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Not all that is right comes from the gods. Sometimes, they demand much that is wrong. Liana and her twin are an anomaly at the heart of a kingdom bound by unyielding tradition. The crown princess is the first female marked as Herkun's heir, and her existence has unfortunate consequences. When her uncle leads a coup with the intent to kill her, Liana and her twin brother are spirited away to a place where not even the stars are the same.

Listeners are invited to sit back and enjoy this collection of classic Yuletide tales....

When Brynn and her best friends, Peyton and Raven, stumble over a dead body at her aunt's grand opening party for the B&B, they already have plenty of suspects in mind. But when Chief Baedie threatens to shut down Aunt Aggie's B&B before it even opens on Christmas Eve, the girls, along with Jinx the cat, decide to solve the case on their own. Using the skills they acquired on their last case, they set out on a whirlwind adventure trying to piece together the one clue they found.

A Baker’s Dozen - A collection of 13 classic Christmas stories.

A collection of one-acts by the Pulitzer-winning playwright, including Close the Book, Suppressed Desires, Tickless Time, Woman's Honor, The People, and Trifles.

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live out your life in someone else's shoes? To experience what they feel, see and believe as if you were them? Strange events take hold of Sophia and she discovers herself transported to another world in which she finds herself caught up in supernatural events which can be shattering and horrifying, yet often emotional and moving too.

It’s going to be “the biggest hoss race in the world”! Homesteaders are set to race on horseback, in gigs and wagons, and even by train to stake their claim in the Cherokee Strip, the last bit of Oklahoma territory opened for settlement in 1893. For 15-year-old Becky Fletcher and her family, it's the Promised Land: their last chance for a farm they can live on free and clear. But no journey to the Promised Land is without trials, and the Fletchers soon run into setbacks. Each difficulty tests Becky’s inclination to further her own and her family's interests at all costs.

Most of us know our sun sign. But our sun sign is only half the picture, the daytime, public half. Your natal moon sign represents the deeper aspect of who you are, your private, intuitive self, that part of you connected to the collective unconscious. It symbolizes your emotions, the depth of your intuition, your capacity for recognizing synchronicity, and

Fifteen-year-old Cole McCabe hides his secret well. Six years of sexual abuse and now, a murder. Fear and shame have kept him quiet, but when Cole finds out one of his parents knew what was happening to him and did nothing to stop it, he devises a plan to humiliate and hurt them, just like he was for so long. Will they confess their deepest, darkest sin to save the life of their only son, knowing it will destroy their own?

Regina, trained to find the dregs of humanity, trained to kill, is forced into vacation because her peers are getting murdered. At first, the massive cruise vessel she chooses as her resort destination seems...tolerable, and then, in the span of a few hours, everyone disappears, thousands of passengers vanish. As Regina explores the ship, not only does she discover pile after pile of clothing and no bodies, she finds a fear not felt for years.

This volume relates the stories of the Borgias and the Cenci. The former, a family of Spanish adventurers, came to dominate the Italian peninsula, and, when Rodergio Borgia became Pope Alexander VI, the world of Christendom, in the late 15th century. The Cenci was an aristocratic family, in which rampant sexual and domestic abuse led to murder and very public execution.

She was just looking for a relaxing break. Moria Donovan has just finished her latest book, and as a treat is sent to the beautiful island of St. Lucia for a much needed vacation. What she wasn’t expecting to find was the handsome New York bar owner. Feeling an instant connection, she throws caution to the wind and takes a chance getting to know him. Yet the more she gets to know Cord, the more she feels herself falling for the man. But this is just a holiday fling, right? There’s no way that they could make a go of this. She lives in DC and he lives in New York.

Time Is on Your Side tells the compelling story of a handful of characters. Alison is a beautiful, dedicated high school history teacher who, as she approaches middle age, having never been married nor having had any children, is beginning to feel like the happily-ever-after relationship ending that she had always hoped for may be a pipe dream.

Keira Gully has always felt different. But when her family dies in a tragic accident, she discovers the terrifying truth. To put her life together, she holds a memorial for her family, except distant relatives send her cryptic warnings to not touch the dead. She ignores their insanity and helps a dying man at the grave site. But when she senses his spirit return to his body, she remembers the warning.

Sandi is just a girl, a mom, a lover...and now a killer. There is only one chance left to sabotage the opposition that seeks to annihilate democracy and the republic. This counter-coup fits Sandi like a glove. If Sandi succeeds, not only will the power and basic services will be restored, but our way of life as well. If Sandi fails, many will fall. Either way, someone's going to get their heart broken. Either way, someone's going to die! This is the long-awaited finale of destruction, revenge, and blood. Will hope win out in the end?

Inga manages to escape from a house of terror where she was held as a sex slave along with other girls who were kidnapped. She is chased into the woods and runs onto the road, almost falling under the wheels of an approaching car. She thought, it would be better to die that way than to return to her captors. The driver of the car, to her surprise, saves her. He brings her to his house and introduces her to his family: his mother, his father, and his younger sister.

In January 1975, President Gerald Ford signed into law HR 17045 of the Health and Human Services, which gave birth to the Child Support Enforcement Program. This is a federal-state program whose purpose was to help strengthen families by securing financial support for children from their noncustodial parents....

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was one of the first crime novelists and paved the way for later female writers of detective novels, like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh. Among her prolific output are twelve novels featuring her main character, detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force. This collection contains the third group of three novels in the series: Initials Only (1911), One of My Sons (1901), and The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (1917).

Orphaned and alone in antebellum New Orleans, Fiona Riley promises a dying friend she will raise the woman's child as her own. But without a job and a roof over their heads, Fiona fears for their lives. When a letter arrives announcing that relatives in a bayou town are searching for their long-lost cousin, Fiona finds the answer to her prayers, even if it means deceiving others to survive. Emile Dugas knew she was lying the moment he set eyes on Fiona Riley, an Irish immigrant trying to pose as his distant Cajun cousin. But how could he resist?

Carlo Collodi's whimsical recasting of the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea was first published in 1883 and has since become an established classic of children's literature. Geppetto, a poor wood carver, receives a piece of wood from which he carves a marionette. Much to his surprise, the puppet springs to life and embarks on a wild series of adventures.