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Nothing brings the four Fox siblings together like their detestable father’s heart attack—and a hefty inheritance to be divided equally. At his deathbed is his oldest daughter, Valerie; her irresponsible sister, Lucy; and their two embattled brothers, Christian and Jeremy. Even the former housekeeper, Marian, who’s been with the family for forty years, is on watch. All Valerie hopes for is an amicable reunion, despite the damages of the past. By punishing means, Stefan Fox raised his children to be competitors. The cruel lessons now serve them well in a game of life and death.

Frumkin’s latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five genre-defying stories that range from downright hilarious to brilliantly unhinged. Taken together, they celebrate a wide variety of human experiences. In the title story, a queer young adult with bipolar disorder drops out of college in a fog of depression, aimlessly drifting between maintaining their job at a fast food restaurant and dodging their mom’s texts. But when they fall in with a group of sex workers starring in BDSM films, they find radical freedom, love, and community.

Juggling two jobs to keep her belly dance studio afloat keeps Abby Anderson's mind off her shattered love life - until a reawakened pain sends her into the arms of an anonymous stranger she plucks from the audience of her tribal belly dance show. No names, no strings, no romance. She tells herself it's a harmless hookup. Until he turns up at her day job.

In a fit of anger, radio DJ Jaye Jordan blows a snowman’s head off with a Revolutionary War-style musket. But the corpse that tumbles out is all too human. Jaye thought life would be quieter when she left New York City and bought a tiny Vermont radio station. But now Edwin Anger — the ranting and raving radio talk-show host who Jaye recently fired — lies dead in the snow. And the Edwin Anger fans who protested his dismissal are sure she killed him.

My name is Isobel Drake. And my life masquerading as human is about to blow up, big-time. I have a secret: I'm a half-human, half-dragon hybrid living in plain sight in the humans-only city of Yerba Buena. There are others like me, pretending to be fully human, in a world where dragons are exiled to reservations and face the death penalty if caught in a human settlement. On the eve of a dragon invasion, someone leaks footage of me shape-shifting into a dragon. We dragon hybrids were created to serve as covert operatives in a new dragon war against humans.

Jace Scholte is determined to rise above his poverty-stricken childhood. Years after a real estate developer took him under his wing, Jace has a mission: return to his hometown of Sweet Creek and win the residents' support for a high-rise condo. He volunteers in a local fundraiser to melt their resistance, but he never expected he'd work side-by-side with the one who got away....Tess Kruger remembers the plan she and Jace constructed all those years ago. But try as she might, she can't forget the dark secret that caused her to run away from their potential future.

Reunited at last, Isalla, Kitania, and Rose survived the machinations of Haral, despite the odds against them. Yet, even though they were victorious, the three realize the actions of their enemies indicate they’re running short on time and must go north to unveil their opposition. Their enemies have not stood idle, however. They have begun to move more quickly. The plans they’ve set in motion are more deadly than anyone might fear, and all three worlds are in peril.

This book is for those of us who are mixing motherhood with other passions. We are raising babies while working tirelessly at enormous goals. We are playing with preschoolers while pursuing our passions. It is difficult enough to manage a home and love on our children without adding impossible dreams to the mix. But we know you can do it, and this book can help!

Explore new and familiar worlds where the human consciousness can be uploaded into a body on Mars … an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels … two teens get stuck in a time loop at a space station … people are forced to travel to the past or the future to escape the dying planet … only a non-binary person can translate the binary code of a machine that predicts the future … everyone in the world vanishes except for two teen girls who are in love.

It is the day of her brother’s wedding, and our narrator is still struggling with her wedding toast. Despite a recent fracture between them, Danny has asked her to give a speech, and she doesn’t know where to begin, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother, age three. They grew up together like any other siblings, and shared a bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect.

I have a dangerous secret. I'm more than a human, but less than a dragon. My name is Isobel Drake. I thought I was the only one of my kind, a freak pretending to be human. But when a dragon warrior unexpectedly appears to demand my help, I realize for the first time in my life that I'm not alone. Like me, Tam appears human. Like me, he's hiding his true nature. Too bad he’s made it clear that I’m a lesser creature. Yet he needs me because of my unique skills. I was raised as human. I know my city inside and out. My brand-new business advertises that I can find anything, or anyone.

Until last week, I was comfortably passing for human. Then the half-dragon warrior Tam showed up on my doorstep. He demanded my help in recovering a stolen dragon egg and yanked me out of my ordinary life. After surviving that trial together, the brash warrior has switched his allegiance to a new dragon queen...me. He's appointed himself my bodyguard and the newly-hatched baby dragon's caretaker.

You've met the sexy, brooding Calder Cunningham.... Now it's time to meet the other half of the wicked Cunningham family.

Lily Frazer's been through her share of ups and downs with the brooding Calder Cunningham - but she doesn't know where to begin when it comes to his guilt over his sister. She hasn't quite mastered the ability to ease his worries with her body, or to make his pain disappear with her lips or hands or softly whispered words, but she's determined to try...even if it takes all night.

Louisa Cunningham and Ward Brannon are on a mission: to escape the mess (and the families) they left behind. But life on the road is more difficult than either of them expected. Out here, there might not be any rules, but there are also no longer any secrets...and nowhere to hide from each other.

Her father's dead. Her family's fortune is gone. And - oh yeah - she's assumed a false identity so she could get a position at Huntington Manor, the luxury tourist attraction that was once her family's estate. Nobody here knows that she's Louisa Cunningham, former heiress and current complicated head case. To them she's just Addison Thomas, assistant to the hotel's general manager. Well, except to handyman Ward Brannon. To him, she's the strange, but intoxicating, new girl who tried to have sex with him without even knowing his name.

How do you create a budget? Clean a bathroom? Make a doctor’s appointment? If you're feeling a little overwhelmed by the responsibilities of growing up, you’re not alone—and Life Skills Book for Teens is here to help! It includes straightforward advice for handling your money, health, home, relationships, and more so you can take on adulthood with confidence.

10 Things addresses the power of stigmas surrounding depression. It breaks down their power and builds hope for those who may be struggling with depression to recognize the symptoms, respond to them by seeking help, and to ultimately get relief. Based on her own journey with depression and a variety of authoritative sources, Dr. Wright uses humor, faith, a practical sensibility, and an authentic concern and compassion for those battling depression to turn 10 common stigmas on their heads and to educate and encourage people to feel safe and courageous when facing depression.

While ageing itself may be inevitable, what if there were a way to measure our biological age? And what if there were strategies to slow down, or even reverse, the ageing process? In True Age, Dr Morgan Levine gives us an insight into the cutting-edge developments in the science of ageing and longevity and teaches us that through understanding our biological age, we can monitor and even control the process of ageing.

In the aftermath of a devastating act of war in the South China Sea, the core of the Earth has been exposed and the magnetic field that protects the planet form the sun’s radiation has been compromised. But with the destruction, a miraculous enigma has also been discovered. From the coast around the war zone, a group of mystically atypical baby girls was born, the Cold Daughters. But will their unique physiology be enough to save humankind?