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In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.”

Do you ever feel like you’re living a life you didn’t intend to create? Over the years, you’ve checked everything off the list that you thought would make you happy. And although, on paper, your life looks good, something just feels off. Deep within yourself, you dream of a bigger life. You are not satisfied with the mediocre. You don’t believe in grinding your life away. Your heart tells you there is something better and greater. There is. It’s your soul-led life. And all you need is the bravery to follow the calling.

Deep underground, 39 women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the 40th prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others’ escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.

In Little Bosses Everywhere, journalist Bridget Read tells the gripping story of multilevel marketing in full for the first time, winding from sunny postwar California, where a failed salesman started a vitamin business, through the devoutly religious suburbs of Michigan, where the industry built its political influence, to stadium-size conventions where today’s top sellers preach to die-hard recruits. MLM has enriched powerful people, like the DeVos and Van Andel families, Warren Buffett, and President Donald Trump, all while eroding public institutions and the social safety net.

I had my whole life planned out... until I met a hockey player obsessed with breaking all of my rules. My five simple rules for hooking up keep me from being distracted. Now that I'm so close to landing my dream internship, nothing is going to make me break them. Not even a protective hockey player with clear grey eyes, a sharp jaw, and a body that makes my breath catch. Until Jax wins a bet and one kiss has me breaking them all.

For as long as she can remember, Arken Asher has been searching for answers—driven by an insatiable hunger, a need to understand the meaning behind her dangerous arcane secrets. She's finally taken that leap into the unknown, leaving her simple life behind to attend the Arcane Studium, a prestigious college of magickal arts & sciences nestled in the heart of Sophrosyne, the City of the Gods.

From the time she was young, Suleika Jaouad has kept a journal. She’s used it to mark life's biggest occasions and to weather its most ferocious storms. Journaling has buoyed her through illness, heartbreak, and the deepest uncertainty. And she is not alone: for so many people, keeping a journal is an essential tool for navigating both the personal peaks and valleys and the collective challenges of modern life. More than ever, we need a space for puzzling through.

I, Logan Solomon, could not screw up. Going home to Beaufort, North Carolina, for my sister’s wedding was a painful reminder of everything I had tried to leave behind. One perfect drink with her maid of honor turned into five. And those perfect drinks turned into one night that would change everything. My sister’s best friend had always been on the other side of a line I wasn’t supposed to cross. Now, there are two more lines. And they're pink.

When the fae king of Naenden returns home to his palace only to find that his human queen has committed treason by conspiring to assassinate him, he has the queen executed and decrees that once every mooncycle, he’ll marry a human woman from the kingdom, only to execute her the following morning. Unless one woman offers herself as a sacrificial bride for the rest.

Boys today are surrounded by accusations that their very existence is toxic, told that their biological makeup is a problem and that the future is female. As Christian moms, we have the responsibility and privilege of teaching our boys what is true about who they are and what isn't. But how do we grow these tiny (and somewhat smelly) wild things into godly men of character?

In honor of the 10-year anniversary of The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx’s definitive and bestselling memoir on drug addiction is now available on audio for the first time, read by Nikki Sixx! This shocking, gripping, and at times darkly hilarious memoir explores Nikki’s yearlong war with a vicious heroin addiction. Now more than ever, with opioid addiction ravaging our country and rising by 20 percent in the past year alone, Nikki’s story is now more relevant than ever.

Princess Aaylani has just journeyed to Sosha to meet the woman she's been promised to in marriage: Queen Jaiyanna. The Soshans are the strongest warriors in the Seven Queendoms, and Jaiyanna is the most muscular of them all.

Princess Leia Orgasma is the most beautiful princess in the galaxy. She's also one of the leaders of the Rebel Alliance, fighting against the evil Empire. But now Leia has to tackle her most important mission: rescue the love of her life from the vile gangster Jabba the Butt. When Leia goes undercover and is captured, Jabba expects her to be his sexy concubine. While at first repulsed, Leia realizes Jabba can do wonderful things with his huge tongue. Plus, there's two beautiful Twe'erk dancing girls who can't keep their hands off Leia's gorgeous body.

Opposites attract when a forensic investigator dying to fit in teams up with a detective with a major case of wanderlust. Maya Ross has worked hard to cultivate a tough, no-nonsense reputation as ‘one of the guys’ in a male-dominated field. As lead investigator, she’s at the peak of her career – and she can’t admit to anyone that it’s making her deeply unhappy. When femme, gorgeous Detective Arlen Rose blows into town on a killer’s trail, she’s everything Maya never knew she needed – and the answer to the gnawing emptiness inside her.

My mother trained me to be numb. To keep my volatile emotions carefully locked away. But when my drug-addicted stepfather decides to clear his debt by offering my sister to the Ruthless Mafia Men that run our city, I have no choice but to react. Keeping her safe is the only thing I've ever been good at. And, unlike her, I've already been scarred by the cruelties of our world. So I did the only thing I could do, the only thing that would ensure that they'd never go looking for her. I offered myself to big bad wolves instead.

When my college dreams are threatened by financial problems, I find myself at a family friend’s opulent estate, ready to collect on a long-standing favor. I’m prepared for awkwardness, but not for the breathtaking man who answers the door. He’s not who I came to see, but he’s everything I never knew I wanted, and my innocent intentions quickly unravel.

Every time my daddy’s best friend comes along, my heart skips a beat. He’s the perfect man. Tall and rugged from a life of hard work, but with a keen eye for art. He’s always painting, but mostly landscapes. When he tells me he wants to give me a special present for my nineteenth birthday, and asks me to pose for him, I near lose my mind. When he asks me to take our intimate moment even further, I’m nervous. After all, it’s my first time. Luckily he’s the perfect artist, and tells me just what to do.

I’ve always had a huge crush on him. I know it’s wrong, because he’s my daddy’s best friend, but he spoils me and treats me right. When I’m ditched on my birthday, he’s the one that comes to my rescue. He makes me feel like a princess, and when I kiss him, he does the gentlemanly thing. He tells me I deserve to fall in love with a man my own age. But I’ve dreamed of this moment for years, and all I want for my nineteenth birthday is for him to be my first time, with no protection between us.

Cassidy Clitko is captain of the USS Slutstream, one of the finest ships in Slutfleet. She leads her crew of horny women to the unknown reaches of space to deal with aliens the only way they know how: have hot sex with them! That is, when they’re not too busy banging each other.

The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.