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On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran".

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Dave Ramsey knows what it's like to have it all. By age 26, he had established a four-million-dollar real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age 30. He has since rebuilt his financial life and, through his workshops and his New York Times business best sellers Financial Peace and More than Enough.

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Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt.

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Rosa, also known as Red Riding Hood, is done with wolves and woods. Hou Yi the Archer is tired, and knows she's past her prime. They would both rather just be retired, but that's not what the world has ready for them.

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Celebrated as the author of five acclaimed historical fantasy novels in the Glamourist series, Mary Robinette Kowal is also well-known as an award-winning author of short science fiction and fantasy. Her stories encompass a wide range of themes, a covey of indelible characters, and settings that span from Earth's past to its near and far futures as well as even farther futures beyond.

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This is the story of the survival of one man who was the benefactor of a shelter that helped him to live through the onslaught of the infected dead. Beginning with the initial days of the apocalypse, Ed Jackson watches the world die from the safety of his shelter, but there are others who are also trying to stay alive as they seek refuge.

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In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life.

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The Earl of Marsden - better known as Mars to all - has lived his life by his own rules…until he is presented with a very big problem in a very tiny package - a baby girl, his daughter cast off by his ex-mistress. Mars won’t let his child be cast adrift, except he doesn’t know the first thing about babies.

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For more than 10 years, a mysterious and violent predator committed 50 sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated 10 sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.

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On a freezing December night, Hannah Reindel leaps to her death from an old railway bridge into the rushing waters of the river below. Yet the real cause of death was trauma suffered 12 years earlier, when Hannah was plucked from a crowd of freshman girls at a college fraternity party, drugged, and then viciously assaulted by six members of the college football team.

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"Once a cheat, always a cheat," they say. Marcie Maddox has worked hard to get where she is after the illicit affair that started her new life a few years ago. But her world of country clubs, yachts, and sumptuous houses in Savannah, Georgia, isn’t easy to maintain, no matter how hard she tries. Nor is keeping her husband, Jason, truly interested.

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It's a "street fight on a chessboard" as a controversial rap star switches lawyers for the courtroom war king, Miles Turner and "The Jury Whisperer" in a case they call The Mic Drop Murder. Can a top prosecutor rhyme "guilty" with "he'll be?" Or will this "David-AND-Goliath" defense once again manipulate manipulation itself? "All Rise!"

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After three years of marriage to an abusive husband, Brianna Wight fakes her death and flees to St. Louis . . . harboring terrible secrets that could be the death of her. The tragic loss of his Indian wife left Columbus Nigh a wanderer; necessity made him a wilderness guide. Now he finds himself drawn to this enigmatic widow who's hired him to take her to Oregon.

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All three Northern Waste stories in one action-packed box set! WARNING: This box set includes non-stop action, Reavers, snowscooters, plasguns, frigid temperatures, rebels, kick-butt heroines, hot heroes, and some steamy scenes! Over 21 hours of audio! "Edgy, steamy, action-packed, and plotted with nail-biting tension..." —Library Journal

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Reporter Samantha Church must get through a corrupt police department and her own personal demons to discover her sister's murderer.

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With Duran Duran, John Taylor has created some of the greatest music of our time. From the disco dazzle of debut single "Planet Earth" right up to their latest number one album, All You Need is Now, Duran Duran has always had the power to sweep the world onto its feet.

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Everywhere we turn, we hear negative financial news - that the American Dream is dead or that the little man can’t get ahead. Our culture feeds us the lie that it’s impossible to become a millionaire in America today, but it’s time you heard the truth.

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Jerry Colonna helps start-up CEOs make peace with their demons, the psychological habits and behavioral patterns that have helped them to succeed - molding them into highly accomplished individuals - yet have been detrimental to their relationships and ultimate well-being.

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I'm not Goth to hide my Drow heritage, I'm Goth because I'm not a quitter. My name is Cheyenne Summerlin, remember that name. Somebody should... The world can't know I'm a Drow halfling. Not yet. I barely have these powers under my control, but time's up. I'm about to take magic for a test drive. Want to come along?

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You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed...because it wasn't necessary.

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Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had to offer - the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder that no one talks about - and she knows in her old bones that it's time to make an inventory of her household and its valuables.

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Rachel is a respected doctor who lives in a picturesque and affluent English village where her husband Nathan teaches at an elite private school. Competent, unflappable, and nearing 50, Rachel has everything in her life firmly in her control, even if some of its early luster has worn off. But one day a new patient arrives at her practice for emergency treatment.

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A moving account of compassion, forgiveness, and hope for all. Learn about the emotional journey experienced from all sides and the impact on our lives. A groundbreaking story to inspire all.

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One grumpy stable-owner. One hunky blacksmith. Will she fall for his charms, or will she lock the stable door on love? Fall in love with the English countryside in this delightfully feel-good story about life, love, and new beginnings

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A gripping tale of Murder, Spies, and Spirits in this riveting historical (Time Travel) thriller that mysteriously connects 238 years of unexplained deaths to the covert actions of an unsuspecting American Revolution patriot and the infamous betrayal of Benedict Arnold to the coastal village of Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.

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A twisted thriller that will keep you guessing until the shocking end. A rebel cop and a museum researcher with an unusual gift race against time to stop a serial killer obsessed with body parts in London.

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What do you get when you combine an estranged family, a blizzard, a haunted house ... and murder? The world's WORST family gathering. Ever.

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When emergency K-9 handler Ransom comes to Stella’s rescue, she’s determined to thank him for his heroism — and finds herself caught in a firestorm of passion! A swoon-worthy romance that stars an irresistible alpha.

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Ava's meeting with a powerful businessman goes horribly wrong, and she must visit his home in the mountains. He is grumpy and cold as he is handsome, and Ava's career depends on him. When an avalanche buries her car, it's Grumpy to the rescue. The two are stuck together, cozy and warm while the blizzard rages on. Will winter magic kindle a romance?

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I’m Val Thorvald, and I’ve been killing magical bad guys for the last twenty years. Life isn’t perfect (I’ve got enemies hunting me down left and right, my boss doesn’t appreciate my wit, and I haven’t seen my teenage daughter in ten years), but it could be worse. I’m getting by. Until a dragon shows up in Seattle and wants to kick my ass…

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Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the 45 days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life - and his family’s - as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.

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As a newly divorced single mom making $24,000 per year and facing down $77,000 in debt, Kumiko Love worried constantly about money. She saw what other moms had - vacations, birthday parties, a house full of furniture - and felt ashamed that she and her son lived in a small apartment and ate dinner on the floor.

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Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill.

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By exposing the sinister Saurians, Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Mark Hunter and his team have more than proven themselves. Yet the war between humanity and the intergalactic aliens has only begun - now they must save themselves and all of civilization.

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Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to "get it right". Answer all the big questions. Achieve wisdom. And become one with everything. Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn't make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death.

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Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with himself?

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In her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black recounted her life lived eye to eye with the Grim Reaper. During the course of it, she offered a primer on the basics of identifying human remains and a sober, compassionate understanding of its inescapable presence in our existence.

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Even in a quiet Vermont town, unspeakable acts of the past can destroy the peace of the present. In the remote, pastoral hamlet of Canaan, Vermont, a high-profile legal case shatters the town's sense of peace and community. Anger simmers. Fear and prejudice awaken. Old friends turn on each other. Violence threatens.

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In 1986, Eddie and his friends are on the verge of adolescence, spending their days biking in search of adventure. The chalk men are their secret code, stick figures they draw for one another as hidden messages. But one morning, the friends find a chalk man leading them to the woods. They follow the message, only to find the dead body of a teenage girl.

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FBI agent Nick Bracco is rushed to Columbia to save the US President's brother from a cartel leader. Bracco recruits his mafia-connected cousin Tommy to assist with the extraction, since Tommy can navigate the underground unabated. Tommy also uses a Russian assassin who owes him a favor. The story never leaves you time to breath.

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The very foundation of Christianity is at stake in this riveting thriller set in the Vatican Secret Archives. Join Father Michael Dominic and reporter Hana Sinclair, along with valiant Swiss Guards, as they try to prevent an explosive manuscript by Mary Magdalene from falling into the wrong hands—including those in the highest ranks of the Vatican.

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During a time of turmoil, a samurai goes on a quest across the land to save his younger brother from a horde of barbarians. With their land under seige, they fight to survive and go on a journey that changes both their lives. Witness the legend of the Great Black Bear!

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The infamous Wilder Sisters and the men who love them. From reunion romance, to enemies to lovers these sisters find love and romance along the coast of Monterey Bay. A collection of the three books in the popular Wilder Sisters series: Country Gold, She's Country Strong, and A Country Wedding.

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She's everything he wants. But they do not see eye to eye. Can they let God and let love?

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Julian is used to drama: seeing ghosts tends to do that to a person’s life. But when he falls for a man known as the neighborhood murderer–the dead help him uncover secrets no housewife could predict. Moving into a suburban, middle class, stereotypical neighborhood was never on Julian’s to do list.

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Brielle Reyes may not have post-college life planned out, but she figures she'll work for her mother's home cleaning service while job hunting. It'll work out as long as she doesn't fall in love before she knows where she's going to wind up. Cantankerous if handsome comic book illustrator Archer Ward throws a wrench in those plans.

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Massimo Vacchetta, an Italian veterinarian specializing in large animals, is recently divorced and feeling heartbroken and depressed - until the day that someone brings an orphaned baby hedgehog into his clinic. As the tiny hedgehog cries and whimpers, Massimo immediately understands the extent of the animal's vulnerability and isolation.

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William Ury has taught tens of thousands of people from all walks of life - managers, salespeople, students, parents, lawyers, and diplomats - how to become better negotiators. Over the years, Ury has discovered that the greatest obstacle to successful agreements and satisfying relationships is not the other side, as difficult as they can be.

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In this essential handbook - a blend of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Happiness Project - the cohost of the wildly popular InvestED podcast shares her yearlong journey learning to invest, as taught to her by her father, investor and best-selling author Phil Town.

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Micah, fae King of the Forgotten, can tame even the most violent of beasts. Forged on the battlefield, this iron-willed warrior considers his soldiers his family, and he will stop at nothing to reclaim their dispossessed land. Gearing for war with a sadistic enemy, he is disciplined and focused—until a feral beauty he encountered long ago wanders into his camp.

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Deep in the stars, an officer and her lover are plunged into a murder mystery and a deadly conspiracy in this first entry in a stellar military science-fiction series in the tradition of Lois McMaster Bujold. When her crewmate is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps chief engineer Commander Elena Shaw is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko.

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Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters.

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For cynical 23-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that.

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When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. Saying no isn't the hard part - they've only been dating for five months, and he can't even spell her name correctly. The hard part is having to face a stadium full of disappointed fans....

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I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I’m drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another drink and swig it, trying to forget about the latest case I can’t shake.

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Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke - until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list. First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine.

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A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records, neither of them exists. The only leads police have are several objects arranged around the woman’s body, including a set of keys and a book called How to Process a Murder by Laughton Rees. .

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Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.

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A dapper vampire. A sullen merman. Two heirs to a great conflict—and each needs to claim a beloved to become his kindred’s champion. Enter two stepsisters. The first book in the Blood, Bloom, & Water series sets family against family and friend against friend as an epic, ancient war comes to a head in a supposedly sleepy suburb.

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What bookworm library volunteer June doesn't expect to find at the library is her favorite romantic heroes brought to life--all in the same man. Obstinate, prideful and even a bit rude, Everett Rockford shouldn't exactly be "dating material," even if June's heart rate accelerates whenever she's near him.

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"You have kind eyes." The last words Andrew said to Jess before he died on their honeymoon. Grief-stricken Jess returns to New Zealand and the cryptocurrency exchange Andrew left her in his will. As a physician, Jess knows nothing about cryptocurrency and turns to Andrew's associate, Henry—someone she has never liked. Does he mean to help or hinder her?

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You've already made a great choice by picking up the audio edition of Neil Patrick Harris' Choose Your Own Autobiography. This hilarious book has been adapted especially for the audiobook edition so you’ll hear all of the same fun and humor from the printed version but you don’t have to make any decisions or jump around - just kick back, relax, and listen.

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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.

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I was always looking for excitement, until I found some.... Summer, 1979: A dry, hot Northern California school vacation stretches before Rachel and her younger sister, Patty - the daughters of a larger-than-life, irresistibly handsome (and chronically unfaithful) detective father and the mother whose heart he broke.

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Chef Nina Lyon dreams of cooking her way to culinary stardom and becoming a household name. She thought hosting The Next Cooking Champ! was her golden ticket, but she and her cohost/arch-nemesis, Leo O'Donnell, go together like water and oil, and he undercuts her at every turn.

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When Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods met, Nigel was a photography professor volunteering with the Prison University Project and Earlonne was serving thirty-one years to life at California’s San Quentin State Prison.

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They thought it was perfect. They were wrong.... A glamorous chateau. Aura and Nick don’t talk about what happened in England. They’ve bought a chateau in France to make a fresh start, and their kids need them to stay together - whatever it costs.

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The bachelorette begins on a Friday night; all six women are excited for a chance to escape their everyday lives. But then friendly rivalries turn vicious, and a game of truth or dare turns deadly. By the end of the weekend one of them will be dead…

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When Gabriel Ash's wife and kids were kidnapped four years ago by Somali pirates, his life spiraled out of control. He left his job working for the British government and moved to a small town where he descended into near madness. But with the help of his dog, Patience, and his friendship with young police officer Hazel Best, his focus returned.

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A prequel to Jack and the Beanstalk that reveals the story behind the magical singing harp. As her fingers move across the strings of her harp, Clarion becomes the melody and loses herself in the song. When Mack, a lord's dashing young son, arrives to marry Clarion's girlfriend, Clarion finds herself falling in love with a boy for the first time.

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Her need to see the fresh blood, to touch it and to feel it drove her to kill. She was smart and controlled and turned a small rural community in Oklahoma into chaos. Two seasoned OSBI agents were assigned to the case. But could their years of experience and training overcome their own personal baggage?

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Lilla is fighting for the refugees's freedom from oppression. The arrival of Callum, a powerful Teryn general, complicates Lilla's life. Now the Era War between two ruling archgods forces Lilla to act: accept who she really is magic and all; find true love; fulfill her destiny by defeating the Archgod of Chaos and Destruction before He finds her.

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In Career ReCharge: Five Strategies to Boost Resilience and Beat Burnout, Beth Kennedy explains her Benatti Resiliency Model®: strategies to develop your resilience and give you the energy to recharge your career and your life, even if circumstances are discouraging or disruptive. Included are exercises that generate insights, Resiliency Boosters, and success stories from Beth's coaching clients.

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Gael had no idea life had passed him by until his parents died suddenly. He vowed to make changes in his life, but he had no idea what that looked like until the day Tayla Johnson came home. He sees in her exactly who he used to be. While he tells himself he's only trying to give her the gift of time, he ends up giving her his heart.

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Her aura takes powers away. Ally or foe, no Natch or Nelian elf can rely on their supernatural strengths in the proximity of the Nelian princess. Superpowered battles devolve into pandemonium when she enters the fray. Now she has four rogue men lusting after her, despite the fact they lose all hope of winning in their crusade whenever she’s near.