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You’ve met someone! And they have a kiddo (or a few) and you’re wondering what that’s going to mean for your relationship. Or perhaps you’re the one with a kiddo (or a few), and you want to be sure you get this part right for both your dating partner and your child. The Stepfamily Handbook: From Dating, to Getting Serious, to Forming a “Blended Family” provides essential guidance to parents who are dating and to those who are dating a parent. From those very first dates to including the kids to progressing to that big step of living together - this book is for you!

Fragmented into 16 excerpts, stories, or scenes, this brief work by León focuses on the breakup of a couple of unnamed lovers without explicit gender, swept away by the gale of passion and desire, with the moon as their sole spectator and accomplice, and the presence of a cat that serves as witness to the impulses of a love that is hopelessly undone in the misunderstanding of bodies scorched by the fire of the sexes. The work is a heartbroken cry of a lonely, proud individual, overpowered by his own ego in the face of the loss and abandonment of the one who filled his days.

Lady Avril Gordon has a psychic gift that she has always kept hidden at risk of being burned at the stake. When Avril travels from her Highland home to Queen Mary's court to begin her married life with Duke Magnus Campbell, she decides to use her abilities to steer her and her husband safely through the various intrigues and threats at Court. But when she sees something that would potentially lead to a tragic mistake for Queen Mary - Avril is torn between warning the queen and exposing herself to a great danger.

Milo is dead. And Nellie Bly has to write his obituary. Not exactly what she was hoping for when she left her post as the local weather girl in Kansas for a posh Southern California beach side community. But as more and more upstanding citizens of La Joya turn up dead in ghastly ways, Nellie and her pals at the Coastal Crier join forces with Detective Wendy Nakamura to follow the murderous trail of a ruthless cartel that traffics in endangered wildlife.

Grab the Death and Destruction Series (Books 5-8) Boxed Set to continue your experience in the world of ATF agents Jarrett Evans and Thayne Wolfe. Overflowing with thrilling, terrifying, and hilarious cases, this is Patricia Logan's most popular series. One case after another brings you deeper into the world of mystery, suspense, villains, and two incredible special agents who truly are the good guys. Don't miss this exciting series and two smoking-hot alpha men who play to win and love hard.

In Beyond the Veil, is a collection of six short stories. "The Devil Inside" - A story of a psychopathic killer with extraordinary powers, who like his father before him finds joy in stalking, marrying, and torturing his victim. "The Tower" - Sensitive Amanda has moved way too many times to escape her stalker. She has changed her identity multiple times, left family and friends behind, all the while hiding her paranormal abilities. It appears that her stalker may have found her again. What will she do?

As the daughter of the Tea-maker, Shiro’s life is bound by the expectations of others. But Shiro has no interest in convention. Her holidays are spent with best friend Lakshmi, a coolie labourer, and she dreams of becoming a doctor, unhampered by her gender, her race, or her social standing. When Anthony takes over management of the plantation, he discovers the truth about his family’s dealings with the locals. He desperately wants to make a difference - to be a different kind of man - but William’s reckless lust and their father’s never-ending greed stand in his way.

The idea that plants have a mind of their own has been a prominent feature of some Indigenous narratives, literary works, and philosophical discourses. Recent scientific research in the field of plant cognition similarly highlights the capacity of botanical life to discern between options and learn from prior experiences or, in other words, to think. The Mind of Plants offers an accessible account of the idea of “the plant mind” by bringing together short essays and poems on plants and their interactions with humans.

Bienen und Menschen brauchen eigentlich nicht viel mehr als die Gewissheit, dass es immer wieder Frühling wird. Sila Beer, 44 Jahre alt, arbeitet als Tischlerin in Berlin. Als sie erfährt, dass sie im Oderbruch einen alten Hof geerbt hat, macht sie sich nicht nur auf eine Reise in ihre alte Heimat, sondern auch auf eine Reise in die Vergangenheit, in der schmerzhafte Erinnerungen wach werden, an die Kindheit in der DDR und die Flucht in den Westen. Doch auch die guten Erinnerungen kommen zurück: an die Bienen und Pflanzen, die sie als Kind begleitet haben.

Zwei Fremde im Zug New York - Texas entdecken und planen das perfekte Alibi... für zwei Morde. Aus einem Moment der Unachtsamkeit heraus wird Guy zum Komplizen Brunos, der ihn auf eine schiefe Bahn mitnimmt, auf der es kein Festhalten und keine Moral mehr gibt und auch kein Entrinnen.

Homicide detective Davie Richards is called to an airport parking garage to investigate the shooting of a retired US Army Ranger. Missing personal items point to a robbery, but Davie suspects a more sinister motive when she notices only one military dog tag around the Ranger's neck. Could the murderer have taken the other as a memento of the kill?

The story of slavery in America is not over. It lives on in how we speak to one another, in how we treat one another, in how our societies are organised. In Giving a Damn, the legal scholar Patricia Williams finds that when you begin to unpick current debates around immigration, freedom of speech, the culture wars and wall-building, beneath them lies the unexamined history of enslavement in the West. Our ability to dehumanise one another can be traced all the way from the plantation to the US president’s Twitter account.

Vlak nadat Gabriel Endicott is verhuisd naar een kleine stad in Larapinta, in Australië, wordt het levenloze lichaam van de veertienjarige Carol gevonden in een nabijgelegen rivier. Ze is verdronken, maar het is nog onduidelijk of dit het gevolg is van een ongeluk of van kwade opzet. Om deze reden is de politie op zoek naar een belangrijke getuige. Meerdere mensen hebben namelijk gezien dat een jonge blonde vrouw in een witte jurk rond de tijd van de verdrinking over de brug bij de rivier rende.

Die aufregend hübsche Elsie Tyler taucht in Greenwich Village auf und bringt zwei Männer durcheinander. Ralph, ein exzentrischer Atheist mit einem Hund namens God, spioniert ihr nach. Der Illustrator Jack, der mit seiner Frau Natalia eine freie, "moderne" Ehe führt, begegnet Elsie zufällig. Natalia nimmt Elsie auf und verfällt ihr ebenso wie Jack. Die Ehe bleibt bestehen, aber ein Mord geschieht.

Twelve-year-old Peter Waring is an orphan with an assortment of relatives who don't quite know what to do with him. But Peter's concern is for Rose Ellen, the little girl his mother took in before she died, and for whom none of his relations feel any responsibility. They are however intrigued by Peter's legacy. His father had hidden The Annam Jewel, a mysterious and priceless object that Peter will inherit on his 25th birthday. But Peter's first task is to rescue Rose Ellen from the wretched institution where she has been sent.

Official consumer advocate and unofficial investigative reporter Elizabeth Margaret Danniher, her KWMT-TV colleague Mike Paycik, rancher Tom Burrell, and their supporting staff of idiosyncratic sleuths take on another mystery. A ranch foreman is found dead - and for most in Cottonwood County, the reaction is...good riddance.

Caught in a web of conspiracy, Max Diesel fights the East Germans and present-day Germany to reclaim his father's precious art collection. The underlying story, which is inspired by true events, drives the novel through twists and turns of intrigue, suspense, and emotional drama of real-life characters.

What would you sacrifice for the woman you love? Your pack? Your memories? Your humanity? Tortured, trapped, and alone, the wolf prays for death, until Mara gives him hope. She can save him. She can free him. And he'll love her forever if she gives him a chance. Can she learn to trust him in time? Or will Cade's world and his secrets destroy them both?

Nein ist eines der einfachsten und zugleich schwierigsten Worte. Jeder Burnout-Erkrankte tut sich schwer damit - doch wieso ist das so? Was vor wenigen Jahren noch ein Tabuthema war, tritt immer häufiger auf. Allein in den letzten 15 Jahren hat sich die Burnout-Rate versechsfacht. Tendenz steigend. Patricia Zinnecker erklärt anhand ihrer persönlichen Geschichte im Unternehmertum die Diagnose Burnout, wie es entsteht, wie es sich ankündigt und vor allem welche Wege herausführen, wenn man bereits mitten drin steckt. Für alle, die an einer positiven Wende in ihrem Leben arbeiten.

Enjoy the magic of Christmas with this eclectic anthology of six exquisitely entertaining stories by three remarkable authors. Displaying both sides of Santa's list - the naughty and the nice - Christmas has never felt so fun! Romance melds with such genres as contemporary, comedy, thriller, and action adventure in this exciting and incomparable collection of sweet and spicy enjoyment.