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In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual “stumbling blocks” for boys and men, and any expression of a girl’s sexuality could reflect the corruption of her character. This message traumatized many girls - resulting in anxiety, fear, and experiences that mimicked the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder - and trapped them in a cycle of shame.

100 More Days of Weight Loss will comfort and motivate you. It will also help you learn how to cope with life without using food as a solution. That’s the secret to long-term success.

Shay is recovering from breast cancer and months of chemo. The last thing she’s expecting is a good looking, charming man to come into her world. Drew Bennett, an artist getting ready for a big show, needs a place to live and work while his townhouse in Boston is being renovated. He rents an apartment in Shay Morgan’s cliff side house in Maine. Shay and Drew are instantly attracted to each other, but both of them recognize the timing is wrong. Drew is dealing with a teenage daughter who was seriously injured in a car accident and Shay is emotionally fragile from her illness....

Acclaimed economist and BBC broadcaster Linda Yueh profiles the great economic minds who focused on the big questions: growth, innovation, and the nature of markets. Most of them have won the Nobel Prize. All of them have had lasting impact on both the development of the discipline and how public policy has been and continues to be shaped. But Dr. Yueh goes a step further: In accessible and clear prose, she will explain the impact their respective research has on combating today's great economic problems.

Drei ganz normale Kinder - doch nichts ist so, wie es scheint. Juliane Bressin hat sich eine fast perfekte Welt geschaffen: treuer Mann, zwei wohlerzogene Kinder, Vollwertkost, Biomüll, Bullerbü. Warum also nicht "drei ganz normale Kinder" aufnehmen, die übergangsweise eine Pflegefamilie suchen? Doch bald nach Ankunft der Kinder stürzt Julianes hellblauer Himmel ein. Was haben die kleinen Wesen mit thailändischen Wurzeln erlebt? Woran ist der Vater gestorben und warum liegt die Mutter im Koma? Hüten sie ein dunkles Geheimnis?

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you. Greater Than a Tourist - Alexandria Egypt by Sohaila Ammar offers the inside scoop on Alexandria.

My name is Linda Buchan, and when I was 18 years old I died. It was Saturday, June 27, 1998, when my young life ended and my new life began. A life that was to be so completely different to the one that I had envisaged, the one that I had expected.... In Linda Buchan's raw and powerful memoir, she shares her journey from the terrible night when the life and future she thought lay ahead of her was shattered.

Alexandra Belarus was an artist stuck working in her New York family’s business…until she discovered her true legacy - a deep and ancient magic. Lexi became the last practicing Spellmason, with the power to breathe life into stone. And as her powers awoke, so did her family’s most faithful protector: a gargoyle named Stanis. But when a centuries-old evil threatened her family and her city, Stanis sacrificed himself to save everything Lexi held dear. With Stanis gone, Lexi’s efforts to master Spellmasonry - even with the help of her dedicated friends - are faltering.

The "modern noir masterpiece" is now back in print! Hot and scrappy Sherri Parlay gives up her life of depravity, and with best intentions, finds a respectable job as a dry cleaner in hopes for a decent future. But nature and nurture plot against her when she meets the beautiful, tortured, and rich young Payne, who tempts her with the love and life she never thought possible. Even Brenda, Payne's domineering mother, can't keep the lovers apart when Sherri's animal passions take control.

Whether they are undeniably heroes and heroines or bloodthirsty monsters (or something in between), the undead are a lively lot. This anthology offers some of the best short fiction ever written by the "blood sisters" who know them best: stories you can really sink your teeth into.

In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in her time of pain. This audiobook is the record of her experiences.

Have fun, break the fourth wall, skewer some tropes like s'mores, and listen to the stories from Christopher Gary's imagination.

Alexandra Belarus is a struggling artist living in New York City, even though her family is rich in real estate, including a towering Gothic Gramercy Park building built by her great-great-grandfather. But the truth of her bloodline is revealed when she is attacked on the street and saved by an inhumanly powerful winged figure. A figure who knows the Belarus name....

After a chance meeting in 1981, Lily Fialka confronts the defining time of her life: 1943-45 in Los Alamos, when her physicist husband, Peter, worked on the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project - a time of isolation, hard work, temptation, and loneliness yet exhilaration and triumph; when great breakthroughs were made but lives felt narrow; when loyalty was paramount, but the need for secrecy created unbearable tension.

When Alexandra Belarus discovered her family’s secret ability to breathe life into stone, she uncovered an entire world of magic hidden within New York City - a world she has accidentally thrown into chaos. A spell gone awry has set thousands of gargoyles loose upon Manhattan, and it’s up to Lexi and her faithful protector, Stanis, to put things right.But the stress of saving the city is casting a pall over Lexi and Stanis’s relationship, driving them to work separately to solve the problem.

Fashion icon, Broadway and Hollywood insider, mob mistress, confidante to notorious gang members of both Crips and Bloods, wife, mother, award-winning journalist, Lon Bing has not followed the typical path through life. From her formative relationship with her mother to her days as a star model to her sisterly relationship with Mama Cass Elliot and ultimate reinvention as the author of the best-selling gang expos, Do or Die, Swans and Pistols details Bing's always exciting and sometimes dangerous life.

Frauen lieben Männer mit Sinn für Humor. Der Mann ist die Stimmungskanone, der im richtigen Moment das Richtige sagt, doch das Problem ist: Wo sind die guten Einzeiler, wenn man sie mal braucht?

1717. Pour fuir un mariage arrangé et vivre auprès de l'homme qu'elle aime, Elizabeth, jeune marquise anglaise, accepte de tout quitter et de prendre le large depuis le port de Liverpool. Direction le Nouveau Monde et la nouvelle vie qu'il promet. Mais le destin sépare les deux amants dès les premiers temps du voyage. Elizabeth et Mary, sa domestique et amie de toujours, embarquée à ses côtés, se retrouvent livrées à elles-mêmes dans la promiscuité libidineuse des croisières au long cours.

Who am I? It was a question that plagued Gehenna's mind for the past ten years, and now it was a question that never seemed more prevalent than when faced with the horrible truths of her past… Since that time ten long years ago, Gehenna has found a place amongst the Brotherhood of Bravenn, an elite group of skilled individuals tasked with protecting the town she now calls home. Ravaging the surrounding lands with chaos and destruction is one known only as the Witch Queen, and when she threatens the very borders of Bravenn with an insidious blight, Gehenna and her fellow compatriots accept a deadly mission deep into the Evelfold swamp to annihilate the evil terrorizing their beloved hometown.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist audiobook is for you. Greater Than a Tourist: Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom by Lianne Frith offers the inside scoop on Poole. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.