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The third in this series holds 21 stories.

A broken engagement sends Graciela Harper crawling back to Heron Creek with her tail between her legs, but finds the sleepy little town too changed to set her life right. Not even her budding drinking problem can obscure her Gramps's failing health, or erase the mental picture of her first love happily married to her childhood best friend. To top it all off, she's having a heck of time convincing the town's dashing young mayor of her unfit-for-dating status.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as childhood trauma, the influence of media on a writer’s imagination, and substance abuse. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Marketing gurus everywhere are telling you to invest in video. You might be tempted to rush into production or launch a hasty campaign, but not so fast! You probably have a limited budget, and the stakes are too high to overspend on mediocre content. So if you're a founder, entrepreneur, or marketer, how much of your budget should you invest? What return on investment can you expect? Should you go for animation or live action? How should you distribute your video? You'll get answers to these questions and many more.

A guide for modern-day seekers that draws wisdom from Celtic spiritual practices, and leads listeners through a pilgrimage of the soul, to create space for grace.

This audio study guide for Dawn by Octavia Butler includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as otherness, freedom, and the roles of women and people of color in a new human society. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Jacques Rouleau has moved to Kingston to look after his father and take up the position of head of the town's Criminal Investigations Division. One hot week in late September, university student Leah Sampson is murdered in her apartment. In another corner of the city, Della Munroe is raped by her husband. At first the crimes appear unrelated, but as Sergeant Rouleau and his new team of officers dig into the women's pasts, they discover unsettling coincidences.

Authored by a former story analyst-turned-development executive, this newly revised, expanded, and updated edition of The 1-3-5 Story Structure Made Simple System guides screenwriters, producers, and other entertainment industry professionals through the industry's best practices. This includes writing, developing, pitching, and selling a screenplay from the buyer's point of view.

Throughout this book, I'm going to walk you through the basics of what antioxidants are, how we can benefit from increasing the intake into our body, and how to restructure your diet and lifestyle into an easy-to-follow format that's not demanding on your time, energy, or finances. At the end of the book, I'll provide you with multiple meal options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner that are rich in antioxidants.

Regina, trained to find the dregs of humanity, trained to kill, is forced into vacation because her peers are getting murdered. At first, the massive cruise vessel she chooses as her resort destination seems...tolerable, and then, in the span of a few hours, everyone disappears, thousands of passengers vanish. As Regina explores the ship, not only does she discover pile after pile of clothing and no bodies, she finds a fear not felt for years.

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the islands take on the weight of truth.

Celia, Natalie, Lucy, and Jess are the Gamer Girls—four gamers devoted to showing that girls can game, too. They stream together every Friday night and they’re also BFFs. Celia is the artsy, creative one of the group, so it’s no surprise when she starts designing merch for their new club. But when she falls in love with a new, cozy game called Monster Village, it’s a far cry from her friends’ action-packed battle royales. Can the Gamer Girls find common ground, or is their new club doomed?

Meet Marvin, a lovable monster with a 15-string baby fang guitar, a rambunctious case of ADHD, and a diary to record it all. His teachers scold him, his parents don't know what to do with him, and his sister is convinced he was raised by triple-tailed monkeys. In short, Marvin's life is feeling out of control until a secret formula changes everything.

Shadow magic is extinct. The Veil Worshippers who honor the shadow god’s wall are hunted for their artifacts, including the Veil shards that break off the wall in Valisea. Brela vows to steal it all back. With the dagger of her people and a Veil shard embedded in her collarbone that has infected her with shadow-cursed magic, she is determined to keep her secrets or suffer a fate worse than death. That was a lot easier when the uptight and infuriatingly handsome Captain Cason Valkip wasn’t hunting her.

After a lifetime of fighting to get what she wants, Lexi Mills has finally made it into the elite ATF Special Response Team. But when a wrong move during a bomb disposal operation takes half her leg—and her partner’s life—Lexi must shoulder the guilt alone.

Raised by human traffickers, I learned from an early age that the one person I can trust is myself. Rescued and brought to Thornbriar Academy, I've only traded one kind of imprisonment for another. When a scorching hot jaguar shifter and a scandalously hunky water shifter take me in, I start to believe I've found a home and a pack. Until I discover a devastating secret that just might get me - and them - killed.

Focus your French learning on the most frequently used words. Learn just the 1,000 words you need for everyday life. One of the usual mistakes when learning a foreign language is that the student has no priorities. Actually, to communicate you only need 1,000 words in any language. These words are the most frequently used and can be defined using an algorithm that provides the ranking. In this book you'll find the list. This audiobook will provide you with the 1,000 words you have to learn first to get around when traveling or interacting with French-speaking people.

San Francisco has a Monkey King - and she's kinda freaked out. Barista, activist and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well, part of the way. Twenty-five percent of the way. If you squint. But now, the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost, and on the supernatural side, there are disappearances, shape-shifter murders and the city's spirit trying to find its guardian.

After Ember Brycin finds her mother brutally murdered, her mind begins to see things that shouldn’t exist, like creatures that belong in scary fairytales. The more she feels her sanity slipping, the more bizarre and inexplicable things start happening around her, even burning down one of her schools, turning Ember into an outcast. When she and her stepfather, Mark, move to Olympia, Washington, they think it will be a new start. However, things only continue to get worse.

Evangeline is an orphan, with no memory of her life before she wound up in a children's home. Now at 18, she is free in the world, with a burning desire to unravel the mysteries of her past. What she unlocks changes her life forever. The fates take her out of the only world she has ever known and into the lives of the gifted.