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What Does It Feel Like?

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From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story—by turns heartbreaking and life-affirming—of a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis and learning to live and love anew. “The bravest book you’ll read all year.”—Jodi Picoult “What Does It Feel Like? is fiction, but it is my most autobiographical work to date. Eve’s story is my story.”—Sophie Kinsella Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumor growing in her brain.As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again—and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children—she begins to recall what’s most important to her: long walks with her husband’s hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights, and always buying that dress when she sees it.Recounted in brief anecdotes, each one is an attempt to answer the type of impossible questions recognizable to anyone navigating the labyrinth of grief. This short, extraordinary novel is a celebration of life, shot through with warmth and humor—it will both break your heart and put it back together again.“Why did I write such a personal book? I have always processed my life through writing. Hiding behind my fictional characters, I have always turned my own life into a narrative. It is my version of therapy, maybe. Writing is my happy place, and writing this book, although tough going at times, was immensely satisfying and therapeutic for me.”—Sophie Kinsella

Texas Hold'em

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Soon to be a show on Hulu! Texas Hold'em: A Wild Cards Novel is an adventure in the bestselling shared-universe science fiction superhero series, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin.San Antonio, home of the Alamo, is also host to the nation's top high school jazz competition, and the musicians at Xavier Desmond High are excited to outplay their rivals. They are also jokers, kids with strange abilities and even stranger looks. On top of that, well, they are teenagers, apt for mischief, mishaps, and romantic misunderstandings.Michelle Pond, aka The Amazing Bubbles, thinks that her superhero (and supermom) know-how has prepared her to chaperone the event. But when her students start going wayward, she’ll soon discover the true meaning of “Don't mess with Texas.”Texas Hold'em features the writing talents of David Anthony Durham (Acacia Trilogy), Max Gladstone (the Craft Sequence), Victor Milan (Dinosaur Lords series), Diana Rowland (Kara Gillian and White Trash Zombie series), Walton Simons, Caroline Spector and William F. Wu.Rights to develop Wild Cards have been acquired by Universal Cable Productions, the team behind The Magicians and Mr. Robot, with the co-editor of Wild Cards, Melinda Snodgrass, as executive producer. The Wild Cards UniverseThe Original Triad#1 Wild Cards#2 Aces High#3 Jokers WildThe Puppetman Quartet#4: Aces Abroad#5: Down and Dirty#6: Ace in the Hole#7: Dead Man’s HandThe Rox Triad#8: One-Eyed Jacks#9: Jokertown Shuffle#10: Dealer’s Choice#11: Double Solitaire#12: Turn of the CardsThe Card Sharks Triad#13: Card Sharks#14: Marked Cards#15: Black Trump#16: Deuces Down#17: Death Draws FiveThe Committee Triad#18: Inside Straight#19: Busted Flush#20: Suicide KingsThe Fort Freak Triad#21: Fort Freak#22: Lowball#23: High StakesThe American Triad#24: Mississippi Roll#25: Low Chicago#26: Texas Hold 'EmAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Odyssey

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The Odyssey recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Although originally written in heroic verse, it has been called the first novel because of its exciting use of narrative and the effective use of flashbacks to heighten the dramatic action. While The Iliad is a collection of mythical material that grew up about an event that seems actually to have occurred toward the end of the Mycenean era, The Odyssey is largely a collection of folk tales, many of which are easily recognizable in the legends of other lands. We know very little about the author of The Odyssey and its companion tale, The Iliad. Most scholars agree that Homer was Greek; those who try to identify his origin on the basis of dialect forms in the poems tend to choose as his homeland either Smyrna, now the Turkish city known as Izmir, or Chios, an island in the eastern Aegean Sea. According to legend, Homer was blind, though scholarly evidence can neither confirm nor contradict the point. The ongoing debate about who Homer was, when he lived, and even if he wrote The Odyssey and The Iliad is known as the "Homeric question." Classicists do agree that these tales of the fall of the city of Troy (Ilium) in the Trojan War (The Iliad) and the aftermath of that ten-year battle (The Odyssey) coincide with the ending of the Mycenaean period around 1200 BCE (a date that corresponds with the end of the Bronze Age throughout the Eastern Mediterranean). The Mycenaeans were a society of warriors and traders; beginning around 1600 BCE, they became a major power in the Mediterranean. Brilliant potters and architects, they also developed a system of writing known as Linear B, based on a syllabary, writing in which each symbol stands for a syllable. Scholars disagree on when Homer lived or when he might have written The Odyssey. Some have placed Homer in the late-Mycenaean period, which means he would have written about the Trojan War as recent history. Close study of the texts, however, reveals aspects of political, material, religious, and military life of the Bronze Age and of the so-called Dark Age, as the period of domination by the less-advanced Dorian invaders who usurped the Mycenaeans is known. But how, other scholars argue, could Homer have created works of such magnitude in the Dark Age, when there was no system of writing? Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian, placed Homer sometime around the ninth century BCE, at the beginning of the Archaic period, in which the Greeks adopted a system of writing from the Phoenicians and widely colonized the Mediterranean. And modern scholarship shows that the most recent details in the poems are datable to the period between 750 and 700 BCE. No one, however, disputes the fact that The Odyssey (and The Iliad as well) arose from oral tradition. Stock phrases, types of episodes, and repeated phrases -- such as early, rose-fingered dawn -- bear the mark of epic storytelling. Scholars agree, too, that this tale of the Greek hero Odysseus's journey and adventures as he returned home from Troy to Ithaca is a work of the greatest historical significance and, indeed, one of the foundations of Western literature.

Harvard Classics Volume 28

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Contents: 1. Jonathan Swift, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2. The Idea Of A University, by John Henry Newman 3. The Study Of Poetry, by Matthew Arnold 4. Sesame And Lilies, by John Ruskin 5. John Milton, by Walter Bagehot 6. Science And Culture, by Thomas Henry Huxley 7. Race And Language, by Edward Augustus Freeman 8. Truth Of Intercourse And Samuel Pepys, by Robert Louis Stevenson 9. On The Elevation Of The Laboring Classes, by William Ellery Channing 10. The Poetic Principle, by Edgar Allan Poe 11. Walking, by Henry David Thoreau 12. Abraham Lincoln And Democracy, by James Russell Lowell Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)

Selbstporträts der Literatur: Die einflussreichsten autobiografischen Romane

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E-artnow präsentiert bedeutende Weltliteratur-Klassiker, inspiriert von den realen Erlebnissen der Autoren. Erleben Sie Geschichten, die von sibirischen Arbeitslagern bis zu Pariser Salons reichen, und entdecken Sie Ihre Lieblingsautoren auf eine ganz neue Weise. Diese Ausgabe enthält: Fjodor Dostojewski: Aufzeichnungen aus einem toten Hause Jack London: König Alkohol Charles Dickens: David Copperfield Marcel Proust: Die Welt der Guermantes Lew Tolstoi: Sewastopol Mark Twain: Leben auf dem Mississippi George Sand: Lelia Rainer Maria Rilke: Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge Charles Baudelaire: Die Fanfarlo Gottfried Keller: Der Grüne Heinrich

Selected Writings of César Vallejo

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Essential writings from the catalyst of the Latin American experimental tradition For the first time in English, readers can now evaluate the extraordinary breadth of César Vallejo's diverse oeuvre that, in addition to poetry, includes magazine and newspaper articles, chronicles, political reports, fictions, plays, letters, and notebooks. Edited by the translator Joseph Mulligan, Selected Writings follows Vallejo down his many winding roads, from Santiago de Chuco in highland Peru, to the coastal cities of Trujillo and Lima, on to Paris, Madrid, Moscow, and Leningrad. This repeated border-crossing also plays out on the textual level, as Vallejo wrote prolifically across genres and, in many cases, created poetic space in extra-literary modes. Informed by a vast body of scholarly research, this compendium synthesizes a restored literary corpus and—in bold translations that embrace the idiosyncratic spirit of the author's writing—puts forth a new representation of this essential figure of twentieth-century Latin American literature as an indispensable alternative to the European avant-garde. Compiling well known versions with over eighty percent of the text presented in English translation for the first time, Selected Writings is both a trove of and tribute to Vallejo's multifaceted work. Includes translations by the editor and Clayton Eshleman, Pierre Joris, Suzanne Jill Levine, Nicole Peyrafitte, Michael Lee Rattigan, William Rowe, Eliot Weinberger, and Jason Weiss.

Aliens vs. Predators - Ultimate Prey

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The first anthology of fifteen original short stories featuring the confluence of two iconic properties, as the Predators seek the ultimate prey, the Xenomorphs from Alien. Featuring Louis Ozawa, Scott Sigler, Maurice Broaddus, Mira Grant, Delilah S. Dawson, and many more!Fifteen new and original stories for a first-of-its-kind anthology, set in the expanded Aliens vs. Predators Universe. Here the ultimate hunters, the Predators, pitted against their ultimate prey, the Xenomorphs from Alien, with humans caught in the middle! Taking place on Earth and in distant space, these tales have been crafted by a who's who of today's most talented authors of the fantastic: David Barnett - Roshni "Rush" Bhatia - Curtist C. Chen - Delilah S. Dawson - Mira Grant - Susanne L. Lambdin - Jess Landry - Yvonne Navarro - E.C. Myers - Scott Sigler - Maurice Broaddus - Chris Ryall - Bryan Thomas Schmidt - Steven L. Sears - Jonathan Maberry and Louis Ozawa. Inspired by the events of the original Aliens vs. Predators movies, graphic novels, and novels, these are the ultimate life-and-death struggles. Including a new story written by Jonathan Maberry and Louis Ozawa ("Hanzo" from the movie Predators) as Hanzo's brother faces the eternal threats of both the Yautja and the Xenomorphs.

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Issue # 17

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The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up twenty-one fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading." —Tangent Online on Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Issue #1Includes:"Fast" by J. Steven York"Uncomfortable Shoes" by Rob Vagle"Ascent of a Lifetime" by Karen Aria Lin"Candy Detectives" by Connor Whiteley"Between a Sock and a Hard Place" byTeri J. Babcock"Toobychubbies" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman"Another Body" by O'Neil De Noux"Murder by Voice" by Kent Patterson"It Came from the Coffee Maker" by Martin L. Shoemaker"Locks and Keys and the Truth at the Heart of It" by Dayle A. Dermatis"Baby, One More Time" by David H. Hendrickson"The Diaper Room Key to Cosmic Plumbing" by Brenda Carre"Cleanup Crew" by Ray Vukcevich"The Case of the Missing Semicolon" by Christina Boufis"This World We Live In" by Chrissy Wissler"Harvey's Babies" by Louisa Swann"New Beginnings" by R.W. Wallace"Red-Letter Day" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch"As If Nothing Had Happened" by Jerry Oltion"Death of a Woman of Ill Repute" by Annie Reed"The Asteroid That Stays Crunchy in Milk" by Robert Jeschonek

Nei tuoi occhi

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Contiene un estratto della novità OGNI RESPIRO, in uscita in Italia in anteprima mondiale Per ripagare i sacrifici dei genitori, Maria ha lavorato giorno e notte fino a diventare quello che è: il ritratto del successo. Lei è bella, di quella bellezza scura e appassionata che hanno le donne latine, eppure non ha una relazione, tutta presa prima dalla laurea e poi dal posto nello studio legale più importante della zona. Qualcosa, però, mette in pericolo la sua carriera e Maria sente il bisogno di rientrare a Wilmington e cercare la protezione della sua famiglia. Colin sta facendo del suo meglio per ridare un significato alla propria esistenza. Non ha ancora trent'anni, ma la violenza lo ha già segnato profondamente e lui non vuole più correre il rischio di finire in prigione. Le sue giornate sono scandite dallo studio, dalla palestra, e dal lavoro nel bar di Wilmington, la città dove vive ora grazie a una coppia di amici che gli fa da famiglia, proteggendolo da se stesso. È affascinante e lo sa, ma in questo momento una relazione è l'ultimo dei suoi pensieri. Come sempre il destino mescola le carte, e lo fa in una notte di pioggia torrenziale, quando Maria rimane con una gomma a terra e Colin non può fare a meno di fermarsi ad aiutarla. È l'inizio di qualcosa, forse, una promessa di futuro. Che rischia di essere distrutto dai demoni del loro passato. E che soltanto chiamando quella promessa amore può diventare la loro realtà. La storia di Colin e Maria.

Aliens: Bug Hunt

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Eighteen brand new stories—exclusive to this collection—featuring the Colonial Marines in bloody conflict with the deadly Aliens. ALIENS: BUG HUNT will send the marines into deep space, to alien worlds, to derelict space settlements, and into the nests of the universe’s most dangerous monsters.

A Little Christmas Magic

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One very special Christmas… Christmas with a single dad and his five-year-old twins is just what nanny Emma Sinclair needs to help her recover from chemo. But for her brooding boss, Dr. Adam McAllister, the festive season is one he'd rather forget. Emma is determined to give the children their first real Christmas, and as she works her magic Adam can't help being captivated. As one passionate mistletoe kiss leads to another Emma begins to believe that Christmas really is a time for healing. Does she dare even dream of a future—together?

The Voyage Out

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The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Virginia Woolf knew all too well the forms that she was supposed to follow when writing of a young lady's entrance into the world, and she struggled to subvert the conventions, wittily and assiduously, rewriting and revising the novel many times. The finished work is not, on the face of it, a `portrait of the artist'. However, through The Voyage Out readers will discover Woolf as an emerging and original artist: not identified with the heroine, but present everywhere in the social satire and the lyricism and patterning of consciousness.

Gli alberi

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Money, Mississippi, è una piccola cittadina rurale come ce ne sono tante nel profondo sud degli Stati Uniti. Il torpore del paese viene però scosso da una serie di brutali e misteriosi omicidi. Due uomini del posto vengono trovati morti, a breve distanza di tempo l’uno dall’altro, massacrati selvaggiamente e mutilati. In entrambe le scene del crimine c’è un altro cadavere, quello di un ragazzo di colore che sembra morto da molto e che riappare, incredibilmente, sul luogo del delitto dopo essere sparito dall’ufficio del coroner. A infittire il mistero, c’è anche il fatto che il corpo del giovane nero sembra quello di Emmett Till, un ragazzino linciato per motivi razziali nel 1955, proprio a Money. Sul posto vengono inviati due detective del Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI), Ed Morgan e Jim Davis, ma la loro indagine si scontra, sin da subito, con forti resistenze da parte dello sceriffo locale, Red Jetty, dei suoi vice, del coroner e della maggior parte dei cittadini bianchi. Bianchi e razzisti, esattamente come gli uomini trovati morti. Ben presto delitti simili iniziano a verificarsi in tutto il paese, uomini bianchi vengono uccisi e mutilati e sul luogo è sempre presente un altro cadavere misterioso. Mentre i morti aumentano e la confusione cresce, i due investigatori incontrano Mama Z, una donna che dice di avere centocinque anni, che ha perso il padre in un linciaggio rimasto impunito e che, da moltissimi anni, raccoglie nel suo immenso archivio ogni caso di omicidio razziale negli Stati Uniti. Quella che scoprono è una storia di sangue e odio che non può essere cancellata né sepolta. Percival Everett dà vita a un thriller letterario che affronta senza paura, con le armi della satira e della letteratura, la piaga ancora aperta del razzismo negli Stati Uniti. Un romanzo avvincente e dal ritmo incalzante, magistralmente scritto da uno dei migliori autori statunitensi.

The Metropolis

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In this 1907 novel about the extravagant life of New York City's high society, the author of The Jungle, presents a richly detailed portrait of the wealthy elite of The Metropolis.

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 1

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Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre ist ein klassischer Bildungsroman von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Der wegweisende Entwicklungsroman erschien 1795/96. Er besteht aus acht Büchern, von denen sich die ersten fünf inhaltlich an das zu Goethes Lebzeiten unveröffentlichte Fragment Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung anlehnen. Ein Vergleich beider Texte zeigt etliche wörtliche Übereinstimmungen.

The Log of a Cowboy

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"If ever there were such a thing as an all-time 'best' western, THE LOG OF A COWBOY is it." The New York Times “If all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just as authentic conception of trail men, trail work, range cattle, cow horses, and the cow country in general from The Log of a Cowboy.” -- J. Frank Dobie "Personal and often poignant...'The Log of a Cowboy' is indeed a classic." --Sybil Downing The Denver Post Andy Adams (1859-1935), cowboy and author wrote The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days (1903). Other works are: A Texas Matchmaker (1904) and The Outlet (1905) followed. Cattle Brands (1906) is a collection of short stories. Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography (1907) was followed by Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings (1911) and The Ranch on the Beaver: A Sequel to Wells Brothers (1927). Specifically aimed at the young boys among his readership it is the story of two orphans' rise to fortune and success in the cattle industry.

Back in the Burbs

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Two powerhouse authors bring you a hilarious tale of one woman’s journey to find herself again.Ever have one of those days where life just plain sucks? Welcome to my last three months—ever since I caught my can’t-be-soon-enough ex-husband cheating with his paralegal. I’m thirty-five years old, and I’ve lost my NYC apartment, my job, my money, and frankly, my dignity.But the final heartache in the suck sandwich of my life? My great-aunt Maggie died. The only family member who’s ever gotten me. Even after death, though, she’s helping me get back up. She’s willed me the keys to a house in the burbs, of all places, and dared me to grab life by the family jewels. Well, I’ve got the vise grips already in hand (my ex should take note) and I’m ready to fight for my life again.Too bad that bravado only lasts as long as it takes to drive into Huckleberry Hills. And see the house.There are forty-seven separate HOA violations, and I feel them all in my bones. Honestly, I’m surprised no one’s “accidentally” torched the house yet. I want to, and I’ve only been standing in front of it for five minutes. But then my hot, grumpy neighbor tells me to mow the lawn first and I’m just...done. Done with men too sexy for their own good and done with anyone telling me what to do. First rule of surviving the burbs? There is nothing that YouTube and a glass of wine can’t conquer.

The Collected Works of P. G. Wodehouse

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The Collected Works of P. G. Wodehouse is a collection of classic novels by one of the greatest novelists in history. The included works of P. G. Wodehouse are My Man Jeeves, Right Ho, Jeeves, Love Among the Chickens, The Adventures of Sally, The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, The Girl on the Boat, Uneasy Money, The Prince and Betty, Something New, A Man of Means, A Damsel in Distress, Psmith in the City, The Clicking of Cuthbert, Mike, Death at the Excelsior, and Other Stories, Indiscretions of Archie, and Psmith, Journalist. The Collected Works of P. G. Wodehouse is highly recommended for those who enjoy the writings of P. G. Wodehouse, and for those discovering his works for the first time.

Blood Lite

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The Horror Writers Association Presents BLOOD LITE ...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge. Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard environmentalists hosts a fundraiser with a gory twist in "An Evening with Al Gore"...In an all-new Dresden Files story from Jim Butcher, when it comes to tracking deadly paranormal doings, there's no such thing as a "Day Off" for the Chicago P.D.'s wizard detective, Harry Dresden...Sherrilyn Kenyon turns a cubicle-dwelling MBA with no life into a demon-fighting seraph with one hell of an afterlife in "Where Angels Fear to Tread"...Celebrity necromancer Jaime Vegas is headlining a sold-out séance tour, but behind the scenes, a disgruntled ghost has a bone to pick, in Kelley Armstrong's "The Ungrateful Dead." Plus tales guaranteed to get under your skin -- in a good way -- from Janet Berliner Don D'Ammassa Nancy Holder Nancy KilpatrickJ. A. Konrath and F. Paul Wilson Joe R. Lansdale Will LudwigsenSharyn McCrumb Mark Onspaugh Mike Resnick Steven SavileD. L. Snell Eric James Stone Jeff Strand Lucien Soulban Matt Venne Christopher Welch So let the blood flow and laughter reign -- because when it comes to facing our deepest, darkest fears, a little humor goes a long way!

An Amish Market

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All the color and variety of a quaint Amish shop in a charming collection of novellas by four of your favorite authors. Feel free to come in and browse!Love Birds by Amy ClipstonWhile Ellie Lapp and her mother are still mourning the loss of her brother, Seth, Ellie starts working at one of the gift shops in town. Seth’s friend Lloyd is talented at carving wooden birds, but his father disapproves and expects him to take over the family farm someday. Ellie sees the beauty in Lloyd’s creations and insists Lloyd sell the birds in the gift shop where she works. As Ellie and Lloyd spend more time together, they begin to develop feelings for one another, but she accidentally betrays his trust. Will she lose any hope of a future with him?A Bid for Love by Kathleen FullerEvery week, Hannah Lynne brings her home-churned butter to the local market. And every week Ezra stops by to purchase some. Hannah Lynne knows not to read too much into it—Ezra is a confirmed bachelor and barely even glances her way, despite any hope to the contrary. But when Ezra bids an exorbitant amount to win the quilt she had her heart set on, Hannah Lynne can’t stop her heart from taking over her mind. Could Ezra finally be in the market for love?Sweeter Than Honey by Kelly IrvinShattering a jar of pickled beets wasn’t the impression Isabella hoped to make on her first trip to the local Combination Store of Bee County, Texas. But as embarrassed as she was by the accident, she didn’t think it warranted the frosty reaction from the handsome manager of the store, Will Glick. As she soon learns, though, Will’s heart has been broken one too many times. And now, for some reason, Isabella finds herself determined to be the one to repair that broken heart and renew his faith in love.Love in Store by Vannetta ChapmanStella Schrock works at the Old Mill in Nappanee, Indiana, with new employee David Stoltzfus, a recent widower. When strange happenings begin occurring around town, it appears as if someone wants to close the mill. Stella and David have to work together to solve the mystery of what is happening at the Old Amish Mill, and in the process they might just find that God has more in store for their future than they would ever have dreamed possible.

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