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Welcome to Affinity, the hottest battle royale video game in the world! Gamers can be anything they want to be in Affinity’s high-tech, magical universe—and test their skills in fierce PvP combat. So when Hurricane Games announces an epic tournament with killer prizes, four kids form a team that feels unstoppable . . . but also maybe doomed from the start?

Flare is power. With only a drop of flare, one can light the night sky with fireworks . . . or burn a building to the ground—and seventeen-year-old Ingrid Ellis wants her fair share. Ingrid doesn't have a family fortune, monetary or magical, but at least she has a plan: Rise to the top on the arm of Linden Holt, heir to a hefty political legacy and the largest fortune of flare in all of Candesce. Her only obstacle is Linden's father who refuses to acknowledge her. So when Senator Holt announces his run for president, Ingrid uses the situation to her advantage.

Riley O’ Hare wanted two things - a place to call home and freedom. She found both when she met Oliver Frost. Falling in love with him was a bonus. Tending Juleps bar by night and her vampire by day has become a delicious new normal. But when her secrets and past finally catch up with her, it leaves Riley with one option. Run. Oliver Frost finds it too easy to keep up the facade of laidback and charming. But the bloodthirsty beast scraping in his depths threatens to ruin it all.

After months of carrying burdens alone through the apocalypse, Adrian finally has the help he needs. Five of the six have come, and he can’t wait to get things started. With Angie’s power and his own secret skills, he is about to rebuild an entire country - if he can keep them away from the slavers long enough to get these special people to bond. Can he hold the enemy at bay while teaching his people how to be survivors? If they won’t work together, the apocalypse will kill them all.

Remember Wick? Son of the Dark Lord, heir to the throne of black and broken glass, and next in line to be the leader of the Grim World? Well, after a major spell gone wrong, he finds himself kicked out of his own castle and shipped off as an exchange student. As if Middle Ages School wasn't hard enough already!

Charlotte’s Education is the sexy new series from Mina Latria. In this series, Ashley, who isn’t really that experienced herself, gets a dramatic thrill from taking her friend Charlotte under her wing, so to speak, and teaching her all about sex. Charlotte is inquisitive, eager, and about as nervous as can be. This all works together to drive Ashley absolutely crazy. Charlotte will get a sexy education indeed, but it’s Ashley who really reaps the benefits!

According to the data published by the American Psychological Association, 20 percent of adult Americans are chronic procrastinators. That is higher than the number of people diagnosed with any mental or physical health issue. The good news is that improving productivity and bringing procrastination under control are well-researched topics. With some effort, you can follow the path to procrastinate less and produce more.

The Family Disaster Dog Book shows you how easy a pet dog of any age, size, or breed can be your very own search and rescue dog! Any size dog, from the little Chihuahua to the Great Dane, can help its owner survive...and they find you every day already when they want to play or eat, so why not learn what else they can do to help you!

The 518 Publishing Company’s fourth anthology A Guide to Useless Sidekicks contains 19 short stories by many first-time published authors from the US and Canada. The tales include creepy dolls, inspiring adventures, a few superheroes, one princess, and some unwitting villains, not to mention awesome sidekicks!

As Sterling’s most charming King, Oliver Frost’s job is prowling his bar with a drink in hand and a smile on his lips. When a crisis hits the streets of Sterling, it turns his entire life upside down, and the last person he expects comes crashing into his world. Riley O’Hare has never been more than a spark in a picture, but if he can’t find a reason for her to stay, he may lose the chance to find out if she could be more.

Documentary from 1998 until 2020 demonstrating how specialized conditioning with Spinnex Vitality can produce extraordinary results at any age. I competed in four national competitions and earned a medal in all four national competitions, because I was the better conditioned athlete. All of my matches were with opponents 14-25 years younger than me. How is that possible? Well, I frequently ask myself. In fact, I will admit that all of my opponents were technically better than me, stronger than me, faster than me, and had more time training than me.

When a kidnapping occurs in the Michaels' home for the second time in two years, chaos ensues. The husband and father of eight-year-old Audrey and her mother calls in a favor: former New Orleans police detective Richard Urbanax, widely considered the best in Southeast Louisiana. He is assisted by his 18-year-old daughter and protégé, and his genius, tech savvy 15-year-old twin sons, whose futuristic inventions are far more advanced than any crime fighting team in the world.

The time has finally come for Brendan and Casper to return to Verona, Indiana. Both have graduated from Indiana University, and Brendan has a teaching and assistant coaching job waiting for him at his old high school. The pair purchase their own place and settle into a comfortable life, until three teenage boys arrive to turn their world upside down. Brendan and Casper find themselves facing life’s greatest challenge - parenthood.

Hell. This was absolute hell. Every day was hell to 2244, an NPC in the Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game known as AO. Just another prisoner of the game like all NPCs, she never expected her wish for freedom to be granted in such a grandiose way; a big event in the game leads to her suddenly becoming a mother, a hellspawn, and a queen, all within a matter of moments. Now tasked with maintaining a balance between keeping the Game Masters happy and trying to take down all of AO, 2244 discovers that there's much more to this game than just slavery and item upgrades.

Juliette Marquis needs to make some quick cash. As the powerful witch hybrid with magic in her blood, she takes a risk to fetch a few bucks. When the magical barrier protecting her hometown of Sterling comes down, her risk proves to be a mistake. Now she must go home and face the vampire that denied her the one thing she ever wanted from him - his love.

Ethan Domani had planned the perfect graduation trip before tragedy put his life on hold. Smothered by survivor’s guilt and his close-knit family, he makes a break for the open road. He doesn’t know what he’s looking for, but he’s got the whole summer to figure out who he misses more: his boyfriend, or the person he thought he was. It’s just him and his memories...until he almost runs over a hitchhiker.

An inspiring journey following a boy who suffers trauma at a very young age which shakes his world, beliefs, and faith. This leads him down a dark path into drug addiction and alcoholism, before he surrenders to his disease and accepts his bipolar disorder diagnosis. He finds triathlons and ultra-endurance racing as an empowering outlet that helps transform him and becomes a positive outlet for treating his manic bipolar systems.

Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae’s stay in Ocean City for the annual Maryland bar association convention turns into a busman's holiday when her best friend Jamila is arrested for a murder she didn’t commit. All signs point to a frame, but Jamila’s local counsel must plea bargain, placing a permanent stain on the ambitious attorney’s spotless record, unless Sam and the private investigator on the case find evidence to clear her.

A pessimist at heart, Conor Hudson feels utterly ordinary in a school filled with obscenely wealthy and freakishly gorgeous students. Her only desire is to blend into the background at Westmore Academy, a school for the intellectually-gifted nestled in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia. A mysterious note found in her locker one rainy day sparks a journey of self-discovery she never imagined possible. Conor discovers the beauty of self-love, lifelong friendships, and unconventional family bonds with the help of a mysterious note-writer and her two best friends.

Fleur de Lys est une jeune auteure française, originaire du Nord de la Martinique, née en 1990. Autodidacte, elle écrit avec spontanéité. Son style unique va tendre à exprimer le quotidien de la vie à travers la nature. On retrouvera notamment la personnification des arbres, du soleil et de la mer.