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For Jade, there is one customer who makes going to work at the coffee shop worthwhile, Officer Alex Kane. With just a look, Constable Kane turns her body into an inferno of desire, but being too shy to make the first move she endures countless nights longing for his hard body and tender touch. Luckily, fate has plans for the sexy cop and the cute, shy girl from the coffee shop.

Twenty-one year old, Jessie has been working at the coffee shop to save for college. While she knows better than to get involved with the customers, she can't help herself when it comes to the sexy and highly charismatic Senator Jeff Morrow. Despite their casual daily flirtations, she realizes that Washington's most eligible bachelor is way out of her league and would never be seriously interested in the young virgin from the coffee shop. Or would he?

Set in urban Los Angeles, a foreign country to this family of displaced Southerners, and spanning 30 years, beginning in the late 1950s, this intimate episodic story, told by the family's daughter, begins with her birth on a hot August afternoon, following her as she recalls her most challenging, pivotal memories. With wry humor and tenacity she survives rejection and alienation, the corrosive secrets of abuse and incest, grief, heartbreak, and finally hope. Funny and scrappy, she tells her story with a voice uniquely her own.

Julian and Alisha, two young teenagers, were once in love, but circumstances drove them apart. Now adults, they find themselves in each other's company again. Their lives are changed very much; they are two different persons now, but true love can never be driven away. But Alisha and Julian both have to make the most rational decisions, which might even drive them away again. What will they choose? Being with each other or go their separate paths again?

Famous for college basketball, horse racing, bourbon, coal, and bluegrass music, the Commonwealth of Kentucky is also home to industries and opportunities not normally associated with it. Compiled by the Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame, Unbridled Spirit shares the success stories of 20 of its members - business leaders who dared to think beyond the region's best known institutions - to encourage the next generation of entrepreneurs from the Bluegrass State.

After dropping out of college, Jolie tries to settle into a new town and leave her mother's death behind her. But between her reoccurring nightmares about the cottage in the woods and the shadowy activities of her strange new friends, what's settling in is a sense that something - or someone - is not what it seems. Greta goes by a fake name and is running from someone; Jamie is trying to keep clear of his own old, insidious habits.

Rose is delightful, flamboyant, and a widow. Having just lost her husband, Rose's daughter steps in to find Rose increasingly disoriented and forgetful. Even as a nurse, Maureen does not recognize the early signs of her mother's dementia - a diagnosis that changes her mother's life and those close to her. The contrast between the reality of Rose's condition and the "Casablanca Style" in which she lived is stark yet beautiful. This book parallels Still Alice's medical description of the illness but picks up where Still Alice leaves off.

Do you want to enjoy the life you are living, even as you face significant life challenges? Are you grieving the loss of the life you planned? Is your body or mind failing you? Can you ever find joy, peace, or fulfillment in these challenging situations? The answer is a resounding yes. Cristy Maddox searched for answers that were not coming; for a diagnosis to explain her symptoms. For nearly 10 years Cristy and her husband Greg researched and learned about an illness they had never previously heard of, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome....

After she is forced out of her home, Elle heads north. What she finds is a group of bunker survivors, unlikely comrades, and the hope of a safe haven. Together, they journey toward the dregs of civilization, facing starvation, imprisonment, and death.

Seventeen-year-old Tayla will never forget Beast's fiery-venom spreading through her body like an infection. Now, with her best friend Chel's help, she must find a human true love before the last petal falls from her enchanted rose or the full moon will transform her into a wolf forever. But Tayla never expected that her biggest obstacle would come from inside - a wolf presence threatening to take her very soul.

Seventeen-year-old Tayla Jonas longs for a simple life, but after a traumatizing family loss, she is forced to be both mother and sister to her cousins while caring for her mentally unstable aunt. Moving to her grandma's quiet town of Cody, Wyoming, Tayla finds some normalcy with her quirky green-activist friend, Chel, who wastes no time converting her to vegetarianism.

If law enforcement can boldly, continuously kill unarmed black men and teens, then why shouldn't these racist deaths be typed in the bold centerfold of these crimes? Being big, tall, and black with no knife, gun, or any type of weapon caused the NYPD to walk away with another black crime. This cruel word is being shaped by law enforcement. This well-known word has been around since the beginning of time. How can we put an end to the hatred?

My name is Nathan Jones and I am a vampire. Many years ago I was being chased by a vampire hunter. This hunter knew a lot about magic and when some of my vampire friends were hunting him as well; he lost his wooden stakes. The hunter found my coffin, but because he didn't have a wooden stake to kill me with, he decided to draw a powerful angel spell with his own blood. Vampires are vulnerable to such spell and I could not get out of my coffin until a girl named Libby erased the drawing.

Vampire Dynasty: Once Upon a Time - When vampire Grace is captured by the rebels she meets River, a werewolf ambassador that has a lot of secrets. Will Grace fall in love with River and betray her kind? Werewolves Lair - After a shipwreck, Lexie and the other survivors wash up on a beautiful island. To their horror they soon learned it was a Werewolf Lair and the fight for survival began! Will Lexie fall in love with fellow survivor Walter or alpha werewolf Kassius?

Cruel, dark mystery laces Petriville, the town that long ago saved Cassidy Jones and her family from the meteorite strike. While Earth perished they thrived in a blissful utopia, orbiting Earth within the town's indestructible sphere. Now Cassidy is sixteen and Gina, Petriville's founder, reveals Cassidy's assigned mate. She refuses him but things get worse when Cassidy meets Eric, an alluring hologram who leaves her a dire warning of Gina's malicious intent. More strange is how Cassidy and Eric's attraction seems unnatural, and their passion intensifies when they share a virtual-kiss.