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"My name is Mara, and I want desperately to become a mother." All of my dreams were dashed when the world was promised hope but instead became a place of danger, death...and monsters.Living in a ru

Okay, that might not be the headline in the newspaper this morning, but it's the reality of my current situation. It all started a month ago when I received a call from my best friend, Kinsley.

Lucy: I've always held my own. I'm determined. I'm happy. I'm strong. But not right now-right now I'm weak, pathetic.I screwed up. I screwed up in a way I can't fix. I destroyed someone.

When a dolphin takes up residence in Carrig Cove, Emer and her best friend, Fee, feel like they have an instant connection with it.

I was supposed to be a wife. A mom. A business owner. And I was... until an armed robber sticks a gun into my face. The man who saves me? Javier Mondello. My former high-school crush.

CIA Agent Daniel Winters has a way with women; they always end up trying to kill him.

It is the summer of 1955.

What's really going into commercial dog food? The answer is horrifying.

Through a collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity, corpses, porn, and translation) and assignments that encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and

Ada Byron is rich and clever, but she longs to be free. Free to explore all the amazing ideas that come to her imagination, like flying mechanical horses and stories inspired by her travels.

People fear death (apparently just a tiny bit less than public speaking).

In a world where magic is sung, a powerful mage named Cadence has been forced to torture her country's disgraced nobility at her ruthless queen's bidding.

Jason Tanner, protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been by his mentor's side in New York to spread the message of passive resistance.

Mary's baby has arrived, and she can't contain her joy! As Joseph sleeps, she examines her newborn's tiny mouth, his wild hair, his little hands.

My name is Mara, and I want desperately to become a mother. All of my dreams were dashed when the world was promised hope but instead became a place of danger, death...and monsters.