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Marco is my damaged addiction. My family warned me about him, saying I should stay away. That he’s nothing but trouble. Everyone tried to intervene. But he gave me a feeling of love that I had never known before - but also, an endless roller coaster of emotions. He says he’s changed. How he’s different now. Swears he can be my forever protector, inviting me back into his strong arms. There’s no denying his warm embrace feels like home.

Take this intimate 20-year journey of a young woman with a heart willing and open, fully embracing love as it fills her up, captures her flight, pierces her spirit, draws her under, and forms under her feet once again....

When Candice Parker married the love of her life on Christmas Eve, her romance with Gerald Ford became a family affair. Over the years, their network of friends and loved ones has grown as they faced perils great and small…together. As the pandemic rages, the group they have affectionately come to call "the bubble" trudges on, making their way in the new normal that has evolved around them. But when one member of their group falters, it could put the entire collection in harm’s way. Will the pressures of an unplanned pregnancy be a teenage girl’s demise?

Book two begins the morning after a torrential storm upends Shady Gully, and its citizens wake to the news that Wolfheart's beloved sister, Peony, has been brutally murdered. Wolfheart earned his reputation as the town lowlife in book one, inciting unrest and corrupting the youth with his homegrown product and signature scowl. But it's five years later, and the scoundrel from across the creek is now an upstanding citizen, a church-streamer, and a doting brother and uncle. Or is he?

Mountain Laurels is a second edition of the original collection of poems self-published in 1977. It was the first published collection of poems written by Genevieve C. Sparks (1920-2003) over many years in what she called "the simple form of mountain colloquial". While some individual poems draw their meaning from a personal experience of the poet, "the basic thought of the book in its entirety is," she says, "the great inspiration derived from the love of nature." Living in West Virginia, many of her poems speak the wonders of the Appalachian mountain world.

In Shut Up and Eat!, humorist and parenting author Kathy Buckworth applies her razor-sharp wit to the family meal. Experts claim that sitting down to eat together can prevent children from getting into trouble while simultaneously creating close-knit families, but what about the son who thinks his food tastes better on the blue plate or the daughter who won’t eat anything green? Laugh-out-loud funny and more accurate than most of us would care to admit Shut Up and Eat! is a must-listen for any woman who’s ever wondered: What the hell am I cooking tonight?

More than anything, 14-year-old Winna Beckman wants a horse. When she gets one, riding Babyface will teach her about life, love, and true friendship. A vintage historical, coming-of-age story, Riding Babyface explores a teenage girl's feelings about falling in love and dealing with her mother's alcoholism.

Have you ever wondered why you never see any cats in a nativity scene? Well, we now know the real story. Our friend T.C. shares with us the real story, as passed down through cats from generation to generation. One special cat WAS there in the stable with Baby Jesus, and he had a VERY special assignment that night. So sit back, and get ready to listen to A Cat’s Nativity Tale....

If you have listened to A Cat's Nativity Tale, then you'll be excited to hear that there is more to the story. Join again as T.C. shares the details...passed down through generations of cats...from Chatool, then a very old cat at 34 human years old. Through a chance meeting with Jesus, years after witnessing His birth, Chatool is propelled into witnessing events that would shape history for all eternity.

Do you wonder what life is all about? Why are you here? What were you created to do? What impact could you be having on the world? How could your life be better? What could you be accomplishing on your someday list? Too many people are living in stuck jail. Rushing from activity to activity and obligation to obligation, with little time left for what really matters. Knowing we were created for more but too busy to find it. We don’t know how to escape and live our beautiful life. Day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year, we live in stuck jail.

It's the spring before high school, and Desiree (Desi) and Robin have little in common. Robin has lived in the small town of Shady Gully, Louisiana, her whole life, while Desi comes from the big city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Robin's family is devout, reserved, and dedicated to church. Desi has never been to church, her parents are divorced, and her mom, Sunny, is as flamboyant as they come.

Krebs, Hemingway's protagonist, leaves home a college kid and returns a very changed man. This story explores the extremely changed family dynamics within the Krebs family when Harold returns home. Roles switch from parent-child to adult/adult.

This classic tale is enhanced by musical collaboration with Mike Hall, film composer, and warm narration by Kathy Verduin. Feel the children's excitement as Sugar Plums dance in their heads, hear Santa as he wishes all a Merry Christmas, and sense Poppa's excitement as he accidentally runs into Santa in the living room! Children of all ages will love this new twist on Clement Clarke Moore's classic tale!

Three professional narrators, Mike Vendetti, Kathy Verduin, and Stephen Jay Cohen, lend their voices to what is considered by many to be one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest novels, The Great Gatsby. Travel back with them to the Jazz Age, where the wealthy and entitled collide with pretenders and common citizens.

Katy's Bow is a whimsical story about how one thing can lead to something big, when Katy puts a bow on a neighbor’s cat, Queenie. Queenie is soon chased by a dog and climbs a tree, which leads to the neighbors, firefighters, police, and news reporters coming out in force to try to rescue poor Queenie. And all this chaos started with a simple little bow.

A summer of boredom was what she had expected. A summer of adventure was what she received. Katie never thought she would like camp. The idea of spending three months at this worn-down, no-nothing place in the middle of nowhere was about as appealing to her as sitting through her mother's lectures on the importance of eating vegetables. She never imagined that coming to Camp Carmel would be the best thing that ever happened to her.

Seventeen-year-old Tobi Mathews is frightened by her ex-Marine father's ominous predictions about the end-of-the-world. Are they true or caused by post traumatic stress disorder as her mother says? Tobi's father moves the family to an isolated farm to escape the coming calamity. When her mother leaves to get a job in town, his anxiety intensifies. Afraid her mother might not return, Tobi can no longer deal with her father's endless rants about Armageddon.

Confidence: Your Birthright as a Child of God is a joyful affirmation of the divine truth that human beings are the spiritual children of God. Before any other, this truth is the key to grounded and durable self-assurance. In the age of picture-perfect Instagram posts and hyper-competition, it’s easy to feel self-doubt. Instead of pressing forward with confidence and hope, we might pull back, unconvinced of our potential.

Summer is a great time to visit scenic Richmond, Virginia - except during the start of the American Civil War. After her attempt to save a young woman goes disastrously wrong, Samantha Moon has wound up trapped in 1862 with no way home to her children. The great, great granddaughter of the voodoo priestess who hurled her back in time refuses to undo the spell.

You want to study perfectly and not sit at the same time constantly at textbooks, forgetting all the rest? Currently, the concept of learning strategies includes thoughts, actions, beliefs, and emotions that facilitate the acquisition, understanding, and then - the application and transfer of new knowledge and skills in various contexts of activity. Training strategies help create a framework for further information that allows to store it in memory in a form that facilitates integration with the knowledge that is meaningfully associated with it.