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Welcome back to the Night Realm, where Queen Mortuana, Evil Mistress of the Night, rules with an iron fist and questionable judgment. When we last left our gloriously unhinged queen and her raven sidekick JoJo, the unlikely besties had fled to the woods for a simpler life. (Spoiler: it didn't last.) Now Mo's back on the throne, confronting her reign's greatest threat yet: turning 40 without an heir. No matriarch escapes the patriarchy.

After exposing her secret to a church full of wedding guests, both Jackson and Matt leave Emily standing unmarried and alone at the altar. But that doesn’t mean that neither of them will offer her a future. With a baby on the way, now Emily must decide what to do next. Matt professes to love her, but he also loves her bank account. He is the safe choice, but the idea of spending the rest of her life with Matt leaves Emily feeling uncertain. Jackson is the one who has stolen her heart, but everything he is offering her is out of a sense of duty, not love.

I tried to kill him. Accidentally, of course. But wouldn’t you do the same if you found an enormous, intimidating Navy SEAL rummaging through your house? Jackson Hunter barged into my life like a freight train. Unrelenting. Unapproachable. Unafraid. He made me realize things I wasn’t ready to realize - that I was lonely, hurting, afraid. I fell in lust with him. Possibly even in love. The only problem? He was my fiancé’s brother.

In 17th-century Sicily, a clever valet named Mascarille tries to help his boss, Lélie, win the girl of his dreams – only to find that Lélie is a monumental dunce who ruins every one of his intricate schemes. Undaunted, Mascarille invents progressively wilder plots, only to see his best-laid plans go very awry in Molière’s The Bungler, translated by Richard Wilbur.

He was just a boy. And I was just a girl. But if that's all there was to the story it wouldn't be very interesting, would it? Together Maddox and Emma embark on an unforgettable summer of adventures and first love. Everything is perfect...or so Emma thinks. There are things she doesn't know, and when she finds out the truth it might shatter everything she's built with Maddox. No one said love was easy, and for Maddox and Emma it just might be impossible.

I never wanted a cat, but the ever-kittens don't seem to care, and now I have more than ever. The last thing I expected when I came to Grimalkin was to learn I'd been cursed. And yet, now I am. I have no choice but to find a way to break it. But first, I need to work out who cast it in the first place. At least I have some warlocks by my side to lend a helping hand. Second Time's a Curse is book two in the completed Grimalkin Academy: Kittens series.

In April of 2010, British Petroleum gave orders to speed up production on its colossal drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon. Despite the objections of many on the rig, safety measures were ignored or overlooked. On April 20th, the Deepwater Horizon exploded. Eleven men paid the ultimate price and countless thousands who call the Gulf Coast home found their lives irrevocably altered.

I’m Savanna James. Loner, outsider, whatever you want to call it, I have no friends, and that’s okay with me. Or at least, it was. Everything changed the day I met the Patton brothers. I knew what they were. Homo Altiorems, or Alts, the children born to participants in the XRT-90 trials. Three dark-haired, silver-eyed, smokin’ hot Alts, at my school, in my cafeteria, staring right at me. They insisted on getting to know me because something about me was different. Special.

In Terence Rattigan’s classic drama, an aging schoolmaster at an English secondary school faces the harsh judgments of his students, his fellow teachers, and his vicious and spiteful wife. But can a lone act of kindness from a sympathetic student change his heart? This recording also includes an interview with Michael Darlow, the author of Terence Rattigan: The Man and His Work.

I used to be good at magic. That's how I got into Grimalkin Academy in the first place. Then I was dared by my friends to try a spell way above my abilities. Now, the end of year exams are coming up, and I need to find a way to stop my magic going haywire all the time or I'm going to fail.

Endora Lee Andrews died when she was born. By assigning her soul to Hades, the god of Tartarus, Endora was able to return to earth for a second life as a Pawn of the gods. But when she met a guy who made the same deal, Endora and Kaydon decided to fight against the Fates together to own their destinies. Now they must unravel the web of secrets and decipher a riddle from another realm.

Everything changed the day I met the Patton triplets. And not just because they’re Alts- a group of children born to test subjects of a drug trial gone wrong. It also changed because together, we found love. We also found the truth. I’m an Alt, too. With the threat of exposure hanging over my head, I had no choice but to become a test subject for Dr. Earl Patton. He turned me into a scientific experiment, forced to perform like a circus monkey and donate tubes of blood weekly.

Dreams and nightmares, screams and sighs, fate wakes the girl, and says she dies... When the boy gets in the way, then the nightmares come to play...For her 18th birthday, Endora Andrews receives the gift of dreams; nighttime brings her visions of the future. Endora’s unsettling new ability seems harmless, until her dreams turn to nightmares. When she meets the mysterious and swoon-worthy Kaydon, he seems to be the key to uncovering the source of her prophecies. But Kaydon has many secrets. One of them is the difference between life and death for Endora.

Finding the family spell wasn't all Daphne wanted it to be. With side effects from her cat-shifting making themselves known, Daphne has to race against time to fix them, especially as her new enemy wants to do everything she can to get Daphne expelled. Can Daphne and her friends figure out a way for her to stay at Grimalkin Academy?

Studying at Grimalkin has been Daphne's dream since she was a little girl. With her best friend unable to do the simplest spells, her brother determined to find an old family spell to turn them into cats, and hot dates with a vampire, her hands are full enough. Add to that two other guys trying to get her attention, and a teacher that seems to hate her, and Daphne's school year isn't quite going to plan.

Heartbroken and rejected, Daphne has to find a way to carry on if she wants to stay at Grimalkin Academy following the events of Catching a Vampire. With her brother still intent on finding the old family spell, and his best friend still trying to get Daphne to agree to a date, she has her hands full. Even if what she really wants to do is make a vampire forgive her. Can they find the spell? And can Daphne convince Heath to forgive her?

Drawing on their vast experience both in and out of sport, double Olympic medallists Helen and Kate tell the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how a team from the lower rankings forced its way to the top. They bring you into their team huddle to reflect and work through exercises to help improve your performance. Using their individual and collective stories, they demonstrate that successful teams are made up of people who are valued as human beings and supported to individually flourish.