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Ryan's laid-back attitude should be an advantage in Indianapolis. Even if he doesn't accomplish much on the ice, he can help his burned-out teammates off it. And no one needs a friend—or a hug—more than Nico Kirschbaum, the team's struggling would-be superstar. Nico doesn't appreciate that management traded for another openly gay player and told them to make friends. Maybe he doesn't know what his problem is, but he'll solve it with hard work, not by bonding with the class clown.

Bringing together the imaginative strategies of fiction storytelling and new ways of narrating true, real-life events, creative nonfiction is the fastest-growing part of the creative writing world. It's a cutting-edge genre that's reshaping how we write (and read) everything from biographies and memoirs to blogs and public speaking scripts to personal essays and magazine articles.

In Healed by Love, Nate Braden has loved his best friend's younger sister Jewel for as long as he can remember, but between their age difference and his respect for Rick, he's always kept his feelings at bay. Now he's back in Peaceful Harbor, and Jewel is no longer 16 years old - but there's an even bigger obstacle standing in his way. Nate and Rick joined the military together eight years earlier. Nate came home a hero, but Rick didn't make it out alive.

On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard.

Adult entertainer. Escort. Camboy. Surfer-bro. Malibu. I’ve been called many names, yet no one knows the real me. Filming at Elite 8 Studios gave me the fresh start I was looking for, but now, my past is calling, and even working three jobs isn’t enough to keep me afloat. With my anxiety and panic attacks getting worse and my debts on the rise, something needs to change. When I’m offered an outrageous sum for a new escorting gig, I can’t pass it up. The catch? I’ll be living in the client’s penthouse for the next six months. And I’ll be his—exclusively.

A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems America’s security state first...

He was definitely trouble, and the worst kind of trouble because he was wrapped up in an incredible package of muscles, ink and heartbreak. A guy like him was the last thing I needed now. A guy like Colt Stone was the last thing I ever needed.

Noah Downsby has always had one goal: play professional hockey. Now that he’s finally made it, he’s determined to prove himself. And if he’s going to have the best rookie season in NHL history, he needs zero distractions. But Noah didn’t plan for Allegra—Ally—Callahan moving in with him. With her sassy smile, smart mouth, and bad habit of ‘borrowing’ his jerseys—nevermind her stupid cat who won’t stop sleeping in his bed—one thing’s for certain: Ally is officially a distraction.

Magic arises when invaders from other worlds threaten the Earth, empowering mages to fight back. Legend and history blur when mages emerge to protect the world, and now, they are needed again. The newest generation of mages is struggling to balance their ordinary lives as college students in the small town of Ravenslake and their duty to defend an entire world.

Explore with me what it means to be a world-class Christian. This audiobook explores the meaning of concepts like a Christian World view, and a Biblical worldview. It looks at the relationship of these terms to culture, ethnocentrism, and learning to be obedient to God's call to mission.

A charlatan’s tricks backfire when real monsters come to call. A terrifying Ouija board session leads to an unexpected request. In space, there is nowhere to hide from the hungry hordes. Consuming hunger has a new meaning for one man possessed by an insatiable parasite. A horror podcast hits too close to home as fiction invades reality. These stories and others serve up a delicious blend of horror, science fiction, ghosts, and the supernatural that will leave you hungry for more!

Six Indian soldiers, as part of their regular patrolling exercise, go missing from the Bajrang post in the Kaksar sector in Ladakh.A captain and his men are outnumbered by hundreds and fired upon relentlessly from all angles.Captain Saurabh Kalia and his five men from 4 Jat Regiment were the...

Any war is a mix of patriotism, brotherhood, and a whole lot of luck. This is the incredible, oftentimes hilarious story of Pat Moffett, a very lucky twenty-year old, a self-admitted street-smart wise-ass kid from Brooklyn who joined the United States Army’s famed 101st Airborne Division, and was shipped 8,000 miles away to the bloody war in Vietnam—and somehow, despite one misadventure after another, lived to tell this tale.

The Watcher Effect is not about being brave, it’s about being watched, or more accurately, making the world believe you are. In the intelligence community, attention is a weapon, not because it’s loud, but because it changes behavior before anything happens. Predators, opportunists, and pressure merchants don’t want witnesses, they don’t want friction, they don’t want a scene, they want the quiet moment where no one is looking, and you are alone inside your own head.

Blessed Is Her Name is a prose adaptation of an “inspired” screenplay written by Barbara Oleynick in 2000. It is based on the spiritual writings of Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, a devout Franciscan nun from Agreda, Spain, commonly known as Maria de Ágreda (1602–1665).

Selection Dynamics isn’t about being brave, and it isn’t about being paranoid, it’s about understanding the quiet moment most people miss, the moment you’re evaluated. In intelligence work, targets aren’t found by accident, they’re selected, by payoff, by access, by ease, by how clean the approach looks, and how cheap the consequences feel. This training takes that selection process apart, then rebuilds your behavior around one objective, make yourself inefficient to choose.

Dance instructor Rory Callahan likes to play it safe. When she meets Kyle, he’s impulsive, persistent, and her exact opposite. He’s pushing her to tango way past her comfort zone and keeping Rory on her toes more than twenty years of dance teachers ever had. Unfortunately, he’s the grandson of her family’s archrival and she doesn’t want to disappoint them. Her parents imagine her as a proper princess—hence her namesake Aurora, AKA Sleeping Beauty. Complicating matters, Rory’s also dealing with a surgeon boyfriend who’s perfect for her (sort of), an obnoxious boss, and desperate dance moms.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WWE superstar AJ Lee candidly shares her lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder and how embracing her diagnosis gave her the confidence to take back control of her life. “Crazy Is My Superpower is at once breathtakingly honest, hilariously funny, self-deprecating...

People say there's a fine line between love and hate. If you ask Grady Armstrong, the line's as obvious as the one across the middle of a hockey rink. So he can't explain why he doesn't walk away when his Grindr hookup—a guy who accused him of impersonating himself—turns out to be Max Lockhart, a rival player Grady once punched in the face. Apparently, Max can goad him just as well off the ice as he can on it.

Captain Hook isn’t loyal to anyone, but I’d die for her. Once I was a prince, then I became a lost boy, then their king. Now, I’m nothing more than a heartless villain. Or at least so I thought. Until I met her. Until I had a reason for that husk in my chest to resume its beating. I know I’m not alone. She’s worked her magic on all of us. Her monstrous beast