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I Am Me is a heartwarming book for young children that will help them familiarize with the concepts of identity and self-esteem by reenforcing positive self-image. It is great as a fun, story time book or a bedtime book to listen to with parents.

Callie Foster is at a loss for how to care for her twin daughters. She needs to come up with her copay so her girls can get new kidneys. Life of a single mom doesn’t leave much wiggle room in the budget for costly buys. Knowing her girls need life-saving care means she will do just about anything to help them. Dewayne Doyle is a computer genius. His dealings with women, on the other hand, are greatly lacking. He is absolutely clueless when it comes to female interactions. So he enlists his three buddies to help him out. Their plan, on the other hand, is to attend the auctions at Club Lust.

The American revolutionaries—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams—called themselves Patriots. But what exactly did it mean to be a Patriot? Historian Amy Watson locates the origins of Patriotism in British politics of the early eighteenth century, showing that the label "Patriot" was first adopted by a network of British politicians with radical ideas about the principles and purpose of the British Empire.

The war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic, artists armed with paint, canvas, and wax played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals.

Luella lives in a quiet village near the border of the land of the humans and the realm of magic, where the townsfolk keep its heavy secret: The elves come for war or wives. Once every generation, the Elf King enters Luella's village to take a bride to be his Human Queen, fulfilling a centuries-old treaty that prevents the destruction of humanity itself. Luella never thought she’d be that woman. Independent, caring, and fiercely devoted to her people, she’s content in her quiet life as a humble herbalist.

Floriane's position as the forge maiden of Hunter’s Hamlet is one of reverence, for it is her skill that arms and protects the vampire hunters. She knows her place and is a faithful servant to the Master Hunter and her community . . . until the night of the blood moon. Until her brother is dying at the hands of the Vampire Lord Ruvan. Wanting to defend her home at all costs, Floriane fights the vampire lord, ready to give her life if it means taking his. But Ruvan doesn’t want to take her life . . . he wants her.

Katria did not marry Lord Fenwood for love: Her cruel family married her off to a rich man to save their faded fortunes. And Katria, hoping to escape her family, accepts her fate. But that fate is soon revealed to be something more magical than a marriage of convenience. Her new husband is a man of secrets: He warns Katria to stay away from the woods. He forbids her from entering certain rooms in his grand mansion. He tells her to not ask too many questions about the strange sounds in the night. And, most perplexing of all, he refuses to let Katria see him.

Elizabeth Bennet—shocked, dismayed, and emotional following Mr Darcy’s offensive proposal in Hunsford parsonage—makes a flippant remark to her friend Charlotte Collins. She observes that, given Mr Darcy’s disdain for her family, accepting him would be the worst punishment imaginable for him, for then he would be forever connected to the very people he so despised. She speaks in jest…but Mrs Collins fears she might be serious.

Victoria risks everything to leave a dangerous marriage and gain a second chance at life. But when her escape goes awry, she finds herself caught in the strong embrace of a mysterious siren, forced to choose: temporary salvation or immediate death. And so, a cursed deal is struck. Five years later, Victoria is alive—and the world’s finest ship captain. But her debt to the siren looms while her conniving ex has demanded a king’s ransom as the final price of her freedom.

As one of the last surviving witches, Faelyn’s sole duty is to keep the protective barriers on the forests where the lykin roam—creatures who can shed flesh for fur—sparing nearby humans from their violent, beastly natures. When she has an unlikely encounter with the rare, primordial spirit of the moon, Faelyn finds herself not only the object of the Wolf King’s desire, but essential to his ability to keep his crown.

Join Blix Windway, an adventurous lady traveler, on a journey down the Nile in 1924. An eclectic mix of passengers boards the steamer, including a captain of industry, a former stunt-girl reporter turned lady of the manor, an archaeologist, an American teacher, a British doctor and his invalid wife, and a German photographer. When a passenger is found dead, the elegant cruise turns into a floating crime scene. With everyone confined on board, tensions rise and secrets surface.

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, returns to the format that made her a cultural force with her raw and intense memoir that explores darker themes. Audible Editor Kat talks with Gilbert about her investigation of grief and addiction in All the Way to the River, including the moving and meditative process of recording her own audiobook.

Tuesday West had a charmed life—until a tragic accident changed everything. In an instant, Tuesday's life is altered when she is left paralyzed from the waist down. What should be a crushing blow, however, does not break her spirit. Living in the enchanting town of Middle Falls, Oregon—where second chances are not just a possibility but a promise—Tuesday discovers she is uniquely equipped to face every challenge. With an unending supply of determination, she refuses to let her accident define her.

Ivy Livingstone has entrée into Washington DC’s political elite, lives in an exclusive neighborhood and sends her son to a sought-after private school. But her beautiful life is a gilded cage. She is independent, but alone. And unfortunately, very few men are confident enough to believe they are in Ivy’s league. Eli Thomason has all the confidence in the world, except when it comes to his own judgment about women. And his attraction to Ivy Livingstone proves him right. She is everything he shouldn’t want: a woman above his station and beyond his means.

Raised in chaos and violence, I carried my wounds into early motherhood, young, overwhelmed, and repeating the very patterns I swore I’d never pass on. I screamed. I hit. I walked away when they needed me most. And eventually, I gave up custody of the children I loved more than anything. This is not a redemption story with a neat bow. It’s a raw, unflinching memoir about what it takes to break generational cycles from the inside out. About failing -deeply- and still choosing to come back. About learning how to parent with intention after years of surviving on instinct.

Paris, 1995: It's been five years since Lily Jacobsen and her best friend Mary Louise arrived from their small town of Froid, Montana. When Mary Louise abruptly moves out, Lily feels alone in the City of Light for the first time and is in need of a new way to support herself. She lands a job as the programs manager at the American Library in Paris, following in the footsteps of her French neighbour Odile, who infused her childhood with tales of heroic World War II librarians.

Aeon Victoria Blackwell has lived her life with a speeding heart that has caused it to ache. Love is something that she wants but never thinks she’ll find. How can someone chase a heart that’s beating too fast? If no pulse deems you dead, then what does too fast of a pulse mean? When she meets Declan Michael Phillips, Jr., will he be the right medication to slow her pulse down just enough to catch her? When the pulse of true soulmates sync, the only thing that can happen is pure love.

Nothing about Mariah Clinton’s passion for archery or her work as a sous-chef in contemporary London prepares her for the moment she’s pulled into another time—and another life. One minute, she’s stepping into McQuivey’s Costume Shop to rent a medieval gown. The next, she’s standing in a castle kitchen in twelfth-century Nottingham—with no idea how she got there or how to return to modern time. Forced to pose as a kitchen servant, she must draw on ingenuity and courage to survive in a world in which she shouldn’t exist.

Green witch Rhianne Alkenn is trading city lights for country nights. Well, more like a hinterland mystery—she's teaming up with Grandpa to untangle a thorny situation: a murder within the dryad community and a vanished teen. Add to that the sparky tension between Isobel, the pathologist with secrets, and Nel, Rhianne's incubus best friend. Their dynamic is about to explode, revealing truths that might just be too hot for Nel to handle. Oh, and murderous trees? It’s a thing. Welcome to the countryside—where the scenery is breathtaking and the mysteries deadly.

After seven wild days of giving her body to others, Tabby comes home with one thing left to surrender—herself. In this raw, emotional, and filthy 10,000-word finale, her husband welcomes her back the only way he knows how: slow, deep, and rough enough to make her cry. What begins as a tender reunion becomes an unrelenting, lip-biting, bed-soaking reclaiming of the woman who offered herself to the world… and now belongs only to him. Worship turns to wreckage. Love turns to lust. And Tabby? She’s never been more his.