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No longer having carpet in your bathroom. Losing a job, finding a calling. Listening to elk bugle. Planting a garden. Discovering dyslexia in a child. Moving out of your in-laws’ house. Game nights with married children. Rest and nature walks. Unexpected time with grandmother. Teaching kids to fish and not to panic. Zoom for visiting, schooling, worshiping, celebrating, working. These are victories under any circumstances, but especially so under the murky, heavy clouds that 2020 forced on us. Here is proof that hope illuminated the darkness of even our worst days.

Levi has wanted Tenny for a long time - practically all his life. Too bad she’s a few thousand miles out of his league. After all, she comes from a different world. She’s the favorite daughter of the wealthiest man in town. She’s the opposite of everything he is and everything he’s ever known. He’s never had money. He’s no one’s favorite. When he was just a kid, his mother ran off, leaving him with his father - a mean, bitter drunk with a vicious back-hand.

Blaze of Love is the complete boxset of the Firefighters of Long Valley series. Come on down to Long Valley, where the firemen are damn fine....

Troy Horvath doesn’t need much out of life. His fellow firefighters, a good beer, and...well, one date with the most gorgeous woman in town couldn’t hurt, right? Penny is beautiful, sassy, and everything he doesn’t need. But she’s exactly who he wants. He knows from the get-go she isn’t planning on staying in Sawyer.

Rosie’s on a mission to save humanity. Carlos thinks he can help, but it requires introducing Rosie to Fast Eddie, a ruthless criminal with connections. Carlos blames Eddie for destroying his past. Rosie sees Eddie as the key to her future. Meanwhile, David and Ellen continue to hunt for Rosie using high-tech methods and lowlife tactics. David is willing to break any moral code to find his daughter.

Six of the best and most opinionated cyberpunk referees gather together with creator Mike Pondsmith to bring their best advice on how to make your tabletop dark future game epic. How to start a campaign, how to handle problem players, how to use character background to generate story, and much, much more! So, grab your mirrorshades and your netrunner's deck, choomba, 'cause things are about to get real!

A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered - for revenge, for love, and even for pleasure - rife with historical details that will have any true-crime junkie on the edge of their seat, She Kills Me tells the story of 40 women who murdered out of necessity, fear, revenge, and even for pleasure.

When devoted Governess Abigail McFadden discovers her charge has run off to join the Union army on his 14th birthday, her impetuous decision to go after him catapults her behind enemy lines and into a life-changing fight for survival. Failing to locate the boy, Abby is stranded in Confederate Georgia with no means to get home.

Her only hope for survival is to find her own roots...The Collapse is imminent, and Rosie’s stuck in the present day where she will be swept away by an apocalyptic ice melt. Since Carlos is by her side, she’s not panicking...yet. Instead, she focuses on finding the teenage girl in Seattle who will become her grandmother. Rosie’s teenage grandmother is wealthy, privileged, and might have the means to help them travel back home to the future. But finding her grandmother isn’t easy, especially since Carlos thinks they’re being followed.

Birth of a nation on steroids! Techno science fiction. A close roboticist friend of Dr.Overton uses nanotechnology to recreate Nat Turner and the slave uprising of 1831. The incident takes place in historical Southampton, Virginia, with the whole of mankind being at stake this time around....

When Gage takes over the family bakery, he’s got a lot of work in front of him. His day starts way before dawn and doesn’t end till well past dark. The very last thing on his mind is romance. That all changes the day a five-foot-nothin’ spitfire buys the shop next door and promptly begins what has to be the longest and loudest remodeling project. Ever. It’s soon plenty clear that Little Miss Trouble is intent on upending Gage’s well-ordered life. He’d be good and riled up, if only his new neighbor from hell wasn’t so damn gorgeous....

At a time when millennials are searching for answers, Politics as Usual gives insight on everything from marijuana to alternative energy, political movements, self-motivation, poetry, and hip-hop. Written to provide a foundation and precise perspective not only in the catacombs of politics today, it also sheds light on the narrative of Southern politics through the lens of the voiceless - while simultaneously encouraging them to find a political identity.

After another booze binge, journalist Dean Sharp wakes to find the world has changed. He is trapped in his home, while outside the city is burning, and in the streets people are killing each other in wanton acts of violence. Isolated and alone, Dean must face his own demons as he tries to make sense of events that have an odd familiarity about them. Soon he will question if the terrible dreams plaguing his sleep are the result of alcohol addiction or memories of a past he is not meant to remember. The present is an endless nightmare of slaughter and madness.

The 1950s media displayed the disfigured and mutilated body of 14 year old Emmet Till in an open coffin. Seventy years later, George Floyd was the parallel shock value that made people all around the world sit up and take notice of the inhumanity against humanity via the iPhone camera, which works both ways in exposing the wrongs on and behind the technology.

“No! NO!” yelled Jason as he sat up in bed. Without thinking, he shoved the blankets and mosquito netting aside, preparing to make his escape. But, of course, the danger did not exist; he was still in a hotel room in Turkey, enjoying an exotic vacation with his beautiful wife. "Damn it, you’ve been watching too many zombie movies!"

My stepmother, June, lived alone until her nineties, but over time, she fell into the depths of dementia. With no biological children of her own, I was the one left to guide her down the path toward the end of her life. Haunted by my father's last words to me to take care of his Junie, I couldn't walk away from this difficult task.

Either Rosie Columbia can predict the future, or she’s insane. One thing’s for certain: Carlos Alvarez has fallen for her hard. As they race around Seattle vandalizing one building after another, attempting to send a signal to Rosie’s father, Rosie struggles to convince Carlos she’s not crazy. Rosie must figure out a way to return to the future - and somehow bring Carlos with her.

We are overly busy helicopter parents, control freaks, perfectionists, intolerants, over-consumers and social media junkies - who worry, fear, laugh less and always want more. In the midst of it, we wonder what it would feel like to open our hands and turn loose of all of it. In Holding on Loosely: Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load, and Living Unbound, author Dana Knox Wright tells stories of one who is hardwired to cling. To her children when they asked for a blessing to go.

Have you tried network marketing in the past and failed? You made lists, you contacted everyone you knew, and yet your result was a big, fat zero? Or perhaps you have never heard of network marketing, and if you have, you have a poor opinion of it. Victoria has been there and done that! Climbing the corporate ladder for years only to be dumped on the scrap heap made her search for an answer. Her search led her on a personal journey of discovery that resulted in overcoming beliefs, which were limiting her success, to now earning multiple income streams.

Elite counterterrorism operator Alexander King is on a mission in Mexico City when a surprise is left for him in the trunk of his car. The contents will change his life forever, and may very well end his legendary run with the CIA. King’s entire career has been about saving others. This time it will take everything he’s got just to save himself.