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Hester Wallace is proud of her independence. She needs only one man in her life - her nine-year-old son, Radley. But when Rad starts idolizing their neighbor Mitch Dempsey, Hester wonders if her son needs a male role model. Hester would do anything for her boy, but inviting Mitch into their lives is dangerous. She might start to rely on Mitch…or worse, fall in love with him.

Stop Running Scripts on Your Laptop. Start Shipping Enterprise AI: Are you tired of the "it works on my machine" excuse? Do you wake up in a cold sweat wondering if a single prompt injection attack is going to expose your backend, or if a sudden spike in traffic will burn through your OpenAI API budget because you didn't set up rate limits? Are you ready to graduate from local testing to deploying secure, monetized, and highly available AI applications? The AI Deployment Playbook: From Zero to Hero is the definitive manual for transitioning from fragile local scripts to fault-tolerant cloud...

I shouldn't have agreed to this. What was I thinking? Appearing on a local news show? Just because something happened to me? I live mostly in isolation on purpose. But here I am. I was so nervous that I needed the make-up chair, twice. And then I walked past his room. He's a giantno softness...

Imagine waking up in a hospital on a small tourist island off the coast of Southern Maine. You have no knowledge of the boating accident that claimed two lives and almost your own. In fact you remember nothing at all. You have full-blown amnesia.

One boy’s invented word becomes a phenomenon beyond his control in bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements’s hilarious classic children’s story about creative thought and the power of language. Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at...

A classic summer legal thriller from the most popular storyteller of our time. Dark mysteries invade East Hampton as a struggling lawyer fights to save an old friend from being framed for murder. Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small, with occasional real estate closings...

Man. Lion. Warrior. Enigmatic superhero Lionheart was always cut from a different cloth than his teammates on Just Cause, so when he learns his old kung fu teacher, Master Chou, is dying, he doesn't hesitate to travel halfway around the world to pay his final respects to the man who saved his...

When criminals are convicted, they go to jail. When they have parahuman abilities, they go to Deep Six, the most secure prison facility in the world. Six thousand feet underground, nobody has ever escaped from the maximum security facility. Until now. A parahuman terrorist called Misrule...

On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick and mortar. What happened next - and how their lives and community were changed forever - offers an unprecedented look at these heroic men whose job it is to rush into burning buildings when everyone else just wants out.

The world’s #1 bestselling author explores the inner lives of the people who grow and encourage our passion for reading.​ “A celebration of the world of books” —Kirkus To be a bookseller or librarian … You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A...

Heroes and rascals...shipwrecks and lost gold... Since 2008, the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column has entertained and informed Oregonians with the weirdest, quirkiest, funniest, and most outrageous true stories in the surprisingly long history of their young state. Now, for the first time, those stories have been collected together, re-researched, augmented with freshly discovered information, and presented to listeners in audiobook form.

Tarzan and the Lost Empire (Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library) Book 12 of the Tarzan Series - Special Edition Authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Somewhere in the heart of Africa, a young archaeologist disappeared in the remote jungle mountains—Erich von Harben, son of an old...

James Mikhael became a St Kevin's premiership hero over the weekend when his set shot sailed through for a behind after the siren to signal a famous Under 19's Grand Final triumph for SKOB. He joins an old coach of his in Daniel Harford to chat through the premiership winning moment, the bizarre circumstances that saw St Kevin's reach the Grand Final, and his future aspirations in the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Nhill Tigers ended a 45-year premiership drought with a commanding 42-point triumph over Ararat in the 2026 Wimmera Football Netball League Grand Final, producing great joy and pride throughout a success starved Nhill community. Co-captain of that premiership winning side, Mitch Dahlenburg, joined Harf to discuss the finals series and the lead up to the triumph, as well as the double joy the club had on the day, and what it means for the future of the Tigers now that the monkey is off the back! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ALMOST OFFICIAL For the kids of the Neighborhood Watch, the final weeks of middle school are interminable. In the fall they will get to attend the Hero Academy, studying to become Just Cause superheroes. Their plans get derailed when police officers gun down an unarmed black man. Annalisa, aka...

Renowned author and historian Jackie French takes us back in time to Greece and Rome and explores young heroes in ancient myths and legends whose stories will now be told. Forget what you know about Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen with a fantastic hairstyle. That's only part of the story. Before...

One Night Charmer If the devil wore flannel, he’d look like Ace Thompson. He’s gruff. Opinionated. Infernally hot. The last person that Sierra West wants to ask for a bartending job — not that she has a choice. Ever since discovering that her ‘perfect’ family is built on a lie, Sierra...

NOW AN HBO MINISERIES Not in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity when the development in question is public housing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred...

TRAPPED IN THE GAMEVanitha is a parahuman hacker who can physically enter computer systems to control them from the inside. For her own amusement, she's created an online RPG called The Path. When a new in-game mystery presents itself, she goes to investigate it. The strange Malevolence traps...

As a new president takes the White House, Just Cause returns to New York City for the first time in eight years, under the command of its newest leader: Mustang Sally. But a Senator has made it her mission to shut down Just Cause and put her own parahuman militia into place. With enemies at...