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In this wonderful, fraught, witty, real comedy about a middle-aged mother desperate to begin her post-children life, Stella is wondering why those grown-up children are all still in her house. Dreaming of retiring to a life in the countryside with her husband, instead she's dealing with four extra people in the house, rooms that urgently need de-junking, surprise pregnancy tests, difficult neighbours and a mother who really isn't helping anything. When she attempts to clear the useless clutter from the house, Stella realises it's her children who really need to go.

In April 2013, Jeremy T. Runnells published a PDF booklet entitled "Letter to a CES Director". This booklet, which is now typically referred to as the "CES Letter", catalogs Runnells’ concerns and reasons why he left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons). Runnells has worked hard to make his booklet available to people everywhere (and in several languages) and has, unfortunately, been the agent for leading at least a few other believers out of Mormonism.

'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring inside Agent Emma Griffin's house. But then out of nowhere a dark shadow appeared. And all of a sudden this holiday season was no longer filled with cheer....

Prince Nicolas is looking for a priceless royal heirloom. Trying to stay under the radar, he keeps that he's a prince secret—especially from the cute antiques dealer he asks to help him. The longer it takes, the more time they get to spend together, though no matter how attracted he is to Lizzie, love is certainly not an option for the heir to the crown of Belfort.

When Emma Griffin joined the FBI, she had hopes that she could find out the truth about her own past. But over time, she realized that it was more than just herself. She wanted to be a voice for the victims. To bring justice for those that are no longer with us. To rid this world of evildoers, hunt down those who destroyed lives, and be the voice for the voiceless. But what happens when she's asked to help someone who not only inflicted unbearable pain on her life, but on the lives of many?

After witnessing many tragedies throughout her life and solving cases that appeared unsolvable, FBI Agent Emma Griffin learned the importance of following her instincts and questioning everything she sees. When Bellamy brings a case that involves a sorority sister from Bellamy’s past, Emma finds herself thrown into a case involving a possible mysterious illness. An illness that took the life of a young woman. To others, the mystery seems to have solved itself. But Emma isn’t convinced that all is as it appears.

Just as free-spirited bookstore employee Cleo Davis faces closure of her beloved shop, the owner informs her it will continue as part of the successful Stephens chain. When the chain's risk assessor, the very reserved, very attractive Mark Stephens, enters the store to look over her business plan, Cleo clashes with him right away. Mark has always followed the rules. But the minute he steps into vibrant and spunky Cleo's store, he knows he's in trouble. One moment he's in her "craft corner" painting bookends with kids, the next in a bidding war with Cleo at a charity auction.

Chocolatier Emma Miller has a new business selling bonbons to the residents of the quaint town of Wood Creek. When a tiny visitor stops by her shop with an interesting request, Emma is intrigued. The young girl needs chocolates that will help her widowed dad fall in love, preferably with her teacher. What Emma didn't count on was Casey's ever so charming and handsome dad, Grant, stepping into her life. She has to remind herself to be cautious because the one thing she learned in foster care is that people always leave.

Scruffy handwriting, unkempt clothes, shabby attitude, Duncan was a mess. But he had one thing going for him—his best friend Hank. Hank showed him the comfort of chocolate and the liberation of alcohol, which won Duncan friends, frivolity, and even fortune. Yet his success was cosmetic. He fought a daily battle waged in junk food and red wine. He gate-crashed a diabolical cheese-and-wine party in his own mind and ended up living on the sofa. Something had to change, so he took out the rubbish, escaped an untimely death, and found joy, vitality, and fruitfulness. And so can you.

The Maasai people of East Africa comprise one of the most intriguing and resourceful cultures on earth. In Ewaso Village, Duncan tells the story of a small community of Maasai and Samburu people in Laikipia County, Kenya. Using a combination of poetry and prose, Ewaso Village touches on universal themes, including rites of passage, creation myths, death rituals, and childbirth while posing significant questions about climate change, conservation, women’s rights, and the survival of indigenous cultures.

Since 1904, when Peter Pan first flew across a London stage and into the bedroom of Wendy, John, and Michael Darling, this classic tale has continued to delight children of all ages. Peter, a mischievous and free-spirited boy who never grows up, lives with fairies on a mythical island called Neverland. There, he can fly and is the champion of a band of boys and best friend to the fairy Tinker Bell. Returning to England, Peter becomes involved with the Darling children, who all happily soar with him to enchanted Neverland and numerous adventures.

Spanish armies collapse under the weight of a new spring offensive and only one bastion of hope remains, the last place Craven would ever want to be. A vast French army now marches to invade Portugal. Wellington rides north to face them, but if resistance in Spain is defeated, there can be little hope of victory, and the British will be driven into the sea. One city continues to resist at the southern tip of Spain, Cadiz. Desperate times call for desperate measures and Craven is sent to the besieged city with little hope of turning the tide. He must hold the line, or all may be lost.

A missing child. A case unsolved. It’s happening again. Thirteen years ago, four children were killed, two survived, but the killer disappeared. Today, a boy goes missing from a sleepy suburban estate, and the system flags a name. The boy’s mother. She’s one of the survivors from thirteen years ago. Nathan, one of DCI Jon Pilgrim’s team, remembers the case. He was one of the officers who found the two survivors. Pilgrim’s team take the case, determined to find the child killer who escaped thirteen years ago.

I came here as a spy. I ended up as the king's property. I was captured and locked in a dungeon, but it was only when I saw Magnar that I felt real fear. He is a warrior and a king, but that is not why my virgin body quivers as I stand bare before him. He is not merely an alpha. He is my alpha. The one who will punish and master me. The one who will claim and ravage me. The one who will break me, but only after he's made me beg for it.

In this beautiful collection, 20 outstanding writers set out with old memories and new adventures. ‘I’ve always hated walking,’ Harland Miller offers as his precis, while Ingrid Persaud and Agnes Poirier consider the rituals of pilgrimage and protest march. ‘It isn’t a walking city,’ Kamila Shamsie writes of Karachi, though she strides across it regardless. On the shores of Foulness Island, Will Self hopes to avoid landmines. In a forest north of Berlin, Jessica J. Lee gets soaked, then lost.

Now that Kal has become chipless and The City's tyrants have turned against their own people, the time for action has come. Amber receives news of her father's faltering health and can no longer put off her plans to rescue him from the High Professor's captivity. Together with two New City survivors, Kal and Amber embark on a long and dangerous journey. But their plan to penetrate The City and expose how the High Professor manipulates the citizens he had sworn to protect runs into a string of obstacles that threaten to end their mission before it starts.

Tragedy sees the Archer sisters return to New York City, reunited for the first time in five years, emotions still raw even after so long spent apart. However, differences are put aside when Axel Archer's final message to his daughters contains a warning not to investigate his death but to carry on with their lives. It is a warning that the sisters cannot follow, for love, loyalty, and honor demand that they discover who took their father's life and make them pay. Whoever recruited Axel needed the skills of one of the best thieves available.

Solving murders is as easy as ABCDE in this brand-new collection. Roger Riccard, one of the most respected Sherlock Holmes authors, has again taken pen in hand to bring forth the first five adventures in a new series of short stories for your entertainment.

No one will tell Eva and Frost the truth about the Blurred Ones. Not their hunter friend, and definitely not the parentals. Maybe it’s because Frost spent time in a psychiatric ward and Eva never ceases to think with her hormones. So, when the girls see an opportunity to meet Albert Knox, the most infamous Blurred One of all, they lie about their true plans and head out on their field trip to San Antonio. Eva thinks she can use her feminine wiles to woo Knox, but he has a couple more minions than they thought - and she ends up getting tossed through the window.

Duérmete Niño regresa a una segunda temporada con 12 nuevas historias de terror de autores mexicanos que nos demuestran que en todos lados, y en cualquier momento, algo o alguien puede estar esperándote desde las sombras.