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Petra is a pencil with flaws who spends her days alone in the pencil box waiting for the day she can draw. One day, the pencil box gets knocked over and she finds herself on paper for the first time drawing her love, pizza! Suddenly plump, the other pencils think she is even more useless than before. Then one day a little boy with learning needs joins the class and a special friendship develops.

Letters to Freedom: From Fear to Love to Grace is a love letter to hope, surviving, and thriving after loss. Dr. Patti Ashley shares her own love story about healing from the deep grief that accompanies the risk inherent in loving someone. Having lost both her father early in life and her fiancé much later in life to sudden heart attacks, Patti shares her journey of overcoming fear, embracing love, and finding grace in her grief. She initially wrote this story for her personal healing. She later decided to share it with others in the hopes it will help you find grace.

Unlocking the Fruit of the Spirit contains nine sections, one for each of the nine fruit. In this audiobook the realization that all nine fruit build upon each other will be discovered and how to ask for the fruit of the Spirit will also be unveiled. Also, you will see the importance of knowing that God’s Holy Spirit grows the fruit of the Spirit in believers when they read and study the Bible. Each section of Unlocking the Fruit of the Spirit has application questions for review and for Bible study groups.

Welton Blake has done it! He's asked out Carmella McKenzie—the best-looking girl in school—and she's only gone and said yes! But just as he thinks his luck is starting to change, Welton's phone breaks, kick-starting a series of unfortunate and humiliating events. With bullies to avoid, girls ready to knock him out and all the drama with his mum and dad, life for Welton is about to go very, very wrong.

In this sequel to Queen T’s drama-filled debut novel, identical twin sisters Karma and Konsious, and the rest of the crew, battle past demons, hindering them from exploring the new, exciting challenges the future holds. These past ghosts, some good and some evil, test relationships, and break up the foundation of some of our favorite characters' relationships. Can the indiscretions of the past become the stepping stones to secure relationships that were broken before? Karma is a bitch, and Konscious is no better in this riveting, secret-revealing sequel.

As any listener of desire and romance can appreciate, this is a collection of sensual poetry. Written from the mind and heart of a African-American Woman artist exploring what intimacy, body, and sex-positivity means in relationships and society. Come explore the crevices of what it means to love and be loved.

The demon who scarred my face is dead. But my nightmare lives on. I’m back in Portland, the city of my attack, and things just keep getting weirder. And not in the quirky way this place is known for. My mentor is sensing strange energies, and when we investigate, demons appear. And my scars react too. I’m convinced the reaction is all in my mind, PTSD from coming face-to-face with a general of Hell. With the help of my friends, I do my best to work through it. Because what I should really be concerned about is how demons are crossing into the human realm more frequently.

Now that I’m participating in the Spy Games - a dangerous competition between magical spy academies - I’ve increased the risk of the queen’s minions finding and dragging me to the depths of the underworld. In fact, with each passing Spy Game event, it becomes more obvious exactly why the queen wants me. Most of the time my studies, relationships, and the tournament keep the looming threat of abduction out my mind. But when someone I love is taken by the demons, I must act. And face the powerful queen of Hell.

Just as unsettling news is revealed, Mattie Jackson is drawn back into a salacious merger that attempts to suppress her intensely stimulating relationship with her lover Kyle Bruno. During this unwelcome merger, Kyle may find escaping the drug cartel’s fixation on him an impossibility. Joining with his most hated enemy may be his only means to an end. Mattie begins to feel her blissful elation with Kyle is being threatened, and there’s only one certain course to follow.

Ashley M. Ratcliff got a crash course in collecting the broken pieces of her once easygoing life and building something beautiful with them when her health suddenly declined. At the age of 33, in the middle of her Jesus Year, Ashley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis-an autoimmune disorder for which there is no cure. In the year that followed, depression and anxiety, on top of the grueling symptoms of her MS, sought to sideline Ashley, and she found herself clinging to God closer than ever before.

Jude is dragged out of alt-country obscurity, out of the dismal loop of booze and sadness baths and the boundless, insatiable loneliness, to scrub up and fly to Australia for a last, desperate comeback tour. Hardly worth getting out of bed for - and he wouldn't, if it weren't for Coreen. But Coreen is dead. And, worse than that, she's married. Jude's swan song tour becomes instead a terminal descent into the sordid past, into the meaning hidden in forgotten songs, and into Coreen's madness diary, there to awaken something far worse than her ghost.

Dagon has been summoned. The dead have risen from their graves. And whilst cultists, researchers, and the might of the military try to oppose him, Dagon’s power proves to be formidable. However, there is one final, slim opportunity to save the world from being eaten by Innsmouth’s returning elder god. A dwindling band of heroes fights against the inevitable apocalypse in this concluding story from Ashley Lister’s series of dark tales from Innsmouth.

Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she’s moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah’s new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally reckon with the truth about her mother and the growing collapse of a place she once called home.

The Elven Kingdom is a sham; the Queen put in place through rules meant to humiliate and destabilize her people. Born and raised in ways similar to cattle, Elves are fully aware that they are destined for a life of servitude. Clarissa had always followed the laws - studying hard, honing her skills, and perfecting her natural born talents in preparation for the day she'd be sold and her new life would finally begin.

A surly, hot wizard. A dangerous calling. A curse killing off students. I’ve dreamed of attending Spellcasters Spy Academy for as long as I can remember. So, imagine my surprise when I get there and discover it’s not the academic utopia I imagined. This place is dangerous as hell. And, I don’t mean the classes or the Samhain Trials, though those aren’t a cakewalk. They say the students in the Culling year - my year - are cursed. Someone, or maybe something, is picking us off, one by one.

Essays of bullying, heartbreak, racism, and confidence, Ashley taps into her own past and shares those stories that made her who she is today as she seamlessly weaves in parallel experiences that both she and Mrs. Obama have faced in their separate childhoods as well as their adult lives. Open, searing, and honest, these are stories listeners will feel seen with. listeners who are growing and learning as they move forward through life's triumphs and pitfalls will undoubtedly gravitate to and find comfort within its audio.

In the new Republic of Texas, guns are the law and nothing is forgiven. Bluebonnet Andrews is on the run across the Republic of Texas. An accident with a gun killed her best friend, but everyone in the town of Blessing thinks it was murder. Even her father - the town’s drunken deputy - believes she did it. Now, she has no choice but to run. In Texas, murder is punishable by death. There’s no one to help her. Her father is incapable, and her mother left the state on the last flight to America before the secession.

Welcome to Barksdale, where all the dogs strive for perfection. Every shopkeeper claims to be the “best groomer” or sell the “best biscuits.” And at Barksdale Academy, the pressure is on for one pup to be named Best in Show. Duke’s cousin Coco, a French bulldog from Paris, is visiting for the K-2 loyalty exam. During this exam, the Underdogs and their classmates will participate in a field day event against a rival school.

My name is Josephine Butler, and I am the goddaughter of the most powerful gypsy king in all of North America, and I have never felt more powerless in my life.

Events in Innsmouth are moving to a climax. The Esoteric Order of Dagon are determined to bring about the end of the world with the summoning of the Elder God: Dagon. The order’s leaders refuse to acknowledge the repercussions of their act. And they are determined to make the seas boil and the dead rise as they prepare for Armageddon. But one fearless lecturer from Innsmouth University understands the impending perils. He believes the Esoteric Order can be stopped. And all he needs to do is to help three dangerous individuals escape from Sefton Institute for the Criminally Insane.