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Iris was just like every other student at Charleston Community College and like most, she was having trouble in one of her classes. Her algebra class was the pits and the teacher, Mrs. Rall, had seemed to take it upon herself to make every class worse than the last. She called her to the front, knowing that she didn’t know the answers and made comments of her falling grade in front of everyone. So, it was surprising when the older teacher offered to tutor her the last week or two, to help get her grade up from the low C that it was. Iris needed to bring her grade up to keep her ...

9 Bonus Stories Included! Tia was the sister of the leader, to one of the most notorious motorcycle gangs in the city. She had just turned eighteen, but her brother Rex still treats her like a child. She is not though and is desperate to prove to his right-hand man Mark that she is all grown up. There is a problem though. Tia is untouchable with everyone knowing who her brother is and how protective he is of her. While Rex has to leave town for a few days, he leaves Tia in the hands of Mark to take care of her while he is gone. Tia proves harder to watch than anticipated, especially when ...

Taylor Mabrey runs a conspiracy theory satire website. It’s something she loves to do and since it’s anonymous, she doesn’t think twice about it. But the fun stops when she starts getting ominous threats. Thinking she just needs to take a break, she goes home to spend some time with her family, where she comes face to face with Elijah Emerson—the only boy she’s ever loved…the one she dumped right after graduation.

Nourish Your Mind. Love Your Body. Rock Your Life! Join world-renowned fitness and healthy lifestyle coach Betty Rocker and special guests for conversations and content that will uplift you, inspire you, and provide you with valuable insights for a healthy mind, body and spirit.

Five years ago, best friends Link Novak and Hadley Shaw called it quits on their relationship when her career became the third wheel. Since then, Link became a billionaire, and Hadley’s career hasn’t been nearly as satisfying as she’d envisioned.

Aadhya was raised to do what her parents said. As a young woman in the farmlands of India, she was expected to marry who they chose for her. Aadhya knew that she didn’t want that life and had dreams of becoming an artist in the big city. So when her father brought home a man for her to meet, one of two that she was to be married to, Aadhya left in the night to start her new life. The realization of what she had done came the next morning after walking all night and not seeing one car willing to give her a ride. Two foreign men pass-by and offer Aadhya a ride to Delhi and hearing some of ...

Brad and Jason had been stepbrothers for several years and never much got along. They were too different. Brad was an all-star quarterback in college and Jason more reserved and brainy. When Brad comes home for the summer, Jason is not looking forward to his visit, but he realizes quickly that something about Brad has changed. He is being nice to him and though he’s suspicious, he finds himself going on a camping trip with him and a friend of Jason’s. Disaster strikes and Brad steps up to save his stepbrother, staying with him through his recovery. Jason finds himself falling for him ...

After purchasing Luck Lake, Pierce Westwood returns to his frequent childhood vacation spot with the plan of fixing it up—until he runs into Bethany Holland, the girl he crushed on as a kid. Bethany Holland expects a typical rich guy when she meets the billionaire who now owns her hometown. Instead, she finds a down-to-earth guy with a killer smile. When he lets it slip that he vacationed in Luck Lake as a kid, she’s shocked to find she can’t remember him. When he asks her out on a date, she agrees…with one stipulation: He has to give her a week to figure out who he is.

Molly Hines made a promise not to date after she adopted her brother’s baby. It’s been an easy rule to follow until her boss—Josiah West—invites her to spend the holidays with his family so she won’t be alone. She thought he was cute from the moment she met him six months ago. Now, she’s finding out that he’s not just cute, he speaks her language of movie lines and song lyrics. That old holiday magic is in the air, and these two square pegs find that it’s hard to fight it when they fit together so well.

Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared--the night she found her brother Jude collapsed on the porch, covered in his own blood--but she has no idea what a truly monstrous secret that night held.

Caprock Canyon is the place Stephanie Fredericks loves to be for the holidays. Except for this year, since her siblings are all married, and her mom is trying to help fate by setting her up with every single man in the valley. Since that's the last thing she wants, she hires a no-strings-attached date for the season—Kit Beckett.

When racist curriculum "goes viral" on social media, it is typically dismissed as an isolated incident from a "bad" teacher. Educator Bree Picower, however, holds that racist curriculum isn't an anomaly. It's a systemic problem that reflects how Whiteness is embedded and reproduced in education. In Reading, Writing, and Racism, Picower argues that White teachers must reframe their understanding about race in order to advance racial justice and that this must begin in teacher education programs.

Sabrina Owens has experienced heartbreak like no other but refuses to allow a minor flaw in the male race to knock her down. The glow-up gets real and forces her to focus on making her dreams come true and taking care of her daughter. In her mind all men have to offer is heartbreak and pain until she meets Isaac Mathews, a well-known actor. Isaac is a ladies' man who is known to bed every woman he encounters. Tired of the playboy image that has developed over time, he realizes he is a part of his own stagnation.

When veterinarian and dog lover Holly Blake realizes a dogfighting ring is stealing dogs in her town, there’s no way she’s sitting idly by. Once she starts asking questions, she finds herself—and her little boy—in danger from the ruthless thugs that run it. Ex-Army Ranger Mason Andrews’s new assignment has him undercover as a small-town physician on the hunt for a dogfighting ring and protecting the local vet, Holly Blake. She’s beautiful, kind, and a mom. Just the type of woman he shouldn’t be interested in. Not with his past.

A show with 3 moms sitting around in the basement with nothing to talk about. Come join us on an adventure where no one knows what is going to be said and no one stays on topic! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Zia remembers the exact night the Shadoom arrived. One moment she was laughing with her best friends, and the next a dark room of shadows had crept into her chest. Zia has always loved words, but she can’t find a real one for the fear growing inside her. How can you defeat something if you don’t know its name? After Zia’s mom announces that her grouchy Greek yiayia is moving into their tiny apartment, the Shadoom seems here to stay. Until Zia discovers an old family heirloom: the C. Scuro Dictionary, 13th Edition.

Bandit Ochoa is between a rock and a hard place. His late grandfather willed his entire estate to Bandit—with one caveat—Bandit has to marry and stay married for a year before he can take possession of the estate. The issue? He doesn’t have any prospects, and with his stuttering, there isn’t a woman alive who would want him, but Winnie West has a solution, her friend Skye Alvarez. Skye didn’t pick a winner the last time she married, and Bandit’s confidence is nonexistent. Will they let their insecurities dictate the future, or will they realize they’re perfect together?

MI6 Agent Katrin Nissen is Winston Churchill's last hope to convince his government to let him mine the coast of Norway to prevent Hitler from reaching the iron ore reserves that will fuel the Nazi war machine. The proof Churchill needs is to be found in a beef processing plant in the coastal town of Kolding, Denmark. The strategy is simple. As the army gears up for the invasion, food supplies will move with them, and Churchill will be able to chart their path to the coast as they prepare to invade Norway.

In the ancient river kingdom, where touch is a battlefield and bodies the instruments of war, Mia Rose has pledged her life to hunting Gwyrach: women who can manipulate flesh, bones, breath, and blood. The same women who killed her mother without a single scratch. But when Mia's father announces an alliance with the royal family, she is forced to trade in her knives and trousers for a sumptuous silk gown. Mia plots a daring escape, but could never predict the greatest betrayal of all: her own body. Mia possesses the very magic she has sworn to destroy.

This is a place for you to find the information and support you need to make the transition to motherhood an empowering one.Together your hosts Kelly Wilkes and Bree Holling will combine evidence-based information with personal insight to help you heal from past experiences, make informed and empowered decisions, grow as individuals and mothers and find solidarity in this journey that is matrescence. Whether you are a mother, a birth worker or just a woman driven to be the best version of herself, as long as you like belly laughs, heart warming stories and over sharing, this is a place for you...