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Winner of The Schneider Family Book Award, for excellence in portraying the disability experience! Maya Van Wagenen, bestselling author of Popular, tells Dolores’s story with humor, heartache, and an occasional bit of telenovela flair. “A striking fiction debut.” —Publishers Weekly...

Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea…I never imagined myself as a pawn in a dangerous game between two crime lords. But that was before I discovered I’m secretly one of their daughters, and suddenly I’m not just a girl, but an asset in need of protecting. At least two of my new guard dogs are Ben and Baz, a pair of twins I grew up with—and *wow*, have they grown.

Can a scarred heart risk a second chance? Zaira’s memories returned, revealing the true depths of Michael Vitali’s deception. While she can’t deny that she loves him, she doesn’t know if she will ever be able to forgive him. Until fate intervenes. Finding herself caught in the middle of a retaliation plot, Zaira fears she won’t make it out alive. Staring down the barrel of death, her heart aches to be safely back in Michael’s arms. Without hesitation, Michael throws his strength, resources, and power into protecting her.

When your life spirals out of control, you do one of two things: You let it or you stand up and defeat the demons that threaten you. Amanda Benson faced a similar experience and ran from it, leaving Edinboro without a trace. She worked hard to get her life together and realized that to fully succeed in building a new life, she had to go back and face the old one. When she arrives back in town, a chance encounter changes her life. She’s given a home, a job, and a family. She believes that she is on the right track. That is, until she falls in love with the man that made it all happen.

There is an old saying. “You can’t escape the ties that bind”. For me, that has never been more true. My club has been to Hell and back. We’ve had some struggles along the way, but for the most part, my club remains whole. Now, it’s time to face the battle scars of the past and begin to heal. Rebel needed his club. We thought we knew what we were getting into, but all the intel in the world didn’t prepare us for the price we’ll have to pay to get out. But that’s what this club is all about.

He claimed to be my brother. He threatened my family, my girl and my club. He left me only one choice - sacrifice myself for the ones I love. I learned that when life plays games and fate draws her last card, I seek out my darkest self. I did what I had to do to protect them all. I have no regrets and would do it again. Hell, I enjoyed it maybe a little too much, but I knew, I was one step closer to returning to my family. Now, they only question that remains is will they ever forgive me for the things I have done.

After escaping from the button-down life he never wanted, Caden Jackson is finally free. But freedom comes with a price, and the price Caden paid was losing the woman he loved. Betrayals are exposed as truths come to light. Will Caden and Emma be able to rekindle their relationship? Or, in the end, will Caden’s choices separate them forever?

"The 2000 Most Common German Words in Context with Example Sentences, Mnemonics, and Root Words" is an innovative resource that will help students, travelers, and professionals learn German faster. This comprehensive resource expertly combines the most important German vocabulary, placing each term within its real-world context. By using example sentences, the audiobook not only demonstrates the practical use of words but also explains the subtle nuances of the German language, making it an essential tool for both beginners and intermediate learners seeking to improve their fluency.

"It's not what you think," Nicolas tries to reassure me. "I believe it's even worse!" Back then, he simply abandoned me. Yesterday at the class reunion, he wrapped me around his finger, and since today, he's my new boss... I'm Kaylee Davis. After graduating high school, I fled to London with a broken heart. My great love Nicolas Wright, the hottest football player in our class, had cheated on me with my arch-enemy Alison. Now I've landed my dream job at a law firm in New York and I'm returning to my hometown.

Stolen from her family as a child, Aspasia has clawed her way up the ranks of Cyrus's black-market empire to captain her own trading vessel - and she risks it all every time she uses her powerful magic to free as many women, children, and Elementae from slavery as she can. But Cyrus is close to uncovering her secrets - not only that Aspasia is a wind Elementae with the ability to sail her ship through the sky but also that she is searching for her lost family. And if Aspasia can't find her younger siblings before Cyrus does, she will never be able to break free.

Octavia wanted to get away, so she applied to Emberwood Academy, leaving her cheating ex-fiancé and his new toy Rebecca. After an ill-advised night with a man she shouldn’t have even considered attractive, the notes began. She tried ignoring them, but it was hard to ignore such a persistent admirer. He was a broken man, but when he saw her that day, he knew he had to have her.

Poised with regal grace and pristine wealth, Angelette Arabella is the dutiful daughter of Valerius Arabella, a dictator who rules with an iron fist. When she stumbles upon a series of long-buried secrets that threaten to dismantle their carefully crafted lives, she faces a harrowing choice: expose the truth and risk everything or remain silent and let the lies continue. As tensions rise and loyalties shift, she must decide who to trust in a game where betrayal lurks around every corner. Will Angelette have the courage to face the darkness, or will her fear silence her forever?

From the New York Times-bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame comes the first book in a deliciously propulsive vampire-fantasy duology teeming with slow burn romance, found family, and revenge, led by an orphan girl willing to do whatever it takes to save her self-made kingdom.

I was taken. I was beaten. I was raped. My uncle’s club saved me. It also destroyed me. Meeting Bash was the worst thing that could have happened. He was a mistake and we both knew it. The more I tried to stay away from him, the more he sought me out. My attraction to him became something more. Now where do we go?

Alexi Pappas is not only an Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker, she is a writer whose heartwarming and life-affirming memoir will inspire young readers, as she shares the touchstone moments in her life that helped her learn about confidence and self-reliance, compassion and forgiveness, and loss...

"A must-read ecological message of hope . . . Everyone with an interest in the future of this planet should read this book." --David Mitchell, The Guardian When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents Malena and Svante, and her little sister Beata, were facing a crisis in their...

In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction.

This audiobook was designed with that in mind. A child does not develop properly without food and drink. Likewise, our spiritual growth is stunted if we do not have daily fellowship with God through a daily meal of his truthful words.

She thought it was love. Rose Romanov is a mafia princess, and everything that entails. Violently over-protective parents. A giant extended family, all ready to kill anyone who looks at her wrong. Learning to run a business that isn’t exactly on the right side of the law. So, naturally, when she meets a nice guy who isn’t in the life, she falls hard...Right up until the she discovers her new boyfriend isn’t a civilian at all. But he betrayed her.

Lost, groggy, and utterly devastated, MacKenzie Harper woke in the back of a truck with a kind man giving her a ride to safety. Her memory fuzzy, her senses on high alert, and her world teetering precariously on chaos, she has no idea who to trust, but her nose says she can trust him. When her savior delivers her to Ranier, Preston, Jarret, and Anton Lejeune, Kenzie recognizes them as the sons of the most famous werewolf family in Louisiana. They have to hide her because Kenzie did the forbidden - she shifted.