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Carolina Pasolini is an American actress, with multiple starring roles in her past, more in the pipeline. She is relatively young and has a teenaged daughter, a brilliant student in an elite private high school in the San Fernando Valley, also an excellent athlete and finally, an aspiring actress. In general, life is good, very good. Carolina is invited to a meeting where she is offered a starring role in a well-funded independent film. One catch: the producer orders her to service him. in public. She leaves and that is that. Save, that it isn't. The producer contacts her agent, claims she ...

Ali won the contest of her life, The Ninety-Eight, as a pawn of the Council, but danger still lurks. Her father is using her beloved's sibling to track her down. But an even bigger threat still looms: Her father plans to conquer Wake by turning humans into empty-shells to do his bidding. Ali and Kovis desperately search for a way to stop him, but every idea requires that she return to Dream, a move that will kill her.

I'm Dreamweaver Alissandra, and it's not my fault my heart drew me closer to my sexy human dream charge than my family's rules permit. How could I possibly resist when we share a soul-deep connection they couldn't fathom? Shhhh, no one need know. But I discover my father, the god of dreams (a.k.a. Morpheus or the Sand Man), is scheming to exploit humans. No way am I going to let that happen without a fight. Knowing Father, it will cost me dearly. It doesn't matter. I won't let my prince - or any human - suffer.

Dreamweaver Alissandra refuses to let her powerful father enslave her Wake realm charges. Forced by the formidable god to choose a side, she sacrifices her immortality and flees Dream realm, only to find herself naked in Prince Kovis’ bedroom, their magical dream-connection shattered. But before she can warn him of the threat, she’s suspected of being a spy and swiftly thrown in prison. With rebellion brewing in his empire, Prince Kovis believes the unexpected appearance of an alluring woman is a rebel plot unfolding.

From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be - snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored. The benefits to oneself of a free ride on the efforts of others mean that collective goals often are not met. But compared to most other species, people actually cooperate a great deal. Why is this?

Gerrit is the son of Bourshkanya's Supreme-General. Despite his powerful storm-affinity and the State's best training, he can't control his magic. To escape the brutal consequences, he flees. Celka is a travelling circus performer, hiding both her link to the underground and her storm affinity from the prying eyes of the secret police. But Gerrit's arrival threatens to expose everything: her magic, her family, and the people they protect. The storms have returned, and everything will change.

A timely resource to equip Christian parents to better understand the roots of racism and provide practical guidance on addressing issues of race within their families “This is a landmark work for our generation!”—Dorena Williamson, bestselling author If you wonder how to help your...

The Daily Reflection Podcast delivers hope, and inspiration through interviews with members of the recovery community through the lens of the Daily Reflection book. Each day, we ask a person in recovery to read the Daily Reflection for the day, and share how this relates to their program of recovery. The result is that we learn through their experience how they manage to get and stay sober. We are not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous or any recovery program.

The great Stormhawk - Bourshkanya's paranoid, fascist leader - is seemingly unkillable, but for the rebellion to succeed, he must die. Celka Prochazka uses magic in ways no one believed possible. She could be the perfect resistance assassin - if she can avoid being discovered as a traitor. Gerrit Kladivo, the Stormhawk's son, is determined to end his father's tyrannical rule. But to get Celka close enough to his father, he must first prove unflinching loyalty to the regime.

In a time when there were few options for a woman, the main character Andrée finds the courage to grow as a person and the strength to survive as a strong woman. Through a series of life-threatening ordeals, Andrée's journey begins when she is abandoned by her family, with no other option she becomes a nun, and is assigned to a mission in Haiti. She soon has to flee for her life in order to survive a revolution between the Vodun and French farmers.

Dallas has roamed the Eastern Caribbean in his 40-foot ketch for several years. He has the good fortune—or not so good fortune—to have Quin Valance step in and out of his life. The good fortune associated with Quin is that Dallas likes her and the sex is good. Unfortunately, Quin wants more excitement in her life than she gets within Dallas’ laidback lifestyle. So, to maintain the relationship, Dallas usually goes along with Quin’s ideas—and that leads to trouble more often than not. Of course, trouble-prone Quin can count on Demon to cast his vote for her.

Self-declared ice queen attorney Cara Phillips has a secret—a secret that she wanted to be free of. She has no one to turn to except. Romaine Jacobs is a fellow attorney, but also the next in line to inherit the kingdom of Jacob’s law firm in downtown Chicago—who also has a secret of his own. He is in love with Cara, and she has kept the cold between them for years. The ice-cold shell begins to crack when they are put on the same case—a case that was a reminder to Cara of a violent and dangerous past that she will never forget.

When I attended Jefferson Elementary School in Charlottesville in 1960, I was selected to recite the poem "The Path" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the noted black poet. That poem captured the story of my life. I had no idea when I first learned it by memory and recited it many times before the class that it would later have such a direct and dramatic application to my life. I recited the words not knowing their true meaning back then, but I know what they mean now, and who would have imagined how appropriate they would be.

As a mom, owner and Occupational Therapist at Oak Bloom OT working with families for many years, I've seen firsthand how overwhelming it can be to raise sturdy children. My goal is to share science-based strategies, real-life stories and resources that can help you nourish those roots so that you and the children in your life can grow stronger, sturdier, and more resilient.

Under the cloak of night, danger lurks around every corner. Behind the scenes, while the world sleeps, one man protects those targeted by pure evil. Lazarus Lee saw her and wanted her with a desperation that he’s never felt. Although fate had brought her to him, the duty would keep him at bay…temporarily. Renea Williams needed his protection, but at what cost? Will she see that loving him is right? Or will she allow the darkness to keep her from him?

Margie and Ellie are two elderly sisters from North Dakota. Recently widowed and abandoned by their husbands and left penniless, the two sisters decide to operate a sex chat line from their farm, all the while trying to hide the true nature of their 900 business from their respectable neighbors of Himmel. When Ellie's husband Stanley turns up dead in the barn, Margie and the townsfolk go to extraordinary lengths to hide the true nature of his death from Ellie - which ultimately turns out to be murder.

Luci de Foix was nine when her parents were killed in a car accident. But was it an accident? Unbeknownst to Luci, a group known as the Order, under the protection of the Pope, has been watching her family for many years. It was waiting for the day that a diary written in the 13th century would be delivered to her family. A journal that contains a key to a lost codex. And they would do anything to get it.

Just before high school graduation, Daisy Murphy returns home from a football game and finds her mother standing over her abusive boyfriend’s body - holding a bloody hammer. In the aftermath, Daisy flees her home and eventually establishes a new life as an expert winemaker in the Central Valley of California. But as hard as she tries to get away from her past, the effects of that horrible night travel with her.

You can’t pick your kin or the risky games they play. Every family has its secrets, but for Elise Reddick, entangled roots have turned deadly - leaving her torn between twisted memories and cold realities. Estranged from her family of origin after a horrific crime, Elise tries to move on in the tiny town of Red Leaf while under investigation for her ex-boyfriend’s murder. There, she forms new relationships and encounters more lies as she slowly unravels the truth behind her pedigree.

¿Quién iba a decir que la muerte podría ser tan ecléctica? Disfrute de esta fascinante colección de cuentos. Tanto en la literatura como en las películas, el tema de la muerte y el misterio han sido fundamentales durante años. Esta antología le entretendrá y le emocionará al mismo tiempo. Algunos de los cuentos le harán reír a carcajadas. Otros le invitarán a hacer una pausa y reflexionar. Considere esta colección de cuentos de muerte y misterio la versión impresa de un aperitivo, o quizá desee llamarle entremés, bocadillo, mezze o antipasti. Puede ser leída para llenar el...