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With her trademark wisdom and humor, Anita Diamant ( The Red Tent) considers the nature, strength, and necessity of adult female friendship. Good Harbor examines the tragedy of loss, the insidious nature of family secrets, and the redemptive power of friendship.

A man escaping from a hotel fire glimpses a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever. Years later, traveling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects on his obsession with this unknown and ultimately unknowable woman, his courtship of her, his marriage to her, and the unforgivable act that ripped their family apart.

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Avery, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at Kidd Academy 26 years ago, has made a life for himself in Toronto with his wife and two sons.

Christmas at Falstone Castle - Sarah M. Eden - The Dowager Duchess of Kielder eagerly anticipates spending Christmas with her son and his family. Though their relationship has been strained, the duchess is determined to heal the chasm. Even with the help of the widowed local vicar, her plan will take a Christmas miracle. But during this magical season, anything is possible...even two second chances for love.

He's twice my age and twice as full of the hot, sticky cream I desire.When I enter the vacant bar by campus over the summer holiday, I know exactly what I'm hoping for. Meeting an older, more experienced stranger. Being dazzled by his confident strokes. When my old French professor walks in with a few of his salt-and-peppered friends, my fantasy becomes supercharged. During office hours, in an empty classroom, and over his desk. I can't get enough. My insatiable need for their hot, sticky reward has me begging for more, no matter how full I already am. This naughty short story for adults is...

In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and power, are as urgent today as they were when she first testified. Believing is a story of America's three decades long reckoning with gender violence, one that offers insights into its roots, and paths to creating dialogue and substantive change. It is a call to action that offers guidance based on what this brave, committed fighter has learned from a lifetime of advocacy and her search for solutions to a problem that is still tearing America apart.

When Anna Durrant is reported missing her friends seem unconcerned at her disappearance. After all, her life has been one of concealment. For years Anna submitted to the protective dependence of her mother, and even after Amy Durrant’s death she simply conformed to the expectations of others. Increasingly, Anna feels herself trapped by these expectations.

Un relato esclarecedor de lo que nos aguarda tras la muerte y el despertar final. Uno de los testimonios espirituales más lúcidos y poderosos de nuestro tiempo.

The dead do not rest till they get what they want. You have arrived in the hills. In here, you are surrounded by dense, menacing forests, enveloped in a deadly silence... You never know what lurks here in the cold, dark night. Do not walk alone after sunset in the hills. A beautiful woman in white haunts the Lonely pathways, looking to enchant and ensnare men... All the people who died in accidents here... They say you hear their screams at night. And the deserted lodges sitting amidst lush greenery and calm streams...

When Janette answers the door to a potential customer looking to board his dog, she never imagines he has nefarious plans. But minutes later he’s dead and in her cellar. Weeks later she realises she’s pregnant. And so she becomes Mother and the baby Child, and a hidden life begins. But all secrets come out eventually.

I'm not sure what surprises me more, the way they use me or how much I love it. The four hotties next door are up late playing poker again. I can't wait to see the look on their faces when I show up at their door in just a red bathrobe. Will they throw me across the table to degrade and humiliate me? Maybe they'll splash and soak me with my hard earned reward. I'll certainly be tied down and punished for showing up unannounced. Maybe they'll even give their dirty girl a bath. I thought I was ready for them, but I'm in for the most erotic night of my life. THIS SERIES FOLLOWS THE SAME COUPLE...

When two teenagers are found dead in a fire, DI Laura Henshall and DS Will Peters are called in to investigate. They believe it was a revenge attack gone wrong. But soon fires are cropping up everywhere, and the police suspect they’re dealing with something much bigger...something that could bring the city to its knees. With time running out, can the detectives find the arsonists before the city goes up in flames?

I knew my fantasy of being surrounded by strange men and soaked with their liquid reward was dirty, but with the help of my dad's friends, I discovered how filthy I really was. The summer before Junior year of college, I stayed at Dad's lake cabin, hoping to catch some warm rays and hot guys. But Dad's overbearing and protective rules prevented even the smallest of flirtations. That is until he invited over the three hottest older men I've ever seen. They're twice my age and triple my size, but I couldn't stop staring. After Dad passed out on the couch, his hunky friends took turns keeping ...

I writhe and whimper, begging for more. Use me. Give me my hot, sticky reward. I need to be fulfilled, and tonight I'm definitely getting filled. They'll bind me and use me like the animals they are, and I'll love every second. I'll take them one after the other. Sometimes at the same time. There are so many. They just keep coming. And coming. But so do I. Tonight will be my biggest achievement ever, but can I handle as much as I think I can? This series follows the same two characters, Ryan and Christine, but each book can be read as a standalone. **CW: This is an 18+ steamy short story ...

Following her near-death experience as shared in the New York Times best-seller Dying to Be Me, Anita Moorjani knows well the truths that exist beyond common knowledge and acceptance. The clarity she has gained has led her to further understand who she was born to be. Part of that truth has involved contemplating the cultural myths infused into our everyday lives. Passed down from generation to generation, these myths are pervasive and influential.

Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics, and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citigroup, PepsiCo and Mastercard are just a handful of the Fortune 500 companies led by a group known as the "Twice Blessed". Yet little is known about how these Indian émigrés (and children of émigrés) rose through the ranks. Until now....

Young governess Flora Maguire is on her way home from America on the maiden voyage of the S.S. Minneapolis with her young charge Eddy, Viscount Trent, when she discovers a dead body. Unconvinced when the death is pronounced an accident, Flora starts asking questions, but following threats, a near drowning and a second murder, the hunt is on for a killer. Time is running out as the Minneapolis approaches the English coast. Will Flora be able to protect Eddy, as well as herself?

Rilke's Book of Hours shares with the listener a new kind of intimacy with God, or the divine—a reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in which God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his Letters to a Young Poet, and now Rilke's Book of Hours tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love God into being.

David Ben-Gurion cast a great shadow during his lifetime, and his legacy continues to be sharply debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder of modern Israel, but this new biography by eminent Israeli historian Anita Shapira strives to get to the core of the complex man who would become the face of the new Jewish nation. Shapira tells the Ben-Gurion story anew, focusing especially on the period after 1948, during the first years of statehood.

I choose a Silver Fox for my first time. But when he invites his friends to join, I can't get enough... Tonight is finally the night, but he's not the sweet and gentle man I've always known as Dad's best friend. He's a lust-crazed beast while he films me at my most vulnerable. Yet I love every second of it. He even invites more friends over to help satiate this innate desire of mine. A desire for their white hot reward. And I can't get enough...