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A broken engagement sends Graciela Harper crawling back to Heron Creek with her tail between her legs, but finds the sleepy little town too changed to set her life right. Not even her budding drinking problem can obscure her Gramps's failing health, or erase the mental picture of her first love happily married to her childhood best friend. To top it all off, she's having a heck of time convincing the town's dashing young mayor of her unfit-for-dating status.

It's been four weeks since Ember Brycin witnessed what her powers are capable of. The Electrical Current Storm (ECS) has turned Seattle, Washington into a natural disaster zone. The death toll is in the thousands with countless others homeless and hungry. Those people who were unable to escape either turned quickly into gangs or live in shelters. Ember, on the other hand, can't do either. With a price on her head and a Dark Dweller on her ass, she is constantly on the move.

The third in this series holds 21 stories.

This audio study guide for Dawn by Octavia Butler includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as otherness, freedom, and the roles of women and people of color in a new human society. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Authored by a former story analyst-turned-development executive, this newly revised, expanded, and updated edition of The 1-3-5 Story Structure Made Simple System guides screenwriters, producers, and other entertainment industry professionals through the industry's best practices. This includes writing, developing, pitching, and selling a screenplay from the buyer's point of view.

Regina, trained to find the dregs of humanity, trained to kill, is forced into vacation because her peers are getting murdered. At first, the massive cruise vessel she chooses as her resort destination seems...tolerable, and then, in the span of a few hours, everyone disappears, thousands of passengers vanish. As Regina explores the ship, not only does she discover pile after pile of clothing and no bodies, she finds a fear not felt for years.

Do you often find yourself worrying about the present or the future? Do you feel like you’re walking with a dark cloud over your head all the time? Do you sometimes try to think positive, only to find yourself back in the negativity zone? The truth is...everybody should be able to live a normal happy life free of negative thoughts and all of its associated issues. The solution is coding your brain and help it change its perspective on every aspect of life. This can be done through self-talk.

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the islands take on the weight of truth.

Celia, Natalie, Lucy, and Jess are the Gamer Girls—four gamers devoted to showing that girls can game, too. They stream together every Friday night and they’re also BFFs. Celia is the artsy, creative one of the group, so it’s no surprise when she starts designing merch for their new club. But when she falls in love with a new, cozy game called Monster Village, it’s a far cry from her friends’ action-packed battle royales. Can the Gamer Girls find common ground, or is their new club doomed?

Focus your French learning on the most frequently used words. Learn just the 1,000 words you need for everyday life. One of the usual mistakes when learning a foreign language is that the student has no priorities. Actually, to communicate you only need 1,000 words in any language. These words are the most frequently used and can be defined using an algorithm that provides the ranking. In this book you'll find the list. This audiobook will provide you with the 1,000 words you have to learn first to get around when traveling or interacting with French-speaking people.

Shadow magic is extinct. The Veil Worshippers who honor the shadow god’s wall are hunted for their artifacts, including the Veil shards that break off the wall in Valisea. Brela vows to steal it all back. With the dagger of her people and a Veil shard embedded in her collarbone that has infected her with shadow-cursed magic, she is determined to keep her secrets or suffer a fate worse than death. That was a lot easier when the uptight and infuriatingly handsome Captain Cason Valkip wasn’t hunting her.

Want the wildest collection of stories you'll find in audio form? Want to hear a range of sexy topics from milf adventures to meeting tempting strangers? Look no further, this bundle of dangerous, sentimental, and heart-beating stories will take you to the brink of your emotional capacity. This collection includes 10 steamy stories that will truly fulfill all of your dark and hidden fantasies! The audiobook includes naughty, adventurous, and pleasurable tales that will make squirm! A wondrously fun audiobook.

A guide for modern-day seekers that draws wisdom from Celtic spiritual practices, and leads listeners through a pilgrimage of the soul, to create space for grace.

San Francisco has a Monkey King - and she's kinda freaked out. Barista, activist and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well, part of the way. Twenty-five percent of the way. If you squint. But now, the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost, and on the supernatural side, there are disappearances, shape-shifter murders and the city's spirit trying to find its guardian.

Cameron: "Deep inside, you know that whoever gets up in your face gets there because he knows you're nothing, and he knows that you know it too."

Raised by human traffickers, I learned from an early age that the one person I can trust is myself. Rescued and brought to Thornbriar Academy, I've only traded one kind of imprisonment for another. When a scorching hot jaguar shifter and a scandalously hunky water shifter take me in, I start to believe I've found a home and a pack. Until I discover a devastating secret that just might get me - and them - killed.

After Ember Brycin finds her mother brutally murdered, her mind begins to see things that shouldn’t exist, like creatures that belong in scary fairytales. The more she feels her sanity slipping, the more bizarre and inexplicable things start happening around her, even burning down one of her schools, turning Ember into an outcast. When she and her stepfather, Mark, move to Olympia, Washington, they think it will be a new start. However, things only continue to get worse.

Evangeline is an orphan, with no memory of her life before she wound up in a children's home. Now at 18, she is free in the world, with a burning desire to unravel the mysteries of her past. What she unlocks changes her life forever. The fates take her out of the only world she has ever known and into the lives of the gifted.

Some people say you should forget the past, focus on the present, and dream for the future. That’s what I intend to do, because I want nothing more than to move on and start a new family—and a new life in Greythorn—with Silas, Damon, and Jude. But the past doesn’t want to die, and despite our reign, there’s one person who wants nothing more than to see our Kingdom fall.

Award-winning spoken word artist George the Poet brings together an incredible roster of Black British poets in this important and exciting new anthology, exploring people, moments and events from Black British history. Featuring works by established poets and new wordsmiths alike, Part of a Story That Started Before Me is the perfect listen for fans of Kayo Chingonyi's More Fiya and David Olusoga's Black and British.