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A well-intentioned young female art expert is caught in a snow-storm on a train in the Scottish Highlands. At the inn where passengers are forced to stay the night she is approached by a mysterious wealthy foreigner who claims to be a lover of paintings. Will she succumb to his temptations, and who exactly is he?

Airsha was a strong woman. But being pregnant, raising an airling army, keeping her four husbands happy, dealing with a rude and surly teenage girl who is vying for the attentions of one of her husbands, and having her nasty twin brother arrive on the scene to cause more havoc, is just more than any woman should be expected to deal with. But Airsha isn't just any strong woman, she's the Goddess's Chosen One. The one the prophesies said would bring magic to all.

Having grown up in a harem as the favourite, if not dutiful, daughter of the ruling Godling, Airsha knew what it was for a powerful man to have more than one wife. But for her to have more than one husband, when she would have preferred none at all, felt like just one more way her fate was being taken over by a vengeful goddess. Rescued by four legendary airling trainers when she escapes the harem, Airsha finds herself drawn into an uprising that has rebels planning to replace the Godling with the Goddess' Chosen One: Airsha herself.

A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family...Richard Glover's favourite dinner-party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?' It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed toy collector.

The new audiobook from the best-selling author of Flesh Wounds, heartfelt and hilarious, Love, Clancy is an audiobook for anyone who has ever tried to imagine what their dog was thinking. Human beings often write about their dogs, but the dogs don't usually get a right of reply. In Love, Clancy, Richard Glover has collated the letters sent by Clancy to his parents in the bush. They are full of the young dog's musings about the oddities of human behaviour, life in the big city and his own attempts to fit in.

In this powerful edition, 18 high-achieving women from Scottsdale share their personal journeys to earning six figures and beyond while redefining success on their own terms. These are stories of resilience, reinvention, and rising above doubt to create thriving careers and businesses. Six-Figure Chicks is more than a book —it’s a movement. Each chapter is a blend of truth-telling and practical advice, offering real strategies to help you build your own six-figure path with purpose, clarity, and confidence.

Pastor Jones has everything he has ever wanted: a beautiful wife and newborn son, a warm and loving home, and a pinnacle role in the community as the pastor of his local church. Until he meets Jane Thomas, the beautiful and alluring new member of the parish. As Jane’s aggressive hunt for his affection grows, Pastor Jones becomes haunted by her egregious love notes and presents until their confrontation leads him to the darkest path of his career…and his life.

Samantha, a successful business owner, welcomes a new employee. She finds herself stuck between two lovers and things go from good to bad. In the end, Samantha finds herself choosing between the new employee or her high school sweetheart.

Two Empires fought. Two Empires died. Haunted by nightmares and ready to put aside their sorcerous past, a veteran of those wars has found love and hope in untamed scrubland far from the Last City. Life has other plans. When all you have ever known is Pain and Ruin can you change your destiny? Or are you doomed to walk the Path the way you always have?

After a suicide attempt, Mya enters an intensive therapy program feeling numb and unsure whether she truly wants to live. With the steady support of her best friend and roommate, Javi, she begins the slow, uneven work of healing. But when Javi faces a sudden, life-threatening health crisis, everything shifts. As he fights for his life, Mya steps into a role she never expected, drawing on the strength she’s only just begun to rebuild.

“In The Balancing Act, Nedra Glover Tawwab offers the wisdom so many of us crave: how to stay connected to others without losing ourselves.” —Dr. Becky Kennedy, bestselling author of Good Inside From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, a relatable guide to understanding...

A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America's greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels, the badass and funky, the activists and the inmates—from Harriet Tubman, Nina Simone, and Muhammad Ali to B'rer Rabbit, Single Mamas, and Wakandans—but are they crazy as hell, or do they simply defy the expectations designated for being Black in America?

In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. In C'mon, Get Happy, authors David Fantle and Tom Johnson present a comprehensive study of this 1950 motion picture. The production coincided at a critical point in the careers of Kelly and an emotionally spent Garland. Kelly, who starred in An American in Paris just one year later, was at the peak of his abilities.

Elemental, fierce, and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender. In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd as companion and guiding light. Following in the footsteps and contours of The Living Mountain, she explores the same landscapes and themes as Shepherd's seminal work

The first Black man to become sheriff of a major city in the Deep South after Reconstruction, STRIVING FOR JUSTICE is the story of how a poor Black boy grew up in segregated Jacksonville, Florida, survived a violent racist attack by the Ku Klux Klan, and advanced through a blatantly prejudiced police force in the 1960s to become a national leader of police reform in America, who, as President Clinton recognized, broke down barriers, and whose innovative policing reforms created greater respect between citizens and police, lower crime, and safer neighborhoods.

This guide, both a companion to Dr. Robert Glover's No More Mr. Nice Guy and a stand-alone manual, takes the listener on a step-by-step journey of masculine self-discovery. It provides a practical and emotional understanding of the problems that many nice guys face, and it lays out a series of easy-to-follow exercises for overcoming those issues.  

We, as a human race, are living between stories. We don’t live in the world of yesterday. We don’t have a shared vision of the world of our desires. Nor do we know who we must become to give birth to such dreams. Is it any wonder folks feel they are navigating life without a map? The son of a fundamentalist preacher, Larry knows what it is to be lost in life. He first considered suicide at nine years old. Surviving into his twenties, he discovered nature as refuge from shame and unworthiness.

Once more, my friends and colleagues and I have banded together to compose literature connecting astronomy and mythology to create Of Gods and Globes II. Each one of us chose a name that connected astronomy and mythology.

We live in an age that seems eerily familiar. A time of dictators, populists, organised lying, European wars, grabs for territory, ideological extremism and even antisemitism, a time when things are falling apart and the centre is struggling to hold. It has all happened before, in the 1920s and 1930s. History is sending us a warning, and unless we heed it, history will have its revenge as we repeat the disaster of the 1940s. The world needs to learn the lessons of these decades, and fast.

Fooling My Fertility & Expecting at 50 details Kia’s decades long journey, through navigating bad medical reports of fibroids, ovarian cysts, diminished ovarian reserve, endometriosis, some poor choices, heavy expectations, menopause and the labyrinth of all of the systems seemingly standing between women and motherhood to achieve her first dream in life which was always to become a mother. Kia takes on the topics of egg freezing, IVF, donor help, immunology relating to miscarriage, traditional adoption, and embryo adoption in this blueprint read.