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Gemma Summers is unlucky in love. She's known it since third grade, when her first crush blew a spitball into her hair, and a decade-long string of bad dates, boring sex, and abysmal morning afters has done nothing to improve her prospects. But when a random radio call-in contest lands her courtside tickets to the hottest playoff game of the season, Gemma's luck may finally be on the upswing, even if it doesn't exactly seem like it when the dreaded Jumbotron kiss cam lands on her and her date.

Zoe Bloom has her life figured out. After a childhood spent begging for scraps on Boston street corners, she's clawed her way to a successful career and a safe place to call home. She knows exactly what she needs to survive - a bit of money in the bank, a roof over her head, food on the table. Friends and family are a luxury she can't afford. And forget about frivolous romantic entanglements. She can barely juggle her own problems; she certainly doesn't have time to handle anyone else's crap.

Shelby Hunt has the perfect life, married to the perfect man. At least, that's what anyone would think, looking at her. They couldn't possibly know about the past five years of lonely nights, or the divorce papers still sitting unsigned on her husband's desk, or the shady business practices he's brought home on more than one occasion - often in the form of scary men with loaded guns and briefcases full of laundered cash.

As owner of an occult shop in downtown Salem, Massachusetts, she's accustomed to all things odd and otherworldly. But when a bloody animal sacrifice is left as a warning outside her place of business, the police seem to think Gwen might be the target of some truly evil-doers. Suddenly, her sunny existence is riddled with danger in the form of crazed pagans, rogue employees, and nefarious henchmen. There's only one man who can protect her until the storm passes.

For Delilah Sinclair, catching a man's attention has never been a problem. It's the part that comes later - the happily-ever-after part - that always seems to trip her up. All her friends may be settling down, but this fiery redhead has no intentions of ever being tamed...Until she meets a man just as wild. Luca "Blaze" Buchanan is the best fighter to come out of Boston in years. Men want to be him, women want to be with him, and no one smart ever bets against him.

Phoebe West has been head-over-heels in love with her brother's best friend for as long as she can remember. Not that he's bothered to notice. Despite several mortifying attempts at seduction and a decade's worth of unrequited pining, nothing Phoebe does seems to make any impact on the man she's obsessed over since her bra-stuffing days. She knows that it's time to let him go, though just the thought is nearly enough to shatter her.

Magic and adventure swirl through this spellbinding romantasy where a young woman reignites the embers of an ancient prophecy, unleashing a storm that could save her realm or doom them all.

From stories of first love, unrequited love, love that surprises, love that’s been there all along, 10 of the brightest and award-winning authors writing YA have taken on some of your favorite romantic tropes, embracing them and turning them on their heads. Listeners will fall for this collection of stories that celebrate love at its most humorous, inclusive, heart-expanding, and serendipitous.

Imogen Warner has spent ten years running scared. After a childhood in the spotlight, the clairvoyant left home at fifteen without looking back. In the decade since, she's moved from place to place like a ghost, keeping her head down, her powers hidden, and her name out of the newspapers. Anonymity is no longer an option when she finds herself in Salem, Massachusetts.

Inspired by classic fairy tales, but with a dark and sinister twist, Grim contains short stories from some of the best voices in young adult literature today: Ellen Hopkins, Amanda Hocking, Julie Kagawa, Claudia Gray, Rachel Hawkins, Kimberly Derting, Myra McEntire, Malinda Lo, Sarah Rees-Brennan, Jackson Pearce, Christine Johnson, Jeri Smith Ready, Shaun David Hutchinson, Saundra Mitchell, Sonia Gensler, Tessa Gratton, Jon Skrovron.

In war-torn Anwyvn, fear of maegic plagues every corner of the kingdom and halflings like Rhya Fleetwood are hunted and killed. When Rhya is sentenced to death, her execution is interrupted by an unexpected saviour, The mysterious Commander Scythe. But he is far more terrifying than the hangman’s noose. In the clutches of this new enemy, Rhya finds herself fighting for her life in the barren Northlands. Yet the further they travel, the more she learns that nothing is as it seems. For Rhya is no ordinary halfling.

Based on extensive research and workplace experience, The Female Vision demonstrates that what women perceive in organizations and beyond that goes unnoticed and unrewarded is exactly what so many companies need to succeed. Helgeson and Johnson delve deeply into the stories of a number of women whose vision improved their companies - although often they had to struggle not only against unresponsive organizations, peers, or others, but also against their own personal fears.

An international best seller ranked number one in six different business and finance categories, Your Dollars, Our Sense is your go-to guide for decoding the essentials of life and money. It makes sense of a variety of topics including credit, saving priorities, investing, home ownership, insurance, marriage, children, retirement, estate planning, and much more.

Three men are trapped in time. One woman could save them all. Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region's quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows about life - and about her husband's death.

This guide, How to Teach Drama to Kids, will take someone unsure of the main principles of teaching theatre arts to various ages, through the basic categories and components principally considered to be the heart of the study of drama.

This book outlines specific strategies to market a home care business.

Saturn. The Ringed Planet. Harbinger of ideas and wonder. The planet that gave birth to the modern era of science envisioning the myriad of multi-colored rings circling the planet, one of the reasons for the invention of the telescope, and the second largest in our solar system. These are the stories of Saturn, the great Titan. Tales of time, age, and endings.

Sie ist die letzte Windweberin. Das Schicksal der Welt liegt in ihren Händen. Niemand darf wissen, dass Rhya ein Halbling ist – halb Fae, halb Mensch. Denn Fae werden in Anwyn gnadenlos verfolgt. Rhya hat ihre spitzen Ohren ihr ganzes Leben versteckt, bis ihr Dorf niedergebrannt und ihr Adoptivvater getötet wurde. Sie kann fliehen, gerät jedoch in die Fänge eines feindlichen Generals. Schnell merkt sie, dass der verschlossene General seine ganz eigene Agenda verfolgt. Er ist desertiert, und inzwischen sind ihnen fast alle Armeen Anwyns auf den Fersen.

Anwyvn, déchiré par la guerre, est en proie à la peur de la magie. Les halflings comme Rhya Fleetwood sont tués à vue. Mais l'exécution de Rhya est interrompue par un sauveur inattendu, bien plus terrifiant que ses tueurs potentiels, le mystérieux et mercenaire commandant Scythe. Entre les griffes de ce nouvel ennemi, Rhya se retrouve à lutter pour sa vie dans les étendues arides des Terres du Nord. Pourtant, plus elle s'éloigne de chez elle, plus elle apprend que rien n'est ce qu'il semble être–ni son redoutable ravisseur, ni le fléau qui ravage son royaume moribond, ni même elle-même.

Sie ist das dunkle Geheimnis der königlichen Familie - doch sie wird niemals ihre Marionette sein. Emilia Lancaster hätte nie gedacht, dass sie eines Tages Kronprinzessin sein würde - eine Rolle, die sie niemals wollte und auf die sie nie vorbereitet wurde. Ihr neues Leben im Palast könnte der Anfang eines Märchens sein, doch Emilia merkt schnell, dass sie von Intrigen und Machtspielen umgeben ist. Ganz besonders Carter Thorne scheint ihre bloße Anwesenheit als Provokation zu empfinden. Anders kann sich Emilia seine dunklen Blicke, die sie beinahe körperlich spüren kann, nicht erklären.