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Nervous, scared, and completely unqualified. That's the way I walked into Jack Shaw's office building. I walked out with my stomach in knots for a completely different reason. My heart is pounding like I had actually went running. My head and heart war with quitting or working through the fiery desire he stimulates through me. At the end of the day, I leave the decision to him. The problem is I can't tell if he wants to toss me over his desk or out on my rear. I guess by the dark look in his eyes, I'll soon find out.

When werewolf Vanessa Blevin begins working at new law firm, she expects long hours, hard work, and harder personalities. Her boss is a demanding, demeaning bully who begins cutting her down on her very first day—cutting her down and setting her blood on fire. Grayson Hemming is tall, dark, alphahole handsome, the exact sort of werewolf she does not need in her life . . . but there's something about the way he smells, his cutting smile, and the way his eyes always seem to find her. Her wolf wants his, and the feeling is mutual.

Home is where the horror is... Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company. Violet’s peace is disturbed when a stranger asks her for help, claiming that a friend is being kept prisoner in her own home. Her visitor seems so afraid that Violet, despite her scepticism, is persuaded to investigate.

I tre säsonger har Lady Margery Quennel agerat panelhöna. Med undantag för Charles, markisen av Edgecombe, den enda man som brytt sig om att dansa med henne och som hon inte ens tycker om, har Lady Margery ingenting med män att göra. Nu vid 23 års ålder är hon uttråkad till det yttersta och bestämmer sig för att återvända hem till Chelmswood, men den trygghet hon söker finns inte att hitta. Hennes en gång så stiliga far har nämligen tagit en nittonårig flicka till brud, och denna verkar fast besluten att slösa bort hela faderns förmögenhet.

Agatha Raisin säger upp sig från sin PR-firma i London, säljer sin lägenhet och bestämmer sig för att prova på livet som småstadsbo i den lilla byn Carsely, beläget i pittoreska Cotswold Hills. Men livet som förtidspensionerad blir inte riktigt som hon tänkt sig. Hon är van vid ett högt tempo och att få som hon vill, och för att inte dö av uttråkning bestämmer hon sig för att delta i en lokal baktävling.

The one thing Nugget, a cute puppy, has ever known to do is love, and his cuteness has always been enough for others to love him back. But when Nugget is put up for adoption, he thinks it's because no one loves him anymore—that he isn't cute anymore. So he does the only thing he can think of: he runs away. Now Nugget is alone on the streets of Boston, where he quickly learns that not everyone is kind. After an unfortunate run-in with another animal leaves him disfigured, he can't rely on his cuteness to get by like he used to.

The Daily Joy devotional inspires women to engage with God’s word every day, allowing the truth of the gospel to transform their lives throughout the year. Featuring content from the ESV Women’s Devotional Bible, Scripture meditations and articles are written by more than 50 Christian writers and pastors including Joni Eareckson Tada, Lydia Brownback, Dane C. Ortlund, Jen Wilkin, Sam Storms, and Nancy Guthrie.

Humanity has been banished to a distant star. Left to fight over resources rationed to them by mysterious machine-overlords known as Wardens. Commander Rylan Holt labors against inter-colony arms trafficking when an informant gives him horrific news. The ruthless cartel boss, Lilith, has stockpiled outlawed weapons of mass destruction. Worse, she claims to have permission from the Wardens to unleash them upon the system.

Over 250,000 copies sold in print. This anniversary edition celebrates fifty years of Whitcomb and Morris's biblically based system of creationism and catastrophism that unifies and correlates scientific data from early earth history—a modern creationist classic.

Roddeljournaliste Lady Jane Winters neemt geen blad voor de mond en dat komt haar duur te staan! Met haar vlijmscherpe opmerkingen maakt ze zich niet geliefd onder haar medecursisten tijdens een cursus vliegvissen. Maar wanneer op een dag haar levenloze lichaam uit het water gevist wordt, staat dorpsagent Hamish Macbeth voor een groot raadsel. Wie haatte haar zó erg, dat ze vermoord moest worden?

Welcome to the Crucible - an artificial planet larger than our sun - an ever-growing patchwork of countless other worlds, filled with creatures, sentient beings and societies stolen from across the universe by the mythical Architects. Across this dizzying juxtaposition of alien biospheres, the enigmatic and godlike Archons seek to unlock the secrets at the heart of the Crucible. Everyone else is just trying to survive.... 

Set in the heart of global finance, Shadow Banking follows the lives of City hopefuls, as they try to wheel, deal and backstab their way to billions. Remember: lifes a trade. It is 1994. Al Denham turns up to his first day at City banking giant Trenchart Colville, he thinks hes there to start a job. But in fact, he's at the beginning of a journey that will change his life forever. Al is joined by a ragtag combination of the brash and the charming, the box-tickers and the risk-takers.

Acclaimed author M.A.C. Farrant has been hailed as “a brave iconoclast” by Publishers Weekly and is well known for her pithy wit and maverick sensibilities. Broken into three sections, The Strange Truth About Us is a fusion of fragmented prose, probing questions and caustic satire. The result is both a meditation on absence and a commentary on the human penchant for complacency.

This book provides up-to-date information on language, etiquette, and appropriate communication and conduct in treating TGNC clients, and discusses the history, cultural context, and ethical and legal issues that can arise in working with gender-diverse individuals in a clinical setting. You'll also find information about informed consent approaches that call for a shift in the role of the mental health provider in the position of assessment and referral for the purposes of gender-affirming medical care (such as hormones, surgery, and other procedures). 

Grief and loneliness have been my closest friends for a year, and a change is long overdue. A walk down memory lane in my hometown sounds ideal to start letting go of this never-ending sorrow and try to meet again the carefree, happy girl I once was. But back in Texas, it's not that girl I meet first. Nate Bowers, president of the Chaos Chasers, is not a saint. He says so himself. As a pragmatic teacher, I should flee from that handsome man as fast as I can. But behind his hard exterior and primitive side, all I see in his brown eyes is a caring, gentle man he shows only to me.

Mrs. Bloxby, die Frau des Pfarrers, weiß, wie man eine Unwillige überredet. Bis sich unter dem wild agierenden Hauptdarsteller plötzlich der Boden auftut: ein Sturz, ein Schrei, dann Stille - und die erschreckende Erkenntnis: Der Schauspieler liegt tot unter der Bühne. Gleich eine ganze Schar Verdächtiger stellt sie nun vor große ermittlerische Herausforderungen, denn nicht wenige von ihnen hatten Gründe, den Hauptdarsteller am liebsten tot zu sehen.

Have you ever sensed a deeper current beneath everyday life, a quiet knowing that there's more to existence than meets the eye? The Quantum Call is your invitation to explore that profound reality, where scientific principles illuminate your innate power to shape your world. This "Informed AF Guide" serves as a concise yet powerful introduction, designed to be listened to in one sitting, offering usable insights for busy individuals seeking tangible transformation.

Von seinen engsten Vertrauten verraten, glaubte Finn Caldwell, seinem Leben voller Gewalt und Betrug entkommen zu sein. Doch als eine verzweifelte Nachricht von seiner entfremdeten Schwester ihn in The Realms, das fortschrittlichste holografische Realitätsspiel der Welt, lockt, ist Finn gezwungen, seine tödlichen Fähigkeiten erneut zu nutzen.

Meet Zack and Cody Martin, identical twins and the newest residents of Boston’s swanky Tipton Hotel. Living in a suite with their mom Carey, the boys treat the Tipton like their own personal playground. But it’s hard to stay out of trouble when they’re constantly pestering candy counter...

In The Marching Morons, C. M. Kornbluth delivers a biting science fiction satire set in a future where intelligence has all but vanished. With society ruled by mediocrity and the average IQ plummeting, one cunning man from the past awakens to seize control. A darkly humorous, prophetic tale about ignorance, manipulation, and the cost of cultural decay.