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My name is Catarina. Or, that's who I was christened to be, anyways. I live in a convent. I am a nun in training. A postulant. I am 18 years old. I am a predator. No one is safe from me. I am protected. No one can get to me. By day one way, by night another. They call on me.

Between 1929 and 1974, more than 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized, sometimes without informed consent and frequently under coercion. The victims, poor men and women from around the state, were never compensated for losing the ability to conceive children. Nearly 40 years later, during a rancorous 2013 legislative session in which severe restrictions on abortion, voting rights and funding for public education were passed, the state got another chance to right one of its most shameful acts.

Travel back in time to the boyhood of one of the most popular poets of the early 20th century. Author of "Little Orphan Annie", "The Old Swimmin' Hole", and hundreds more poems, "Bud" Riley spent his childhood in mid-nineteenth century Indiana, where stagecoaches were a common sight, rope swings were the only thrill rides, and telling spooky stories by firelight was the best entertainment of all.

Maggie Gerber - one of the founding members of the Good Buy Girls - loves her quiet life in St. Stanley, Virginia. But all that changes when Sam Collins, her old flame, moves back to town as the new sheriff. On top of that, Claire Freemont, a librarian and the newest member of the Good Buy Girls, starts acting utterly strange. When Maggie goes to visit her the next day at the library, she finds the body of a very dead man. Turns out the man is someone from Claire's past.

Letting no good deal go undone, the Good Buy Girls are ready to pounce on the St. Stanley flea market, where wealthy Vera Madison is selling off her vintage clothing. The widow’s wardrobe is just what Maggie Gerber needs to give her second-hand shop, My Sister’s Closet, the edge over vindictive rival Summer Phillips, who’s opened her own second-hand shop across the street. But when Vera is found dead, it turns out that she collected enemies like Dior gowns - and had more than a few skeletons in her walk-in closet. Now it’s up to Maggie and the Good Buy Girls to find the killer.

There’s something 100 percent off about Maggie and her fiancé Sam’s new dream home in the historic section of St. Stanley. The lights flicker, the doors blow shut, and their cat, Marshall Dillon, hisses at empty space. And there’s something in the basement that’s definitely not a bargain...After Maggie discovers a skeleton in the root cellar, she’s convinced her house is haunted by a murdered man’s ghost. With the help of her Good Buy Girls, Maggie works to tag a killer.

Maggie Gerber and those discount divas the Good Buy Girls are gearing up for their first big holiday thrift-shop sale. But one of the Girls - Joanne Claramotta, pregnant with her first child - is acting less than festive. It could be hormones. Or it could be Diane Jenkins, the young knockout her husband Michael hired as his new deli assistant. Calming Joanne’s nerves proves impossible when Maggie finds Michael unconscious on his deli floor - with Diane next to him, strangled to death with her apron strings.

Between spending Valentine’s Day with her sweetheart Sam and shopping upcoming Presidents’ Day sales with the Good Buy Girls, everything is coming up roses and bargains for Maggie Gerber. But then the mother of Maggie’s nemesis comes to town, hoping to set her spoiled daughter up with Sam. When Maggie heads to her romantic rival’s house to put a stop to the scheming, she discovers Summer standing over a dead body - holding a weapon. As much as Maggie would love to see Summer get her just desserts, she can’t shake the feeling that the meddling menace is, in fact, innocent.

Scots authors and publishers Kay Hutchison and Richard Dikstra explore the stories behind great books with invited special guests.From books about the Clyde to stories about photographers, musicians and writers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Struggling to make ends meet and support her younger siblings Emily Holt enters a billionaire auction. She is auctioned to Alexander Blackstone. Emily soon realizes that Alexander is a cartel boss. As their forbidden relationship unfolds they must learn to navigate danger, desire, and moral dilemmas.

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Inklings. A hint of something more.

King Hans has searched his lands far and wide, but he can find no woman who satisfies him, even though he must produce an heir. No one seems able to touch his heart, no matter how beautiful or kind the lady. Hans is starting to despair of ever finding a bride who pleases him when he hears of the sorceress ice queen, Ilsa, purported to be the most beautiful woman anyone has ever laid eyes upon. When he seeks her aid and explains his problem, she offers him an unexpected solution - she turns Hans into the very woman he claims to desire.

James Stewart is a chrono-cop who has trained his whole life for a mission of incredible importance: He needs to travel back through time to the Old West of 1845 and prevent a tragedy which killed hundreds of people and sparked centuries of mistrust between a group of settlers and a local Comanche tribe. To do this, he’ll make a one-way jump into the body of his nearest living relative at that time: frontier Marshall Edwin Stewart, who made the fatal error that originally sparked the conflict.

Mistletoe, Maine, is buzzing and not just because Christmas is around the corner! Dante West, local cutie-turned-Hollywood hunk, is returning home to make his next movie. Everyone in town is excited . . . except librarian Lucy Marshall. When Dante took off for LA without warning—or even a...

While Ryan's guy friends were interested in trucks and monsters, he's always preferred the more feminine things in life, even if he hasn't quite admitted it to everyone yet. It's always been hard for him to act the like man people think he is, and it’s getting harder and harder as his senior year prom approaches. He'll never get a second chance at his senior prom, and he'd love nothing more than to spend it with his longtime crush, the most popular guy in the school. But it wouldn't be the same unless he could be a woman.

John and his wife Melissa just can’t seem to get along. He's sick and tired of doing all the work around the house while she loafs around and shows up to her modeling gigs once in a while, and she's frustrated that John doesn't understand how much effort she actually puts into her career. In the middle of one of their heated arguments, John suddenly wishes that Melissa could get just a small taste of what it feels like to be him, but he's completely unprepared for his wish to be granted!

Twenty-seven-year-old Jared has lived in the same little town in the Appalachian Mountains with the same people and the same traditions his entire life. Gossip travels fast. When Jared realizes he is trans, everything changes. Naming herself Claire, she tries to come out to her family and is shattered when she is rejected by everyone besides her twin sister.

You never know what you might find until you start looking! Growing up in a conservative town in the Midwest, Paul has always known he was different. He’s never felt like a man, and since he was a little boy he’s always wanted to be a woman. He’s tried to hide it, but the truth is he’s always hated going to the bar with his friends, and when he sees the gorgeous women around him, he can’t help but wish he could be like them.

Jamie has always felt something was missing for him — something lacking in both himself and the world around him. His whole life changes one chilly, Autumn night when he meets a handsome stranger named Liam who tells him the weirdest story he’s ever heard: Liam is looking for his soulmate, a gorgeous woman from his dreams that he’s spent a thousand lifetimes with. He needs to find her in this life, too, so they can be together in a thousand more.