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Gemma Summers is unlucky in love. She's known it since third grade, when her first crush blew a spitball into her hair, and a decade-long string of bad dates, boring sex, and abysmal morning afters has done nothing to improve her prospects. But when a random radio call-in contest lands her courtside tickets to the hottest playoff game of the season, Gemma's luck may finally be on the upswing, even if it doesn't exactly seem like it when the dreaded Jumbotron kiss cam lands on her and her date.

Phoebe West has been head-over-heels in love with her brother's best friend for as long as she can remember. Not that he's bothered to notice. Despite several mortifying attempts at seduction and a decade's worth of unrequited pining, nothing Phoebe does seems to make any impact on the man she's obsessed over since her bra-stuffing days. She knows that it's time to let him go, though just the thought is nearly enough to shatter her.

As owner of an occult shop in downtown Salem, Massachusetts, she's accustomed to all things odd and otherworldly. But when a bloody animal sacrifice is left as a warning outside her place of business, the police seem to think Gwen might be the target of some truly evil-doers. Suddenly, her sunny existence is riddled with danger in the form of crazed pagans, rogue employees, and nefarious henchmen. There's only one man who can protect her until the storm passes.

Shelby Hunt has the perfect life, married to the perfect man. At least, that's what anyone would think, looking at her. They couldn't possibly know about the past five years of lonely nights, or the divorce papers still sitting unsigned on her husband's desk, or the shady business practices he's brought home on more than one occasion - often in the form of scary men with loaded guns and briefcases full of laundered cash.

Zoe Bloom has her life figured out. After a childhood spent begging for scraps on Boston street corners, she's clawed her way to a successful career and a safe place to call home. She knows exactly what she needs to survive - a bit of money in the bank, a roof over her head, food on the table. Friends and family are a luxury she can't afford. And forget about frivolous romantic entanglements. She can barely juggle her own problems; she certainly doesn't have time to handle anyone else's crap.

For Delilah Sinclair, catching a man's attention has never been a problem. It's the part that comes later - the happily-ever-after part - that always seems to trip her up. All her friends may be settling down, but this fiery redhead has no intentions of ever being tamed...Until she meets a man just as wild. Luca "Blaze" Buchanan is the best fighter to come out of Boston in years. Men want to be him, women want to be with him, and no one smart ever bets against him.

This guide, How to Teach Drama to Kids, will take someone unsure of the main principles of teaching theatre arts to various ages, through the basic categories and components principally considered to be the heart of the study of drama.

From stories of first love, unrequited love, love that surprises, love that’s been there all along, 10 of the brightest and award-winning authors writing YA have taken on some of your favorite romantic tropes, embracing them and turning them on their heads. Listeners will fall for this collection of stories that celebrate love at its most humorous, inclusive, heart-expanding, and serendipitous.

Based on extensive research and workplace experience, The Female Vision demonstrates that what women perceive in organizations and beyond that goes unnoticed and unrewarded is exactly what so many companies need to succeed. Helgeson and Johnson delve deeply into the stories of a number of women whose vision improved their companies - although often they had to struggle not only against unresponsive organizations, peers, or others, but also against their own personal fears.

Inspired by classic fairy tales, but with a dark and sinister twist, Grim contains short stories from some of the best voices in young adult literature today: Ellen Hopkins, Amanda Hocking, Julie Kagawa, Claudia Gray, Rachel Hawkins, Kimberly Derting, Myra McEntire, Malinda Lo, Sarah Rees-Brennan, Jackson Pearce, Christine Johnson, Jeri Smith Ready, Shaun David Hutchinson, Saundra Mitchell, Sonia Gensler, Tessa Gratton, Jon Skrovron.

Help (Action) Needed tells the story of three adventures navigating the changing world around them. Join us for a story focused, rules lite, campaign about humainty, struggle, and change set 60 years after the Withering War, a civil war that divided the country of Aeyolith. In modern day an enduring peace is upheld by Church and Crown, but not everyone is happy under the new system. Episodes Bi-weekly on Mondays!

Wenn dein Herz in tausend Scherben liegt... Josephine Valentine und Archer Reyes sind seit ihrer Kindheit unzertrennlich, obwohl sie doch unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten: Zwar besuchen beide die elitäre Exeter Academy, aber während Josephine als Tochter reicher Eltern mit Privilegien und Erwartungen aufwächst, muss Archer für seine Chancen und Erfolge kämpfen. Doch als sie bemerken, dass aus ihrer Freundschaft Liebe wird, ändert sich alles zwischen ihnen. Aus Angst, ihre Gefühle könnten nicht erwidert werden, halten Archer und Josephine ihre neuen Empfindungen verborgen.

Moderne Cinderella-Story mit einem sexy Bad-Boy-Prinzen. Durch einen unvorhersehbaren Schicksalsschlag findet sich Emilia Lancaster viel zu früh in der Rolle wieder, in der sie sich selbst nie gesehen hat - als Königin von Caerleon. Doch auch wenn sie selbst noch über den Verlust ihres Vaters und den Verrat ihrer engsten Verbündeten trauert, steht sie vor ihrer größten Herausforderung: Sie muss für ihr Volk da sein, ihren Feinden die Stirn bieten und vor allem versuchen, den Mann zu vergessen, der ihr Herz gebrochen hat - Carter Thorne.

Noch vor zwei Monaten war Emilia Lancaster eine ganz normale junge Frau mit ganz normalen Problemen. Nun ist sie die Kronprinzessin von Caerleon und muss sich Herausforderungen stellen, auf die sie kaum vorbereitet wurde. Neben ihren neuen Verpflichtungen und der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit machen ihr vor allem die Intrigen und Machtspielchen im Königshaus zu schaffen. Eine Situation, die nicht einfacher wird, als plötzlich eine ganze Handvoll Verehrer darum kämpft, ihr Interesse zu gewinnen.

Sie ist das dunkle Geheimnis der königlichen Familie - doch sie wird niemals ihre Marionette sein. Emilia Lancaster hätte nie gedacht, dass sie eines Tages Kronprinzessin sein würde - eine Rolle, die sie niemals wollte und auf die sie nie vorbereitet wurde. Ihr neues Leben im Palast könnte der Anfang eines Märchens sein, doch Emilia merkt schnell, dass sie von Intrigen und Machtspielen umgeben ist. Ganz besonders Carter Thorne scheint ihre bloße Anwesenheit als Provokation zu empfinden. Anders kann sich Emilia seine dunklen Blicke, die sie beinahe körperlich spüren kann, nicht erklären.

The Joys of Travel is a nonfiction audiobook about a small-town-born-and-raised girl who finds a career that leads her on many humorous travel adventures. As her friends would say, "This could only happen to you, Julie."  

This volume features 20 self-identified female authors writing about intersectionality, including women of color, disabled, transgender, and GLB/GSD (Gender and Sexual Diversities). We have curated amazing short fiction, flash fiction, poetry, essays, and art. It's personal, political, and a great listen.

This book outlines specific strategies to market a home care business.

This book highlights one small business owner's journey to achieve success on her own terms. And spotlights key learning you can take from this experience in the form of 10 top business lessons you can apply to your own entrepreneurial journey. Listen to this book if you like to learn from other people's mistakes, if you love to hear business autobiographies, or simply if you're curious. This book is intentionally short so that you can learn and apply the lessons quickly and easily.

Meredith and David Fiddler looked at Joshua as he slept peacefully in his hospital bed. His four-year-old body was sprawled at an odd angle to accommodate the apparatus that elevated his broken right leg.