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Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,” has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the city - the darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the Village - all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother.

The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian Grandmere Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken Grandpere Jack. Although thinking about her dead mother and mysterious father sometimes makes her feel sad and solemn, Ruby is grateful for what she has, especially when her attraction to handsome Paul Tate blossoms into a wonderful love affair. But Paul’s wealthy parents forbid him to associate with a poor Landry. Then, finding her father in his massive New Orleans mansion, Ruby is quickly subjected to his world of lies, torment...and madness.

Award-winning author Lauraine Snelling delivers her first installment of the Dakotah Treasures series. Ruby, a Crossings Book Club Main Selection, is the story of a young woman who must leave behind the life she has grown accustomed to in order to start a new life in the bleak Dakota Territory.

I never believed in fate, until I was forced to marry Gavin Gray. Unaware we are fated mates, we quickly shifted from friends to forbidden lovers. Raised as a princess among whispers and wolves, nothing prepared me for Gavin's disarming royal charm. Ours was a union meant for alliance, yet it ignited into a fierce, untamed passion. His grin awakened a primal hunger deep within me. But one fateful decision altered everything, sparking a dangerous game. Though fate binds me to Gavin, the rejected prince promises to make us pay. Trapped between love and duty, I’m confronted with the wrath of...

Ruby’s story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby’s caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob.

Hiding as a werewolf among humans, I never imagined the intoxicating Alpha would captivate me. I craved normalcy, but the supernatural world doesn't relinquish its grip so easily. It turns out the guy, Hunter, I'm paired with for a school project has a furry alter ego. Cloaked in mystery he is proving to be an irresistible force against my hidden nature. His piercing blue eyes cut through my defenses, awakening unfamiliar, fiery emotions within. Our fates collide, sparking a wild passion that mirrors our untamed spirits. As our hearts entangle, a chilling shadow descends. A series of ...

Finding my mate should be a dream come true, but this is a nightmare. Being an alpha fated to my enemy, I have a lot to figure out. My nostrils flair with the most intoxicating smell and my hair bristles, electrified. As I turn to look, my eyes are greeted by a dark-haired beauty that’s drop dead gorgeous. The woman strides into my bar, all eyes are on her. My piercing eyes met everyone’s gaze, asserting my dominance and laying claim. Mine, my wolf states the inevitable, and I’m shaken. This dream all comes crashing down once I discover her name. At first, she was cute and flirtatious...

The trouble with bullies is... they hate when you stand up to them. I used to be on top. I used to rule the school. Then one cruel act knocked me off my pedestal and Christian was more than happy to ride me down. Christian Moreau: resident bad boy, former best friend, now my tormentor. Nobody dared to stand up to him until one girl, a bottle of vodka, and a shove changed everything. Yeah, that girl was me. If only I had known what that shove would set off. A war with the Queen Bee of Meadow Creek. Long-hidden dark secrets revealed. And Christian Moreau moving in down the hall. Christian ...

I was a reckless prince, addicted to pleasure and self-destruction. Sent to a military camp to reform, I never expected to find my forbidden fated mate. I dream of claiming her, marking her as mine for all eternity. Training under her, I discovered a rare power that I never knew I had. But our bond made us targets of a witch coven, determined to destroy us. Captured and facing our mortality, I realized the depth of my love for her. I vow to become a man worthy of her heart. With treachery in our midst and danger at every turn, can I be the man she deserves? Can our love redeem my past and ...

Years ago, the skies ripped open and the world was destroyed in fire and ash. Dragons - once creatures of legend - are the enemy. Vicious and unpredictable, they rule the skies of the ruined cities, forcing humanity to huddle behind barricades for safety. Claudia's a survivor. She scrapes by as best as she can in a hard, dangerous world. When she runs afoul of the law, she's left as bait in dragon territory. She only has one chance to survive - to somehow tame a dragon and get it to obey her.

An escaped spider, the unexpected arrival of an Imperial Russian Prince, the senseless assassination of a powerful figure, a shocking attack on the supposedly invincible Warden of Texas, Catalina’s boss... And it’s only Monday. Within hours, the fate of Houston—not to mention the House of Baylor—now rests on Catalina, who will have to harness her powers as never before. But even with her fellow Prime and fiancé Alessandro Sagredo by her side, she may not be able to expose who’s responsible before all hell really breaks loose.

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who, in the middle of class, takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon, the time traveler from a similarly gifted family that passes the gene through its male line, and whose presence becomes, in time, less insufferable and more essential.

While her sister fights to hold on to the family legacy, Louisa Highwood works tirelessly to save the lives of wounded soldiers. Putting her own safety on the line, she covertly ventures behind enemy lines to procure desperately needed supplies for the army hospital in Richmond, Virginia. Meanwhile, Jesselynn Highwood and her ragtag band of freed slaves and thoroughbred horses seek refuge along the Oregon Trail, unable to imagine what awaits them.

New chapters on the brain, intersectionality, and parents. Simple, proven strategies that schools can start using today. With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged: Middle-class understandings of children and adults in poverty are often ill-suited for connecting with people in poverty and helping them build up the resources to rise out of poverty and into self-sufficiency.

Immer was los auf Patch Island: Alles könnte so einfach sein. Wäre doch nur Nana nicht krank! Jetzt muss Ruby sich nämlich ganz allein um magische wie nicht-magische Tiernotfälle kümmern. Dann bringt Bri nach einem Ausritt ein Pony vorbei, das unerklärlicherweise eine Beule auf der Stirn bekommen hat. Ruby nimmt es in ihre Obhut, doch plötzlich haben alle Tiere eine solche Beule. Und mit einem Mal stehen ihr eine Einhorn-Katze, ein Einhorn-Igel und … ein richtiges Einhorn gegenüber! Das geht doch nicht mit rechten Dingen zu.

Using a special ruby, Trevor discovers a fantasy world where powerful men obtain harems, foxy ladies swish their tails, and magic is real. An awesome kicker—he's a ruby mage capable of turning his foes to cinder.

"Trouble Twins" Dallas and Florida have been shuffled between foster families and the orphanage all their lives. All they want is a loving place to call home, but they are mistrustful that one exists for the likes of them.

Every story needs a villain. I need an escape. From the fear. From the pain. From the creeping shadow that’s hung over my life for as long as I can remember. What I don’t need is a husband. Not that my parents want to hear it. Every three years, the young eligible men and women in my community gather in Citrine Cove to party, flirt, and leave the island with a fiancé on their arm. Falling in love optional. The last thing I want is to participate in this sham. Especially not alongside the boy who tricked me. The boy who dumped me. And the boy who tortured me. Love is not in the cards ...

After a college student speeding in a blue Honda Civic kills her husband of less than a year, Olivia is completely lost. One hot summer day, she walks into the beachfront Rhode Island cottage she and David bought the previous August—the place where they had planned to someday start a family—and finds a stranger sitting at her kitchen table. Pregnant fifteen-year-old Ruby is looking for a safe haven for herself and her baby-to-be. Olivia takes her in, desperate to assuage her grief through human connection, even with a troubled teenager.

Bloodlust and insanity rule my existence. As a fierce drakoni warrior, this strange new world I find myself in eats at my mind until there is nothing left. There is no light or clarity...until she arrives. I save her life, plucking her from the sky. From that point on, she is mine. But the human I have chosen for my mate - Sasha - is fragile and wounded. She does not trust me and fears my presence. I will not give up, though. I will do anything to give her my fires and bond us both in body and spirit.