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Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.

SOLD provides a much-needed look at how successful real estate agents build their business, close deals, and generate commissions. Best-selling author and expert real estate agent David Greene shares everything he wishes someone had shared with him - including the exact processes he used to become rookie of the year and top agent in his office.

2 CHILDREN FOR SALE. In 1931, near Philadelphia, ambitious reporter Ellis Reed photographs the gut-wrenching sign posted beside a pair of siblings on a farmhouse porch. With the help of newspaper secretary Lily Palmer, Ellis writes an article to accompany the photo. Capturing the hardships of American families during the Great Depression, the feature story generates national attention and Ellis's career skyrockets. But the piece also leads to consequences more devastating than he and Lily ever imagined - and it will risk everything they value to unravel the mystery and set things right.

I was only a boy when I saw my mother murdered in front of me. That does something to a man. It turns him hard, cold, and makes him an addict for control. In all things. My desires are dark and what I'm interested in is far more than simple submission. I've been waiting for someone as broken as me. Someone who truly needs to give up complete control and rely on me to take away her pain. And then I found her. Katia. My kitten. The moment I laid eyes on her gorgeous face, full lips, and seductive curves, she stole the air from my lungs.

They bought her body, but she's stealing their souls—one dangerous man at a time. When Hannah is sentenced to the brutal prison planet Narkos, she faces a fate worse than death: being auctioned to four dangerous convicts who hate each other as much as they want her. Four men. One woman. Zero chance they'll play nice. Ky'Li—the betrayed soldier who risks everything to protect her Vaughn—the bitter doctor who's forgotten how to trust Sersie—the brilliant chemist battling his own demons Ren—the engineer hiding deadly secrets Survival on Narkos means forging these broken men into a ...

The first volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods, and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape.

The Bratva took me as payment and forced me into marriage. I didn’t know my brothers worked for the Bratva. I didn’t know they had a debt with him. Until he drags me to a priest and cuffs me to his car. Because I’m his payment. He keeps telling me to stop acting like I’m innocent. But I really didn’t know this dark world existed. The room he gives me is a prison. The marriage he forces me into is legal. He fights off whoever dares to take me away from him. My warm body is cuffed to his bed and at his disposal. He tells me he can’t release me, that all of me is his. He comforts ...

I accidentally slept with an Alpha. Next, he rejects me…and buys me. I wanted to forget about my outcast Omega status, if only for one wild night. When I feel our mate pull afterward, he rejects me brutally. But when I run from shame and am abducted, he hunts me down and buys me. I’m from a disgraced family and at the absolute bottom of the pack hierarchy. Feeling raw and vulnerable after his rejection, I leave everything behind. He follows my scent through the woods and finds me kidnapped and helpless. That’s when he buys me and declares I’m coming with him. He puts me up in a ...

There are three things that are certain in this life: death, taxes, and the fact that if I want something, I will get it...no matter what it takes. From the moment I laid eyes on Olivia Cooper, I knew she was mine. She didn’t agree, but I wasn’t going to let that stop me. She was all I thought about. She was my obsession. So, I watched. I studied. I toyed with her and I played my games. In her I’d found my perfect match, because she met every single one of my challenges with one of her own. She fought back and I loved it.

Since I was a little girl, me and my mom have been moving a lot. But now we live in Anniston, a new town and a new future. I soon find out that my mother has been lying to me in my whole life. My father was not the man I thought he was, and now me and my mother is living on the Prince property, where my mother works as a maid, and she is working for the family my dad sold me to before he was killed. I go to school with their oldest soon, and since I saw something in the woods, that I never should have seen, he has been after me, and have been obsessed with me. A want to run, but I am afraid...

At fifteen, I was a killer—a weapon forged by a deceiving madman's twisted desires. A little bird in a gilded cage, my soul destroyed and remade in his image. I wielded a power no mortal creature should ever control, one I vowed never to use again. Seven years later, I thought I'd escaped that life. I never expected my past to find me, let alone in the form of the three fae warriors who used to invade my every thought. Dane, Grey, and Kallum—oblivious to my true identity these past few years—now see me for what I am.

It was supposed to be a mistake. A wild, reckless, never-talk-about-it-again night at Club Devil. I was the auction prize nobody expected… until three possessive cowboy brothers outbid the entire club to claim me. Mills—the grumpy eldest who commands with nothing but a stare… but hides a heart he swore he'd never risk. Tate—the silver-tongued rope master who knows how to tie a girl's body—and her heart—into knots. And West—the wicked charmer who tastes like sin and salvation… but smiles like he's never letting anyone close. We didn't swap names. We swapped everything else.

Daddy’s best friend bought me like a commodity…and knocks me up. He’s a ruthless billionaire and almost 20 years older than me. When my family’s business spirals into bankruptcy, I am sold at an auction. That’s where he takes his chance…to make me his wife whether I want to or not. I grew up innocent and sheltered, never thrust into their dangerous world. But suddenly I’m sold and forced into a marriage to protect my family’s status. A marriage with a cold and intimidating billionaire. A marriage that is surely only for show…or so I thought. Because my new husband demands ...

He didn’t just claim the contract. He claimed me. Sloane I built a tech empire from scratch—and lost it in a single night. A betrayal signed in ink. A clause buried in fine print. A partner’s signature that sold me as collateral. Thirty days. No appeals. No escape.Now I’m shackled to the man who dismantled my world. Vincent Drake is more than a billionaire predator—He’s a collector of obedience. A master of punishment. And he intends to break me one command at a time. Vincent Sloane Winters was never supposed to belong to me. But she does now. She’s fiery, defiant, and ...

You know what's the worst day of my life? It wasn’t the day when I lost my mom, or when I was abandoned by my own father, but it was the day when I was sold to a man. People often are unhappy due to a shortage of wealth and love but for me? I don’t even have freedom, my will, my independence. Yes, I am being owned and I lost it all the day I was sold to my master. Now the only thing left in my life is to obey, to follow commands and I am bond to do it, and the times I care about anything other than my master, I get punished. Here is my story of how I turned my beautiful life into a ...

As heir to a title and great wealth, Will Masterson should have stayed home and tended his responsibilities. Instead he went to war. Now, after perilous years fighting the French, he intends his current mission to be his last. But all his plans are forgotten when he arrives in the small mountain stronghold of San Gabriel and meets her. Knowing herself to be too tall, strong, and unconventional to appeal to a man, Athena Markham has always gloried in her independence.

Sold is a terrifying, gripping and true story about a young Russian girl who dreams of a better life, but instead falls victim to trafficking. Seventeen-year-old Natasja is attracted by an offer to work as a nanny in Sweden. Her ticket to freedom turns out to be a worse nightmare than she ever could have imagined. Time and time again, she is sold to different men. But even though she is slowly falling apart, Natasja refuses to give up and silently starts to plan her escape. In Sold, she talks about how she managed to get free against all odds.

I just got sold as his forced Bratva bride… He’s a much older Bratva King, and he takes me as payment for my daddy’s debts. He says he could torture me slowly, use me, or ship me off. But instead, he makes me go down on my knees and forces me to marry him. I was completely unaware of the Russian underworld. Until him. He gives me a maid outfit and says I’m his one and only now. I don’t want to play his game, but it’s not a game. He tells me I’ll serve him, one way or another. I refuse to be used. I refuse to break under his harsh orders. But he kisses my bruised lips until ...

I was a runaway Omega— Until I was sold to three ruthless Alphas. Now, I’m caught in a bond I can’t escape. For ten years I hid in the shadows, masking my scent. But secrets don’t stay buried forever. I’ve been found, and handed over to the Alphas of West Haven. Logan, the feral leader, whose rough hands set my body on fire Jax, the cold enforcer, whose dark charm makes my knees weak- Rocco, the silent one, with eyes that strip me bare. They never wanted an Omega, and I never wanted to be theirs. At least, thats what I try to tell myself. But now that my scent is free, one thing ...

I’m sold off as a bride to a cruel Bratva monster. I never thought Daddy would sell me. But he did. My new husband is a decade my senior and known for his ruthlessness. I try to fight it…but he now owns my body and knocks me up. Escaping him didn’t work. Instead, I’m dragged to the venue where the priest joins us. I hate being trapped in a union with someone as cruel as him. Someone who can break me with his bare hands. Someone who makes my body go soft without me wanting it. He says that if I think he’s cruel, he’ll be exactly what I want him to be. He lists a set of rules for ...