Z Unit doesn't exist. So a knock on the door on Christmas Day brings more than one surprise to the special ops band of brothers.Lincoln 'Ace' Kelly has traded everything for command of his unit and the girl who saved his life—even if she's furry and sleeps on the floor. Every year at Christmas the boys of his unit put extra chairs around the table for the ones they've lost.Next year, Lucas expects to see new faces around the table and a whole lot more chairs.When Ha...

“Given everything our world faces today, having faith in love is no small thing.” —Rev. Dr. Sofía BetancourtUnitarian Universalists as a progressive religious community hold a humbling expectation to periodically re-evaluate the freely chosen covenant that holds us together. While this work impacts the bylaws that define our governance structures, it also gives life to the values we express in common cause. We do this work to live into the Unitarian Universalism of...

Read along with Disney! Sofia visits her friend, Lucinda, one afternoon and is delighted to learn that she also has a pet bunny —a girl bunny at that. Sofia and Lucinda think their bunnies should be the best of friends, but sparks do not seem to be flying when Clover and Hexie meet. Lucinda decides to speed things up with a love potion, but the results aren't what Sofia expects at all! Join Sofia in this adorable storybook with word for word narration!

I found you when it was too late to love you.My omega came to me when I'd given up on ever finding happiness. And then his alphas appeared in my life too, and I realised just how much of a joke I really am. As a rare female alpha, I know well enough what my appeal is to the males of my designation. But I'm who I am and I won't change that. My omega isn't mine and he won't be ever. That much is clear.The more time I spend with Barren, the more I learn there ...

Betas are made for business, not pleasure.We're intelligent, hard-working, and unlike alphas and omegas, we're not ruled by our hormones. That's how I've earned the title of Alpha Wrangler. No matter how much testosterone floods a boardroom, I can always rise above it and get the job done.Which wins me the plum job of negotiating one of the biggest mergers in the country. All I need are a couple of signatures, and then I can use my bonus to buy an apartment...

There’s a reason crows circle overhead nightly. It’s to remind themselves of where they’ve been, where they’re going, and, most importantly, who they’re with—who is friend, and who is foe.Guardian River spent years cataloging every detail of how his best friend accidentally electrocuted his wings, leaving him scarred, flightless, and furious. The healers say his molting is psychological. That he needs to “forgive and forget” to heal. Crows don’t forget. And River w...

4 stories in 1! This treasury of tales stars your Disney Junior favorites Sofia and Doc! Follow along as Sofia prepares for her Princess Test and hikes through Peppertree Forest with the Buttercups. Then cuddle up with Doc McStuffins and her toys at a super-fun slumber party and find out if Doc can cure Teddy B of the Dusty-Musties! Each story is the perfect length for reading aloud in about five minutes—perfect for story time, bedtime, or any time at all!

Alphas don't have heats—except when I "switch" to omega at an all-male alpha academy.Alphas are taught to take what they want. Or at least that's the motto of the elite alpha academy where I work. My probation is around the corner, and the headmaster has already warned me I don't fit in. But I need this job to prove to my family and my ex that I'm more than just my past mistakes.Falling for my student is a dangerous complication. But Mattie is a burst of su...

Every famous love song has been written by an alpha for an omega.As a beta, I've never expected to be anyone's muse. I'm happy to stick in the background—and with a past like mine, it's simply safer avoiding the spotlight.That changes the day I learn my long-lost brother is Stix Rain, the drummer for one of the biggest rock bands in the world. We lost touch when we went into foster care. He ran away, I stayed, and I still carry the scars from growing up alo...

**Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award)Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardA historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan and of the strange shifts, encounters, and accidents that combine to create an identity**In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaki...

Pretending to date my rich, sexy, and caring friend Gabriel could grant us the deal of a lifetime . . . or ruin my chances of ever running my family's company.Gabe is handsome and surprisingly down to earth for a billionaire. Teaming up with him for a massive project shouldn't have required us to fake a relationship.My machista Latine family is to blame for forcing us into it. They think my goal should be to settle down and make babies, not run a corporatio...

I was 21 when I first met the sarcastic Australian rock star who took the world by storm with his witty charm.Twenty-two when I wrote a viral tabloid article on his bandmate to pay for the medicine that I needed for life. Twenty-three when I realized my dream job in California was destroying every moral in which I was raised to believe. Twenty-four when I accepted that I might have to give up my West Coast dreams to return home and admit defeat. And now, 25, when t...