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Jason is my brother’s best friend. Also known as: completely off-limits, wildly inappropriate, and the reason I have trust issues with charming men who smirk for a living. He’s a hockey star with a busted knee and an ego to match. I’m a retired Olympian turned physical therapist with zero patience for cocky athletes—especially the ones I used to fantasize about in my twenties before he ghosted me with a wink and a margarita. Now? He’s injured. He needs help. And guess who got volun-told to fix him? That’s right. Me. Trapped in close quarters. With him.

Although they’d known each other for years, Becky did all she could to avoid Ben after what she thought was a failed teenage prank left her sour. Ben didn’t understand her feelings but steered clear of Becky as much as possible. Unfortunately, they shared the same friend group. When three paired-up friends are slated to be married in the spring, Ben proposes a plan to Becky: go as each other’s dates to keep their friends from nagging.

After defeating the Asura Andhaka and saving Earth from annihilation, Baron takes his rightful place as Varuna the Water God and sets his efforts toward undoing the devastation and desolation wreaked upon the once-beautiful divine realm of Agartha. But his days of peaceful toil are numbered. Another divinity threatens the fabric of existence, one far more insidious and powerful than any adversary Baron has faced before. Fortunately for him, he has a wise goddess, a mighty demoness, and a beautiful soldier-scientist on his side.

When Zora finds a metal orb that she can't identify, despite her experience as a welder and metallurgist, she posts about it online. Big mistake, as she, and the mysterious sphere, end up being abducted in the middle of the night and relocated to an underground cell in Area 51. There she meets Capricorn; hot dude, also a captive, and supposedly some kind of astral warrior. Laughable, right? That's what she thought, until they busted out and teleport to a tower halfway across the world!

For eons, the Zodiac Warriors, people blessed with powers by star deities, have secretly protected Earth from aliens, monsters and evil humans. When a prophecy sends them on their most challenging missions yet, they will learn that some of the toughest battles are of the heart.

Every family has its secrets. Every love story has its troubles. Everyone struggles with their self-esteem. Lena Joi Timmons is an ambitious and beautiful African American Psychiatrist who seemingly has it all. She comes from a successful and loving family, is well-educated, and is seemingly satisfied with her personal and professional status. However, behind the outward "picture perfect" persona is a woman who is broken and battered. Her childhood wounds never healed. A college romance nearly ripped her apart.

In a factory hidden deep in the Brazilian jungle, the Germans are developing a long-range bomber capable of reaching the United States—a weapon that could tip the scales of World War II in their favor. With the clock ticking down to a sneak attack on American soil, singer-spy Hattie James’s mission becomes clear: she must gather intelligence and stop the Nazis before it’s too late.

After committing suicide, I find myself in an earthly purgatory, trapped in a gothic mansion by the sea. My captor is a mysterious man I only know as The Gentleman. I do not know if I am truly alive or dead. All I know is that I must obey or suffer the consequences under his hand.

Jerome, Arizona, is known as the most haunted town in the state. In its history as an old west mining town, it endured explosions, cave-ins, fires, and the usual consequences of rampant prostitution, gambling and gunfights. It experienced enough mayhem to generate countless ghosts, which is exactly why medium Sam Firecloud does not want to go there. When he and partner Lacey Fitzpatrick get a call to eradicate a ghost from an old bordello, there’s more at stake than simply freeing a tortured soul. Sam’s own soul could also be in danger.

For most of her life, Izzy has been looking forward to fulfilling her mother’s dream of studying abroad in Italy. Going into her senior year, Izzy is counting down the days until she can leave her humdrum life behind, until Alberto, a handsome and mysterious Italian exchange student shows up for his stay with her family. Now life in her hometown doesn’t seem so drab, as Izzy, and everyone else, is immediately charmed by Alberto and his irresistible accent.

Los Angeles has been besieged with relentless rain for weeks. There has been massive flooding, swift-water rescues, and an entire warehouse has collapsed from the weight of catastrophic rainfall, resulting in the death of six people. When medium Sam Firecloud is asked to connect with the only “witnesses”—the victims—he finds more questions than answers. He and his partner, Lacey Fitzpatrick, must take on the police, the insurance company and the architectural firm as they realize that things are not as they seem. Sam and Lacey aren’t experts in any of the associated fields, but they do know one thing—the dead don’t lie.

Based in sprawling Los Angeles, medium Sam Firecloud and his partner, Lacey Fitzpatrick, never seem to run out of hauntings to investigate and resolve, but when they get two separate calls from two frantic customers, they realize they’re getting stretched pretty thin. How are they going to handle two cases at once? Daniel, Sam’s fifteen-year-old son, has a solution, but they quickly discover that solution could lead to serious injury—or worse—for the supernaturally talented boy.

¿Te imaginas construyendo tu propio botiquín emocional? Uno en el que cada compartimento te brinde herramientas para comprender, contextualizar y manejar tus emociones. Este libro propone un viaje de autodescubrimiento en el que la curiosidad será tu aliada. La aventura comienza con una misteriosa llamada del 911, con una voz extrañamente familiar. Descubre ejercicios para reconocer espacios seguros, explorar tus emociones y sus manifestaciones, cuestionar tus pensamientos y creencias, aprender a gestionar tus preocupaciones.

This story is set in Nassau, Bahamas and is about Winky, who is 18 and on the verge of graduating from high school. He is invited to a weekend party by another graduate, Keisha, who secretly has a crush on him. The night of the party sparks an intense, love relationship that eventually ends in tragedy.

When Greta overhears the library board president and a member of the treasure-hunting club arguing about a secret discovery, her curiosity is piqued—even more so when one of the women leaves a book with a sequence of strange markings on its pages in the library book return bin. Before Greta can ask about the marginalia, the book's outspoken owner turns up dead.

Set in the 1800's. This story is about a man, Thomas, who meets an older gentleman by the name of Mekal. Mekal teaches him how to travel back in time. In a great time of turmoil in his life, Mekal is visited by the Angel Kala. Kala talks a great deal with Mekal and gives him two precious gifts. The story tells all that happens to Thomas and Mekal as a result of those gifts.

College is supposed to be an exciting time, an opportunity to meet new friends and make lifelong relationships. However, Kaitlyn was never the social type. Talking to people has always been hard enough, not to mention romance. Getting transported into a dating sim seems like the perfect opportunity to change that. But even here, affection is not so easily earned. As Kaitlyn is beset on all sides by grueling classes, stinging loss, and her own faults, her hopes for change slowly give way to a fear that she'll never escape the endlessly repeating semester.

Fee Drummond has taken over the running of the Carnbeg Hydro Hotel following the death of her husband in a speedboat accident. But Fee is not short of enemies who would love to see her fail. Can she hold her nerve? Meanwhile, the staff of the Hydro are having their ‘Potential Superfactors’ assessed by a management guru, a distinguished concert violinist suffers stage fright on the eve of the Edinburgh Festival, and the bank drops a legal bombshell.

When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, but is offered no explanation for its cause. As the specter of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her year—a score of estrangement and enchantment, of luck and loneliness, of the chance occurrences to which she becomes attuned—while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.

When medium Sam Firecloud and his partner, paranormal investigator Lacey Fitzpatrick, are called in on a new case, it appears to be a normal haunting, if there is such a thing. But neither is prepared for the effect this ghost has on Lacey, nor the ripple effect through their own relationship. Suddenly it’s not just sending a lost spirit on its way that concerns them, but Lacey’s own mental and emotional health, and—perhaps—the future of their partnership.