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When Ivy steps over the cattle grid, reality hits. Capricorn Station is vast, desolate, and central to nowhere. But Ivy has come too far to back out now. She’s left her past behind her and is desperate to make this work. Stockman Adam O’Rourke is equally determined she’s going home ASAP. This girl is not the jillaroo he was expecting to help on his station over the summer. She can’t even handle a horse. It isn’t long before Ivy realizes there’s more between her and Adam than the job. But Ivy has only one summer on Capricorn Station. One season that’s passing way too fast.

Langston Brown is running out of time and options for clearing his name and escaping death row. Wrongfully convicted of the gruesome Mother's Day Massacre, he prepares to face his death. His final hope for salvation lies with his daughter, Liza, an artist who dreamed of a life of music and song but left the prestigious Juilliard School to pursue a law degree with the intention of clearing her father's name.

The last scion of a once-powerful political family, Worcester mayor John O'Toole has his sights set on vastly higher aspirations. When night-shift paramedic Thomas Archer uncovers a secret that could upend the mayor's career, O'Toole is set on silencing him and sends Eamon Conroy, a brutal former cop, to ensure the truth remains under wraps.

Robert Barton was born a boy who loved to dress up as a girl. That was his only crime. When he was 16, five high school football players and a man raped and brutalized him for hours before dumping him in a vacant lot. The day after he is found alive, the bodies of his assailants start stacking up in the morgue.

Are you planning a trip to Italy, huh? Have you always been in love with Italy and everything Italian? Just browsing and dreaming about a holiday in Southern Europe? This audiobook will raise your doubts as to whether going to Italy is worth it. Italy's magical country has so much to offer to holiday visitors in terms of activities, food, wine, sightseeing, and more. Plan your holiday with this clever and extensive Italian travel guide. Travel to the center of Italy!

Unrest settles throughout the land from King Reginald’s roaring snore, and surrounding kingdoms threaten war if it is not stopped. A determined orphan, Marigold wants to help, but the guards won’t allow her inside the castle. Will she ever get the chance to cure the king and save the kingdom?

The Ottoman Empire: The Untold Story to its Rise and Fall Plus the Revolutionary War: The Making of America (2 Books in 1) brings that history and the life-changing accounts to life. This two-book bundle takes a deep dive into the everyday lives of colonists, explores the upheaval and rebellions that shaped the lives of those who were there and for generations to come, the stronghold the Ottoman Empire had on the world, the origins of its storied population and how they came to power, the contributions they made, and more.

Do you want a safe and effective way to beat the bulge? Anti-Inflammatory Diet plus the Secrets to Intermittent Fasting (2 in 1 Book): How You Can Stay Healthy, Slow Down the Aging Process, and Have a Lot of Energy is the quintessential two-book guide to beat chronic inflammation, avoid an inflammatory meltdown, shed pounds, and feel and look better. Intermittent fasting has been practiced all over the world throughout the ages and with good reason. It works.

GameStop Corp. is the world's largest video game and related merchandise retailer by the sheer number of its retail stores. GameStop had a relatively humble beginning in contrast to its place on the Fortune 500 list for the past few years. The company was founded in the latter months of 1982 by James B. McCurry and Gary M. Kusin and started functioning from a regional mall in Dallas, Texas. McCurry and Kusin went to Harvard Business School together, where they developed a friendship that made them stand out from their classmates.

What is the perfect business model? Of course, that will all depend on who you ask and on your personal preferences. But it is definitely very possible to make an especially strong argument for dropshipping. This is a business model that has huge advantages over selling your own products, over becoming an affiliate marketer, and certainly over making money from adverts.

Disruptors, entrepreneurs, and unconventional do-gooders, Drs. Jodi and Garry Vermaas are not the people you would expect to parent 12 children. From the child-trafficking slums of Manila to the barren corners of China to the baggage compartment of a long-distance train to Mumbai, each of their children has a tale to tell - if only they could find the words.

Eat like a Local - New York State by Denise Lacey-Corcoran offers the inside scoop on food in New York State. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.

Venus and Jay have been going through a tough time. Still, they are giving their best efforts to keep things on a positive note. In the midst of a very busy week, full of oddly timed shifts at his two jobs, Venus insists on seeing Jay. Despite his best efforts to communicate on the day they are set to meet up, Venus is missing in action. At the last minute, Venus reaches out and abruptly alters the plans, starting a spiral which quickly leads to the end of their fling.

At 17, Toury arrives in Fyr, where magic is power, a prince’s love is deadly, and female autonomy is a dream. Formerly a loner and burden to her adoptive parents, she ruins her chances of a fresh start by offending an ogler who just happens to be the prince. Alex, the prince of Fyr, is no novice when it comes to pressure. He has to face his father’s ailing health, the expectation to marry soon, and the hidden necromancers trying to take over the realm by exploiting his dark curse.

What happens when an author and artist happens upon a unicorn when he didn't think they even existed? And then finds out there are many, many different unicorns? What an opportunity! The implications! The unicorn only one species of many? Join Sephren Jollifeet as he is guided through the fantastic world of unicorns and their kin! A creative, illustrated story of prose and poetry for all ages.

Llewellyn "Llew" Dane lives for his job, or rather, to pay down his student loans. He enjoys what he does but also appreciates the eye candy provided by Marc Temple, a senior manager. A pair of jeans had never looked so good on a man. In the open-minded atmosphere of the company where people date each other constantly, it would be easy to approach Marc and announce his interest. But Llew has been rejected so often by men in the past that he doesn't see the point in trying. And yeah, he's broke. How impressive would that be to a man like Marc?

Purity Wellman died in 1958. The devil stole her soul on her very doorstep. She returns to a world she no longer understands, but there are still evil men in the world. The devil’s work is never finished and the family business is never done. She isn’t going to give up and die, again.

Nye Havers is in his 40s and has given up on love. Life hasn’t done him any favors, and his acerbic nature has just gotten worse over time. He rides a bicycle to work, gets splashed by cars in the rain, and is constantly in trouble because he can’t resist being a smart mouth. He is the co-owner of a small courier service that has sadly become his life. But there is one surprisingly bright spot in his world, even if Nye feels he doesn’t have a chance in hell of getting the guy.

High school is a time for learning, making friends, and blackmailing your teacher. On a frigid night, we meet a pair of runaway teens, a high school MILF, and the world’s worst policeman, all trying to disentangle themselves from each other’s business. No good deed goes unpunished, as this chance encounter leads to more than any one bargain for.

A gutsy dame, a surly smuggler, a deep and sinister river. It's February of 1928 - late summer in the Amazon. Prudence McMarion, a film editor at Walter Disney's animation studio in Los Angeles, has taken a leave of absence to travel deep into the Amazon Rainforest with her best friend, Brazilian native Eleanor Martins, to make an independent movie in Eleanor's home village. Along the way, they meet members of the seedy, disreputable "expat community" there. None are to be trusted.