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Temptation

He was her addiction. But she was the object of another man's obsession...


It was supposed to be a typical business trip to Hawaii.


During the day, I'd put the final touches on the new location of my bakery. At night, I'd relax on the lanai while sipping a glass of wine.


But that all changes when I meet him.


Sexy. Intriguing. Haunted.


And easily fifteen years younger than me.


I should walk away. The last thing I need after turning forty is a midlife crisis in the form of an Australian Adonis.


But something keeps drawing me back to...

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The Broken Hours

In the cold spring of 1936, Arthor Crandle, down-on-his luck and desperate for work, accepts a position in Providence, Rhode Island, as a live-in secretary/assistant for an unnamed shut-in.He arrives at the gloomy colonial-style house to discover that his strange employer is an author of disturbing, bizarre fiction. Health issues have confined him to his bedroom, where he is never to be disturbed. But the writer, who Crandle knows only as “Ech-Pi," refuses to meet him, communicating only by letters left on a table outside his room. Soon the home reveals other unnerving peculiarities. There is an ominous presence Crandle feels on the main stairwell. Light shines out underneath the door of the writer's room, but is invisible from the street. It becomes increasingly clear there is something not right about the house or its occupant.Haunting visions of a young girl in a white nightgown wandering the walled-in garden behind the house motivate Crandle to investigate the...
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The Homeless Foal

Abandoned, lost, neglected? There's always a home at Animal Magic! In a perfect world there'd be no need for Animal Magic. But Eva and Karl Harrison, who live at the animal rescue centre with their parents, know that life isn't perfect. Every day there's a new arrival in need of their help. Eva is delighted when Merlin the foal is born at the rescue centre, but her joy soon turns to fear as Mrs Brooks' threats to close down Animal Magic look like becoming a reality. Will Merlin and the other animals soon be homeless? Heart-warming animal stories, perfect for fans of Holly Webb and Magical Animal Friends.
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Bender

After a night of heavy drinking, business traveler Bill Rowe wakes up in his Chicago hotel room with an epic hangover: pounding headache, memory loss and a naked dead woman in his bed. Forced to go on the run, Bill must piece together the sequence of events during his alcohol blackout to prove his innocence. Pursued by mysterious assailants, he discovers he's been framed as part of an elaborate scheme to cover up a shocking secret. Brian Pinkerton's BENDER is a thriller fueled by whiplash twists and turns of the plot and one man's relentless fight for justice.PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR:"Pinkerton is a master at tightening the tension until it spills out across the page." – Nate Kenyon, author of Bloodstone
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The Path

For the first time an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how these ancient ideas can guide you on the path to a good life today.Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? It's because the course challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to flourish. This is why Professor Michael Puett says to his students, "The encounter with these ideas will change your life." As one of them told his collaborator, author Christine Gross-Loh, "You can open yourself up to possibilities you never imagined were even possible." These astonishing teachings emerged two thousand years ago through the work of a succession of Chinese scholars exploring how humans can improve themselves and their society. And what are these counterintuitive ideas? Good relationships come not from being sincere and authentic, but from the rituals we perform within them....
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I Cast My Stone

How actions change the lives of those we come in contact with each day.Each and every day, each of us touches the lives of those around us. Whether it is by word, deed, a look, a smile, an attitude or a touch, we may never know how we touch or change those lives with which we come in contact.
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Magic Binds

Mercenary Kate Daniels knows all too well that magic in post-Shift Atlanta is a dangerous business. But nothing she’s faced could have prepared her for this… Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official. But there are some steep obstacles standing in the way of their walk to the altar… Kate’s father, Roland, has kidnapped the demigod Saiman and is slowly bleeding him dry in his never-ending bid for power. A Witch Oracle has predicted that if Kate marries the man she loves, Atlanta will burn and she will lose him forever. And the only person Kate can ask for help is long dead. The odds are impossible. The future is grim. But Kate Daniels has never been one to play by the rules…
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True Mercy

2017 Red Ribbon Winner in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards!"In the midst of happy memories of licking the chocolate chip cookie batter...Adam spotted a woman on the ground."Adam, an eighteen year-old with autism, unwittingly puts himself and his father in danger when he finds Marina on their property. Nursing fresh wounds from losing his mother, Adam is ecstatic to accept her as a new mother figure into her life. He longs for someone to take walks with and who will watch nature videos with him. He can't fathom, however, the horrific existence Marina has led prior to appearing in his neighborhood.Marina, abducted from her country of Moldova, has landed in America and somehow managed to escape the human trafficking ring. Starving, filthy, and exhausted, she has nowhere to turn and desperately needs Adam's assistance. But what will Adam's father think of him allowing this emaciated refugee into their home?Adam's father Bruce is struggling as a widowed father...
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