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Island Rhythms and Village Voices: Short Stories, Vignettes, and Verse Step into a world where mangoes fall from heavy branches, Christmas tastes of sorrel and family, and directions come with laughter. In this vivid collection, the everyday life of rural Jamaica shines through children's mischief, neighbors' antics, and elders' profound wisdom. From playful adventures to reflections on identity and belonging, these stories and poems reveal the wit, hardship, and resilience of a community ...

An action-packed tale of shady business, international crime, and an antiviral wonder drug in the series Lee Child called "hard, fast, and really good."This audiobook is narrated using advanced digital voice technology for clear, natural-sounding storytelling.A young financial executive has uncovered his new boss's plan to steal the patents to a new breakthrough drug—but before he can undermine the scheme, he is kidnapped.The notoriously da...

With fourteen horror stories set during the decade of flannel shirts and neon dolphin Trapper Keepers, Ahh! That's What I Call Horror features a PHAT (pretty horrific and terrifying) collection of totally rad horror and weird fiction authors exploring the darker side of what many consider a time of relative peace and prosperity. With Communism falling and Clear Channel rising, the horror of the 1990s requires peeling back layers of safe, sanitized media to reveal the nightmares waiting ben...

All my life, I was told an omega had to be three things: docile, dependable, and demure.Three qualities I am most definitely not.Darling Academy is designed to teach adult omegas how to please their alphas, but I've never fit in with the other girls. I don't know the difference between a salad fork and a regular one, and I certainly don't care where people sit at a dinner party.My entire life is turned upside down when my dying twin brother is consc...

First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure recounts a summer in the life of 15-year-old Orvil Pym, who is holidaying with his father and brothers in a Kentish hotel, with little to do but explore the countryside and surrounding area. 'I don't understand what to do, how to live': so says the 15-year-old Orvil - who, as a boy who glories and suffers in the agonies of adolescence, dissecting the teenage years with an acuity, stands as a clear (marvelously British) ancestor of The Catcher I...

In shifter life, what's more important? Your human mind? Or your wolf's?BlackI discover pretty little Elena helpless in disputed territory.At first, I want to crack her open, this wide-eyed temptation who derails me. I want to shatter her and those who sent her into tiny pieces. I will not be manipulated or deceived by her false innocence.That's what I tell myself. But even as I say it aloud, my obsession grows, and the spel...

My vision fractured into shards of light. Stars joined the little birds as Janie slammed my head onto the floor several times. Stunned, I felt her climb off me, kneeing me in the stomach in the process."You know what I wish, little sister?""That I'd die?" My voice sounded sulky in my own ears.She snorted, her lips curved into a sneer. "Nothing quite so simple. No, I wish you were an Amber Alert. That someone would kidnap you and you'd disappear." She snapped her finger...

This textbook will help you learn all the skills you need to pass all Vehicle Electrical and Electronic Systems courses and qualifications.As electrical and electronic systems become increasingly more complex and fundamental to the workings of modern vehicles, understanding these systems is essential for automotive technicians. For students new to the subject, this book will help to develop this knowledge, but will also assist experienced technicians in keeping up with recent techn...

Born a crown princess, I'm now a cursed fugitive.Four years ago, I fled from my wedding to four fiancés.Ryan: a part giant with an anger problem.Quinn: a silent part elf assassin.Declan: the bastard prince from across the sea.Connor: my childhood best friend.These men hate me and magically hunt me through the realm as they rule without me.But after overhearing a plot to destroy my little sister, I have no choice. I ha...

The image of the debauched French aristocrat of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is one that still has power over the international public imagination, from the unending fascination with the Marquis de Sade to the successes of the film Ridicule. Drawing on memoirs, letters, popular songs and pamphlets, and political treatises, The Enlightened and Depraved: Decadence, Radicalism, and the Early Modern French Nobility traces the origins of this powerful stereotype from between the rei...

It should have been the wedding of the yearBut if Amy thinks arranging millionaire Max Evans's wedding will put her wedding consultancy on the map, she's wrong…. The bride doesn't show up, the guests run riot and the groom falls for another woman…Amy!Now no one's taking her business seriously, she's losing her clients, she might even lose her home, and what's worse, Texas's most eligible bachelor is lodging in her honeymoon suite. He's driving her ...

If you don't want to fall in love—don't go to Valentine….Jan had gone anyway and found family friends and seven-year-old B.J., whom she tutored at the Lazy M ranch. Valentine seemed just the haven she needed to recover from her recent divorce. The peace didn't last long—it shattered as soon as Clark Brennan hit town….B.J.'s father was back to claim his son and his first trick was to land Jan in the middle of his custody feud with B.J.'s grandfather. ...