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Sara O'Neill is on the run, and her family's abandoned old colonial home in rural New Zealand is just the sanctuary she needs. The house needs repair, but it's safe from the abusive husband she left behind. Unfortunately, a dangerous presence is haunting her new home, threatening her chance at peace.

It’s been 15 years...15 years since my life fell apart. Music and my baby brother, Dillon, are the only things that keep me sane. After running from myself and my parents’ ministry for so long, I’m off to a foreign country to serve at a safe haven for people just like me. I can't escape the irony of the situation, but something tells me that this trip may help me find what I’ve been searching for. Then a bus accident that was no accident and Dillion's disappearance force me into action. Now, it’s a race against time again to find my brother before he’s gone forever.

French media visit Misty Valley for a puff piece on Pierre. Or so he believes. The press is really there to view the plans for development in Misty Valley for the upcoming Grand Prix. But, Perre's hope of fame and glory cools rapidly when he flips the press to reveal a murder. The demise of a French journalist disrupts everyone's plans for a quiet party at Castle Raven. April, Elain, and Punkin have their hands, and paws, full trying to solve the mysterious murder and keep Pierre's temper from boiling over.

Carson Wells was a simple man by nature that rarely strayed from the straight and narrow. He was Southern, after all, and most well bred Southern men were raised by mamas who instilled rules and enforced the following of them with iron clad resolve. At 32 years old the man had a penchant for goodness. From family to coworkers, it could always be expected that Carson Wells only did the right thing lest he break out in panicked hives. So when he began teaching in a well known college in the heart of New Orleans, no one ever suspected that he’d do anything wrong.

My husband and I are experts in sensory deprivation, and we are just about as expert in the world of BDSM as we could be. When we decided to put the two things together, it ended up being the most intense experience I could imagine. Not only did I have my first anal sex, but I did so while bound to the bed and completely deprived of sight, hearing, and speech!

To avoid her family's constant competition for the holidays, Andrea decides to spend it working for her catering company. She expects it to be busy but boring. That is, until Roxanne Laurent, a sexy French futa, wanders in with a last-minute order. She's in charge of the turkey and all of the trimmings for a special Friendsgiving. Eager to please, Andrea works double time to have the order fresh and hot for the party, but when she arrives, she finds out that her food isn't the only thing on the menu.

There was nothing left to do but walk. Walk miles down the highway, town after town, from one state to the other. After the leaps and bounds our society has achieved, this is what we are reduced to. Walking. Go North, they say. There's hope in the North, where the spiders haven't found us.... Yet.

The fight for freedom continues as Jewel, now happily married and mother of four beautiful children, is sucked into another mission. When she and her team answer a mysterious call for help, the situation quickly escalates to life threatening proportions. Adira, Jewel’s oldest daughter, vanishes, and it’ll take people from drastically different backgrounds to pull together and find her before time runs out. They can’t do it on their own. They’re going to need faith stronger than any fear. Will the only man who can save her resist the darkness clutching his soul?

This novel takes place inside the real-life nature reserve of Paul Lister, a famous conservationist in the Scottish Highlands. Mixed with this beautiful place is a fascinating journey into the horrible dilemma of mental illness. After the death of Thomas Reid, his widow, Caroline sells the beloved lodge that she and her husband started, and she flees back to Charleston, SC. Malcolm Dargie and his fiancée, Molly, hope to complete their best friends' dream. They finish the remaining work soon after the wedding at their new home, which most villagers in the small town attended.

In this steamy erotic romance, Catalina Torres is a small-town waitress with a simple wish. She doesn’t want to be a virgin anymore. But the pickings are slim in Katy, Texas where everyone is related, married, or one breath shy of death. So, how is she ever going to make her wish come true? Enter Nate Marsden , a sexy billionaire bad boy passing through on a motorcycle road trip during the hottest day of the year before he has to take the reins of his father’s oil company and leave his wild, roaming days behind him.

I’ve just lost everything. My grand plan for college with my best friends has gone up in smoke. I have to look after my siblings now. I’m all they’ve got left. My parents stated in their will that they want Beck to look after us on his farm. But why? We haven’t seen him in years. Now two orphaned families are supposed to squish into his crusty old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere? This isn’t going to work. But I’ll go. Just for a couple of weeks. That’s what Mum and Dad would want me to do. What I don’t expect is for Tane to still be living on the farm.

Poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing."

Naomi Shihab Nye has spent thirty-five years traveling the world to lead writing workshops and inspire students of all ages. In her newest collection Transfer she draws on her Palestinian American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her extensive travel experiences to create a poetry collection that attests to our shared humanity.

Balancing direct language with a suggestive “aslantness,” Nye probes the fragile connection between language and meaning. She never shies from the challenge of trying to name the mysterious logic of childhood or speak truth to power in the face of the horrors of war.

Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable.

What Jewel Neuman thought was just one more thing to battle at Katy High turns out to be so much more. At first, she didn’t want a part of this fight. But, when she comes face to face with a darkness uglier than she ever knew, now comes the most crucial choice of her life. Maybe God is using this mission to call her to His purpose. As Jewel learns to find freedom in fulfilling her calling, will she be able to pass that on to those she’s fighting for? Listen to her Mission of Freedom.

Sadie Alden is still processing recent events but distracts herself by throwing all her energy into redecorating her house. Is she trying to avoid the truth? Obviously…but this new pastime is taking her in some unusual directions. A dispute on the far side of the main island threatens to become violent, but when Sadie and her guardian arrive, it seems that they are already too late. The warring neighbors both claim to have no knowledge of how a dead body found its way to the base of the cliffs beside their property, but at least one of them is lying.

Magical illnesses require magical cures, and time is running out. It's been months since I left my hometown. I'd never traveled outside its wall before. It seems like only yesterday that my biggest concern was writing my next hit article. Now, I'm running from the police and desperately searching for the only man who may know how to cure me of a magical ailment. I'm not alone, but I can feel the patience and energy of the man by my side diminish day by day. It's hard to persuade him that I'm spending all my time looking for another man so I can be whole for him.

Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma. Of the roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066, around 5,000 were able to escape incarceration beforehand by fleeing inland.

One year after Stella’s boyfriend broke up with her—some might say he dumped her unceremoniously—she’s determined to shake off the painful memories and to move on. And her BFF’s surprise invitation to a weeklong trip to France might be the perfect way to do that. Little does Stella know that fate has other plans....