They were friends—just friends. Now they're something else entirely... Jason When I think back, on almost any given day, I see Maggie. In college, she was my best friend's girlfriend. But, as they say, time changes things. I suppose the funeral was the turning point, when we began depending on each other. Adam asked me to watch out for her, and I did. When bad news hit, she got me through rough days. Our friendship got us through. If luck fell on my side, I'd make her mine in every way. But, she deserves so much more from life than my prognosis. A decade of history binds us. One drunken night and we're fighting. Christ, she's telling me to go see a therapist. If I can't figure out how to go back to the way things were, I'll lose the most important relationship of my life. The only one that truly matters. Maggie Last night, we shared tequila. I found...

The Casella Cousins Novella 4: AlessiaShe married the love of her life at nineteen—and then he died.He knows he's not somebody she should get involved with. But he can't seem to leave her alone.Alessia Casella Benatti had her happily-ever-after and now at thirty-four, is only interested in finishing up college and taking care of her three rambunctious boys. But when she enrolls at City College for her courses, she meets Dylan Davidson and finds him interesting, smart and, well, flirtatious. Which makes her start thinking again about love. And sex. Both in short supply.Dylan Davidson hates what he's come to do at City College. Sure, it's a boy dream to flirt with every available girl on campus. Nobody would guess that big, tough Dashing Davidson wants a woman in his life, one who's all grown up and not concerned with her looks or the color of her nail polish. But his uh-oh alarm goes off when Ali Benatti befriends him. She doesn't fit into the...

People are marvelous dreamers, and even better dinners... Scholar and vagabond, Griggory Dondrin is a simple man with simple dreams, to wander the world and learn all he can of the celestials' many marvels and creations in his short mortal life. And maybe, just once, cross paths with a dragør—without getting burned to char and eaten, of course. This is a story of what happens when a man's dream comes true, with unexpected, eternal consequences. In this prequel to the Shackled Verities series, join Griggory before he was a knight sworn and vital member of the Knights Corporealis' quest to save the Great Cosmos , and immerse yourself in the realm of Vinnr before the War of Rivening, when dragørs still roamed the Howling Weald and the Vigil Star had not yet abandoned her creations... What people are saying about the Shackled Verities...

This is the story of Yasodhara, the abandoned wife of the Buddha. Facing society's challenges, she transforms her rage into devotion to the path of liberation. Concealing her gender, she joins the monastic community and becomes the Buddha's closest confidant, known in the scriptures as Ananda. She/he is the one who persuades the Buddha to allow women to join the order and attains awakening just in time to guide the council in preserving the Buddha's teachings. A page-turner about a woman's struggle in an unapologetic patriarchy, Bride of the Buddha offers the reader a penetrating perspective on the milieu of the Buddha, with a fanciful twist.

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After a polarized nation was broken by the threat of civil war, States have now become countries. And in New Maine, things have gotten worse.Giving my family a better life is everything. And my selection to attend an elite prep school suddenly offers my family a dramatically different life—food on the table, a roof over their heads, and a fighting chance at a future.Everything is going great until some of my friends begin ghosting me, and then disappear. Soon it becomes clear this "chance of a lifetime" isn't the Holy Grail I was promised. And the attention from one of Easton's elite has me questioning why a boy with a golden future wants to risk it by being seen with me.But when I find out why I'm really at this school, I may have to trust him if I want to live.

An Irish Country Welcome is a charming entry in Patrick Taylor's internationally bestselling Irish Country series.In the close-knit Northern Irish village of Ballybucklebo, it's said that a new baby brings its own welcome. Young doctor Barry Laverty and his wife Sue are anxiously awaiting their first child, but as the community itself prepares to welcome a new decade, the closing months of 1969 bring more than a televised moon landing to Barry, his friends, his neighbors, and his patients, including a number of sticky questions.A fledgling doctor joins the practice as a trainee, but will the very upper-class Sebastian Carson be a good fit for the rough and tumble of Irish country life? And as sectarian tensions rise elsewhere in Ulster, can a Protestant man marry the Catholic woman he dearly loves, despite his father's opposition? And who exactly is going to win the award for the best dandelion wine at this year's Harvest...

It's 1801 and life is good for Buzzy, or so she thinks. Buzzy lives with Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, but her life turns upside down when Thomas tells her that they're moving to the President's House. Buzzy doesn't want to move. What will she do? This enjoyable early chapter reader for ages 4 – 8 teaches kids about President Jefferson, the new breed of dog he brought home from France and confronting issues about moving. Historical fiction at its best: learning from the pets of famous people in history.

After a devastating galactic war, disgraced veteran Ralston Muck ekes out a living as a bouncer at Last Stop Station's premier nightclub, A Curtain of Stars. Night after night he listens to the club's star performer, Siren, sing her memories and ease some of his aching loss. But when Siren goes missing, Muck finds himself drawn into a world of dirty cops, drug lords, and conspiracies that trace back to the war itself. The only person he can trust isn't even human. Angel, Siren's personal AI, was ripped from the singer's mind the night Siren disappeared. With no idea what has happened to her human host, and pursued by a killer virus, Angel flees to Muck for answers. Together they struggle to comprehend the conspiracy that entangles both their lives. Can Muck and the angel on his shoulder recover Siren before it's too late? Or will he lose everything that matters to him one more time?