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Carlie is not merely traveling. A child trauma survivor as a teen, she steals ten thousand dollars and runs away to Asia. Through Hong Kong, The Philippines, Bali, and Thailand, the Lonely Planet path of hookups, heat, alcohol, and drugs takes on a terrifying reality for the young survivor. Trading sex for protection, Carlie retreats to alcohol and self-starvation. Finally, on the tiny island of oh Phangan, Thailand—home to the infamous Full Moon party—Carlie falls in with an international crew of Tai chi-practicing backpackers.

He’s an uptight attorney, she’s a sexy paralegal. When things happen beyond their control, they will both learn there’s more than one way to claim a wolf!

DONALD TRUMP es, sin lugar a duda, un fenómeno que ha marcado la historia contemporánea. Desde sus inicios como exitoso desarrollador inmobiliario, su nombre ha estado asociado al éxito, la ostentación y el poder. Su apellido es una marca reconocida a nivel mundial: construyó en Nueva York, sede de su emporio, la icónica Torre Trump, y ha sido dueño de hoteles, casinos y lujosos complejos residenciales. Pero el magnate no se conformó con el mundo de los negocios, sino que supo transformarse.

Siren Emmaline Spirett has finally made it back to her home and family. Her happiness, however, is short-lived; Infecta is close behind. The Legion splinter faction isn't just another enemy—they're an abomination that should never have existed. Twisted by dark magic and driven by a hunger for power, their corruption is spreading through the paranormal community like a disease. Now they're closing in, and their target isn't just Emmaline—it's everyone she's ever cared about.

When nineteen-year-old Elara returns to her grandmother’s ridge house in the Appalachian hollow, she finds more than heirlooms waiting. A sycamore tree as pale as bone stands watch, a cracked pocket watch stops at 10:17 each day, and a ledger filled with rules whispers what it costs to live here: Kin before names. Bread before bargains. Never pay in leaving. The hollow keeps storms, secrets, and sometimes people. If you feed it heels of bread and speak plain, it will mind its side of the fence.

Dream vacation . . . or holiday from hell? The tense follow up to How the Other Half Die. A steamy and suspenseful thriller, full of family scandal and murder. Perfect for fans of The Perfect Couple and The White Lotus. Revenge is a dish best served cold . . . Chalet girl Reilly is spending the...

How far would you go to save the thing you cannot lose? Violent seeds grow bloody trees. In an instant, with a choice he never had the chance to make, Cole Traeger's life was ripped apart. Now, set on the path of revenge, he must reckon with his past, mistakes made, and games still to be played. But more than Cole's life hangs in the balance. This brutal story of family, grief, and revenge will take readers on a journey from grimy city streets and shootouts between rival gangs to the sprawling southwest and into Mexico.

The small town I live in has everything I need. Including the one man I’ve been crushing on since high school. When it’s time for our town’s annual Secret Santa Event, we’re sent on a collision course, forced together in the most awkward way. What happens when the tension that has been building for the last decade ignites into a flame of desire? What if we’re everything the other has been waiting for. Will we be more than just one night or will our flame be extinguished before it even has a chance to burn?

In a drought-scorched world plagued by a mysterious force called "the Dread," one woman submits herself to a set of deadly trials in order to save her people. But when Helena's bid to become the next queen of Sparta is successful, she must navigate an even more treacherous court while an ancient and forgotten magic is reawakened . . .

Wil would do anything to keep Bayn; break in a pair of green soldiers, march as a pack of five—go to war. He'd even get married. Again.

In this book, Jesus Finally Exposed, we are exploring all facets of these questions. We don’t care where the truth leads us, just so it’s the truth. Experts from throughout history as well as around the world are weighing in on the following questions.

Sidney Grice and March Middleton investigate the murky world of Victorian Death Societies.

125 Gower Street, London, 1884. Sidney Grice – London's foremost personal detective – is restless. Having filed his latest case under 'S' for 'Still To Be Solved', his ward, March Middleton, remains determined to uncover the truth...

All is quiet at 125 Gower Street. Sidney Grice is swotting up on the anatomical structure of human hair whilst his ward, March Middleton, sneaks upstairs for her eighth secret cigarette of the day. The house is, perhaps, too quiet. So when a beautiful young woman turns up, imploring London's foremost personal detective to solve the mystery of her father's murder, Grice can barely disguise his glee...

Sidney Grice is London's foremost personal detective. Called away to Yorkshire, he leaves his ward, March Middleton, to run his house. But hearth and home hold little charm for March, who harbours dreams of becoming London's foremost, and first, lady detective...

When grief-stricken psychiatrist Dr. Gabriel Winter starts seeing blood-soaked Christmas visions, he learns Santa’s naughty list is deadly. Love Santa wants to spread Christmas cheer—one scream at a time!

I’ve always felt safer in the night. When a handsome stranger appears at my local pub on the eve of Yule, something in me recognizes him. Intense and guarded, Niklaus Night watches the room with stoic presence, but the banter flows easily, and his quiet smolder draws me in. The connection is wild and intoxicating, enough to have me considering taking a chance and being a little reckless, for once. Until a fight breaks out and he leaves me on the middle of the dancefloor without so much as a word of explanation.

Dear Santa: For Christmas, I want my boyfriend to come home from his mission safely. Of course, that’s what I told everyone when they asked. But deep down, I was struggling with the knowledge that I would probably never get what I truly wanted—what I craved to experience more than anything. That was until the annual Marine Corps toy donation, where I sat in Santa’s lap and made my wish. The love of my life surprised me with his presence, and even more so with his promises. I just didn’t think it would take sharing me with his best friend to achieve it.

In a series of reflections, humorous stories, and research on Western culture’s obsession with the “self,” C. B. Lund shares that the answer lies not in self-realization, but in self-forgetfulness. I’m Not Great points to the life-giving truth that we were never intended to be the main character of our own stories. Rather than playing the David that defeats the Goliath or the suave super-hero that swoops in to save the day, we would do our present anxieties and crushing expectations for ourselves and others a huge service if we realized we were more like Shrub #2 on stage left.

After losing her husband during the Civil War, Katie Rose Kelly refuses to let tragedy define her future. Determined to rebuild her life, she journeys west to the vast Dakota Territory, where she stakes a 160-acre claim and becomes a sheepherder—one of the few women bold enough to take on such a challenge. Alone on the sweeping prairie, Katie must confront more than harsh weather and isolation. Powerful cattle barons view sheep as a threat to their grazing lands, and they are willing to intimidate anyone—especially a woman—to protect their interests.