Short Days

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Brad had all the advantages last round when the play happened in the kitchen, so Anna must dream up her best plan if she is to win this challenge. Even though she gets caught with a vegetable shoved in her cleavage in the produce section, she’s not deterred—she intends to win. Shedding her inhibitions and sometimes reveling in them, she slowly seduces Brad to cave in to her sexual charms. But he’s not laying down dead, he throws a few kinks in her toolbox during the playful shopping trip. When the grocery list is almost complete, they both relish the delicious rise and fall.

With his customers murdered by an alien invasion and unintentionally becoming the guardian of their orphaned daughter, Grumman is forced to balance safety, profit, and patriotism in this collection of fast-paced short stories. These stories are set in the Exile Empire science fiction story line. They take place after The Exile Empire and before Empire Ascensions.

Brianna, still in Lottawattah, Oklahoma, is now being pestered by the ghostly ex-girlfriend of main squeeze Detective Cooper Jackson. The apparition won't move away from Cooper and towards the light until Brianna figures out who killed her. Volume 2 of the series, a novella, finds Brianna selling lake lots for a new resort, attending her boyfriend's high school class reunion where the guests aren't all of this world, and tracking down a killer (or two).

A well-meaning dad frets because his fifth-grade daughter dresses as Dracula for the first day of school in this funny short tale. Haunted by his own memories of childhood insecurity, he nervously awaits the call from school.

Malia Lamar might have her father's superstrength and super speed, but can she manage to keep up with him when he's so busy saving the world? Being the daughter of Mr. Universe, aka Simon Lamar, might be ideal on paper, but when there are downtown fires, bank robberies, and cats stuck up in trees, can Malia manage to get ANY alone time with her dad or is the whole weekend a bust?

The Best Kind of Day is a children’s book that encourages positivity and gratitude. It teaches kids how to make the most out of every day.

Après des études littéraires perturbées par une santé fragile, le jeune Marcel Proust passe une licence de lettres et de philosophie, une autre de droit mais sans désir de carrière. Cependant dès l'adolescence, paraissent en revue des nouvelles, pastiches, portraits, essais et poèmes en vers et en prose qu'il réunit sous forme d'itinéraire et publie à l'âge de 25 ans sous le titre Les plaisirs et les jours.

Bons dias reúne crônicas narrativas do escritor Machado de Assis, considerado um dos autores mais importantes da literatura brasileira. Os textos, publicados entre 1888 e 1889, carregam um tom irônico e realista de uma época do Brasil em que a monarquia e a escravidão chegavam ao fim. As crônicas apresentam diversos personagens, entre eles, o próprio autor, que usa um pseudônimo de “Boas Noites”. Esta obra de Machado de Assis trata de variados assuntos no campo politico, cultural e social e aborda temas como os neologismos, a medicina popular e o espiritismo.

How will the life of a girl who has waited a long time for her lost love change, and finds herself surrounded by hurtful whispers, until she finds an unexpected choice?

If you have enjoyed any other book about self-creation, power, attraction, manifestation, or that genre, then this audiobook is a must-listen. This audiobook includes a plan of action that may kick start any hopes you have for a better life in general.

The biggest dream all freelancers have is to work for themselves. They want to ditch the day job. Many freelancers quit their day job too early. Some wait too long. Some never do quit. And some should return to a day job for a few years while they fine-tune their business. This short book is a step-by-step survival guide to the decisions you need to make to become and stay a freelancer in any business.

Zoe and her best friends make a pact to wear a Christmas mistletoe headband until a man kisses them. It worked for Kara, and Zoe's next in line. Now it's Saint Patrick's Day. Zoe's met handsome Irish businessman, Carrick Kelly, but can she lay her heart on the line for someone who may be gone in a few days. Her job depends on Carrick signing a contract with her advertising agency, but he doesn't think much of her boss's ideas.

Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, branching out from each moment like infinite trees. Doug can also see the future, but for him, it's a single, locked-in, inexorable sequence of foreordained events. They can't both be right, but over and over again, they are. Obviously these are the last two people in the world who should date. So, naturally, they do.

Welcome to the busy, industrial port city of Steamkettle Bay, the second-largest city in all of Industralia. It's filled with manufacturing factories, airship docks, inventors, artists, and lots and lots of streetwise, clever kids. It's a warm Saturday in the summer of 1872, and somewhere in Steamkettle Bay, bad things are happening. Can Paisley Pockets and Christopher Cogan stop a crime in progress? They may be just a couple of kids, but where there's a will, and some smarts, there just might be a way.

A powerful, heart-wrenching, concise Mother's Day story about perseverance. A male child is born into a home of unwarranted maternal hostility. As he grows, so does his mother's contempt for him with each passing day. In short, the mother's unrelenting contempt for her son backfires in a big way. Most listeners will leave astonished, amazed, and dazed.

Will was once a truck driver. When he was on Earth, his days were spent alone, traveling the highways for months until he went home to see his wife and family. Then Space Trucking became the new thing, and they didn't want pilots. They wanted men like him: the ones who were used to the isolation. Now after six years, Will has had his first break down, but this isn't a semi and there's no such thing as roadside assistance. When you break down in space, all that remains are the Cold Days.

Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English travel writer, novelist and war correspondent during World War I. 'Dr. Faust's Last Day' tells the story of a 70-year-old scholar who lives a regular studious life. On his birthday he invites his friends over for lunch, but he is puzzled by a strange note written in red ink which arrives from an unknown gentleman. The writer says he cannot make the lunch party but will call just after midnight.

It was Mother's Day and Robert Allman tried to prepare for the occasion. Tradition held that when worshippers attended church on Mother's Day, those whose mothers were alive wore red roses. Those whose mothers were passed, like Robert's, would wear a white rose. However, after he could only find a red rose to wear, he never dreamed, not in a million years, what was in store for him.