. Wie lange, das wissen sie nicht so ganz genau, aber es ist schon lange genug, um das Spuken fast zu verlernen. So sind die beiden auch recht erschrocken, als eines Tages Handwerker kommen und mit den sonderbarsten Geräten anfangen herumzuhantieren. Ihr könnt euch vorstellen, dass eine moderne Bohrmaschine für ein altehrwürdiges Gespenst eine ziemlich erschreckende Angelegenheit ist, oder? Es wird aber alles noch bunter, als nach dem Umbau der Burg eine Schulklasse in die neue "Herberge" kommt.

The year is 1958. Stan Ellis, a young reporter for a small-town Wisconsin newspaper, can't forget the call he got from a woman who claimed a man convicted of causing a train wreck four years before was falsely imprisoned. After a night of sleeplessness, he searches for the woman hoping to latch on to a big story. When he tracks her down, he finds she is the ex-wife of George Cashman, the train engineer who was operating the train that crashed. She identifies the man she believes sabotaged the train, but refuses to go to the authorities herself out of fear for her safety.

Besoin d'une bouffée d'oxygène, d'émotions et de douceur ? Rejoignez la petite ville de Coathill, sur l'île de Skye. Ils se sont aimés passionnément, ils se sont détruits... Catriona adore sa vie : co-gérante d'un pub le jour, elle sillonne la nuit les routes écossaises à moto, à tombeau ouvert. Une existence idéale, à deux exceptions près. La première est trop lourde pour qu'elle ait seulement envie d'y penser. La seconde s'appelle Logan Hunter.

As the Lotus Blooms is the fast-moving sequel to Logan’s first novel Finding Lien. The story follows Lien, traumatized from her ordeal as a victim of child trafficking in a Cambodian brothel, on her journey of recovery. Despite her recurring bouts of PTSD, this courageous young woman signs on with an NGO to work with a team to prevent trafficking and rescue victims.

Suis-je vraiment à ma place dans ce que je fais ? Le job de mon boss ne me fait pas rêver... c'est normal ? Si je ne fais rien, est-ce que je vais passer à côté de moi-même ? Si ces questions vous parlent, rassurez-vous, vous n'êtes pas un cas isolé ! À l'heure où tout le monde rêve de trouver du sens, la génération Y a elle aussi envie d'accéder au kif professionnel. Pourtant repartir de zéro relève parfois du défi : tout plaquer, certes, mais pour faire quoi ? Avec quel argent ? Comment braver ses peurs et sauter le pas ?

Brian R. Webster is a physician assistant, who has pursued God most of his adult life. He lost his two best friends in high school, due to an amusement park ride accident. He came close to dying, as well. He’s practiced medicine in various specialties, Substance Abuse, and in maximum security prisons.

L'amour, ça fait mal. C'est une leçon qu'Alicia a apprise il y a longtemps et qu'elle n'oubliera plus jamais. Désormais, elle se concentre sur son travail de traductrice et sur le seul amour de sa vie : Samuel, son fils de quatre ans. Elle a mis son cœur au repos, en sécurité, et elle ne s'éloigne plus des règles qu'elle s'est fixées. Pour prouver à sa meilleure amie que sa vie n'est pas si désespérée qu'elle le croit, Alicia décide de partir en Écosse, sur un coup de tête.

This Taste of Flesh and Bones invites you to answer that call by participating in the greatest expedition that humankind will ever undertake - the journey to true self. Contrary to what the majority of persons may believe, this deeper dimension is close at hand; and it can be recognized here and now.

Joy marries a widowed bank executive caught in an ethical dilemma. She misreads his obvious frustration while at the same time, struggles to integrate into her new family. This novel explores the challenges of second marriages and dealing with stepchildren during the crucial years of puberty and teenage angst. A college professor coming up shortly for the huge tenure decision, Joy finds herself falling apart as her career and her home issues deteriorate and collide. Can this marriage survive a failure to communicate?

In Cage Wide Open, an apparently normal man gives insight into his unusual makeup and perspectives of life, his attempts to escape the confines of the ordinary, his astounding transformations, and his never ending search for the ultimate love.

L'ouragan Ireland Mc Allister revient balayer le quotidien de Gary après un an d'absence. Sous l'apparence impassible de la jeune femme se cachent des blessures encore à vif. Le beau tatoué est loin de la laisser indifférente, mais plutôt crever que l'avouer. Lui est irrésistiblement attiré par elle, mais habitué aux relations éphémères, il tente de se convaincre qu'une nuit devrait suffire à chasser cette obsession.

After an autistic classmate goes missing in the small Appalachian community, young Brooks Raker and his friends stumble into the middle of the police investigation. As the dark secrets of the town’s past start to unravel, the list of unusual suspects climbs, and people continue to disappear. When Brooks and his friends dig deeper into the unexpected events, they begin to suspect a sinister force is at work in Harper Pass. Can they work together to survive?

Lampy is a yucky fish - a sea lamprey, to be exact, and that’s basically a salt water leech as big as your leg. But is he doomed to be ostracized and unloved just because he’s an unsightly blood-sucking parasite? It’s hard to be different. Join Lampy in this story of perseverance through bullying as he finds his forever friend who is just as different as he is.

Welcome back to Bear Creek, Alaska. Travis has conquered the evil shifter, Malcolm. But now a new and more pressing danger has arisen. Shelby has lost her memory! Join Travis and Shelby as they try to figure out how to get past this last hurdle before they can become true mates. Will Travis lose his own identity by trying to unlock hers? Find out in the third and final installment of Travis and Shelby’s story where overcoming obstacles will mean either they live happily ever after or they will die trying to overcome the dark magic.

Shelby Parker and Travis Stephenson have stumbled upon a sinister plot by another disgruntled shifter that, if allowed to come to fruition, will forever change the shifters’ lives. The sparks are flying, but not only between the two people. When Shelby becomes the focus of an evil shifter - one who desperately needs her blood to finish his black magic - her safety becomes Travis’ number one priority.

I am a psychopath. I am not a serial killer. Sorry if I busted any bubbles. We tend to think of psychopaths as the killers from movies, and that was my mind set before I researched heavily. Experts believe that roughly 40 percent of us are psychopaths. Psychopaths do not have every single emotion. We do not feel everything like an empath. Empathy is not part of our nature. We instead are more like predators. Most leaders, politicians, lawyers, judges, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and entrepreneurs are psychopaths. Are you a psychopath?

Shelby Parker is one of 19 polar bear shifters living in the small town and the only one of marriageable age. That hasn’t bothered her too much as she’s been busy guiding hunters and the like and trying to contain the town’s secret. When Travis Stephenson, a biologist known for his work with bears, decides to come to town to study the inland polar bears, everyone is a little on edge. Why now? What is he trying to find out?

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be an addict? Do you know someone that is an addict and can not fathom how they got to that point in their lives? Addicts are not always hooked at their first taste of drugs. Not all drugs effect everyone in the same way. This audiobook will reveal my personal story and my addictions as I battled with depression, drugs, and struggled to find meaning and direction in my life. I will tell my story to the road to recovery and the three principals that I applied to life to get me there.