"You're underqualified to bag groceries." Make that make sense, but it's a true statement.America has never had a 100% employment rate, but it is a lie to believe that the unemployment rate is less than 10%, let alone less than 4%. Join me as we take a closer look at how difficult life is becoming for the average working American. Quality jobs are hard to find, and for those of you struggling to attain work, you're not alone.This book covers it all and then...

Edgy, provocative, and wonderfully imaginative, My Life: The Last Photo tells a story of armored blades and trickled swords, bullies and heroes, the strong and the weak, friends and enemies, and the incredible power of good over evil. Friends Ami Naming and Hyki Momoshe band together to create an unstoppable force and recruit others to their cause. They fight metal robots and ominous shadows, create waves of energy, harness their powers, and prepare for continuous battle with dark...

Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios. Listen as the voices of Idris Elba, Blair Underwood, Taraji P. Henson, ...

A Haitian American woman survives a brutal kidnapping in this "commanding debut novel" from the New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist ( The New Yorker).Author and essayist Roxane Gay is celebrated for her incisive commentary on identity and culture, as well as for her bestselling nonfiction and short story collections. Now, with An Untamed State, she delivers a "breathtaking debut novel" ( The Guardian, UK) o...

Imagine a tiny little girl, no bigger than the size of a thumb! Now imagine how strange and scary the world must seem to her. Thumbelina is snatched from her home by a toad, who wished to marry her off to his son. But this is not the end of her misfortune; upon her adventures she meets beetles, a catfish, a butterfly, a mouse, a bird and many others.Some of the animals are kind and friendly, while others are decidedly less so. What will happen to poor tiny Thumbelina? Will she ever...

Agoraphobic millionaire Joe Tesla and his service dog, Edison, are enjoying Christmas in New York when Edison rescues a kitten on the subway. Joe can't take the kitten to the pound, not at Christmas, so he uses his cyber sleuthing skills to find the little girl who the kitten belongs to. And, he's not alone: he has Edison by his side. But can the intrepid duo reunite girl and subway kitten in time to save Christmas?

Minerva Bell...I couldn’t get the image of his c*ck out of my mind.I kept picturing it, even lying there in the darkness, seeing it plunge in and out of that other woman… and despite myself—despite my terror and humiliation—I wished it was me there instead, lying there, spread open for him, feeling him inside me, stretching me… taking me.The fact that I wanted him made me feel sick, right down in the core of my being. This strange, rough man stole m...

It was hot. Too hot. This damned Phoenix heat was getting me down. And now that my own heat had come upon me, I needed relief.Taking a walk in the middle of the night to clear my head, I saw that a new nightclub had opened up near me.However, I didn’t expect to be the only omega in the place. The only one in heat, that is. Every alpha worth his salt hit on me. Just as I’d turn down one, another would take his place. It was a nightmare!But there was one alpha who lef...

Sisters Addie and Clara have just moved to a new house in the country, where they discover that their backyard is a gateway to the enchanted realm of magical butterflies called Wishing Wings. These special butterflies have the power to make wishes come true!When a group of just-emerged butterflies -- New Blooms -- are in danger of losing their magic, Addie and Clara must team up with a pair of butterfly princesses to save them, making new friends and helping others along the way.

Shigeaki Yashiro’s saga as an expert loner continues when the students of Iikanyama High take a school trip to Kamakura. Yashiro wants nothing more than to spend some time alone with his girlfriend, but his plan begins to fall apart when their popular friends ask the couple to join in on some group fun instead. How will these wildly different personalities get along? Enjoy these stories of the past and the future, from the perspectives of loners and cool kids alike.

In the old west punishment comes swiftly. Especially when the crime is murder. Mort Clancy - a pathetic drunk - had one to many drinks at the local watering hole and he did something stupid: he shot the sheriff. Now there's a new law in town, and Mort's on his way to the hanging tree. But the hanging tree has a terrible reputation, and what dies on the tree doesn't always stay dead.

Because of a quirk of history during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, present-day America is rigidly divided between people who live and work during the hours of darkness—Smudges—and those known as Rays, who populate the day. A group of Smudges called the Noma live on the fringes of society in loose tribes, preying on Smudges and Rays alike. Gigi is a ruthless Noma, but in this prequel companion story to Plus One, she is ordered to abduct a cell phone hacker named Ciel Le Coeur and reveal...