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Every one of us will face an unexpected decision crisis in our lives. Whether it’s a life-changing situation—job loss, illness, divorce, death—or a happier event—a new job opportunity, buying a first home, or other important occasion—there are times when you will be forced to make big decisions under great pressure.

Rough and surly, smooth and sultry, or quick and raw however you like it, you'll find it in Studs, 20 of the hottest and best-written man-to-man sex stories to appear in print this year. In "Underground Operator" two men on a nearly empty subway platform indulge in rough, anonymous sex that lets them momentarily forget the stifling summer heat. "Donuts to Demons" finds a self-described "rock-n-roll artfag" searching for a lover as patient and gifted and generous as he advertised on Craigslist.

Alydia is a college freshman who is desperate to lose her virginity, but none of the boys in her hall are up to the task of giving her what she wants! Her slutty behavior finally catches the attention of the dorm hall RA who can't let her get away it on his watch. He gives her the vicious punishment that she deserves right in his office and stops short of busting her cherry because his killjoy fiancé can't stop calling him. Alydia has a plan to get him to finish what he started though....

Becky Eldredge invites you to discover a deeper and more fulfilling prayer life in The Inner Chapel: Embracing the Promises of God. By drawing on the wisdom and practices from Ignatian spirituality, she guides listeners seeking an inner closeness and intimacy with God. The Inner Chapel demonstrates that a relationship with a loving God is available to all who seek it.

I’ve worked hard to stay alive while waitressing at Lunar Royale, a premiere casino in Boston serving explicitly supernatural clientele. I need the money to escape Boston and start over in a new city. Tonight I plan on carefully maneuvering my way into the most important game of poker ever played here. But by the time I realize it’s not money they’re playing for, I’m stuck in the game. The real prize? A dragon’s egg. All I wanted was to escape the city, and winning it might be my ticket out. I just have to ignore the way the dragon’s magic hums, calling to me.

The world has suffered many pandemics in the years since - at least three serious flu outbreaks among them - but no pandemic has been as deadly or as far-reaching as the Spanish flu. As the world reacts to a headline-grabbing - yet far, far less deadly - outbreak of this pandemic, Andrew Smith looks back to 1918 Spanish flu to see what we learned from one of the most devastating diseases in recent history.

When the body of 17-year-old Jackie Shaw is found in a shallow grave, it sends shockwaves through her small West Yorkshire community. Rumours of murder and systematic sexual abuse are rife, and the town's MP, Samuel Stokes, is adding fuel to the fire with his campaign against a so-called 'Asian grooming gang'. Probation officer Rachel Collier deals with paedophiles on a daily basis: so when she hears that her teenage daughter, Chloe, has become friendly with 24-year-old Tariq, she's concerned where it might lead. But that's not her only worry.

Check it out: not just a book about sex, but a look at girl culture by teenagers. No stuffy school textbook. No nosy adults. Just a diverse group of teen girls from a community youth project who had questions about sexuality. To find answers, they collected stories, poetry, and artwork from other youths. They also interviewed frontline health experts to get solid facts about the personalities and pressures that young women have to deal with. It's a great mix of real-life examples and life-saving info.

Lynn Taylor and his kid brother Frank may not be angels, but they’re not devils, either. They’re just a couple of men - two-fisted Texans who have landed on the wrong side of a corrupt lawman. Young Frank’s been framed for robbery, rustling, and murder, and if Lynn doesn’t think fast, his brother’s going to end up the guest of dishonor at a hanging party. Lynn cooks up a daring plan to clear his brother’s name and rope in the real outlaw.

This is a story about my fourteenth year of life as a gay kid at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regional Queensland. It was a year in which I started to discover who I was, and deeply hated what was revealed. It was a year in which I had my first crush and first devastating heartbreak. It was a year of torment, bullying and betrayal - not just at the hands of my peers, but by adults who were meant to protect me.

Zia would give anything to be a typical teenager…again. Heck, she’d settle for being a vampire or smelly werewolf, but a member of the walking dead? The lowliest of all the monsters? No way! Nothing is worse than being a skin-sloughing, limb-losing, maggot-housing, brain-craving undead girl. Nothing. It wouldn’t be so bad if humans didn’t insist on “Living Impaireds” wearing bands to keep their insatiable appetites in check. And if LIs want to coexist with humans, then rules must be followed, no matter how ludicrous they might seem.

If you have ever wondered what it takes to attract the man you are interested in, or if you have just felt unattractive, this audiobook will show you how to change the way men look at you. Inside, you will learn what men really find attractive and how you can be the kind of woman who has that mysterious magnetic pull on men’s hearts and minds. The keys to attractiveness aren’t what you might think.

The zombies are slowly disappearing. But are they hibernating? Becoming inanimate? Rotting and decomposing? We don't know. People haven't changed. Well, let me change that. They have changed. For the worse. The remaining population seems to think they are owed something. So, instead of rebuilding, they steal, kill, rape and pillage. The world we live in now is one where you have to fight or die. There are no exceptions. The only thing we can do is continue on and try to rebuild.

Captain Luta Paixon of the far trader Tane Ikai needs to know why she looks like a woman in her thirties--even though she's actually eighty-four. She isn't the only one desperate for that information.

The explanation might lie with her geneticist mother, who disappeared more than sixty years ago. But even if her mother is still alive, it's proving to be no small task to track her down in the vast, wormhole-ridden expanse of Nearspace.

Inspired by Saw and our social media addiction, you are about to learn why you don't really need all those friends, or rather, why they don't deserve to be called that.

Merry Atwater would do just about anything to save her dog rescue—even if it means working with the most stubborn man on the planet. It's hard to avoid the sparks that fly with TJ Jameson, the ruggedly sexy cowboy in charge of the children's camp where she's just taken an animal therapy job. But commitment is not Merry's style, and TJ clearly wants more than just a roll in the hay.

Reiki Master and sound healer, Shannon Eileen, uses crystal alchemy singing bowls and her enchanting voice to balance and align your 7 main energy centers (chakras), which influence your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

Handle the most difficult girl in the galaxy, or everything blows up. When an alien princess arrives, a jaded celebrity handler has to keep her happy. But will he manage to get through her visit, when catering to her spoiled needs is the only way to prevent her from exploding the Earth, when rebels are trying to assassinate her, and when he starts to seriously fall in love with her?

In Acts 1:8 Jesus said that we shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon us. In this four-message series, Dr. Shannon answers the questions, "What purpose does the Holy Spirit have in my life?" and "Who is the Holy Spirit?" You will also learn the steps you need to take to access the power of the Holy Spirit.

I'm Krystin Blackwood, and I've only ever been good at one thing: killing demons of Darkness. But at 24, I'm about to face my toughest challenge yet: shifting from working alone to joining a team of three other Hunters. Newbie Hunters. They don't know their magik, they barely know their place in the world, and when they find out the secrets I've been carrying, they'll definitely decide it's safer if they don't know me. But unfortunately for them - and me - Darkness has other plans.