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Paired with local lawyer Rob Hewitt, Sammy Baker is excited to start up Sunny Cove Services, a special place where disabled adults can find meaningful employment. There’s a lot of work to do to get it up and running, including hiring a contractor to remodel their workspace. When Sammy hires Harold Woodland, she doesn’t understand why some people are warning her against him. He seems like a pretty nice guy to her. But Harold slowly starts to show his true colors, and it turns out someone dislikes him enough to finish him off for good.

Do you want to write more but feel frustrated at your lack of time? Are you doing "busy" work instead of moving toward your creative goals? Is your to-do list overwhelming? It’s time to stop, reassess and take control. This book will help you discover the path to becoming a productive writer.

Lord Gilbert Marford is in disgrace. He joined the Hussars to stay out of trouble. Instead, he quarrelled with half his fellow officers, seduced the wives of three of them, got himself shot in a duel, and sustained an injury that might end his career. Now he’s being sent home like a naughty schoolboy, and he’s not happy about it. So when an opportunity arises to run away, he’s not about to let a little snow stop him.

A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a married couple who met in the Summer of Love and have stayed together ever since. Children of the '60s, they are still free spirits, drawn together by their love for music and one another. We follow their conversations from the café to the kitchen table, taking in everyday chores, dealing with problems with long-held friendships and tackling their frustrations with each other. With warmth, wit and honesty, they talk about the indignities of ageing, their desire to still be seen as attractive and their fears and vulnerabilities around growing older.

Five years ago, Laurel Lovejoy had it all. The high-powered city job, the loving husband, the perfect daughter. Now, she is 40 and alone, and working for a courier service. But she has discovered that being a delivery driver comes with a superpower: it makes her invisible. People accept her presence without question. They go about their lives, unaware of just how much she sees - how much she knows.

“Riki” Miller, is just trying to stay afloat. Raising her teenage brother after the loss of their mother six years ago has left her with responsibilities far beyond her age. She has made sacrifices to keep them stable and isn’t about to start being reckless now. Then she is offered an unusual paparazzi gig—one weekend for forty grand that involved an NDA. Riki can't afford to say no, but arriving in LA she finds out the man offering the deal is sexier than he should be. Making things harder, he can’t seem to understand that she needs some professional distance from him to do her job.

When a UFO is sighted hovering in Branson Falls, Ella and Sophie make it their personal mission to meet some aliens. With those two scheming together, shenanigans are bound to happen and Kate decides she better go along for damage control. Waiting for a potential abduction is pretty dull...until one of Kate’s sexy suitors shows up. Suddenly, a UFO is no longer the most exciting thing happening in the mountains above Branson Falls.

Sammy Baker’s confectionaries are a big hit in Sunny Cove, but when a fundraising drive turns into a hair-raising crime, it’s time for Sam to don her sleuthing cap again. Aided by a posse of do-gooders who call themselves the Radical Grandmas, Sammy needs to sniff out the cold-bloodied killer before Christmas day.

Cameron Saxby is contented in his life as a bank clerk in Edinburgh, knowing that if he works hard, he has a good career in front of him. But fate has a different plan for him—as heir to the late Lord Saxby. Inheriting the title drags Cameron away from his unassuming Scottish roots and drops him into the wealthy estate of Maeswood Hall, surrounded by deferential villagers and the resentful family of the late baron, a man who left such a trail of misery in his wake that someone murdered him.

Hazel Greenwood’s always been a late bloomer. At 28, she’s finally close to completing her Green Witch apprenticeship at Granny Sage's magical bakery. And she’s even found herself a decent boyfriend. Take that, shallow Beige Witch mom and sisters who’ve always sneered down their contoured noses because her magic is more than skin deep. Luckily, Hazel’s matured past the angst of her outcast adolescence…or has she?

Welcome to Shoe Town - and meet Ruby and Bear Foot. They are running out of time to rescue their inventor dad from his hideous boss, Wendy Wedge. She'll do anything to win the glitzy Golden Shoe Award and knows that entering flying shoes is her hot ticket to the trophy. Flying shoes that Ruby and Bear just happen to be hiding. Get ready for a gadget-packed, wedge-of-your-feet adventure like no other!

Hours of listening in one collection—books 1-3 of the Mercer’s House series, a collection of traditional Regency romances, drawing room rather than bedroom.

Kiedy w firmie, w której pracuje Malwina, pojawia się możliwość wyjazdu na trzymiesięczny kontrakt do Dubaju, kobieta jest rozdarta. Praca w Emiratach Arabskich to jej marzenie, ale... Ma przecież Marcina, z którym nie chce się rozstawać. Ibrahim przygotowuje się do poślubienia Ayeshy. Wierzy, że małżeństwo zaaranżowane przez rodziców zapewni mu miłość i fuzję rodzinnych przedsiębiorstw. Ibrahima i uroczą Polkę łączy tylko praca. Oboje są w szczęśliwych związkach i nie szukają żadnych przygód. Jednak nieoczekiwanie dla nich znajomość przeradza się w coś więcej.

Adventure awaits Demelza and her best friend in the whole world, Nessa, as they embark on a whole new adventure, solving mysteries, fending off bullies and celebrating the greatest friendship of all time. When an unexpected guest arrives in Penfurzy, Nessa and Demelza go out of their way to help them, entering a world of ancient myth and legend. They face ghosts and monsters, and Conan the bully, who just keeps getting in the way at the worst possible moment.

In book 1, a widow moves into the long disused Dower House and makes a horrible discovery in the wine cellar. Thirty-year-old widow Louisa Middlehope is determined to escape from her late husband’s family and live life for herself for the first time. The tiny village of Great Maeswood offers her the peace and quiet her heart craves.

This book is a one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the wise, witty, and deeply personal speeches Sidney Poitier gave at awards ceremonies, family events, memorials, and more. His salutes to artists such as Dorothy Dandridge, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Kramer, and Denzel Washington offer fresh insight on icons of our time. Poitier's unforgettable cadence and voice are clear as day. Compiled by his wife, Joanna Poitier, this collection captures all that was remarkable about the man through his own words.

Lord Randolph Litherholm has spent a year coming to terms with the death of his twin brother Gervase, the 7th Duke of Falconbury. Now it’s time to set aside his mourning and accept his role as the 8th Duke of Falconbury. It’s not the management of the vast Litherholm wealth that bothers him, for he’s been running the estate for years. No, his reluctance is all due to the marriage that was arranged for his brother, and the expectation that Ran will take on his brother’s bride as well as his title.

An out-of-work governess tries to start a school in the village. Deborah Hollingsworth, grand-daughter of a baron, has come down in the world, reduced to acting as unpaid governess for her relations. When even that option closes, what is she to do? She has a secret plan, but until she can achieve her heart’s desire, she’ll start a modest village school to make ends meet, and bring a little happiness to the local children. What she doesn’t expect is to find a lonely young man even more in need of a little happiness.

Joanna w trakcie rocznego urlopu dla poratowania zdrowia mieszka na Kociewiu i opiekuje sie ciocia Zofia, energiczna starsza pania. Nowe miejsce staje sie szansa na pozytywne zyciowe zmiany. Wraz z córka Lusia wikla sie w historie z przeszlosci i próbuje odnalezc tajemniczego Henryka z mlodosci cioci Zosi. Nastolatka wierzy, ze milosc moze przetrwac kilkadziesiat lat. Czy faktycznie jest to mozliwe? Autorka stawia glówna bohaterke przed waznymi decyzjami zyciowymi.