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Four years ago, Desiree Wells lost everything when her brother Jake was murdered by the Devil Inside Motorcycle Club. Now a successful criminal defense attorney, she's finally ready to execute the perfect revenge: seduce the club's dangerous president, known only as "Reaper," and destroy him from within. What begins as a carefully orchestrated seduction at a dive bar quickly spirals into something far more complicated. As Desiree infiltrates Reaper's world, she discovers that the truth about her brother's death—and the man she's sworn to destroy—isn't what she believed.

Budding realtor Amanda Cauble is sent on a fool’s errand on a stormy afternoon. When her car is washed into a rising creek, it could be the last thing she does.

What if I told you that it was okay to be a young Christian who is unapologetically sold out to the Lord despite what the world says or thinks? That your desire to serve God should outweigh your desire to be approved and accepted by the world and the people that are in it. That serving Jesus is not a trend or a hashtag or a “social media challenge”, but a lifestyle.

Tiger, the adventure-loving cat, faces danger while looking for a friend and receives help from a kind bunny, ultimately becoming friends. With an engaging storyline, this is a great bedtime story that teaches valuable life lessons for young listeners and animal lovers. This is perfect for listening to together with a child.

It was a particularly calm spring evening. The river and harbor were already gray; a gray haze hung over the lower part of the city. Above it the tops of the monstrous buildings reflected enough of the sunset in the western sky to blend dimly with the eastern.

The year 1870. The onset of the Gilded Age. Times are changing, and so are the ideals centered around women, but Kat Darlington’s troubles go much deeper than the world’s inequality, and they occur closer to home.

With echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice. With...

A.E. Lee's memoir, One of the Lucky Ones, describes her descent into, and eventual escape from, an abusive marriage.

A coming-of-age story set in the 1960s during the sexual revolution and the civil rights movement, two teens separated by geography must navigate family expectations to find a way to be together on a journey to love and fulfillment.

In this joyous essay collection edited by NPR's Ayesha Rascoe, celebrities and other alumni provide testimonials about their experience attending historically Black college universities–which shaped their lives and made them who they are today. With a diverse set of contributors, including...

Whether your life is exactly where you want it to be or you are struggling to craft the kind of existence you crave, you are likely struggling with negative thoughts. We all do. After all, negativity is everywhere we turn, whether it shows up as family concerns, political upheaval, or just dealing with our own inner turmoil. The power to control and direct your thinking is one of the greatest quests a person can embark upon. And the benefits that come with mastering your thoughts are immense and life-altering.

Isn't it encouraging when you hear someone share an experience they have gotten through? It can be discouraging when no one seems to share similar experiences as you. It can make you feel alone, and even think that something is wrong with you.

With The Mommy Murderer case finally closed, there's nothing keeping Sloane Matthews from heading back to the solitude of her quiet island home in Washington. Nothing but the lure of catching another killer. Someone's preying on the women of San Francisco and she's determined to figure out who.

Propositions about artificial intelligence are being debated seriously in the 21st Century, but machines, unlike plants, are not even living organisms. So, are plants sentient beings, like humans? Do they feel? Can they communicate? Plant sentience is a subject that has intrigued mankind over the ages—from the ancient Greeks, Plato and Aristotle, through to modern day philosophers and psychologists. In this extraordinary book, Australia's Dr Terence McMullen presents an engaging, systematic and thorough study of plant psychology.

The brutalized body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was published in Jet magazine at the insistence of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Mamie wanted the horrific photograph of her son’s lynched body to be displayed for the world to see, to expose America to its own barbaric acts of racial terror. As such, Emmett’s death and Mamie’s actions afterwards would ignite a crucial moment in the civil rights movement, changing the course of history forever.

An original children's fairytale. Grandmother has a secret. Will Zoe find out what it is before her Blueberry Birthday? A fairy tale ghost story.

The trick of accepting redemption is finding something in yourself to redeem. A scary Halloween-themed ghost tale from Michael Lynes in The Trick.

Innovation requires solving big problems from a new perspective, but many struggle to successfully innovate in their work or personal life when faced with a problem that requires innovative thinking. Author and researcher April Bell has zeroed in on the power of empathy and the ability to embrace risk when solving big problems in the unknown. In her book, The Fire Starter: Igniting Innovation with Empathy, Bell combines engaging personal stories with research to provide listeners with a simple framework helping them connect to greater human truths to solve big problems.

Real murderers need a Heart of Stone: Meet Maggie and Mike Hartstone—parents of twin boys, entrepreneurs, and now empty-nesters. Mike is retired—not by choice—from his position as chief of police in the picturesque resort town of Hamilton. And now his wife, Maggie, and her shop the Cozy Crystal, are their only source of income. When a mysterious killing interrupts Hamilton's famous Springfield Park Rockshow, the townsfolk, the Cozy Crystal, and their lives are rocked to the core.

Thrust into a fight 700 years in the making, Chelsea and her friends find themselves against an immortal emperor. If they return the true heir of Ione to her rightful throne, then they will finally be free of the magical world of Amar. But that’s easier said than done. They will need the support of the other kingdoms of Amar if they hope to stand a chance at defeating Axius. But who would follow four kids into battle? Survival isn’t enough. They have to find a way to start this war. And they have to win it. Or else they will never get home.