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While traversing the universe in pursuit of adventure, profit, and pleasure, the characters in these stories are prone to explore the bodies of the neighboring life forms they meet as much as the planetary bodies. Greta Bowles explores just a few possible encounters and interactions between different species as they interact. The stories involve smuggling, marauding space pirates who enslave their captives, and official trade missions to other worlds.

Once a gifted ballet dancer, Julia Costell buckled under the demands of a professional dance career, and has landed with a thud in an unglamorous job as a guidance counselor at a performing arts high school. Living back home with her parents and feeling lost, she is afraid she’ll never soar again...until the day young Dell Jordan is sent to her office, carrying an essay. In Dell’s writing, Julia sees luminous sparks of hope. But as she fights to forge a brighter future for one disadvantaged student, she's drawn into startling undercurrents of conflict and denial within the academy.

Navigating racial identity, gender roles, workplace dynamics, and beauty standards, Mia Mercado's hilarious essay collection explores the contradictions of being a millennial woman, which usually means being kind of a weirdo.

Mit ihrem besten Freund Julius kümmert sich die selbsternannte Tierquäler-Polizistin Nelly um vernachlässigte Tiere in der Nachbarschaft. Klar, dass die beiden sofort zur Stelle sind, als sie sehen, wie eine echte Weltraumrakete Juliusʼ Meerschweinchen entführt! Prompt werden sie von der Rakete ins All mitgerissen und landen nach einem rasanten Flug auf dem Planeten Wummerding - mitten im intergalaktischen Zoo von Professor Adamar Tull, der hier Tieren von jedem Stern ein Zuhause gibt.

I've had a crush on Stefanie, my best friend's older sister, since I was 15. As a geeky gamer with a bad case of acne, she was totally out of my league. But I'm all grown up now, with a medical degree and an in-depth knowledge of female anatomy I'm not afraid to use. When we cross paths again I finally get my chance to live out a few teenage fantasies and prove I can be her guy. I just have to convince Stef to take a chance.

Lianna Mercier has everything. She’s beautiful, well-educated, her father is rich, powerful - and she works for him. The perfect little princess, raised to be just like daddy. But it’s all a lie. A bloody, screwed up lie, and David Gethen is about to tear it all down and destroy Lianna in the process. He wants revenge, he wants to finish the plan his father started years ago - but after he takes her, after he tortures her, he begins to realize just how wrong he may have been.

Love isn't easy for a man raised on hate. Plain and simple. When David took Lianna Mercier to destroy her, he didn't know that he’d fall for her. A mistake he'd happily make again...because now she's his entire world. But he's not the only monster at her door. She's still heir to a family name steeped in blood and violence, a criminal family that she's too innocent to face alone, and they're coming for her. He'll die before he lets her go, because losing her will only end one way - with him eating a bullet. The only problem is...can he even ask her to choose him after all he's done?

Do you think of alcoholism as a mental illness or a choice? My name is Vanessa and I am an alcoholic. This is my story about how alcoholism affected my life and the truth about how I was treated during my deepest moments of despair. This is not just a happily-ever-after story, although the end result is recovery. It’s a truthful account of the decade I lost through drinking, the ridiculous situations I got myself into, and the judgement I received from all and how it still affects my life now, years into sobriety.

Judy is a shy, reserved, frustrated young girl home alone for a week with nothing to do. A magazine article full of “fun ideas” challenges her to cook, sing, dance, and play, while wearing only socks...Judy takes the challenge and soon finds she absolutely loves being naked. Unexpectedly, her best friend returns home early, and rather than bring an end to her fun, her best friend joins her in her new “socks only” lifestyle...leading to the discovery of feelings that the two did not know they had, and days and nights of intimate, passionate, orgasmic fun.

From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair and isolation in order to lodge their protests. In A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, DaMaris Hill honours their experiences with at times harrowing, at times hopeful responses to her heroes.

In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people - even those she loves and trusts most - don’t want that to happen.

Interplanetary trade can be sexy. Our Commerce Union needed their Feelinite; the leaders of this planet wanted our help and were willing to trade for it. Fortunately, their leaders are all women, and they needed my help in dealing with their males. That's something I know about, both as a marine and a woman. Seeing how these guys are extremely well-hung, it's an assignment I can throw myself into with some enthusiasm.

Legendary recording artist Mia X was the first lady of multi-platinum record label No Limit Records. Her cookbook/memoir is filled with memories from her childhood and all the way through her musical career, as well as sharing some of her delicious recipes. The cookbook/memoir is an ode to her late grandmother, whom she fondly calls Mamaw. Mamaw had a big hand in raising Mia. Things My Grandma Told Me, Things My Grandma Showed Me will have you laughing, crying, quoting Mamaw, and cooking.

Space pirates are bad news, right? But what if they are smoking hot and you find out that any physical contact sets your body on fire - and theirs too? Sal and Donna think the blue males who boarded their ship are the hottest things they've ever seen. Until they showed up their cargo ship was as much fun as a woman's prison. But pirates are bad news, right? So they probably ought to stop them. Somehow.

Hanni und Nanni war gestern - hier kommen die Trabbel-Drillinge. Als eineiiger Drilling auf die Welt zu kommen, ist wie im Lotto zu gewinnen - die Wahrscheinlichkeit liegt bei 1:200 Millionen. Dieses große Los haben Franka, Vicky und Bella gezogen. Sie sind berühmt. Doch seit ihre Mutter Babs die drei in einem Kaff versteckt, heißt es Glamour adé. Denn Babs' Bio-Hotel läuft nicht, und die Drillinge müssen sich mit verirrten Schafen, Omas Instagram-Träumen und unmöglichen Stiefvätern herumschlagen.

Tämä Charles Dickensin klassikko on ollut erottamaton osa brittiläistä jouluperinnettä jo 150 vuoden ajan. Kertomus on oikeastaan kummitustarina, mutta positiivisessa mielessä: haamut saapuvat antamaan opetuksen sydämettömälle kitupiikille ja rahanlainaajalle Ebenezer Scroogelle. On jouluaatto, kun Scrooge saa vierailijan edesmenneen liikekumppaninsa Jacob Marleyn kärsivästä haamusta sekä kolmesta hengestä, jotka edustavat menneisyyden, nykyisyyden ja tulevaisuuden jouluja. Näin alkaa oppitunti anteliaisuudesta ja inhimillisyydestä, jotka kuuluvat joulun todelliseen henkeen.

Once upon a time, a girl saved my life. I was p*ss-drunk, high as a kite, and about to jump from a bridge. She stopped me. I told her to f--k off. Exactly how all great love stories start. A year later, I met her again. Sober this time, after yet another stint in rehab. She’s still pretty, still a spitfire, still lights up a room when she walks in. And she doesn’t realize I’m the guy from the bridge. Frankie doesn’t know anything about me or my past. She doesn’t know I’m a former rock star or an ex-junkie. She doesn’t know that two years ago, someone died and it was my fault.

Twenty million dollars' worth of missing gems bring Carrie Singleton's long-lost and larcenous dad back into her life, and it's up to Carrie to clear his name.

Brooks Carter is wild, reckless, and the youngest stock car driver on the professional circuit. He’s the one everyone’s gunning for when they’re not hoping for his failure at every turn. But Brooks is too hot to be left in the dust by anyone. Even with masses of female fans, Brooks only has eyes for one woman - Faith Ridley. Unfortunately, she’s the little sister of his biggest rival, who also happens to be the most notorious hothead on the track.

Nuori kotiopettajatar Melita on lukenut voodoosta jonkin verran. Eräänä yönä hän päätyy uteliaisuuttaan kasvokkain voodoorituaalin kanssa. Keskellä yötä orjat toimittavat uskonnollista rituaaliaan, kunnes yksi heistä – vanha nainen – huomaa Melitan. Hän huudahtaa jotain kielellä, jota Melita ei ymmärrä. Sitten hän käskee Melitaa pelastamaan Comte Ettiennen varmalta tuholta.