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Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a writer, or to find love, but she has let it get in the way of being in the same room with someone chewing food loudly and of cleaning her bathroom sink. In I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, Kurchak examines the Byzantine steps she took to become “an autistic success story”, how the process almost ruined her life, and how she is now trying to recover. 

In a world of sword and sorcery, Breck died and was reborn as a dungeon core, a specialized living gem in charge of creating and managing a dungeon. Unlike most dungeons, he was handicapped with the inability to create bones, the very building blocks that comprise most living creatures. Breck just wants his life back, his humanity, and will do whatever it takes to achieve his goal.  

Get ready to put your feet on the dash, turn up the music, and travel in a 1969 Mini Cooper with two witty, laugh out loud sisters in this romantic comedy. A heart-warming tale of misadventures, music, soul-searching, love, and a rescue dog named Lone-Lee. Mar and Joan have always had an unbreakable bond. More than sisters, they are best friends. When a life-changing event tries to drag Joan down, her headstrong and playful little sister, Mar, comes to the rescue. The only cure - an epic road trip from California to New York.

It should be easy to step into the position her mother left for her, since everyone thought she died the day her kingdom was destroyed. But staying hidden - remaining 'nobody' - is simpler than accepting her dark past, enduring her harrowing fate, and claiming her broken crown. This series is a detailed world full of legends and myths given flesh, and a princess chosen to save them all. 

An exciting, thrilling, complete mail order bride box set! Book 1 - A Montana Bride; Book 2 - A Southern Bride; Book 3 - A Utah Bride; Book 4 - A Southern Sweetheart. Warning: Listeners should be 18 or over due to mature content and language.

An exciting, thrilling, complete western romance novel. Sam Carlisle, the heir of one of the country’s most infamous ranches was raised to tend to his land and care for it above all else - even at the expense of himself. It was a full life, but a lonely one. Most of the girls Sam dated simply wanted to add the Carlisle name to their own. There weren’t many people who didn’t know the Carlisle’s out West, and every girl in town fantasized about the muscular, handsome rancher who was still an eligible bachelor.

Five months ago, an accident left Diana Sparrow badly injured and missing a few months of her memory. As if that's not enough, she's started having recurring nightmares about the night of the accident. Dreams that feel so real, she's left questioning: maybe she didn't just slide off the road into a ditch. Maybe, just maybe, she hit something. Or someone. She can't turn to her former best friend Val, who's been sleeping with Diana's husband Jonathan for months, but she might find some comfort in newcomer Cole Pelham. But is Cole connected to what happened that night?

Joanna was the epitome of a southern girl - beautiful, curvy, and as sweet as cherry pie. She always remained positive and happy, even without having much time outside of her work life. With little luck dating, Joanna decided to sign up for an email-order bride service, thinking little of it.

In the village of Liver-and-Onions, there was a Potato Face Blind Man who used to play an accordion on the corner near the post office. The sometime narrator of these tales, he transports readers and listeners to Rootabaga Country, where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, the pigs wear bibs, and the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind, looking like a little hat that you could wear on the end of your thumb. Carl Sandburg, the beloved folk chronicler and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, invented these stories for his own daughters.

From the beloved online advice column, Ask Baba Yaga is a collection of off-kilter, sometimes funny, and always strikingly honest advice, answering real reader questions about relationships, self-knowledge, and how to face our troubling world. Poet and author Taisia Kitaiskaia embodies the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, to provide poetic life advice to the questioning and the hurting in this audio collection of her books, Ask Baba Yaga and the all-new Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times.

Sharon, drowning in the debt of her deceased parents, is coming to the end of her rope. Even the debt consolidation company she was trying to work with was asking for too much each month. With few options left, she is considering going bankrupt. In times like this, she always turned to the one person she could rely on - her muscular, handsome best friend Clint. While at lunch, Sharon explains her situation to Clint, but he has a surprise of his own: in order for his grandfather to sign over the ranch to him, the old man demands Clint gets married.

She’s lost her ship, lost her job, lost her reputation, and is on the run from the law. Jez is a damn good pilot, and she’s always worked alone. Until she got picked up for smuggling, that is. Now she’s an ex-con and ex-employed, and there are plenty of people with old scores to settle. So when a mysterious stranger in a battered pilot's coat comes to her with an offer that sounds too good to be true, she reluctantly agrees to listen. All she has to do is fly one little job.

As queen of the Shadow Kingdom, Amala Ashcroft spent her days providing for her people whose skin shone as brilliant as a thousand stars. She was loved. Exalted. Treasured. Until a god descended upon their land. The god warned of a cloud of darkness approaching that would enslave her people and crush her reign. To save all she holds dear, Amala must strike deals with dangerous enemies and swear blood oaths to powerful allies.

Joanna was the epitome of a southern girl - beautiful, curvy, and as sweet as cherry pie. She always remained positive and happy, even without having much time outside of her work life. With little luck dating, Joanna decided to sign up for an email-order-bride service, thinking little of it. Awaiting her arrival was John, a handsome, muscular hunk with a stellar ranch. 

I live so that I can dream. I trudge through work so that I can go home and close my eyes, awakening in the real world - one where dreams really do come true. A place where I can fight a king instead of my ever-disappointed boss, where I’m a warrior instead of a glorified telemarketer. A place where I matter.

With a strange, otherworldly style, poetic clarity, and striking honesty, Ask Baba Yaga contains beautifully skewed wisdom to be consulted in times of need. In age-old Slavic fairy tales, the witch Baba Yaga is sought out by those with a burning need for guidance. In contemporary life, Baba Yaga - a dangerous, slippery oracle - answered earnest questions on The Hairpin for years. This is a collection of her most poignant, surreal, and humorous exchanges along with all-new questions and answers for those seeking her mystical advice.

Cindi Ella Lass didn't have a career in Paris, Texas in mind when she graduated with a degree in fashion, but her grandmother's offer of a place to live (free rent!) entices her to the small town. When she arrives, she notices the most beautiful pair of crystal shoes in the shop next door...and she can't get them out of her head.

Abby Callier is more in love with Shakespearean heroes than any real man, and she’s beginning to wonder if there is life for her outside the pages of a book. It doesn’t help that her esteemed parents tend to view her as they would one of their science experiments gone wrong. On the eve of finishing her dissertation, she escapes her staid existence to live in the house she inherited from her Great-Aunt Evie in the small town of Echo Springs, Colorado. Because, let’s face it, when a woman starts comparing her life to horror films, it might be time for a break.  

In this follow-up to Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles, award-winning writer Taisia Kitaiskaia once again embodies the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, to provide life advice to the questioning and the hurting. Answering real questions from readers, Baba Yaga provides responses in the form of short poems that are lyrical, surreal, sometimes funny, and always honest. Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times provides literary self-help for listeners who appreciate Baba Yaga's strange, surprising style, and striking honesty.

Alyssa is a fragile beauty who wants nothing more than to please her parents and help out on the farm. When her father falls ill, she pulls more than her weight, but it’s not enough. With a failing farm and money becoming scarce she needs to find another option to support her family. Out of desperation to provide for her family, she decides to become a mail order bride. What she doesn’t know is that Ethan, the man receiving her, is a rich, handsome hunk. However, living in a foreign land brings foreign challenges.