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It’s been decades since I first fell in love with Alden. We met in school — he was the hot soccer player everyone wanted, and I couldn’t believe he picked me… mousy Fern Green. Every time we break it off, we somehow end up back together. Alden says there’s no other woman like me, and he knows me better than anyone else. So why aren’t we together? A question I ask myself every day.

When Jack, Megan, and their friends stumble upon a secret chamber inside a Scottish mansion, they never imagine it will transport them halfway across the world—and over a century into the past! Suddenly, they're swept into the dusty streets of 1800s Kimberley, South Africa, surrounded by carnival chaos, diamond mines, and an encounter with a baboon. But not everything is as it seems. With their only way home tied to the mysterious doorbells they keep discovering, the kids must navigate this unfamiliar land, dodge danger, and place their trust in a stranger with a wild past and a heart of gold.

Becoming a new parent is daunting enough without having to contend with comments and advice from seemingly every corner. It's so easy to become overwhelmed, and too easy to feel like you're failing. So what pearls of wisdom should new mums actually be listening to? How do you sift through it all and know what to trust? Gloriously comforting and extremely honest, Mother to Mother is an open invitation to find five minutes of peace and solitude with people who can help - other mums.

I proudly dedicate this English-French edition to my 11-year-old self. As a survivor of ritualized mental cruelty and sexual abuse, I have always found strength and solace in the power of my words. In this collection of poems, Resilience, I boldly weave dark tales of strength—a living testament to the extraordinary ability of the human spirit to conquer even the most formidable challenges. From the whispered prayers of a child to the triumphant cries of an adult, these poems explore the profound strength within each of us.

Are you ready to explore the untamed forces that patriarchy tried to erase? Have you ever wondered what Lilith truly represents beyond myths and distortions? Do you feel the call of the sacred feminine that refuses to be silenced? Would you dare to meet the part of yourself that never asked for permission?

Maud - a judo-suit wearing guinea pig and proud weirdo - is off into the wild, as is Kit, her owner. Both are slightly nervous about what they'll find in the great outdoors, but with a pinch of bravery - and a few Signature Moves - they'll make new friends and explore new worlds.

This anthology explores the fourth dimension by taking a step past the known into the unknown.

On the ground, Cecil Pepper and his wife race against radioactive death, searching frantically for a bunker that might spare them from the inferno raining from above. But even if they can find shelter, an inescapable realization dawns: Walls of concrete and steel may shield them from fallout, but not from the horrors evolving in this new, forsaken world.

At thirty years old and unmarried, Vesta Blonik’s future looks bleak when her widowed father remarries, sells the family farm, and moves away during the depths of the Great Depression, leaving her behind. With winter approaching, she seeks shelter with her brother Josef and his wife, Eva, in a nearby town. The two women start a laundry business to make ends meet, but when Eva announces she’ s expecting a baby, Vesta realizes she must forge her own path

A devastated world. A desperate colony. As Earth’s destruction approaches, bridgers Infinity Fowler and Desmond Weaver wrestle with the fact that eight billion people are about to die. While on the road to see Desmond’s mother one last time, they witness chaos like nothing they’ve ever seen. Infinity and Desmond must fight their way back to SafeTrek to fulfill their primary duty—saving the human species. Their next mission: bridge 718 civic leaders to an alternate world.

Bienvenidos a Phantasma. En este juego solo hay dos reglas: sobrevive… y no te enamores. Cuando la hermana de Ophelia desaparece, solo hay una forma de salvarla. Ophelia deberá entrar en Phantasma, una competición mortal dentro de una mansión encantada, y reclamar su premio: un único deseo. Phantasma es un laberinto de pasillos sinuosos y salones de baile, de demonios y tentaciones. Ophelia deberá hacer frente a nueve retos, cada uno más peligroso que el anterior. Solo puede haber un ganador, y los otros participantes no se detendrán ante nada para eliminar a sus rivales.

Punching Above Your Weight: How to Use AI Without Losing Your Mind Written and narrated by Ryan J. Smith What if AI isn’t the end of your job, but the start of your edge? Written in one week and recorded with grit, Punching Above Your Weight is part memoir, part manifesto — a crash course in using AI to scale your clarity, courage, and impact.

Hey, it’s not that hard for a cop to solve crimes if he can time-travel back a week and apprehend crooks before they even walk into the bank. Detective Aaron Mathews, the iPod’s new unsuspecting victim, sniffs around to track down its former owners, and begins to realize God is demanding a whole lot more of him than just lucky junkets to Atlantic City. His hard-boiled agnosticism begins to thaw as he witnesses the Columbine killings up close, and is sorely tempted to undo America’s first mass shooting.

Get Used to Different is a nine-week devotional Bible study for students who long to know more about who they are in Christ, how to follow Him in light of that knowledge, and how to let Jesus lead them in their interactions with those around them.

Bren’s life had been destroyed when his family was killed by an unprovoked attack while on a cave expedition for Crag Home. After he found his way home, alone, the leadership of the city refused to see him. He left in anger, grief, and confusion to start a new life in Drakemere. It was great for a long time until Chaos descended and threw his life into disarray once more. Unexpectedly, the King of Crag Home was found, hiding as a chef in a kitchen in his new city. Somehow, he knows Zacharon, the architect of Drakemere’s plunge into anarchy.

Rae Donovan thought she had love all figured out … until, after a tragic accident, her high school sweetheart Luke left town, breaking her heart. In the decades since, Rae has put the past behind her, content with her quiet life working at the local bakery her family started in the charming mountain town of Alpine Ridge. But when Luke returns, Rae's world is turned upside down. Luke McMillan never forgot his first love, even as duty took him far from home, and tragedy made him a single father.

Chris e Maia si incontrano una prima volta dopo un quasi incidente (il che non si può certo definire un buon inizio) e anche la seconda non è proprio un granché. Ma abitando per tutta l'estate uno accanto all'altra, quasi inevitabilmente finiscono per frequentarsi e, giorno dopo giorno, imparano a conoscersi, diventando via via più intimi. Eppure non riescono a dirsi davvero tutto. Le loro storie, infatti, sono di quelle difficili da raccontare. Chris è stanco di sentirsi sbagliato perché gli altri non riescono a incasellarlo.

Come visit Alpine Ridge, a small town deep in the Cascade mountains of Washington state, where four love stories and so much more unfolds, now with exclusive bonus material.

Tutto ciò che Eden vorrebbe è mandare indietro le lancette dell'orologio per rivivere quel giorno. Perché, se potesse, farebbe tutto diversamente: ignorerebbe il modo in cui lui la guardava, non riderebbe alle sue battute. E sicuramente chiuderebbe a chiave la porta della camera da letto. Ma Eden non può tornare indietro nel tempo, non può impedire che il migliore amico di suo fratello abusi di lei, e così seppellisce la verità, insieme alla semplice ragazza del liceo che era. Finge di non aver bisogno degli amici, di non aver bisogno dell'amore, di non aver bisogno che venga fatta giustizia.

In The Last Light with the Boys, Prescott "Puck" Smith delivers a powerful Vietnam War memoir that offers a firsthand account of one soldier’s journey through one of history’s most complex and controversial conflicts. From his early days as a Sacramento schoolteacher to becoming an infantry officer, Smith brings listeners into the heart of his military memoir, where war experiences quickly become a life-altering reality.