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A feisty 60-something woman and a beautiful spirit—or ghost or apparition, whatever you want to call Irma—solve kooky mysteries. Mabel Gold had a perfect life as a Long Island wife and mother. Until her doctor husband dumped her for a scheming bimbo. After eating a few gallons of ice cream and feeling sorry for herself, she did what any gal from Brooklyn would do—she picked herself up and decided not to become a big, fat blob. She’d show the jerk. A fresh start in Florida was like a glass of orange juice in the morning. Just what she needed. Of course, there were things that seemed ...

On September 14, 1969, Private First Class Judy Talton celebrates her 19th birthday by secretly joining the campus anti-Vietnam War movement. In doing so, she jeopardizes both the army scholarship that will secure her future and her relationship with her military family. But Judy's doubts have escalated with the travesties of the war. Who is she if she stays in the army? What is she if she leaves? When the first date pulled in the Draft Lottery turns up as her birthday, she realizes that if she were a man, she'd have been number one & dashed off to Vietnam.

Ramblings and Guidance From an Herbalist Whose Life Has Gone To The Dogs.

Maja Jensen is smart, stylish, and careful, the type of woman who considers every detail when building her dream home in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The perfect house that would compensate for her failure to have a child, the house that was going to save her marriage. But when a group of reckless teenagers trash the newly built home just weeks before she moves in, her plans are shattered. Those teenagers, two months away from graduating high school, are the “good kids”—the ones on track to go to college and move on to the next stage of their privileged lives.

In 1775 Hayward Morgan, a young gentleman destined to inherit his father's estate in Derbyshire, England, captures the heart of the local vicar's daughter, Eliza Bloome. Her dark beauty and spirited ways are not enough to win him due to her station in life. Circumstances throw Eliza in Hayward's path, and they flee to America to escape the family conflicts. But as war looms, it's a temporary reprieve. Hayward joins the revolutionary forces, and what follows is a struggle for survival.

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Ben Tyler took a job at the Baldwin farm after Kitty's father died and Ben had moved home. He hadn't known the problems at the Baldwin farm were as bad as they were. When he found out, he set out on a mission to help Kitty, the girl he'd gone to school with and had a secret crush on forever.

Sergeant Justin Thorpe has dedicated his life to justice and won't stop until he finds the vicious serial killer who has already claimed ten innocent lives. He works solo - until he joins forces with Sheriff Amanda Blair. The Texas Ranger can't let his desire for his coworker keep him from his mission, especially when Amanda's life is threatened.

TANGLED DESIRE – She’s suspended in midair, held open and ready for him to take her any way he wants. Curvy Lena’s boyfriend dumped her with a cruel parting shot: she’s boring in bed. Determined to recover her more adventurous self and prove him wrong, she seeks out an exclusive sex club filled with titillating acts. Anthony suggests they put on a show of their own for the audience. He’s sexier than sin, and Lena’s always loved being watched. She never imagined how hot it would be to be bound in his swing for everyone to see. BOUND DESIRE– She stands bound before him, helpless...

Since the death of her wife three years ago, Dillon had buried herself in her work. When an invitation arrives for Tiffany Daniels’ exclusive birthday party, her best friend persuades her to join them for the weekend. It’s not the celebration that draws her but the location. The party is being held at the Whitaker Estate, one of the hottest tickets on the West Coast. The estate once belonged to an eccentric survivalist whose family converted it into a trendy destination while preserving some of its original history.

Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Catholic grandfather as a child and knew one version of his past: Prior to immigration, he had fought the Russians, whose brutal occupation of Lithuania destroyed thousands of lives before Hitler's army swept in.

Este maravilloso combo contiene los tres manuscritos más importantes que hablan sobre todos los secretos y tips para tener una conciencia plena. A través de este bundle, Rita Allen te muestra como proyectar una mente saludable, con su filosofía apuntada a la salud integral, te dará los mejores consejos y la mas amplia información para combatir el insomnio, aprender a meditar para la paz mental y optimizar tu tiempo a través de la concentración plena.

If you like kooky mysteries, you’ll love Mabel and Irma. Short Read for that airplane flight! A feisty 60-something woman and a spirited spirit solve a murder. After a cross-country trip driving an F-150 and hauling a vintage camper Mabel Gold has proven to herself—and her doubting kids—that she still has it in her. She’s not sure what, but it’s something. Brooklyn smarts? Or, perhaps, after transplanting herself to Florida, it’s just sheer wacky-ness. Florida is full of it. But that’s what she needed when she left her two-timing husband and his bimbo new wife back in Long ...

Warum menstruieren Frauen? Warum erkranken sie eher an Alzheimer als Männer? Und warum müssen wir Frauen in den Wechseljahren jede Nacht die Laken durchschwitzen? Viel zu lange hat sich die Wissenschaft fast ausschließlich auf den männlichen Körper konzentriert. Erst in den vergangenen 15 Jahre haben Forscher verschiedener Fachbereiche neue spannende Entdeckungen dazu gemacht, wie sich der weibliche Körper in den letzten 200 Millionen Jahren entwickelt hat, wie er funktioniert und was es wirklich bedeutet, biologisch eine Frau zu sein.

Ob Geburtstagfeier mit der Oma, Rafting in Österreich oder Silvester im Ruhrpott: Im Eberhofer-Universum ist immer was los. Während der Franz an seinem runden Geburtstag endlich auf den Hund kommt und der treue Ludwig in sein Leben tritt, ist das Silvesterfest in Gelsenkirchen weniger idyllisch. Eigentlich wollte der Eberhofer mit dem Birkenberger Rudi nur gemütlich seine Currywurst mit Pommes rot-weiß verputzen, als jemand angeschossen wird - und das ausgerechnet mit Rudis Waffe. Ja, ja, das Verbrechen ruht nie - und der Franz eben auch nicht.

It's August 1952 and seven-year-old Nickel sets off for a day at the seashore with her mother, aunt, and cousin Leroy. Leroy is recently motherless and frightened of the world around him. Nickel delights in tormenting her cousin, but the sisters try to coax him out of his shell by telling stories about their own childhood trips to the shore. Only years later can Nickel see that day for what it truly was - a life-changing lesson about family and the pleasure and heartbreak that comes with it.

Mabel Gold still isn’t sure what happened. Traded by her husband for a busty bimbo the same age as their youngest daughter, the feisty 60-something rejects the retirement community and heads west in a vintage camper. But the RV comes complete with a ghost who needs a good deed to get into heaven, and cracking open a homicide at their first stop in Savannah could give them both a new lease on life.

A year ago, I woke in the morgue with a note in my hand telling me that I’m a vampire. I need blood or I’ll start killing people. Lucky for me, Justin has been sneaking into my bedroom and feeding me blood for a year, and the only price I have to pay for it is putting up with his cruel snipes and my unwanted feelings for him. I just can’t figure out why he keeps coming back. But all that changes when I’m offered a full-ride scholarship to Justin’s mysterious school, the elite Blackburn Academy, where I might finally learn about vampires. About myself.

A tale of love won and love lost and the faith to find it again. From the banks of the Potomac to the misty moors of England, Darcy follows a path where the secrets of the past slowly rise to the surface in this dramatic saga that began in Before the Scarlet Dawn. She meets Ethan Brennan, an aspiring English horse breeder who embraces her independent spirit and marvels at the simplicity of her faith. Ethan and Darcy fall in love but are kept apart by a promise.

OFFICE POLITICS – He lies bound before her, his smart mouth finally silenced. The improvised paddle is solid in her hand. Lust shivers through her. Vera’s competing against the irritatingly attractive Mark for the same promotion. While his cocky comments often cross the line, she hides her dominant side and plays the corporate game. When she wins and becomes his boss, Mark’s gibes only get worse. Vera snaps and reprimands him, to startling effect. He’s aroused. Suddenly, he’ll do anything she commands. She’s longed to give him the punishment he so desperately deserves. But ...