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Amber, CEO of the leading cosmetics company, agrees to speak out about pulling her product from the shelves of her largest retailer. She’s just getting started exposing corporate giants capitalizing on forced labor.

The Dartsboard is falling apart. Tessa is no longer on the team. Fitz’s life is in shambles. Dawn is struggling to make ends meet. Can Michelle put these pieces back together, heal her friends, and maybe even assemble a functioning hockey team? And when did this all become her f---ing problem in the first place?

When Shy steps into the face of danger, she exposes her boss for what he really is - a hero. Shy has escaped poverty and the addictions of her family and has buried it all in the past to land her dream job at Curtis Black and Associates. Ready for her first case as lead researcher, she’s forced to recuse herself when her half brother, whom she has successfully avoided her whole life, is the primary suspect in the case.

The Darts' first season was a success. But as they make preparations for their new season, complications are inevitable. Tessa’s wrestling with her feelings for Fitz, a secret which she fears could tear apart their friendship. Dawn and Michelle are facing their own unique parenting challenges. Meanwhile, Fitz is forced to decide what she is willing to endure in the name of saving her marriage.

Charlotte “Charlie” Chase appears to have everything: a lucrative marketing career, a handsome fiancé, a mansion in Houston. But a chance encounter with the mysterious, and alluring, Paxton Crown (owner of L.O.V.E. enterprises) at a pole dancing studio, is forcing her to admit that she’s disillusioned with her stellar-but-soulless job and frigid fiancé. The world of pole dancing pulls Charlie in, and the passionate, sultry environment has her questioning her life’s direction.

Derrick’s latest mission with the Pride forces him to acknowledge what he did to Sarah. He broke her heart. She saved his family fortune, marrying him to become his legal guardian after his parents were murdered, but that wasn’t all she gave. At the time, gifting her half his trust in the divorce was all he had to give back. Now, having to face her again in the same place they started, he’s ready for an encore.

Mick has the honor of showing her paintings at the prestigious Golla Christmas Gallery in Atlanta, but there’s only one problem. She has to lift the paintings from her celebrity ex-boyfriend’s home when he refuses to let her - or her paintings - go. When her ex shows up to ruin the biggest night of her career, she’s reminded that some crimes do go unpunished as Curtis Black, lead counsel to The Pride, comes to her defense.

Peace is all Hel has longed for since she died, and finally, she feels like she’s found it...that is until three unexpected visitors ruin her romantic evening with Soren. Soon, the safety of the home she’s carefully crafted begins to crash around her, and once more she’s jerked out of everything she knows and thrown into a world of nothingness - a world she has to create and rule over.

Alexis crawls, beaten but not broken, from the trunk of her car. She hadn’t taken the threat seriously and now she’s sure he’ll be back. Cyrus Lee is a name she’ll never forget, and not because of her possibly broken ribs. Her new investor is Nicholas Lee, Cyrus’s son. Afraid of the answers the cops might find, she calls The Pride. Every girl’s father leaves a dial-a-hero card hidden behind the Monet? Right? If she didn’t know why before, she knew now. The bastard wasn’t getting a dime!

In Recipe for Lemonade, author and cancer survivor April Capil shared her strategies for crisis management. In this follow-up book, she offers advice for the second half of the journey: rebuilding your life after disaster and adjusting to your new normal. The book covers belief systems that keep us from moving past trauma, how to get un-stuck, and tools for building a life worth looking forward to.

Nearly 50 percent of Americans checked the "single" box in the 2010 census. Because we equate touch with sex, many of us suffer alone when we crave physical comfort and tenderness. Somebody Hold Me takes a simple, radical approach to health and relationships by teaching you how to get more platonic touch. Somebody Hold Me walks you through the increasingly fraught physical space between humans and allows for more connection and closeness through giving and receiving structured touch in your existing relationships.

How deep do the levels of the underworld go? When Helena was alive she had often wondered if she'd be the one to dig her own grave. Now she's on her way to hell to save someone she loves and praying she'll be able to dig her way back out.

Helena Pierce is recovering from the shock of her life...er, death. While she’s trying to cope with her world getting turned on end once again, her best friend, Grace, comes to her with disturbing news: Boude, Grace’s boyfriend, is missing. Hel is reluctant to get herself involved in vampire affairs but can’t stand to sit idly by while her friend is missing - especially when she suspects the sinister Rasputin might be behind it.

Helena Pierce was used to death. Her life began as a tragically orphaned baby, raised by the small town cemetery caretaker. She grew up knowing that loss was just a part of life. After a chance meeting with the dark and mysterious Raphael one day while out digging a grave, Hel realizes maybe life has some good things to offer after all - until one awful evening changes everything, and Hel wakes up to the bright light of death.

How could Sadie have lived so long in this town without knowing it was harboring a very old secret? The dark side of the woods was a place she walked by nearly every single day and it seemed perfectly normal. But one day, she realized that nothing that walked in there walked back out. Curses and wolves are somehow entangled in Sadie's new romance, and a gruesome transformation threatens to change everything she has ever known. She's the only one who can save her town, her love, and herself. It has to end where it started, in the center of the forest.

As magic, scale powers, and dueling clans threaten their fairy tale beginning, turning it into something resembling a nightmare, Hatch and Blue’s hope mate bond is put to the test when the leaders of Dragonkind join forces to impose their authority over the rare half-breed, Vivian. Vivian must learn to embrace her dragon side or die trying, but staying away from the only family she’s ever known as a trade off for a guard sent for her protection who seems more intent on harming her isn’t an option. Hatch is losing control of everything, as his biggest fear turns into reality.

The complete, authoritative, and up to date history of American feminism-intersectionality, sex-positivity Updated and expanded, the second edition of A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a...

Sophie is literally up to her eyeballs in Albins from every dimension imaginable, the town is in jeopardy of completely disappearing and Walter continues to be cagey about what he knows. Sophie must convince him to trust her in order to fix everything that's gone wrong and then finally, maybe she can go home.

The Fae have fallen. Our world isn’t what it used to be. Fae were once revered as saviors and now? Hated doesn’t even begin to describe it. As if it wasn’t bad enough that the elites no longer hold the power in Ancetol, the guy I love is in prison for life and my best friend? She disappeared without a trace—kidnapped—and I’ve made it my personal mission to save her. To call my life complicated would be an understatement, but it gets worse when an old enemy resurfaces and threatens to slaughter the already tenuous peace in our city.

Nova has lived all her life in The Garden, an island that floats above Earth, undetected. Her secret friendship with the Prince changed to something more and all that stands in the way of the life she’s been dreaming of is her Totem Ceremony–an age-old rite that assigns one of four elements she'll spend her life protecting. When Nova's ceremony goes horribly wrong, she's placed in a fifth Totem located in the Underworld. Humiliated and cast out, her only hope is to convince her true love’s arrogant, moody brother that there’s been some kind of terrible mistake.