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Fourteen year old Desiree can't believe her good fortune. Her fiance, a dashing and ambitious Napoleon Bonaparte, is poised for battlefield success, and no longer will she be just a French merchant's daughter. She could not have known the twisting path her role in history would take, nearly breaking her vibrant heart but sweeping her to a life rich in passion and desire. A love story, but so much more, Desiree explores the landscape of a young heart torn in two.

All her life, Jasmine has been groomed in Atlanta’s high society to be the perfect woman of wealth. Soon to be married off to Percy Hugo Milton to keep money circulating between black families, she realizes she’s stuck in a dead-end relationship.

In this book Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create lives that are both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of whom or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

Untitled for Now captures the difficulty of breaking chains, the essence of mother/daughter relationships, grief, and finding forgiveness for yourself. It is a novel for those who revel in the lived experiences of others and want to know that even the saddest stories can have a happy ending.

Shiloh, Anthony, Jaheim, Talin, Elijah, and Trent have so many things going on outside of the family that there is little time to keep a watchful eye on the princess of the Carter family - baby sister Olivia. All that changes when the secret life she's been hiding comes to the forefront, causing a couple of her siblings to feel some type of way. Whether they're for her or against her, the Carter men try to deal with what Olivia has going on, all while trying to handle their own drama.

In Désirée’s Baby, the adopted daughter of a wealthy prewar French Creole couple is courted by the son of another wealthy, respected French Creole family. After they marry, their child is born with dark skin and believed to have African ancestry, a problem for a prewar white family. Accused of dishonesty by her husband, the mother, Désirée, and her child walk off into the bayou, never to be seen again. But when the father finds a letter from his mother to his father which reveals an explosive fact about his own ancestry, he learns a sobering truth.

What if the key to astral travel, psychic awareness, and consciousness expansion had been hidden in plain sight—within a once-classified CIA report? The Gateway Experience: Lessons in Manifesting, Astral Travel, Developing ESP & More takes you deep into the mind-bending world of The Gateway Process, the same program the U.S. government used to train elite operatives in remote viewing and extrasensory perception.

Désirée Clary, Seidenhändler-Tochter aus Marseille, erzählt in diesem fiktiven Tagebuch humorvoll und lebhaft davon, wie sie die erste Verlobte Napoleons wurde, später den französischen Marschall Bernadotte heiratete und schließlich mit ihrem Mann Frankreich verließ, als der den schwedischen Thron bestieg. Bis heute hat dieser historische Liebesroman nichts von seinem Zauber verloren.

He was the billionaire bad boy who rode into her life on a motorcycle. She was the sassy bartender who rocked his world for one unforgettable night. Three years later, single mom Naomi is shocked to discover her new boss is none other than Ryker Ace Dean, the man she never thought she'd see again. Even more surprising is the adorable little boy with Ryker's eyes peeking out from behind her legs. Ryker never forgot the curvy beauty who disappeared after their passionate night together. Ryker will have to prove he's ready to park his motorcycle for good and trade in his bachelor ways for ...

Jude "Lucky" Lucketti wasn't just a sexy, brooding construction worker. He was my own personal hero, showing up in all the right places at the right times. Like when my car broke down and I needed a ride home, and when I face-planted on the sidewalk right in front of him and had to be taken to the emergency room. We became friends, and it didn't matter that he was 16 years older than me. We had a lot in common - like our love of old rock music and vintage fast cars and our aversion to relationships.

Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering work, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn't truly exist. Delight is our duty. Join him as he unveils stunning, life-impacting truths you saw in the Bible but never dared to believe.

Sex, love, drugs, and music are just a few of the Carter boys’ daily dealings. Drama follows them everywhere, especially being the largest, most dangerous organization the city of Atlanta has ever seen. The women who want to be with them and the men who want to be just like them can easily get lost in the shuffle when the target is constantly moving to a new Carter’s back. So, what happens when a slick-mouth girl from Brooklyn decides to go off to college in the unofficial capital of the South? She is quickly introduced to the Atlanta lifestyle....

Stepping outside of his relationship with his current woman seems impossible to Trent, but that all changes when the girl who had a childhood crush on him comes back into the picture looking totally different than he remembered. How does the smoothest, smartest, and prettiest of the Carter boys deal with this, especially now that he finally has Jade in his life? Still not quite understanding his quiet and dark demeanor, Noelle can't help the attraction she feels for her mysterious neighbor, Shiloh Carter. Could it be the romantic and affectionate side he shows her when no one else is around?

With her career and love life shattered after a lawsuit prevented her from breaking the biggest story of her career, Desiree will do anything to get back on top. Joining the cast of the hit reality TV show Filthy Rich Dynasty might be her only chance. But Desiree finds that redefining herself may be more complicated than she ever imagined.

She's a brilliant young intern determined to succeed on her own merits. He's her powerful billionaire boss who's sworn off love. When their forbidden attraction sparks an office scandal, they must decide if their love is worth risking it all. When ambitious 22-year-old intern Charice Bannon falls for her brooding billionaire boss Tyler Yielding, she's swept into his world of luxury and passion, but an office romance could destroy both their careers in this steamy BWWM age gap love story. Interracial romance, BWWM, age gap, billionaire.

Our first meeting was at a nightclub, and it was something straight out of my most romantic fantasies. My ovaries exploded at the sight of the Russian God. And by God, I mean he was ripped, tall, dark, and deadly attractive. There were enough sparks between us to light up a city. Then an explosion blasted through the nightclub, and we got trapped together for three hours, sharing our most personal details...everything but our names. Two years later, our second meeting is the complete opposite of the first. It's clear Misha Petrov, a Russian enforcer for the bratva, despises me.

NINE OVER-THE-TOP INSANE INSTALOVE STANDALONES IN ONE WILD BUNDLE! THIS IS INSTA-LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN . . . ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE! THIS BOX SET CONTAINS: GIVEN TO THE GROOM (100 pages) TRADED TO THE TRUCKER (126 pages) PUNISHED BY THE PRINCIPAL (121 pages) STRANDED WITH THE PSYCHO (123 pages) WIFED BY THE WARLORD (111 pages) LATE FOR THE LANDLORD (113 pages) VANQUISHING THE VIKING (115 pages) DISCIPLINING THE DUKE (111 pages) SAVING THE SINNER (109 pages) AND EACH BOOK CONTAINS: OVER-THE-TOP STEAM! (Yes, we're going there . . . ;)) OVER-THE-TOP PLOTS (Wait, what's a plot?) OVER-THE...

When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ranger in southeastern Utah.

With Emmy, Grammy, and six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald as Blanche DuBois alongside Carla Gugino as Stella, O’Hara takes a fresh and visceral look at the emotionally charged relationship between these two iconic sisters. Haunted by her past, Blanche seeks refuge with Stella and Stanley (Ariel Shafir) in New Orleans, where she wrestles with the nature of her sister’s husband, her sister’s denial, and her own unraveling mind.

With their families torn apart by the vicious life of the streets, Sunshine and Rain find each other living with the same foster mother, who has a secret life of her own. With Rain's stern heart of steel and Sunshine's innocent heart of gold, they try to cope with traumatic, unforeseen circumstances that come their way. As these two diamonds hook up and shine, they go from rags to riches. Watch as Sunshine and Rain deal with death, betrayal, love, and sweet temptation. Can their newfound friendship survive all the madness?