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Staying by his side, I was doing everything in my power to make sure that he would be okay. A part of me was sure it would be fine until an incident challenged the both of us. For three years, I have stood by his side as he has built his company to do for our family. I was doing it, hoping that I could do whatever I could to make sure that no matter what, it is for our family. For him, he is it for me but a part of me is not sure where this is going to lead us. Vulcan Holmes, my handsome, sweet boyfriend who has been working hard to have everything.

Felton buttled for 41 years at Garth's mansion. Radiation results in spider Garnet's mutation. King Darick gives wizard Zenon wide berth. Monstrous mole Hassan causes sinkholes. Jarrett borrows $20K from loan sharks. Elbert uses shark Kazuko as banana boat. Lionel runs out of corpses. Chia-Pig Osvaldo is a Chihuahua/pig mix. Porfirio gets even with school bully Zack. Ostrich Quincy mates with 900 hen ostriches.

Semilouca é uma exploração profunda das complexidades da emoção humana. Nas páginas deste livro, somos guiados por um turbilhão de experiências que nos levam às fronteiras daquilo que chamamos de "semiloucura". Aqui, o objetivo é compartilhar histórias de vida, algumas baseadas em fatos reais, outras plausíveis, todas repletas de conflitos e potenciais soluções. Este livro, também, lança luz sobre o mundo dos sonhos, mostrando como a interpretação desses enigmas do subconsciente pode revelar situações anteriormente reprimidas e abrir portas para novos caminhos.

Ava Williams was a young fashion designer in a small town looking for a chance to make it big in the fashion industry. She entered a contest and won an opportunity to work for a major company in New York. After arriving in the big city, she meets a gorgeous Mason Black, CEO, whose obsession for Ava became violent. Ava managed to find her way out of the relationship and found a new love, but evil was still close.

ती आता काय करणार होती ? मग तिचं मन मोकळं करायला तिने कधी तिच्या रोजनिशीचा आधार घेतला तर कधी तिच्या गिटारचा.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

Debbie Urbanski wields sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and realism to build a dark mirror that she holds up to the ordinary world. Within the sharply imagined landscape of this collection, portals appear in linen closets, planetary gateways materialize in boarding schools, monsters wait in bathroom vents, and transformations of women’s bodies are an everyday occurrence. Political division causes physical rifts that break apart the Earth’s crust. A son on another planet sends dispatches home to the mother who failed him, and a wife turns to the supernatural to escape her abusive marriage.

For the first time in one unforgettable collection, Skin and Bones features eight gripping original short stories in the bestselling Mike Bowditch series—including one brand new, never-before-published story—from Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron.

Being arrested for the first time, it was a moment that would change my life forever. The police officer who arrested me makes it very clear that he wants me and isn’t going to let go. Dealing with a harsh breakup, I wasn’t so sure what was going to happen, but I did know that I just had to get away. Speeding is not something that I do but I’m pulled over and arrested by a hot cop who is treating me like I’m a princess. But the moment that I realize what he is going to do to me, it might be too late.

Symposium of the Reaper: Volume 2 continues as the second entry in the trilogy. Picking up where the first volume left off, only with even more venom and absurdity, the listener can expect pitch black humor and an experience that will chill them to the bone like the Reaper's touch itself. Symposium of the Reaper is for fans of horror anthologies with vast variety and from a single author.

I have my first-ever crush… on my boss. Sienna: I’ve spent my entire life thinking that there’s something wrong with me because I was never like the other girls my age. I never had crushes or dated growing up. I've never even been interested in anyone. Until him. Kye Lightfield. He’s brooding, moody, and way out of my league. Oh, and he’s also my new boss. Kye: Sienna is perfect. She’s gorgeous and funny and always looks on the bright side. She’s my exact opposite and way out of my league. That doesn’t stop me from wanting her, from needing her.

How can you enjoy Christmas when you are solely responsible for keeping everyone happy, including the neurotic budgerigar; when you are all alone, and likely to be so for the rest of your life; or when you are four years old, your mother is whisked off in an ambulance, and you're left with some very odd neighbours? Can opinions set in stone be melted by cosy knitwear? Does scrambled egg have aphrodisiac properties? Should angels have good grammar? What would Silas Marner the miser be like if he lived now? And where did Noel Streatfeild get her inspiration for all those footwear stories?

Sometimes the biggest story of your life happens before you’re even born… and sometimes, you get to discover it. One email is all it takes to turn Mala’s life upside down… an email from a stranger 10,000 miles away. Now, as memories from her childhood swirl up in familiarity, she sees them in a different light, as though they’re puzzle pieces that have a new way to fit together. Everything is the same, yet everything is different… The story she thought she knew is true, but there’s been another truth running beneath it the whole time.

Camilla Winston-Brown desperately needed a breakthrough in her film career, not to lose her job a month before her thirtieth birthday. Faced with mounting debt and an overwhelming sense of despair, she purposefully crashes her car feet from Hollywood Boulevard. When she wakes up in her childhood bedroom, she finds her mother and best friend—both deceased in her reality—are alive and well. She has a loving partner, she never left her Missouri hometown for LA, and gave up filmmaking long ago.

This collection includes eight additional stories about a haunted hiking trail, a haunted road, a weakling developing his powers, a mysterious lake hiding secrets, a hoarder’s worst fear, the perfect day becoming a nightmare, a paranoid agoraphobe, and the unauthorized conclusion to [REDACTED].

"Miriam “Midge” Beale never imagined she’d be stealing chickens in the middle of the night just to feed her family. But when her father abandons them, leaving Midge in charge of her eight younger siblings, she will do whatever it takes to put food on the table. Until she's caught by the grumpiest man in all of Flat River. Baxter Hartman has every reason to be grumpy! He’s spent his days working on his ranch and his nights sleeping near the chicken coop trying to catch the thief who’s been stealing from his family.

Duke was always a good boy but when an ominous cloud rises out of the darkness something happens that changes everything. As he lies in his doghouse, he begins to hear the high-pitched humming grow louder and louder until his ears perk up. He slowly stands and cocks his head in the direction of where it is coming from before he emits a low threatening growl. His body stiffens as if to alert his owner of an unknown dangerous presence. However, when the sound becomes almost deafening, he peeks out and sees the huge black cloud circle around his owner’s house.

Let go of overthinking, make peace with uncertainty, and discover a calmer way of living—without needing to attend meditation retreats, follow rigid philosophies, or master complicated teachings. The Monkey and the Way of Zen is a lighthearted yet profound journey told through 28 short stories, following a restless Monkey and his encounters with a wise Master. As the Monkey stumbles through his questions, doubts, and frustrations, he begins to uncover a quieter truth beneath the noise of his thoughts.

A debut collection of four intriguing stories from a talent that will leave you wanting more.

The Extraordinary Demise of the Famous Armless Juggler: Carlos recovers from a life changing accident to become the most famous juggler in the world. A bowl of mysterious oils and petals from the religious hibiscus help him along the way. But, his catastrophic one-sided love for a nubile young woman brings him down to earth and beyond. The Apricot Ice Cream and the Butcher’s Apprentice: Can a dapper little man get an ice cream from a butcher’s shop or a lamb chop from an ice cream parlour? Can an undervalued apprentice save the day? Will Big John McNabb live happily ever after?