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Love should be everything or not at all. At least that's what I used to think. I'm 17 now, and back in Malibu. Mama's drying out back East, and here I am living with my father and his new wife, Tiffany Blume, Hollywood harlot. I just have to bide my time until I turn 18 and go off to college. Away from them; away from Seth Drake. Seth is living his dream. Studying acting in New York City, landing a recurring role in a hit series, and grabbing my heart one last time until it breaks.

We were just kids when we met.... He was the boy from down the beach. I was the transplant from Tennessee. He became my best friend. I became his best girl. And then...it became us. We shared things...our dreams, our secrets...first kisses and then our hearts. Seth Drake was my everything. My first crush. My first love. My forever passion. Until that day when everything changed through no fault of ours.

The Journey of a Lifetime is a true story about a young lady who has grown up traveling America with her parents and younger brother. Her daddy is a full-time evangelist, and home is wherever they park their bus. The highlights of life on the road are innumerable, and the challenges are as well. This book is intended to do much more than fill your spare time...It was written to encourage and challenge you spiritually. The practical applications of Scripture and biblical principles make The Journey of a Lifetime an ideal personal devotional or topical Bible study guide.

Logan Andrews grew up with a player for a father and no mother by the age of 11. Learning everything from his father, he saw women as pawns in the sex games he played. He quickly learned, after becoming financially successful, that sex games were not going to be satisfying.

To some, it may seem as though Lily Farr has a great life. But behind closed doors, she’s struggling with her self-worth and her alcoholic husband. When she runs into an old friend, Sean Mitchell, she realizes what life could be really like. Sean Mitchell had no choice when he left all those years ago. Now that he’s back, he’s determined to win Lily’s heart. After all, she’s been the only woman who ever truly got under his skin. Lily must decide between her husband, Chris, or the guy she never could quite stop thinking about.

Tired of anxiety and stress running your life? Anxiety and stress suck the joy out of living, take you out of the present moment when you are with loved ones, and lead to long term health concerns. These meditations address anxiety at its root cause...the brain. Recent studies in neuroplasticity have revealed that meditation practice causes the amygdala to shrink. Literally rewiring your brain for relaxation. This series contains three professionally produced twenty-minute guided meditation sessions designed to relieve stress, anxiety, and panic attacks.

Deep sleep is critical to virtually every function of your body and mind. It boosts your immune system, increases mental clarity, reduces stress and anxiety, helps maintain weight loss, drastically reduces chances for Alzheimer's and dementia, and more. The Ultimate Sleep Meditation is your key to falling asleep fast and getting consistent, deep sleep. These guided meditations were professionally designed to help you fall asleep faster, get better quality sleep, use self-hypnosis techniques, and ditch sleep medication.

Mary was born in 1933 in Scott County, Mississippi, to sharecroppers. Her memoir described her two fathers as the most significant people in her childhood. One of them was impoverished and indebted to white landowners and the other owned property and was independent. They agreed to expose Mary to both worlds. Change is hard, but Mary found her way and the inspiration to dream. With the gift of song and the mind to step out of the box, Mary broke ground in business and in song.

Rex had always known that he was an intelligent dog. He was very proud of the fact that he could count to 100. He could read some words if they were not too long. He was also the very best at fetching the newspaper for his people. He loved his people. Adam and Sally were his two favorites. They played with him every day. They would throw a ball as far as they could, and Rex would run and grab it in his mouth. If he were exceptionally fast, he would catch the ball in the air. Rex was proud of that too. As far as good dogs went, Rex was one of the best.

This is the story of a happy and lively Labrador retriever and two six-year-old children, who are part of a family living in Los Angeles neighborhood. The family consists of Dadda, who runs a business as a veterinary surgeon, Momma, who works in the practice with Dadda and the two children, a boy named Bart and a girl named Amy, who are twins. The Labrador’s name is Cooper. There is also a Nanny, Gabby, who attends to the household and looks after Bart and Amy and prepares their lunch every day. Bart and Amy adore Cooper and love playing Frisbee with him.

Life isn't easy - especially when you're the reclusive daughter of a melodramatic attorney openly mocked for his commercials, and a free-spirited mother who gives art lessons in the nude. Their over the top personalities make it easy for the sheltered and introverted Magnolia Berrybush to swim in a sea of anonymity - until the day she finally snaps.

In a world full of comparison, it is important to impart to children at a young age that no matter your differences in this world, you are important and play a role in the body of Christ. Your gifts may be different from those around you, but that does not make you lesser than anyone. A follow up to Chayla Cooper’s book Thank You God, You Belong continues to utilize Christian teachings by following a young ant who is about to embark on a journey into the unknown and doesn’t understand why God would choose her when her gifts aren’t as great as those around her.

Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn't want to fight, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. There is the "good daughter" who realizes that there's only one way to help her brother and her family. Other stories center on the daily drama of the Curl-E-Que beauty shop, or capture the slapstick side of passion.

The Northern Force adventure continues in Alaska during what the Bible calls the Tribulation. Geo, Izzy, and the Meyers family fight to survive until the the Glorious Appearing of Christ at the end of the Tribulation. The plagues of the bowls from Revelation 16 are poured out onto the world. The effects are felt as far north as Alaska.

For African Americans in the southern United States, the social determinants of health are influenced by a unique history that encompasses hundreds of years of slavery, injustices during the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, the civil rights era, and contemporary experiences like the Black Lives Matter movement. Black activists, physicians, and communities continue to battle inequities and structural problems that include poverty, inadequate access to health care, incarceration, a lack of transportation, and food insecurity.

You can take a witch out of Brooklyn...and put her in the woods? As if learning magic wasn’t hard enough, now Effie has to go to SUMMER CAMP! The hit middle-grade graphic novel series continues with this new adventure that's filled to the brim with magic and mayhem!

Here to Stay is a collection of honest, searing, and evocative poems interspersed with short personal narratives. Deeply intimate, these works explore how to exist in the space between the familiar and the unknown, between the safety of silence and the desire to share. Highlighting the significant insights of undocumented poets, this brilliant compendium challenges misconceptions of what it means to live and write as an undocumented person in modern America.

Granny and her granddaughter are going on a walk. But this is not just any walk. It’s a walk that must not be missed, one that is more important than ever but has been made increasingly difficult for many to participate in. It’s a walk that joins together a community, that lifts voices, that allows us to speak up, stand up, and say what’s on our minds. It’s a walk for hope.

After surviving her first heartbreak followed by a grueling final two years of college, Nessa returns home, only to be plagued by a phenomenon that she can only attribute to fatigue or possible insanity: a vanishing man.

Rylee Swanson is beginning eighth grade with zero friends. A humiliating moment at the end-of-seventh-grade pool party involving a cannonball, a waterlogged updo, and some disappearing clothes has Rylee halfway convinced she’s better off without any friends—at least friends like those. The one question Rylee can’t shake is . . . why? When a group assignment in journalism pairs Rylee with science geek DeNia Alonso, DeNia’s annoyingly know-it-all, nerdy personality is both frustration and fuel to Rylee’s search for answers.