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Celebrate Juneteenth with this empowering audiobook, which features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun! On June 19, 1865, the last enslaved African Americans were finally freed in Galveston, Texas. Every year, our community comes together to honor this special day. We play...

When accident-prone Helen Grey finds a thong stuffed into the pocket of her boyfriend's best work trousers, it's time for her to move on. His excuse that he needed to dust the photocopier and just thought that it was a rag sounds like a lame excuse. Helen's life is propelled in an unexpected direction after her best friend, Ayshe, sets her a fourteen-day, life-changing challenge. Helen receives a task everyday which she must complete without question.

Widowed school teacher Spencer Riley prepares to go to Colorado to spend Christmas with his mother. His daughter, Starr, although loves her grandmother, prefers a more fun Christmas and even if they are going to go to Colorado, would prefer they go by airplane, but Spencer loves the scenery of nature more and always likes driving in his old pick up truck which Starr hates. Belle Monroe, is a model and fashion photographer. She has some assignments to finish up before she rushes to Aspen to continue plans for her wedding with her fiance Antonio. Although she is excited about it, she also has...

*Chase* I have the billions, women, cars, friends, anything a man wants, I have it all except the one person that I want the most. What I desire I can't have so I just play the field until I can awaken the desire in her. She has already awakened mine. When the time comes, there will be no stopping me from claiming what's mine. Tianna Ballard, I will possess. *Tianna* I have loved Chase Dominick from as far back as I remember. But I'm no more than his kid sister best friend. Chase has awakened my desire without even trying, and I need him like I need oxygen to breathe. I won't give up until ...

Hope has some setbacks in life, but the Christmas season is the time for miracles, second chances, faith...and a new beginning. Christian Clause is successful, charismatic, and the owner of Clause Enterprises. He has set his sights on Hope. The attraction is mutual, but when he offers her a job as his assistant, he tries to put his interest aside to keep things professional. Will this holiday season work its magic and allow romance to bloom in and out of the boardroom for Christian and Hope? Or will it end with another disappointing setback with no glad tidings and joy?

In my practice, I work with people who are struggling every day. They all have their battles. Some of them are miserable because of obsessive fears that prevent them from getting out of their homes. Some are convinced they have to become skinny if they want someone to love them. Some believe they are fighting for their lives during terrible attacks, which are just panic episodes. And I get it. I understand them all. Some of them tell me, "You don't get it. You can't understand what I'm going through." But I do. I really do. Because I've been there, done that.

Autumn, a young woman trapped in a world of the unknown, has the bright idea to move to Paris, the City of Love. " ...there I was, sobbing in-between hugs, farewells and well-wishes. It was almost too much all at once…” Autumn lost her dream job after the business cut off many staff members, and she became lost in her mind with no-one but herself; and a piece of paper. Although Losing her job is what drove Autumn to the city of Paris, love is what made her stay. Have you ever seen a man, and instantly your heart raced? Olivier is a handsome Frenchman; tall, toned body, has an ...

Ivy desires to be loved unconditionally. Asher does not. Maybe they can come to a compromise to make a relationship work—or perhaps not. When Ivy and Asher meet by chance at the airport, they never realized what was in store for their future. Ivy's career path led her to New York because of her job. She's happy because she gets to hang out with her friends Madison, Noelle, and Shelby, but on the other hand, Ivy is sad to leave Georgia, a place consistent in her life and the only place she has ever known. A change is good right? The move could be perfect. It could be the beginning of ...

Certified Financial Planner, Ashley Hodge shares his expertise about the stewardship of not only your finances, but your life in every episode - focusing on 4 areas: Money, Abilities, Time, Health. Subscribe now so you don't miss an episode. Find out more at http://www.AshleyHodge.com

Healer/time traveler Lizzie Baker remains in the mid 21st century, where chaos reigns as a foreign army slowly makes its way toward Brown Mountain, North Carolina. The horror stories told by people fleeing the invaders are frightening and Lizzie’s skills as a healer are in constant demand tending to the sick and injured, never knowing that this itself places her own life in danger.

What happens when true love is torn apart? Anne-Marie Johnston has always had one true love. She lived through high school because of Damon Williams Jr., but every day since his parents tore him away from her, she spends her time surviving. Hoping he will breathe life back into her. Damon Williams Jr., preaches from his father's pulpit now, but every time he sees the woman he loved so long ago, he can't stop his heart's desire to hold her again. With the perfect preacher's wife and his first baby on the way, Damon does his damnedest to resist Anne-Marie's pull. But hearts that have known ...

This audiobook coins the term "noble automation" as combining intelligent automation technology with the inspired and insightful leadership necessary to help humans become heroes. Doing so stimulates a wave of human innovation and taps into the incredible potential of people working toward inspiring goals. Companies profit, and people thrive. The benefits of implementing noble automation include freeing people to be more human by removing drudgery, providing insights, and allowing us the time and energy to feel, think, empathize, and connect.

Across a thousand battlefields and a million wars, there is always a question. What do you do when all the chips are on the table? Do you run? Try to find salvation in the arms of an easy peace? Or do you stand and fight? Send your enemies into whatever hole they crawled out of? On Deadly Ground has 10 stories handling that exact question. Each character faces the impossible in different ways, but all will be tested before the day is done. Can they earn a heroic victory amongst the endless eternity of space, or are they doomed to fall into obscurity?

I hate my new school, and I desperately want to go back to my old school to finish up my senior year with the familiar faces and friends that I know. My dad just got a new job in a new city with a promotion and a big fat raise. Now I have to live in a new city with no friends. Being the only black girl in a sea of pale faces makes me feel alone. My parents say to keep my head up and to do my best because the new school year will fly by before too long. Yeah, right! My parents don't understand how alone I feel. That is, until him. Jasper Hartley, the new guy who befriends me and make me want...

In May 2003, President George W. Bush declared victory in Iraq. But while we won the war, we catastrophically lost the peace. Our failure prompted a fundamental change in our foreign policy. Confronted with theshortcomings of "shock and awe", the U.S. military shifted its focus to"stability operations": counterinsurgency and the rebuilding of failed states. In less than a decade, foreign assistance has become militarized; humanitarianism has been armed.

This particular volume (Volume One) begins with the period in the early 1600s when two very different English societies were established in the New World, one in Virginia and one in New England. The Virginia society simply re-created the rigidly class-based feudal society of the times. The New England society was a most unusual democracy of social equals, covenanted to live under God's—not man's—personal rule. These two American social types would find themselves in rather constant struggle....

Behind Gym Doors will be a revelation to everyone who thinks that being a personal trainer is just a matter of standing around telling unfit people what to do! Matt Hodges runs one of London’s most exclusive studios, a personal trainer to the rich and famous–actually, make that the super-rich and mega-famous–and he has seen it all.

Every organization, regardless of the industry, possesses a hidden operational treasure. It exists everywhere and is embedded in each and every process. Unlike a shiny coin, this raw gold is dull and dirty, providing no reason to be noticed, but it’s there. There are “process jewels” buried deep inside your day-to-day activities - rough and uncut, just below the surface, but they are there. The potential they possess can only be realized when you find them, but their combined value is beyond estimation.

Holleigh Angel is the only man for me. He is my husband, who promised never to leave me alone. No one ever could or will take his place in my heart. Two years ago, on a snowy Christmas night, circumstances beyond our control ripped him from my life forever. Sometimes late at night, in my dream of dreams, I can feel him, touch him, and even smell him. But morning comes, and I'm utterly alone without the love of my life--my Angel. Angel Holleigh, my perfect wife who used to be so vibrant, is now a mere shell of her existence. She has forgotten how to live carefree and happy. I promised the ...

We're moms who are deep in the throes of parenthood, and we want to remind other moms and parents that they're not alone. Join us as we continue to try to figure it out.