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Air Elemental Elsa Pemberley is a born idealist. Instead of resenting her power over the wind, she uses it to help others. The best way to do that is to chase storms in the heart of Tornado Alley. She meets her match in Harrison Litchfield, a man who is fleeing from a past both treacherous and tragic. Masquerading as a traveling blues singer, he has managed to keep moving, but beautiful Elsa stops him in his tracks. She makes a life out of chasing. He's made a living by running.

Who answers our call when we are faced with a life-threatening situation? Expect the Extraordinary: Angelic Messages, Spiritual Encounters and the Soul of Skye helps us discover the answers to this and other vitally important questions. Sue Pighini, the author, has delved into the lofty question of "why am I here?" for 40 years after being struck by lightning and having a near-death experience. Her revelation, after surviving this near death, is that there is life beyond the physical.

Amber spent her life adapting first to being abandoned by her birth mother as a toddler, and then to the death of her adoptive father in her teen years. Now she's moved past all that, loving life as an independent woman: she has a job as an art instructor and the perfect apartment. But when a routine eye appointment reveals she's losing her sight, life comes to a halt. Pressures come at her from all sides. Her mother, her boss, her boyfriend, and her closest friend, Shannon, all have ideas about what's best for her.

After seven years, the Giant has nothing left to say to his friend the Cornish ogre, and so he returns home to his castle - only to find that in his absence, the children have been playing in his beautiful garden. At once the selfish Giant builds a high wall to keep the children out of the garden.Winter turns into spring all over the country - but not in the selfish Giant'sgarden.

Bret Harte is best known for his stories of the pioneering days in California, so this humorous parody of English Gothic novels is a delightful departure. Harte sets his unlikely tale in Regency England with all the cliches and plot conventions present in abundance. The two main characters Lady Selina and Edgardo hide their amoral pasts from each other, unaware that they're a perfectly suited couple. In the mix are mysterious villains, dark secrets, past scandals, forbidden romance, hidden panels, murders, ghosts, all ending with the requisite deus ex machina conclusion.

What's Worth Learning? addresses the central question of general education. For learners facing a complex, unpredictable, and dangerous future, it asks and answers the question: What knowledge is absolutely essential for every learner? In simple, jargon-free language, the book explains why the "core curriculum" in near-universal use in America's classrooms was poor when it was adopted in 1893 and why it grows more dysfunctional with each passing year.

The themes of shared experience, the relationship of human beings to one another throughout time, and the ultimate power of place are explored in this poem by one of the most revered American poets, Walt Whitman. Its setting of NYC is dear to narrator Diane Havens, a native New Yorker, a Brooklynite.

Ecclesiastes reminds us of the transitory nature of life and ponders its meaning. Many familiar phrases and passages are found in it -- the most well known perhaps "To everything there is a season..." In fact, many book titles are taken from Ecclesiastes: John Grisham's "A Time to Kill", Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", Henry James' "The Golden Bowl", Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth", and James Agee's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men".

They were known as the Killing Times, when serial murder reached epidemic proportions.... A woman named Jaguar tries to rehabilitate these killers by establishing a telepathic link with them and divulging their worst fears. But now she's about to face the most challenging subject of her career: the ultimate assassin, a dangerously disturbed woman who will teach Jaguar the true meaning of fear.

Diane Havens, full-time voice actor, part-time poet, playwright, and educator's talent as a story teller comes to the fore as she reads from the King James Version of The Book of Ruth and The Book of Esther. An enjoyable and educational hour awaits the listener as Diane reads these two books from the Old Testament.

It's the summer of 1994, and Gus Bondoc is going under. One of the best civil-defense lawyers in San Francisco, he's survived by sheer cunning and strict control. But when everything goes wrong at once - when a jury hits his biggest client with a $12 million penalty just after an entry-level employee helps a foreign government wrest $16 million from the most dangerous man he's ever worked for and then sets out to seduce him - Bondoc falls back on his worst instincts and the wrong people.

A slightly shady team of vice cops on the run try to take down a white slavery ring, only to discover it is run by a den of bored, old world style vampyres delighted to have new playthings. An amazing cast and a thrilling soundtrack combine into the gritty, sometimes graphic, and definitely violent world of desperate vice cops confronting an ancient trio of vampyres and their evil gang!

Sera Kincaid is a successful attorney who's just lost everything: her marriage, her stepchildren, her house, and her carefully constructed life. Armed with boxed wine, questionable dating app choices, and a snarky boss who doubles as her sometimes-best friend, Sera embarks on a chaotic journey through hookups, heartbreak, and hard-won self-discovery.

With a cast of characters to rival War and Peace, Nathan runs the gamut from delicious lampoon to brutal assault, as he mercilessly sketches many of the characters he has encountered in white-shoe business law and civil litigation. The central character, a towering sociopath who personifies the late-millennial Gold Rush mentality that took hold at one of the City's oldest and best-established firms, leading to its downfall, is presented in a relentlessly scathing portrait.

Nina Frost, a graceful figure skater at the pinnacle of her career, faces an unexpected spiral: a failed drug test that jeopardizes her lifetime of dedication and dreams. As she grapples with the harsh glare of public scrutiny and shadows of doubt, Nina’s plight is more than just clearing her name—it’s a fight to preserve her very identity. Dmitri Volkov, a renowned Russian hockey player, skates a fine line between the adoration of fans and the weight of personal expectations.

Jasmine’s family home is like a forgotten memory, it’s time worn walls echo secrets from boxed pictures shown to her by Grandma Bessie. It is both sanctuary and prison where her grief clings like the accusatory notes she receives. The loss of her parents in an auto accident causes a deep void that she attempts to fill with lies and aberrant sexual behavior. The fear of discovery forces her on a journey. A path woven with secrecy, longing, love, spiritual, and historical discovery. With the fragile promise that truth not only sets you free, but it heals.

Donna is the first female trainer for the Miami Dolphins. She has worked her way up the organization because of her love of the game and the team. The team has been great for her over the years. Lucas has been the best QB wherever he goes. It started in High School where he met and fell in love with Donna. She was his everything. Except they had different career goals.

Dania Ramirez, the first female pitcher in the MLB, comes home to Miami to play for the Marlins. She was brought up in Little Havana loving the game her father played in the DR. Her arm is better than most men her age, and it makes her a top prospect in the league. When the Dodgers need to do a salary dump, Dania is sent to Miami in a high-stakes trade.

Clara Colby—widowed mother of a fourteen-year-old daughter—inherits her grandmother’s farmhouse, fifty acres, and the Burton Grayson Memorial Animal Shelter. Uprooting herself from Chicago to rural Wisconsin wasn’t easy—but how hard could it be to run an animal shelter? Harder than she imagined. When Clara finds the shelter’s most devoted volunteer murdered inside a dog kennel, police arrest her father for the crime. Now Clara and her identical twin sister must uncover the real killer before an innocent man is sentenced to life in prison—and their family is torn apart.