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Looking for a collection of short stories that will move you to tears of sadness and sentiments of joy? Add laughter and pillow-pondering to this list, and you'll get an idea of the magic of A Red Dress Night.

When Lucy is invited to serve her pastries at a charity gala, she's excited at the opportunity to rub shoulders with the movers and shakers in town. Things turn better than expected, when she's approached by a wealthy couple who want her to cater for a landmark event in their lives. Lucy's life is thrown into a tailspin, when she hears that this warm couple have been found dead. Things go from bad to worse when the rumor mill in Ivy Creek goes into overdrive with insinuations that Lucy's pastries might have been what killed the couple.

Lucy Hale always wanted to make a name for herself. A name that people would associate with excellence, creativity and fun. She thought she had found her calling in the big city and was on her way to becoming a world-renowned food blogger...Until she got some tragic news that pulled her back to her small town. Can she still make a name for herself in Ivy Creek and survive the the suffocating attention of its citizens who think she's too big for her britches? Will she acquit herself in the court of public opinion and help to find the killer or become the killer's next victim?

From the magical imagination of a young boy, to the delusional fear of an old man. From the protective love of a father, to the surreptitious revenge of a neglected wife. J Hirtle carries the listener into a land of stories and poetry, born in morning moments spent on his back porch with a cup of coffee, gazing at a world filled with people who will never be heroes, places that will never appear on the cover of travel magazines, and things...things without lore...until they meet The Storyteller.

Deepak comes to America immediately mesmerized by the immensity of its abundance. After leaving Nepal, his plan is to make his fortune in the land of opportunity. He quickly learns America is more than he bargained for, especially his newfound "friends". He questions whether he can even survive, much less succeed, in this new country until he finds an unexpected, unlikely love.

In South Florida, the fraud capital of the world, Jorge Gonzalez is a Cuban-American success story who just made partner in a top financial firm. But the perfect crime has just been committed. Now, Jorge is held responsible for the theft of millions. Overnight, his career is shattered, his family is shamed, and everyone has made him the scapegoat. The search for a dead man is on...With the help of a beautiful tech wiz, Jorge attempts to unlock the mystery and put his life back together.

Are you tired of seeing the ads on social media, promising you immediate success, fame, and financial freedom if you just buy this one course, or this one book? So was I. After years of trying to get the bars on the graphs of my KDP sales dashboard to rise, I figured out a few things. So, I started researching; read a few books, took a few of those courses, and even bought a few of those programs for content creation, marketing, etc. What I found as I sifted through the information was the cold hard truth about indie marketing, and not one aspect of it is a fairy tale.

Acadia Powers nearly lost her faith at an early age due to what she saw as the hypocrisy of her parents’ generation. In college - where the novel begins - she meets and falls in love with Peter O’Neil, who is fervent in his faith and wants to share the good news with the world. Despite serious doubts about her ability to survive as a preacher’s wife, Acadia finally agrees to marry Peter. The two embark with high hopes on a new life in Sugar Sands, Alabama, where Acadia takes a position as a high school teacher while Peter becomes pastor of a small church.

Spuki und Tante Felicitas bewohnen seit einigen Hundert Jahren eine Burg. Wie lange, das wissen sie nicht so ganz genau, aber es ist schon lange genug, um das Spuken fast zu verlernen. So sind die beiden auch recht erschrocken, als eines Tages Handwerker kommen und mit den sonderbarsten Geräten anfangen herumzuhantieren. Ihr könnt euch vorstellen, dass eine moderne Bohrmaschine für ein altehrwürdiges Gespenst eine ziemlich erschreckende Angelegenheit ist, oder? Es wird aber alles noch bunter, als nach dem Umbau der Burg eine Schulklasse in die neue "Herberge" kommt.

The year is 1958. Stan Ellis, a young reporter for a small-town Wisconsin newspaper, can't forget the call he got from a woman who claimed a man convicted of causing a train wreck four years before was falsely imprisoned. After a night of sleeplessness, he searches for the woman hoping to latch on to a big story. When he tracks her down, he finds she is the ex-wife of George Cashman, the train engineer who was operating the train that crashed. She identifies the man she believes sabotaged the train, but refuses to go to the authorities herself out of fear for her safety.

As the Lotus Blooms is the fast-moving sequel to Logan’s first novel Finding Lien. The story follows Lien, traumatized from her ordeal as a victim of child trafficking in a Cambodian brothel, on her journey of recovery. Despite her recurring bouts of PTSD, this courageous young woman signs on with an NGO to work with a team to prevent trafficking and rescue victims.

Brian R. Webster is a physician assistant, who has pursued God most of his adult life. He lost his two best friends in high school, due to an amusement park ride accident. He came close to dying, as well. He’s practiced medicine in various specialties, Substance Abuse, and in maximum security prisons.

This Taste of Flesh and Bones invites you to answer that call by participating in the greatest expedition that humankind will ever undertake - the journey to true self. Contrary to what the majority of persons may believe, this deeper dimension is close at hand; and it can be recognized here and now.

Joy marries a widowed bank executive caught in an ethical dilemma. She misreads his obvious frustration while at the same time, struggles to integrate into her new family. This novel explores the challenges of second marriages and dealing with stepchildren during the crucial years of puberty and teenage angst. A college professor coming up shortly for the huge tenure decision, Joy finds herself falling apart as her career and her home issues deteriorate and collide. Can this marriage survive a failure to communicate?

In Cage Wide Open, an apparently normal man gives insight into his unusual makeup and perspectives of life, his attempts to escape the confines of the ordinary, his astounding transformations, and his never ending search for the ultimate love.

Die Stadtbücherei im saarländischen Nehdorn brennt lichterloh. Hauptkommissar Michel Paquet und seine Kollegin Kathrin Krämer aus Saarlouis werden noch in der Nacht zum Tatort gerufen, denn unter den Trümmern der Bücherei finden die Feuerwehrleute eine männliche Leiche. Der Verdacht auf Brandstiftung bestätigt sich bald, aber die Identität des Toten in der Bibliothek gibt Krämer und Paquet Rätsel auf - genauso wie Johann Burger, der Leiter der Bücherei.

After an autistic classmate goes missing in the small Appalachian community, young Brooks Raker and his friends stumble into the middle of the police investigation. As the dark secrets of the town’s past start to unravel, the list of unusual suspects climbs, and people continue to disappear. When Brooks and his friends dig deeper into the unexpected events, they begin to suspect a sinister force is at work in Harper Pass. Can they work together to survive?

Lampy is a yucky fish - a sea lamprey, to be exact, and that’s basically a salt water leech as big as your leg. But is he doomed to be ostracized and unloved just because he’s an unsightly blood-sucking parasite? It’s hard to be different. Join Lampy in this story of perseverance through bullying as he finds his forever friend who is just as different as he is.

I am a psychopath. I am not a serial killer. Sorry if I busted any bubbles. We tend to think of psychopaths as the killers from movies, and that was my mind set before I researched heavily. Experts believe that roughly 40 percent of us are psychopaths. Psychopaths do not have every single emotion. We do not feel everything like an empath. Empathy is not part of our nature. We instead are more like predators. Most leaders, politicians, lawyers, judges, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and entrepreneurs are psychopaths. Are you a psychopath?

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be an addict? Do you know someone that is an addict and can not fathom how they got to that point in their lives? Addicts are not always hooked at their first taste of drugs. Not all drugs effect everyone in the same way. This audiobook will reveal my personal story and my addictions as I battled with depression, drugs, and struggled to find meaning and direction in my life. I will tell my story to the road to recovery and the three principals that I applied to life to get me there.